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Interviews, Fred Links: An Overview of the Department of Finance, with comments on his long career as a key person in the department, Ellis Groff: Some Details of Public Revenue and Expenditure in the 1940's, with comments as a career civil servant in the Department of Finance. George Killion: Observations on Culbert Olson, Earl Warren, and Money Matters in Public Affairs, commenting on his service as Director of Finance under Culbert Olson and his presidency of American President Lines. A. Alan Post: Watchdog on State Spending, eith comments on his career as legislative analyst. Paul Leake: Statement on the Board of Equalization., California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

Interviews with four men influential in the development of a new approach to the care and treatment of juvenile delinquents during the Warren administration, and the establishment of the California Youth Authority. Karl Holton: Development of Juvenile Correctional Practices; Kenyon J. Scudder: Beginnings of Therapeutic Correctional Facilities; Heman G. Stark: Juvenile Correctional Services and the Community; Kenneth S. Beam; Clergyman and Community Coordinator., Notes on original containers: t01: Karl Holton, 1971-06-23: Youth in Alberta 1897-, World War I t02: Karl Holton, 1971-06-23: College, L.A. Probation Dept 1924-39 t03: Karl Holton, 1971-11-09 t04: Kenyon Scudder, 1971-04-15: Dept of Corrections and EW t05: Kenyon Scudder and Heman Stark II t06: Heman Stark I, 1971-04-15: Calif Youth Authority t07: Kenneth Beam, 1970-11-21, California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

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Recollections of growing up in Berkeley; student days at University of California, 1914-1918; work for University Extension and the Engineering, Science and Management War Training program on campus, World War II; her husband, Samuel C. May; Sierra Club trips; her association with League of Women Voters; volunteer work; Berkeley politics; membership on City Council, 1959-1971; efforts to end discrimination in Berkeley in schools, housing and employment; planning for Bay Area Rapid Transit District; membership in Association of Bay Area Governments and Bay Conservation and Development Commission., Notes on original containers: t01: 1974-05-18, Berkeley City Coundil 1959-1963, 1961 election. t02-t03: 1974-05-24, 1963 Berkeley fair housing ordinance t04: 1974-05-31, Lessening discrimination - city employment, appointments, contracts, housing OEO, model cities. t05: 1974-05-31, S. Berkeley BART station, park planning; 1974-06-10, Further integration efforts t06: 1974-06-10, Street demonstrations, Bobby Seale t07: 1974-07-11, Environmental quality housing, building code enforcement t08: 1974-07-17; 1974-07-24, UC and City of Berkeley t09: 1974-07-24, Berkeley and UC, Student Activism, People's Park, OR projects t10: 1974-08-01, Berkeley elections, 1967-1971 t11: 1974-10-31, Association of Bay Area Governments t12: 1974-11-07, Bay Conservation and Development Commission t13: 1974-12-03: Bay Conservation and Development Commission end t14: 1974-12-03; 1974-12-11 t15: 1974-12-11, summary, California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

Comments on association with Marin Co. League of Women voters and service as the League's legislative advocate in Sacramento; election to and service on Mill Valley City Council, 1946-50, and on Marin County Board of Supervisors, 1952-60; controversy over Frank Lloyd Wright's Marin Co. Civic Center design; campaigns for California assembly and senate; participation in state and national Democratic party activities., Notes on original containers: t01: 1976-03-02 t02: 1976-03-09 t03-t04: 1976-03-30 t05-t06: 1976-04-06 t07-t08: 1976-04-13 t09-t10: 1976-04-20, California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

Former director of the State Department of Social Welfare describes revision of services during Reagan's administration: 1969 task force, department reorganization, 1971 legislation, county welfare departments; previous experiences as professional city manager, and in State Department of Public Works., California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

An account of her association with Junior League, State Relief Administration, League of Women Voters and Farm Bureau Federation, and her political career as member of Board of Supervisors, Santa Cruz Co., 1956-62. Comments also on her uncle, Herbert Hoover, and the establishment of the University of California campus at Santa Cruz., Notes on original containers: t01-t02: 1976-05-10 t03: 1976-05-11, California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

A. LAWRENCE CHICKERING (b. 1941) and ROBERT B. HAWKINS, JR. (b. 1944), aides to Reagan, on State Office of Economic Opportunity, 1970-1972: Lewis Uhler as director, legal services paradoxes, education vouchers, blacks and politics; California Rural Legal Assistance, and other self-help initiatives; Institute for Contemporary Studies (1973-1984); the governor's 1973-1974 task force on local government; strategies for the 1980s, the Sequoia Institute, thoughts on the intellectual elite., California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

Irish-American childhood; Catholic education; San Francisco legal community: leading lawyers, municipal court; U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California: fellow judges, administration and growth, pretrial and other courtroom procedures, some antitrust and labor cases, 1946-1979., California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

Comments on her involvement in volunteer work, as board member, trustee, chairman or president, of various organizations, including League of Women Voters, Stanford Hospital Auxiliary in San Francisco, Rosenberg Foundation, Stanford University Board of Trustees and KQED. Also includes information on her service as lecturer in community service, Mills College, 1949-59, California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

Life in Berkeley, Calif.; association with University of California, as student in Berkeley and as fund-raiser; voluntary work with various organizations, including YWCA, United Service Organization, Travelers Aid Association of America, World Affairs Council, United Way, International Conference of Social Work, Berkeley Playmakers, Alameda County Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Committee, Bay Area Social Planning Council, Alta Bates Community Hospital in Berkeley, etc.; service on California Recreation Commission and as woman affairs consultant, Germany, 1950, for the High Commissioner of Germany; the Heard Foundation and personal giving, etc., California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

Recollection of growing up in San Francisco; her husband, Charles Porter, and her brother-in-law, Bruce Porter; involvement with the League of Women Voters; long service in local, state and national Democratic Party activities; women prominent in political circles, including Helen Gahagan Douglas; San Francisco politics; service on the San Francisco Planning Commission; other community activities., Notes on original containers: t01: 1975-10-09, Women in politics t02: 1975-10-09; 1975-10-13, Women in politics t03: 1975-10-13, Democratic party activities 1941-1944 t04: 1975-10-21, 1944 Democratic convention, party activities 1942-1947 t05: 1975-10-21, 1944 Democratic convention; 1975-10-27 t06: 1975-10-27, California Democrats activities, California Democrats Council, SF mayoral elections, SF boards and commission appointments t07-t08: 1975-11-03, SF Planning Commission 1943-75, California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

Comments on teaching career; service as Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1945-62; working with State Board of Education, the legislature, and governors Warren, Knight and Brown; development of master plan for higher education; role as ex officio member of Regents of University of California; Max Rafferty-Ralph Richardson campaign for superintendency, 1962., Note on original container: t01: 1977-05-02 t02: 1977-05-19 t03: 1977-05-19; 1977-06-30 t04-t05: 1977-06-09 t06: 1977-06-28 t07: "First section of 1977-06-09 interview. Speeded up to make it audible.", California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

Family and education, law school; Los Angeles County relief programs, 1932-1938; State Relief Administration, welfare policies, camp programs, Governor Olson, federal arts and writers' projects; wartime community organizing, Washington, D.C., 1943-1945; tracing operations, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), 1945-1947, and International Relief Organization, 1947-1951; Federal Civil Defense Administration, 1952-1954; overcoming alcoholism, role of Alcoholics Anonymous; United Bay Area Crusade and predecessor organizations, 1954-1968; National Council on Alcoholism Bay Area executive director, 1968-1975., California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

Comments on his father, state senator Arthur H. Breed, Sr.; association with Earl Warren; Alameda Co. politics; service as state assemblyman and state senator; controversial issues during his time in office, such as public health, health insurance, etc., California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

Public health issues, 1945-1964: chronic disease, medical care for the poor, smog and air pollution, health insurance; State Department of Public Health director, 1965-1967: development of Medi-Cal and federal Medicaid programs; Reagan and state health services: cost effectiveness, emergency cutbacks, reforms., California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

Reagan as General Electric Television Theater host; plant visits, community relations; Reagan's concerns about Screen Actors' Guild, communism, liberal opposition; corporate public relations operations; Reagan's speech ideas and information-gathering., California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

Recollections of years as secretary to Earl Warren, 1935-1953, spanning his career as Alameda County district attorney, California attorney general, and governor of California; her role as liaison to the Youth Authority, Department of Public Health, Department of Mental Hygiene, the University of California and the Department of Education; appointment to Youth Authority in 1953 by Governor Warren and to the Governor's Committee on Children and Youth in 1959 by Governor Brown. Photographs inserted. Appended: copies of letters, articles, job description, etc., California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

Frank F. Tallman: Dynamics of Change in State Mental Institutions. Regarding his service as director of the Department 1949-1953 and innovations in state hospital policy and program. Portia Bell Hume: Mother of Community Mental Health Services. Regarding her involvement in the development of mental health services; early days of Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute; role as director of community services in State Department of Mental Hygiene; passage of Short-Doyle Act; political career of her father. Theodore Bell; her husband, Samuel J. Hume and his association with the University of California, Berkeley, as faculty member and director of the Greek Theatre., Note on original containers: t01: Dr. Frank Tallman interview, 1970-10-20 t02: Dr. Frank Tallman interview, 1970-10-21 t03: Portia Hume interview, 1970-07-14 t04: Portia Hume interview, 1970-07-21 t05-t06: Portia Hume interview, 1970-10-12, California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

Graduate studies and work as research associate in Bureau of Public Administration, University of California, Berkeley; influence of Prof. Samuel C. May; acquaintance with Earl Warren as district attoney of Alameda County, California, and governor; work as executive director of League of California Cities, 1933-1953; director of California civil defense program under governors Olson and Warren; views on Japanese relocation; 1954 campaign as Democratic nominee for governor of California. Appended: copies of letters, clippings and other documentary material., California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)

May, John R. (John Rickard), 1909-1988. Building a community foundation. Chance, Ruth Clouse. At the heart of grants for youth. Koshland, Daniel Edward, 1892-1979. Responding to the flow of new ideas in the community. Ehrlich, Philip S., 1889-. An attorney's twenty-five years of philanthropic service. Duveneck, Josephine Whitney. 1891-1978. Working for a real democracy with children and other minority groups. Elkus, Marjorie Doran. d.1978. Recollections of San Francisco private agencies and foundations, 1935-1950. Erskine, Dorothy Ward, Environmental quality and planning: continuity of volunteer leadership. Wyckoff, Florence, 1905-1983. A volunteer career, from the arts and education to public health issues. Solomon, Emmett Gamaliel, 1909-. A corporate citizen's concern for the effectiveness of a community foundation. Somerville, Bill. A foundation executive in training, 1961-1974. Sloss, Frank, 1908-. Tradition and change: continuing education of a foundation board member. Gillette, Edmond S. Smaller foundation trusteeship: obligations to friendship and the community. Glock, Charles. A sociologist comments on getting, using, and making grants. Kuhn, Jean Gerlinger. Balance and order in a community trust. Roth, William M. (William Matson), 1916-2014. Tradition of voluntary solutions to public problems. Foster, Richard L. Avoiding institutional entropy: a school superintendent's view. Luster, Orville. Growth of a grassroots youth agency in the 1960s. Benz, Obie. A new generation of grant-making ideas. Stern, Peter. A new generation of grant-making ideas. Salkind, Milton. New vitality in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Stephenson, Edwin. Transition: white man in a black town, 1950-1967. Charles, Caroline Moore. Development and dynamics of volunteer organizations. Martinez, Arabella. The Spanish Speaking Unity Council, Inc., and Bay Area foundations. Hall, Ira Devoyd. Community resources: turning ideas into action., California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)