UniversityofCalifornia Regional Oral History Office University ofCalifornia The Bancroft Library Berkeley, California University History Series Suzanne Toll Peltason PARTNERAND PARTICIPANT : UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIACHANCELLOR S AND PRESIDENT S WIFE 1984-1995 With an Introduction by Rita Atkinson An Interview Conductedby Ann Lage in 1999 Copyright 2002 by The Regents ofthe University ofCalifornia Since 1954 the Regional Oral History Office has been interviewing leading participants in or well-placed witnessestomajorevents in the developmentofnorthern California, theWest, and the nation. Oralhistory is amethod ofcollecting historical information through tape-recorded interviews between a narratorwith firsthand knowledge ofhistorically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preservingsubstantiveadditionstothehistoricalrecord.Thetaperecordingistranscribed,lightlyeditedfor continuity and clarity, andreviewedby the interviewee. The corrected manuscript is indexed, bound with photographs and illustrative materials, and placed in The BancroftLibrary at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, and in otherresearch collections forscholarlyuse. Because itisprimary material, oral historyis not intended to present the final, verified, orcomplete narrative ofevents. It is a spoken account, offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is reflective, partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ************************************ All uses ofthis manuscript are covered by a legal agreementbetween The Regents ofthe University of California and Suzanne Toll Peltason, dated October 26, 2001. The manuscript is thereby made available for research purposes. All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley. Nopartofthemanuscriptmaybequotedforpublication withoutthewrittenpermissionoftheDirectorofTheBancroftLibraryoftheUniversityof California, Berkeley. Requests forpermission to quote forpublication shouldbe addressed to theRegional Oral History Office,486 BancroftLibrary, Mail Code 6000, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley 94720-6000, and should include identification of the specific passages to be quoted, anticipated use ofthe passages, and identification ofthe user. The legal agreement with Suzanne Toll Peltason requires that she be notified ofthe request and allowed thirty days in which to respond. It is recommended that this oral historybe cited as follows: Suzanne Toll Peltason, "Partner and Participant: University of California Chancellor s and President s Wife, 1984-1995," an oral history conducted in 1999 by Ann Lage, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, 2002. Copyno. l_ Suzanne and Jack Peltason, inauguration dinner, UCI, March 14, 1985,