http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/rhp_oralhist/rss Recent eScholarship items from Regional History Project Oral Histories Wed, 5 Aug 2026 08:01:53 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/949077n9 Red Clay, Blue Hills: An Oral History of Professor John Brown Childs https://escholarship.org/uc/item/949077n9 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Childs, John Brown Vanderscoff, Cameron UCSC Library, Regional History Project https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8q9754b0 Saving the Peregrine: An Oral History of the UCSC Predatory Bird Research Group with Glenn R. Stewart https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8q9754b0 Tue, 27 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Stewart, Glenn R. Rabkin, Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rq0q4g8 Roy Boekenoogen collected a remarkable archive of Santa Cruz memorabilia, which ranged from sea shells to antique cameras, from bottles to butter churns. Interviewer Elizabeth Calciano described his house as a "fantasy-land for antique hunters, for historians, and for the merely curious." Many of his historical photographs were acquired by the University Library in the 1960s. In this oral history interview Boekenoogen discussed his collections and Santa Cruz history in the early to mid-twentieth century. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rq0q4g8 Tue, 2 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Boekenoogen, Roy Calciano, Elizabeth Spedding Regional History Project UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8165t7k8 <p>In 1971, Robert Michael Tanner [R. Michael Tanner] arrived at the University of California, Santa Cruz as a young assistant professor, joining what was then a fledgling computer and information sciences board [department]. Attracted to UCSC by its focus on undergraduate education and interdisciplinary study, and by the beauty of the campus’s natural landscape, Tanner was hired by the legendary provost of Cowell College, Jasper Rose. &nbsp;Tanner remained at UC Santa Cruz until 2002; in his more than thirty years on the campus he served in a myriad of leadership roles. His first administrative position was as chair of the Committee on Admissions, Financial Aid, and Relations with Schools, working with Dean of Admissions Richard Moll during UCSC’s enrollment crisis of the 1970s and early 1980s. He later chaired the Computer and Information Sciences (1981-1988) board and the Academic Senate Committee on Educational Policy (1985-1987), where he focused on reviewing UCSC’s Narrative... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8165t7k8 Tue, 2 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Tanner, Michael Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2t410144 Mr. Rountree was a lifelong Santa Cruz resident and an avid railroad buff. He read Bruce A. MacGregor's book, South Pacific Coast, the story of the railroad that operated between Alameda and Santa Cruz in the latter years of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century, and was inspired to fill a spiral notebook with his own handwritten observations and boyhood memories of the railroad. From these notes, a manuscript was produced which is not only a detailed commentary on South Pacific Coast, but a rich source of contemporary observations of the early railroad and its effects on many aspects of life in Santa Cruz County. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2t410144 Tue, 2 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Rountree, Edward Calciano, Elizabeth Spedding Johnson, Doris Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9r6928sq <p>The genesis of the vision for UC Santa Cruz’s newest colleges, College Nine and College Ten, dates back to the 1988 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) which responded both to faculty members who argued that the Social Sciences Division needed academic space in the campus core, and the demographic studies that demonstrated that UCSC would be experiencing rising student enrollments and would need to house more students on campus. The 1988 LRDP thus called for planning two new colleges that would integrate academic and residential facilities.</p><p>Fast forward to May of 1999, when under the chancellorship of MRC Greenwood and the vice chancellorship of Francisco Hernandez, The Colleges Nine and Ten Planning Advisory Committee issued a report entitled “Opening College IX and X.” Among its recommendations were for these two colleges to “continue the tradition of the current UCSC colleges concentrating upon community life and student affairs,” while also “being centers of interdisciplinary... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9r6928sq Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Baxter, Wendy Slater, Deana Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9n34j8qv <p>In an article summarizing his career, one newspaper characterized him as the "great graying grizzly bear of California politics," an old-style moderate Democrat whose career was animated by his dedication to his local district and his tireless efforts in behalf of its economic welfare. GOP legislator Bill Campbell once described Mello as "the only Democrat in the Senate with any experience as an entrepreneur," and one of the last of a dying breed of citizen legislators. Mello claims his approach to politics was derived partly from his mother--an openhearted, socially liberal Democrat, and partly from his father--a fiscally conservative Republican.</p><p>The volume is divided into four sections, including Mello's early family life; his experiences in local politics as a member of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors; his election to the State Assembly; and his tenure as state senator from the 15th District.</p><p>He begins the narration with anecdotes about the local Portuguese... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9n34j8qv Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Mello, Henry Jarrell, Randall Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kc4x0gx <p>Carolyn Martin Shaw joined the UCSC faculty in 1972, hired by the anthropology department and Kresge College, where she served as provost from 1991 to 1996. In selecting Professor Martin Shaw in 2004 for the Dean McHenry Award for Distinguished Leadership in the Academic Senate, the Committee on Committees noted her “intelligent, imaginative, indefatigable, and principled work to create…communities of scholarship and learning characterized by openness, fairness, and respect.” Martin Shaw’s abiding interest in the nature of human community and her dedicated efforts to help build robust communities at UCSC emerge as running themes throughout her oral history.</p><p>UCSC in the early 1970s presented her with other kinds of foreignness as well, in its whiteness and in the economic privilege enjoyed by many of its students. Landing in what was “really a world that I’m not familiar with,” Martin Shaw responded by rolling up her sleeves with curiosity, clear-sightedness, and a sense... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kc4x0gx Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Martin Shaw, Carolyn Rabkin, Sarah J. Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9fj6b2qj <p>Audrey Stanley is a Professor Emerita of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz, and the founding artistic director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz. In this oral history, Stanley addresses her life and career in education and theater, which spans from her youth in England to her ongoing tenure in Santa Cruz. Her narrative begins with her childhood in Whitstable, Kent, and London, where she was first introduced to theater through pantomimes at a young age, and was soon inspired to direct her inaugural production with a cast of local friends. Stanley relates both these experiences and their larger social context, discussing her education during the bombings and defense of England in World War II, and delineating the important role that theater and art played in that time of national trial. She follows this thread of interest through her experience at the University of Bristol, where the United Kingdom’s first drama program was founded during her time as a student. As a result, Stanley emerged... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9fj6b2qj Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Stanley, Audrey Vanderscoff, Cameron https://escholarship.org/uc/item/98s606j3 <p>UC Santa Cruz’s second chancellor, Mark N. Christensen, served the campus from July 1974 to January 1976. Christensen arrived at UCSC during a tumultuous point in the campus’s history. Founding Chancellor Dean McHenry had brought to fruition his singular vision for UC Santa Cruz as an innovative institution of higher education which emphasized undergraduate teaching centered in residential colleges, each with a specific intellectual theme and architectural design. McHenry oversaw the planning and building of UCSC from 1961 until his retirement in June 1974. In the early years, UCSC drew high caliber students and earned a reputation as a prestigious and unique university. But by the mid-1970s, enrollments were falling. Internally, the campus was fracturing along fault lines between the colleges and the boards of studies (now called departments), as UCSC experienced the political and economic pressures of trying to establish a decentralized, innovative campus within the traditional... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/98s606j3 Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 McFadden, Daniel H. Jarrell, Randall Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9636r3cj <p>Michael Nauenberg, Professor of Physics: Recollections of UCSC, 1966-1996, is the edited transcript of a single interview conducted by Randall Jarrell on July 12, 1994. Nauenberg received his B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1960. Prior to his appointment as a professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz in 1966, he was an assistant professor at Columbia University and a visiting associate professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Stanford University.</p><p>At UCSC, Nauenberg served as department chairman of physics from 1970 to 1972, and again from 1983 to 1985. He was instrumental in developing both Stevenson and Crown Colleges, but in 1973 shifted his focus to building a graduate program in physics. He also founded and served as the director of the Institute of Nonlinear Sciences at UC Santa Cruz.</p><p>Nauenberg's primary research interests are in particle physics, condensed matter physics, and nonlinear... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9636r3cj Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Nauenberg, Michael Jarrell, Randall Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tt9n8pj This short but compelling oral history with Karen Sinsheimer documents not only the unique perspective of the wife of a University of California chancellor during a period where the nature of that role was in transition, but also the founding years of Shakespeare Santa Cruz. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tt9n8pj Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Sinsheimer, Karen Jarrell, Randall Reti, Irene Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8m9346m7 <p>For many people, Jasper Rose embodied the spirit and dream of the young University of California, Santa Cruz campus. UCSC first opened its doors in 1965, and Jasper Rose was one of its founding faculty members and a senior preceptor at Cowell College. For Jasper, it meant the inauguration of a powerful shared venture, a space and a time where, as he put it, “it was as though we were a complete society.” He was passionate about that society and his place in it as an educator; animated by a reformer’s vision for change in education, he saw Santa Cruz as a place where something new and remarkable could be realized. In these pages, Jasper Rose recounts his own life journey to that place and to that vision, and shares his convictions and critiques about what has happened in the decades since at UCSC. While this oral history is Jasper’s story, it is also fundamentally a shared effort by the Rose family. Three different family members—his wife Jean Rose and sons Inigo and William... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8m9346m7 Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Vanderscoff, Cameron Reti, Irene https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8787s3c9 <p><em>Peter Scott, Professor of Physics: Recollections of UCSC, 1966-1994</em>, is the edited transcript of a single interview conducted by Randall Jarrell on June 27, 1994. Scott received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, his M.A. from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He then taught as an assistant professor for three years at Stanford University. Attracted to UCSC because it represented an alternative to what he characterized as the machine-like educational atmosphere of UC Berkeley, Scott arrived at UCSC in 1966.</p><p>In this oral history, Scott describes his early history at UCSC, both in the physics board of studies and at Stevenson College. He relates a delightful opportunity to teach innovative seminars for sophomores at Stevenson College, among other anecdotes. He discusses the groundbreaking research undertaken by UCSC undergraduate and graduate students in physics, particularly the "Dynamical... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8787s3c9 Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Scott, Peter Jarrell, Randall Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vv2v3rz Longtime director of El Centro, UC Santa Cruz’s Chicano/Latino Resource Center, and counselor and academic coordinator at UCSC’s Educational Opportunity Program, Rosie [Rosalee] Cabrera, mentored, advised, counseled, and inspired UCSC students for nearly three decades. “I can think of no one on campus more committed to helping our students reach their full potential as young scholars, leaders, and human beings,” wrote Larry Trujillo, Executive Director of Student and Academic Support Services, when he nominated Cabrera for the Outstanding Staff Award she received in 2009. In this oral history conducted by Susy Zepeda shortly before Cabrera’s retirement in 2013, Cabrera reconstructs the political and cultural climate at UCSC over three decades, sharing her memories of key Chicano/a and Latino/a campus figures, organizations, events, and student activism. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vv2v3rz Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Cabrera, Rosie (Rosalee) Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/76j64910 Professor Priscilla "Tilly" Shaw: Poet, Teacher, Administrator https://escholarship.org/uc/item/76j64910 Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Shaw, Priscilla Rabkin, Sarah J. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7216m333 <p>Miriam Ellis was born in New York City in 1927, the child of Jewish immigrants who left what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. While the family struggled financially in the Depression, Miriam’s route to the world of language and interchange was laid out from an early age. As she puts it, “Our house was always open to immigrants, and so they came with all kinds of languages: German, Russian, Polish, or Hungarian, and I don’t know what all else.”</p><p>Miriam fell especially in love with French language and theater through a program that was offered during WWII by the Free French government in exile; it was designed to preserve and promote French language and culture while France was occupied. When she was twenty-one, Miriam went to France for the first time to volunteer in a postwar displaced persons camp, serving refugees who had been driven from North Africa and parts of the Middle East by fascist occupation and war. After the war, she came back home with her first husband,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7216m333 Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Ellis, Miriam Reti, Irene Vanderscoff, Cameron https://escholarship.org/uc/item/56h206hb <p>Julia Armstrong-Zwart was hired by Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer in 1981 as Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Matters of Informal Grievance and Affirmative Action and served as the University of California, Santa Cruz’s first ombudsman. In 1983, she stepped down as ombudsman, to assume the position of assistant academic vice chancellor for faculty relations, and continued to serve as special assistant to the chancellor for affirmative action. In addition to her work as assistant vice chancellor for faculty relations, she held the position of assistant chancellor for human resources, with responsibility for the offices of Academic Human Resources, EEO/Affirmative Action, Labor Relations, Staff Human Resources, and Title IX.&nbsp;&nbsp;She retired from UCSC in 2001.</p><p>In this oral history, conducted by the Regional History Project in the summer of 2013, Armstrong-Zwart describes how she worked with other key UCSC administrators, faculty, and staff members to transform... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/56h206hb Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Armstrong-Zwart, Julia Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4st5s13x <p>Theoretical chemist Frank Andrews was hired with tenure in 1967 by UCSC’s chemistry board, where he was employed for four decades before retiring in 2006. When this oral history was recorded eight years after his retirement, he was still offering two courses annually: not for chemistry, but for Crown and Merrill Colleges, focusing on the psychology of personal growth—a field he began cultivating shortly after arriving in Santa Cruz. Notwithstanding his enthusiasm for the discipline in which he was originally trained, it is this area of inquiry that ultimately became Andrews’s primary passion as a teacher and a learner, and it is perhaps the one for which he was most widely beloved by students.</p><p>Deeply interested throughout his career in pedagogical challenges and innovations, Andrews won numerous teaching awards, both on campus and from outside organizations. He also spearheaded the publication of <em>Teacher on the Hill</em>, a campus newsletter of “faculty conversations... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4st5s13x Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Andrews, Frank Rabkin, Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4rg173mr Harry Berger, Jr.’s oral history is an account of his perspective as a professor of literature, founding faculty member at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and literary critic. Throughout, he traces the parallel tracks of his pedagogy, campus engagement, and scholarship, considering points of intersection and core philosophies, addressing themes of change, conflict and continuity at UCSC. Berger defines himself as a critic above all else, and his training in New Criticism, with its trademark methodology of close reading, proves to be a consistent note both in his writing and in his approach to teaching and working at UCSC. After providing an overview of his early biography, discussing life in New York City and New Rochelle, he turns to his two loci at UCSC, Cowell College and the literature department. At the former, he was a teacher and dedicated participant in the original UCSC collegiate experiment, and at the latter, he was a passionate advocate of close reading as... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4rg173mr Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Berger, Harry, Jr. Vanderscoff, Cameron Reti, Irene https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mw8b8vb <p>The Regional History Project conducted this oral history with Leta Miller, Professor of Music, as part of its University History Series. After earning a B.A. from Stanford University in music, an M.M in music history from the Hartt College of Music, and a PhD from Stanford University in musicology, Miller arrived at UC Santa Cruz in 1978. She began as a part-time lecturer, teaching a course in chamber music literature at College Eight and offering flute lessons in a tiny room with no window in the old music building. After several years teaching various classes for UCSC, including a music history survey course, in 1987 Miller applied for and was hired for a tenure-track position in the UCSC Music Department [then called the Music Board].</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Miller is passionate about teaching, research, and performance. For many years she was a dedicated professional player of Baroque, Renaissance, and modern flute. Her classes at UCSC range from general education courses in... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mw8b8vb Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Miller, Leta Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4b67r8d3 <p>This set of interviews with Elizabeth Spedding Calciano make up the rare project that is not just a life history, but an oral history of and about oral history itself. While Calciano has thrived in multiple professions and jobs, including a forty-plus year career as a lawyer, this volume focuses on her years as the founding head of the Regional History Project at UC Santa Cruz from 1963 to 1974.&nbsp;this volume is both a life narrative and a meta oral history, telling the story and perspective of someone who arrived to UC Santa Cruz and the oral history field at emergent historical moments.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4b67r8d3 Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Calciano, Elizabeth Spedding Reti, Irene Vanderscoff, Cameron https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nf9m5pr [Francis] Frank M. Zwart III arrived at the University of California, Santa Cruz as a student at Cowell College in 1967, when the campus was a mere two years old and the students were “walking across planks where pipe trenches were still open.” Zwart graduated in mathematics from UCSC and boarded a train east to study architecture at Princeton University, where he matriculated in 1976. After graduation, Zwart worked with architectural firms in Princeton, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Aptos, California, Philadelphia, and Carmel before returning to UC Santa Cruz in 1985 as a staff architect and project manager. Thus he commenced a long and distinguished career at UCSC that spanned the tenures of seven UCSC chancellors. Zwart became Campus Architect in 1988 and directed UCSC’s Office of Physical Planning &amp; Construction (PP&amp;C) until his retirement in April 2010. From 1999 until 2010 he also held the title of Associate Vice Chancellor for Physical Planning &amp; Construction.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nf9m5pr Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Zwart, Frank Reti, Irene https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gh404x1 <p>John Patrick Lynch is a professor emeritus of literature and a formative figure in the classics program at UC Santa Cruz, as well as a former provost of Cowell College. Lynch expands on these roles in this account, providing their larger context in his work and philosophies as an educator, and discussing his hopes and priorities in his 37-year career at this institution. He makes sweeps through the personal as well as the professional, and in doing so, affirms a core vocational identity as a teacher above all else, a campus citizen above a researcher. In his work at UCSC, Lynch sought to instantiate a model of learning that is fundamentally shared between teacher and student, one that goes beyond the confines of the classroom to become an experience in community.</p><p>Lynch proves to be a thoughtful commentator on what has often been called the original UCSC experiment, starting from his decision to pick up and drive cross country, having never taught a class, to accept a... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gh404x1 Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Lynch, John P. Vanderscoff, Cameron https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gf2t45j <p>Public Affairs Director Jim Burns retired in June 2014 after serving UC Santa Cruz for over three decades. For many of those years, as writer Kara Guzman wrote in the <em>Santa Cruz Sentinel</em>, Burns was known as “the voice of the university.” This oral history, conducted over four sessions in July 2015, gives a sense of the person behind that voice, as well as the technological, economic, political, and cultural changes that transformed the fields of media and university public relations over the past thirty years.</p><p>Burns arrived at UC Santa Cruz in 1984, hired by the Public Information Office as Publications Editor. There he edited print publications such as <em>On Campus</em> and the <em>UCSC Review</em>, and he and his close colleague Jim MacKenzie became early adopters of desktop publishing technology. His office promoted much of UCSC’s most groundbreaking research, including the campus’s national role in developing and spreading organic farming and sustainable... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gf2t45j Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Burns, Jim Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xg7k0gz <p> Elba Rosario Sánchez was born 1949 in Atemajac, Mexico, a small town near Guadalajara. She is the oldest of three girls. Her father worked in the cotton mill until an accident injured one of his eyes. The accident sent him to the United States in search of work, first to Chicago, where the family had relatives, and then to San Francisco, where he worked as a bus boy at the Fairmount Hotel. After about eighteen months, he brought his family to San Francisco in 1960, where they lived at Divisidero and Pine, in a Black neighborhood. At the neighborhood elementary school, Elba was one of very few non-Black children; ironically, even as she struggled to adapt to a white-dominated country, in the racial definitions of that time she was considered white. She learned English quickly, and soon became the translator for her family.</p><p>Within a few years of her arrival, the social movements of the 1960s altered the national landscape. Witnessing the brutal repression of Black civil... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xg7k0gz Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Sánchez, Elba R. Reti, Irene H. Zepeda, Susy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1p6409v5 <p>Pablo Guillermo Reguerín currently serves as the Executive Director for Retention Services and Educational Opportunity Programs at UC Santa Cruz, providing leadership and oversight to a cluster of student services offices charged with retaining and graduating students with a focus on educational equity.</p><p>Since September 2009, Mr. Reguerín has led efforts to integrate student services to develop student care teams, increased case-management of vulnerable student populations and data-driven intervention programs. These efforts have resulted in Individual Success Plans for cohorts of EOP students, intensive advising services for immigrant and undocumented/AB540 students, a newly launched Textbook Lending Library for students facing financial hardship and a Laptop pilot program for students that arrive to campus without a laptop or computer. In collaboration with faculty partners and the Office of Institutional Research, Pablo has launched an evidence-based evaluation process... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1p6409v5 Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Reguerin, Pablo Reti, Irene H. Williams, Samantha https://escholarship.org/uc/item/19j1h7b3 <p>161 pages, 2018</p><p>Photographer Norman Locks was born in San Jose, California in 1947, but grew up primarily in San Francisco. His father, Seymour Locks, was a well-known abstract painter and assemblage sculptor who taught at San Francisco State University for thirty-seven years. The San Francisco art scene [Beatnik, Abstract Expressionism, and Bay Area Figurative] shaped Norman’s early life. These synchronicities of history placed Norman Locks in the Bay Area just as the West Coast Photography scene was blossoming. As a teenager, he took summer session courses at San Francisco State from Jack Welpott, who was drawn to California by the work of Edward Weston. When he was eighteen years old, he met Monterey photographer Wynn Bullock at a lecture at the San Francisco Art Institute. Bullock invited Norman to visit his home in Monterey and show him his photographs. During those years, Locks’ parents also took him camping in the Sierra Nevada and to other favorite locations in... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/19j1h7b3 Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Locks, Norman Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0r64t762 <p>James Clifford came to UCSC in 1978, and was one of two new appointments in UCSC’s History of Consciousness Program, which were the result of the first effort to structure the program with full-time, dedicated faculty. His knowledge of Michel Foucault and other figures of ‘French theory,’ acquired during his time in Paris doing dissertation research, proved to be an important common ground between Clifford and his new senior colleague, Hayden White, and in the structuring of histcon that they undertook together. They were charged with infusing the “fundamentally anarchic” program with a sense of ballast, foundation and direction.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The program in time developed a cadre of dedicated and renowned faculty, and a contingent of graduate students who were exceptional for their creativity, their self-direction, and in many cases their political activism. Histcon became extremely successful, with an extraordinarily... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0r64t762 Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Clifford, James Vanderscoff, Cameron Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qn288b2 <p>Congressmember Sam Farr (born July 4, 1941) represented California’s Central Coast in the United States House of Representatives for twenty-three years until his retirement from office in 2016. &nbsp;Farr also served six years as a member of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors and twelve years in the California State Assembly. This oral history, a transcript of twenty-five hours of interviews conducted by Irene Reti, director of the UCSC Library’s Regional History Project, during the period immediately before and after Farr’s retirement from Congress, covers Farr’s political career and much of his personal history.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sam Farr was born into a family that extends back five generations in California. His father’s grandfather was the brother of Senator William Sharon, who arrived in San Francisco during the Gold Rush. On his mother’s (Janet Haskins) side, Farr also has deep California roots; his mother’s father, Sam Haskins, was a regent for the University... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qn288b2 Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Farr, Sam Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c00c5xb George R. Blumenthal arrived at UC Santa Cruz in 1972 as a young faculty member in astronomy and astrophysics. Thirty-five years later, on September 19, 2007, he became UCSC’s tenth chancellor, after serving as acting chancellor for fourteen months. Blumenthal dedicated thirteen years of his life to being chancellor of UC Santa Cruz. This oral history was transcribed from forty interviews recorded between June 2018 and July 2019 and encompasses Chancellor Blumenthal’s long and distinguished career at UC Santa Cruz and with the University of California system. Long before he became chancellor, Blumenthal served the campus in diverse capacities; he was the faculty representative to the UC Regents (2003-05); chaired the UC Santa Cruz division of the Academic Senate (2001-03); and served as chair of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department twice. But not only does this oral history cover almost fifty years of UCSC’s history—from the early years of Oakes College under Provost J. Herman... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c00c5xb Mon, 1 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Blumenthal, George Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86z974zn <p>This volume documents the history of the press, founded in Paris in 1947; the genesis of its extraordinary facsimile productions of William Blake's illuminated works, and its wide range of fine press volumes. Julie Fawcus, the widow of Trianon's founder, Arnold Fawcus, discusses the details of the collotype and pochoir techniques which were used by French artisans to produce the facsimiles.</p><p>Fawcus's commentary includes chapters on Arnold Fawcus as "buccaneer publisher," and recollections of collaborations with Robert Graves, Marcel Duchamp, Aldous Huxley, and Ben Shahn. For students and researchers feasting their eyes on a Blake volume produced by Trianon, and who might wonder who these exquisite books came to be, Fawcus gives an insider's view of the struggles and enormous technical difficulties involved in their creation.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86z974zn Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Fawcus, Julie Jarrell, Randall Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6173d6k4 José Galvan Amaro, a Mexican-American fieldworker in Watsonville, California, was interviewed in June 1977 by Meri Knaster, an editor at the Regional History Project, as part of a series on local agricultural and ethnic history. This oral history, conducted in Spanish on June 2 and June 6, 1977 at Amaro's home in Watsonville, California, focuses on Amaro's extensive experience as a laborer in California from the 1920s to the 1970s. The interview was conducted in Spanish and is provided here both as a verbatim transcript in Spanish and in English translation. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6173d6k4 Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Amaro, Jose Galvan Knaster, Meri Reti, Irene https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05d2v8nk This group living history circle was conducted on April 20, 2002, as part of the Banana Slug Spring Fair annual event for UCSC alumni and prospective students. The session was organized by Irene Reti, together with Jacquelyn Marie, and UCSC staff person and alum Valerie Jean Chase. The discussion was approximately ninety minutes and included the following participants: Walter Brask, Melissa Barthelemy, Valerie Chase, Cristy Chung, Linda Rosewood Hooper, Rik Isensee, David Kirk, Stephen Klein, John Laird, Jacquelyn Marie, Robert Philipson, Irene Reti, and John Paul Zimmer. This was also the thirtieth reunion of the Class of 1972, which is why there is a disproportionate number of participants from that period of UCSC history. The interview was taped and transcribed. Where possible, speakers are identified.'Editor https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05d2v8nk Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3s75k0n1 <p>Virginia Jansen was raised in Dayton, Ohio and attended Smith College as an undergraduate, where she earned a degree in German language and literature. She earned her PhD at UC Berkeley in the History of Art. After a few years teaching at colleges in the Bay Area, Jansen arrived at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the fall of 1975 to teach medieval art and architecture for the Art Department (or Art Board, as it was then known), where she taught for more than three decades.</p><p>In the mid-seventies, UCSC had no freestanding program in art history and Jansen helped build an art history major at the fledgling university. Her passion for delving into the history of architecture inspired her to turn to “study what is in your backyard” and focus on the unique architecture of the UC Santa Cruz campus. She soon became known as an expert on campus planning and architecture and in 1986 co-taught an undergraduate art history seminar entitled <em>The History and Implementation... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3s75k0n1 Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Jansen, Virginia M. Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68v4q9sf In the 1960s, a small team of innovators gathered on a stunning sweep of land overlooking the California coast. They envisioned a new and different kind of university—one that could reinvent public higher education in the United States. Through this two-volume oral history of the University of California, Santa Cruz, we hear first-person accounts of the campus’s evolution, from the origins of an audacious dream through the sea changes of five decades. More than two hundred narrators and a trove of archival images contribute to this dynamic, nuanced account. Today, UC Santa Cruz is a leading research university with experimental roots. This is the story of what was learned, what was lost, and what has grown along the way. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68v4q9sf Wed, 19 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Reti, Irene H. Vanderscoff, Cameron Rabkin, Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wn6f291 In the 1960s, a small team of innovators gathered on a stunning sweep of land overlooking the California coast. They envisioned a new and different kind of university—one that could reinvent public higher education in the United States. Through this two-volume oral history of the University of California, Santa Cruz, we hear first-person accounts of the campus’s evolution, from the origins of an audacious dream through the sea changes of five decades. More than two hundred narrators and a trove of archival images contribute to this dynamic, nuanced account. Today, UC Santa Cruz is a leading research university with experimental roots. This is the story of what was learned, what was lost, and what has grown along the way. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wn6f291 Wed, 19 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Reti, Irene H. Vanderscoff, Cameron Rabkin, Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7f04q435 <p>&nbsp;At the University of California, Santa Cruz and across the world, 2020 was a year of not just the COVID-19 pandemic, but pandemics, plural. While the pandemic can be mapped and tracked and tallied with numbers, for it to be understood and felt for many, if not most people, we need stories. This collection of twenty-two oral history interviews, gathered in late 2020 by UCSC students under the auspices of the Library’s Regional History Project, is an impressionistic illustration of an unstable present, exploring a range of ways people have encountered and interpreted this time. Some narrators speak primarily of racism and racial justice; for others, COVID-19 is in the extreme foreground. Others raise questions of economic justice in America and more locally for graduate students at UCSC; still others address climate change, since the CZU Lightning Complex fires also exploded across Santa Cruz County in 2020 and nearly consumed the campus itself.&nbsp;</p><p>A hardback version... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7f04q435 Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Vanderscoff, Cameron Reti, Irene H https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hw978p9 <p>This oral history documents the Page and Eloise Smith Society, which offers support, advocacy, and fellowship to UC Santa Cruz undergraduates who come to the university with little or no family backing: former foster children; orphans; former juvenile delinquents; homeless and runaways. The society is the brainchild of alumnus Bill Dickinson, a member of the pioneer class who transferred to the campus in 1965 after having lived on his own since the age of sixteen. At a class reunion in 1999, Dickinson appealed to fellow pioneer alumni to help him build a scholarship fund for former foster children. Out of that initiative grew a volunteer-driven organization—the first of its kind in the US—that has, in the ensuing two decades, served hundreds of students, setting them up with mentoring, financial help, and a collegial community that many have come to think of as a surrogate family.</p><p>In founding the society, Dickinson aimed to carry on the spirit of its namesakes, Page and... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hw978p9 Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Dickinson, William Miles, Gary https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3z90g5b5 In 1955 Santa Cruz suffered a major flood which led to the San Lorenzo River flood-control project and the redevelopment of a large portion of the downtown area. Howell Rommel, an enthusiastic amateur photographer, recorded the rising flood waters and the subsequent damage in a series of 61 slides. This volume contains prints of those slides which are accompanied by his explanatory comments and his responses to the interviewer's questions. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3z90g5b5 Tue, 21 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Rommel, Howell Calciano, Elizabeth Spedding Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3k73500j <p>The Regional History Project at UC Santa Cruz has rich collections of interviews with generations of narrators, ranging across the administration, faculty, and staff. In the early years of the campus, founding director Elizabeth Spedding Calciano conducted two rounds of interviews focused on the student experience at what was then the newest campus of the University of California. Those interviews, conducted in 1967 and 1969 as the campus was still adding a new college every year, give a window into the original UCSC experiment, and into a time of sociocultural transformation as students responded to the Vietnam War and other social justice issues of the time. While the Project’s archive includes various individual interviews with students conducted in the intervening years, in 2016 a decision was made by director Irene Reti to launch a follow-up endeavor focused specifically on the student perspective at UCSC today.</p><p>            The ensuing project, <em>Student Interviews:... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3k73500j Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tn727hf <p>Douglas McClellan arrived at UC Santa Cruz in 1970, where he taught until his retirement in 1986. He was one of the founders of UCSC’s Art Board and served as chairman from 1970 to 1975 and again in 1983. Before coming to UCSC, McClellan taught art at Scripps College/Claremont Graduate School, where he headed the art department from 1962 to 1970. McClellan’s experience in both faculty and administration in the college-based Claremont Colleges located east of Los Angeles, which were known as the “Oxford of the Orange Groves,” attracted the attention of Founding Chancellor Dean McHenry, who invited him to interview for a position in the newly created art department at UC Santa Cruz. McClellan was fifty years old when he arrived at UC Santa Cruz as an affiliate of College V (later Porter College). In this oral history, McClellan provides a narrative of the early years of UCSC’s art faculty and students, the UCSC college system before Chancellor Sinsheimer’s reorganization of 1979,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tn727hf Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 McClellan, Douglas Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20j7w1sr For over thirty years, Santa Cruz County residents have opened up their copy of the Santa Cruz Sentinel each morning and seen their lives reflected in Shmuel Thaler’s photographs. From triathlons to earthquakes, from clam chowder cook-offs to murder trials, from burning brush to breaching humpback whales—Thaler’s images record the dynamic nature of this unique Central California coastal community that we call home. His photographs fuse a recognizable artistic, graphical aesthetic with a driving documentary impulse. This oral history photobook based on interviews conducted by the Regional History Project at the University of California, Santa Cruz Library captures the trajectory and philosophy of Shmuel Thaler’s photographic career. See the supplemental material link here for the unedited transcript of this oral history. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20j7w1sr Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Thaler, Shmuel Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/47v1f16m <p>The Science Illustration Certificate Program is internationally recognized as one of the most prestigious training platforms of its kind, this postgraduate curriculum prepares students with backgrounds in art and/or science to be professional visual communicators about scientific subjects.</p><p>The year-long program involves a rigorous curriculum of classroom and studio work, guest presentations and field trips, followed by ten or more weeks of internship. Graduates work as freelance and staff illustrators for hundreds of organizations, including zoos, aquaria, museums and botanical gardens, public and private research institutes and public agencies such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and publications such as <em>Scientific American</em> and <em>National Geographic</em>.</p><p>UC Santa Cruz alumnae Jenny Keller and Ann Caudle have built, administered and taught in the Science Illustration Certificate Program since helping to establish it in the 1980s under the auspices... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/47v1f16m Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Caudle, Ann Keller, Jenny Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rj1p3tk <p>UCSC now serves one of the largest populations of undocumented students at any college in the United States. This commitment dates back at least ten years, to the activist efforts of a group of undocumented students calling themselves Students Informing Now [SIN], who through their activism first made their challenges known to the campus community and beyond.[1] There are many staff and faculty at UCSC who were inspired by SIN and have carried on SIN’s legacy. Dr. Yolanda Venegas, lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, is one of those people.</p><p>Dr. Yolanda Venegas was born and raised in the wetlands of Tijuana, Mexico, on the U.S.-Mexico border. She earned her B.A. in Third World Studies from UC San Diego in 1992 and a PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley in 2004. After earning her PhD, Yvenegas realized that her true passion was teaching writing; hence she returned to college to earn an MA from San Francisco in Teaching Composition in 2013 and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rj1p3tk Wed, 3 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Venegas, Yolanda Reti, Irene H Sherwood, Yvonne https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zx9n3bt <p>Edward Landesman was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. He and his parents and his twin brother moved to Los Angeles when Ed was two years old, the city which was to be his home through his undergraduate and then graduate education at the University of California, Los Angeles. Landesman was a first-generation college student, as his parents never had the opportunity to pursue higher education. He graduated from UCLA with a BA in mathematics in 1960, earned his MA in 1961, and his PhD in 1965, all from UCLA.</p><p>While at UCLA, Landesman discovered that he loved teaching, a passion to which he was to dedicate himself for the rest of his career. He was honored with several major teaching awards, including the UCSC Santa Cruz Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award in 1984, and the Mathematical Association of America Deborah and Franklin Tepper National Award for Distinguished University or College Teaching in 1996. However, his record is... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zx9n3bt Thu, 12 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Landesman, Edward Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4xm9n444 <p>Pavel Machotka was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1936 and grew up during the Nazi occupation. His father was a sociologist. As a boy, Machotka studied English. After his father helped lead an uprising against the Communist Regime in 1948, the family was in danger and needed to flee Prague for the United States. Fortunately, Machotka’s father had studied at the University of Chicago as a postdoc from 1934 to 1935 and was offered a position at the University of Chicago. Pavel’s English skills proved useful after this immigration, when he attended high school in Chicago.</p><p>Machotka was awarded a Ford Pre-induction Scholarship to attend the University of Chicago at age sixteen, where he majored in social psychology. It was there that he saw his first Cézanne painting and fell in love with Cézanne. Cézanne was to become one of the focal points of his life’s work.</p><p>Machotka went on to earn his MA and PhD from Harvard University, where his dissertation incorporated a... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4xm9n444 Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Machotka, Pavel Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6rv1h8fv <p>Dean E. McHenry was appointed chancellor of UCSC in 1961, more than four years before the campus opened its doors to the first class of 650 students. He served for 13 years before retiring in 1974, but remained an active member of the UCSC community until his death in 1998. His vision, integrity, and deep commitment to higher education played an essential role in the successful development of the campus.</p><p>This is the third volume in a three-volume oral history.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6rv1h8fv Thu, 9 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 McHenry, Dean E Regional History Project, UC Santa Cruz Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sb4j79p <p>Dr. Shane was a noted astronomer and former Director of the Lick Observatory. This interview was designed as a supplement to one conducted by the American Institute of Physics in 1967, hence only a small portion of this volume deals directly with Dr. Shane's work or his administrative career. Instead it concentrates primarily on Dr. Shane's knowledge of the early years of the Lick Observatory.</p><p>At the time Dr. Shane first went to Lick Observatory as a student in 1914, many of the astronomers were men who had been with the Observatory since its very early years. Dr. Shane was asked to comment upon the various men who have been Directors of the Observatory and to discuss the progress of the Observatory under each man. The final portion of the manuscript deals with various items that Dr. Shane felt should have been included in the AIP interview, specifically comments on the establishment of the Statistics department at UC Berkeley, his experience working with the University's... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sb4j79p Thu, 9 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Shane, Charles Donald Calciano, Elizabeth Spedding https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3ws3p49b <p>Dean E. McHenry was appointed chancellor of UCSC in 1961, more than four years before the campus opened its doors to the first class of 650 students. He served for 13 years before retiring in 1974, but remained an active member of the UCSC community until his death in 1998. His vision, integrity, and deep commitment to higher education played an essential role in the successful development of the campus.</p><p>This is the second volume of a three-volume oral history.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3ws3p49b Thu, 9 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 McHenry, Dean E Regional History Project, UC Santa Cruz Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1z90c0c2 <p>Kenneth Campbell was a noted research engineer from Ridgewood, New Jersey. His father, William Wallace Campbell, was Director of the Lick Observatory from 1901 to 1930. This oral history includes descriptions of living conditions on Mount Hamilton at the turn of the century-- the Mt. Hamilton School, water supply, plumbing, food supplies, mail and banking, health care, nine-hole golf course, hunting and fishing, baseball, hiking, funerals and church attendance, and early automobiles. Campbell also discusses early Lick telescopes, eclipse expeditions around the world, and sketches of early Lick astronomers as Campbell remembered them from his youth.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1z90c0c2 Mon, 6 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Campbell, Kenneth Calciano, Elizabeth Spedding https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6vq3x3dm <p>Florence Wyckoff's three-volume oral history documents her remarkable, lifelong work as a social activist, during which she has become nationally recognized as an advocate of migrant families and children. From the depression years through the 1970s, she pursued grassroots, democratic, community-building efforts in the service of improving public health standards and providing health care, education, and housing for migrant families. Major legislative milestones in her career of advocacy were the passage of the California Migrant Health Act and, in 1962, the Federal Migrant Health Act, which established family health clinics for the families who follow the crops along both the eastern and western migrant agricultural streams.</p><p>This volume continues Wyckoff's story of the arduous political struggle for federal and state legislation providing for health services for migrants, the California and Federal Migrant Health Acts. Once this legislation was in place, Wyckoff was... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6vq3x3dm Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Wyckoff, Florence Richardson Jarrell, Randall https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6tx194sd Mr. Wyckoff's education at University of California, Berkeley, Harvard Law School, and Hastings College of Law. Early years of legal career in the United States Attorney General's office in Northern California; private legal practice in San Francisco; work as Deputy Administrator for Maritime Labor in the United States War Shipping Administration, 1942-46; history of maritime labor relations and US Merchant Marine; the history of wartime and postwar labor arbitration as an emerging legal field; reflections on the practice and ethics of labor arbitration; the role of arbitration in settling disputes; comments on cases and decisions; career as attorney and arbitrator in Watsonville from 1946 to 1979. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6tx194sd Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Wyckoff, Hubert C. Jarrell, Randall Johnson, Doris Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5299z001 <em>Families Who Follow the Crops</em> is divided into four sections. In the opening section Wyckoff discusses her participation in the New Deal gubernatorial campaign of Democrat Culbert L. Olson and her participation in the Olson "crusade", where she became an ardent advocate in behalf of the dispossessed migrant agricultural population in California. In the second section Wyckoff chronicles her political and social life in Washington, D.C., during World War II, where she continued to lobby for migrants at the national level by fighting to maintain the existence of the Farm Security Administration and to educate congress on agricultural issues. She worked with a number of organizations including the National Consumers League, the Women's Joint Congressional Committee, the Office of Price Administration, and Food for Freedom on public education and legislative lobbying on agricultural issues. The third section begins with Wyckoff's settling in Watsonville after the war, where... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5299z001 Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Wyckoff, Florence Richardson Jarrell, Randall Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9h09r84h Donna Haraway came to UC Santa Cruz in 1980 as a professor in the History of Consciousness Program (Histcon), one of the first interdisciplinary graduate programs in the United States. Her position in feminist theory within Histcon's graduate program was probably the first one of its kind in the country. While Haraway's philosophy and theories infuse this narrative, the focus and scope of this oral history is her life at UC Santa Cruz. Haraway's interest in aurality and in the interview format has inspired us to provide the recordings of her interview(s) MP3 format on the Library's website, in addition to this transcript. While Haraway lightly edited the manuscript in places, for the most part the transcript can be used as a finding aid to the oral interview. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9h09r84h Wed, 17 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Haraway, Donna Reti, Irene https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21s8b7xc Gary Griggs was UC Santa Cruz’s first faculty member with expertise in oceanography. He came to the campus in 1968 at the invitation of earth sciences founding chair Aaron Waters, who had been his undergraduate mentor at UC Santa Barbara. As a young assistant professor (having completed his Ph.D. at Oregon State University in just three years), Griggs immediately began publishing professional articles at a prolific rate and developing a campus-wide reputation as a stellar teacher. Promoted to the rank of professor in 1979, he served as chair of earth sciences from 1981 to 1984 and associate dean of natural sciences from 1991 to 1994. Since 1991 he has been director of the Institute of Marine Sciences and Long Marine Laboratory. The author of more than 145 journal articles, author or co-author of several books for professional and popular audiences, and writer of a regular column in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Griggs is perpetually in demand both locally and internationally as a consultant... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21s8b7xc Wed, 17 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Griggs, Gary Rabkin, Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1q86c6zb Rahne Alexander was interviewed on February 11, 2002 and February 25, 2002 in Santa Cruz, California. Erin is a theorist and activist dedicated to transgender, feminist, anti-racist and anti-classist issues, and a personal friend of Rahne Alexander's. Rahne has been a student, activist, and workshop leader at UCSC and in Santa Cruz since the mid- to late-1990s. She is a tranny femme, MTF [Male to Female] activist. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1q86c6zb Wed, 17 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Alexander, Rahne Colliau, Erin Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kk0m72p <p>The Early History of UCSC's Farm and Garden documents the emergence of the organic gardening and farming movement in Santa Cruz. It includes interviews with Paul Lee, Phyllis Norris, Orin Martin, and Dennis Tamura, who were involved in the early years of the Garden. Maya Hagege, a former Farm and Garden apprentice and UCSC alumna, conducted the interviews, which were edited by Jarrell.</p><p>Established in 1967 by master gardener Alan Chadwick, the original site was a neglected 4-acre plot at Merrill College which he and his student apprentices transformed into a magnificent terraced garden. In this pioneering realization of organic gardening Chadwick taught students French intensive horticultural techniques, including the back-breaking labor of double-digging garden beds, the use of composting for enriching the soil, and the elimination of pesticides. The recollections of Chadwick describe the quixotic founder of the Garden, who inspired a generation of students who went on... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kk0m72p Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Lee, Paul Norris, Phyllis Martin, Orin Tamura, Dennis Hagege, Maya Jarrell, Randall Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/66q09369 <p>In 1971, David Kliger arrived at UC Santa Cruz as a young chemistry professor and affiliate of Kresge College. In 2010, he stepped down from his position as Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor (CP/EVC), although he is still a faculty member in chemistry and remains very engaged with his Kliger Research Group. Over the past forty years, Kliger has served the campus in a variety of administrative capacities: as chair of the Board of Studies (Department) of Chemistry from 1985-1988, chair of the academic senate from 1988-1990, dean of the Division of Natural Sciences (now Physical and Biological Sciences) from 1990-2005; and finally as CP/EVC from 2005-10. This oral history, conducted as part of the Regional History Project’s University History Series, provides Kliger’s unique perspective on forty years of UCSC’s history from the vantage point of these diverse administrative positions, as well as a member of the chemistry faculty and of two different UCSC colleges.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/66q09369 Fri, 20 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Kliger, David Reti, Irene https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dj7r50d On January 23, 1976, UC Santa Cruz’s second chancellor, Mark N. Christensen, resigned from office. He had served the campus from July 1974 to January 1976. This second of two oral history volumes devoted to the Christensen era, is comprised of two interviews with Professor George Von der Muhll. The first was conducted by former Regional History Project director Randall Jarrell in 1976; the second by current Project director Irene Reti in 2014. Both set Christensen’s resignation within the broader context of a tumultuous and transitional moment in the campus’s history and Von der Muhll’s incisive reflections on UC Santa Cruz as a “noble experiment” in public higher education. George Von der Muhll is now an emeritus professor of politics at UCSC. He arrived at UC Santa Cruz in 1969, affiliated with College Five (Porter College), where he was acting provost at the time of the interview conducted by Randall Jarrell in 1976. Von der Muhll earned a BA from Oberlin College; MSc from... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dj7r50d Mon, 9 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Reti, Irene H. Von der Muhll, George Jarrell, Randall https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33771048 <p>On October 17, 1989 at 5:04 p.m. a 6.9 magnitude earthquake on the San Andreas Fault shook the Central Coast of California and lasted for fifteen seconds. The epicenter of the quake lay near Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, about ten miles northeast of the city of Santa Cruz, deep in the redwoods of Forest of Nisene Marks State Park. The focus point was at a depth of ten miles. This earthquake killed sixty-three people and injured 3,757 others, and caused an estimated six billion dollars in property damage. It was the largest earthquake to occur on the San Andreas fault since the great San Francisco earthquake in April 1906.</p><p>While the national media covered the damage in the San Francisco Bay Area extensively, far less attention was paid to the effects of the earthquake in Santa Cruz County, where the earthquake was actually centered. In the city of Santa Cruz much of the downtown Pacific Garden Mall, composed of older brick structures located on unconsolidated... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33771048 Fri, 6 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Reti, Irene Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tc4z47b <p>In this oral history interview, Neal Coonerty, Bookshop Santa Cruz’s owner, tells a tale of creativity, resilience, humor, and persistence, a tale of how one independent bookstore has survived competition from superstores, online booksellers, e-books, a devastating natural disaster, and personal tragedy, to thrive as a nationally recognized and vibrant community business and institution.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tc4z47b Tue, 3 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Coonerty, Neal Reti, Irene https://escholarship.org/uc/item/80m3p002 <p>Volume I supplements the personal archive donated by Kretschmer to the University Library. It documented his remarkable contributions to the cultural life of Santa Cruz since he settled here in 1962. His thirty years as a board member of the Cabrillo Music Festival and his long-standing association with the Santa Cruz Symphony gave him a unique perspective on the evolution of these two cultural institutions. As a connoisseur of great music and an engaged generous patron, Kretschmer contributed imagination, energy, and financial support in his unstinting devotion to Santa Cruz musical life.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/80m3p002 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Kretschmer, Ernest T. Reti, Irene Jarrell, Randall Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7977g916 <p>his volume was the Project's second publication on Kretschmer, a notable presence in Santa Cruz musical life for more than 30 years. In this volume, Kretschmer reflected on the significant local cultural developments of the last decade and his role in those events. He described the coming-of-age of the Santa Cruz County Symphony under maestro Larry Granger, the need of the symphony and other musical organizations for a performing arts concert hall in north county, and recent efforts to establish such a facility.</p><p>Kretschmer also discussed the Henry J. Mello Center for the Performing Arts, the premiere cultural venue in south Santa Cruz County, which Kretschmer was instrumental in founding.</p><p>Kretschmer discusses the world-renowned Cabrillo Music Festival, which he participated in since its inception. He recalls the festival's acclaimed 1999 production of Leonard Bernstein's "Mass," and the innovative tenure of the festival's Music Director/Conductor, Marin Alsop. He... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7977g916 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Kretschmer, Ernest T. Reti, Irene Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3p09d8pv Robert Imada was interviewed on March 18, 2002 in the Regional History office at McHenry Library. Imada was a student from 1998 to 2002. He was a organizer for Queers of Color and the GLBT Network, as well as a Queer CUIP [Chancellor's Undergraduate Internship Program] intern. He was a recipient of a Queer Youth Leadership Award in 2000. He was a co-chair of the UCGLBTA and a member of the GLBT Campus Concerns Committee. Imada is a workshop leader, activist, and writer. He is also a color guard dancer. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3p09d8pv Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Imada, Robert Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3289v4jt John Laird came to UCSC in 1968, and graduated in 1972. In 1983, Laird was elected mayor of Santa Cruz, and became the first openly gay mayor in the United States. He was also a founding member of the Santa Cruz AIDS Project (SCAP). In 2002, Laird was elected to the California State Legislature as one of two of the first openly gay men to be elected to the Assembly. Laird was interviewed on September 13, 2001 in his office at the Santa Cruz County building. The timing of this interview was significant because it took place two days after the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3289v4jt Fri, 6 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Laird, John Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/311893v2 Ekua Omosupe was interviewed on February 22, 2002 in Santa Cruz, California. She was a graduate student in literature at UCSC from 1985 to 1997, and received her Ph.D. in literature. She has been a faculty member in the English department at Cabrillo Community College since 1992. Ekua's poems and essays are published in various journals and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, Legacy, was published by Talking Circles Press. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/311893v2 Fri, 6 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Omosupe, Ekua Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zq1v27w <p>After working in the Detroit auto industry and union organizing for twelve years, William Friedland turned to a research and teaching career in sociology, ultimately becoming one of the founders of the sociology of agriculture movement. Friedland came to the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1969 from Cornell University, where he had created the Cornell Migrant Health Project, a field study program in which he and his research associate, Dorothy Nelkin, sent Cornell undergraduates to work undercover as laborers in the agricultural fields of upstate New York and assist with research on the sociology of migrant labor.</p><p>Friedland built on his Cornell experience when he was hired by UC Santa Cruz to establish the Board of Community Studies, an innovative, interdisciplinary academic program that integrated scholarship and community engagement in both research and teaching and that graduated over 2000 majors until it was suspended in 2010, a decision that was greeted... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zq1v27w Thu, 5 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Friedland, William Rabkin, Sarah Reti, Irene Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20h2q1h9 Each year schoolchildren experience a unique adventure with O’Neill Sea Odyssey, a free, hands-on oceanography and ecology program offered aboard a sixty-five foot catamaran sailing the Monterey Bay. How did a decades-long battle against offshore oil drilling in California lead to this living classroom in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary? This oral history volume tells an inspring story of environmental heroism and imagination through two interconnected oral histories conducted by the UC Santa Cruz Library’s Regional History Project. Iconic wetsuit innovator and surfer Jack O’Neill and his daughter Bridget discuss their thriving program. And Dan Haifley, now the executive director of O’Neill Sea Odyssey, tells the story of how he and a team of environmental activists won a victory against Big Oil and spearheaded the creation of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, protecting one of the world’s most diverse marine ecoystems. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20h2q1h9 Wed, 4 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 O'Neill, Jack Haifley, Dan Reti, Irene Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dp6d4c6 <p>Patricia Zavella was born in Tampa, Florida in 1949, the oldest of twelve children in a working-class family and often cared for her siblings. Her mother and father were both born in the United States and the primary language spoken in her family was English.&nbsp; She spoke English to her maternal grandmother who was born in the U.S. Her father was in the air force and they moved frequently when she was a child. Zavella was often one of very few Mexican-American children in the schools she attended. Teachers were often “surprised” at Zavella’s stellar performance in the classroom. When she was ten years old, the family settled in Ontario in Southern California. It was here that there were more Mexican-Americans in her classrooms; this prompted her critical thinking about race relations and the Spanish language.</p><p>In 1968, Zavella went to Chaffey Community College, in Alta Loma near her family’s home. There she heard both Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez speak and became... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5dp6d4c6 Mon, 2 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Zavella, Patricia Reti, Irene H. Zepeda, Susy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3bz3s3t5 <p>Olga Nájera-Ramírez was born in 1955 and raised in the small town of Davenport, California. She is the fourth of six children. In the early 1950s, her parents came to the United States from the state of Durango, Mexico, part of a migration of Mexican-Americans to the North Coast of Santa Cruz County. Her father worked in the fields and at the Davenport Cement Plant. When <em>Nájera</em>-<em>Ramírez was eight,</em> her father died and her family labored in the fields along with finding other jobs to support themselves. Her mother worked in packing sheds and canneries in several places in Santa Cruz County. This oral history begins with Nájera-Ramírez’s recollections of growing up in Davenport. Nájera-Ramírez’s early labor as a farmworker and the importance she placed on creating familia within the community in Davenport grounds her later vision of facilitating access to the university system for people of diverse locations.</p><p>Even as a small child in Davenport, Najera-Ramírez... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3bz3s3t5 Mon, 2 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Nájera-Ramírez, Olga Reti, Irene H. Zepeda, Susy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33s2k55x <p>Ruth Solomon arrived at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1970 as a professor in the theater arts board and an affiliate of the brand-new College Five (now Porter College). At UC Santa Cruz, Solomon created a visionary program within the theater arts board that synthesized dance and theater. She taught at UC Santa Cruz until 1995. Solomon also founded and coordinated UCSC’s prestigious Summer Dance Theater Institute from 1972 until 1980.</p><p>In 1953 Solomon entered Bard College’s dance program, where Jean Erdman became her teacher and major mentor. While still at Bard, she joined the Jean Erdman Dance Theater and danced with Erdman’s company until 1970. Erdman was ultimately to recommend Solomon as the right person to found a new dance program at UC Santa Cruz. At Bard College, Ruth met her future husband, John Solomon. She worked with many well-known composers such as John Cage and Lou Harrison. Her oral history captures the milieu of the dance world in New York... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33s2k55x Mon, 2 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Solomon, Ruth Beal, Tandy Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nq3v181 Founded with a broad vision far beyond that of most academic women's centers, the UCSC Women's Center has served not only students, but also staff and faculty, as well as the surrounding community. Conceived of and completed for the twentieth anniversary, of the Women's Center, this oral history volume features seven interviews with narrators who address the vision and achievements, as well as the challenges faced by the Women's Center over time. The interviews are with two of the founding faculty, Helene Moglen and Marge Frantz, as well as five staff women who served as either directors or assistant directors, or both: Kathie Olsen, Beatriz Lopez-Flores, Arlyn Osborne, Shane Snowdon, and Roberta Valdez. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nq3v181 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Moglen, Helene Frantz, Marge Olsen, Kathie Lopez-Flores, Beatriz Osborne, Arylyn Snowdon, Shane Valdez, Roberta Reti, Irene Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37p6h827 <p>John Wilkes served from 1981 to 2006 as the founding director of UCSC’s internationally acclaimed Graduate Program in Science Communication, passing the reins upon his retirement to program alumnus Robert Irion. Many of today’s most distinguished science reporters, writers and editors trained under Wilkes, whose literary standards and science-trained student cohort distinguish the program he created from counterparts at other institutions. UCSC’s one-year certificate program has been lauded by <em>New Scientist </em>as the country’s best academic training ground for science journalism; it was ranked by <em>Nature </em>as the best such program in all of the US, UK and western Europe.</p><p>Wilkes’ background as a faculty member is uniquely Santa Cruz-inflected. He lived in town with his family in the 1950s, attending Branciforte Junior High School while his father ran an auto-parts business, until the store’s inventory was ruined by the San Lorenzo River’s infamous flood of... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37p6h827 Thu, 8 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Wilkes, John Rabkin, Sarah J. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4m01p3bz <p>Dr. J. Herman Blake arrived at UC Santa Cruz in 1966 as an acting assistant professor of sociology at Cowell College. He remained at UCSC for eighteen years, gaining renown both as a teacher and for his leading role in the formation of UCSC’s seventh college, Oakes. This oral history explores both the public biography of Blake’s career and the intimate biography of Blake’s own youth and education, addressing how he sought to make more room at the “table” of education for others and how he worked to get there himself.</p><p>Born in urban Mount Vernon, New York, in 1934, Blake relates the challenge in finding home in the context of a “slum” and its “counter-forces,” reflecting particularly on the strength of his mother as a “protector” in their living situations, which ranged from a series of houses to an abandoned storefront divided by beaverboard. He walks through his experience in the Seventh Day Adventist educational system, his military service as a conscientious objector... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4m01p3bz Wed, 3 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Blake, J. Herman Vanderscoff, Cameron https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5928586n Gwendolyn Morgan came to UCSC as a re-entry student in 1989. She graduated in 1991 with a B.A. in classics. She then worked at campus housing, and afterwards was chosen as one of four multicultural outreach facilitators in affirmative action for one year, and then was appointed coordinator of the Diversity Education Program for staff until 2000. I first met Gwendolyn in the McHenry Library, where I was the women's studies/reference librarian. She and I became friends. We also worked together on many diversity events about women's issues and gay/lesbian issues when she was the coordinator of diversity education. I did this interview on January 5, 2002, at her home in Castro Valley, California, where she lives with her partner Gail, and their dog and bird.'Jacquelyn Marie https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5928586n Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Morgan, Gwendolyn Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/23p415sf I chose to interview Dave Kirk primarily because I believed he possessed a wealth of information waiting to be unleashed, much like how I perceived my own grandfather. I was drawn to the Out in the Redwoods project in spite of my heterosexuality, because I felt, as a Latina woman, the repressed voice and struggles experienced by gay persons which I have witnessed firsthand. I wanted, as an undergraduate anthropology major, to contribute to the historical and present understandings of gays in the community, more specifically, my community at UCSC and in Santa Cruz. Having only lived in California for three years and migrating from the South, I strongly believe that the discursive and pervasive stereotypes surrounding gays are harmful to everyone in society. David has dedicated a large portion of his life to help counteract those stereotypes, and even now in his retirement he is a lifelong contributor supporting gay rights. Dave and I interviewed on the sunny Valentine's Day of... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/23p415sf Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Kirk, David Reti, Irene H. Della Ratta, Stella https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jc1w0nw Jean-Marie Scott has been an administrator at UCSC since 1993. In 2000, Scott became the Associate Vice Chancellor for Housing, Dining and Child Care Services, making her the highest-ranking out lesbian administrator at UCSC. She was interviewed on August 30, 2002 in her office at UCSC https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jc1w0nw Wed, 5 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Scott, Jean-Marie Chase, Valerie J. Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/95n9b3mj Tchad Sanger was interviewed on February 27, 2002 in the Regional History office at McHenry Library. Tchad was a UCSC student from 1989 to 1993, and a staff member from 1993 to present. He currently works at Stevenson College as an academic adviser. Tchad has been a member of the GLBT Concerns Committee and co-chair of the UCGLBTA. He has been a webmaster for both groups since 1994. He was co-organizer of the UCGLBTA 'Exposed' conference in 1998. Tchad has also been honored by a Mayor's proclamation for his service to the Santa Cruz community. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/95n9b3mj Tue, 4 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Sanger, Tchad Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9g96h778 Carter Wilson was interviewed on the afternoon of the 14th of March 2002, in his home in Aptos, California. He was a professor of community studies at UCSC from 1972 to 2002. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9g96h778 Mon, 3 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Wilson, Carter Reti, Irene H. Lowgren, Andrea https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5m73r0qn David Thomas was interviewed on November 8, 2001 at the Regional History office in McHenry Library. Thomas was a professor of politics at UCSC from 1966 to 1999. He taught Sexual Politics: Gay Politics , the first regular gay course taught by a faculty member at UCSC, and one of the first in the United States. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5m73r0qn Mon, 3 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Thomas, David Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2kk2t10g On February 22, 2002 I interviewed Ziesel Saunders at her home in Santa Cruz, California. I had never met Ziesel, and I had only briefly corresponded with her by email and telephone. Given that I identify as a feminist, an activist, a Jew, and as queer or a dyke, I felt that Ziesel and I shared some basic characteristics. Yet because each of these identities is so broad and fluid, and there is a generation gap between Ziesel and me, I did not expect us to be extremely similar in our outlooks on the world either. While in many respects my premonition was correct, during the interview I was also struck by how many things have not changed. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2kk2t10g Mon, 3 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Saunders, Ziesel Reti, Irene H. Chazan, Alana https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7d59d4f9 While researching colleges in the Orange County Public Library, I stumbled across an essay detailing Nancy Stoller's impact on UC Santa Cruz. I was awestruck by the institutional changes resulting from her tenure lawsuit. After reading the essay, I knew that if UCSC was the changed campus the essay said it was, then UCSC was the campus for me. As my adviser, Nancy assisted in my journey through the community studies major and the writing of my thesis on queer youth in Dallas, Texas. Because of scheduling conflicts, I interviewed Nancy first on January 24, 2002, and again on May 15, 2002. The long break allowed careful consideration on both what to add and what to clarify in the next interview. Both interviews took place in her office at College Eight. For me, the interview shed new light onto someone who is not only a great professor, but also an amazing activist, and an innovator in the LGBTQ movement.--Jesse Silva https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7d59d4f9 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Stoller, Nancy Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5x2442k1 Alison Kim, a Chinese-Korean lesbian, graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Women's Studies/Art in 1989. As the women's studies librarian at McHenry Library, UCSC, I met and worked with Alison on her research about Pacific/Asian lesbians. I recommended she submit her essay to the library's Book Collection contest; she won second place. In 1987, she edited and published an anthology of Asian/Pacific Islander lesbians' writings entitled, <a href="http://library.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/betweenthelines_0.pdf">Between the Lines</a>, which included an early version of her bibliography. In the same year, with a UCSC Chancellor's Undergraduate Fellowship, she traveled across the United States gathering Asian/Pacific Islander lesbian newsletters, writings, and other memorabilia. The entire collection, with her finding aid and bibliography was donated to the University Library in 2001. Alison now resides in San Francisco with her partner, Christiane,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5x2442k1 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Kim, Alison Reti, Irene H. Marie, Jacquelyn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vg303m6 <p>William Shipley was interviewed on September 25, 2001 at his home in the Santa Cruz Mountains. At age eighty, he was the oldest person interviewed for the Out in the Redwoods project, and his experience of gay life extends back to the 1930s.</p><p>Shipley was a professor of linguistics at UCSC from 1966 to 1991. He was a student of Alfred Kroeber's at UC Berkeley and is well known for his pioneering work with the Mountain Maidu Indians of California.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vg303m6 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Shipley, William Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hr36750 Wendy Chapkis was an undergraduate at UCSC from 1973 to 1977, a graduate student in sociology from 1985 to 1995, and lecturer in women's studies, politics and other departments. She was a co-founder of the Bulkhead Gallery, and is a queer activist and writer. Her book Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance was published by South End Press in 1986, and Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor by Routledge in 1997. She is currently a professor of women's studies at the University of Southern Maine. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hr36750 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Chapkis, Wendy Reti, Irene H. Bennett, Elizabeth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45z3r2cg Scott Brookie was interviewed on August 27, 2002 at UCSC, at Scotty's Santa Cruz home. Scotty and I sat at his kitchen table, drank apple juice and talked for a couple hours. It was a relaxed and, at times, quite entertaining interview. Despite working on the same campus for a year, I didn't know Scotty prior to interviewing him. I had worked for the past year as the Program Coordinator at UCSC's GLBT Center, but our paths had not crossed. Before coming to UCSC, I worked as a freelance writer, a counselor, and an interviewer on AIDS studies, so I was comfortable turning on a tape recorder and asking him lots of questions. Scotty seemed to enjoy the process as well. He was generous with his time and his work: I left that night with an armload of Lavender Readers that he retrieved from a back closet. They are a treasure I have since passed on to the GLBT Center https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45z3r2cg Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Brookie, Scott Reti, Irene H. Letellier, Patrick https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2z54d5cb I am graduating from UCSC in the spring of 2002 with a degree in women's studies. Through the course of my studies, my interest in oral history has grown. Alan Sable was a professor at UCSC from 1970 to 1977; he was the first openly gay faculty on campus, and was denied tenure. Alan is now a therapist specializing in queer issues and lifestyles; he runs his practice out of his home in San Francisco. Alan and I first agreed to conduct the interview in my apartment in Santa Cruz. We had a great visit, and ended up having a long conversation where we got to know each other better. Yet, when I went to transcribe, I realized that due to technical problems more than half the interview was not properly recorded. We rescheduled a time to meet, and the second half of this interview was done weeks later in Alan's home in San Francisco. It was interesting to conduct the interview in Santa Cruz and in San Francisco; both locations are very important places in the narrative. The second opportunity... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2z54d5cb Thu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Sable, Alan Reti, Irene H. Espino, Michelle https://escholarship.org/uc/item/38m7b9kr Deborah Abbott is a writer, health activist, teacher, river guide and current director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center at UCSC. Since assuming her position in November of 1997, she has given new shape and direction to the Center. As an American studies major, I was eager to interview&nbsp; Deb Abbott. Deb Abbott to learn more about the queer history of UCSC, as well as about her work within two local feminist health organizations: the Santa Cruz Women's Health Collective and WomenCARE (which she cofounded in 1992). I had read several of Ms. Abbott's essays on pursuing her passion for river rafting, despite her physical disability, and these had deeply resonated with me, as I had been struggling to reconcile my own physical health problems with my dreams for the future. We met at the GLBT Center on the rainy afternoon of February 7, 2002. The Center hums with the richness of the many hours of mental and physical labor'by student volunteers and paid... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/38m7b9kr Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Abbott, Deborah Reti, Irene H. Brashear, Regan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36m6v5t4 <p>Burney Le Boeuf was born in southern Louisiana. He attended UC Berkeley, earning his PhD in experimental psychology in 1966. While at Berkeley, he also studied zoology and experimental biology. He arrived at UCSC in 1967 as a member of the psychology board and of Crown College. He already had a strong interest in evolutionary biology and participated in the biology board’s meetings as an outside member. He also began working with biology professor Richard Peterson on seal and sea lion research. After Peterson’s death, the biology board invited Le Boeuf to take Peterson’s place on the board, and he accepted.</p><p>Le Boeuf is internationally known as a pioneer of the field of marine mammal behavior. He has focused on the social and reproductive behavior of elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris), as well as their diving, foraging, and migratory behavior. Le Boeuf has conducted extensive research on the behavioral ecology and physiology of a variety of marine mammals, and also... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36m6v5t4 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Le Boeuf, Burney J Jarrell, Randall Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0881z51h Randall Jarrell conducted an oral history with Leo Laporte on August 15, 1994, as a part of the Project's interviews with retiring senior faculty. Laporte served as department chairman of Earth Sciences from 1972 to 1975, and dean as the Natural Sciences Division from 1975-1976. In 1980 he received the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. In his narration, Laporte discusses the building of the earth sciences department at UC Santa Cruz, how and why certain specialties were emphasized, and how the faculty was recruited over the years. His commentary also includes this thoughts on achieving diversity in the faculty, his thoughts on diversity among the student body, and the increasing prominence of women in the geological sciences. Laporte's volume also includes his reflections on teaching, his approach to working with graduate students, and his assessment of UCSC as a "hybrid institution." https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0881z51h Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Laporte, Leo F. Jarrell, Randall Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79k9m51b <p>This interview with [Andrew] Todd Newberry was conducted by Randall Jarrell, the former director of the Regional History Project, on July 18, 1994 in Newberry's office at UCSC. Todd Newberry arrived at UCSC as a founding faculty member in biology when the campus opened in 1965. He had earned a B.A. in biology from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in biology from Stanford University, where his doctoral research focused on ascidian tunicates ("sea squirts"). Other research interests included invertebrate development and reproduction and biosystematics. Professor Newberry speaks of teaching "as a form of persuasion, of launching, of getting people interested in things." Some of the other courses Newberry taught over the years included Invertebrate Zoology, The Organism in Its Environment (Biology 1A), Invertebrate Anatomy Laboratory, Morphogenesis, and California Marine Invertebrates.</p><p>In this narration Newberry provides his recollections of the early years at UCSC, particularly... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79k9m51b Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Newberry, Andrew Todd Jarrell, Randall Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nj8f076 Allan J. [Lan] Dyson was appointed University Librarian at UC Santa Cruz's University Library in August 1979, and retired in July 2003. This oral history, conducted as part of the Regional History Project's University History Series, is a singular contribution to the documentation of twenty-four years of history, not only of UCSC's University Library, but also of a period of extensive technological and cultural transformations in academic librarianship in the United States. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nj8f076 Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Dyson, Allan J. Reti, Irene Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1ph610j1 Recruited by the visionary geographer Richard [Dick] Cooley to join the new environmental studies program at UCSC, Pepper arrived in Santa Cruz in 1972. This oral history is part of the Regional History Project's VERIP series with professors who retired in the early 1990s. In these two interviews conducted by former Regional History director Randall Jarrell and current director Irene Reti, Jim Pepper describes UCSC's environmental studies program as one that “had both a theoretical dimension to it and an applied dimension, a program . . . that integrated theory and practice.” Pepper brought to this nascent department his practical experience and background as a professional landscape architect and planner, as well as his probing interest in the philosophical and ethical questions at the heart of environmental issues. Between 1972 and his retirement in 1994, Jim Pepper helped to build a flagship program in environmental studies at UCSC. Outside of academia, Jim Pepper has enjoyed... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1ph610j1 Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Pepper, James Jarrell, Randall Reti, Irene https://escholarship.org/uc/item/67x8j8hd A series of fifteen- to thirty-minute interviews was conducted with eight members of the first graduating class of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and with four sophomores who were members of the first four-year class to graduate from the Santa Cruz campus. The students spoke quite candidly about the strengths and weaknesses of the University, administration, faculty, classes, and general campus life, and commented on the changes that they thought should or would occur as the campus grows larger. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/67x8j8hd Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Sward, Susan Ehrenberg, Marsha Anne Wolfberg, Nancy Ellen Smith, Russell E. Farney, Michael N. Conradson, Leonard Hunter, Allen Bulf, Ellen Marie Goodman, Allan Jamie Fresco, Mike Petrik, Susan Mae Forbes, Christina Calciano, Elizabeth Spedding Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h0818t2 <p>A series of interviews with twelve members of the first four-year graduating class at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among the twelve were two students who had been interviewed in 1967 and four who had transferred into the class at the junior level. As in the 1967 series, the students were asked to comment on the strengths and weaknesses of the University, administration, faculty, classes, and general campus life. This they did very candidly. By happenstance, the interviews were scheduled over a two-week period that included the campus's first serious student strike and first building takeover. Thus the interviews tend to give the anatomy of the student strike as it developed. The philosophy of the students interviewed ranged from conservative to radical and their participation in the strike ranged from inactivity to leadership roles in the strike organization.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h0818t2 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Luber, Linda Bulf, Ellen Omatsu, Glenn Gentle, Thom Taub, John Howells, Catherine Lance, Cynthia Cliff Calciano, Elizabeth Spedding Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/06p093mz A series of interviews with twelve members of the first four-year graduating class at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among the twelve were two students who had been interviewed in 1967 and four who had transferred into the class at the junior level. As in the 1967 series, the students were asked to comment on the strengths and weaknesses of the University, administration, faculty, classes, and general campus life. This they did very candidly. By happenstance, the interviews were scheduled over a two-week period that included the campus's first serious student strike and first building takeover. Thus the interviews tend to give the anatomy of the student strike as it developed. The philosophy of the students interviewed ranged from conservative to radical and their participation in the strike ranged from inactivity to leadership roles in the strike organization. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/06p093mz Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Smith, Russell E. Corcoran, Michael G. Shea, Marilyn June, Margaret Zweiback June, Richard E. Fernau Calciano, Elizabeth Spedding Regional History Project, UCSC Library https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21r987zw <p>The Regional History Project conducted this oral history with Murray Baumgarten, Distinguished Professor of English &amp; Comparative Literature, as part of its University History Series. Baumgarten arrived at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1966 as a professor in the literature board and affiliated with Stevenson College. In 2014, as this oral history goes to press, he still teaches full time at UC Santa Cruz, which makes him the longest-serving full-time faculty member on campus.&nbsp;</p><p>Baumgarten’s contributions to the development of UCSC are substantial and eclectic. They begin with the initiation of the Strouse Carlyle Collection at the University Library. In 1966, Baumgarten’s keen interest in the nineteenth century writer Thomas Carlyle, on whom he had written his dissertation, persuaded book collector Norman Strouse to gift the UCSC Library with his personal collection of rare and unusual materials by and about Carlyle. While collaborating with other... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21r987zw Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Baumgarten, Murray Reti, Irene H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sq7h3w0 <p>Lou Fackler, founding campus engineer at UC Santa Cruz, was interviewed and hired by Founding Chancellor Dean McHenry. He was the campus’s eleventh employee and began work in January of 1963. This oral history chronicles Fackler’s twenty-eight years at UCSC. He began as campus engineer, became director of Campus Facilities in August of 1975, and finally retired in October of 1990. At the time of his retirement he had been promoted to associate vice chancellor, facilities/services with multiple responsibilities including: campus physical planning and construction for projects under construction or in the planning stage; operation and maintenance of the campus physical plant; campus transportation and parking; the campus fire department; environmental health and safety; and purchasing and receiving. In his interview, Fackler details the efforts it took to design and construct the infrastructure and buildings for a new and rather unusual UC campus, and then develop and maintain... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sq7h3w0 Mon, 8 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Fackler, Louis F. Reti, Irene UCSC Library, Regional History Project, UC Santa Cruz https://escholarship.org/uc/item/56q4h230 <p>In her mid-nineties at the time of this interview, Esther Abbott achieved a long and impressive career as a photographer whose work was published in <em>Arizona Highways</em> and other publications in the 1940s and 1950s. With her husband Charles (Chuck) Abbott, she also shaped the urban landscape of downtown Santa Cruz through her historic preservation activities, and her advocacy on behalf of the pedestrian-centered Pacific Garden Mall, which was constructed in the late 1960s. This oral history, conducted by Evelyn Richards of the University Library's Regional History Project, illuminates the life and career of this remarkable and vibrant woman.</p><p>The University Library's Visual Resource Collection also has a collection of 4,700 slides of the Abbotts' photographs of architectural reconstructions of national urban and suburban landscapes in the 1960s. Their photographs of the buildings of Santa Cruz are of special importance to local patrons. In addition, Special Collections... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/56q4h230 Mon, 8 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Abbott, Esther Richards, Evelyn Regional History Project, UCSC Library