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Reflections on the Sierra Club, the environment and mountaineering, 1950s-1970s : transcript, 1975-1977.
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Reflections on the Sierra Club, the environment and mountaineering, 1950s-1970s : transcript, 1975-1977History of science and technology collection
Sierra Club oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Siri, William E., creatorCreator/Contributor:
Lage, Ann.Creator/Contributor:
Berry, Phillip S., 1937-Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Interviews conducted in Richmond, California, 1975-1977, by Ann Lage for the Regional Oral History Office of The Bancroft
Library as part of the Sierra Club History Series. Introduction by Phillip Berry; copies of photographs inserted. Comments
on scientific studies at Chicago University and the University of California, Berkeley; experiences as a member of the Manhattan
Project and later as a biophysicist with the Donner Laboratory, 1945-1974; his work on the use of radioisotopes in diagnosis
and treatment of diseases, and studies made in Peru for the Lab on effects of high altitude, 1950 and 1953; association with
the Lawrence Laboratory's energy analysis program; Sierra Club activities from 1944 as secretary,
Board member, president, and member of the investment committee; the Sierra Club Foundation and the Sierra Club Council; new
concerns of the Club-- pollution, pesticides, nuclear energy, etc., ; campaigns for the Redwood National Park, the Grand Canyon,
and Mineral King; work with the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. National Park Service, the Coastal Alliance, the Save the San Francisco
Bay Association and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission; controversies over the Tioga Road in Yosemite,
Diablo Canyon/Nipomo Dunes, Peripheral Canal/California Water Plan and David Brower; mountaineering in Yosemite, Peru and
on expeditions to Makalu and Mount Everest; travels, 1957-1958, with the International Physiological Expedition to Antarctica
to measure physiological stress on residents working in the area.
Date:
©1979 (issued)Contents:
Phonotapes: Reel 1: Nov. 24, 1975. Track 1: 723 ft., track 2: 722 ft. -- Reel 2: track 1: Nov. 24, 1975, 727 ft.; track 2:
Dec. 16, 1975, 727 ft. -- Reel 3: track 1: Dec. 16, 1975, 646 ft.; track 2: Feb. 11, 1976, 688 ft. -- Reel 4: track 1: Feb.
11, 1976, 733 ft., track 2: Feb. 11 and Mar. 10, 1976, 709 ft. -- Reel 5: Mar. 10, 1976. Track 1: 748 ft., track 2: 743 ft.
-- Reel 6: track 1: Mar. 10, 1976, 572 ft.; track 2: May 3, 1976, 734 ft. -- Reel 7: track 1: May 3, 1976, 748 ft.; track
2: May 3 and July 6, 1976, 746 ft. -- Reel 8: track 1: July 6, 1976, 730 ft.; track 2: July 6 and July 27, 1976, 729 ft. --
Reel 9: July 27, 1978. Track 1: 728 ft., track 2: 726 ft. -- Reel 10: Oct. 13, 1976. Track 1: 733 ft., track 2: 731 ft. --
Reel 11: Oct. 12, 1976 and May 1, 1977. Track 1: 732 ft., track 2: blank -- Reel 12: May 1, 1977. Track 1: 530 ft., track
2: 697 ft. -- Reel 13: May 16, 1977. Track 1: 689 ft., track 2: 716 ft. -- Reel 14: May 16, 1977. Track 1: 736 ft., track
2: blank -- Reel 15: Nov. 28, 1977. Track 1: 484 ft., track 2: 479 ft. -- Reel 16: Nov. 28, 1977. Track 1: 490 ft., track
2: 205 ft.
Subject:
n-us-ca -- s-pe--- -- a-np---Conservation of natural resources
Mountaineering
Nuclear energy
Population
Pesticides
Medical physics
Coasts -- California
Water -- California
Conservation des ressources naturelles
Énergie nucléaire
Pesticides
Physique médicale
Littoral -- Californie
Eau -- Californie
nuclear power
pesticide
Water
Population
Pesticides
Nuclear energy
Mountaineering
Medical physics
Conservation of natural resources
Coasts
Antarctica
Peru
Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
Nipomo Dunes (Calif.)
Diablo Canyon (Calif.)
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
Mineral King Valley (Calif.)
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Antarctique
Everest, Mont (Chine et Népal)
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
Mineral King (Calif.)
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Peru
California -- Yosemite National Park
California -- Mineral King Valley
California -- Diablo Canyon
California
Asia -- Mount Everest
Arizona -- Grand Canyon
Antarctica
Sierra Club -- History
International Physiological Expedition to Antarctica.
United States. -- Army. -- Corps of Engineers. -- Manhattan District.
Donner Laboratory.
Peripheral Canal Project.
Save the San Francisco Bay Association.
Coastal Alliance.
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
United States. -- Army. -- Corps of Engineers. -- Manhattan District
Sierra Club.
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
Donner Laboratory.
Brower, David -- 1912-2000
Brower, David -- 1912-2000
Note:
Included in: History of Science and Technology Collection, and the Sierra Club History oral history series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Also available online.
Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library. Duplicate transcript.
Part of the Sierra Club History Series.
Type:
History.Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
[11], 296 pages (1 volume)
16 audiocassettes : analog
Language:
English
Publisher:
California unknown place Berkeley, Calif : University of CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC