Guide to the Stanford University, School of Earth Sciences, Oral History Interviews
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2002
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Overview
Call Number: SC1105
Creator:
Stanford University. School of Earth Sciences
Title: Stanford University, School of Earth Sciences, oral history interviews
Dates: 1983-1999
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet
Summary: Transcripts and audio tapes of interviews with Stanford faculty and former students.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Provenance
Administrative transfer, 2000.
Information about Access
None.
Ownership & Copyright
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.
Cite As
Stanford University School of Earth Sciences Oral History Interviews, 0900/Earth, Stanford University Archives, Stanford,
Calif.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Interviews conducted with professors and former students in the School of Earth Sciences: Robert G. Coleman, William R. Dickinson,
John W. Harbaugh, James C. Ingle, A. Myra Keen, Mary Balch Kennedy, Konrad Krauskopf, Ronald J. P. Lyon, Edgar A. McDowell,
Frank G. Miller, Benjamin M. Page, and Russell A. Pomeroy. Participants discuss their original interest in geology, what brought
them to Stanford, their subsequent careers, the Stanford curriculum, development of the School of Earth Sciences, and other
concerns, including student life at Stanford.
Access Terms
Coleman, Robert G.
Compton, Robert R.
Dickinson, William R.
Harbaugh, John Warvelle, 1926-
Ingle James C.
Keen, A. Myra (Angeline Myra), 1905-1986
Kennedy, Mary Balch.
Krauskopf, Konrad Bates, 1910-
Lyon, R. J. P. (Ronald James Pearson), 1928-
McDowell, Edgar A.
Miller, Frank G.
Page, Benjamin M. (Benjamin Markham), 1911-
Pomeroy, Russell A.
Stanford University--Faculty.
Stanford University--History.
Stanford University--Students.
Geology
Collection Contents
Box 2
Audiorecordings
1983-1999
Physical Description:
microcassettes except where noted
Box 1
1.1-1.2
Coleman, Bob and Pomeroy, Russell
1996
Coleman, Bob and Pomeroy, Russell (Use Copy, Side A), 1996
Coleman, Bob and Pomeroy, Russell (Use Copy, Side B), 1996
Coleman, Bob and Pomeroy, Russell (Use Copy, Side B), 1996
Coleman, Bob and Pomeroy, Russell (Use Copy, Side A), 1996
Physical Description:
2 audiocassette(s) (microcassette)
Box 1
1.3
Compton, Robert R.
1999
Compton, Robert R. (Use Copy, Side A), 1999
Compton, Robert R. (Use Copy, Side B), 1999
Physical Description:
1 audiocassette(s) (microcassette)
Box 1
1.4-1.5
Harbaugh, John
1996
Harbaugh, John (Use Copy), 1996Harbaugh, John
Harbaugh, John (Use Copy, Side B), 1996
Harbaugh, John (Use Copy, Side A), 1996
Physical Description:
2 audiocassette(s) (microcassette)
Box 1
1.6
Ingle, Jim
1986
Ingle, Jim (Use Copy, Side A), 1986
Ingle, Jim (Use Copy, Side B), 1986
Physical Description:
1 audiocassette(s) (microcassette)
Box 1
1.7
Kennedy, Mary Balch
1997
Kennedy, Mary Balch (Use Copy, Side A), 1997
Kennedy, Mary Balch (Use Copy, Side B), 1997
Physical Description:
1 audiocassette(s) (microcassette)
Box 1
1.8-1.9
Krauskopf, Konnie
1996
Krauskopf, Konnie (Use Copy, Side B), 1996
Krauskopf, Konnie (Use Copy, Side A), 1996
Krauskopf, Konnie (Use Copy, Side A), 1996
Krauskopf, Konnie (Use Copy, Side B), 1996
Physical Description:
2 audiocassette(s) (microcassette)
Box 1
1.10-1.11
Lyon, Ron
2000
Lyon, Ron (Use Copy, Side A), 2000
Lyon, Ron (Use Copy, Side B), 2000
Physical Description:
2 audiocassette(s) (microcassette)
Box 1
1.12-1.13
McDowell, Edgar A.
1999
McDowell, Edgar A. (Use Copy, Side B), 1999
McDowell, Edgar A. (Use Copy), 1999
McDowell, Edgar A. (Use Copy, Side A), 1999
Physical Description:
2 audiocassette(s) (microcassette)
Box 1
1.14
Miller, Frank G.
1986
Miller, Frank G. (Use Copy, Side A), 1986
Miller, Frank G. (Use Copy, Side B), 1986
Physical Description:
1 audiocassette(s) (microcassette)
Box 1
1.15
Miller & Ingle
1986
Physical Description:
1 audiocassette(s)
Box 1
1.16-1.17
Page, Ben & Dickinson, William R.
1996
Page, Ben & Dickinson, William R. (Use Copy, Side A), 1996
Page, Ben & Dickinson, William R. (Use Copy, Side B), 1996
Page, Ben & Dickinson, William R. (Use Copy), 1996
Physical Description:
2 audiocassette(s) (microcassette)
Box 2
Bob Coleman and Russ Pomeroy; interviewed by Judy Terry Smith.
October 29, 1996
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include football, G.I. Bill, role of TA's, geology field work, asbestos, use of computers in geology, earthquakes,
future of geological sciences, and Coleman's experiences teaching in Oman.
Box 2
Robert R. Compton; interviewed by Janet Bauder Thornberg and Judy Terry Smith.
October 13, 1999
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include life at Stanford before and after World War II, his experiences in the Navy during World War II, living at
Stanford Village after the war, the summer geology course and admitting women to it, geology curriculum especially the G-1
and G-2 classes, and the student strike of 1970.
Box 2
John Harbaugh; interviewed by Keith Kvenvolden, Ben Page, and Judy Terry Smith.
August 9, 1996
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include history and development of the School of Earth Sciences, use of computers in geology, outside funding, university
committee work, entrepreneurial activities, and alumni relations.
Box 2
A. Myra Keen; interviewed in by Eugene V. Coan.
September 1983
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include field work collecting marine shells along Pacific Coast, trips to the Gulf of California (Bechtel groups),
recollections of Ida S. Oldroyd and her husband Thomas S. Oldroyd, her graduate students, and other collectors (Tom Burch,
John A. Burch, Rose Burch).
Box 2
Mary Balch Kennedy; interviewed by Judy Terry Smith and Juliet R. Crider.
July 25, 1997
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include her student years at Mills College and Stanford, discrimination against women in the field of geology, her
work history, friendship with Lucile Salter Packard, women's clubs, volunteering, and trips to Nepal in 1962 and Saudi Arabia
in 1964.
Box 2
Konnie Krauskopf; interviewed by Carol Ann Hodges, Judy Terry Smith, and Keith Kvenvolder.
May 7, 1996
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include his work with the USGS, World War II and post-war work, the School under Dean A. I. Leverson, relations with
Provost Fred Terman, funding, environmental issues, nuclear waste, collegiality among faculty, and his GSA presidential address,
ca. 1968.
Box 2
Ron Lyon; interviewed by John Harbaugh, George Parks, and Judy Terry Smith.
February 8, 2000
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include his student experiences in Australia and at UC Berkeley, work life (Kennecott Research, SRI, NASA), remote
sensing, lunar geology, mapping the Amazon Basin by radar, and the use of computers in geology.
Box 2
Edgar A. McDowell; interviewed by Judy Terry Smith and John Harbaugh.
July 26, 1999
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include the San Juan Hill faculty housing area on campus, his father's career at Stanford, alumni relations, the
Newsoms (John F. Newsom, John B. Newsom, and Margaret Nagel Newsom), Lewis Terman, student life at Stanford, football games,
Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover, the 1928 presidential election night activities on campus, and his career with Southern Pacific
Railroad.
Box 2
Frank G. Miller
interviewed March 24, 1986.
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include his comments on Stanford faculty of the 1950s to 1970s, courses and field work in the petroleum engineering
program, industry involvement, and curriculum for petroleum engineering.
Box 2
Ben Page and William R. Dickinson; interviewed by Keith Kvenvolden, Judy Terry Smith, and Jackie Dickinson.
April 16, 1996
Scope and Content Note
Subjects include the summer geology course, Dickinson's memories of Page as a teacher, doing work on the San Andreas Fault,
plate tectonics, other Stanford faculty, and their respective careers.
