Partnership in community service : oral history transcript / tape recorded interview conducted 1976-1977 by Gabrielle Morris for the Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1978 : and related material, 1976-1978.

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Partnership in community service : oral history transcript / tape recorded interview conducted 1976-1977 by Gabrielle Morris for the Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1978 : and related material, 1976-1978.

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Life in Berkeley, Calif.; association with University of California, as student in Berkeley and as fund-raiser; voluntary work with various organizations, including YWCA, United Service Organization, Travelers Aid Association of America, World Affairs Council, United Way, International Conference of Social Work, Berkeley Playmakers, Alameda County Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Committee, Bay Area Social Planning Council, Alta Bates Community Hospital in Berkeley, etc.; service on California Recreation Commission and as woman affairs consultant, Germany, 1950, for the High Commissioner of Germany; the Heard Foundation and personal giving, etc. Copies of photographs and documentary material Bartlett Heard's three interviews include information about the Heard family and their business enterprises, the Heard Museum in Phoenix, etc. Appended: copy of transcript of Mrs. Heard's interview for the YWCA, 1969, re history of Asilomar; recollections of Mrs. Heard by Roy Votaw, California Youth Authority; notes on her association with California Recreation Commission by Sterling S. Winans; and interview on University of California Volunteers Leadership by Robert Kerley. With this: additional documentary material supplementing the interview, including letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower, files re Asilomar, the University of California, etc. (1 carton).

Transcript : [34], iv, 741 p. ; 28 cm. + related material.

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