Thank you for celebrating with us!

This is the final week, of our 10 FOR 10 campaign to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Panama Canal Museum Collection’s (PCMC) arrival at the University of Florida. We will post an update on the success of the campaign in January so that you can share in the excitement.

We hope you have enjoyed the past ten weeks of oral history clips – I had such a wonderful but difficult time selecting them. There are many treasures in these interviews and it was hard to only pick ten. We hope that you will explore the interviews more on your own here. In additional to being a joy to conduct and to listen too, these interviews help document the past as well as to enrich our classes, research, and annual exhibits in the Albert H. Nahmad Panama Canal Gallery. Please get in touch with us if you are interested in doing an oral history, ehbemis@ufl.edu.

Now, on to the finale…

Since it is the last week I let myself pick two clips – one is Jeanne Sperry and the other is Bob Zumbado. They both talk about Christmas traditions and “chicanery” as Bob puts it.

The goal is to raise $10,000 during the ten weeks to support the PCMC oral history program. If you are interested in donating, please visit https://pcmc.uflib.ufl.edu/oralhistory/ or contact John Nemmers, jnemmers@ufl.edu, (352) 273-2766. View our Celebrating Ten Years Booklet. Contact Betsy Bemis, ehbemis@ufl.edu, if you are interested in doing an oral history interview.

This is week nine of our 10 FOR 10 campaign to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Panama Canal Museum Collection’s (PCMC) arrival at the University of Florida!

Once a week for ten weeks we will post an oral history clip to the blog. We hope you will enjoy them and that at least one or two of the stories inspire some memories

This week we selected a clip from Cirilo Alexander – he discusses being a young man in the Canal Zone during World War II and listening to news about the war on the radio.

The goal is to raise $10,000 during the ten weeks to support the PCMC oral history program. If you are interested in donating, please visit https://pcmc.uflib.ufl.edu/oralhistory/ or contact John Nemmers, jnemmers@ufl.edu, (352) 273-2766. View our Celebrating Ten Years Booklet. Contact Betsy Bemis, ehbemis@ufl.edu, if you are interested in doing an oral history interview.