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Administration and leadership.

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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.

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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