Title:
Partner and participant : oral history transcript: University of California chancellor's and president's wife, 1984-1995 /
2002
University history series
Creator/Contributor:
Peltason, Suzanne Toll, 1925-, creator, interviewee.
Creator/Contributor:
Lage, Ann, interviewer.
Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.
Abstract:
Family, childhood in North Carolina and New Jersey; meeting Jack Peltason at University of Missouri, marriage and family;
faculty wife at Smith College and University of Illinois, 1947-1959; UC Irvine, founding years, 1964-1967; wife of chancellor,
University of Illinois, 1967-1977; wife of chancellor, UC Irvine, 1984-1992; wife of UC president, 1992-1995; media relations,
affirmative action controversy, Blake House; reflections on women's movement, defining the role of spouses of academic administrators;
efforts of chancellors' wives for official recognition.
Date:
2002 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Peltason, J. W. (Jack Walter) -- 1923-2015
University of California (System). -- Office of the President -- History
University of California, Irvine. -- Office of the Chancellor -- History
University of California, Irvine -- History
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). -- Office of Chancellor -- History
Blake House (Berkeley, Calif.)
College administrators' spouses -- United States -- Interviews
Affirmative action programs -- California
College administrators -- California
Note:
Suzanne Toll Peltason ; with an introduction by Rita Atkinson. An interview conducted by Ann Lage in 1999. Regional Oral History
Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the University history 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 3405 C:1-6.
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:
biography
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 v. (v, 101 p.) : ports. ; 29 cm.
6 sound cassettes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z0v4t
BANC MSS 2002/346 c
Phonotape 3405 C:1-6
Origin:
California
Copyright 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.