ALBERS-2012T

Interview with Harry Albers, Transcript, 2012

 

2012-10-18

 

Interviewer: Resnik, Susan; Transcriber: Jardee Transcription

An oral history conducted by Susan Resnik, Ph.D. with former San Diego State University Foundation General Manager Harry Albers on October 18, 2012.

Beginning in 1978, Albers worked as general manager of the SDSU Foundation in addition to serving as vice president for University Relations and Development for three years. During his 21-year tenure as General Manager, Albers helped the Foundation's business grow from $13.5 million to over $143 million, including a huge increase in grants, contracts, and real property (e.g. Alvarado Medical Center).

In his oral history, Albers recounts his childhood in New Jersey, attending the University of Pittsburgh (and becoming the first white student to room with an African-American student on campus) and Cornell University, as well as his career abroad as a physicist with the Smithsonian Institution in the Netherlands and Spain. Albers then discusses his time as general manager for the SDSU Research Foundation.

This oral history was made possible by a grant from the John and Jane Adams Endowment for the Humanities and is part of the University Archives Multimedia Files Collection.

Harry Albers; Susan Resnik; Administrators; Oral Histories; Interviews; San Diego State University Research Foundation; Smithsonian Institution; Jean Ellen Cherry Albers; Marion, New Jersey; Bullies; Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (New Jersey); Rev. Walter P. Artioli; Dickinson High School; University of Pittsburgh; Edward H. Litchfield; Track and field; George Crouch; David Halliday; Gary Prinz; Hans Bethe; Elizabeth Barringer; Jack Coffey; Thomas Day; Curacao (Antilles); Santa Barbara Beach (Curacao); Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; Ceres (dwarf planet); Peter Drucker; John Hsia; Spanish Naval Observatory; Papiamentu; Harry R. Albers, Jr.; Steaphan H. Albers; Robert Albers; GPS accuracy; T. Ames Wheeler; Sidney R. Galler; David L. Wolper; Leo Goldberg; Kitt Peak National Observatory; Tucson, Arizona; Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory; Hubble Space Telescope; William T. Golden; National Science Foundation; Robert R. Nardelli; San Diego State University

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ALBERS01-2012; ALBERS02-2012

See ALBERS-2012T; keywords continued: William L. Erickson; Robert Benshoff; Steven Bloom; Frea Sladek; Davene Gibson; Juanita Brents; Brage Golding; Albert W. Johnson; James Cobble; Philip C. Miller; Walter C. Oechel; Sol Price; Seafirst Bank; Timothy M. Considine; Frederick W. Pierce IV; Goodkin Group; Christopher S. McKellar; W. Ann Reynolds; Foundation for Math and Science Education; University of Hawai?i Institute for Astronomy; Donald N. B. Hall; William D. Lowery; Lobbyists; Defense conversion; Charles Jeremy Lewis "Jerry"; Ron Cady; Fred J. Hansen; Robert Ontell; Leo R B Henrikson; Samuel Pohoryles; Shimon Peres; Yousef Wali; Adel S. El-Beltagy; Dov Pasternak; Cooperative Arid Lands Agriculture Research Program; CALAR; Duston Albers; Bailey Albers

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