Title Page & Abstract
An Interview with Dave Bartlett
Part of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
Education is Key-Community College Oral History project
Interview # EC-A-L-2013-051
Dave Bartlett, a teacher and later College Historian at South Suburban College, discusses the history of Thornton Jr. College now renamed South Suburban, was interviewed on the date listed below as part of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library’s Education is Key-Community College Oral History project.
Interview dates & location:
Date: May 23, 2013 South Suburban Community College, South Holland, Illinois
Interview Format: Digital audio
Interviewer: Phil Pogue ALPL volunteer
Transcription by: Patty Maynor, ALPL volunteer
Edited by: Roberta Volkmann and Rozanne Flatt, ALPL volunteers
Total Pages: 15 pgs. Total Time: 1:14 / 1.23 hrs.
Accessioned into the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Archives on July 30, 2013.
The interview is archived at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois.
© 2013 Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
Abstract
Dave Bartlett, Education is Key-Community College, EC-A-L-2013-051
Biographical Information Overview of Interview: Dave Bartlett was born in Peoria, Illinois in 1939. He graduated from Deer Creek Mackinaw High School in 1957. He worked for Caterpillar and then enlisted into the Army. After his discharge he earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Illinois State University in 1964, then taught history at Washington Community College before going on to earn a MA degree from Illinois State University. Bartlett joined the Thornton Junior College staff in 1967, a period when the city of Harvey was plagued by frequent racial unrest. He moved to the school’s new campus in nearby South Holland in 1972. In 1988 the college was renamed South Suburban Community College. In 1991, he was assigned as Historical Liaison-College Historian. Bartlett has also been active with the Illinois State Historical Society and the Morton Township Historical Association. This interview covers the history of Thornton Junior College and its transition to South Suburban Community College.
Subject Headings/Key Words: Thornton Junior College; South Suburban Community College; Thornton High School; President Dick Fonte; Illinois Community College Act; civil rights and racial unrest; University and College Center;
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