Interview with Nancy Lea Owen, March 8, 2007
Project: Community Colleges of Kentucky: History of Kentucky's Community Colleges Oral History Project
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Oral history with Nancy Owen, wife of Dr. James S. Owen, first president of Elizabethtown Community College. Interview highlights include construction history and early faculty. Owen describes her husband's vision for the college; student and community remembrances of her husband; and changes in programming at the college during his 27-year tenure. She concludes with the relationship between the college and the University of Kentucky prior to their split in 1998.Interview Accession
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Community colleges--Administration Community colleges--History Community colleges--Kentucky Education, Higher Elizabethtown Community & Technical College Huddleston, Walter D. (Walter Darlington), 1926-2018 Owen, James S. Owen, Nancy Lea Owen, Nancy Lea--Interviews University of Kentucky Wethington, Charles T. (Charles Turner), Jr., 1936-Interview Rights
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Owen, Nancy Lea Interview by Adina O'Hara. 08 Mar. 2007. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Owen, N.L. (2007, March 08). Interview by A. O'Hara. Community Colleges of Kentucky: History of Kentucky's Community Colleges Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Owen, Nancy Lea, interview by Adina O'Hara. March 08, 2007, Community Colleges of Kentucky: History of Kentucky's Community Colleges Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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