Wendy Kirst Interview for John W. Gardner Legacy Oral History Project (October 2018)

https://purl.stanford.edu/mx411ns0248

COLLECTION
John W. Gardner Legacy Oral History Project
Access conditions
USE AND REPRODUCTION
The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Description
TYPE OF RESOURCE
Sound recording-nonmusical
Text
Still image
1 audio file; 1 text file; 1 photograph
PLACE OF CREATION
Stanford (Calif.): Stanford Historical Society
October 10, 2018
LANGUAGE
English
DIGITAL ORIGIN
born digital
Creators/Contributors
INTERVIEWEE
Kirst, Wendy
CREATOR
Kirst, Wendy
INTERVIEWER
Mancini, Nancy

PUBLISHER
Stanford Historical Society
Abstract/Contents
Wendy Kirst shares memories of the times that she and John W. Gardner crossed paths during his lifetime. She begins by describing her youth in Chicago, her college education at Smith, and her time in secretarial school. Kirst then recalls how she was hired to work as “secretary number two” for Gardner when he was at the Urban Coalition and describes following him to Common Cause. Years later, Kirst reconnected with Gardner when he moved back to Stanford and into a house near the Kirsts. She shares details of hosting Gardner’s 80th birthday party and memories of Gardner and his wife, Aida.
Bibliographic information
Wendy Kirst lives on the Stanford campus with her husband, Professor Emeritus Mike Kirst. Beginning in the late 1980s, the Kirst and Gardner families were campus neighbors and very well acquainted. Mrs. Kirst had also known John Gardner in Washington, DC, when, as a new college graduate, she worked for him at the Urban Coalition and Common Cause. Mr. Kirst had worked with Gardner in Washington, DC, during that period as well.

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