A lifetime at UCB : oral history transcript : from student to librarian / Beverly Hickok. An interview conducted by William Benemann in 2000. The University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 2001.

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A lifetime at UCB : oral history transcript : from student to librarian / Beverly Hickok. An interview conducted by William Benemann in 2000. The University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 2001.

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Hickok entered the University of California, Berkeley as a freshman in 1937, and returned in 1946 to attend the School of Librarianship. She was hired by the University as the first librarian for the Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering. She describes her student life in a sorority and her first realization that she was a lesbian; lesbian bar culture in San Francisco and Los Angeles; her work in an aircraft plant during World War II and her brief career as an elementary school teacher; her personal relationships and the need to keep them separate from her work on campus. She discusses at some length her friendship with Evelyn Hooker and the influence Hooker had on her coming out process.

Transcript: 1 v. (ii, 26 p., [4] leaves of plates) : ports. ; 29 cm.Phonotapes: 1 sound cassette.

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