File FL0001 - Harris, Michael [subject interview]

3 files; 20 audio cassettes (ca. 31 hrs.) polyester, 4.75 cm/s., mono.

• File consists of Christie Harris's son Michael Harris, the real life Ralph of Let X Be Excitement, recording his memories and impressions of his childhood, his siblings and significant incidents in his life.
• Includes recollections of cadet camp; summer jobs at a logging camp, a gold mine, a shipyard and on an oil exploration team; attending the University of British Columbia and joining the rowing team; climbing Mt. Shukstan and Mt. Garibaldi in British Columbia and Mt. Snowdon in Wales, and further Adventures climbing and rafting while in the Canadian Officer Training Core; competing in the Royal Henley Regatta in England and touring Europe; winning an Athlone Fellowship; working for Canadair; joining the Air Force and becoming a pilot; experiences flying in Europe; ideas for inventions; and leaving the air force to work at Cornell University.
• Tapes 13-20 consist of M. Harris's editorial comments on various Chapters of the book as they are written and sent to him by Christie Harris.
• Tape 20 is blank on side B.

Transferred from reels to cassettes in 1997.

Originally recorded circa 1966 on 11 audio reels which were dubbed onto cassettes owing to the fragile nature of the originals. Dubbing done in March 1997 by Communications Media Department, University of Calgary. Cassettes removed to box 71 for conservation purposes; originals shelved with Christie Harris fonds. Two of original tapes in Christie Harris fonds were mislabelled as Let X Be Excitement; in fact they consist of Sheilagh Simpson's reminiscences for Confessions of a Toe-hanger (1967) except for approximately 15 minutes of the final tape which is the beginning of M. Harris's reminiscences.