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The oral history interviews in the SOHP collection are carefully planned historical
documents which we hope will serve a wide range of scholarly interests.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 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 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 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.'
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 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 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
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 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 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 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
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 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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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 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
Box 2
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
Box 2
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
Box 3
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.
Box 3
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
Box 3
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
Box 3, 7
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.
Box 3
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
Box 3
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
Box 3
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.
Box 3
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
Box 7
Lyman, Jing 284_289
1977 Aug 29-Sep2
Physical Description: 6
audiocassette(s)
Box 3
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
Box 3
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
Box 7
Mitchell, Sidney 281
1990 Mar 21
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 3
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
Box 7
Page, Virginia 279_280
1987 May 28
Physical Description: 2
audiocassette(s)
Box 7
Purdy, Ann Peril 278
1977 Jun 16
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 3
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.
Box 3
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
Box 3
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
Box 3
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.
Box 3-4
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
Box 4
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
Sterling, Wallace
Biographical/Historical note
Stanford University President, 1949-1968.
Box 4
"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
Box 4
"Reminscences, 1949-1960," interviews with Glover, Allen,
Carlson
252_259
1977 Mar-Apr
Physical Description: 8
audiocassette(s)
Box 7
Anecdotes 260_261
Physical Description: 2
audiocassette(s)
Box 4, 7
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
Box 4
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.
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
Box 4
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
Box 4
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.
Box 4
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
Box 4
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
Box 4
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
Box 4
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
Box 16
Blake, Marilyn Gillingham, Jane
Box 21
Fischel, Eleanor Skarin, Miriam
Box 21
Freeman, Szebekski (Sibby)
Box 22
Hall, Marion Dwight, Herbert
Box 23
Harder, Virginia Crowell, Peggy McCue
Box 23
Howard, Mildred D. Wallingford, J.
Box 24
Jones, Henry (on R.R. Newell)
Box 27
Newell, Allen (on R.R. Newell)
Box 27
Newell, Jeanette (on R.R. Newell)
Box 29
Sears, Robert R. (Glover interviews)
Box 30
Sears, Robert R. (Cravens interviews)
Box 31
Sterling, Wallace (group reminiscence)
Box 4
Aurora Interviews Series 2
Box 4
Applewhite, Liat 158
1981 May 12
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
General note
Interview by Sally Thomas and Stephanie Poggi
Box 4
Bancroft, Kim and Jensen,
Margaret
159_160
1981 Apr 23
Physical Description: 2
audiocassette(s)
General note
Interview by Sally Thomas and Stephanie Poggi
Box 4
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.
Box 4
Mercer, Michelle 163
1981 May 12
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
General note
Interview by Sally Thomas and Stephanie Poggi
Box 4
Merriman, Sue 164
1981 May
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
General note
Interview by Sally Thomas and Stephanie Poggi
Box 4
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
Box 4
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
Box 4
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
Box 4
Botsford, Margaret 168
1985 May 22
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Scope and Contents note
Interview by Carolyn Grundt; transcribed, 23 pages
Box 4
Bretall, Norah 169
1987 Mar 30
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 4
Cline, Laura 170
1987 Feb 2
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 4
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
Box 4
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
Box 5
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
Box 5
Keyes, Pat 179
1984 Sep 27
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Scope and Contents note
Interview by Virginia Spears and Gertrude Williams; 38 minutes
Box 5
Krebs, Ruby 180
1986 Mar 18
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Scope and Contents note
Interview by Carolyn Stipe; 47 minutes
Box 5
Lane, Joane 181
1987 Mar 18
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 5
Mellott, Annette 182
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Scope and Contents note
Interview by Carolyn Grundt, July 6, 1984; 30 minutes
Box 5
Millar, Kay 183
1986 Jul 22
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Scope and Contents note
Interview by Gertrude Williams and Virginia Spears; 40 minutes
Box 5
Norman, Ruth 184
1987 Mar 30
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 5
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
Box 5
Qualls, Katherine 188
1985 Sep 18
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Scope and Contents note
Interview by Roka Haswell; 43 minutes
Box 5
Roesler, Fran 187
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 5
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
Box 5
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
Box 5
Wells, Alison 194
1986 Jul 21
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 5
Williams, Gertrude 195
1984 Jul 11
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 5
Wright, Mabel 196
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Scope and Contents note
Interview by Roka Haswell
Box 5
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.
Box 5
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.
Box 5
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.
Box 5
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.
Box 5
Stanford Nurse Alumnae Interviews Series 5
Box 39
Atkinson Peck, Grace hd846nw4000
Box 39
Ayers Coddington, Elizabeth Lee nk984vb8118
Box 39
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)
Box 39
Browning Sheherd Rudee, Helen kt300kr8633
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Carley, Lucille O. 208
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 39
Colaw Moran, Roberta zr057nt4695
Box 5
Crowell, Peggy and Harder, Virginia
Bennett
209_210
1980 Apr 29
Physical Description: 2
audiocassette(s)
Box 39
Dole Harriman, Nancy qn940mz6475
Box 39
Davis, Grace L. sy300fc7732
Box 5
Denhard, Alice 211
1988 Mar 23
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 5
Edgar, Jean 212
1988 Apr 30
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 5
Fischel, Eleanor and Skarin,
Miriam
213
1988 Jun 14
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 11
Geddo, Frances; Nutting, Ruth; Mori, Masae 306
1988 Aug 5
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 5
Hawes, Josephine 214
1985 Aug 9
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 39
Hockabout, Juanita dx004dr6772
Hockabout Smathers, Juanita jm520dz2787
undated
Box 5
Howard, Mildred Dye and Wallingford, Janice
Lee
215
1988 Apr 30
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 5
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.
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Kennedy, Jennie wr693tj3572
Box 39
Lloyd Haws DeCristoforo, Jo Jean kq776qz9321
Box 39
McCue Crowell, Margaret pg748js0360
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Ringressy, Grace 274
1988 Apr 13
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 39
Ritter Pol, Madeline sr176mb4017
Box 5
Slaven, Helen Adell 217
1988 Apr 30
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 11
Smith, Edith 305
1986 Jun
11
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 39
Vaughn Armstrong, Mary st178tw4800
Box 39
Waterman Veiluva, Dorothy fx923hd9393
Box 5
Silicon Valley Project Interviews Series 6
Box 6
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
Box 6
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
Box 6
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
Box 6
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
Box 6
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
Box 6
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.
Box 6
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
Box 6
Nunan, Craig 266_269
1989 Jan 12, 13, 17
Physical Description: 4
audiocassette(s)
Scope and Contents note
Interview by Henry Lowood
Box 6
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
Box 6
Dr. Robert Reid Newell Interviews Series 7
Box 7
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)
Box 11
Jones, Henry 301
1987 Apr 16
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 11
Kriss, Joseph P., 1919-1989 276, 302
1986 Jul 1
Physical Description: 2
audiocassette(s)
Box 11
Lowenstein, Gerald 304
1988 Mar 21
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Box 11
Newell, Alan 296_298
1986 Jun 26
Physical Description: 3
audiocassette(s)
Box 11
Newell, Jeanette 299_300
1986 Apr 7
Physical Description: 2
audiocassette(s)
Box 7
Richards, Victor 277
1989 Feb 1
Physical Description: 1
audiocassette(s)
Administrative Files
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Addenda, 2007-186 ARCH-2007-186
Mears Court Campus Housing Interviews: Biographical Information
2003-2006
Box 39, folder 1
Mears Court Oral History Interviews
2003-2006
Physical Description: 1 audio
disc(s)
Mears Court Campus Housing Interviews: Audio Cassettes
2003-2006
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audiocassette(s)
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Richard Lee Bennett
undated
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Klaus George Bensch
undated
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Joseph Berger
2004 January 5
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Marc Bertrand
2004 February 10
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Bob & Patty Beth
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Arthur Irwin Bienenstock
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Allan McCulloch Campbell
2004 November 10
Physical Description: 1
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Richard W. Cottle
2004 January 14
Physical Description: 1
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Julian M. Davidson
2006 September 8
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Carl Degler
undated
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Martin & Mariella Evans
2003 October 28
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Alexander Lees Fetter
2004 January 12
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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
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Kendric C. Smith
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Box 40
Leslie & Mickey Zats
2004 January 15
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Addenda, 2024-534 ARCH-2024-534
Stanford Oral History Project - Interview Transcripts
Box 41, folder 1
Ringressy, Grace
1988 April 13
Box 41, folder 2
Blake, Vella
1988 April 30
Box 41, folder 3
Geddo, Frances
1988 August 5
Box 41, folder 4
Fishel, Skarin
1988 April 30
Box 41, folder 5
Edgar, Jean
1988 April 30
Box 41, folder 6
Denhard, Alice
1988 March 23
Box 41, folder 7
Carley, Lucille
1988 April 5
Box 41, folder 9
Mori, Masae
1989 August 5
Box 41, folder 10
Howard, Wallingford
1988 April 30
Box 41, folder 11
Johnson, Melba Beard
1988 April 30
Box 41, folder 12
Hawes, Josephine
1985 August 9
Box 41, folder 13
Harder, Virginia Bennet
1988 April 29
Box 41, folder 13
Crowell, Peggy McCue
1988 April 29
Box 41, folder 14
Hawes, Josephine
1985 August 9
Box 41, folder 15
Linville, John
1987 May 5
Box 41, folder 16
Nutting, Ruth
1988 August 5
Box 41, folder 17
Slaven, Adell
1988 April 30
Box 41, folder 18
Sliger, Elizabeth Leflang
undated
Box 41, folder 19
Smith, Edythe
1986 June 11
Box 41, folder 20
Sevrin, Charlotte Wood
undated
Box 41, folder 21
Newell, Robert
1986 June 26
Box 41, folder 22
Goheen,John
1987 January 20
Box 41, folder 23
Johnson, Olivia
1987 July 9
Box 42, folder 1
Krauskopf, Konrad
1986 December 4
Box 42, folder 2
Packard, Martin
1988 October 27
Box 42, folder 3
Gibson, Helen
1986 March 10
Box 42, folder 4
Dinkelspiel, John
1988 July 2
Box 42, folder 5
Alway, Robert
1980 April 1
Box 42, folder 6
Andell, Thomas
1985 June 29
Box 42, folder 7
Ashley, Celeste
1984 April 14
Box 42, folder 8
Bark, Eleanor
1987 May 21
Box 42, folder 9
Botsford, Margot
1985 May 22
Box 42, folder 10
Chandler, Loren
1979 January 22
Box 42, folder 11
Abramovitz, Carrie
1977 April 27
Box 42, folder 12
Newell, Allen
1986 June 26
Box 42, folder 13
Scofield, Mary
1987 April 21
Box 42, folder 14
Sears, Robert
1985 March 13