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Labor and tax attorney, 1949-1982; Sierra Club Foundation trustee, 1968-1981, 1994-1998 : oral history transcript / 1999.
BANC MSS 2000/65 c; Phonotape 3067 C:1-17
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Labor and tax attorney, 1949-1982; Sierra Club Foundation trustee, 1968-1981, 1994-1998 : oral history transcript / 1999Sierra Club oral history series
University of California source of community leaders oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Torre, Gary J., 1919-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Wilmsen, Carl, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Wayburn, Edgar, 1906-Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Italian ancestry and family, and youth in Oakland; wife's Goodrich family history in California; boyhood experiences in Yosemite
National Park, the redwood forests; University of California, Berkeley 1936-1941: anti-war demonstrations, reflections on
Willard "Bull" Durham, Benjamin H. Lehman, Henriette de Saussure Blanding, Bertrand Bronson; effect of war duty on choice
of career; Boalt Hall graduate; clerk for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas; the Lillick Law Firm and civil rights,
tax law work: mechanization and modernization agreement between Pacific Maritime Assn. and the International Longshore and
Warehouse Union, urban sprawl and inner-city issues, representing the Sierra Club before the IRS; reflections on David Brower,
Sierra Club reorganization committee; Sierra Club Foundation board member: Frontera del Norte fund for environmental and social
programs in northern New Mexico, dispute with Ray Graham and Ganados del Valle over the Fund, malicious prosecution lawsuit
against Ray Graham; functioning of the Sierra Club Foundation, legal and ethical obligations of the Found board, relations
between the Sierra Club and the Foundation, trends in raising, reflections on the accomplishments of the Foundation.
Date:
1999 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us---Sierra Club -- History
Lillick, Geary, Olson, Charles and Adams.
Frontera del Norte Fund.
Sierra Club Foundation.
Lawyers -- California -- Oakland -- Interviews
Tax lawyers -- Interviews
Labor lawyers -- Interviews
Lobbying -- United States
Tax exemption -- United States
Note:
Gary J. Torre ; with an introduction by Edgar Wayburn ; interviews conducted by Carl Wilmsen in 1998. Regional Oral History
Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of: Sierra Club oral history series; and, University of California, Source of community leaders series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3067 C:1-17.
Also available online.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Volume includes index.
Type:
biographyOral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 v. (x, 303 p.) : port. ; 29 cm.
17 sound cassettes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z113b
BANC MSS 2000/65 c
Phonotape 3067 C:1-17
Origin:
CaliforniaClassification:
333.7205Copyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.