The GVEC collection contains complete transcripts of all but one of the twenty-seven interviews. In addition to the transcripts, each folder contains release forms, copies of correspondence, and biographical information on each interviewee. A second box contains all the extant audio copies of the interviews on audiocassette. Audio copies exist for thirteen of the twenty-seven interviews. Materials arranged alphabetically.
Most of the interviews were conducted by Southwest Texas graduate student Karen Yancy, who used the interviews in her master’s thesis, And Then There was Light: A History of Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative 1963-1988.
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Historical note
The Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative was established in 1938 with funds from the Rural Electrification Administration. Its purpose was to provide electricity to rural areas in the vicinity of Guadalupe and Gonzales counties, east of San Antonio, Texas. In 1986, the board of directors of the Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, desiring to record the history of their organization, requested assistance from the history department of Southwest Texas State University. GVEC provided a list of long-time customers, employees, and board members who they felt would be good sources of information. Students in Professor Ron Brown’s oral history courses conducted a series of twenty-seven interviews from November of 1986 through December of 1987.