GOLDBERG, Milton. Social worker and administrator.

Milton Goldberg Interview. Interviewed by Ben Cohen. Date of interview: 12-12-94. 2 cassette tapes (2 duplicate tapes). Length of interview: undetermined. Transcript of interview: 29 pp. (2 copies of rough draft of interview).

Topics of interview: Entrance into social work; education; first position, with Jewish Family Service; activities with Boy Scouts executive leadership as first Jew and social work professional; hiring of first Hispanic and African-American to work for Boy Scouts; Welfare Planning Council, Special Services for Groups; Governor's Advisory Committee on Children and Youth; executive director of Jewish Big Brothers; goals for Jewish Big Brothers; Dr. Oscar Reiss; casework with Jewish Big Brothers; supervision of "big brothers"; board of directors; fundraising and budget; relationship between private and public funding; big brothers for girls program; personal reflections on social work; volunteer activities with social welfare organizations and agencies; influence of social work profession on policy and programs; changes in field of social work; relationship between Jewish Big Brothers and USC School of Social work; administrator of Camp Max Straus; establishment of Los Angeles Times Camp fund; volunteer work after retirement; present status of children from Jewish Big Brother program; anecdotes about children in program.

Milton Goldberg: An Oral History Interview on Dr. Oscar Reiss. Interviewed by Jean Berlfein. Date of interview: 7-13-86. No cassette tapes. Length of interview: undetermined. 2 transcripts of interview: 14 pp. and 10 pp.

Topics of interview: Milton Goldberg's role in Jewish Big Brothers and Dr. Oscar Reiss' assistance; Reiss' status as pediatrician; first meeting with Reiss; Reiss' work on and for board; development of professional staff; need for clinical social workers; creation of Parent-Child Guidance Service; involving fathers in treatment of children; clients' reasons for coming to services of Jewish Big Brothers; relationship between psychiatry and social workers; Reiss' key role in obtaining committee consultants; Camp Max Straus; relationship of Jewish Big Brothers to Reiss Davis Clinic; selling of Reis Davis Clinic; description of Los Angeles' Jewish community ca. 1945; personality of Dr. Oscar Reiss.

Additional Material:

Camp Max Straus. Milton Goldberg. Oral History. Videotape. 1 diskette of transcript of interview by Ben Cohen. 1 diskette of transcript of interview on Dr. Reiss.