APS Living History Project
Interview with Dr. Aubrey E. Taylor, Professor Emeritus,
University of South Alabama
December 4, 2007
Introductions
00:10 Mary Townsley
00:44 Neil Granger
01:14 We’d like to begin by having you to discuss your early life in West Texas before you entered undergraduate school.
02:27 Photograph: Aubrey Taylor with his parents in Texas
05:21 How long were you in California?
06:51 Photograph: Aubrey the bull rider
00:00 So did you earn a living as a rodeo rider?
08:47 Photograph: Aubrey in the Army
10:15 How long were you in Germany?
12:04 Did your service as a medic influence your interest and return to college [at Texas Christian University]?
12:30 So you got a degree in mathematics and psychology and then you decided to go into physiology. Why physiology and why Mississippi? Why did you select that?
13:51 So this was family housing?
13:59 Photograph: Arthur Guyton
14:25 When you were a graduate student, who were some of your classmates in graduate school?
14:32 So it was Verrnon Bishop….who was in the department at the time – Gabby [Gabriel Navar]?
14:37 Photograph: Aubrey and Gabby Navar
14:55 Photograph: John Pappenheimer and Aubrey
14:59 Photograph: Eugene Landis
16:49 What did you particularly like about Boston?
18:25 AET… Peter [Curran] was going to take the Chair at another medical school ….DNG at Yale?
19:55 Photograph: Aubrey and Jane Taylor
20:20 Photograph: Jane Taylor with the girls (left to right, Audrey Jane, Mary Ann, and Lenda Sue)