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Rice University presidents, faculty and student oral histories collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 310
Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of cassette tapes and transcriptions and videotapes of interviews with Rice’s living former presidents Pitzer, Hackerman, and Rupp; a Rice alumna, Evelyn Nolen; a Rice student, Isaac Sanders; and two faculty members, Dr. Franz Brotzen and Dr. William E. Gordon. The interviewers are Dr. John Boles, Dr. Louis Marchiafava, Barbard Rozek and Dr. Harold Hyman. The interviewing was done in 1990, 1993, 1994, and 1995. Also included in the collection are administrative records of the project.

Dates

  • 1990 - 1995

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish from this material must be facilitated through the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.

Biographical / Historical

This collection brings together interviews on audio cassettes and videotape about Rice University that were conducted between 1990 and 1995. The earliest is from an alumna’s point of view. The majority are the outcome of the Oral History Project, planned by Dr. John Boles, Mr. Hank Hudspeth, Dr. Mary McIntire, and Ms. Nancy Boothe, and initiated in 1993. The goal of the initial phase of the project was to augment Rice University’s documentary history with recorded interviews of the three then former presidents still living, Pitzer, Hackerman, and Rupp. These interviews were conducted by Dr. John Boles and Dr. Louis Marchiafava. The second phase, undertaken in 1995, consists of videotaped interviews conducted by Dr. Harold Hyman of the three former presidents and also of a Rice student, Isaac Sanders, and two Rice faculty members, Dr. Franz Brotzen and Dr. William Gordon.

Extent

5 Linear Feet (6 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Overview

The collection consists of audio cassette recordings and transcripts of interviews with three former presidents of Rice University, Kenneth Pitzer, Norman Hackerman, and George Rupp, made in 1993 and 1994, and videotaped interviews of the same individuals, made in 1995. Also included are an audiotaped interview of a Rice alumna, made in 1990, with transcript, and videotaped interviews of a Rice student and two Rice faculty members, made in 1995.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

These interviews were donated by the interviewers in 1999-2000.

Related Materials

A History of Student Life at Rice Oral Histories project, 1989-1990, UA 282, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University (see https://library.rice.edu/collections/WRC/finding-aids/university-archives/ua082)

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Rice University presidents, faculty and student oral histories collection, 1990-1995
Status
Completed
Date
2013
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository

https://library.rice.edu/woodson
Contact:
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA

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