Research Catalog
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert Sherwood Dorsey.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert Sherwood Dorsey.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 27 min., 33 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Engineer Robert Sherwood Dorsey was born on October 9, 1923, in Lafayette, Louisiana. The son of Rita Starling Allen and Willie Dorsey, he graduated from Houston's Phillis Wheatley High School. He was drafted into the segregated U.S. Army during World War II. Dorsey and served in the 92nd Infantry Division and worked as a water purification specialist for a combat engineering battalion. After the war, he enrolled at Ohio State University, excelling in football and earning his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering. From 1949 to 1987, Dorsey worked as a mechanical engineer for General Electric, where he helped develop engines for various commercial and military aircrafts. After retiring from GE, he worked with Belcan, a consulting firm that analyzes problems associated with military engines. Dorsey received a Distinguished Football Alumnus Award from Ohio State University and was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. He passed away on February 11, 2011 at age 87.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Robert Sherwood Dorsey
- Robert Sherwood Dorsey
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 1003150332
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert Sherwood Dorsey.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States naf
- Playing Time
- 022733
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Performer
- Regennia Williams, interviewer.
- Credits
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
- Recorded West Chester, Ohio 2005 March 14.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Mechanical Engineer.
- Added Author
- Dorsey, Robert Sherwood, 1923-2011, interviewee.Williams, Regennia N., interviewer.Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.