Oral history interview with Ollie A. Randall 1981
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- Name
- Randall, Ollie A (Interviewee)
- Grayson, Vida S (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Ollie A. Randall 1981
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Ollie A. Randall : oral history, 1981
- Abstract
- Family background; youth in Providence, Rhode Island; extended family and development of interest in social work and the elderly; Brown University, A.B. 1912; travels to Greece; Association to Improve the Condition of the Poor: secretary to William Matthews, 1914; Director of Ward Manor, 1925-1945; formation of Community Service Society; organizer of National Committee on Aging; resident of Tompkin s Square House; special problems of the elderly.
- Collection Name
- Community Service Society project
- Subjects
- Social workers; Family social work; Social work with older people--United States; Social service; Randall, Ollie A; Community Service Society of New York
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1981
- Note (Biographical)
- Social worker.
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Interviewed by Vida S. Grayson on December 29, 1980.
- Note (Provenance)
- Ollie A. Randall, Gift 1981
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 7139953
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-kynm-jw22
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.