Oral history interview : Robert E. DeRight, Reed College, class of 1960 / interviewed by Scott Benowitz, 1996, on January 5, 2004.

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Oral history interview : Robert E. DeRight, Reed College, class of 1960 / interviewed by Scott Benowitz, 1996, on January 5, 2004.

Discussion of DeRight's Reed years from 1955 through 1960 as a history major under Frank Smith Fussner and Charles Bagg. The interview covers his family and childhood, the old Foster-Schulz dorm, his studies on World War I, the coffee shop and the student union, the Outing Club, The McCarthy Velde hearings, campus politics, off-campus housing, and relations with Portland. He served in the U.S. Army, attended Yale Law School, and practiced law in New York.

Transcript: [31] leaves.

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