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Dear Hannah: Derrick Brown's Oral History (#YourStory) (Episode 1.12 Graduating from Clemson as GEM Fellow) (5m05sec)
In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral history experience inspired a new project called #YourStory. #YourStory combines #StandupStorytelling with principles and best practices of oral history recording to document the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people who do extraordinary work. EPISODE 1.12 "TRANSCRIPT": 47m41sec ... I graduated from Clemson in December 1991 ... which means I enjoyed a 5th football season ... I took nonverbal communication ... I did not write much at Clemson, and should have stirred that gift ... gotcha (CMcI) ... PEER taught me to always listen for opportunity knocks ... became a GEM Fellow at MITRE ... "mitre" means "to fit together" ... I gained lots of knowledge and savvy as a GEM Fellow ... 51m15sec ... Marc Weber asks about me deejaying parties at Clemson ... I tell him that this happened at GT ... at Clemson, I was "about those books" ... 51m59sec ... I made a social choice for grad school ... 52m46sec ...