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Series 1 Alumni Interviews 1999-2009

Scope and Content Note

Includes a videocassette and audiocassette of the alumni reunion session held on Oct. 14, 1999; audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with alumni from the class of 1957 done during the class reunions held on campus during the fall quarter, 2007; and audio recordings and transcripts of the Alumni Stories project.
The Alumni Stories project was piloted during Reunion Homecoming Weekend in October 2007, and was repeated in October 2008. Over 60 alumni, most attending their 50th reunions, recounted their memories and stories about undergraduate student life in the 1950s. An additional 15 alumni were interviewed at a Founding Grant Society event in 2009.
Box 1

Accession ARCH-2001-310 Reunion session 1999 Oct 14

Physical Description: 1 videotape (digital)
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
 

Accession ARCH-2009-056 Alumni Stories 2007

Box 1, Folder 1

Interview list [all class of 1957] and indexes

 

Alfaro, Susan Brady 2007

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Anderson, James T. 2007

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Bramcamp, Julie Olson 2007

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Brown, Mary Karen Simmons 2007

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Brown, Walter 2007

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Cannell, Roger 2007

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Falchi, John P. 2007

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Gray, Sharon Harris 2007

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Inderbitzen, Anton L. 2007

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Leonard, Jean McCarter 2007

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McGraw, William 2007

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McDonald, Marilyn Miller 2007

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Mitchell, Carol Clifford 2007

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Mitchell, David W. 2007

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Peatman, Angela Brovelli 2007

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Petriceks, Juris 2007

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Rea, Jay Weston 2007

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Ruehl, Sonya Hamburg 2007

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Sawyer, Robert 2007

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Serlin, Michael 2007

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Stine, Sharon 2007

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Tracy, Else Peters 2007

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Walters, Dorothy Jane Kidd and Walters, James D. 2007

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Whittier, Mary Ann Van Berckelaer 2007

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2007.1 Interviews with Susan Alfaro, James Anderson, Julie Bramcamp 2007

Physical Description: 1 optical disc(s) (CD)
Box 2, Folder 2

2007.2 Interviews with Mary Brown, Walter Brown, Roger Cannell 2007

Physical Description: 1 optical disc(s) (CD)
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2007.3 Interviews with John Falchi, Sharon Gray, Anton Inderbitzen, Jean Leonard 2007

Physical Description: 1 optical disc(s) (CD)
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2007.4 Interviews with Marilyn McDonald, William McGraw

Physical Description: 1 optical disc(s) (CD)
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2007.5 Interviews with Carol Mitchell, David Mitchell, Angela Peatman 2007

Physical Description: 1 optical disc(s) (CD)
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2007.6 Interviews with Juris Petriceks, Jay Weston Rea, Sonya Ruehl 2007

Physical Description: 1 optical disc(s) (CD)
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2007.7 Interviews with Robert Sawyer, Michael Serlin, Sharon Stine 2007

Physical Description: 1 optical disc(s) (CD)
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2007.8 Interviews with Else Peters Tracy, Dottie Kidd Walters, Jim Walters 2007

Physical Description: 1 optical disc(s) (CD)
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2007.9 Interview with Mary Ann Whittier 2007

Physical Description: 1 optical disc(s) (CD)
Box 2, Folder 10

Audio files; raw transcripts

Physical Description: 2 optical disc(s) (CD)
 

Alumni Stories 2008

 

Audrain, Calvert

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Ballinger, Delphi 2008 Oct 9

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Bays, Jerry 2008 Oct 9

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Bushnell, Kay 2008 Oct 9

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Ching, Wilton 2008 Oct 11

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Dawson, Don 2008 Oct 10

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Dodge, Judith 2008 Oct 11

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Dunlap, Jim 2008 Oct 10

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Fetter, Jane 2008 Oct 9

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Fialer, Phil 2008 Dec 5

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Flattery, Annette

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Flattery, Tom 2008 Oct 9

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Hancock, John 2008

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Harris, Larry 2008 Oct 10

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Hill, Patricia 2008 Oct 12

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Hoagland, Laurie 2008 Oct 9

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Ingram, Barbara

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Jedenoff, George A. 2008 Oct 27

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Keating, Ralph 2008 Nov 21

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Krupp, Marcus 2008 Oct 12

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McIntyre, Bob

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Mast, Jack 2008 Oct 9

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Mellini, Peter 2008 Oct 9

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Menlove, Frances 2008 Oct 10

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Messner, Hal 2008 Oct 11

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Newell, Dr. J. 2008 Nov 18

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Pewthers, Don and Pewthers, Carole 2008 Oct 31

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Ransohoff, Jim 2008 Oct 12

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Ray, James & Wells, David 2008

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Regan, Joe 2008 Oct 10

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Roodhouse, Jim 2008 Oct 10

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Ross, Elizabeth Boardman 2008

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Sandke, Terry 2008 Oct 9

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Severin, Charlotte Wood

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Smead, Frank 2008 Oct 10

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Smith, Marilyn 2008 Oct 10

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Staudt, David 2008 Oct 12

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Staudt, David and Ross, Elizabeth Boardman

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Tissot, Paula 2008 Oct 9

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Trego, Charlotte Limoges

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Triolo, James 2008 Oct 12

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Vincenti, Walter 2008 Oct 9

 

Walton, Ann

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Whitney, Carol

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Nordling, Martha 2010 Dec 9

Biography/Organization History

Martha Nordling Eakland was a member of the Class of '41. In spite of her wish to attend UCLA with her friends, the head of the English department at Los Angeles High School and her father got her to Stanford. What followed was a wonderful education enriched by friendships, sports, memorable professors and escapades. She was the president of Women's Council, and she played in Stanford’s first intramural women’s basketball game against University of California-Berkeley.
 

Smith, Thorn 2012 Sep 8

Biography/Organization History

Thorn Smith is a retired fisheries and endangered species attorney. On his graduation from Stanford, he started a diving company in Morro Bay, California and spent about 10 years as a commercial diver. He developed an interest in marine affairs and then marine biology and so he went to law school. He was hired to be a Fisheries attorney for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, DC. Eventually, he became involved in the very early implementation of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976. It was the beginning of a huge period of development in marine science, technology and commercial fisheries.
After five years as a federal fishery manager and attorney, he moved to Seattle which was the hub of American fisheries, offshore fisheries, and represented different groups for the rest of my career. Thorn Smith served on a couple of committees where he worked on issues related to international fisheries and endangered species. He also spent a lot of time lobbying on Capitol Hill relating to fisheries.

Scope and Content Note

In 1961, Thorn Smith was one of three delegates sent by Stanford's Beta Chi chapter to Sigma Nu national fraternity's annual convention. The delegation was charged with trying to get the convention to vote to repeal a clause in the national fraternity's 1868 charter, which forbade membership to people of African descent. Smith and his fellow petitioners were not given a hearing and felt it was clear they were recognized when they asked to speak because the national fraternity had no wish to open discussion of the matter. In November, 1962, the Stanford chapter seceded from the national fraternity in protest of its policy of racial exclusion. Smith recalls his experience leading up to the national convention, being responded to with intense anger at the convention, and the subsequent act of secession. The interview provides insight into the early development of political activism on the Stanford campus in the 1960s.
 

Turner, Marshall C. 2012 Sep 20

Scope and Content Note

In 1959, a year after one member ran over and killed another in the driveway on Big Game Bonfire night, the Beta Chi (Stanford) chapter of Sigma Nu national fraternity was near collapse. A number of freshmen got together in 1960 and pledged the fraternity as a group. They aimed at a diverse pledge class, comprised of as many of the leaders of the class of 1963 as they could attract. It proved to be an unusual fraternity, boasting among its 1963 graduates two Rhodes Scholars, two Wilsons, two Danforths. Along the way, in November, 1962, the chapter seceded from the national fraternity in protest of its policy of racial exclusion. Marshall Turner describes the assembling of the pledge class and the events that led to its departure from the national. The interview provides insight into the early development of political activism on the Stanford campus in the 1960s.

Biography/Organization History

Marshall C. Turner is a former CEO or interim CEO of four technology companies and one broadcasting station. His technology industry experience also includes twenty years as a venture capital fund principal, and an early career as an industrial designer and biomedical engineer. Public and community service has been an important aspect of his life. He has chaired the boards of two national organizations – the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting -- as well as his local school board and public broadcasting station. He has served as a board member of thirty-four organizations -- including twenty-two public or private companies in software, electronics, biotechnology, computer, telecommunication, consumer product, and education markets.
He is currently a member of three public-company and three non-profit boards of directors: Alliance Bernstein Funds, New York (mutual fund family); MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., St. Peters, Missouri (semiconductor and solar substrates, solar power plants); Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, California (programmable logic semiconductors); American Alliance of Museums, Washington DC; George Lucas Educational Foundation, Nicasio, California; Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC. During his early career, he gained product design experience at Mattel and General Motors, and then served at the National Institutes of Health as a Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service. While a biomedical engineer at NIH, he and a heart surgeon colleague designed an implantable left ventricular heart assist pump, and co-led the team that tested the device through twenty-nine calf implant surgeries, and published several papers on their work.
Mr. Turner was selected one of 17 White House Fellows in 1970, as he completed his MBA. After his fellowship year as a Special Assistant to Elliot Richardson, then Secretary of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, he remained in Washington as part of the start-up leadership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, heading a coordinative staff of MBAs and attorneys reporting to the first Administrator and Deputy Administrator.
He returned to California in 1973 to begin learning the venture capital business as the associate in a private venture capital firm. Since then, he has been an active technology venture investor based in San Francisco, who often has taken an active leadership role in investments. After co-founding Taylor & Turner Associates, Ltd. in 1981, Mr. Turner was a General Partner managing three related institutional venture capital partnerships through the last one’s completion in 1998. Investments of the firm, and the focus of his subsequent active investing, have been seed and early stage technology-related companies -- usually at their inception.
His first CEO role was for a small, multinational liquid crystal company that he joined as chairman and CEO at the request of its venture investors, shortly after it filed under Chapter Eleven in 1975. The company was successfully reorganized within a year, then over the next three years grew internationally in medical and consumer markets.
Mr. Turner served as Chief Executive Officer of Dupont Photomasks, Inc., [symbol DPMI] Austin, Texas, for three years (2003-2006), and chairman while it was a public company. He had also served as a member of the board of directors since the company’s IPO in 1996, and as interim chairman and CEO for eleven months (1999-2000). Photomasks are a key custom component for the fabrication of semiconductor chips. DPI operated through a tightly coupled global network of ten manufacturing sites in Germany, France, China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and the United States. Turner was appointed chairman and CEO in June, 2003, following erosion of the company’s operating and financial performance. Operating metrics and financial results strongly improved during his tenure. Then as the company successfully completed a restructuring of its manufacturing network and research laboratories, he led negotiations that resulted in the Company’s acquisition by Toppan Printing Company, Ltd. for $650 million in 2005.
In 2008-2009, he served as interim CEO of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. [symbol WFR], a global manufacturer of silicon wafers for customers in semiconductor and solar power markets with 2008 revenues of $2 billion.
His public service leadership experience includes membership on the following boards: Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (1997-2006, 2012 to present, chair 2002- 2006 ), the Public Broadcasting Service (1993¬1999, vice-chair 1996-1999); the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1987-1992, chair 1990-1992); KQED, Inc. in San Francisco (1977- 1983, 1985-1988, chair 1985-1987, interim CEO 1993); and election to the board of trustees of his local school board in California in 1977, which he chaired through major reforms in 1979-1981.
Mr. Turner received a B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1964, and an M.S. Degree in Product Design, a joint program of Stanford's Art and Engineering Departments, in 1965. He was president of his senior class (1963). In 1970, he received an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School, and received the J. Leslie Rollins Award.
Mr. Turner is married to Ann Curran Turner, an artist and teacher. They have three adult children.
 

Series 2 Artists Interviews 2009

 

Holub, Leo 2009 Apr 7, Jun 30

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Kahn, Matt 2009 Aug 5

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Biography/Organization History

Matt Kahn arrived at Stanford in 1949 at the age of 21. He had been studying at the Cranbrook Academy of Art when then Art and Architecture Department Chair Ray Faulker wrote to Cranbrook for recommendations of someone to teach design as part of Stanford's art curriculum. He has taught at Stanford ever since. Kahn was appointed an assistant professor in 1953, a full professor in 1965, and, in the mid-1960's, along with mechanical engineering Prof. Bob McKim, founded the Joint Program in Design (JPD), with the plan of marrying curricula in design, fine arts and engineering.

Scope and Content Note

"Constructive disobedience" and "fantasy and soul" are two of Professor Kahn's signature design philosophies and he shares how these approaches have framed his teaching, his personal art-making and many of his class assignments. From his setting up complicated still life scenes for his drawing classes, to his later 'Cyclops' lectures and Art 60 pumpkin carving projects, he shares memories of student reactions, interactions and design experiences.
Kahn describes how his presence as a designer and artist has been somewhat of an enigma to other art faculty throughout his career and notes how the early days of launching the undergraduate courses and the graduate JPD curriculum has been a gradual merging of engineering and art/design cultures and political/personal perspectives. He briefly remembers the time when he decided not to return to formal collegiate study to obtain a degree.
Professor Kahn is proud of the professional successes of his former students, among them David Kelley, IDEO founder and former JPD teacher, and Michael Duncan, Director at San Francisco architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Matt talks about Stanford campus – the Quad, in particular – and the many relationships he has developed and maintained with his students and acknowledges how much he learns from and appreciates their presence in his personal and professional lives.
In this interview, Kahn also remembers his years as a design consultant with Eichler Homes and how his year in Cambodia for the US State Department influenced his own product designs and his design aesthetic.
 

Lobdell, Frank 2009 Jul

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Scope and Content Note

Oral history interview conducted in July 2009 pertaining to Lobdell's time at Stanford. Topics include building Stanford's studio art program, his association with Nathan Oliveira, Keith Boyle and other artists, and his own approach to art.

Biography/Organization History

Frank Lobdell came to Stanford University in 1965 as an Artist in Residence; the following year he joined the faculty in the studio art program. In 1989 he was appointed the Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art and retired from that position in 1991.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Humberg, Judith L.
Lobdell, Frank, 1921-
Oliveira, Nathan, 1928-2010.
Stanford University. Dept. of Art--Faculty.
Art.
Artists.
 

Oliveira, Nathan 2009 Jan 29, May 21

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Series 3 Athletics Hall of Fame Project 2010

 

Shockley and Brown 2010 Nov 5

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Series 4 Diversity Project Interviews 2009-2013

Scope and Content Note

Launched in 2009, the first phase of the Oral History Project on Racial and Ethnic Diversity at Stanford seeks to recapture what happened in the two decades between the late sixties and the late eighties that initiated and then shaped a significant increase in undergradaute student diversity at Stanford.
 

Ames, Robert H. Piestewa 2010 Sep 4

Scope and Content Note

Robert H. Piestewa Ames reminisced about his experience attending Stanford in 1947 from Winslow, AZ., as the only “Indian” at Stanford University at the time. He attended the Stanford Law School after finishing his undergraduate studies.

Biography/Organization History

Robert H. (Piestewa) Ames is the first Native American graduate of the Stanford Law School, the first member of his tribe to become an attorney and former Chief Judge of the Hopi Tribal Court.
A Hopi born and raised in northern Arizona, Ames is recognized as the first Native American graduate of the Stanford University Law School and the first member of his tribe to become an attorney. At the request of the Hopi Tribal Leaders and elders, Ames served as the first Hopi Chief Judge of the Tribal Court on his reservation for almost twenty years. He is well known for his continuous involvement in Native American educational and cultural affairs as well as local Monterey County and Stanford endeavors. A short-term participant in the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island regarded as a major turning point in Indian political power, he has remained active in the Stanford American Indian and Alumni Association programs. In 1992, by presidential appointment and full U.S. Senate confirmation, he was sworn in by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor to membership and eventual chairmanship of the National Board of Trustees of the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development (IAIA), a college and museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
At Stanford, Ames was a member of the freshman and varsity baseball squads. Recently he served as a member of the Stanford Athletic Board and the Stanford Alumni Association Board of Directors. He began his alumni volunteer service with the athletic department as a volunteer and area chairman of the Buck/Cardinal Club's personal solicitation program. He then went on to serve as a member of the Athletic Board. Ames has been active in numerous reunion efforts for the class of '51 and has worked passionately and tirelessly on every board and in every capacity he has served. He was a member of the Stanford Alumni Association's Board of Directors and Stanford Associates Board of Governors. An ardent supporter of Stanford's Native American Cultural Center, and a mentor for its students, Ames was honored by the center in 2004 when he was inducted into the Multicultural Hall of Fame. Stanford Law School publications have recognized him as a trailblazer for American Indian students at the school. Ames continues his commitment to educate the public and preserve Indian arts and culture by serving as an advisory board member of the Arizona State Museum at the University of Arizona and a trustee of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, each a nationally recognized southwest museum and research center with emphasis on Native Americans.
In 2011, Ames was awarded the Stanford Medal for more than 50 years of continuous outstanding and significant services to Stanford University.
 

Bacchetti, Ray 2010 Mar 8

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Bacon, Mary Montle 2010 May 11

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Bienenstock, Artie 2010 Jul 22

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Boyd, Harold 2009 Jun 22

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Scope and Content Note

Oral history interview, part of a project on racial and ethnic diversity, was conducted in June 2009. Topics include student life in general, issues important to minority students, and life as a resident faculty member in a dorm complex.

Biography/Organization History

Harold K. Boyd came to Stanford University in 1969, a pivotal time in Stanford history in regard to ethnic and racial diversity. He was an assistant and associate dean of students from 1969 to 1980 and director of the Medical Fund for the Office of Development from 1980 to 1995.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Bacchetti, Raymond F., 1934-
Boyd, Harold K.
Stanford University--Students.
Minority college students
 

Bunnell, John 2010 Mar 1

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Der, Henry 2009 Dec 17

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Scope and Content Note

Henry Der was an undergraduate from ’64 to’68, before much of the campus ferment around diversity began. His story presents a sharp and illuminating contrast to those who came to Stanford in 1968 and later. As an undergraduate, he reported feeling alienated from Stanford, as much for socioeconomic as racial reasons and for a time lived off-campus. In the 1980s, he served on the Advisory Board to the Haas Public Service Center; and in the late 1980s he was a member of a team, led by President Norman Francis of Xavier University, that reviewed the University’s responses to the recommendations of the University Committee on Minority Issues and to its self-study of performance under its Institutional Standards on Cultural Diversity. (The report of this team was issued in April 1990.) After graduating, Der served in the Peace Corps and was Executive Director of Chinese for Affirmative Action. These highly involving activities made his connection with Stanford quite tangential after 1968, and his recollections of his post-1968 relationships with the University are faint.

Biography/Organization History

Henry Der is currently the Senior Program Officer with the Four Freedoms Fund. At Four Freedoms Fund, a national funders’ collaborative, Henry Der strategizes with national and state-level immigrant rights groups to secure immigration reform and defend immigrant rights. For more than 22 years, he served as Executive Director of the San Francisco-based Chinese for Affirmative Action, advocating for fairness and equal opportunities in employment, education, voting and access to publicly-supported services for Chinese Americans and other racial minorities. At the California Department of Education, he was the Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction with oversight responsibilities for programs that serve at-risk and special needs students. He also served as State Administrator of Emery Unified School District, successfully bringing it out of fiscal bankruptcy. Additionally he has served as the chairperson of the California Postsecondary Education Commission and the State Bar Legal Services Trust Fund Commission. Between 1991 and 2001, he was a commentator for the NPR affiliate KQED-FM, probing issues of race, ethnicity, fairness and accountability in public services.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Bacchetti, Raymond F., 1934-
Der, Henry.
Stanford University--Students.
Stanford University. Haas Center for Public Service.
Minority college students
 

Dong, Nelson 2009 Oct 25

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Gibbs, James 2011 Jan 20

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Kennedy, Donald 2011 Aug 10

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Kojiro, Dan 2011 Aug 12

Biography/Organization History

Dan Kojiro graduated from high school in East Los Angeles and attended Stanford for undergraduate studies. He was in the Class of 1974. Although he was not politically active before arriving at Stanford, he eventually became involved in campus student activism, partly because of the political climate of the time and the circumstances at Stanford. He was a co-founder of the Okada theme dorm and helped organize outreach activities in high school to promote Asian American students’ awareness of Stanford and to encourage their application for admission to Stanford. While active in student affairs, Dan Kojiro was also an on-air programmer at the campus radio station, KZSU.

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Leckie, James O. 2011 Oct 28

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Professor James O. Leckie was closely involved with the Chicano community on Stanford campus. In this interview, he talked about his background, the recruitment and representation of minority faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, as well as their retention. He also discussed the relationship between the Chicano community and other minority communities.

Biography/Organization History

Professor Leckie has been on the Stanford Environmental Engineering faculty since 1970 and is an environmental chemist interested in the application of chemical principles to the study of pollutants behavior in natural aquatic systems and in engineered processes. His research contributions have been extensive in the areas of adsorption chemistry, human exposure analysis, and membrane science.
In 2005, he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and received the American Society of Civil Engineering Rudolf Hering Medal in 1981. Presently, he is co-Director of the Singapore-Stanford Partnership program in Environmental Engineering & Science, and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development & Global Competitiveness at Stanford University. He is also Appointed Chair Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University.
Professor Leckie holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from San José State University (1964), and M.S. (1965) and Ph.D. (1970) degrees in Environmental Sciences from Harvard University.
 

Leonard, Jean McCarter 2011 Jan 7

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The interview was conducted by Katherine Toy, a Stanford Historical Society board member and senior manager at the Stanford Alumni Association.

Scope and Content Note

Jean McCarter Leonard discusses her time at Stanford with an emphasis on her experience as one of very few African American students on campus. She talks about dorm life, classroom experience and her interaction with then university president, Wallace Sterling.

Biography/Organization History

Jean McCarter Leonard ’57 is a community volunteer currently living in the Bay Area. She is a consultant to the California State Department of Education and serves on the Alumnae Board of Cap and Gown at Stanford University. She got a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Stanford and a master’s degree in education from the University of Michigan.
Jean McCarter Leonard is married for 54 years to her high school sweetheart, Dr. Fred Leonard, and is the proud parent of two sons, Russell ’84 and Gary, graduate of the National University.
 

McNair-Knox, Faye 2009 Dec 28

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Ogletree, Charles 2009 Oct 24

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Scope and Content Note

Charles James Ogletree Jr. went to Stanford in 1971 as a freshman, at a time of great changes in the country and on campus. He was elected as the chairman of the Stanford Black Student Union at the end of his freshman year. As a student, he was active in student politics and concerned with the recruitment and admission of a more diverse body of undergraduates. He later became a trustee of Stanford University and also involved in minority alumni issues.

Biography/Organization History

Charles James Ogletree, Jr. is the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founding and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at the law school. He has received numerous awards and honors, including being named one of the 100+ Most Influential Black Americans by Ebony Magazine. Professor Ogletree is the author and co-editor of several books, including The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (June 2010), When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice (2009), From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America (2006), and All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education (2004). He was a senior advisor to President Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign. Professor Ogletree is a native of Merced, California, where he attended public schools. Professor Ogletree earned an M.A. and B.A. (with distinction) in Political Science from Stanford University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa. He also holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
 

Poras, Jerry I. 2011 Oct 4

Scope and Content Note

This interview with Professor Jerry I. Porras is part of the Oral History Project on Racial and Ethnic Diversity. Professor Porras discussed what happened in Stanford's history to initiate and then to shape the increase in diversity at the university from the 1960s to the present. He began by recounting his youth in El Paso and continued by describing the scholastic and professional trajectory that led him to Stanford. Porras discussed both the admirable and less-than-admirable aspects of the University’s record of diversity outreach. Most of the conversation about diversity issues focused on people -- undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty -- of Chicano and Latino descent. One idea that emerges is that the character of diversity outreach at Stanford has evolved over time. This interview offers an enlightening window on that evolution.

Biography/Organization History

Jerry I. Porras is the Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, since 2001. Professor Porras joined the Stanford faculty in 1972.
Professor Porras served as a Business School Trust Faculty Fellow as well as a Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Faculty Fellow. He was the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Graduate School of Business from 1991-1994. He also served as the Stanford’s faculty athletics representative to the Pacific-10 Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association from 1988 until his retirement. Professor Porras also served as a consultant to Techint, S.A. (Argentina), 1970–71.
Among the honors he has received are the Brilliante Award from the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, the Silver Apple Award from the Stanford Business School Alumni Association, and the Kanter Medal from the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. Professor Porras is the author of Stream Analysis: A Powerful Way to Diagnose and Manage Organizational Change (Addison-Wesley, 1987); co-developer of the Stream Analysis Software Package (1999); and coauthor of Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business, 1994) and “Building Your Company’s Vision,” Harvard Business Review (1996).
He has served on several editorial boards including the Journal of Organizational Change Management, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Academy of Management Journal, and Academy of Management Review.
Professor Porras received his BSEE from Texas Western College in 1960, his MBA from Cornell University in 1968, and his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1974. He worked at General Electric Co., 1964–66; Lockheed Missiles and Space Corp., 1963–64 and in the U.S. Army, 1960–63.
 

Robinson, Norman W. 2011 Feb 3

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This interview was part of the Project on Racial and Ethnic Diversity at Stanford, Phase One: Undergraduate Students, 1968 to 1987. Norman W. Robinson was an Assistant and Associate Dean of Student Affairs during much of this period, responsible for residential education. He speaks knowledgeably about ethnic theme houses, specific incidents during this period (with William Shockley; in Ujamaa House), and reflects on the process of increasing the diversity of the undergraduate student body.
 

Woodward, Denni 2011 Apr 15, 28

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Series 5 Faculty and Staff Interviews 2007-2013

 

Adams, James L. 2010 Mar 10

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Andreopoulos, Spyros 2011 Dec 9

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Spyros Andreopoulos recalls his career at the Medical School and the various deans he worked with, including Bob Alway, Bob Glaser and David Korn. He also discusses covering the news of Arthur Kornberg’s synthesis of biologically active DNA and Norman Shumway’s work in heart transplant. As a former consultant to the board of the Packard Foundation, Andreopoulos talks about his relationship with David Packard.

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A native of Greece, born in Athens on Feb. 12, 1929, Spyros Andreopoulos learned English in German-occupied Salonica as a teen, served as a communications liaison in Greece’s air force during the Korean War, and studied journalism in the United States, where he married and remained, working in public relations and journalism, earning recognition among reporters and public-relations specialists as an unusually well-informed, honest and sometimes bold broker of medical news. In the spring of 1939, Andreopoulos was accepted by the Koryalenion School at the island Spetsai, an exclusive private school regarded as the Greek version of Eton. But by then war in Europe was looming and his father decided that it would be best if he attended Anatolia College instead, an American high school near Salonica — so that if hostilities broke out, he would be near home. War came to Greece in 1940 when Italy invaded from Albania and was defeated. Hitler came to Mussolini’s aid and the German army invaded Greece in the spring of 1941. The American high school was closed down, and its campus and buildings were taken over by the German occupation authorities. The American teaching staff left for the states, but the Greek teachers who remained behind rented a building in Salonica and continued to give English lessons. Andreopoulos enrolled at the new school and took English lessons during the entire German occupation. After the British liberated Greece in 1944, Andreopoulos’ first summer job was a clerical position with the electrical parts division of the British army’s supply corps. He finished high school in 1946, then studied at the University of Athens in 1948-49. He found being drafted by the air force for a 24-month military service was a blessing in disguise. Andreopoulos got his first experiences as a diplomat as the designated spokesman for a squadron of seven Douglas C-47 transport planes (known as gooney birds) contributed by Greece to the U.S. effort in Korea.
The Korean War also provided Andreopoulos his first journalism experiences. While serving, he recorded interviews with the troops for Radio Athens and played the role of reporter for the first time. Though he was trained in flight control, his knowledge of English led to his first job in communications. After the war, Andreopoulos returned to Greece and worked for the United States Information Agency, helping produce a series of films on the accomplishments of the Marshall Plan in Greece. In 1953, his boss sent him to the University of Kansas in Manhattan to prep for a series of films teaching Greek farmers to use modern agricultural methods. The next year the film series was canned, but Andreopoulos was able to stay in the United States.
With the help of the Institute of International Education, he applied for scholarships to the schools of journalism at Northwestern, University of Missouri, University of Kansas and Wichita University, now Wichita State University. He was offered scholarships by all, but Wichita gave him a deal he couldn’t refuse — a $2,000 scholarship, plus free room and board. In 1955, while still a student in Wichita, he joined the Wichita Beacon newspaper as a reporter covering the education and science beats and two years later he became assistant editorial page editor.
In 1959, the famous psychiatrist Karl Menninger asked Andreopoulos to join the The Menninger Foundation as assistant director of information services and editor of The Menninger Quarterly. In 1963, Andreopoulos was lured away from his work at the renowned psychiatric clinic and school in Topeka, Kan., by an offer from Stanford.
Once at Stanford, Andreopoulos found himself with plenty of administrative matters to write about — and plenty of news to get out. He wrote about tensions between the medical center and the city of Palo Alto, the creation of a virus in a test-tube, the first heart transplant in the United States and the Asilomar Conference on the safety of research using bioengineered materials.
Though he was not a member of Stanford’s faculty, Andreopoulos commanded the respect and attention of leaders in medicine at Stanford and beyond. Andreopoulos not only served as spokesman for the medical school, advisor to the school’s leaders and director of the news office, he was a prolific and insightful writer himself. Among the issues Andreopoulos took up over the years: the dangers of conflicts of interest in medical research, the strengths of single-payer health coverage and methods for avoiding hype in reporting biomedical research.
As director of Stanford’s medical news office, Andreopoulos served as the school’s official spokesman and also as editor of Stanford M.D. magazine and its successor, Stanford Medicine, which he founded. He became director emeritus in 1993.
In addition to his work for Stanford, Andreopoulos is a prolific writer. Over his career he edited and contributed to a book series on socioeconomic aspects of health care; published on medicine and social policy in professional journals and the lay press — including dozens of op-eds for the San Francisco Chronicle — and co-authored a medical novel (Heart Beat, Putnam-Coward, 1978).
Other noteworthy Andreopoulos writings include Aging of America & the Role of the Academic Health Center (John Wiley & Sons, September 1988) and The Unhealthy Alliance Between Academia and Corporate America (West J Med, October 2001) concerning the distorting influences of the commercialization of academic science on university research. He also edited and contributed to a book series on socioeconomic aspects of health care: Medical Cure and Medical Care (Milbank Memorial Fund, 1972); Primary Care: Where Medicine Fails (John Wiley & Sons, 1974); National Health Insurance: Can We Learn from Canada? (Krieger, 1975); and with John Hogness, MD, Health Care for an Aging Society (Churchill Livingstone, 1990).
As a member of the board and editor of the Sun Valley Forum on National Health, a think tank co-founded in 1972 by the late Averill Harriman and based in Sun Valley, Idaho, Andreopoulos authored and published policy papers on a range of topics. Since 1995 he has also contributed more than 60 commentaries to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury-News and other newspapers. The topics have ranged from medical education and research to drug company advertising, health-care policy issues and the uninsured.
Andreopoulos’ books have received several honors. His Primary Care: Where Medicine Fails received the Best Book Award from the American Medical Writers Association in 1975, and National Health Insurance: Can We Learn from Canada? was named Book of the Year by the American Nurses Association in 1976.
He received several consecutive exceptional achievement awards from the Association of American Medical Colleges for “excellence in medical education public affairs.” On the year of his retirement, the magazine also received the Sibley Award for excellence, the highest honor accorded to university alumni magazines.
Andreopoulos has served on the boards of the California Division of the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Science Writers. He is a member of American Medical Writers Association. He has served as a consultant on public relations and communication to the National Cancer Institute and several academic medical centers, and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the Markey Charitable Trust, and the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. In the early 1970s he advised PBS and the National Science Foundation during the initial planning and launching of the NOVA television series. Andreopoulos lives on the Stanford campus with his wife, Christiane, who for many years taught French at Castilleja School, an all-girls middle and high school in Palo Alto, Calif., and is now retired.
*This biography is adapted from a manuscript provided by the School of Medicine.

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Alway, Robert Andreopoulos, Christiane Andreopoulos, Spyros Barnard, Christian Berg, Paul Beyers, Bob Carlson, Frank Faculty Relationship to the Press Fogarty, Thomas J. Glaser, Robert J. Kasperak, Michael Korn, David Kornberg, Arthur Kornberg, Arthur -- Synthesis of Biologically Active DNA Menninger Foundation Menninger, Karl A. Menninger, William Nelson, Lyle M. Nobel Prize Packard Foundation Packard, David Reagan, Ronald Rich, Clayton Shumway, N.E. (Norman Edward) Shumway, N.E. (Norman Edward) -- Tetralogy of Fallot Shumway, N.E. (Norman Edward) -- Tetralogy of Fallot -- Heart Transplants Spector, Rosanne Stanford University -- Medical Center Stanford University -- Medical Center -- Communications and Public Relations Stanford University -- Medical Center -- Internal and External Interactions Stanford University -- Medical Center -- Relationship with El Camino Hospital Stanford University -- Medical Center -- Relationship with UCSF Stinson, Edward United States of America -- Immigration and Naturalization Service United States of America -- US Embassy in Greece
 

Bark, Dennis L. 2008 Dec 17

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Chowning, John 2010 Jun 9

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Professor John M. Chowning is the Osgood Hooker Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of Music, Emeritus.

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John Chowning relates the history of computer music and the research on its various aspects. At Stanford the computer music program was launched in 1964. At that time, European programs used analog technology. CCRMA was formed as an administrative entity outside the Music Department and was the premier utilizer of digital technology. Chowning discusses his own background and how it led him to composing music.

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The interview was conducted by Jane Hibbard, a researcher and interviewer for the Oral History Program.
 

Cohen, Albert 2010 Jun 18

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The interview was conducted by Jane Klickman, a retired Stanford administrator.

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Albert Cohen is the Wm. H. Bonsall Professor of Music, Emeritus at Stanford University.

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In his interview on June 18, 2010, Albert Cohen spoke about his time as a faculty member at Stanford and as Chairman of the Music Department from 1973 to 1987 as well as Acting Chair subsequently. He worked diligently and often struggled with the Stanford administration to improve the department’s facilities, particularly the Braun Center and Lully Archives, the faculty itself, and student experiences in the Music Department. He also talked about his research on 17th-18th century French music, musicology, and theory. He spoke about his pedagogical perspectives and other motivating factors in his career, as well as projects he is now working on in retirement.
 

Corn, Wanda M. 2011 May 1

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Wanda M. Corn’s interview traces her education in art history and eventual conversion to the emerging field of American art history in the 1960s. Corn discusses her experience of working with Lorenz Eitner and Al Elsen, the evolution and growth of the Department of Art and Art History, the relationship between the department and the Stanford museum, the trends in art history education, the gratification and challenges in chairing the department, the challenges facing the Stanford museum after the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, her involvement in promoting the interests of woman faculty, her tenure as the third director of the Stanford Humanities Center, the John Cage celebration and the experience of hosting Spalding Gray, and the trips she led for Stanford Travel/Study. She concludes the interview with her thoughts on the Stanford Initiative for Creativity in the Arts.

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Having earned a BA (l963), MA (l965) and Ph.D. (l974) from New York University, Professor Wanda Corn taught at Washington Square College, the University of California, Berkeley, and Mills College before moving to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California in 1980. At Stanford she held the university's first permanent appointment in the history of American art and served as chair of the Department of Art and Art History and Acting Director of the Stanford Museum. From l992 to 1995 she was the Anthony P. Meier Family Professor and Director of the Stanford Humanities Center. In 2000, she became the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History. She retired from teaching at Stanford in 2008. In 2009, she was the John Rewald Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, at the CUNY Graduate Center.
A scholar of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American art and photography, Professor Corn has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Smithsonian Regents, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, and the Clark Institute of Art. In 2006-07, she was the Samuel H. Kress Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.
She has won numerous teaching awards: in 2007 The Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award from the College Art Association; in 2002 the Phi Beta Kappa Undergraduate Teaching Award; and in 1974 the Graves Award for outstanding teaching in the humanities. In 2006, the Archives of American Art awarded her The Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History and in 2007 she received the Women's Caucus for Art Life Time Achievement Award in the Visual Arts. In 2003 she was the Clark Distinguished Visiting Professor at Williams College. She has served two terms on the Board of Directors of the College Art Association and two on the Commission for the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She served on the Advisory Board of the Georgia O’Keeffe Catalogue Raisonné, two terms on the Board of the Terra Foundation in American Art, and is today a trustee of the Wyeth Foundation in American Art.
Active as a visiting curator, she had produced various books and exhibitions, including The Color of Mood: American Tonalism 1990-1910 (1972); The Art of Andrew Wyeth (l973); and Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision (1983) and in 2011-12, Seeing Gertrude Stein, Five Stories. Her historiographic article for Art Bulletin, "Coming of Age: Historical Scholarship in American Art" (June l988), became a significant point of reference in the field as has her work on cultural nationalism in early American modernism. Her study of avant-garde modernist culture along the Atlantic rim, The Great American Thing: Modern Art and American Identity, 1915-35, was published by the University of California Press 1999. UC Press has recently published Professor Corn’s Women Building History about Mary Cassatt and the decorative program of murals and sculptures for the Woman’s Building at the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition. She continues to research, write, and lecture on high, middle, and low culture interpretations of Grant Wood’s American Gothic.
 

DeBra, Daniel B. 2012 Apr 17

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Daniel B. DeBra begins with his education and his path towards research in mechanical engineering and eventually aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford. He then discusses his work at Stanford and the faculty and students with whom he worked closely, including Robert Cannon, Gene Franklin and Richard Van Patten.

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Daniel B. DeBra joined the Stanford faculty in 1964 and became emeritus professor in 1995. Before teaching at Stanford, Professor DeBra had worked at Lockheed Missile and Space Company, U.S. Air Force, and the Thermix Corporation.
The awards Professor DeBra has received include the Industrial Research Award 100 for successful flight of drag-free satellite, 1973; the Distinguished Service Civilian Award, USAF SAB, 1982; the Thurlow Award, Institute of Navigation, 1983; and Distinguished Lecturer, ASPE, 1994.
Professor DeBra received his B.E. in mechanical engineering from Yale in 1952, M.S. in mechanical engineering from M.I.T. in 1953, and a PhD. in engineering mechanics form Stanford in 1962.
 

Doty, Andrew M. 2007 Jun 15

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Oral history interview conducted in June 2007 pertaining to his 30-year career in community relations and public affairs at Stanford. Topics include San Hill Road, Peter Coutts housing development, SLAC power line, commercial development of Stanford lands, and relations with Palo Alto and Santa Clara County.

Biography/Organization History

Andy Doty was born and raised in upstate New York. He joined the Army Air Corps and served in WWII. He came to Stanford in 1963 after working as a newspaper reporter in New York State, assistant director of public relations at Johns Hopkins University, and science and engineering editor at the University of Michigan. He retired as director of community relations in 1993. His tenure coincided with major land development issues at Stanford, including the Sand Hill Road project and the SLAC project. Doty’s interview sheds light on the interplay between “the (Stanford) trustees’ rights to develop their lands to the full extent if they wished and the neighbors’ political power to prevent as much expansion as they could.”

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Doty, Andrew M.
Schofield, Susan.
Stanford University--Administration.
Community and college--United States.
Oral histories.
 

Fong, Herb 2011 May 17

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Herb Fong discussed many of the changes that occurred over the past 30 years regarding ground maintenance. He talked about the reorganization of the groundskeeping system, irrigation, pest control and the replanting of Palm Drive. He also discussed the Certified Landscape Training (CLT).
 

Fuchs, Victor R. 2012 Sep 24

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Professor Fuchs discussed his pre-Stanford years: background, education, his early mentors, and how they influenced his work. He shared his experience prior to coming to Stanford, the circumstances that brought him here, and what happened when he first arrived. He talked about his teaching, his role in health economics, and how it evolved. He also discussed his current projects and offered his thoughts on health care reform.

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Victor R. Fuchs is the Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, in the Departments of Economics and Health Research and Policy. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He applies economic analysis to social problems of national concern, with special emphasis on health and medical care. He is author of nine books, the editor of six others, and has published over two hundred papers and shorter pieces. His current research focuses on comprehensive health care reform, differences in survival to age 70, and the relation between life expectancy and economic growth.
His best known work, Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice (1974; expanded edition 1998, 2nd expanded edition 2011), helps health professionals and policy makers to understand the economic and policy problems in health that have emerged in recent decades. Other books include The Service Economy (1968), How We Live (1983), The Health Economy (1986), Women’s Quest For Economic Equality (1988), and The Future of Health Policy (1993). He is the editor of Individual and Social Responsibility: Child Care, Education, Medical Care, and Long-term Care in America (1996).
Professor Fuchs was elected president of the American Economic Association in 1995. He has also been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and is an Honorary Member of Alpha Omega Alpha. He has received the John R. Commons Award, Emily Mumford Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Social Science in Medicine, Distinguished Investigator Award (Association for Health Services Research), Baxter Foundation Health Services Research Prize, and Madden Distinguished Alumni Award (New York University). ASHE’s (American Society of Health Economists) Career Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Health Economics and the RAND Corporation prize for the Best Paper published in the Forum for Health Economics and Policy are named and awarded in honor of Professor Fuchs.
 

Guertin, Richard and Kiefer, William C. 2010 Jun 4

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Hamrdla, G. Robert 2011 Feb 25

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There are two tremendously meaningful threads in G. Robert Hamrdla’s career at Stanford, beginning as a student and continuing to this day. They are: (1) Hamrdla’s overseas experience in Germany (only the second group of students to participate in the Bing Overseas Studies Program) was a transformative experience for him, leading him to an extended and extensive role in the program; (2) Hamrdla's love for students and the guidance, assistance and counseling he provided to many, many students over the years. He was the first director of the Academic Information Center and was a central force in its development. He has an insider’s view of the presidencies of Richard Lyman and Donald Kennedy.

Biography/Organization History

G. Robert Hamrdla graduated in 1960 from Stanford University. He served as Assistant to the President from1977 to 1992 and Secretary of the Board of Trustees from 1977 to 1991. Hamrdla was Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies from 1970 to 1977 and later Director of Academic Information Center, Stanford's first academic resource and advising center for undergraduates. He was Freshman Advisor from 1967 to 2000 and received the awards Master Advisor in 1987 and Outstanding Freshman Advisor in 1997.
G. Robert Hamrdla was Assistant Director for Stanford Overseas Studies, 1966-70 and Director for Stanford in Germany, 1964-66. G. Robert Hamrdla has been a faculty leader for Stanford Travel/Study since 1985. He was also the president of the Stanford Historical Society from 2001 to 2003.
 

Hastorf, Albert 2007-2008

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Oral history interview conducted between November 2007 and November 2008 pertaining to Hastorf's career at Stanford University. Subjects include his World War II military service including the Army Specialized Training Program at the University of Minnesota, graduate work at Princeton, his year at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford during its first year (1954), his research and teaching at Stanford, his administrative roles, the human biology program, and living in the Hanna House while Provost.

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Ph.D. Princeton University, 1949 L.H.D. (Honorary) Amherst College, 1967
Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Professor (By Courtesy) Graduate School of Business, Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology, Chair of the Department of Psychology, Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Vice President and Provost of Stanford University, Hastorf has had a distinguished career as a psychologist, teacher and administrator. He has published 4 books and over 50 chapters and articles. His early work on transactional analysis particularly in the areas of perceptual distortion and social influences on perception was followed with experimental studies of social interaction and social perception. His studies on the impact of physical deviance or disability on social perception and social interaction led him to act as third Director of the Terman Studies of the life course using the Terman Gifted Project data bank. Hastorf has been Chairman, American Psychological Association Board of Scientific Publication (1972); Member of the Social Science advisory Committee, National Science Foundation (1968-1972); and Member of the Commission of the Higher Education of Minorities, Ford Foundation (1981-1983). He had been Trustee of Mills College (1967-1977), the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1984-1990), the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (1986-1992), and the Nueva Learning Center (1988-1995).

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Hastorf, Albert H., 1920-
Stanford University--Administration.
Stanford University. Dept. of Psychology--Faculty..
Stanford University. Dept. of Psychology--History.
 

Kirst, Michael W. 2013 Jan 28

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In his interview, Michael W. Kirst discussed his more than forty years of work in national, state, local and academic issues in education. He looked at the problems he has seen in California’s education system, his work as president of the State Board of Education both in the late 1970s and since 2011, and his role at Stanford in shaping the School of Education which has recently been renamed the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and some of its courses. Kirst also talks about the problems of training, hiring and firing teachers, and whether early teacher tenure (for example, after two years of teaching) is a good idea. The union influence is strong, he noted.

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Michael W. Kirst is Professor Emeritus of Education and Business Administration at Stanford University. In 2011, Kirst became the President of the California State Board Of Education for the second time. Professor Kirst was a member of the California State Board of Education (1975-1982) and its president from 1977 to 1981.
Dr. Kirst received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Dartmouth College, his M.P.A. in government and economics from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard.
Before joining the Stanford University faculty, Dr. Kirst held several positions with the federal government, including Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Manpower, Employment and Poverty, and Director of Program Planning and Evaluation for the Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education in the U.S. Office of Education (now the U.S. Department of Education). He was a Budget Examiner in the Federal office of Budget and Management, and Associate Director of the White House Fellows. He was a program analyst for the Title I ESEA Program at its inception in 1965.
Dr. Kirst is active in several professional organizations. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences. He has been a member of the National Academy of Education since 1979. He was Vice-President of the American Educational Research Association and a commissioner of the Education Commission of the States. Kirst co-founded Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE).
A prolific writer, Dr. Kirst has authored ten books, including The Political Dynamics of American Education (2005). As a policy generalist, Professor Kirst has published articles on school finance politics, curriculum politics, intergovernmental relations, as well as education reform policies.
His recent book, From High School to College (2004), concerns improving student preparation for success in postsecondary education.
 

Knoles, George 2010 Oct 26, Nov 4

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George Knoles discusses his career in the Stanford History Department, the program in the History of Western Civilization, and his memories of Edgar Robinson, Rixford Snyder, Richard Lyman and J. E. Wallace Sterling. He also shares his observations on the campus antiwar protests in the 1960s, early faculty life, pivotal changes in the university, and the Hoover Institution and Library.
 

McAndrews, Rosemary 2012 Aug 12

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Rosemary McAndrews describes her childhood growing up in Butte, Montana, and San Francisco. She speaks of her experiences as a young working woman in San Francisco and New York in the late 1930s and during World War II, when she held various administrative positions with the Arabian American Oil Company.
Rosemary McAndrews speaks of her return to the workforce in 1969, when she started as an administrative aide to the Manager of Real Estate at the Stanford Land Management Group, and her rise through the ranks to her appointment as the manager of the Stanford Research Park and of the Stanford Shopping Center. She became the Director of the Stanford Shopping Center in 1978.
Her development philosophy and methods for both the Shopping Center and Research Park are discussed in detail, particularly her development of the Inner Circle and Street Market concepts. She briefly touches on her position as one of the first female administrators at Stanford.

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Rosemary McAndrews was born in Butte, Montana and raised in San Francisco, California. She attended St. Paul High School in San Francisco and was valedictorian of her high school class. She was awarded the only college (San Francisco College for Women) scholarship offered. However, she had to give up the scholarship because her family could not afford to contribute to her college education. McAndrews has been an auto-didact all her life. She also studied at Miss Miller’s Business College from 1938 to 1939, took classes and seminars at Foothill Community College, University of California-San Francisco, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo and enrolled in the Michigan State Shopping Center Marketing Courses. During her years at Stanford, she met with MBA candidates and occasionally was a guest lecturer at the Graduate School of Business.
Rosemary McAndrews worked at Stanford University for 24 years. Before that, she had worked for the Metropolitan Insurance Company, Standard Oil of California (now Chevron), and the Arabian American Oil Company.
In 1968, Rosemary McAndrews went to work at Stanford as secretary to the assistant manager of real estate. Her supervisor soon became manager of real estate and she became his administrative aide. Not long after, he left the university and McAndrews became assistant manager, then manager of all of the university’s non-academic properties, including the Industrial (now Research) Park and the Stanford Shopping Center. After a few years, she was appointed Director of the Stanford Shopping Center.
Rosemary McAndrews served as president of the Stanford University Faculty Club, 1990-91 and as president of the Stanford Historical Society, 1994-95. She was named a Lifetime of Achievement Honoree by Avenidas in 2001. She was also named “one of Stanford’s most unforgettable personalities in last 25 years” in a poll of Stanford Historical Society’s members.
Rosemary McAndrews also served in the Allied Arts Guild Advisory Group, the North Bayshore Development Advisory Committee, the Visual Arts Committee for the City of Mountain View, the Palo Alto Economic Advisory Committee, the Steering Committee for the Downtown Environmental Action Plan – Palo Alto, the Executive Committee of the Merchant’s Association Stanford Shopping Center, the Avenidas Executive Board, and the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce.
Rosemary McAndrews is the author of “The Birthplace of Silicon Valley”, Sandstone and Tile, Spring 1995.
 

Miller, William F. 2009 Jul 10-Aug 5

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Dr. William F. Miller has spent about half of his professional life in business and about half in academia. Dr. Miller came to Silicon Valley from a position as Director of the Applied Mathematics Division at the Argonne National Laboratory where he worked after receiving his PhD in Physics from Purdue University in 1956.At the Argonne National Laboratory Dr. Miller conducted research in basic atomic physics and in computer science. He and his colleagues began early work in what is now called computational science.
Dr. Miller was the last faculty member recruited to Stanford University by the legendary Frederick Terman who was then Vice President and Provost of Stanford. He was recruited to help form the Computer Science Department at Stanford and to direct the Computation Group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). He led the computerization of SLAC and later as Associate Provost for Computing he led the computerization of the Stanford campus. He carried out research in computer science and computer systems and directed the research of many graduate students. As Vice President for Research and later as Vice President and Provost Miller championed the establishment of the Office of Technology Licensing which has become the model for such activities at other universities here and abroad .He actively facilitated the establishment of a number of interdisciplinary programs such as the Human Biology Program, the International Security and Arms Control Program, and the Values Technology and Society Program. In 1978 he negotiated and brought to Stanford the first students from the Peoples Republic of China. In 1979 he was named the Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management at the Graduate School of Business.
In 1968 Dr. Miller also played a role in the founding of the first Mayfield Fund (venture capital) as a special limited partner and advisor to the general partners.
As President and CEO of SRI International Miller opened SRI to the Pacific region, he established the spin-out and commercialization program at SRI and established the David Sarnoff Research Center (now the Sarnoff Corporation) as a for-profit subsidiary of SRI. He became the Chairman and CEO of the David Sarnoff Research Center.
In 1997 at the 10th anniversary of the founding of the David Sarnoff Research Center, Dr. Miller along with Jack Welsh, Myron DuBain, and James Tietjen received the Sarnoff Founders Medal.
In 1982 Miller was appointed to the National Science Board; additionally he served on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. He has served on the board of directors of several major companies such as Signetics, Fireman’s Fund America, Wells Fargo Bank, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Varian Associates, and Borland Software Corp.
In 1990 Dr. Miller retired from SRI International and returned to Stanford half time where he taught technology-related courses, carried out research on the IT industry and on the characteristics of entrepreneurial regions. He also spent about half of his time working with start-ups and non-profits in Silicon Valley. He helped organize Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network and served on the board of directors for three years. He co-founded and served as Vice Chairman of SmartValley, Inc. Additionally he aided the formation of CommerceNet and served on the board of directors. Dr. Miller was a founding director and served as Vice Chairman of the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, and was a Founding Member and Chair of the Campaign Cabinet (1992-1994) of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society of Santa Clara. He currently (in 2010) serves as Chairman of the Board of Sentius Corp, Nanostellar, Inc., and Lumiette, Inc. and is a Partner in Actium Ventures (Venture Capital).
Dr. Miller co-directs an international research project called the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and he co-directs an Executive Education program on Strategic Uses of Information Technology.
Additionally, Dr. Miller worked with foreign countries helping them establish their technology policies and practices, notably Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, and Korea. He served on the International Panel of the Singapore Science and Technology Board, and currently serves on the International Advisory Panel for the Multimedia Super Corridor in Malaysia.
Dr Miller has received a number of awards and honors:
Life Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 1987 Life Fellow IEEE, 1999 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science, 1980 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1987 Stanford Computing Pioneer by the AFIPS History of Computing Committee, 1987 Frederic B. Whitman Award, United Way of the Bay Area, 1982 Technology 100 (International Technology Leaders), Technology Magazine, 1981 Tau Beta Pi Eminent Engineer, 1989 Sarnoff Founders Medal, 1997 David Packard Civic Entrepreneur Team Award 1998 Robert K. Jaedicke Silver Apple Award (Stanford Business School Alumni), 1998 The Order of Civil Merit (Dongbaeg Medal) by the Republic of Korea, 2000 The Okawa Prize 2000, The Okawa Foundation, Tokyo, Japan The Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame, 2001 Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame, 2002 Commendation for Service, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), 2002 “Most Mentoring Angel” Award, International Angel Investors, 2002 Honorary Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China, 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award, Borland Software Corp, 2005 Trustee/ Charter member, Asian American Multitechnology Association, 2007 David Packard Civic Entrepreneur Award, 2008 New Silk Road Award, California Asia Business Council, 2008 Konkuk University, Seoul Korea, establishes the “William F. Miller School of Management of Technology”, March 3, 2009. Miller becomes Honorary Dean
Dr Miller received the BS (1949), MS (1951), PhD (1956) and Honorary DSC (1972) from Purdue University.
Dr Miller works with the Cheetah Conservation Fund Namibia which is dedicated to preserving cheetahs in the wild in Namibia. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Wildlife Conservation Network.
 

Moulton, Bob 2007 Feb 4

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Ryan, Lawrence V. 2009 Feb 13

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Professor Lawrence V. Ryan discussed his career at Stanford University from 1952 to 1988 as a professor of English. At the time of his retirement, he was also the Atha Professor of the Humanities. Professor Ryan specialized in the study of Renaissance literature, primarily that of England but also with a secondary emphasis on Medieval and Renaissance Italian humanism. Professor Ryan also discussed his work with John Goheen, Professor of Philosophy, and Mark Mancall, Professor of History, to found the Structured Liberal Education program, an intellectually rigorous interdisciplinary program at Stanford. Professor Ryan was awarded the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for 1974-75 for outstanding service to undergraduate education.
 

Shah, Haresh 2011 Dec 20

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Haresh C. Shah recalls his experience of the Loma Prieta Earthquake on the Stanford campus. He discusses the importance of risk management for the university and his role in establishing a system for risk management on campus. He also discusses how he applies his risk analysis expertise to global issues, especially in the poorer part of the world in order to improve the livelihood of the people in those countries.

Biography/Organization History

Haresh C. Shah is the Obayashi Professor of Engineering, Emeritus at Stanford University. He has been a pioneer in the fields of risk analysis, earthquake engineering, and probabilistic methods for over 35 years. He has served Stanford University in many capacities, including Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering and Founding Director of the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center.
Haresh C. Shah is the author of one book, has contributed to chapters in many books and has been an author or co-author of more than 350 technical papers and reports. He has been keynote speaker at many national, international conferences and has been a regular keynote invited speaker for many corporations. He is a member of many editorial boards of professional journals and professional societies.
Haresh C. Shah was the founder and senior advisor of Risk Management Solutions, Inc; the founding director and chairman, World Seismic Safety Initiative (WSSI); a member of the Board of Trustees, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; the chairman of the Academic Affairs Committee of the NTU Board of Trustees; the founder and advisor of the Singapore-NTU Alliance for Micro-Insurance; and the Chairman of the Board, Asia Risk Centre, Inc. He was also elected as honorary member to various boards.
Haresh C. Shah received a B.E. degree (1959) from Poona University, India, and degrees of M.S. (1960) and PhD. (1963) from Stanford University. Shah has received many awards, including the John S. Bickley Gold Medal for Excellence Award from the International Insurance Society for his sustained and outstanding contributions to the insurance industry.
He was given a unique award as the “Top Seismic Engineer of the 20th Century” by the Applied Technology Council/Engineering News Record in 2006. He was the 2011 recipient of the Alfred Alquist Medal, awarded by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. This award recognizes Professor Shah for his substantial contributions to the field of seismic safety and earthquake risk reduction, having directly benefited the seismic safety of the general population.

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Asia Byer, Robert L. Casper, Gerhard Diamond, Diana Disaster Insurance Global Academic Community Herrington, Marv India Kennedy, Donald Loma Prieta Earthquake -- Stanford University Loma Prieta Earthquake -- Stanford University -- Direct Aftermath Multidisciplinary Research Nobel Prize Poverty Risk Management Solutions (insurance company) Risk Management Solutions (insurance company) -- Asia Risk Center Rosse, James N. (James Nelson) Shah, Haresh C. Stanford University -- Civil Engineering Stanford University -- Civil Engineering -- Obayashi Chair Stanford University -- Faculty -- Professional Responsibilities Stanford University -- Office of Innovation of Technology Stanford University -- Risk Analysis & Risk Management Stanford University -- School of Engineering Stanford University -- Shah Family Endowment Stanford University -- Shah Family Fund Stanford University -- Structures -- Earthquake Safety Stanford University -- Structures -- Hoover House Stanford University -- Structures -- Roble Hall Stanford University -- Structures -- Terman Building Subsistence Agriculture -- Finances and Risk Management Third-World Nations
 

Sheehan, James J. 2012 Oct 15

 

Stone, Willfred 2010

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Oral history interview conducted in June 2007 pertaining to Stone's involvement with and ideas about residential life at Stanford in the 1950s and 1960s. Topics include his time as faculty resident at Stern Hall, interactions between students and faculty in the dorms, fraternities, the issue of diversity, and the early years of the Overseas Studies program.

Biography/Organization History

Wilfred Stone joined the Stanford faculty in 1950 and served as director of freshman composition from 1962 to 1964. His published works include PROSE STYLE, A HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS and THE CAVE AND THE MOUNTAIN; A STUDY OF E. M. FORSTER. He retired in 1986 as professor emeritus.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Mitchell, David W.
Stanford University--Faculty.
Stanford University--Student housing.
Stanford University--Students.
Stone, Wilfred Healy, 1917-
 

Suppes, Patrick 2010

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Oral history interview conducted in May 2007. Topics include his activities with Dr. Fred Terman; Stanford's development into a major research university; his interests in logic, computers, learning theory and brain function; and the teaching of math.

Biography/Organization History

Patrick Suppes, Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, was also director of Stanford's Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences from 1959 to 1992.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Mitchell, David W.
Stanford University--History.
Suppes, Patrick, 1922-
Terman, Frederick Emmons, 1900-1982
Mathematics--Study and teaching.
 

Traugott, Elizabeth C. 2012 Jun 5

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Elizabeth C. Traugott discussed her education and career in linguistics and English at Stanford, as well as her administrative career as the vice provost and dean of graduate studies. She discussed her experience working on the status of woman faculty at Stanford in terms of recruitment and promotion, the recruitment of ethnic minorities and women in graduate education, and the university’s growth to prominence since 1970s. She also compared her experience teaching at University of California, Berkeley and at Stanford.

Biography/Organization History

Elizabeth C. Traugott is Professor Emerita of Linguistics and English at Stanford University. Traugott has done research in historical syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, lexicalization, sociohistorical linguistics, and linguistics and literature. Her current research focuses on ways to bring the theories of construction grammar, grammaticalization and lexicalization together in a unified theory of constructional change; she is working on a book on constructionalization with Graeme Trousdale. She is also coediting the Oxford Handbook of the History of English with Terttu Nevalainen.
Her publications include A History of English Syntax (1972), Linguistics for Students of Literature (1980; with Mary L. Pratt), On Conditionals (1986; co-edited with Alice ter Meulen, Judith Snitzer Reilly, and Charles A. Ferguson), Approaches to Grammaticalization (1991; co-edited with Bernd Heine, 2 volumes), Grammaticalization (1993, 2nd much revised ed. 2003; with Paul Hopper), Regularity in Semantic Change (2002; with Richard B. Dasher), Lexicalization and Language Change (2005; with Laurel J. Brinton), and Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization (2010; co-edited with Graeme Trousdale).
She has been an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Elizabeth C. Traugott received her PhD degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1964.
 

Turner, Paul V. 2012 Mar 5

Biography/Organization History

Paul V. Turner is the Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art, Emeritus, in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University since 1996. Professor Turner joined the Stanford faculty in 1972. He was chairman of the art department from 1991 to 1995, director of the Stanford Program in Paris, 1989-90, and chairman of the Hanna House Board of Governors, 1991-2006. Professor Turner also chaired the University Committee on Land & Building Development for several terms.
Among the awards Professor Turner received are the Dinkelspiel Award for teaching from Stanford in 2001, and an Excellence in Education Award from the American Institute of Architects in 1993. Professor Turner also received grants from the N.E.H. Fellowships in 1977-78, 1985-86, the Graham Foundation in 1991, the Pew Foundation in 1983, and the Mellon Foundation in 1975.
Professor Turner received his M.A. in 1963 and PhD in 1971 in fine art from Harvard University. He also received a master's degree in architecture in 1969 from Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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Paul V. Turner discusses early influences on his pursuit of architecture and how he became an architectural historian instead of a practicing architect, his research in Le Corbusier, his recollections of Lorenz Eitner, Al Elsen, John LaPlante and others, the evolution from the Department of Art and Architecture to the Department of Art and Art History, the challenges and accomplishments of the architecture program, his thoughts on Stanford's campus plan, his reflections on the Hanna House and Frank Lloyd Wright, and the challenges facing campus planning as the university continues to grow and expand physically, as well as academically.
 

Vincenti, Walter G. 2011

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Series 6 Founding Grant Project Interviews 2009

 

Bradley, Judith Lynn 2009

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Docter, Stephen D.

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Ely, Leonard W. 2008

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Farrar, Nancy L. 2009

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Maveety, Patrick J. 2009

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Narver, Ellen 2009

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Rehmus, Frederick P. 2009

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Rensselaer, Cortlandt Van

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Ritchie, Milton Hoke 2009

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Rodgers, Joseph L.

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Spaeth, C. Grant 2008

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Telleen, L. Sherman and Telleen, Marjorie_Horcuitz 2008

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Wells, Alison Dice 2007

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Wells, Edwin A. 2009

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Series 7 Peace Corps 50th Anniversary Oral History Project 2011 Apr 15

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On April 15, during the Peace Corps 50th Anniversary Celebration on Stanford University campus, 14 return Peace Corps volunteers were interviewed by representatives of the Stanford Historical Society.
 

Bishop, Jonathan 2011 Apr 15

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Booker, Jayne 2011 Apr 15

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Butler, Lew 2011 Apr 15

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Butler, Suzanne 2011 Apr 15

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Consear, Pam 2011 Apr 15

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Duff-Brown, Beth 2011 Apr 15

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Horley, Al 2011 Apr 15

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Le, Yen 2011 Apr 15

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Mukoyama, Wesley 2011 Apr 15

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Parker, George 2011 Apr 15

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Robertson, Sandy 2011 Apr 15

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Steinhart, John 2011 Apr 15

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Straley, Rosemary George 2011 Apr 15

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Underdall, Jerry 2011 Apr 15

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Welch, Michael 2011 Apr 15

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Series 8 Stanford Presidential Families Project 2009-2010

 

"Memories of Billie Bell", Voss, David and Kennedy, Jeanne 2009 Apr 28

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Lyman, Jing 2010 Jun-Dec

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