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The history of the University of Southern California represents the combined creativity of talented faculty, staff, and students for more than 125 years. Today, USC is a world-class university. Thousands of men and women have contributed their scholarship, research, teaching, mentoring, and administrative skills to create our institution. In addition, their contributions were preserved for posterity in historical treatises, books, research papers, and written recollections. Today we live in the information age with myriad ways to digitally preserve people, events, and thoughts with the latest technological resources.
The Emeriti Center is the campus locus of retired faculty and staff who are the living embodiment of the historical evolution of the university. Their minds are the repositories of the past and their talents created it. To preserve and codify this historical mosaic, the Emeriti Center, and the H. Dale Hilton Living History Project has videotaped many key campus contributors over the past 25 years. Those who are videotaped are retired faculty and staff of USC who have collectively made the university what it is today. The interviews are eclectic remembrances of major campus events from the 1940s to the present: the evolving academic environment, administrative restructuring, and research/teaching accomplishments.
The selection committee consists of Chair Louise Ball; Interview Coordinator Christine Shade; Campus Facilitator Claude Zachary, University Archivist; and a board of seven emeritus staff and faculty. All interviews are recorded with the assistance of the staff of TrojanVision and the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and we are very grateful for their technical expertise.
The entire interview collection was digitized in 2006, and current protocol calls for the immediate digitization of any new interviews to make sure that all interviews are available in the DVD format. The complete library of Living History Project DVDs is available for public viewing at:
Gerontology Library
3715 McClintock Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089–0191
(213) 740-5990
A select number of Living History interviews can also be viewed online at USC's YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/usc). Scroll down to the "Videos" box, type "Living History" into the search field, and click the "Search" button. You will then be able to access the interviews currently available on YouTube.
The people interviewed to date are:
| Ball, Louise | Keck School of Medicine | |
| Beglarian, Grant* | Dean, School of Performing Arts** | |
| Benson, Sidney W. | Department of Chemistry | |
| Berkes, Ross N. | School of International Relations | |
| Berton, Peter | School of International Relations | |
| Biles, John A. | Dean, School of Pharmacy | |
| Biller, Robert P. | Dean, School of Policy, Planning, and Development | |
| Blankenchip, John Edward | School of Theatre | |
| Briscoe, James | Transportation Services | |
| Burg, Anton B. | Department of Chemistry | |
| Christol, Carl Q. | Department of Political Science | |
| Clements, Thomas | Department of Earth Sciences | |
| Cohn, Gordon | Keck School of Medicine | |
| Dedeaux, Rod | Intercollegiate Athletics (Baseball) | |
| Dockson, Robert R. | Dean, Marshall School of Business | |
| Donovan, Arthur J. | Keck School of Medicine | |
| Dummett, Clifton O. | School of Dentistry | |
| Edwards, Ward | Department of Psychology | |
| Feldman, Frances Lomas | School of Social Work | |
| Franklin, Carl | Administration | |
| Hadley, Paul | School of International Relations | |
| Hadley, Paul | AROHE | |
| Hall, J. Tillman | Department of Physical Education** | |
| Hammond, G. Denman | Keck School of Medicine | |
| Hamovitch, Maurice | School of Social Work | |
| Henderson, Brian D. | Keck School of Medicine | |
| Hilton, H. Dale | Naval Science and Alumni Association | |
| House, Howard P. | Keck School of Medicine | |
| Hubbard, John R. | University President; Department of History | |
| Larue, Gerald A. | Davis School of Gerontology | |
| Lazzaro, Anthony D. | Administration | |
| Lee, Peter V. | Keck School of Medicine | |
| Lewis, Daniel | Thornton School of Music | |
| Mannes, Robert L. | Office of Student Affairs; Viterbi School of Engineering | |
| Manning, Phil | Keck School of Medicine | |
| Mathies, Allen W. | Keck School of Medicine | |
| Meloan, Taylor | Marshall School of Business | |
| Mishell, Jr., Daniel R. | Keck School of Medicine | |
| Nelson, Dorothy P. | School of Law | |
| Peterson, James | Davis School of Gerontology | |
| Rehman, Irving | Keck School of Medicine | |
| Rudisill, Alvin | Department of Religion | |
| Russell, John | Department of Physics and Astronomy | |
| Schnepp, Otto | Department of Chemistry | |
| Shapiro, Eudice | Thornton School of Music | |
| Solomon, Barbara J. | School of Social Work | |
| Spitzer, William | Dean, LAS | |
| Stoops, Emery | Rossier School of Education | |
| Strevey, Tracy | Administration | |
| Topping, Norman | Administration | |
| Totten, III, George Oakley | Department of Political Science | |
| Tranquada, Robert E. | Keck School of Medicine | |
| Van Der Meulen, Joseph | Keck School of Medicine | |
| von Hofe, Harold | School of German Studies | |
| Warner, Nancy | Keck School of Medicine | |
| Wedberg, Conrad F. | Governmental Affairs |
Number of interviews conducted (as of 1 May 2009): 56.
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| * | The late Grant Beglarian is the subject of this interview. Interviewed are Spencer Beglarian, Grant's son, and William Thomson, former Dean, Thornton School of Music. |
| ** | Unit no longer exists. |
