Interviews with 18 university presidents : oral history transcripts / tape recorded interviews conducted 1981-1982 by David Turney for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1981-1982.

Peoples, John, 1926-

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Academic administrator John A. Peoples, Jr. was born on August 26, 1926 in Starkville, Mississippi to Maggie Peoples and John A. Peoples, Sr. He graduated from Oktibbeha County Training School in 1944, and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1945, serving until 1947. Peoples then attended Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi and received his B.S. degree in mathematics in 1950, and his M.A. degree in mathematics in 1951 and his Ph.D. degree in higher education in 1961, both from the ...

Spurr, Stephen H., 1918-1990

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Professor of forestry, dean of the School of Natural Resources, University vice-president and dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies of University of Michigan; president of University of Texas. From the description of Stephen Hopkins Spurr papers, 1940-1971 (bulk 1952-1968). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423136 Stephen Hopkins Spurr was born in 1918, and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1935. ...

Kamerick, John J., 1919-

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Fleming, R. W. (Robben Wright), 1916-2010

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Director of Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and law professor, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). From the description of Papers, 1957-1963. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28412898 Ninth president of the University of Michigan, 1967-1978, later president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, chairman of the National Institute for Dispute Resolution, and member of the boards of the MacArthur and Johnson Found...

Hesburgh, Theodore Martin, 1917-....

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Priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross; executive vice-president (1949-1952) and president (1952-1987) of the University of Notre Dame; member (1957-1972) and chairman (1969-1972) of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. From the description of Papers, 1941-[ongoing]. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 25419997 Priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross who was awarded the St. Edward's University's Quest Medal in 1975. Among his many significant jobs and...

Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office

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According to the University of California, Berkeley Bancroft Library website: "The Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) is a research program of the University of California, Berkeley, working within The Bancroft Library. ROHO conducts, teaches, analyzes, and archives oral and video history documents in a broad variety of subject areas critical to the history of California and the United States." For more information regarding the ROHO and their work please consult their website: http://bancroft....

Friday, William

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Holt, Andrew

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McPherson, Mary Patterson, 1935-

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Stephen G. Cary (1915-2002) graduated from Germantown Friends School in 1933. He received a bachelor's degree in economics with a minor in chemistry from Haverford in 1937 and a master's in international administration from Columbia University in 1943. He was a conscientious objector during World War II and served in the Civilian Public Service from 1942-1946. Between 1946 and 1969, Cary was an integral part of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). With Willis Weatherford, he served as ...

Boyer, Ernest L.

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Odegaard, Charles E.

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Heard, Alexander, 1917-2009

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Turney, David T. (David Thomas)

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Newman, Frank M.

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Roskens, Ronald William, 1932-

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Wexler, Jacqueline Grennan, 1926-

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Koltai, Leslie

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Hackerman, Norman

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Born in Baltimore, Maryland on 2 March 1912. Education: A.B., Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University (1932), Ph.D., Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University (1935). Employment: 1935-1939 Loyola College ; 1936-1940 Colloid Corporation ; 1939-1941 United States Coast Guard ; 1941-1943 Virginia Polytechnic Institute ; 1944-1945 Kellex Corporation ; 1982- The Robert A. Welch Foundation ; 1945- University of Texas at Austin ; 1970- Rice University. From the description of Oral history interview w...

Stephens, Richard, 1932-

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Kerr, Clark, 1911-2003

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Clark Kerr was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on May 17, 1911 to Samuel W. and Caroline (Clark) Kerr. He married Catherine (Kitty) Spaulding in Los Angeles, California in 1934, and they had three children: Clark Edgar, Alexander William, and Caroline Mary. Kerr died in 2003, in El Cerrito, California, shortly after completing his memoirs, The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967. Kerr received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1932 from Swarthmore Colleg...