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Title
Oral History Interview with James R. Sweeney
Creator
Holloway Historians
Sweeney, James R
Date Created and/or Issued
1985-06-05
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
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Description
James R. Sweeney is interviewed by Holloway Historians about life in the old Buchanan Street campus as a student along with student activities, including dances; San Francisco State College's involvement in the 1939 Worlds Fair on Treasure Island; Lake Merced flora; purchase of Lake Merced campus; groundbreaking ceremonies for the Lake Merced campus; San Francisco State College Japanese American students incarcerated during World War II; President J. Paul Leonard; different types of students; development of the General Education program, Academic Senate, and faculty governance.
The University Archives serves as the collective memory of San Francisco State University containing unique and original source material of our University's colorful history. The University Archives traces the University’s history beginning from June 1906 with records, images and artifacts.
Type
text
Format
Oral histories; Interviews
37 page, typescript, 11 x 8.5 inches
application/pdf
Identifier
SFSU_UARC_0108
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/13935
Language
English
Subject
Community activities--Associations and organizations--Student clubs
Geographic communities--California--San Francisco
Education--Higher education
World War II
World War II--Incarceration camps
Place
San Francisco, California
Source
San Francisco State University
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
University Archives, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University

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