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Oral histories.

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Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

Agricultural Experiment Station oral histories

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-944
Abstract

Tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews by Gould P. Colman with Paul J. Chapman, Arthur C. Dahlberg, Robert E. Doran, Arthur J. Heinicke, George J. Hucker, James D. Luckett, Carl S. Pederson, Charles B. Sayre, Jessie E. Sperry, Donald K. Tressler, and Richard Wellington.

Dates: 1962-1965.

Artificial Insemination Documentation Project oral histories

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-1985
Scope and content 5 tapes and 12 transcripts of interviews with Raymond Albrectsen, Sydney A. Asdell, Stanley Brownell, J. Stanley Earl, Charles Henderson, Philip Higley, Maurice W. Johnson, Fred F. McKenzie, Enos J. Perry, Glenn W. Salisbury, and W.D. Goeke, and a group interview with George W. Tailby, James Burke, and Stanley J. Brownell. Subjects discussed are the development of artificial breeding in dairy cattle and other farm animals during the 1930s and 1940s, particularly the formation of the New York...
Dates: 1962-1978.

Berrigan brothers and the Catholic left oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-1248
Scope and content Interviews conducted by Anne Klejment, a Ph.D. candidate at Binghamton University as part of her research for her dissertation, In the Lions' Den: The Social Catholicism of Daniel and Philip Berrigan, 1955-1965. Interviewees include David W. Connor, Catholic chaplain at Cornell and director of the Learning Web, 1976 (1 tape, 1 transcript); Jerome Berrigan, older brother of Daniel and Philip Berrigan, who was teaching English at Onondaga Community College, 1976 (1 tape, 1 transcript); Sarah...
Dates: 1976-1977.

Berrigan weekend oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-613
Scope and content Interviews with Cornell administrators about the planning for the weekend were conducted by Robert Kaplan with Stuart M. Brown, Jr., Vice President for Academic Affairs on April 15, 1970 (1 tape, 1 transcript); Mark Barlow, Jr., Vice President for Student Affairs, on April 15, 1970 (1 tape, 1 transcript); Jackson O. Hall, Assistant to the President, on April 14, 1970 (1 tape, 1 transcript); Alfred E. Kahn, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, on April 15, 1970; and Steven Muller, Vice...
Dates: 1970.

Black studies at Cornell oral history project

 Collection
Identifier: 13-6-2477
Scope and content

Interviews with students, faculty, and administrators describe the origins of Black Studies (Afro-American Studies) at Cornell and the various issues on campus in the spring of 1969.



Dates: 1967-1969.

Brenda Lee S. Kobela oral history

 Collection — Manuscript box 34 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065338497]
Identifier: 3-9-3052
Scope and content

Tape recording and transcript of an interview with Ms. Kobela by Edward J. Trethaway, '49, conducted November 3, 1996.

Dates: 1996.

College of Architecture oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-946
Scope and content Interviews by James P. Pfeifer, a fifth-year undergraduate in Architecture with Hubert E. Baxter (1887-1976, B.Arch. 1910), professor of architecture, 1911-1955, and Mrs. Phebe Baxter, May 4, 1969; John A. Hartell (1902-1995, B.Arch. 1925), professor of art, 1930-1968, chairman of the Department of Art, 1939-1959, May 30, 1969; Thomas W. Mackesey (1908-1976), professor of city and regional planning, Dean of the College of Art, Architecture, and Planning, 1951-1960, May 26, 1969 and June 3,...
Dates: 1967-1969.

Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (Cornell University) records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-13-952
Scope and content

Tape and 49 page transcript of a lecture and discussion involving professors Lauristan Sharp, David Wyatt, and the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars at Cornell University on April 11, 1970. Also, "Indochina War Information Packet" (1970), a collection of reprints and addresses by professors George Kahin and Walter LaFeber, and one pamphlet "Twelve Questions on Vietnam."

Dates: 1970.

Cornell alumni news oral history project

 Collection — Transcript box 33 - trans. 2446: [Barcode: 31924088333681]
Identifier: 13-6-454
Scope and content

Interview by Gould Colman with John Marcham about recent developments in editing the Cornell Alumni News, December 9, 1971 (1 tape, 1 transcript - pp. 261-320)

Dates: 1971.

Cornell-in-China oral histories

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-321
Scope and content Oral histories describing the experiences of Cornell University faculty members, former graduate students, and missionaries at the University of Nanking and elsewhere in China. Interviewees include J. Lossing Buck, John Reisner, Glenn W. Hedlund, and Stanley Warren on the development of an agricultural economics department at Nanking. Attached to Warren's interview is Buck's "Social and Economic Survey Losses in Rural Area in Vicinity of Shanghai Caused by Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1932." ...
Dates: 1962.