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Title	Oral history interview with Douglas B. Havron, 2007 April 04
Personal name	Havron, Douglas B., 1965- --Interviews; Formosa, Angelo M., 1898-1988; Orr, Robert, d. 1911; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Anecdotes; Cheek family; Smith, Troy
Corporate name	Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company. Glass Plant (Nashville, Tenn.) American Legion. Dept. of Tennessee American Legion. Dept. of Tennessee Challenger (Spacecraft)--Accidents Angelo Formosa Food Manufacturers Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.) Houston's (Restaurant : Nashville, Tenn.)--Management Green Hills Grille (Nashville, Tenn.) Nero's (Restaurant : Nashville, Tenn.) Robert Orr Sysco Food Services (Nashville, Tenn.) Maxwell House (Nashville, Tenn.) Maxwell House Coffee Company General Mills, inc. Robert Orr Sysco Food Services--Employees Sam & Zoe's Coffeehouse (Nashville, Tenn.) Sam & Zoe's Coffeehouse (Nashville, Tenn.)--Sanitation
Topical entry	Disasters Accidents Business Enterprise Food Restaurants Organizations Businesspeople--Tennessee--Nashville Professions--Marketing Boys--Tennessee--Societies and clubs Clubs--Tennessee Space vehicle accidents--Florida--Cape Canaveral Space shuttles--Florida--Cape Canaveral Launch complexes (Astronautics)--Florida--Cape Canaveral Rockets (Aeronautics)--Launching Family-owned business enterprises--Tennessee--Nashville Produce trade--Tennessee--Nashville Food industry and trade--Tennessee--Nashville Wholesale trade--Tennessee--Nashville Distributors (Commerce)--Tennessee--Nashville Food service--Tennessee--Nashville Restaurants--Tennessee--Nashville Restaurants--Employees--Training of Restaurant management--Tennessee--Nashville Restaurants--Personnel management Restaurant workers--Tennessee--Nashville Food preparation--Tennessee--Nashville Food--Quality Recipes--Tennessee--Nashville Soups Cookery, American--Southern style Advertising--Coffee--Tennessee--Nashville Coffee--Tennessee--Nashville Hotels--Tennessee--Nashville Employee fringe benefits--Tennessee--Nashville Bonus systems--Tennessee--Nashville Selling--Restaurants--Tennessee--Nashville Coffee shops--Tennessee--Nashville Restaurateurs--Tennessee--Nashville Small business--Purchasing--Tennessee--Nashville Small business--Growth Success in business Self-perception Spirituality Work and family Small business--Tennessee--Nashville Retail--Tennessee--Nashville Sound studios--Tennessee--Nashville Competition--Tennessee--Nashville Business intelligence--Tennessee--Nashville Self-realization Self-evaluation
Geographic entry	Nashville (Tenn.)--History--Sources Nashville (Tenn.)--Commerce Nashville (Tenn.)--Societies, etc. Nashville (Tenn.)--Social life and customs Cocoa Beach (Fla.)--History--Sources Cape Canaveral (Fla.)--History--Sources
Description	Sixteen excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman Douglas B. Havron, conducted on 4 April 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. In these clips Havron discusses his early aspiration to become the director of marketing for the Ford Motor Company; witnessing the Challenger disaster; his experience working for Angelo Formosa Food Manufacturers Inc., a family-owned produce supplier in Nashville, Tennessee; his impression of the menu and management at the original Houston's restaurant in West End; the quality assurance practices he witnessed while working as a prep cook for Houston's restaurant; carrying over the weekly white bean soup and corn cake tradition from Nero's to Green Hills Grille; Robert Orr's purchase of the original Maxwell House coffee recipe and equipment; his decision to become a local restaurant owner; the circumstances leading up to his purchase of Sam & Zoe's, a local coffee shop located in the Berry Hill community; the growth, success and expansion possibilities associated with Sam and Zoe's; the evolution of his personal definition of success and how it relates to family; characteristics of local business men in Nashville; the importance of competition and location for business owners specifically pertaining to development in the Berry Hill community; his personal management style; and the general public's perceived difference between corporate-operated and privately-owned business. The complete interview, as well as an index, is available in the Special Collections Division.
Creator	Havron, Douglas B., 1965- (Interviewee); Havron, James T., 1960- (Interviewer)
Publisher	Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219
Date	2007-04-04
Type	Sound; Oral histories
Format	audio/mp3
Identifier	NBLHavronD1003clip1; NBLHavronD1004clip1; NBLHavronD1006clip1; NBLHavronD1007clip1; NBLHavronD1007clip2; NBLHavronD1008clip1; NBLHavronD1009clip1; NBLHavronD1009clip2; NBLHavronD1010clip1; NBLHavronD1010clip2; NBLHavronD1011clip1; NBLHavronD1011clip2; NBLHavronD1012clip1; NBLHavronD1013clip1; NBLHavronD1016clip1; NBLHavronD1016clip2
Source	Excerpted from: NBLHavronD digital recording converted from wav to mp3 format in 2007.
Language	English
Relation	Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project
Coverage	2000-2009
Rights	U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5782.
Location	Closed Stacks-NBLHavronD

Title	Clip 1 - Advertising career aspirations
Creator	Historic Nashville, Inc.
Publisher	Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219
Type	Still Image; Photographs
Format	image/jpeg
Coverage	2000-2009
Rights	U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5782.

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