NCC: Oral History Program interviews

In 1991, a group of North Central College faculty representing the history and religion departments and the library (Ann Keating, Barbara Sciacchitano, Howard Mueller, Pierre Lebeau, Carolyn Sheehy, Jerry Berberet, and Jeff Charles) discussed creating a North Central College local history project. They decided to move forward with an oral history program focusing on the experience at North Central College and in Naperville. The oral history program of North Central College completed 13 interviews between 1990 and 1996 with the help of Alumni Relations who identified candidates for interviews. Howard Mueller, Pierre Lebeau, Ann Keating, Jeff Charles, and Jane Teague conducted the interviews between 1990 and 1996. There are no records concerning why this program was discontinued after 1996.

In 2004, the College Archivist began the oral history program again with interviews of selected retiring faculty. This expanded to include interviews with selected College staff-administrators, alumni, and trustees with students and NCTV Naperville Executive Director Elizabeth Braham Spencer also conducting interviews. Many of these interviews were conducted in conjunction with North Central’s Sesquicentennial celebration.

The College Archivist and North Central College students interviewed North Central African American alumni as part of the North Central College African American Alumni Oral History Project from 2016-2018.

Additional oral history interviews conducted by students, faculty, and the College Archivist are added as completed.