Interview with Glenwood L. Creech, May 5, 1992

Project: University of Kentucky Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Glenwood L. Creech was born in 1920 in Casey County, Kentucky. His father, Dr. C. B. Creech, was from Harlan County, Kentucky and attended the University of Louisville's School of Medicine. His mother was Tennessee "Tenney" Estes Creech. He describes what he knows of his parent's early life and talks about the life of a country doctor, where and how his father practiced, and how this life affected the family.

Creech began his education at the age of five in "a multi-room school", and graduated from Middleburg High School in 1936. He attended UK for one semester, but did not do well so his father sent him to Centre College. Creech did not like Centre, and he recalls returning to UK. He mentions Carsey Hammonds, a favorite teacher who taught a problem-solving methods course called "Teaching Agriculture." Creech graduated from UK in 1941 with a B.S. degree in Agriculture.

Creech remembers the affects of the Great Depression on both rural and urban areas. He remembers vividly his father's appreciation of rural electrification, and talks about the difference it made in people's lives. Creech recalls his father's reaction to the invention of penicillin. Creech came back to Casey County after serving in World War II. He entered the post-war agricultural program for veterans, where he was paid to teach, and helped to start the program at Stanford High School in Lincoln County. He went back to UK and earned his M.S. in Agriculture in 1950.

Interview Accession

1993oh004_af521

Interviewee Name

Glenwood L. Creech

Interviewer Name

Terry L. Birdwhistell

Interview Date

1992-05-05

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Creech, Glenwood L. Interview by Terry L. Birdwhistell. 05 May. 1992. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Creech, G.L. (1992, May 05). Interview by T. L. Birdwhistell. University of Kentucky Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Creech, Glenwood L., interview by Terry L. Birdwhistell. May 05, 1992, University of Kentucky Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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