Interviews conducted in 1970-1971 by Harriet Nathan for the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library. Introduction by Charles Meyer. Photographs inserted. Comments on Phoebe Apperson Hearst and George Hearst and Mrs. Hearst's estate at Pleasanton, Calif.; boyhood in Berkeley; study at University of California, Class of 1914; career as professor of mining engineering and mining geology at Harvard and University of California, Berkeley; as consulting geologist, and as mining company executive with Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp. and Homestake Mining Co.; service as Regent of the University of California, 1951-1966; views on gold and the monetary system, uranium and nuclear energy, etc. Appended: brief career summary, lists of speeches, etc.