Blowout: A Community’s Engagement with Fracking

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• Naomie Rudelson -17- Traveling for work
  Traveling for work
• Naomie Rudelson -16- Sanger-Harris work culture and family
  Advancing beyond buyer level, bringing daughter to work at Sanger-Harris branch stores on Saturdays
• Naomie Rudelson -15- Pregnancy and growing family
  Experience being pregnant, growing a family, and working
• Naomie Rudelson -14- Family and career growth
  Building a career and family, importance of good childcare, Sanger Harris offices downtown
• Naomie Rudelson -13- Junior executive training program cont'd
  Cohort in junior executive training program, most rose to buyer level
• Naomie Rudelson -12- Professional advancement
  Pattern of training and advancement through department store
• Naomie Rudelson -11- Associated Merchandise Corporation
  Associated Merchandise Corporation, move from local to national scale
• Naomie Rudelson -10- Federated store development
  Federated store description as national chain, professional development through national chain
• Naomie Rudelson -9- Sanger Brothers to Sanger Harris, importance of childcare to advancement
  Community at Sanger Brothers, wedding to Moe, promotion to Highland Park branch of Sanger Brothers, then Preston Center branch, son born December 1957, finding childcare for son so could return to work, became buyer within about two years, promotion of junior executives, Sanger Brothers was Federated and bought A. Harris & Company around 1957
• Naomie Rudelson -8- Family and Sanger Brothers
  January 1956 started at Sanger Brothers, met husband there in March 1956, season change in children's department, seeing Sophie Tucker at the Adophus Hotel
• Naomie Rudelson -7- Sanger Brothers junior executive training program
  Junior executive training program at Sanger Brothers, description of classes in program, advancement through positions and departments
• Naomie Rudelson -6- Personal shopping
  Work as personal shopping at Dalton's
• Naomie Rudelson -5- Work during college
  Junior executive training program offered opportunity, work at Dalton's in college with permission from LSU Dean of Students, worked to pay for college
• Naomie Rudelson -4- Gus Mayer department store
  Gus Mayer department store job to save for college, lead to studying education as undergrad
• Naomie Rudelson -3- Early career
  Sanger Brothers junior executive training program, college job fair, department story weekly pay of $65/week, distributed education in high school lead to working at Gus Mayer in New Orleans, then Dalton's Department Store in Baton Rouge as undergraduate
• Naomie Rudelson -2- Biographical information
  Biographical information
• Naomie Rudelson -1- Interview introduction
  Interview introduction
• Larry Leathers -35- WWD, confidence
  Getting photographed for Women's Wear Daily, clothing and confidence
• Larry Leathers -34- Zodiac Room fashion shows, dress codes
  Neiman-Marcus Zodiac Room lunch fashion shows, change in dress codes, "decide if you want to stand out or fit in," dressing for daytime vs. nighttime
• Larry Leathers -33- Neiman-Marcus feeling different, art collection
  Stanley Marcus wanting Neiman-Marcus to feel different from other places, art collection and environment at Neiman-Marcus
• Larry Leathers -32- Ray Souders
  Work culture at Neiman-Marcus with Ray Souders
• Larry Leathers -30- Neiman-Marcus change in service
  Neiman-Marcus food offerings, change in service with expansion
• Larry Leathers -29- Merle Cunningham and novelty gifts
  Neiman-Marcus novelty gifts produced by Merle Cunningham and his daughter
• Larry Leathers -28- Neiman-Marcus becoming exclusive
  Neiman-Marcus change in clientele, becoming more exclusive and elite, novelty cotton handkerchiefs
• Larry Leathers -27- Dallas vs. Beverly Hills
  Difference between Beverly Hills and Dallas, attitudes