CULLUM, Leo A. (1901-1988) and
James B. Reuter (1916- ) 
O.H. 1893 
Interviewer:            Michael P. Onorato
Dates:                     January 23, (Cullum) and February 4, 1987 (Reuter)
Status:                    Completed 1988, 42 pp., index, photos, ephemera
Tape length:            2 hrs. 15 min.
Bound as Two Jesuits at Los Banos. 1944-1945: Leo A. Cullum and James B. Reuter.

Father Leo A. Cullum and seminarian James B. Reuter, American Jesuits living at Ateneo de Manila College when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, describe life in wartime Manila under the Japanese occupation and their internment at Los Banos during the last months of 1944.

HALSEMA, James J. (1919- ) 
O.H. 1892
Interviewer:            Michael P. Onorato
Date:                      October 10, 1985
Status:                    Completed 1986, 62 pp., index, photos, documents
Tape length:            1 hr. 30 min.
Bound as James J. Halsema: The Internment Camp at Baguio.

Son of an American engineer in the Philippine civil service who became a correspondent for the Manila Daily Bulletin describes in some detail the fall of Baguio on the island of Luzon to the Japanese army and his years in the Baguio internment camp.
 

JOSE, Frankie Sioml (ca. 1930- )
O.H. 1894
Interviewer:             Michael P. Onorato
Date:                       February 11, 1987
Status:                     Completed 1988, 43 pp., index, documents
Tape length:             1 hr. 15 min.
Bound as Frankie Sionil Jose: Nationalist. Author. Critic.

A leading Filipino novelist, publisher of scholarly books and a respected international magazine of thought, and a political critic of the Philippine establishment, discusses at some length the last days of the Marcos regime and the early months of President Corazon Aquino’s government.
 

MARQUARDT, Frederic S. (1905- )
O.H. 1835
Interviewer:             Michael P. Onorato
Date:                       February 11, 1984
Status:                    Completed 1986, 40 pp., index, photos, documents
Tape length:            60 min.
Bound as Frederic S. Marquardt: Philippine Memories.

Coeditor of the Philipine Free Press describes his life in the Philippines during the 1930s and gives short sketches of many important American and Filipino personalities in the Philippines.

PULIDO, Rudy A. (CA. 1937 - )
O.H. 2142
Interviewer:             Amy Lagmay and Michael Arthur
Date:                       October 30 and November 1, 1974
Status:                     Completed 1975, 12 pp.
Tape length:            1 hr. 30 min.
Bound in Harvest, 1975, xiii, 381 pp.

Recollections of his childhood in the Philippine Islands during World War II, immigration to the United States, enlistment in the United States Navy, and his decision to become a real estate agent in Orange County, California.

WEIGHTMAN, George Henry (1929- )
O.H. 2063
Interviewer:             Michael P. Onorato
Date:                       March 20, 1989
Status:                     Completed 1990, 58 pp., index, photos
Tape length:             2 hrs. 30 min.
Bound as George Henry Weightman: Forty Years in Philippine Studies: An Oral History.

A young Fulbright scholar who went to the University of the Philippines in 1949 and received his master’s degree while there describes in great detail the ethnic tensions among Chinese-Filipinos and Filipinos. Includes comments on the social and economic changes in the Philippines from the perspective of a frequent visitor.

WILSON, Bessie Hackett (1911- )
O.H. 189
Interviewer:             Michael P. Onorato
Date:                       December 21, 1987
Status:                    Completed 1988, 36 pp., index, photos
Tape length:            2 hrs.
Bound as Bessie Hackett Wilson: Memories of the Philippines.

Born and raised in Zamboanga, Philippine Islands, where her father owned and published the Mindano Herald, interviewee recalls her career as a young reporter in Manila covering the social affairs of affluent Americans and Filipinos in the pre-World War II years, her experiences in the weeks before the surrender of Manila to the Japanese army, life as an internee in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, and the retaking of Manila by the U.S. Army in February 1945.

 

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