Partner and participant
Subtitle: University of California chancellor's and president's wife, 1984-1995
By: Suzanne Toll Peltason ; with an introduction by Rita Atkinson. An interview conducted by Ann Lage in 1999. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Lage, Ann.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2002
Subjects: Peltason, J. W. 1923-; University of California (System). Office of the President -- History.; University of California, Irvine. Office of the Chancellor -- History.; University of California, Irvine -- History.; University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Office of Chancellor -- History.; Blake House (Berkeley, Calif.).; College administrators' spouses -- United States -- Interviews.; Affirmative action programs -- California.; College administrators -- California.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: University history series.
Description: Family, childhood in North Carolina and New Jersey; meeting Jack Peltason at University of Missouri, marriage and family; faculty wife at Smith College and University of Illinois, 1947-1959; UC Irvine, founding years, 1964-1967; wife of chancellor, University of Illinois, 1967-1977; wife of chancellor, UC Irvine, 1984-1992; wife of UC president, 1992-1995; media relations, affirmative action controversy, Blake House; reflections on women's movement, defining the role of spouses of academic administrators; efforts of chancellors' wives for official recognition.