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Transcript of an interview with Virginia True conducted by Dolores Greenberg, February 27, 1964. Topics include her childhood experiences in St. Louis; early education and art training; teaching at the University of Denver; graduate study at Cornell University; research, teaching, and administration in the Department of Housing and Design at Cornell, 1930s-1964; impressions of Flora Rose, Sarah Blanding, and others; relations with industry; comments concerning a mural depicting home economics; development of graduate degrees in the Department of Housing and Design; and the development of the Center for Housing and Environmental Study.