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Media:

Beau LeBoeuf
(512) 478-4397
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Press Releases[+]

University of Texas Press News Release – Download .pdf
National Launch Press Release – Download .pdf

Author Bio/Portrait[+]

Author Bio – Download .pdf
Author Portrait – Download .jpg

University of Texas Press Resource Materials[+]

University of Texas Press Catalog Book Excerpt – Download .pdf
University of Texas Press Cover Image – Download .jpg

Alumni On Camera (Video by Corra Films)[+]

We Were Not Orphans: Short Film	Watch Streaming Video	Download .mp4
Buddy Tucker Interview	Watch Streaming Video	Download .mp4
Roy Dorrough Interview	Watch Streaming Video	Download .mp4
Linda Cooey Weeks Interview	Watch Streaming Video	Download .mp4
Harvey Walker Interview	Watch Streaming Video	Download .mp4
Edward Kainer Interview	Watch Streaming Video	Download .mp4
John L. Smith Interview	Watch Streaming Video	Download .mp4
John White Interview	Watch Streaming Video	Download .mp4
Dorothy Robertson Diekmann Interview	Watch Streaming Video	Download .mp4
For broadcast quality video, please contact us.

Photographs[+]

1. Entrance to WSH, 1924 (cover, pg. 196)	2. Roy Dorrough with cow at WSH farm (cover, pg. 21)	3. WSH administration building (ix)
4. Student musicians at WSH (Pg. 8)	5. Children enjoy watermelon (Pg. 8)	6. Boarding WSH bus (Pg. 8)
7. Boys at WSH during Great Depression (Pg. 9 and 10)	8. Dorothy Robertson Diekmann at WSH (Pg. 14)	9. Boys on WSH campus (Pg. 26)
10. Girls working in WSH cannery (Pg. 44)	11. Friends at WSH (Pg. 51)	12. Girls working in WSH laundry (Pg. 54)
13. Track team (Pg. 57)	14. Boys with shovels on farm (Pg. 60)	15. John L. Smith at WSH (Pg. 65)
16. Harvey Walker, left, with siblings (Pg. 69)	17. Square dancing at WSH (Pg. 79)	18. Tommy Turner at WSH (Pg. 82)
19. Soap box derby (Pg. 89)	20. WSH football players at public school (Pg. 102)	21. Girls sewing (Pg. 106)
22. Ed Kainer in his Navy flight uniform (Pg. 108)	23. Linda Cooey Weeks, left, with sister (Pg. 112)	24. Boys headed to summer camp (Pg. 133)
25. Boys working on WSH farm (Pg. 154)	26. Girls at summer camp (Pg. 164)	27. Girls at the WSH pool (Pg. 181)
28. Boys with chickens (Pg. 209)	29. Ben S. Peek, superintendent of WSH, 1943-1954 (Pg. 212)	30. Rebecca (Canning) Brumley, superintendent of WSH, 1974-1976 (Pg. 214)
31. WSH coach and houseparent, C.B. Whigham (Pg. 218)	32. WSH English teacher, Mabel Legg and her husband (Pg. 219)	33. Shearing sheep at WSH farm (Not in book.)

Audio[+]

Buddy Tucker Interview	Download Voice-Only .wav	Download Voice-Only .aif	Download Voice/Music. mp3
Roy Dorrough Interview	Download Voice-Only .wav	Download Voice-Only .aif	Download Voice/Music. mp3
Linda Cooey Weeks Interview	Download Voice-Only .wav	Download Voice-Only .aif	Download Voice/Music. mp3
Harvey Walker Interview	Download Voice-Only .wav	Download Voice-Only .aif	Download Voice/Music. mp3
Edward Kainer Interview	Download Voice-Only .wav	Download Voice-Only .aif	Download Voice/Music. mp3
John L. Smith Interview	Download Voice-Only .wav	Download Voice-Only .aif	Download Voice/Music. mp3
John White Interview	Download Voice-Only .wav	Download Voice-Only .aif	Download Voice/Music. mp3
Dorothy Robertson Diekmann Interview	Download Voice-Only .wav	Download Voice-Only .aif	Download Voice/Music. mp3