Oral Histories
Interview of Bennet Mills Allen
Chair of the UCLA Department of Zoology.
- Subtitle:
- The Memoirs of Bennet Mills Allen
- Series:
- Interviews not in a series, part one
- Topic:
- UCLA and University of California HistoryScience, Medicine, and TechnologyUCLA Faculty
- Biographical Note:
- Chair of the UCLA Department of Zoology.
- Interviewee:
- Allen, Bennet Mills
- Supporting Documents:
- Records relating to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- Interviewee Retained Copyright
- Abstract:
- Family background; education at De Pauw University and University of Chicago; teaching experiences at University of Wisconsin and University of Kansas; move to Los Angeles, 1922; tenure on faculty, University of California, Southern Branch, and UCLA until retirement, 1922-47; development of UCLA; relationship of UCLA to University of California, Berkeley; political pressures at UCLA; Ernest Carroll Moore, other administrators, and faculty; communism on campus; work with Atomic Energy Commission following retirement, 1943-58; the place of senior citizens in society.