Guide to the Stanford Oral History Project Interviews SC1017

Daniel Hartwig & Jenny Johnson
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu


Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Stanford Oral History Project interviews
Identifier/Call Number: SC1017
Physical Description: 16.75 Linear Feet (300 audiocassettes)
Date (inclusive): 1971-1995
Language of Material: English
Language of Material: English

Scope and Contents note

The Stanford Oral History Project (SOHP), a joint effort of the Stanford University Archives and the Stanford Historical Society, began in 1978 as an extension of their efforts to collect, preserve and make available to researchers the historical record of the Stanford University community. These taped interviews and their transcriptions supplement the already strong collection of written and photographic materials in the University Archives, and provide a unique resource containing experiences and viewpoints not often found in traditional documents.
The oral history interviews in the SOHP collection are carefully planned historical documents which we hope will serve a wide range of scholarly interests. Five additional sets of oral history interviews are listed separately: a set of interviews with members of the early Aurora newspaper collective; a set of interviews with participants in Stanford's Community Committee for International Students (CCIS); a set of interviews conducted by Joan Bromberg of the American Institute of Physics for the Laser History Project; a set of interviews with graduates of the Stanford School of Nursing; a set of interviews with Stanford-associated "Silicon Valley" scientists (a component of the Stanford and the Silicon Valley Project); and a set of interviews with family and friends of Dr. Robert Reid Newell, professor in the School of Medicine.
For most of the interviews, a typed transcript, edited for accuracy by both interviewer and narrator but otherwise unchanged, is available.

Arrangement note

The interviews are arranged in seven series: 1. Stanford Oral History Project Inteviews; 2. Aurora Interviews; 3. Community Committee on International Studies Interviews; 4. Laser History Project Interviews; 5. Stanford Nurse Alumnae Interviews; 6. Silicon Valley Project Interviews; and 7. Dr. Robert Reid Newell Interviews.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Stanford Oral History Project Interviews (SC1017). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Access to Collection

Administrative files series is closed for 50 years from date of creation. Otherwise the collection is open for research use.

Publication Rights

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Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Interviews.
Oral histories.
Stanford University -- History.
Stanford Historical Society
Hofstadter, Robert
Irwin, Will
Manson, Clara
Newell, Alan.
Mendelowitz, Daniel M.
Purdy, Ann Peril.
Mellott, Annette
Mitchell, Sidney
Merriman, Sue
Mercer, Michelle
Dwight, Herbert H.
Mitchell, J. Pearce.
Millar, Kay
Ichihashi, Yamato
Krebs, Ruby
Krauskopf, Konrad
Leu, Anna Jagels
Sears, Robert R. (Robert Richardson)
Lane, Joane
Brandin, Alf E.
Lewis, Janet
Levison, Robert Mark
Lutz, Ralph Haswell
Peck, Templeton.
Press, Harry.
Price, Harry.
Proctor, Elizabeth
Veblen, Thorstein (Thorstein Bunde)
Qualls, Katherine
Rosenzweig, Robert M.
Rempel, Robert
Ryan, Harris J. (Harris Joseph)
Colby, Edward E. (Edward Eugene)
Reynolds, Harry B.
Mumford, Lewis
Murphy, Michael H.
Norman, Ruth
Nunan, Craig
Franklin, H. Bruce (Howard Bruce)
Ferguson, Charles A. (Charles Albert)
Packard, Martin E.
Page, Virginia
Ginzton, Edward L. (Edward Leonard)
Clark, Esther Bridgman.
Pearson, Daryl H.
Hobart, J.
Hewlett, William R.
Hawes, Josephine
Hänsch, Theodor
Hutchinson, Eric.
Howard, Mildred Dye
Hoover, William
Harder, Virginia
Green, Cecil Howard
Hansen, Ralph Waldo
Haswell, Roka
Hastorf, Barbara
Harwood, Lee
Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman)
Keesling, Francis V.
Johnston, Beatrice
Willis, Bailey
Kaplan, Leah
Kershaw, Henrietta
Keyes, Pat
Kendrick, Betty Roth
Keohane, Nannerl
Freeman, Szebelski ("Sibby")
Packard, David, 1912-1996
Snyder, Rixford K. (Rixford Kinney)
Jacobson, David S.
Crothers, George E. (George Edward)
Jahns, Richard H.
Johnson, Melba Beard
Beard, Rodney.
Johnson, Olivia
Jones, Henry.
Jensen, Margaret
Jessup, R.Bruce
Welis, Alison
Treat, Payson J. (Payson Jackson)
Weinreich, Max
Whitaker, Virgil
Whitaker, Douglas.
Wallingford, Janice
Webster, David Locke
Warnlof, Mary Ann
Terman, Frederick Emmons, 1900-1982
Vickers, Joseph
Torf, Adrienne
Deal, Bruce E.
Williams, Gertrude
Wright, Mabel
Wilbur, Dwight
Wilbur, Mary Sloan
Dodds, John W. (John Wendell)
Barclay, Thomas S. (Thomas Swain)
Linvill, John G.
Silber, Bernice
Siegman, A.E.
Schofield, Mary
Schawlow, Arthur B.
Rusmore, Jean
Ruddock, K.
Rothert, Harlow Phelps.
Roth, Almon.
Roth Sisters
Roseberry, Louis H.
Roesler, Fran
Tresidder, Donald Bertrand
Chandler, Loren Roscoe ("Yank")
Ricker, Christine
Stuart, Graham.
Swank, Raynard C.
McDowell, John Ezra.
Stanford Oral History Project.
Spears, Virginia
Spaeth, Sheila
Sloss, Leon.
Smith, Stephanie
Skarin, Miriam
Engelbart, D. C., 1925-2013
Slaven, Helen Adell
Bailey, Thomas Andrew
Cohen, Stanley N.
Hanna, Paul Robert
Hansen, W. W. (William Webster)
Bacon, Harold
Bacon, Rosamond Clarke.
Ceideburg, Holly Hansen.
Hall, Harvey.
Keen, A. Myra (Angeline Myra)
Baer, Carolyn
Dornbusch, Sanford M.
Ashley, Celeste
Applewhite, Liat
Angell, Thomas
Walker, Frank Fish
Anderson, Reid
Terman, Lewis Madison
Alway, Robert
Bliss, James
Blake, Marilyn
Berry, Chester
Bark, Eleanor
Wiggins, Ira L. (Ira Loren)
Dinkelspiel, Lloyd W.
Bancroft, Kim
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976
Eurich, Alvin C. (Alvin Christian)
Abramowitz, Carrie
Crosten, William Loren
Cuthbertson, Kenneth.
Crowell, Peggy
Davis, Paul H.
Davis, Margo.
Davis, Paul
Rawlings, John
Denhard, Alice
Demoit, Debby
Dodds, Marjorie.
Dutton, Dorothea
Yalom, Marilyn
Botsford, Margaret
Bowes, Ruth Garland
Boyd, Harold
Ringressy, Grace.
Dinkelspiel, John.
Bretall, Norah
Almond, Dorothea K.
Brown, Phyllis
Bush, Vannevar
Carley, Lucille O.
Robinson, Edgar Eugene
Stanford Historical Society
Chuck, Frank Y.
Kriss, Joseph P.
Fishman, Joshua A. (Shikl)
Cline, Laura
Abrams, Herbert L.
Craig, Phyllis H.
Richards, Victor.
Glover, Frederic O.
Adams, Ephraim Douglass, 1865-1930
Gillingham, Jane
Gonzales, Leenda
Sterling, J. E. Wallace (John Ewart Wallace)
Goldsborough, John
Goheen, John
Goff, Harry And Kay
Goff, Harry And Kay
Gunst, Morgan A.
Guerard, Albert.
Grundt, Carolyn
Hall, Marion Dwight
Guthrie, Luell Weed
Stolz, Lois Meek
Varian, Russell Harrison
Dwight, Herbert Mcgilvray
Edgar, Jean
Bloch, Felix
Edwards, Paul C. (Paul Carroll)
Farnsworth, Paul
Hargadon, Fred
Fischel, Eleanor
Fejos, Paul.
Lyman, Jing
Gibson, Helen

 

Stanford Oral History Project Series 1

Box 1

Abramowitz, Carrie 1_3 1977 Apr 27, May 2

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Known primarily for her sculpture, artist Carrie Abramowitz and her husband, Professor Moses Abramowitz, were a part of the Stanford community for many years.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Margo Davis, donated to the SOHP; 180 minutes
Box 1

Almond, Dorothea 4_6 1987 Aug 11, 25

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

One of the directors of child care at Stanford, Mrs. Almond discusses the history of child care at Stanford from the beginning. Interviewed as part of the faculty spouses series.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Mimi Webb; transcribed
Box 8

Transcript

Box 1

Alway, Robert 7_8 1980 Apr 1

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Professor of pediatrics, Stanford Medical School; Head, Pediatrics Department; Dean of the Stanford Medical School, 1958-1964; and Medical Director of Stanford Hospital until his retirement in 1977.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Frederic O. Glover; transcribed, 55 pages
Box 8

Transcript

Box 1

Angell, Thomas 9_10 1985 Jun 29

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Thomas Angell, class of 1915, was the son of Dr. Frank Angell, pioneer Stanford faculty member, noted psychologist, and active leader in Stanford athletic affairs. Thomas Angell made a career as an insurance broker in San Francisco.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Frederic O. Glover; transcribed, 28 pages
Box 8

Transcript

Box 1

Ashley, Celeste 11_12 1984 Apr 14

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Actress, teacher of creative dramatics, and theater librarian. In charge of drama collection, Stanford Library, 1953-1976.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Sara Timby; transcribed, 21 pages
 

Bacon, Harold 1987 Jan 23

Biographical/Historical note

Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, at Stanford from 1936 until his retirement in 1972; received his A.B. (1928), A.M. (1929) and Ph.D. (1933) degrees from Stanford, all in mathematics. Professor Bacon and his wife Rosamund moved into the house at 565 Mayfield in 1930.
Their home, a Stanford historical landmark, was built by Mrs. Harriet Dunn, cousin of Harold's father and a friend of Jane Stanford.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by 'R.L.'
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Transcript

Box 1

Bacon, Rosamund 13_14 1981 Mar

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Her interview is titled "Life on the Row;" she discusses what life was like living on the Row in the late 1920s.

Biographical/Historical note

Rosamund Bacon received an A.B. degree from Stanford in 1930 in History and an A.M. degree in 1932. She was director of the Union, which included the Row.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Karen Porter
Box 1

Bailey, Thomas Andrew 15_16 1978 Jul

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Margaret Byrne Professor of American History and American diplomatic historian, Dr. Bailey received his A.B. (1924) and Ph.D. (1927) from Stanford, joining the Stanford faculty in 1926. He became emeritus in 1968.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Frederic O. Glover; transcribed and bound, 66 pages
Box 8

Transcript

Box 1

Barclay, Thomas Swain 17_19 1980 Feb

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Professor of political science at Stanford since 1927, became emeritus in1957. Professor Barclay played an active role in the Democratic Party at both the local and national levels, serving as delegate or alternate to three conventions and presidential elector in 1944. He died in 1993.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Frederic O. Glover and Harry Press; transcribed and bound, 70 pages

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Oral histories.
College teachers.
Student life.
Sororities.
College teachers -- Political activity.
United States -- Politics and government.
Treat, Payson J. (Payson Jackson)
Barclay, Thomas S. (Thomas Swain)
Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman)
Walker, Frank Fish
Stuart, Graham.
Bailey, Margery
Adams, Ephraim Douglass, 1865-1930
Ichihashi, Yamato
Stanford University. School of Medicine
Veblen, Thorstein (Thorstein Bunde)
Sterling, J. E. Wallace (John Ewart Wallace)
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976
Stanford Oral History Project.
Dornbusch, Sanford M.
Terman, Lewis Madison
Stanford Associates.
Press, Harry.
Robinson, Edgar Eugene
Lutz, Ralph Haswell
Eurich, Alvin C. (Alvin Christian)
Whitaker, Douglas.
Tresidder, Donald Bertrand
Glover, Frederic O.
Box 8

Transcript

Box 1

Bark, Eleanor 20_22 1987 Mar-May

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

A graduate of Stanford (1935) and member of the Stanford community from 1947 until her death in 1999, Mrs. Bark was Palo Alto City Historian (1956-1959) and worked in the Graduate Division at Stanford (1959-1970). Her interview covers her experience as a volunteer and a staff member and life as a faculty wife.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Joanne O'Donohue; transcribed
Box 8

Transcript

 

Bowes, Ruth Garland 1981 Feb, May

Biographical/Historical note

Received her A.B. (1920) and M.D. (1925) from Stanford, and later served as an assistant in the Department of Pediatrics and Medicine.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Diana Bowes; transcription only
Box 8

Transcript

Box 1

Boyd, Harold 23 1980 Sep

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Formerly Associate Dean of Student Affairs (1969-1980), and Director of the Medical Fund in the Office of Development (1980-1995). Mr. Boyd has been a strong spokesman for equal rights for blacks in both academic and administrative affairs.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Marion Hall and Harvey Hall; transcribed, 22 pages
Box 8

Transcript

 

Brandin, Alf

Box 1

24_28 1987 Jun 12

Physical Description: 5 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Business Manager of the University under Presidents Tresidder and Sterling, Alf Brandin oversaw the development of the Stanford Industrial Park and the Stanford Shopping Center. As an athlete, Brandin played on the Stanford Rose Bowl team of the 1930s and was one of the legendary "Vow Boys."

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Robert de Roos; transcribed
Box 8

Transcript

Box 7

282 1990 Sep 6

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents

Interviewed by Fred Glover for Donald Tresidder book project.
Box 1

Ceideberg, Holly 29 1981 Apr 17

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

This tape is a speech by Mrs. Ceideberg to the Stanford Historical society entitled "Recollections of Sam McDonald." She worked with Sam McDonald on the preparation of his book, Sam McDonald's Farm.

Biographical/Historical note

Stanford, Class of 1940.
Box 1

Chandler, Loren Roscoe ("Yank") 30 1979 Jan 22

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Professor of Surgery Emeritus, Chandler was Dean of the Stanford Medical School from 1933 to 1953, and a blunt-spoken participant in important phases of Stanford medical history. Dean Chandler died in 1982.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Frederic O. Glover; transcribed, 21 pages, 2 page biography
Box 8

Transcript

 

Chuck, Frank Y. 1981 May

Biographical/Historical note

Earning his A.B. in Chemistry (1922), Chemical Engineering degree (1923), and Ph.D. in Chemistry (1925) from Stanford, Dr. Chuck was an active member of Stanford's Chinese student community.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Marion Hall and Harvey Hall; transcribed, 20 pages
Box 8

Transcript

Box 1

Clark, Esther Bridgeman 31_35 1979-1980

Physical Description: 5 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Dr. Clark began her medical practice in 1927 as the only pediatrician between San Mateo and San Jose. The daughter of Stanford professor Arthur B. Clark, she attended the Campus School, and later received her B.S. (1921) and M.D. (1925) from Stanford. She was one of the founding physicians of the Palo Alto Medical Clinic as well as of the children's Health Council in Palo Alto.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Marion Hall and Ann Chase; transcribed, 39 pages. A second interview by Phyllis Johnson; transcribed
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Transcript

Box 13, Box 12

Cohen, Stanley N. 278_295, 307_318 1995

Physical Description: 30 audiocassette(s)

Biographical / Historical

Stanley N. Cohen is a physician and researcher, who has studied the biology of bacterial plasmids (circular deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules that replicate independently of the bacterial chromosome), and helped explain the mechanisms underlying the control of cell growth and gene expression in higher organisms. Cohen is best known for his work with geneticist Herbert W. Boyer, in which they became the first scientists to transfer a gene from one species to another, proving that the transplanted gene could function normally in its new home.
Cohen and Boyer worked only a few dozen miles from each other, Cohen at Stanford and Boyer at the University of California at San Francisco, but did not meet until both men attended a conference on plasmids in Honolulu in the spring of 1972. Discovering their similar concerns, they had a late-night conversation over hot pastrami and corned beef sandwiches at a Korean deli on Waikiki Beach, and began collaborating. In just four months, using Boyer's methodology, they were able to successfully introduce foreign DNA into a bacterial plasma, and using Cohen's methodology, they were able to subsequently insert this modified plasmid into bacteria. Because bacteria divide very rapidly, their work allowed the genetic "manufacturing" of engineered drugs and hormones, leading to the multi-billion dollar biotechnology industry.
Appointments: Kwoh-Ting Li Professor at the School of Medicine (1993 - present) Professor of Genetics, School of Medicine (1977 - present) Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine (1975 - present)
Education: M.D., University of Pennsylvania, Medicine (1960) B.S., Rutgers University, Biological Sciences (1956)
Professional: Guggenheim Fellowship (1975) Roche Institute V.D. Mattia Award (1977, with Herbert W. Boyer) Lasker Award (1980) ACS Marvin J. Johnson Award (1981) Wolf Prize in Medicine (1981) National Medal of Science (1988) National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1989) AGU Robert E Horton Medal (1993, with Boyer) Lemelson-MIT Prize (1996, with Boyer) National Inventors Hall of Fame (2001) Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine (2004, with Boyer) National Institutes of Health Division of Research Resources (1970-74) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Editorial Board American Association for the Advancement of Science (1994) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1978) American Cancer Society American Philosophical Society (2006) American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology American Society for Microbiology (1992) American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Association of American Physicians Genetics Society of America Institute of Medicine (1988) Lasker Foundation Awards Jury (1981-88; 2006-present) National Academy of Sciences (1979) National Research Council Committee on Biotechnology Nomenclature Wellcome Trust Experimental Therapeutics Advisory Committee (1992-97)
 

Transcript

Physical Description: 1 computer file(s) (pdf)
Box 1

Colby, Edward E. 36_38 1981 Feb 14

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Music Librarian at Stanford and Archivist, Archive of Recorded Sound.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Carol Bradley for the Collection of Source Materials Documenting the History of Music Librarianship in the United States, house at SUNY Buffalo.
Box 1

Craig, Phyllis H. 39_42 1986 Nov-1987 Jan

Physical Description: 4 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Member of the Stanford community from 1961 until her death in 2006, Mrs. Craig was a childcare consultant and co-director, Childcare Resource Center. Interviewed as part of the faculty wives series.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Mimi Webb; transcribed.
Box 8

Transcript

Box 2

Crosten, Wlliam Loren 43_47 1983 Mar, 1984 Mar

Physical Description: 5 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Chairman of the Music Department at Stanford, 1946-1973, Professor Crosten speaks of the many developments in the programs, facilities and repertoire of the department and its faculty.

Scope and Contents note

Interviews by Frederic O. Glover.
Box 2

Davis, Paul 48_50 1979 Nov

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

A national1y known consultant on college fund-raising, Mr. Davis graduated from Stanford in electrical engineering in 1923, managed the men's athletic program (1922-1925) and later returned to campus in 1936 as Director of the Stanford Fund. He was named General Secretary in 1941, 1eaving that post in 1946 to serve under Dwight Eisenhower as General Secretary and Vice President of Columbia University. In 1950, he became an independent consultant, and remained in that work until his death in 1981.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Frederic O. Glover and Paul R. Hanna; transcribed, 57 pages
Box 8

Transcript

Box 7

Dinkelspiel, John 270_273 1988 Jul 1, Sep 5

Physical Description: 4 audiocassette(s)
Box 2

Dodds, John Wendell 51_53 1981 Feb

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Professor of English from 1937 until his death in 1989 and first dean of the School of Humanities (1942-1948). Professor Dodds also served as director of the war-time Program in Far Eastern Areas and Languages, and of Humanities Special Programs (1948-1967) when the School reorganized as the School of Humanities and Sciences in 1948. Named Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities in 1962, Professor Dodds specialized in the literature of 19th century England.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Frederic O. Glover and Paul R. Hanna; transcribed and bound, (70 pages) with a 30-page appendix, "A Few Notes Toward a Recollection" by J.W. Dodds

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Interviews.
Oral histories.
Hanna, Paul Robert
Bailey, Marjorie.
Willis, Bailey
Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman)
Wenner-Gren Foundation
Stanford Oral History Project.
Dodds, Marjorie.
Franklin, H. Bruce (Howard Bruce)
Stanford University. School of Humanities
Fejos, Paul.
Guerard, Albert.
Glover, Frederic O.
Eurich, Alvin C. (Alvin Christian)
Mumford, Lewis
Stanford University. Department of English
Dodds, John W. (John Wendell)
Tresidder, Donald Bertrand
Box 8

Transcript

Box 2

Eurich, Alvin C. 57_59 1980 Oct 6-7

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Professor of Education at Stanford and Vice President under Dr. Donald B. Tresidder, Professor Eurich became acting president of the University, 1948-1949, following President Tresidder's death. He became Chancellor of the state University of New York in 1949.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Frederic O. Glover and Paul R. Hanna; transcribed and bound, 77 pages
Box 8

Transcript

Box 2

Farnsworth, Paul 60 1978 Jan 10

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Professor of Psychology, 1925-1964. Professor Farnsworth discusses the early years of the Psychology Department at Stanford, beginning with the founding of the University.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Ernest Hilgard; transcribed, 14 pages
 

Fishman, Joshua 1997 Dec

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Yiddish secular schools.
Oral histories.
Jews -- Social life and customs.
Yiddish language.
Jewish day schools.
YIVO.
Yiddish Scientific Institute.
Ferguson, Charles A. (Charles Albert)
Fishman, Joshua A. (Shikl)
Rawlings, John
Stanford Oral History Project.
Weinreich, Max
Box 8

Transcript

Box 2

Freeman, Szebelski ("Sibby") 61_62 1980 Aug

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Member of the Associated Students of Stanford University Council of Presidents, 1979-1980, Sibby Freeman entered Stanford in 1967. He "stopped out" briefly to do draft counseling for the Eldridge Foundation and other community work. He returned to Stanford in 1973 and received his A.B. in Anthropology and M.A. in 1981.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Harvey Hall; transcribed, 30 pages
Box 8

Transcript

Box 2

Goheen, John 63 1987 Jan 20

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Professor of Philosophy at Stanford, 1950-1972; University Ombudsman, 1974-1985.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Judy Adams; transcribed
Box 8

Transcript

Box 2

Green, Cecil H. 64_67 1989 Feb

Physical Description: 4 audiocassette(s)
Box 2

Guthrie, Luell Weed 68_69 1978 Feb

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Former head of the Department of Women's Physical Education (1956-1968), Professor Guthrie joined the Stanford faculty in 1936 and is noted for her activities in Women's intercollegiate tennis and skiing.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Margo Davis; donated to the SOHP; transcribed, 52 pages
Box 8

Transcript

Box 2

Hall, Harvey 70 1980 Jan

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

A graduate of UCLA, Mr. Hall taught at Sequoia High School (1932-1950) before coming to Stanford as assistant registrar (1948-1949). He served as registrar of Stanford University (1950-1970) and Ombudsman (1970-1972). Mr. Hall received the Dinkelspiel Award for service to undergraduates in 1971, and was elected president of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (1970).

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Jeff Littleboy
Box 2

Hall, Marion Dwight Dwight, Herbert McGilvray 71 1979 Nov

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

"Growing up at Stanford, 1906-1925." As children, Marion and her brother Herbert lived on campus with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John D. McGilvray. (McGilvray was a stone contractor responsible for construction on many major university buildings.) Marion received her A.B. (1922) and A.M. (1923) from Stanford. Herbert received his A.S. (1925) from Stanford. The interview covers their childhood and life as students at Stanford. Hall's husband of 62 years was Stanford Registrar Emeritus Harvey Hall.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Harvey Hall
Box 2

Hansen, Ralph Waldemar 72_73 1979 Aug 21-24

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Manuscripts Librarian (1962-1967), first University Archivist at Stanford (1965-1979) and Chief, Acquisitions Department in the Stanford University Libraries, (1967-1979) Mr. Hansen played a major role in developing library collections, including the creation of the Stanford Library Associates (1974). He also served as acting Assistant Director for Collection Development (1975); Meyer Flood Project coordinator (1978-1979); Palo Alto City Historian (1963-1967); Palo Alto City President (1970-1971).

Scope and Contents

Interview covers Hansen's personal background, archival training and path to Stanford; metamorphosis of Stanfordiana Collection into a standard manuscript and archives collection; efforts to gather and centralize university records; difficulties with salaries at Stanford; Hansen's serving in several concurrent management capacities while attending graduate school at Berkeley; marketing of Stanford history to alumni and friends; changes to library staff over the years; development of BALLOTS and library automation; founding of library friends' group (Associates); student unrest in 1960s and 70s, and disruption in libraries; participation in centennial celebration of transcontinental railroad.
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Transcript

Box 2

Hargadon, Fred 74_76 1984 Jul 2

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Professor of Political Science (1963-1969) and Dean of Admissions (1964-1969) at Swarthmore College, "Dean Fred" came to Stanford in 1969, where he served for 15 years as Dean of Admissions. He resigned in 1984 to accept a position as the Senior Vice President of Administration of the College Board.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Roxanne Nilan and Karen Bartholomew; transcribed, 104 pages
Box 2

Hastorf, Barbara 77_79 1986 Apr-May

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Member of the Stanford community since 1969, Mrs. Hastorf speaks about her experiences as a volunteer, with the Stanford overseas program, and as a faculty spouse.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Mimi Webb and Joanne O'Donohue.
Box 8

Transcript

Box 7

Hofstadter, Robert 283 1985 Jan 17

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
Box 2

Jacobson, David S. 80_81 1978 Oct

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Secretary to the University Emeritus, Mr. Jacobson came to work for Stanford in 1936 as assistant to President Donald B. Tresidder after receiving both his A.B. (1930) and L.L.B. (1934) from Stanford. As General Secretary, he played a key role in the development of Stanford's fundraising program.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Frederic O. Glover; transcribed, 52 pages
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Jahns, Richard H. 82_84 1980 Sep, Oct

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Professor of Geology and Applied Earth Sciences at Stanford from 1964 until his death in 1983; Dean of the School of Earth sciences, 1965-1979; and first holder of Stanford's Welton J. and Maude L. Cook Professorship of Applied Earth sciences, 1977-1983. He combined work at the U.S. Geological survey (1948-1983) with his teaching posts at Cal Tech (1946-1960), Penn State (1960-1964), and Stanford.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Harry Press
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Jessup, Charles R. Bruce 85 1980 Feb 29

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford Medical School; physician, East Palo Alto Medical Clinic. Received his A.B. (1941) and M.D. (1949) from Stanford.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Claire Still and Georgiana Kjerulff; 60 minutes
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Johnson, Olivia 86_89 1982 Mar 9, 1987 Jul 9

Physical Description: 4 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Olivia Rolfe entered Stanford in 1914 as one of the 500 women admitted to the University. The next year, she married Stanford geologist Harry Johnson.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Harry Press, March 9, 1982. A second interview, by Judy Adams, July 9, 1987
The interview covers her childhood and family life, the 1906 earthquake, and her studies and life as a student at both Stanford and UCLA.
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Kaplan, Leah 90_93 1978 May

Physical Description: 4 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Director of the Help Center and the first woman staff member to become President of the Faculty Club, Ms. Kaplan served as Assistant Dean of students for Women' s Affairs and as Special Assistant to the Ombudsman. (She was appointed Ombudsman in 1985, after this interview.) A psychiatric counselor to students at Cowell Health Center, Ms. Kaplan acted out of a special interest in the welfare of women students.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Margo Davis; donated to the SOHP
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Keen, Myra 94_96 1977 Jul

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Eminent malacologist and curator of Stanford's collection of over 20,000 shells (which was transferred to the California Academy of Sciences), Professor Keen joined the Stanford staff in 1934, was named Curator in 1940 and elected to the faculty of paleontology in 1954.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Margo Davis; donated to the SOHP
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Kendrick, Betty Roth 97_98, 264

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Daughter of Stanford's first Dean of Men under David Starr Jordan, Almon E. Roth, Betty Roth grew up on the Stanford campus and entered Stanford with the class of 1935. The interview focuses on her father's work, and campus life.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Fred Glover; transcribed, 53 pages.
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Keohane, Nannerl 99 1988 Apr 27

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

President of Wellesley College (1981-1993), Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford (1973-1981). Professor Keohane was one of the founders of the Feminist Studies program at Stanford.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Judy Adams
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Krauskopf, Konrad 100_102 1986 Dec-1987 Jan

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Professor of Geology at Stanford and a leader in his field of geochemistry, Professor Krauskopf received his Ph.D. in Geology from Stanford in 1939 and taught at Stanford from 1935, as an acting instructor, until his retirement in 1976.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Judy Adams
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Levison, Robert Mark, 1899- 104_106 1980 Apr-May

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Born in San Francisco in 1899, Levison entered Stanford University in 1917. In 1924 he established the San Francisco insurance brokerage firm of Levison Insurance. Levison has played an active role in Stanford alumni affairs as a member of the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association. In 1935 he joined the original Board of Governors of the Stanford Associates, serving for the maximum six years. He was reelected to the Board in 1973. Levison was awarded the Gold Spike in 1973 for his exceptional work in fundraising activities for Stanford. He is an original member of the Stanford Buck Club and served a full term on the Stanford athletic board. His many civic activities include serving as President of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco and Vice-President of the National Jewish Welfare Board.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Frederic O. Glover; transcribed and bound, 41 pages. Subjects include the development of Stanford University, fundraising, and the Stanford Associates.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Universities and colleges -- Public relations
Oral histories.
Stanford Fund.
Roth, Almon.
Rothert, Harlow Phelps.
Chandler, Loren Roscoe ("Yank")
Sloss, Leon.
Walker, Frank Fish
Barclay, Thomas S. (Thomas Swain)
Irwin, Will
Stanford Associates.
Stanford Alumni Association
Stanford University. Office of Development
Davis, Paul H.
Cuthbertson, Kenneth.
Hutchinson, Eric.
Gunst, Morgan A.
Glover, Frederic O.
Dinkelspiel, Lloyd W.
Edwards, Paul C. (Paul Carroll)
Levison family.
Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman)
Keesling, Francis V.
Jacobson, David S.
Pearson, Daryl H.
Mitchell, J. Pearce.
Tresidder, Donald Bertrand
Crothers, George E. (George Edward)
McDowell, John Ezra.
Levison, Robert Mark
Roseberry, Louis H.
Reynolds, Harry B.
Price, Harry.
Peck, Templeton.
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Lewis, Janet 107_110 1977 Nov

Physical Description: 4 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Poet, novelist and lecturer in creative writing at Stanford, Janet Lewis is best known for her novels The Invasion and The Wife of Martin Guerre. She came to Stanford in 1928 with her husband, poet and Professor of English Yvor Winters and taught creative writing at Stanford.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Margo Davis; donated to the SOHP; transcribed and bound, 97 pages
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Lyman, Jing 284_289 1977 Aug 29-Sep2

Physical Description: 6 audiocassette(s)
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Manson, Clara 111 1980 Oct

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Librarian at Lane Library, Stanford Medical School, in San Francisco (1948-1949) and after its move to the Stanford campus (1959-1971).

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Claire Still; 60 minutes
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Mendelowitz, Daniel M. 112 1978 Dec

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Emeritus Professor of Art, who taught at Stanford for 36 years--a talented artist and gentle commentator on the history of art; received his A.B. (1926) and M.A. (1927) from Stanford. Professor Mendelowitz died in 1980.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Frederic O. Glover
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Mitchell, Sidney 281 1990 Mar 21

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Murphy, Michael H. 113_114 1980 Jun

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Author, and founder of the Esalen Institute, Mr. Murphy received his A.B. in psychology (1952) from Stanford, where he was active in student affairs.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by John Callaghan; 120 minutes
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Page, Virginia 279_280 1987 May 28

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)
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Purdy, Ann Peril 278 1977 Jun 16

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Ricker, Christine 117 1979 Dec

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

As Director of Dining Halls and the Stanford Union for 37 years, Ms. Ricker was responsible for student food services. She retired in 1958.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Harry Press; 60 minutes.
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Rosenzweig, Robert M. 118_122 1983 Jan-Mar

Physical Description: 5 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Vice-President for Public Affairs at Stanford (1974-1983), and now President of the A.A.U., Dr. Rosenzweig came to Stanford in 1962 after receiving his Ph.D. from Yale and working briefly at Amherst and with the U.S. Department of Education. He first served as Assistant Dean of the Graduate Division (1962-1967) and as Associate Provost (1967-1971). He became Vice-Provost and Presidential Advisor under President Richard Lyman in 1971 and in 1974 became Stanford's first Vice-President of Public Affairs. This interview provides especially good insight into years of great administrative changes, student activism and a change in the University's attitude towards governmental relations.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Karen Bartholomew and Donald Carlson; transcribed, 103 pages
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Roth, Betty and Roth, Miriam 124

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Daughters of Almon E. Roth, Comptroller of the University from 1919 to 1937 and Stanford graduate, class of 1909. The interview covers the projects completed during Mr. Roth's tenure as comptroller, including Stanford Stadium, Sunken Diamond, and the Stanford Golf Course.

Scope and Contents note

Betty and Miriam Roth, daughters of Almon Roth: growing up on campus, students they knew when they were children, reminiscences of their parents and their own days as Stanford students.
Interview by Robert de Roos
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Schofield, Mary 125 1987 Apr 21

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

A Stanford graduate, class of 1929, Miss Schofield worked in the Hoover Institution Library from 1933 until her retirement. She donated her large collection of children's books to the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Library.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Judy Adams.
Schofield has a long association with Stanford, as child of students, student herself, and employee. Interview describes her history and background on her parents.
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Sears, Robert Richardson 126_136 1982

Physical Description: 11 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

David Starr Jordan Professor of Psychology, emeritus, Bob Sears returned to Stanford in 1953 after teaching at Harvard, Yale, and Iowa State University. The son of Professor Jesse B. Sears, he was born in Palo Alto in 1908 and received his A. B. from Stanford in 1929, his Ph.D. from Yale in 1932. He has also served as Dean of Humanities and Sciences (1961-1969) and as chairman of the Psychology Department during years of great growth. He is particularly well known for his work in the social psychological development of children, in personality and motivation.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Frederic O. Glover; transcribed and bound, 107 pages
A separate set of interviews, conducted by Hamilton Cravens of Iowa State University's Program in the History of Science and Technology, and donated to the SOHP, focuses on Professor Sears' contributions to the field of child development. The first set is transcribed, 117 pages The second set is transcribed, 80 pages
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Snyder, Rixford K. 137_138 1979 Mar-Apr

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Long-time Dean of Admissions (1950-1969), Professor Snyder also served as Associate Professor of History (1940-1943, 1946-1969) after receiving his A.B. (1930), A.M. (1934), and Ph.D. (1940) in history from Stanford. Director of the Alumni Travel Study Program of the Stanford Alumni Association from 1969 until his formal retirement in 1974, but kept a workspace in the Travel/Study office, where he compiled his memoirs and continued to go on alumni trips well into his 70s.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Frederic O. Glover and George Knoles; transcribed and bound, 80 pages
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Sterling, Wallace

Biographical/Historical note

Stanford University President, 1949-1968.
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"Remembering Wallace Sterling" 139_140 1985 Aug 9

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical / Historical

Peter C. Allen came back to Stanford in 1946 as Editor of the Stanford Review, the Stanford Alumni Association magazine. He first met Dr. Sterling when he and Fred Glover interviewed him after the Big Game in 1948. Allen succeeded Glover as Director of Information in 1953 and later became the first Director of the News and Publications Service. He was University Editor when he retired in 1977 and he was University Editor Emeritus at the time of this taping session.
Ernest C. Arbuckle knew Dr. Sterling from the time they were both graduate students in 1933. They were good friends when Dr. Sterling was at Caltech and at the Huntington Library, and were close personal friends by the time Arbuckle was elected a University trustee (1954-58). Dr. Sterling appointed him Dean of the Graduate School of Business in 1958 and he served until 1968. Arbuckle was also Chairman of the board of Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) 1966-70. But he left the deanship in 1968 to become Chairman of the Board of Wells Fargo Bank and Wells Fargo Co. He served a second term on the Board of Trustees, 1973-76. He was elected Chairman of the Board of Saga Corporation in 1978 and served until 1982. [Mr. Arbuckle and his wife Katherine were killed in an automobile accident on January 17, 1986.]
Alf Brandin also knew Dr. Sterling from the early 30s when he was a member of Stanford's "Vow Boys" football team. He was appointed University Business Manager in 1946 by President Donald Tresidder and continued to serve in that capacity under Dr. Sterling. In 1953 Brandin became Executive Officer of the Stanford Land Development Program as well, and the following year was made Vice President for Business Affairs. He left Stanford in 1970 to become Senior Vice President and member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Utah Construction and Mining Company [known as Utah International Inc. when this session was held] .
E. Howard Brooks was an Acting Instructor of History in 1949 when he first met Dr. Sterling. He called on the president to ask if he would assist in judging a graduate student essay contest. (He did.) In 1951 Brooks became Assistant Director of Admissions under Professor Rixford Snyder. In 1957 Provost Frederick Terman tapped Brooks for the position of Assistant to the Provost and Director of the Summer Session. From 1965 to 1971 Brooks held the position of Vice Provost. When this taping session took place, he was Provost Emeritus of the Claremont Colleges of California.
Donald T. Carlson returned to Stanford in 1951 as Assistant Director of Information to Director Fred Glover. His first meeting with Dr. Sterling had been a year earlier when he was Executive Secretary of Oregon State College. He served in the General Secretary's Office (now Development) 1952-54, as Assistant to the President, 1954-61, and in both the University Relations Office and President's Office, 1961-68. He was Director of University Relations in the Office of Public Affairs at the time of this taping.
Kenneth M. Cuthbertson came back to the University in 1954 as Assistant to the President, replacing Robert Wert as Dr. Sterling's budget control officer. He very soon became Dr. Sterling's point man in all matters of financial consequence to the University. Cuthbertson was named Vice President for Finance in 1959, and later took on the responsibility for managing the University's fund raising program as well. He was the principal University officer responsible for the successful conduct of two major fund raising campaigns, the $100,000,000 Plan of Action for a Challenging Era, 1962-64, and the Campaign for Stanford, 1972-77, that reached a total of $304,000,000. From 1970 to 1977 he was Vice President for Development. He held that title as emeritus and was President of the James Irvine Foundation when this taping took place.
Frederic O. Glover joined President Donald Tresidder's staff as Director of Information in 1946. His acquaintance with Wallace Sterling began in the early 30s when he was training for the Stanford boxing team and Dr. Sterling was a graduate student working out regularly in the gymnasium. Glover moved into the President's Office to replace Tom Spragens as Assistant to the President in 1954, and became Executive Assistant to the President in 1959. He served in that capacity until Dr. Sterling's retirement in 1968 and continued with President Kenneth Pitzer. In 1970 Glover became Secretary to the University, continuing his responsibility for trustee affairs, a title he held as emeritus at the time of this taping.
Robert H. Moulton, Jr. came back to Stanford from the Ford Foundation in 1957 as Assistant to the President. He was Dr. Sterling's aide for financial forecasting during the planning period that led to the PACE campaign of the early 60s. In 1960 he was also made Associate Director of "Project M" (for Monster), when a two-mile-long electron accelerator was only a pile of plans on paper—lots of paper. Moulton continued to be an assistant to Dr. Sterling until 1968. He retired from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1983 as Associate Director Emeritus.
Lyle M. Nelson left the vice presidency for University Relations at the University of Michigan in 1961 to become Stanford's Director of University Relations in Dr. Sterling's administration. He was public relations and political counsel to Dr. Sterling for the remainder of his tenure and continued to be his informal counsel through his years as chancellor. Nelson served in the faculty as Professor of Communication and Journalism and as Chairman of the Department of Communication. He was nearing emeritus status when this taping session took place.

Scope and Contents note

Nine men who worked closely with President J. E. Wallace Sterling during his administration gathered together in the Stanford Faculty Club one afternoon following his death (July 1, 1985) to share their thoughts about the kind of man he was, the problems he faced and how he dealt with them, and not least, some of his accomplishments.
The Participants: Peter C. Allen, '36 Ernest C. Arbuckle, '33, MBA '36 Alf E. Brandin, '36 E. Howard Brooks, '42, M.A.'47, Ph.D.'50 Donald T. Carlson, '47 Kenneth M. Cuthbertson, '40, MBA '47 Frederic 0. Glover, '33 Robert H. Moulton, Jr. '40 Lyle M. Nelson, Oregon '41
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"Reminscences, 1949-1960," interviews with Glover, Allen, Carlson 252_259 1977 Mar-Apr

Physical Description: 8 audiocassette(s)
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Anecdotes 260_261

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)
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Stolz, Lois Meek 141_142, 262_263 1977 Jul

Physical Description: 4 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Professor of Psychology at Stanford since 1946, Professor Stolz is well-known for her work in child psychology and child care, and has long maintained an interest in Stanford women. She was active in her field until her death in 1984.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Margo Davis; donated to the SOHP; transcribed and bound, 80 pages

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Psychological research.
Psychology.
Oral histories.
Photoprints.
Interviews.
Stanford University. Department of Psychology. Faculty
Davis, Margo.
Stanford Oral History Project.
Stolz, Lois Meek
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Swank, Raynard C. 143 1980 Sep 25

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Director of Libraries at Stanford from 1948-1962, Dr. Swank undertook a badly-needed revitalization of the library system, providing more effective service to instruction and research.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Frederic O. Glover. Description of campus (by Glover) in 1948 to emphasize changes during Swank's 14 years; Swank/Wilson report on library needs 1946-47; focus on service to undergraduates, including initial planning for undergraduate library; Stanford fundraising campaigns, and omission of libraries from them; collection building under Swank; centralizing records and inclusion of branch libraries in union catalog; Technical Information Service that served industrial park businesses; increasing humanities resources to match sciences; changes in library science education since 1960s.
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Terman, Frederick Emmons, 1900-1982. 1971-1978

Biographical/Historical note

Engineer and educator Frederick Emmons Terman began his teaching career at Stanford in 1925 and became a full professor in 1937. In 1937, he also became head of the Electrical Engineering Department. As Dean of the School of Engineering (1945-1960) and as Provost (1955-1965) and Vice President (1959-1965) of the University, Terman played a key role in developing University faculty, research facilities and funding. Interviews done by Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.

Scope and Contents

Subjects covered by the interviews include his teaching and research career at Stanford University, the National Defense Research Committee, the Harvard Radio Research Laboratory, post-war research at Stanford, and the electronics industry, especially the Hewlett-Packard Company and its founders William R. Hewlett and David Packard.

General

These interviews were a joint project of the History of Science and Technology Program at the University of California at Berkeley and the Stanford Oral History Project at Stanford University.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Electronics
Science -- History.
Microelectronics industry -- United States -- History.
High technology industries -- California
Oral histories.
Klystrons.
Engineering -- United States -- History.
Microelectronics industry -- California -- Santa Clara County.
High technology -- Research.
Harvard University. Radio Research Laboratory.
Ginzton, Edward L. (Edward Leonard)
Hewlett, William R.
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee.
Ryan, Harris J. (Harris Joseph)
Stanford University. Department of Electrical Engineering
Hewlett Packard Company
Bancroft Library. History of Science and Technology Program.
Bush, Vannevar
Packard, David, 1912-1996
Webster, David Locke
Hansen, W. W. (William Webster)
Terman, Frederick Emmons, 1900-1982
Varian, Russell Harrison
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Vickers, Joseph 144 1984 Nov

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

A Stanford alumnus of the class of 1912, Judge Vickers had a distinguished legal career, part of it serving as a Judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles. Vickers had an extensive history of volunteer work on Stanford's behalf.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Donald Carlson and Edward Raleigh
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Whitaker, Virgil 145_146 1982 May

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Shakespearean scholar, head of Stanford's English Department (1951-1963) and Dean of the Graduate Division (1964-1968), Professor Whitaker was also the originator and director of the Summer Festival of Arts, and was active in American Indian affairs.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Eleanor Bark, Marion Hall and Harvey Hall, transcribed and bound, 47 pages.
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Wiggins, Ira 147_148 1980 Apr

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Professor of Botany at Stanford since 1929. Director of the Natural History Museum and the Dudley Herbarium, (1940-1964). Following his graduation from Occidental College in 1923, he received his A.M. (1925) and Ph.D. (1930) from Stanford.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Sara Timby and John Rawlings; transcribed and bound, 57 pages
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Wilbur, Dwight Locke 149_153 1981 May

Physical Description: 5 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Wilbur joined the clinical faculty of the Stanford Medical School in 1937 (Emeritus, 1968-) and became chief of medical services at French Hospital. Dr. Wilbur received his A.B. in Zoology from Stanford (1923) and M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1926). The second son of Stanford President Ray Lyman Wilbur, Dr. Wilbur was very active in medical and community affairs. He married Ruth Esther Jordan (Class of 1927) in 1928.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Frederic O. Glover
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Wilbur, Mary Sloan 154_155 1980 Jun 23-24

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Active in community affairs, including the presidency of the Stanford Hospital Medical Auxiliary, Mrs. Wilbur came to Stanford from Arizona in 1918. Here she met and eventually married Blake Colburn Wilbur (Class of 1922), the eldest son of Stanford President Ray Lyman Wilbur and later one of the founding physicians of the Palo Alto Clinic. Mary earned in BA (Zoology) in 1922.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Marion Hall and Ann Chase
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Yalom, Marilyn 156_157 1987 Jul 16

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Deputy Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and lecturer in Modern Thought and Literature, Marilyn Yalom was at Stanford from 1976-1987. Interview by Judy Adams
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Abramovitz, Carrie

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Almond, Dorothea

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Alway, Robert

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Anderson, Reid

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Angell, Thomas

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Ashley, Celeste

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Bacon, Harold

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Bacon, Rosamund

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Baer, Carolyn/CCIS

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Bailey, Thomas A.

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Barclay, Thomas S.

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Bark, Eleanor

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Beard, Rodney

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Berry, Chester

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Blake, Marilyn Gillingham, Jane

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Bliss, James

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Bloch, Felix

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Bowes, Ruth Garland

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Boyd, Harold

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Brandin, Alf

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Buchanan, Bruce

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Buma, Maurine

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Butler, Lucy

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Carley, Lucille

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Ceideberg, Holly

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Chan, Shau Wing

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Chandler, Loren

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Chuck, Frank

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Clark, Esther

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Clebsch, Betsy

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Colby, Edward

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Craig, Phyllis

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Crosten, William Loren

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Davis, Paul Herbert

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Deal, Bruce E.

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Denhard, Alice

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Dodds, John Wendell

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Drell, Sydney

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Edgar, Jean

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Englebart, Doug

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Eurich, Alvin C.

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Farnsworth, Paul

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Fischel, Eleanor Skarin, Miriam

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Freeman, Szebekski (Sibby)

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Gardner, John

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Geballe, Theodore

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Gibson, Helen

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Ginzton, Edward

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Glover, Frederic O.

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Goheen, John

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Green Cecil

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Guthrie, Luell

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Hall, Harvey

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Hall, Marion Dwight, Herbert

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Hanna, Paul

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Hansen, Ralph

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Harder, Virginia Crowell, Peggy McCue

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Hargadon, Fred

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Harman, John and Jean

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Harwood, Lee

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Hastorf, Barbara

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Hawes, Josephine

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Hewlett, Bill

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Hofstadter, Robert

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Hoover, William G.

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Howard, Mildred D. Wallingford, J.

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Jacobson, David S.

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Jahns, Richard

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Jessup, Bruce

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Johnson, Melba Beard

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Johnson, Olivia

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Jones, Henry (on R.R. Newell)

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Jordan, Payton

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Kaplan, Leah

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Keen, Myra

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Kendrick, Betty Roth

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Keohane, Nannerl

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Kirkpatrick, Paul

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Krauskopf, Konrad

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Kriss, Joseph

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Leu, Anna Jagels

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Levison, Robert Mark

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Lewis, Janet

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Linvill, John

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Lowenstein, Gerald

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Lyman, Elizabeth (Jing)

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Manson, Clara

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Mendelowitz, Daniel

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Mitchell, Sydney

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Murphy, Michael

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Newell, Allen (on R.R. Newell)

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Newell, Jeanette (on R.R. Newell)

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Newell, Robert R.

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Nunan, Craig

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Packard, Martin

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Panofsky, Wolfgang

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Purdy, Ann Peril

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Rhinelander, Phil

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Richards, Victor

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Richter, Burton

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Ricker, Christine

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Robinson, Edgar E.

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Rosenzweig, Robert M.

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Schawlow, Arthur

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Schofield, Mary

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Sears, Robert R. (Glover interviews)

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Sears, Robert R.

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Sears, Robert R. (Cravens interviews)

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Slaven, Helen Adell

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Snitjer, Kate

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Snyder, Rixford K.

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Sterling, Wallace

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Sterling, Wallace (group reminiscence)

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Stolz, Lois Meek

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Swank, Raynard C.

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Terman, Frederick Emmons

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Vickers, Joseph W.

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Whitaker, Virgil K.

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Wiggins, Ira Loren

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Wilbur, Dwight L.

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Wilbur, Mary Sloan

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Yalom, Marilyn

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Aurora Interviews Series 2

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Applewhite, Liat 158 1981 May 12

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

General note

Interview by Sally Thomas and Stephanie Poggi
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Bancroft, Kim and Jensen, Margaret 159_160 1981 Apr 23

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

General note

Interview by Sally Thomas and Stephanie Poggi
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Brown, Phyllis 161 1981 May

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

General note

Interview by Sally Thomas and Stephanie Poggi.
Brown was a founder and early participant in Aurora feminist student newspaper at Stanford.
 

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Mercer, Michelle 163 1981 May 12

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

General note

Interview by Sally Thomas and Stephanie Poggi
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Merriman, Sue 164 1981 May

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

General note

Interview by Sally Thomas and Stephanie Poggi
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Smith, Stephanie and Gonzales, Leenda 165, 123 1981 May 12, 1985 May 6

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

General note

Interview by Sally Thomas and Stephanie Poggi
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Torf, Adrienne 166 1981 May 12, 1985 Jun 4

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

General note

Interview by Sally Thomas and Stephanie Poggi
Box 4

Community Committee on International Students (CCIS) Series 3

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Baer, Carolyn 167 1984 Dec 19

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Lee Harwood and Virginia Spears; transcribed, 27 pages
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Transcript

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Botsford, Margaret 168 1985 May 22

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Carolyn Grundt; transcribed, 23 pages
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Transcript

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Bretall, Norah 169 1987 Mar 30

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
Box 4

Cline, Laura 170 1987 Feb 2

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Dutton, Dorothea 171 1987 Mar 31

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
Box 4

Gibson, Helen 172 1986 Mar 10

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Roka Haswell.
Interview includes descriptions of hosted students and of students who worked for board and room; mostly Chinese students. Employment vs. friendship and hosting, keeping boundaries.
Box 4

Goff, Harry and Goff, Kay 173 1987 Mar 30

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents

Descriptions of students the Goffs hosted and have kept in touch with; how Bechtel center was acquired
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Transcript

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Grundt, Carolyn Stipe 174 1984 Jul 7

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Roka Haswell; 23 minutes
Box 5

Harwood, Lee 175 1984 Aug 6

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Virginia Spears and Gertrude Williams; 36 minutes
Box 5

Haswell, Roka 176 1984 Jul 6

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Annette Mellott; 55 minutes
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Johnston, Beatrice and Silber, Bernice 177 1986 Mar 10

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Lee Harwood and Bernice Silber; 27 minutes
Box 5

Kershaw, Henrietta 178 1985 Apr 9

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Roka Haswell; 43 minutes
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Keyes, Pat 179 1984 Sep 27

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Virginia Spears and Gertrude Williams; 38 minutes
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Krebs, Ruby 180 1986 Mar 18

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Carolyn Stipe; 47 minutes
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Lane, Joane 181 1987 Mar 18

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Mellott, Annette 182

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Carolyn Grundt, July 6, 1984; 30 minutes
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Millar, Kay 183 1986 Jul 22

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Gertrude Williams and Virginia Spears; 40 minutes
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Transcript

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Norman, Ruth 184 1987 Mar 30

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Page, Virginia 185 1987 Apr 15

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents

Interview covers early organizational structure and participants of CCIS; location(s) of the CCIS program on campus; Homestay Program and permanent housing; personal connections to Japanese students; students in School of Earth Sciences; students who return to their home countries vs. students who stay in the US; rewards of participating in the program.
Box 5

Proctor, Elizabeth 186 1986 Jun 10

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Carolyn Stipe; 50 minutes
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Qualls, Katherine 188 1985 Sep 18

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Roka Haswell; 43 minutes
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Roesler, Fran 187

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Rusmore, Jean 189 1986 Jun 2

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Lee Harwood and Bernice Silber; 35 minutes
Box 5

Spaeth, Sheila 191 1985 Apr 26

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Virginia Spears and Gertrude Williams; 30 minutes.
Spaeth discusses the early organizational structure and participants of CCIS
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Transcript

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Spears, Virginia 192 1984 Jul 16

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Gertrude Williams and Lee Harwood; 45 minutes.
Interview includes descriptions of students the Spears hosted and have kept in touch with; students from India and Japan featured.
Box 5

Warnlof, Mary Ann 193 1984 Nov 28

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Carolyn Grundt; 38 minutes
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Wells, Alison 194 1986 Jul 21

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Williams, Gertrude 195 1984 Jul 11

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Wright, Mabel 196

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Roka Haswell
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Laser History Project Interviews Series 4

Box 2

Dwight, Herbert McGilvray 54 1984 Jan 18

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents

By Joan BrombergAt Spectra-Physics, San Jose, California

General note

See Hall, Marion Dwight.
Box 5

Goldsborough, John 198

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Laser specialist. Received his B.S. from Lehigh University in 1956, and Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University in 1961. Research staff member, 1960-1966, Director of Research, 1966-1968, and Senior Project Engineer, 1968-1974 at International Business Machines Corporation; Engineering Department Manager, Spectra-Physics, Inc. Has conducted research on Magnetic Resonance, photo conductivity, and low temperature physics.

Scope and Contents note

Interview focuses on his research at Spectra-Physics.
Box 5

Hänsch, Theodor 199

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Winner of 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with John L. Hall, for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique. A native of West Germany, and specialist in lasers and physics. Received his M.S. (1966) and Ph.D. (1969) in physics from the University of Heidelberg. Assistant professor of physics, University of Heidelberg, 1969-1970, NATO fellow 1970-1972, and associate professor, 1972-1975. Concurrent position as Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1973-1975. Professor of Physics, Stanford University, 1975-1986. Alexander Von Humboldt Sr. U.S. Scientist Fellow, 1978-79. Research accomplishments in spectroscopy and quantum electronics; developed powerful monochromatic pulsed dye lasers; high resolution nonlinear spectroscopy of atoms and molecules.

Scope and Contents note

Interview covers: laser research at the University of Heidelberg, 1965-1970. Thesis research. Collaboration on a commercial laser. Hansch's laboratory style. Frustrations of doing spectroscopy with the early, non-tunable lasers. Laser research at Stanford University, 1970-circa 1973. Comparison of resources at Heidelberg and Stanford. The high resolution, tunable laser of 1971 and the research program it engendered.
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Transcript

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Hobart, J. 200_201

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Oral history interview covers: Hobart's background at the University of Michigan and with Trion Instruments Company; his management of accessory-product development at Spectra-Physics; Coherent Radiation, Inc., and the Coherent Carbon Dioxide laser; Spectra-Physics--Coherent rivalry; Coherent's service and customer training policies; sources of capital; developing a commercial argon-ion laser; the start of profitability for Coherent in 1969.
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Rempel, Robert 202

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Oral history interview covers the founding of Spectra-Physics; Rempel's reasons for choosing to be an entrepreneur; attitudes toward patenting; the collaboration with Perkin-Elmer; Role of John Atwood; Spectra-Physics' advertising approach; acquisitions; pricing policies; steps toward achieving high quality products; the step camera; the geodolite.

Biographical/Historical note

B.A. Pomona College (1948); M.S. Stanford University (1950); Ph.D. in Physics (1956). Varian Associates consult. 1954-1956, resident physicist, 1956-1961. President Spectra-Physics, Inc., 1961-1970, and Chromatix, Inc., 1970-1980 .
Box 5

Ruddock, K. 203

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Interview covers: Designing magnetometers at Varian; early non-laser ''bread and butter" development projects for Spectra-Physics; laser rangefinders for airborne commercial applications. Also covers the Spectra-Physics geodolite and its applications to geologic surveys, mapping of Artic ice, aircraft and missile tracking, and ocean wave heights.
Box 5

Schawlow, Arthur B. 204_205

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview covers: Boyhood in Ontario, Canada. High school and college education, graduate work at the University of Toronto. Post-doctoral research in microwave spectroscopy at Columbia University with Charles Townes. Influence of peers and professors. Bell Labs, research in superconductivity and in lasers. Development in communication ability of autistic son. Move of Stanford. Connections with "Silicon Valley" industry.

Biographical/Historical note

Physicist, specializing in lasers. Winner of 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to laser spectroscopy. Professor of physics, Stanford University, 1961-1996.
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Siegman, A.E., 1931-2011 206

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical / Historical

Tony Siegman was born November 23, 1931, and raised in rural Michigan. He received the AB degree summa cum laude after three years as a National Merit Scholar at Harvard, where he played the clarinet in the Harvard Marching Band. After two years on a cooperative plan with the Hughes Research Labs in Culver City, leading to an MS degree in Applied Physics from UCLA in 1954, he followed his former Hughes supervisor, Dr. Dean A. Watkins, to Stanford as a research assistant. He was appointed to the Stanford faculty on an acting basis in 1956 and received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 1957 with a dissertation on microwave noise in electron beams and traveling-wave tubes. Shortly thereafter he switched to work on microwave masers and parametric devices, which, after 1960, evolved into a research and teaching career in lasers and optics. He was promoted to full professor at Stanford in 1964 and retired from his Stanford position as the Burton J. and Ann M. McMurtry Professor of Engineering in November 1998. Following his formal retirement, he continued to lecture, consult, and publish in his field, including work on gain-guided optical fibers and fiber lasers. In 2010 he made a round-the-world trip on behalf of LaserFest, celebrating 50 years of laser innovation. From 1999 through 2011 he spent winters at north Tahoe, cross-country skiing daily with his wife and dogs. A campus resident, he was a founding officer of the Stanford Campus Residential Leaseholders, Inc., and also served on the boards of the Stanford Historical Society and the Stanford Emeriti Council. His other interests included antique scientific instruments, opera, sailing, and snorkelling. During his Stanford career he supervised some 40 PhD dissertations and published numerous scientific articles and three textbooks: Microwave Solid-State Masers (McGraw-Hill, 1964), An Introduction to Lasers and Masers (McGraw-Hill, 1972), and Lasers (University Science Books, 1986). Lasers, at 1,283 pages, became the standard reference in the field. He was regarded by many as a true patriarch, since one of his Ph.D. students, Stephen E. Harris, continued on to his own prominence on the Stanford faculty and in turn supervised the Ph.D. of (now) Stanford professor Robert L. Byer. Byer in turn supervised the Ph.D. of (now) professor Martin M. Fejer, several of whose students have gone on to notable careers and have mentored students of their own, making four generations of academic "offspring" in Quantum Electronics and other fields. Burton J. McMurtry, another of Tony's early Ph.D. students, served most recently as president of Stanford's Board of Trustees. Tony was Director of the Ginzton Laboratory from 1978 to 1983 and again in 1998-99, and served on numerous academic committees and as a member of the Stanford Faculty Senate and its Steering Committee. He spent sabbaticals as Visiting Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard in 1965, Guggenheim Fellow at the IBM Research Labs in Zurich in 1969-70, and Humboldt Senior Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, in 1984-85. Tony was an active participant in the historic first Quantum Electronics symposium at Shawanga Lodge in 1959, which marked the start of serious research into lasers. Thereafter, he began to move his research from microwaves and masers to optics and lasers. Early in his career he was Program Chair for the 1966 International Quantum Electronics Conference and Conference Chair for the 1968 IQEC, and later served as co-director of laser schools in South Korea and Taiwan. He was a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board during 1974-80 and served on advisory groups for NBS, NIST, NSF, and other government agencies. He received a number of awards from major professional societies, held several patents in his field, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1973 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1988. In 1996 he was elected as Vice-President of the Optical Society of America, serving as President of the OSA during 1999. He married the former Virginia (Jeannie) Howard in 1974. He is survived by his wife Jeannie, his children by a previous marriage: Anne Lorraine (Jessica), Winn, and Patrick; by his stepdaughter Elaine Lissner; and his two grandchildren.

Scope and Contents note

Oral history interview traces his path to Stanford and his career as a faculty member, focusing on Siegman's education from 1949 to 1957 as an undergraduate at Harvard, a Hughes Aircraft Company work-study fellow at the University of California in Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University.
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Transcript

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Stanford Nurse Alumnae Interviews Series 5

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Atkinson Peck, Grace hd846nw4000

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Ayers Coddington, Elizabeth Lee nk984vb8118

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Baily Raffensperger, Ellen ('47) and friends; Hockabout Smathers, Juanita ('56)

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
Box 5

Blake, Marilyn and Gillingham, Jane 207 1988 Apr 30

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Browning Sheherd Rudee, Helen kt300kr8633

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Carley, Lucille O. 208

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Colaw Moran, Roberta zr057nt4695

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Crowell, Peggy and Harder, Virginia Bennett 209_210 1980 Apr 29

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Dole Harriman, Nancy qn940mz6475

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Davis, Grace L. sy300fc7732

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Denhard, Alice 211 1988 Mar 23

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Edgar, Jean 212 1988 Apr 30

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Fischel, Eleanor and Skarin, Miriam 213 1988 Jun 14

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Geddo, Frances; Nutting, Ruth; Mori, Masae 306 1988 Aug 5

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Hawes, Josephine 214 1985 Aug 9

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Hockabout, Juanita dx004dr6772

 

Hockabout Smathers, Juanita jm520dz2787 undated

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Howard, Mildred Dye and Wallingford, Janice Lee 215 1988 Apr 30

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Johnson, Melba Beard 216 1988 Apr 30

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents

1934 grad of Stanford school of nursing; describes schooling and subsequent career.
 

Transcript

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Kennedy, Jennie wr693tj3572

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Lloyd Haws DeCristoforo, Jo Jean kq776qz9321

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McCue Crowell, Margaret pg748js0360

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Ringressy, Grace 274 1988 Apr 13

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Ritter Pol, Madeline sr176mb4017

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Slaven, Helen Adell 217 1988 Apr 30

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Smith, Edith 305 1986 Jun 11

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Vaughn Armstrong, Mary st178tw4800

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Waterman Veiluva, Dorothy fx923hd9393

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Silicon Valley Project Interviews Series 6

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Anderson, Reid 218_221 1987 May

Physical Description: 4 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Physics, engineering. Magnetic storage devices and electronics. Bell Labs, Anderson-Jacobson, Inc., Verbatim.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Henry Lowood; transcribed, 74 pages
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Transcript

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Bliss, James 222_224 1987 Jun-Aug

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Engineering. SRI, Founder of Telesensory Systems.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Judy Adams; transcribed, 55 pages
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Transcript

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Deal, Bruce E. 225_228, 55_56 1988 Jun-Nov

Physical Description: 6 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Consulting professor of electrical engineering at Stanford; chemist, helped to develop metal oxide semiconductor technology during the early 1960s at Rheem Semiconductor and Fairchild Semiconductor. Interview covers his education, work experience, his relationship with Silicon Valley pioneers, and the contacts between Stanford and Silicon Valley researchers.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Henry Lowood
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Transcript

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Engelbart, Douglas C. 229_236 1986 Dec-1987 Apr

Physical Description: 8 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Computer Science (SRI). Inventor of the "Mouse" and design of the computer work station concept and software.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Judy Adams and Henry Lowood; transcribed, 184 pages
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Transcript

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Ginzton, Edward 237_242, 103 1987 Aug-1988 Mar

Physical Description: 7 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, 1946-1968. Helped develop Klystron tube with Professor William Hansen and the Varian brothers; developed microwave tubes. Director, Stanford Microwave Laboratories (1949-1959), Project M (SLAC) (1957-1960). President (1964-1968), Chairman of the Board (1959-1984), Varian Associates.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Joel Shurkin, Henry Lowood and Bruce Hevly
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Transcript

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Hewlett, William 115_116 1989 Oct 26

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Hewlett received his Bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1934, an MS degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 1936, and the degree of Electrical Engineer from Stanford in 1939. Hewlett attended classes taught by Fred Terman at Stanford and became acquainted with David Packard during his undergraduate work at Stanford. He and Packard began discussing forming a company in August 1937, and founded Hewlett-Packard Company as a partnership on January 1, 1939. The company incorporated in 1947 and tendered an initial public offering in 1957. He was President of HP from 1964 to 1977, and served as CEO from 1968 to 1978. He remained chairman of the executive committee until 1983, and then served as vice chairman of the board until 1987.
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Transcript

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Linvill, John, 1919-2011 243 1987 May 5

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Electrical Engineering (Stanford Center for Integrated Systems). Integrated electronics. Developed the Optacon (electronic reading device for the blind). Telesensory Systems; Spectra Physics, Cromemco, Anderson-Jacobson.

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Judy Adams
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Transcript

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Nunan, Craig 266_269 1989 Jan 12, 13, 17

Physical Description: 4 audiocassette(s)

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Henry Lowood
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Transcript

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Packard, Martin 244_251 1988 May-Jul, Oct

Physical Description: 8 audiocassette(s)

Biographical/Historical note

Received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford in 1949, under Professor Felix Bloch. Developed the technique of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and applied it to chemistry and other fields. Varian Associates, 1951 to present (Vice President since 1963, Assistant to the Chairman since 1974).

Scope and Contents note

Interview by Henry Lowood
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Transcript

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Dr. Robert Reid Newell Interviews Series 7

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Abrams, Herbert L. 275 1990 Apr 25

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Beard, Rodney 303 1986 May 21

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Jones, Henry 301 1987 Apr 16

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Kriss, Joseph P., 1919-1989 276, 302 1986 Jul 1

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)
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Lowenstein, Gerald 304 1988 Mar 21

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Newell, Alan 296_298 1986 Jun 26

Physical Description: 3 audiocassette(s)
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Transcript

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Newell, Jeanette 299_300 1986 Apr 7

Physical Description: 2 audiocassette(s)
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Richards, Victor 277 1989 Feb 1

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
 

Administrative Files

Conditions Governing Access

Files are restricted for 50 yeards from date of creation.
 

Addenda, 2007-186 ARCH-2007-186

 

Mears Court Campus Housing Interviews: Biographical Information 2003-2006

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Mears Court Oral History Interviews 2003-2006

Physical Description: 1 audio disc(s)
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Richard Lee Bennett

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Klaus George Bensch

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Joseph Berger

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Marc Bertrand

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Bob & Patty Beth

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Arthur Irwin Bienenstock

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Allan McCulloch Campbell

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Richard W. Cottle

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Julian M. Davidson

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Carl Degler

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Martin & Mariella Evans

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Alexander Lees Fetter

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Herant A. Katchadourian

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Lucio P. Ruotolo

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Kendric C. Smith

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Leslie & Mickey Zats

 

Mears Court Campus Housing Interviews: Audio Cassettes 2003-2006

Physical Description: 16 audiocassette(s)
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Richard Lee Bennett undated

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Klaus George Bensch undated

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Joseph Berger 2004 January 5

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Marc Bertrand 2004 February 10

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Bob & Patty Beth undated

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Arthur Irwin Bienenstock undated

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Allan McCulloch Campbell 2004 November 10

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Richard W. Cottle 2004 January 14

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Julian M. Davidson 2006 September 8

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Carl Degler undated

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Martin & Mariella Evans 2003 October 28

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Alexander Lees Fetter 2004 January 12

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Herant A. Katchadourian 2003 March 12

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Lucio P. Ruotolo 2004 October 20

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Kendric C. Smith undated

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
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Leslie & Mickey Zats 2004 January 15

Physical Description: 1 audiocassette(s)
 

Addenda, 2024-534 ARCH-2024-534

 

Stanford Oral History Project - Interview Transcripts

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Ringressy, Grace 1988 April 13

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Blake, Vella 1988 April 30

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Geddo, Frances 1988 August 5

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Fishel, Skarin 1988 April 30

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Edgar, Jean 1988 April 30

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Denhard, Alice 1988 March 23

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Carley, Lucille 1988 April 5

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Mori, Masae 1989 August 5

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Howard, Wallingford 1988 April 30

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Johnson, Melba Beard 1988 April 30

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Hawes, Josephine 1985 August 9

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Harder, Virginia Bennet 1988 April 29

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Crowell, Peggy McCue 1988 April 29

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Hawes, Josephine 1985 August 9

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Linville, John 1987 May 5

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Nutting, Ruth 1988 August 5

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Slaven, Adell 1988 April 30

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Sliger, Elizabeth Leflang undated

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Smith, Edythe 1986 June 11

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Sevrin, Charlotte Wood undated

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Newell, Robert 1986 June 26

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Goheen,John 1987 January 20

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Johnson, Olivia 1987 July 9

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Krauskopf, Konrad 1986 December 4

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Packard, Martin 1988 October 27

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Gibson, Helen 1986 March 10

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Dinkelspiel, John 1988 July 2

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Alway, Robert 1980 April 1

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Andell, Thomas 1985 June 29

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Ashley, Celeste 1984 April 14

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Bark, Eleanor 1987 May 21

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Botsford, Margot 1985 May 22

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Chandler, Loren 1979 January 22

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Abramovitz, Carrie 1977 April 27

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Newell, Allen 1986 June 26

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Scofield, Mary 1987 April 21

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Sears, Robert 1985 March 13