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Author:<br>Goodnight, Jim,<br>interviewee
Interview conducted by<br>Mosnier, Joseph
Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the<br>electronic publication of this interview.
Text encoded by<br>Mike Millner
Sound recordings digitized by<br>Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers
First edition, 2006
Size of electronic edition: 140 Kb
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2006.
The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.
Languages used in the text:<br>English
Revision history:<br>2006-00-00, Celine Noel and Wanda Gunther revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic<br>edition.
2006-04-13, Mike Millner finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing.
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Title of sound recording: Oral History Interview with Jim Goodnight,<br>July 22, 1999. Interview I-0073. Southern Oral History Program<br>Collection (#4007)
Title of series: Series I. Business History. Southern Oral History<br>Program Collection (I-0073)
Author: Joseph Mosnier
Title of transcript: Oral History Interview with Jim Goodnight, July 22,<br>1999. Interview I-0073. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Title of series: Series I. Business History. Southern Oral History<br>Program Collection (I-0073)
Author: Jim Goodnight
Description: 162 Mb
Description: 40 p.
Note:<br>Interview conducted on July 22, 1999, by Joseph Mosnier;<br>recorded in Cary, North Carolina.
Note:<br>Transcribed by Unknown.
Note:<br>Forms part of: Southern Oral History Program Collection<br>(#4007): Series I. Business History, Manuscripts Department, University<br>of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Note:<br>Original transcript on deposit at the Southern<br>Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina<br>at Chapel Hill.
Editorial practices
An audio file with the interview complements this electronic edition.The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 4 of the TEI in<br>Libraries Guidelines.Original grammar and spelling have been preserved. All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity<br>references.All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as "All em dashes are encoded as —
Interview with Jim Goodnight, July 22, 1999.<br>Interview I-0073. Southern<br>Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Goodnight, Jim,<br>interviewee
Interview Participants
JIM<br>GOODNIGHT, interviewee
JOSEPH<br>MOSNIER, interviewer
[TAPE 1, SIDE A]
Page 1
[START OF TAPE 1, SIDE A]
JOSEPH MOSNIER:
This is an interview with Dr. Jim Goodnight at SAS Institute in Cary,<br>North Carolina for the North Carolina Business History Series of the<br>Southern Oral History Project. My name is Joe Mosnier. This is July 22,<br>1999. We're in Dr. Goodnight's office on the SAS Campus in Cary. This is<br>cassette 7.22.99-JG. Dr. Goodnight, thanks again for sitting down [with<br>me]. Let me start with just a few questions of individual biography and<br>education, just for a little bit of background here. I don't mean to<br>take you across ground that you've already plowed. I'm interested in<br>your perspectives as you look back on your primary and secondary<br>schooling and the kinds of experiences you had there and how you made<br>your choice after that point to head on to NC State.
JIM GOODNIGHT:
Well, I guess did my elementary school in Greensboro, North Carolina.<br>Then my family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina where I did my junior<br>high and high school. Then in 1961, I decided to come to NC State. I<br>applied to both State and Carolina. I was accepted at both and decided<br>to come to NC State probably for no other real reason than the fact that<br>Roman Gabriel, who was one of our sports stars down in Wilmington, had<br>gone there. I figured if it was good enough for Roman, it was good<br>enough for me. That was probably the main decision that I made.
JOSEPH MOSNIER:
As you look back, what were the factors that led you to make the choice<br>of course of study that you did?
JIM GOODNIGHT:
In high school I did real well in math and science and looking at the<br>available curriculum at NC State, they had a program called Applied<br>Mathematics, which I felt met a lot of the needs that I felt I needed to<br>be moving in that direction.
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JOSEPH MOSNIER:
Let me ask if your perspective on persons who were most important—I<br>imagine your parents would be on this short list—in the process of your<br>early values formation. What got built inside of you to make your core?
JIM GOODNIGHT:
I would have to say that certainly my father was heavily involved there.<br>He had a hardware store there in Wilmington and I worked there pretty<br>much all the time after school and...