University of Wyoming
Interviews -- audiocassettes.
Shannon (S.J.) Moffat was a reporter and free-lance writer based out of Palo Alto, CA. She wrote medical and technical reports for universities and private companies in the U.S., including the University of Wyoming. Born Samuel J. Moffat in 1927, she served in the Navy during the Second World War, and graduated from Amherst College before moving to California in 1954. She passed away in 2009.
The S.J. Moffat collection contains the manuscripts, drafts, and research for Moffat's free-lance articles and reports. The research material includes articles and notes for "A Comprehensive Medical Education System for Wyoming: The Governor's Steering Committee on Medical Education Development" (1974), and a Navy photo scrapbook used for a novel. In addition, there are newspaper clippings, manuals, books, and journals written or edited by Moffat, including several issues of the Stanford Library Associates publication, "The Imprint." There are also audiocassettes of interviews with doctors and professors discussing topics in health, medicine, and technology. There is material covering Moffat's gender transition, including a diary she kept as it was occurring. Other materials, including files of her professional organizations, volunteer work, student advising and certificates, are included as well.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
Author maintains copyright.
There are no known other archival collections created by S.J. Moffat at the date of processing.
Partial finding aid available in repository.
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