Administration and leadership : oral history transcript, 1969.

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Administration and leadership : oral history transcript, 1969.

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Interview with Towle, university dean and colonel in the Women's Reserve of the United States Marine Corps, by Harriet Nathan, 1967, sponsored by the Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, as part of the University History Series with funding from the University of California Alumni Foundation.

1v. (xviii, 309 p.) : ill.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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