Business and club life in San Francisco, recollections of a California pioneer scion
Subtitle: and related material
By: Norman Loyall McLaren ; tape recorded interview conducted by Gabrielle Morris and Ruth Teiser in 1977. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1978 :
Contributors: Doyle, Morris M. 1909-1997.; McLaren, Thomas L.; Chetkovich, Michael N.; Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1890-1969.; Morris, Gabrielle S.; Teiser, Ruth.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1977
Subjects: Ash family.; Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.; Telegraph Hill Neighborhood House, San Francisco.; University of California (1868-1952). Class of 1914.; Pacific-Union Club.; Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.); University of California, Berkeley -- Alumni and alumnae.; Irvine Company.; Accountants -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Commerce.; United States -- Politics and government.
Description: Information on the Ashe family, California pioneers, and his aunt, Elizabeth Ashe and her Telegraph Hill Neighborhood House; student days at University of California, Berkeley, class of 1914; growth of accounting firm started by his father and eventual merger with Haskins and Sells; involvement in corporate and charitable boards; club memberships, including presidency of Pacific Union Club and Bohemian Club; government appointments, including Navy Price Adjustment Board in World War II, treasurer of UN Conference Committee, San Francisco, and accounting advisor to U.S. delegation, Allied Commission on Reparations, 1945; professional societies; alumni activities; etc.

With this: one box of additional documentary material, including letters from Dwight D. Eisenhower; autobiographical sketch written for the Irvine Co.; transcript of his oral history interview done for the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library; copies of his speeches; clippings; material relating to the Irvine Co.; Also: portions of his oral history previously under seal.