Oral history interview : Mary Jean Piper Leber, Reed College, class of 1950 / interviewed by Barbara Carter Radin, 1975, on December 7, 2006.

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Oral history interview : Mary Jean Piper Leber, Reed College, class of 1950 / interviewed by Barbara Carter Radin, 1975, on December 7, 2006.

Discussion of background in Seattle and getting to Reed, Ann Shepard, Robert Brunner, dorm rules and sign-out procedures, and many friends. She details a beach trip, her language qualifying exam, math, Robert Rosenbaum, Dorothy Johansen, Arthur Leigh, Edwin Garlan, Arthur Scott, square dancing, the 1949 earthquake, the old Foster-Scholz dorm (Cardboard Castle), Peter Odegard, E.B. MacNaughton, Breitenbush trips, Dewey-Truman elections, her marriage to Lewis Leber, her education major, teaching and political experiences after Reed.

Transcript: [61] leaves.

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Reed College Library

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