When Arthur G. Lensgraf, D.C. (Davenport
’76), Nashville, Tenn., was serving as chairperson
of the planning committee for the
Tennessee Chiropractic Association’s (TCA)
75th anniversary in 2010, the committee
initiated an oral history project to record
audio-visual chiropractic histories of D.C.s
and interested others throughout Tennessee.
Once TCA staff members, led by Amy
Owsley, had scheduled the 64 interviews
and Dr. Lensgraf had conducted all of
them (a process that took several years),
staff from the David D. Palmer Health
Sciences Library’s Special Services Division
provided transcription and editing assistance.
Transcriber/editors included former
Special Services Librarian Glenda Wiese,
Ph.D. (who retired from Palmer in 2011),
Special Services Library Assistant Linda
Mixson, and several other library employees
and work-study students. The Palmer
Library is currently cataloging the interviews,
which will be discoverable via
WorldCat, an online catalog of libraries
worldwide, as well the Palmer Library
catalog at www.palmer.edu/library. Users
can simply type in the key words
“Tennessee Chiropractic Association” to
access the bibliographical records.
During the 2012 Davenport Campus
Homecoming, Dr. Lensgraf brought
bound copies of each transcript to be
housed in both Special Collections and
the circulating collections of the Library,
along with the original cassettes and
copies of the CDs and DVDs of the
interviews for placement in the Special
Collections audio-visual section. Go to
www.palmer.edu/specialcollections for
more information on the resources
housed there, or contact Special Services
Librarian Daniel Smith at daniel.smith@
palmer.edu or (563) 884-5894.