08.23.00 - Berkeleyan Table of Contents

Stories for 23 August 2000

•	Field Studies: Effort addresses health effects of pesticides and allergens on rural mothers and babies

•	Back to the books: Students, faculty return to campus for 132nd academic year

•	Pay attention to the man behind the curtain!

•	COrE energizes departments seeking organizational change

•	Oral histories reveal roots of Oakland's successes

•	Study shows less chance of major quake on Hayward fault

•	Devoted to helping others: For nearly 30 years, Madrid has worked to improve life for those on and off campus

•	Webcasting, multimedia classrooms debut this year

•	Report questions practices of condor release program

•	Modem pool's 600 new devices will improve network access from home

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Peter Hanff, deputy director of Bancroft Library, holds one of his prized possessions, a first-edition copy of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," printed in 1900. In this famous scene, the monkeys are kidnapping Dorothy and Toto. Peg Skorpinski photo.

Pay attention to the man behind the curtain!

Bancroft Library deputy director Peter Hanff is a highly respected scholar in the dignified field of rare book and special collections librarianship.

So his colleagues often chuckle with surprise when he divulges his side-job: president of the International Wizard of Oz Club.

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