Interview with Deborah Susan Tassie, November 18, 2021

Project: University of Kentucky: The Turbulent Years (1965-1975) Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Deborah S. Tassie was born on March 29, 1949 in Toledo, Ohio, the daughter of Glennon Bloomfield Tassie and Frances Beard Tassie. Debbie’s father was a Certified Public Accountant and her mother was a homemaker. Debbie attended DeVeaux Elementary School, and graduated from DeVilbiss High School in 1967. She enrolled at the University of Kentucky in the fall of 1967, but transferred to Antioch College for the 1969-1970 academic year, and then to the University of Colorado where she graduated in 1972 with a degree in Political Science. She earned her law degree from the University of Toledo in 1979. In this interview she discusses her childhood in Toledo, Ohio.

Interview Accession

2022oh0006_ukty0451

Interviewee Name

Deborah Susan Tassie

Interviewer Name

Jeffrey Suchanek

Interview Date

2021-11-18

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Tassie, Deborah Susan Interview by Jeffrey Suchanek. 18 Nov. 2021. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Tassie, D.S. (2021, November 18). Interview by J. Suchanek. University of Kentucky: The Turbulent Years (1965-1975) Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Tassie, Deborah Susan, interview by Jeffrey Suchanek. November 18, 2021, University of Kentucky: The Turbulent Years (1965-1975) Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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