The College of Agriculture, University of California, 1922-1952 : oral history transcript / Claude Burton Hutchison ; tape recorded interviews conducted by Willa K. Baum in 1959. Regional Cultural History Project, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1961 : and related material, 1959-1961.

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The College of Agriculture, University of California, 1922-1952 : oral history transcript / Claude Burton Hutchison ; tape recorded interviews conducted by Willa K. Baum in 1959. Regional Cultural History Project, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1961 : and related material, 1959-1961.

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Comments on agricultural education; beginnings of College of Agriculture; directorship of Northern Branch of College at Davis (1922-24); work with the Rockefeller Foundation surveying agricultural education in Europe (1924-28); establishment of Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics; deanship of College of Agriculture (1930-1952); development of experiment stations and extension service; loyalty oath controversy; investigation of farm labor conditions in Imperial Valley (1934); service on advisory boards; mayorship of Berkeley. Photographs inserted and copies of some addresses appended.

Transcript : [591] leaves ; 28 cm. + related material.Copies : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 814:4) and positive.

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Regional Cultural History Project (University of California, Berkeley)

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Hutchison, C. B. (Claude Burton), b. 1885.

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Claude B. Hutchison (1885-1980) was the Dean of Agriculture and Vice President of the University of California. He was active throughout his career as a Professor of Agronomy and Plant Breeding and also as Director of the International Education Board in Europe. Born in Livingston County near Chillicothe, Missouri, Hutchison attended college at the University of Missouri in 1904, graduating in 1908 with a Bachelors of Science in Agriculture. As a student at University of Missouri Hutchison becam...

Berkeley (Calif.). Mayor.

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University of California (1868-1952). College of Agriculture

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Baum, Willa K.

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Willa Klug Baum was a nationally prominent oral historian and long-time director of the Regional Oral History Office at the Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley. She was born in Chicago in 1926, and grew up in Europe and Ramona, California. She graduated from Whittier College, but work and family obligations kept her from completing her Ph.D. in history at Berkeley. Instead Baum joined ROHO as an editor and interviewer, and became head of the program in 1958. During her years as director over 1,600 i...