First Person Project, Charles Clement and Louis Boyd by RussellLibraryOralHistory published on 2014-08-11T16:01:00Z Louis Boyd interviews Dr. Charles Clement. Clement discusses the background of his family, who settled in Indian territory in Oklahoma before moving west to Moscow, Idaho. He talks about his father's experience in a one-room school house where he learned geography by "bounding" the states--memorizing the states that bordered a particular state. Clement talks about moving with his parents to Georgia and his time in the Air Force. He remembers meeting his wife at Piedmont College at the end of World War II (see FPP-0019) and his career as a professor at Piedmont College and the University of Georgia. Clement also mentions working on an economic impact study of Cumberland Island commissioned by the National Park Service. FPP-0020, Charles Clement interviewed by Louis Boyd, September 13, 2013, Athens, Ga. This interview is part of the First Person Project, archived at the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries. To learn more about the First Person Project and browse other interviews, see bit.ly/1iLKjG0 Genre oral history
