Oral history with Dr. Matthew Page

              Oral history with Dr. Matthew Page
F341.5 . M57 vol. 695, pt. 2
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Transcript
This is an interview for the Mississippi Oral History Program of The University of Southern Mississippi. The interview is with Dr. Matthew Page and is taking place on August 7, 1997. The interviewer is Tom Ward.
Ward: - 7, 1997. We're in the home of Dr. Matthew Page in Greenville, Mississippi. Good morning, Dr. Page.
Page: Good morning.
Ward: I'd like to begin by asking you to give me kind of a background of yourself: where you're from, your education, your career, and so forth.
Page: OK. I was born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi.
Ward: OK.
Page: I'm truly a son of the Delta and the river. In fact, my sister and I and my father were born in the same shotgun house here in Greenville, which is still standing. The house was built in 1895. I went to public school here, graduated from Coleman High School in 1948. I graduated from Tougaloo College with a bachelor's degree in science. In 1952 I went to Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. Graduated in 1956. Did an internship at George W. Hubbard Hospital in 1957. Went into the Air Force in 1957 and served two years on active duty, six years in the reserves. Returned to Greenville to start a practice in 1959, and I've been here ever since.
Ward: OK. You mentioned you did an internship at George W. Hubbard.
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