Packer, Nancy H.

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Abstract: Nancy Packer, the Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, Emeritus and a former member of the Faculty Senate, reflects on the career of her husband Herbert L. Packer, who proposed the idea of the Faculty Senate, comments on the campus climate in the 1960s and 1970s and briefly recounts her own experience as a member of the Faculty Senate. Packer begins the interview by recounting some details of her early life in Washington, DC as the daughter of a congressman and her courtship with Herb Packer. She speaks of Herb Packer’s career at the Stanford Law School and his intellectual contributions to a law faculty that had more courtroom or practical experience over scholarship. She remembers the great jurist Learned Hand and the judge for whom Herb Packer clerked, Thomas Walter Swan, as his sources of intellectual influence. Packer discusses political controversies Herb faced at the time of his appointment and the context of protests against the draft and the Vietnam War, which she believes provided the impetus for his writing the memo that laid the foundation for the Faculty Senate. Packer also emphasizes Herb’s contribution in reforming undergraduate education through the Study for Education at Stanford. Packer concludes with brief reminiscences of her own service on the Faculty Senate.

Type of resource	mixed material
Date created	May 16, 2017

Author	Packer, Nancy H.
Contributing author	Marine-Street, Natalie
Publisher	Stanford Historical Society

Subject	Nancy Huddleston Packer
Subject	Stanford Historical Society
Subject	oral history
Subject	interviews
Subject	professors
Subject	Stanford University. Faculty Senate
Subject	Herbert L. Packer
Subject	Stanford University > Executive Committee
Subject	Stanford University > Academic Council

Related item	Title Finding Aid
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/mp913dv7340

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Preferred Citation: Packer, Nancy H. (2017).
Interview for the Stanford Faculty Senate Oral History Project. Stanford Historical Society
Oral History Program Interviews (SC0932). Department of Special Collections & University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Available at:
https://purl.stanford.edu/mp913dv7340

Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program interviews, 1999-2022

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