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21. Interview of Teresa McKenna

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
3.75 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews document the rise of Chicano studies at UCLA and the founding of the Chicano Studies Research Center. Interviewees were involved in Chicano studies in the late 1960s and early ‘70s as students, faculty, or staff.
Biographical Note:
University of Southern California professor of English. Editor of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center’s journal, Aztlan. As a student at UCLA, was involved in the Chicano student movement on campus and the drive for the establishment of the research center.

22. Interview of Robert Lee Verdugo

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
3.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This is a series of interviews with people who were involved with the High Potential Program (HPP) at UCLA between 1968 and 1971. Although the HPP was one of the earliest efforts to broaden admissions criteria and recruit historically underrepresented students, the archival sources that have been...
Biographical Note:
One of the leaders of the 1968 walkouts in East Los Angeles. During time at UCLA, was a student in the UCLA High Potential Program.

23. Interview of Lester Earnest

Topic:
Science, Medicine, and Technology
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Member of the ARPANET project, which developed an experimental computer network, a precursor to the internet.

24. Interview of Mario Gerla

Topic:
Science, Medicine, and Technology
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
3.8 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The purpose of this oral history series is to document the context and early technological development of the ARPANET, the network that went online in 1969 and grew into the Internet. Interviewees include the Center’s Principal Investigator, three researchers, and the center administrator. The ...
Biographical Note:
Member of the research team at the Network Measurement Center for UCLA’s U.S. Defense Department sponsored ARPANET project which created a “wide-area packet-switched network.”

25. Interview of Bobbette Glover

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
3 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This is a series of interviews with people who were involved with the High Potential Program (HPP) at UCLA between 1968 and 1971. Although the HPP was one of the earliest efforts to broaden admissions criteria and recruit historically underrepresented students, the archival sources that have been...
Biographical Note:
Member of the Los Angeles County Community Development Commission. During time at UCLA, was a student in the UCLA High Potential Program.

26. Interview of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Faculty
Music
Length:
14 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Founding chair of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.

27. Interview of Anthony Seeger

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Faculty
Music
Length:
8 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
UCLA distinguished professor of ethnomusicology. Director of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

28. Interview of Don Nakanishi

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
Asian American History
UCLA Faculty
Length:
12.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
UCLA professor of Asian American studies and education. Director of the Asian American Studies Center.

29. Interview of Leon Knopoff

Topic:
Science, Medicine, and Technology
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Faculty
Length:
9 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
UCLA faculty member in geophysics and research musicologist.

30. Interview of Robert Stevenson

Topic:
UCLA Faculty
Music
UCLA and University of California History
Length:
5.8 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
UCLA professor of musicology. Scholar of popular and indigenous music of Iberia and Latin America.