Interview with Pauline Ritter "Penny" Combs, May 22, 2008

Project: Community Colleges of Kentucky: History of Kentucky's Community Colleges Oral History Project

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Interview Summary

Oral history with Pauline Ritter Combs founder of Southeast Scholars endowment and fundraiser for the Whitesburg campus of Southeast Community and Technical College. Interviews begins with Combs discussing her family and childhood in Neon in Letcher County and college experience at Eastern University. Combs recounts how the Whitesburg campus was established and funded in 1990. Combs details her work for First Security Bank in Neon and subsequent fund raising efforts for the community college. She describes the relationship with the University of Kentucky and the split in 1997. Combs concludes interview with discussion on the programs offered and the effects of the college on the area.

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2008oh127_cc050

Interviewee Name

Pauline Ritter "Penny" Combs

Interviewer Name

John Klee

Interview Date

2008-05-22

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Combs, Pauline Ritter Interview by John Klee. 22 May. 2008. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Combs, P.R. (2008, May 22). Interview by J. Klee. 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.

Combs, Pauline Ritter, interview by John Klee. May 22, 2008, 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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