CALL NUMBER: T3963:0001 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1982-03-18 & 1982-04-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Description of early education in Manitoba in a country school. Normal School in Victoria. UBC and clubs. Meeting with Dr. Boggs. Influence of Gandhi at the London School of Economics. Work with London East Enders. Term "active pacifist". Impressions and influence of J.S. Woodsworth and his wife Lucy -- her appearance and approachability; the fund in her name started by her daughter for children in Vancouver's East End. The founding and location of the West End Community Centre. TRACK 2: Voluntary activities. Women's International League and its supplantation by Voice of Women. Work with students through S.C.M. and UBC's International House and SERVAS. Importance of disarmament through community work, churches, and relief work with children. Projects in Mexico; South America (in particular Monteverdi, Costa Rica); a family's work in El Salvador, the renewal of the land and school gardens for a village. Meeting with the Webbs; George Bernard Shaw; the International Club in Vancouver; a co-operative house on Trafalgar Street in Vancouver; volunteer fund-raising for the Boys' Club in Southeast Asia and the American and Canadian Friends' Service Committee.

CALL NUMBER: T3963:0002 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1982-05-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Young people's possible outlets for social action. April 24, 1982 peace march in Vancouver; meeting with Martin Luther King and influence of Gandhi; Coretta King and children; opinion on War Measures Act; opinion on government cutbacks; responsibility of teachers to the young from other countries; early Socialists in B.C. (Woodsworth); activities at the "Y" with unemployed at the Burns Buildings; the formation of the working girls co-operative building; the welcoming of UBC Language Institute students into her home. [TRACK 2: blank.] (End of interview)