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Title
Recollections and reminiscences of life in the Bay Area from 1920 onward: oral history with B.H. Lehman
Creator
Riess, Suzanne B
Bancroft Library. Oral History Center
Lehman, B. H. (Benjamin Harrison), 1889-1977
Date Created and/or Issued
1964/1966
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library
Collection
California Revealed from Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library
Rights Information
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Description
Education at Harvard and recollections of George Santayana, Josiah Royce and Charles T. Copeland; teaching career at University of California, Berkeley, from 1920, and administrative duties on library and budget committees, on President's advisory committee and as chairman of the English Department; the beginnings of the Department of Dramatic Art; the loyalty oath controversy; Judith Anderson and interest in theater; Berkeley social life, with comments on Marion R. Parsons, Bertha Pope Damon, Elizabeth W. Ellis and others; friendships with James D. Phelan, No. l Sullivan, Charles E.S. Wood, Sara Bard Field, Robinson Jeffers and others.
Type
sound
Format
Original
Sound
half track
1/4 inch audio tape
Form/Genre
Oral histories
Extent
1 Tape of 1
Identifier
Phonotape 269 B
cabeuroh_000025
Language
English
Subject
Education
Loyalty oaths--California--Berkeley
Berkeley (Calif.)--Social life and customs
Lehman, B. H. (Benjamin Harrison), 1889-1977
Anderson, Judith
Copeland, Charles Townsend, 1860-1952
University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of English
Santayana, George, 1863-1952
Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962
Field, Sara Bard, 1882-1974
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944
Sullivan, Noel, 1890-1956
Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916
Parsons, Marion Randall, 1878-1953
Damon, Bertha Clark Pope
Ellis, Elizabeth Warder
Phelan, James D. (James Duval), 1861-1930
Place
Berkeley (Calif.)
Provenance
Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

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