Stanford Alpine Club oral history interviews 1997-2001

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Stanford Alpine Club oral history interviews 1997-2001

The ollection contains transcripts of interviews done by John Rawlings with David Boore and Judy (Lovelace) Boore, Herbert C. DeStaebler, Nicholas B. Clinch, Henry Kendall, Alfred W. Baxter, Bea Vogel, Betsy (Swann) Crowder, Gilbert Roberts, Irene Beardsley, Mary (Sherril) Baxter, Rowland Tabor, Russell Van Dyke, Theodore (Jack) Weicker III, and Ulf Ramm-Ericson. Also included are source tapes from the interviews. The following taped interviews have been transcribed: R. W. Tabor, Gilbert J. Roberts, Betsy Crowder, Alfred Baxter, Herbert C. DeStaebler, David Boore, Mary Sherrill Baxter, Russell Van Dyke, Irene Beardsley Ortenburger, and Nicholas Clinch. The following taped interviews have not been transcribed: Gloria McConnel, Scott Davis, Mike Roberts, Nancy Bickford Miller, Steven D'Hondt, Ned MacKay, Roger Gocking, Jim Moore, and Meredith Ellis Little.

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Weicker, Theodore, III.

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Stanford university

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Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...

Gates, Rupert Louis.

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Harrah, Dave

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Van Dyke, Russell, MD.

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Hemming, Gary

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Smith, Fred Wesley.

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Vogel, Bea.

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Ramm-Ericson, Ulf.

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Hansen, Hazel Dorothy

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Ortenburger, Irene Adelaide Beardsley

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Ortenburger, Leigh N.

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Leigh Ortenburger was an American mountaineer and mountain photographer. He wrote the classic mountaineering guidebook, A Climber's Guide to the Teton Range. Before his sudden death in the Oakland Hills fire of 1991 he had nearly finished a manuscript on the early exploration of the Teton range, including the controversy on the first ascent of the Grand Teton. He had also been at work for a photo essay on the Cordillera Blanca in Peru, the result of ten mountaineering trips to the range. Born in...

Boore, Judith Lovelace.

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United States Geological Survey

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The United States Geological Survey, a part of the Bureau of the Interior, was created by Congress in 1879 for the purpose of the classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain. As part of its survey, study and classification of the geology of the United States, the department has produced a vast photographic record, now housed in the U.S. Geological Survey Library in Lakewood, Colorado. The USGS photographi...

Stanford University. Dept. of Physics

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Roberts, Gilbert J.

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Brown, Winifred Hubbard.

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Taylor, Lawrence D.

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Kendall, Henry W. (Henry Way), 1926-1999

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This collection was put together by John Rawlings, of Stanford University Libraries, during the course of preparing an exhibit and book about the Stanford Alpine Club in 2000. It reflects primarily on the mountaineering and photography interests of Kendall, a man who also had many other accomplishments. From the description of Photographs, 1952-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122585428 Died 1999. From the description of Oral history interview with Henry Way ...

Boore, David M.

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Sowles, Dave.

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Jervis, Steven Alexander.

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American Mount Everest Expedition (1963)

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Frost, Thomas M.

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Salathe, John.

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Crowder, D. F. (Dwight Farnsworth), 1929-

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Union of Concerned Scientists

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DeStaebler, Herbert C.

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Bailey, Margery, 1891-1963

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Margery Bailey was a professor of English at Stanford University from 1914 to 1963. From the description of The crimes of brother goose : manuscript, 1918. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398547 Margery Bailey was a professor of English at Stanford University from 1914-1963. She was active in Stanford dramatics and was involved in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival at Ashland, Orgeon as both an actress and as a director. From the description of Margery Bailey pape...

Pratt, Constance.

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Tabor, Kajse.

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Lippmann, Fritz

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Baxter, Mary Sherrill.

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Camp Unalayee.

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Harlin, John, 1935-1966

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The unpublished material was received from John Harlin III and his mother, Marilyn Harlin. Much of the other material was collected by John Rawlings in researching his book on the Stanford Alpine Club, 1999. From the description of John Harlin II: unpublished and published writings by and about, 1963-2003. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863699 ...

BAXTER, ALFRED W.

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Baldinger, Richard N.

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National Speleological Society. Stanford Grotto.

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Gerow, Bert A.

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Vogel, Beatrice R.

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Tabor, R. W. (Rowland W.)

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The 1961 prints were photographed by Bob and Ira Spring during fieldwork by Rowland Tabor and Dwight Crowder and their families for the United States Geological Survey in the Cascade Range of Washington. The 1967 prints were photographed by Rowland Tabor of John Harbuck and Neely Bostick, also during fieldwork in the Washington Cascades, specifically on Mt. Challenger and the Challenger Glacier. From the description of Photographs, 1961 and 1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872...

Clinch, Nicholas, 1930-

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Francis Peloubet Farquhar was a conservationist, mountaineer, author, and historian. He was also a long-time member of the Sierra Club. From the description of A tribute paid to Francis P. Farquhar, 1887-1974, at the memorial service held in Tilden Park, Berkeley, California : typescript, 1974 Dec. 8 / Nicholas B. Clinch. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 54712142 Nicholas Clinch (1930- ) is regarded as one of America's most successful ex...

Sierra Club. Rock Climbing Section.

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Crowder, Betsy, 1926-

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American Himalayan Foundation.

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Stanford Alpine Club

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Stanford University. Dept. of Anthropology.

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Hillary, Edmund, 1919-2008

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Edmund Hillary (b. July 20, 1919, Auckland, NZ–d. January 11, 2008, Auckland, NZ) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On May 29, 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt....