Oral history interview with Edith Maris [electronic resource], 1983.

Biographical Note

Sales executive.

Scope and Contents

Education, University of California, 1928; early work with institutional advertising, own advertising agency, public relations with Mark Hopkins Hotel, photography studio; work at Science Research Associates (SRA): success in sales, introduction of multi-level testing, problems of prejudice in testing, management controversies; sale of SRA to International Business Machines; impressions of Lyle Spencer: personality, interest in education, as administrator, marriage, general attitudes toward women.

Subjects

• Educational tests and measurements.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.
• International Business Machines Corporation.
• Interviews
• Maris, Edith--Interviews.
• Oral histories
• Sales management.
• Sales personnel--Interviews.
• Science Research Associates.
• Spencer, Lyle Manley, 1911-1968.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Spencer Foundation, 1995