Oral Histories

ROCKvoices
The ROCKvoices online oral history collection features audio and video interviews of past and present SRU faculty, staff, presidents and alumni. Hear the wonderful stories of the people who have shaped this institution from Slippery Rock State Teachers College, through the Slippery Rock State College years and into the Slippery Rock University of today.

Click here to visit the online exhibit.

Baseball in Pennsylvanial Oral History Collection
A collection of audio recordings and transcripts from the Class project for David Dixon's Pennsylvania History class in 1994 that consits of interviews with baseball players, coaches, sports casters, PR managers.

James Mennell Oral History Collection
A collection of audio recordings of oral histories conducted by James E. Mennell for his book "Area Friends Remember When: A Collection of Nostalgic Memories of Times Gone By."

Queens of Slippery Rock or History Collection
The Queens of Slippery Rock Oral History project consists of interviews of Slippery Rock Homecoming Queens from 1964-2017, and one May Queen. The research culminated in the essay “Queens of Slippery Rock” co-authored by Xavier and Brenna Waugaman for the 2018 edition of SLAB literary magazine. 

Slippery Rock in the Sixties Oral History Collection
A collection of audio recordings and transcripts of interviews conducted by Joseph Riggs and Leah Brown in 1991, mainly on the topic of Slippery Rock University in the Sixties.

Slippery Rock University Centennial Oral History Collection
A collection of audio recordings of interviews conducted by George Force and Donald Kelly for the oral history portion of the book "A Profile of the Early Alumni of the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Slippery Rock: the First Twenty-Five Years, 1890-1915; and, Selected Oral Histories of Slippery Rock University Alumni."