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Ida Amelia Sproul : the President's wife : oral history transcript / and related material, 1980-1981.
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Ida Amelia Sproul : the President's wife : oral history transcript: and related material, 1980-1981Creator/Contributor:
Sproul, Ida Amelia, 1891-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Sproul, Robert Gordon, Jr.Creator/Contributor:
Hagar, Ella Barrows, 1898-Creator/Contributor:
Riess, Suzanne B., interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Comments on her husband, Robert G. Sproul; role as wife of president of the University of California; living in Berkeley;
faculty, regents and friends; famous visitors; entertaining in the president's house; development of the University at Los
Angeles; etc.
Appended: copy of an article; information on the Sproul and Wittschen families; Section Club's tribute to Mrs. Sproul.
Appended: Sproul, Ida Amelia. Duty, devotion, and delight in the President's house [oral history transcript from 1960].
Date:
1980 (issued)Contents:
Phonotapes: Partial interviews. Reel 1: July 17, 1980. Track 1: 1044 ft., track 2: 630 ft. -- Reel 2: July 23, 1980. Track
1: 1030 ft. , track 2: 738 ft. -- Reel 3: July 30, 1980. Track 1: 1045 ft., track 2: 880 ft. -- Reel 4: Aug. 5, 1980. Track
1: 970 ft., track 2: 977 ft. -- Reel 5: Aug. 26, 1980. Track 1: 954 ft., track 2: 982 ft. -- Reel 6: Sep. 9, 1980. Track 1:
960 ft., track 2: 985 ft. -- Reel 7: Jan. 12, 1981. Track 1: 865 ft., track 2: 350 ft. (not transcribed) -- Reel 8: Sep. 23,
1980.
Subject:
Sproul, Robert Gordon -- 1891-1975University of California (System)
University of California (System). -- Office of the President.
University of California, Los Angeles.
Note:
Ida Wittschen Sproul; tape-recorded interview conducted in 1980-1981 by Suzanne B. Riess for the Regional Oral History Office,
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1981 :
Introductions by Robert G. Sproul, Jr. and Ella Barrows Hagar.
Copies of photographs inserted.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
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Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library. Duplicate transcript.
Copyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests
for permission to quote for publication should be adddressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Type:
Oral histories.Physical Description:
print
1 v. ([13], xii, 347 p.) ; 28 cm.
8 sound tape reels : analog, 3 3/4 ips, 2 track ; 5 in.
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Copyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests
for permission to quote for publication should be adddressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.