Matuszak, Alice Jean Oral History Interview

Professor, School of Pharmacy (1963-2002) Pharmacy School curriculum and units, role of Medicinal Chemistry in Pharmacy, role of women in Pharmacy, honor societies, social-professional fraternities, history of Pharmacy.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/esohc/1107/thumbnail.jp

Victoria Ocampo and Alfonso Reyes: Ulysses\u27s Malady

Ocampo (Argentina, 1890-1979) and Reyes (Mexico, 1889-1959) were arguably Latin America\u27s most influential writers and cultural catalysts in the first half of the twentieth century. They met in Argentina in 1927 and their friendship and correspondence lasted until Reyes\u27s death. Over three decades of private and public discourse, they articulated a similar vision of Latin American identity and its future potential. Because they were both internationally known—Ocampo as founder and director of the literary review SUR, and Reyes as a diplomat and intellectual leader—their ideas found resonance in the Americas and Europe. Two dramatic works they wrote before meeting, Ifigenia cruel (Reyes) and La laguna de los nenúfares (Ocampo), prefigure their approach to the Latin American condition through the themes of displacement and self-renovation. Ocampo and Reyes believed that it would be the task of an educated elite to lead Latin America toward a transnational cultural synthesis and renewal. Ulysses\u27s malady was their metaphor for the postcolonial condition that enabled Latin American minds to be open to exploration and dialogue in search of an authentic identity

Chambers, Judith Oral History Interview

Assistant to the President, Dean of Students, Vice President of Student Life, University Advancement (1958-). Topics include: Association with President Robert Burns and other presidents, President Burns relationship to students, evolution of Student Life, Community Involvement Program, Cluster College development.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/esohc/1091/thumbnail.jp

Sharp, Francis Michael Oral History Interview

Professor of German (1979-2008). Topics Include: Modern Languages Department offerings, faculty, language lab, and study abroad; Development of School of International Studies; The importance of the Humanities; University/Community Outreach programs.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/esohc/1138/thumbnail.jp

The Early (Feminist) Essays of Victoria Ocampo

This study examines the essays written by Ocampo between 1920 and 1934, prior to the time when she publicly voiced her adhesion to feminism and the rights of women in Argentine society. In these works from her Testimonios in which Ocampo struggles to find her voice as a female writer, the maleable essay serves her need to engage in discursive dialogues from the margins of the literary culture of her time. Both as a woman and a member of the oligarchy, she questions cultural assumptions and gender-based binary structures common among the male writers of her time, many of whom she knew personally. Using rhetorical strategies that show the self-reflexive and subversive nature of her writing, Ocampo reads and reinterprets these works from a parenthetical feminist perspective, contesting their intellectual and aesthetic biases. The active agency of the reader as writer in these early essays shows Ocampo\u27s awareness of her own unorthodox subject position—alienated from the conventions of her class, her gender, her national culture and language. Her autobiographical musings and her engagement with literary modernity in the 1920s and 1930s reveal a woman who accepted the liabilities of articulating an autonomous self, both in a European and a Latin American context. The influence of family bonds and patriarchal morality decisively shaped, but did not ultimately control, the way Victoria Ocampo eventually defined herself as a feminist author

Piper, Pearl Oral History Interview

Secretary of Admissions (1940-). Topics include:Stockton College – COP relationships, Early 1940 campus environment, perceptions of administrators – Elliot Taylor, Robert Burns, Covell College, reactions to present day university.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/esohc/1080/thumbnail.jp

Schippers, John Oral History Interview

Schippers, John (1962-1990) Professor School of Education Topics include: Development of Teacher Corps program; association with National Science Foundation program; student teaching in Mexico; early computer use program in School of Education; Lawrence Hall of Science curricular materials and program.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/esohc/1111/thumbnail.jp

Pearson, Gene Oral History Interview

Professor of Geosciences (1971-2023). Topics include: Early years in Geology Department, classes taught, and field trips; movement toward environmental issues; committee work (general education, search committee, etc.); role in Mentor Seminar, freshman counseling; research interests/field guides; participation in professional organizations.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/esohc/1160/thumbnail.jp