Oral history interview with Harriett Greene [electronic resource], 1997

Biographical Note

Administrative.

Scope and Contents

Childhood: Bristol, Connecticut; family reminiscences; undergraduate studies, music and mathematics, Smith College, 1942-1944; marriage to Preston Rogers Bassett, Jr., raising family, Bennington, Vermont, Pearl River, New York; early Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [LDEO] impressions: general assistant 1956; social atmosphere; director’s administrative assistant, 1958: impressions of director’s office daily operations; organizing shuttle service between LDEO and Columbia University [CU]; Doherty Foundation endowment; founding of Lamont Bulletin; marriage to Dr. E. Maurice Ewing, LDEO director, 1965; gatekeeping to director’s office; LDEO impressions: work, lack of tenure positions, relations with press; reminiscences of Ewing: childhood in Texas, health, social life; Australian trip, 1965; colleague reminiscences, international visitors: effect of guest quarters establishment; LDEO funding: loss of block grants, conflicts with CU, organized fundraising; classified government contracts controversy, late 1960s; Sterling Forest initiative;; departure from LDEO, move to Galveston, Texas; Ewing’s death.

Subjects

• Columbia University
• Doel, Ronald, interviewer.
• Ewing, W. Maurice (William Maurice), 1906-1974
• Greene, Harriett, 1925-2002--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
• Oral histories.
• Research grants

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1998