Labor and tax attorney, 1949-1982; Sierra Club Foundation trustee, 1968-1981, 1994-1998
By: Gary J. Torre ; with an introduction by Edgar Wayburn ; interviews conducted by Carl Wilmsen in 1998. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Wilmsen, Carl.; Wayburn, Edgar, 1906-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1999
Subjects: Torres family.; Goodrich family.; Brower, David Ross, 1912-2000.; Sierra Club -- History.; Lillick, Geary, Olson, Charles and Adams.; Frontera del Norte Fund.; Sierra Club Foundation.; Lawyers -- California -- Oakland -- Interviews.; Tax lawyers -- Interviews.; Labor lawyers -- Interviews.; Lobbying -- United States.; Tax exemption -- United States.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Sierra Club Oral history series.; University of California source of community leaders oral history series.
Description: Italian ancestry and family, and youth in Oakland; wife's Goodrich family history in California; boyhood experiences in Yosemite National Park, the redwood forests; University of California, Berkeley 1936-1941: anti-war demonstrations, reflections on Willard "Bull" Durham, Benjamin H. Lehman, Henriette de Saussure Blanding, Bertrand Bronson; effect of war duty on choice of career; Boalt Hall graduate; clerk for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas; the Lillick Law Firm and civil rights, tax law work: mechanization and modernization agreement between Pacific Maritime Assn. and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, urban sprawl and inner-city issues, representing the Sierra Club before the IRS; reflections on David Brower, Sierra Club reorganization committee; Sierra Club Foundation board member: Frontera del Norte fund for environmental and social programs in northern New Mexico, dispute with Ray Graham and Ganados del Valle over the Fund, malicious prosecution lawsuit against Ray Graham; functioning of the Sierra Club Foundation, legal and ethical obligations of the Found board, relations between the Sierra Club and the Foundation, trends in raising, reflections on the accomplishments of the Foundation.