Harmon, Rick
Biography
Richard Charles Harmon was born in Jackson, Michigan, in 1952. When he was six years old, his family moved to the West Coast. In 1975, he earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California, San Diego. That same year, he and Candice Gaucher were married; they later divorced in 1985. He attended Columbia University in New York, then transferred back to UCSD. A few years later, he left graduate school and began working in publishing in Southern California. In the early 1980s, he began working in the UCLA oral history program. n 1984, he became an oral historian at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, and the next year, he also became the editor of Oregon Historical Quarterly, the society's journal. For a year, he held both positions, and he served as editor of OHQ until 1999. Harmon was married twice. He and Candice Gaucher married in 1975, then divorced in 1985. He remarried, to Jane Malarkey, in 1990. In 1990, he and Jane Malarkey were married. Harmon died in 2004.
Sources: Information provided by Harmon in an oral history interview, SR 2531 at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library; vital records on Ancestry.com.
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Luther S. Cressman
Oral history interview with Luther S. Cressman conducted by Rick Harmon on July 31, 1987. Cressman, who helped to found of the University of Oregon Department of Anthropology and served as its longtime chair, talks about the background of the Museum of Natural History at the University of Oregon in Eugene, and talks about archaeological digs he participated in.
Oral history interview with William G. East
Oral history interview with William G. East conducted by Rick Harmon from November 8-15, 1984, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. East was a judge on the Oregon Circuit Court and the U.S. District Court of Oregon.
Oral history interview with Rick Harmon
Oral history interview with Rick Harmon conducted by Jim Strassmaier on October 17 and November 14, 2001. Harmon discusses his work as an editor in the UCLA oral history program, as the oral historian at the Oregon Historical Society, and as the editor of Oregon Historical Quarterly.
Oral history interview with Becky Johnson
Oral history interview with John F. Kilkenny
Oral history interview with John F. Kilkenny conducted by Rick Harmon from June 12 to October 3, 1984, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Kilkenny was a judge on the U.S. District Court of Oregon and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Oral history interview with Hans A. Linde
Oral history interview with Hans A. Linde conducted by Rick Harmon and Michael O’Rourke from January 15, 2002, to February 3, 2004, as part of the United States District Court of Oregon Oral History Project. Linde discusses his career as a professor of law at the University of Oregon and several other institutions, and his service as a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1977 to 1990.
Oral history interview with Clyde Rice
Oral history interview with Clyde Rice conducted by Rick Harmon from January 22 to March 13, 1985. Rice was an author from Portland, Oregon, and he discusses his novel "A Heaven in the Eye," as well as his family background and early life, his marriages, and his father's flavor extract business.
Oral history interview with Nicholas Schneider and Edmund Schneider
Oral history interview with brothers Nicholas Schneider and Edmund Schneider conducted by Rick Harmon from April 18-25, 1985. The Schneiders discuss life in Portland in the early 20th century, their father's involvement with the Albers Brothers Milling Company, and their U.S. Army service during World War I.
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