Mimi Haas : Interview for the John W. Gardner Legacy Oral History Project
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Mimi Haas describes her parents’ experience as refugees from Yugoslavia and shares memories of her youth in the Washington, DC, area. She recalls hearing about John W. Gardner and Common Cause during her adolescence and how she later became friends with Gardner and his wife, Aida, after marrying the late Peter E. Haas and joining the Bay Area social scene. Peter and Mimi Haas generously supported the founding of the Gardner Fellowship program at Stanford and UC Berkeley, and they later created the endowed chair that brought Gardner back to Stanford in 1989. The couple also were instrumental in the founding of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford. Haas concludes the interview by expressing admiration for Gardner and his life’s work in public service.
Description
Type of resource | sound recording-nonmusical, text, still image |
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Extent | 1 audio file; 1 text file; 1 photograph |
Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Date created | April 30, 2018 |
Language | English |
Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
Interviewee | Haas, Mimi | |
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Creator | Haas, Mimi | |
Interviewer | Abel, Suzanne | |
Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
Subject | Gardner, John W. (John William), 1912-2002 |
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Subject | Civil Society > United States |
Subject | Haas Center for Public Service (Stanford University) |
Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
Biographical profile | Mimi Haas is a prominent philanthropist who serves in leadership roles for numerous arts, public service, and other organizations. Among these, she is vice chair of the New York Museum of Modern Art, vice chair of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, a member of the board of trustees of Lincoln Center and MVYouth, and a director of Levi Strauss & Co. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Global Philanthropists Circle. In 2015, Mrs. Haas was an inaugural fellow at the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute. In the late 1980s, she and her late husband, Peter E. Haas (through the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund), along with other Haas family philanthropies, created the founding endowment of the Haas Center for Public Service and the Mimi and Peter Haas Centennial Professorship in Public Service. John W. Gardner was the first incumbent of the professorship, holding the chair from 1989 until his retirement in 1996. Haas is a longtime member of the National Advisory Board of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University, a position to which John W. Gardner originally recruited her. |
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Transcript |
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Finding Aid | |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/xr721cs1039 |
Location | SC1355 |
Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
John W. Gardner Legacy Oral History Project
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