Includes audio tapes and a transcript of interviews conducted with Ellen Clark Revelle, widow of oceanographer Roger Revelle. The interview covers her long association with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and her husband's efforts to found the University of California, San Diego. She recalls her wartime experiences in Washington, D. C. while her husband was serving in the Navy, the California Loyalty Oath Controversy of 1951, and other events in her life.