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Snyder, Gary, 1930-. Oral history interview : Gary S. Snyder, Reed College, class of 1951 / interviewed by John P. Sheehy, 1982, on July 22, 1998.

Title: Oral history interview : Gary S. Snyder, Reed College, class of 1951 / interviewed by John P. Sheehy, 1982, on July 22, 1998.

Discussion of Snyder's early life in the Northwest on a small farm during the Depression years and his exposure to political activism and nature; his admission to Reed based largely upon his poetry; the political climate at Reed during the war years; life off-campus in Lambert House; other poets at Reed such as Lew Welch and Philip Whalen; interactions with faculty members Lloyd Reynolds, David French, Richard Jones, William Alderson, and Stanley Moore; his thesis on Native American myth; skiing and climbing with the Mazamas; the process of "de-education" and the eventual turning to Zen Buddhism after leaving Reed.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: [29] leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61194198 View

Whitehead, Theodore Carleton. Oral history interview : Carleton and Ann Stearns Whitehead, Reed College, class of 1941 and 1944, respectively / interviewed by John Sheehy, 1982, on April 17, 2003.

Title: Oral history interview : Carleton and Ann Stearns Whitehead, Reed College, class of 1941 and 1944, respectively / interviewed by John Sheehy, 1982, on April 17, 2003.

Discussion of the Whitehead's selection of Reed; Carleton's political science major under George Noble and Ann's language focus and transfer after two years to Simmons College; Reed's social life including Hellbat, the Outing Club, and Canyon Day; politics up to World War II; Carleton's later administration posts at Reed, his Navy and Sierra Club experience, and Ann's career as a psychologist.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: [60] leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57763099 View

Whalen, Philip. Oral history interview : Philip Whalen, Reed College, class of 1951 / interviewed by John Sheehy, 1982, on September 22, 1998.

Title: Oral history interview : Philip Whalen, Reed College, class of 1951 / interviewed by John Sheehy, 1982, on September 22, 1998.

Discussion of Whalen's background in Oregon and the Army having entered Reed on the G.I. Bill of Rights in 1946; his impressions of Reed and descriptions of faculty members, including Arragon, Monte Griffith, F.L. Griffin, Woodbridge, Richard Jones, David French, Stanley Moore, Ralph Beringer, and Lloyd Reynolds. Whalen describers his poet friends Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, and Bill Dickey; his interest in Buddhism and Vedanta; his poticial activism during the Henry Wallace campaign; his creative thesis with Lloyd Reynolds, and his subsequent careers in Japan and California as poet and abbot at a Zen center in San Francisco.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: [48] leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57689097 View