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Interview With Judge Harvey Bartle, Shirin Heidary, Harvey Bartle Iii, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Harvey Bartle III (L '65) is a senior judge of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He served as chief judge of that court from 2006 to 2011.

Interview With Allen D. Black, Isaac E. Dweck, Allen D. Black, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Allen D. Black (L '66) practices in the areas of commercial law and antitrust, specializing in complex litigation. He has been a member of the American Law Institute since 1976 and a member of the ALI Council since 1994. Prof. Steven Burbank has called him "quite simply one of the best and most thoughtful lawyers in the country, a highly successful litigator and important contributor to numerous law reform efforts."

Interview With Jerome J. Shestack, Mark Malcoun, Jerome J. Shestack, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Jerome J. Shestack practiced law in Philadelphia from 1955 until his death in 2011. He was active in Democratic politics and in civil rights and international human rights. He served as president of the American Bar Association in 1997/1998. In 1980 Penn Law School named him an Honorary Fellow; his address to that year's graduating class appeared in the Fall 1980 Penn Law Journal (http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=plj).

Interview With Leslie Reid Price, Daniel Gennatto, Leslie Reid Price, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Leslie Reid Price (L'72) practices real state and commercial law. She worked as in-house counsel to Philadelphia area real estate developer Rouse & Associates, now known as Liberty Property Trust.

Interview With Sherrie R. Savett, Sherrie R. Savett, Lisa Tahk, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Sherrie R. Savett (L'73) is a leading practitioner in the areas of securities litigation and consumer litigation with the firm of Berger Montague, where she has served as Chair Emeritus of the firm, Chair of the Securities Litigation Department and of the Qui Tam/False Claims Act Department.

Interview With Judith Bernstein-Baker, Irene Barbarena, Judith Bernstein-Baker, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Judith Bernstein-Baker was the first director of Penn Law's public service program, from 1990 to 1998. Subsequently she served as executive director of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Pennsylvania until her retirement in 2016.

Interview With Frank Carano, Joanna Lee Levine, Frank Carano, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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James Carano (L '33) practiced law in his native Philadelphia for almost seventy years. He was active in the Philadelphia Bar Association and in the Italian-American community. In 2002 he endowed the Frank Carano Professorship of Law, currently held by Leo Katz.

Interview With Mary Catherine Roper, Christine Docherty, Mary Catherine Roper, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Mary Catherine Roper (L '93) is the deputy legal director at the ACLU of Pennsylvania, where she coordinates litigation on a broad range of civil liberties issues, including freedom of speech, religious liberty, racial and ethnic justice, equality for lesbians and gay men, student rights, privacy, prisoners’ rights, and police misconduct. Prior to joining the ACLU, Mary Catherine was a partner in the firm of Drinker Biddle and Reath, where she was well known for her commitment to pro bono work. After law school, she clerked …

Interview No. 958, Esther Rollansky

Combined Interviews

Her mother was born in the colonies and her father, Samuel, was born in Poland. Samuel was a journalist for Jewish papers, a theater critic, a scholar, and the head of the Kultur Congress. He initiated love of Jewish culture and traditions- as well as socialism-into his children. They didn't only speak Yiddish at home, they lived Yiddish culture. She attended state (public) and Yiddish laic schools and became a teacher in various Jewish schools.A s a young girl she practically lived in the Yiddish theater. She met famous people in Yiddish culture from abroad, who visited her parent's house. …

Interview With Arthur Makadon, Marjorie A. George, Arthur Makadon, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Arthur Makadon (L '68) was a major figure in the Philadelphia bar and in Philadelphia politics. Most of his legal career was spent at Ballard Spahr, where he served as chair from 2002 to 2011. The Arthur Makadon Appellate Advocacy Program at the Law School was established in his honor by Ballard Spahr. He died in 2013.

Interview No. 956, Sara Salon

Combined Interviews

Her parents met in Smyrna and her father sent for her mother after he got to Posadas. They married in Paraguay because the Argentine officials didn't want to officiate over the marriage of a minor. Her mother was illiterate, yet she knew how to handle business affairs and was a musician. They participated in the small Turkish community. They moved to Corrientes and her mother's large family joined her there. The Turkish community in Corrientes was large. Her mother, with her friends, held singing and dancing sessions on Sundays to raise money to build the synagogue, which became the Asociación …

Interview With Donald Millinger, José A. Gregory, Donald M. Millinger, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Donald M. Millinger (L'79) practiced business and commercial law in the Philadelphia area and served on a number of non-profit boards. He is married to Gary Clinton, former Dean of Student Affairs at Penn Law School. In 2017 they established the Clinton-Millinger Scholarship program.

Interview With Justice Randy J. Holland, Katie Harrison, Randy J. Holland, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Randy J. Holland (L '72) served as a Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court from 1986 until his retirement in 2017. At the time of his appointment he was the youngest person ever to serve on that court.

Interview No. 953, Anita Lang

Combined Interviews

Born 1918, Lang came to Argentina with her parents from Russia when she was five years old. Her parents and grandparents also were in the theater.Although her dad didn't want her to be an actress, she became one anyway. She enjoyed a happy adolescence studying and going to the Hebraica and Macabi. She started in film when a film personality saw her on the beach and asked her to come for a tryout. She acted in 8 films, one of them about a prostitute ("una mujer"). Then she got married and had two children. When she separated from her husband,s …

Interview No. 960, Bertha P. De Braslavsky

Combined Interviews

Born 1913 in small town in Entre Rios, Argentina. Her parents had lived in the colonies. They were not very interested in their daughter's education, but because they moved to Buenos Aires, she was able to go beyond the 3rd grade. She finished normal school and then studied physics at the Profesorado for secondary school teachers. Here, and at the university later, she experienced persecution because of her student activism and interest in Marxism. As a result of her expulsion from her studies in 1936, she joined the Communist Youth. Eventually she earned a degree in Pedagogy from the Universidad …

The First Manure-Pitch, Mort Mather

Maine Song and Story Sampler

The Common Ground Country Fair (CGCF or “the Fair”) is Maine’s signature celebration of rural living, organic food and agriculture, and local enterprise.

Interview No. 952, Luna And Salomón Mayo

Combined Interviews

Luna de Mayo is 98 years old and her son Salomón, a retired doctor, is in his 70s. She met her future husband in her uncle's home and her aunt said she would marry him. He was 20 and she was 17, when they arrived to Argentina. They headed straight to Posadas (by train), where he had sisters. Posadas was very poor then, and their lives were very difficult. They lived in a one room wooden house with a well and no running water. Household tasks and raising 7 children on her husband's initially meager earnings, selling in the street …

Ua94/6/1/5 Boyce & Amelia Tate Interview, Boyce Tate, Amelia Tate, Sue Mcdaniel

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Interview of Boyce and Amelia Tate members of the class of 1950. Boyce Denton Tate native of Hardinsburg, KY graduated from WKU in 1950 and joined the faculty at WKU in 1965 as an assistant professor of math. In 1967 he was named Director of Engineering Technology. He married Amelia Meador while attending WKU.

Maine Folklife, Vol. 6, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter

We recently completed the NEH sponsored preservation of endangered tape recordings. Over the course of the two-year grant period we built and equipped a first-class sound lab and copied over 600 hours of audio tape-recorded material to high quality preservation master reels — over 250 hours of which were also copied to public-access CD-Rs. We also expanded and standardized our finding aides for these accessions, which are among the oldest and most valuable in our collection. Now that we have the equipment and necessary procedures in place, we will continue the preservation program as part of our regular work load. …

Interview With Robert Reynolds, August 23, 2000, Robert Reynolds, Michael J. Birkner

Oral Histories

In the last part of a series of interviews conducted by Michael J. Birkner, Robert Reynolds discussed on August 23, 2000 his life after World War II. After the war, Reynolds moved to Gettysburg. He discussed his time at a rubber factory and his decision to become a teacher at 50.

Length of Interview: 49 minutes

Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4^th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done …

Ua3/4/8/6 Harriett Downing Oral History, Harriett Downing, Sue Lynn Mcdaniel

WKU Archives Records

Harriet Downing interviewed by Sue Lynn McDaniel regarding student life during World War II and her experiences as wife of WKU's fourth president, Dero Downing.

Van Faasen, Paul Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge

Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College

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Interview No. 1663, Rogelio Carlos Jr.

Combined Interviews

Rogelio Carlos, Jr. was born and raised in Smeltertown. He recalls swimming in the river, hunting, and hiking with other neighborhood friends as a child and details the layout of Smeltertown. He states there was a strong sense of community in this small town among the older residents. The problem was with the younger children who created gangs, especially in the Calavera neighborhood. Rogelio discussed his education as a young boy, he attended a Mexican school in Smeltertown; there were only two schools in this area during the 1950’s. He discusses vocational education and extracurricular activities such as basketball. He …

Interview No. 954, Maria Eisser

Combined Interviews

She was born in Vienna in 1922. Her father was an Austrian industrialist and her mother a Hungarian pharmacist- the first woman to graduate with this specialty in Hungary. They lived in Vienna until she was 16, when the Nazis took over and they left for Hungary. At her mother's prompting, they left Hungary in1942 for Argentina; the trip had been planned for two years and was extremely dangerous. They took the last ship that sailed the Atlantic for South America. They were supposed to go to Brazil but wound up in Argentina instead, their stay in this country facilitated …

Van Putten, James D Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge

Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College

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Interview No. 955, Eugenia Sacerdote

Combined Interviews

Born in Turin in 1910. Very antifascist-saw Peronism as reply to fascism. Father died when she was about 10 years old so, was brought up by mother. Women couldn't study at that time, so she attended the Liceo Femenino, which didn't feed into the university, and then stayed home for a year. She and her cousin, who would go on to win a Nobel Prize, and who was brought up in an even more restricted fashion, studied for one year to be able to pass certain courses to get into the university. She experienced much prejudice in medical school, but …

Vandervelde, Rick Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge

Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College

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Muiderman, Anthony Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge

Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College

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Interview No. 959, Ruth De Sommer

Combined Interviews

Sommer left Germany at the beginning of the Third Reich, for Holland; she saw how bad the antisiemitism was. She left when she was 16, and she lived in Holland with a family, working as a nursemaid (niñera). Then she came alone to Buenos Aires in 1936; her parents arrived later. When she arrived, since she was alone (without parent's written consent) and only 20 years old, she wasn't allowed to leave the port until her aunt arrived to vouch for her. She lived with her uncle and aunt in Belgraro until her parents arrived.Her parents rented an apartment in …

Jellema, Mary Oral History Interview: Retired Faculty And Administrators Of Hope College, Melissa Labarge

Retired Faculty and Administrators of Hope College

No abstract provided.