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"Reflections on Leadership," with Ruth Correll and Janet S. Roberts, OH1699
"Reflections on Leadership," with Ruth Correll and Janet S. Roberts, OH1699
Call Number
OH1699
Date
1999
Description
In this program produced by Channel 8 TV, former Boulder City Council member, Janet Roberts, and former council member and mayor, Ruth Correll, talk about their cutting-edge roles as women active in politics in Boulder, particularly during the 1950s through 1970s. Roberts credits the League of Women Voters for arousing her interest in politics and giving her the skills to become only the fourth woman on the Boulder City Council. They discuss issues on which they worked that remain relevant, especially the issues of affordable housing and growth management. They also comment on the relative lack of corruption in Boulder politics compared to that in some eastern cities, and the openness of Boulder to citizen participation. The program also includes commentary by Linda Jourgensen, another former Boulder mayor.
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Oral history interview with Bob Greenlee, 2008
Oral history interview with Bob Greenlee, 2008
Call Number
OH1525-V
Date
2008
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Oral history interview with Joel C. Davis, 2009
Oral history interview with Joel C. Davis, 2009
Call Number
OH1562-V
Date
2009
Description
In 1965 Joel Davis, age 29, was the youngest person elected to the Boulder City Council up until that time. He served on the council for two years. In this interview he discusses the city climate at the time and how the issues of growth and growth control have played out in Boulder in the intervening years. In particular he mentions the use of sales tax to purchase open space and to improve roads. He also discusses the city manager form of government under which Boulder operates and the collegiality and relative simplicity with which the council operated in the 1960s as compared to today.
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Oral history interview with Cindy Carlisle, 2009
Oral history interview with Cindy Carlisle, 2009
Call Number
OH1564-V
Date
2009
Description
Cindy Carlisle served as a Boulder City Councilperson for four years and a University of Colorado Regent for six years. She also campaigned, in 2008, to become a Colorado State Senator. In this interview she discusses all of these campaigns plus the many issues that she has dealt with during her time in office. City issues included protection of open space and the local environment, creating a bubble against protesters around women's health and abortion clinics, and enactment of a fighting words ordinance and a gay protection ordinance. Issues for the CU Board of Regents included the Quality for Colorado program, South Campus development, whether to strip Ward Churchill of tenure, and a Title IX lawsuit against the Athletics Department. She also discusses the partisan nature of regent politics, and muses about the need to plan locally for the effects of climate disruption.
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Oral history interview with Richard E. Geesaman, 2009
Oral history interview with Richard E. Geesaman, 2009
Call Number
OH1571-V
Date
2009
Description
Richard Geesaman talks about his love of Boulder, where he has lived since the 1950s. He talks about his work as a physician in private practice and for IBM, the creation of the Boulder County Department of Health, and his service as a council person on the Boulder City Council. He discusses the political atmosphere for the city council during the 1970s, including its conservative/liberal mix, the gay rights ordinance passed by the city council during that time, the collegiality of the council members, and the city manager form of government. He also talks about the problem of overly large houses being built in Boulder at the time of this interview.
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