Reminiscences of Margaret Stathos: oral history; Oral history of Margaret Stathos
Abstract
In this one session interview, Margaret Moreland Stathos discusses her involvement with the New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS), the institution's history, and her views on activism, particularly surround laboratory animals. She begins the interview discussing her childhood experiences with animals, her learning of vivisection and opposition to it following the disappearance of a neighborh ood cat in 1957, graduate work as a pianist in Germany in 1958, and early influences. Figures mentioned over the course of the interview include Albert Schweitzer and Rachel Carson. She discusses the NEAVS presidencies of George Farnum, Judge Robert Ford, and Cleveland Amory, and the activities of NEAVS from the 1960s-1990s. Also addressed is her work in the NEAVS educational department, writing the history of NEAVS, and reflections on the state of animal rights activism at the time of the interview. There is one box of supplemental materials relating to the inerview, organized by footnote. These materials include NEAVS publications, documentation from the NEAVS Library Project, and Ingrid Newkirk's book Save the Animals! 101 Easy Things You Can Do.
Animal welfare; Animal industry--Moral and ethical aspects; Animal rights; Animal rights movement; Animal rights activists; Stathos, Margaret Moreland, 1925-; Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965; Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964; New England Anti-Vivisection Society
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2000
Physical Description
47 pages
Note (Biographical)
Margaret Moreland Stathos became a member of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS) in 1957 and served as a director at the time of the interview. In the 1990s, she spearheaded the NEAVS Library Project, which brought animals rights publicat ions to Massachusetts libraries and school libraries across the United States. In 1995, she served as co-chair for NEAVS' centennial and wrote a history of the organization. Professionally, she was a concert pianist and music historian.
Note
Interviewed by Kenneth Shapiro on July 12, 2000.
Note (Provenance)
Recording Animal Advocacy, Inc. Gift 2001 2001.2002.M055