Drekmeier, Charles

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Abstract: Professor Emeritus Charles Drekmeier, who served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Academic Council from 1966 to 1968, describes the general climate at Stanford around the time that the Faculty Senate was formed. Drekmeier discusses the circumstances that led to his arrival at Stanford in 1958, including the recommendation of sociologist Talcott Parsons with whom he had worked as a research assistant at Harvard. He recalls how, as a young faculty member with a student following due his involvement in early anti-Vietnam war activism, he was invited to be an at-large member of the Executive Committee of the Academic Council in 1966. He offers recollections of key movers in academic governance at the time, including J.E. Wallace Sterling, Albert Guerard, Richard Lyman, Herb Packard, Ernest Hilgard, and Kenneth Arrow, and provides brief insights on the character of Executive Committee meetings at the time that the Faculty Senate came into being. Drekmeier also recounts memories about organizing the Stanford Teach-In on the Vietnam War in 1965 and the program in Social Thought and Institutions.

Type of resource	mixed material
Date created	November 14, 2017

Author	Drekmeier, Charles
Contributing author	Marine-Street, Natalie
Publisher	Stanford Historical Society

Subject	Charles Drekmeier
Subject	Stanford Historical Society
Subject	oral histories
Subject	interviews
Subject	higher education
Subject	professors
Subject	Stanford University > Academic Council
Subject	Stanford University > Executive Committee of the Academic Council
Subject	Stanford University > Senate of the Academic Council (Faculty Senate)
Subject	teacher participation in administration
Subject	universities and colleges > administration
Subject	universities and colleges > faculty
Subject	Vietnam War
Subject	1961-1975 > Protest movements > United States

Related item	Title Finding Aid
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/sh966yw1697

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Preferred Citation: Drekmeier, Charles. (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/sh966yw1697

Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program interviews, 1999-2022

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