Rose K. Goldsen oral history project, 1990-1992.

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Rose K. Goldsen oral history project, 1990-1992.

Includes tapes and transcripts (not completed for all tapes) of interviews by Matthew Lyons with Azriel Bibliowicz, Alice H. Cook, Scott Glass, Peter Hess, James Jacobs, Harold Kohn, Adeline Levine, Jean McPheeters, Frances Rachel, William Rogers, and Gossa Tsegaye, William Foote Whyte, and Robin M. Williams, Jr. Also includes text of the funeral service by Scott Glass, memorial statement by James Jacobs, and a chronology of Rose Goldsen's life. Major topics include her character and personal outlook; relations with students, co-workers, friends, and relatives; early life and family; approaches to sociology, teaching, and writing; experiences in Latin America; her radio program; Longhouse cooperative membership; attitudes toward community, family, and children; Judaism and Jewish culture; cancer; and her death.

13 tape recordings, 10 transcripts, 3 appendices.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7905866

Cornell University Library

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Bibliowicz, Azriel

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Cook, Alice Hanson

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Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations. Alice Hanson Cook is a professor in the New York State School of Industrial and Labor relations at Cornell University. She served as an alternate delegate at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and later as university ombudsman. From the description of Alice Cook papers, 1962-1969. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64072869 ...

Williams, Robin Murphy

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Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Cornell University , 1946-2003. From the description of Robin Williams papers, 1954-1997. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 595197398 ...

Jacobs, James S., 1945-

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Lyons, Matthew,

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Goldsen, Rose Kohn

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The Rose K. Goldsen Oral History Project, funded by the Rose Goldsen Committee, was compiled to augment the record of Professor Goldsen's life and work. From the description of Rose K. Goldsen oral history project, 1990-1992. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937364 Professor of Sociology, Cornell University. From the guide to the Rose Goldsen papers, [ca. 1950-1985], (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) ...

Whyte, William Foote, 1914-2000

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Tsegaye, Gossa.

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Glass, Scott.

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McPheeters, Jean.

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Rachel, Frances.

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Kohn, Harold E.

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Levine, Adeline

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The Love Canal controversy involves a tract of land in Niagara Falls, N.Y., which was shown to contain high levels of toxic chemicals. In the late 1970s, concerns about the health of residents caused an outpouring of scientific studies and legal suits involving the residents, Hooker Chemical and Plastics Corporation, and state and federal governmental agencies. Dr. Adeline Levine, a professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1968 to 1990, studied the sociological ...

Rogers, William I. (William Irvine), 1927-2011

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Hess, Peter

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