ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM Van der Vries, Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives 1935-56, discusses her activities and concerns in the General Assembly: work with health, welfare, and education legislation; interstate governmental cooperation; municipal codes; the Illinois War Council; the Council of State Governments; "women on juries" bill; and women in the legislature. She also discusses her life before the General Assembly: family and childhood at the turn of the century in Holton, Kansas, high school, college life at the University of Kansas and Bernard College in New York; husband's career and moves to Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Winnetka, Illinois; and her involvement with the League of Women Voters and Winnetka Village Council. She also discusses her life after the General Assembly as a lobbyist for the Chicago Transit Authority, civic work, the National Society for Crippled Children, and her reflections on politics.

33 tapes, 1847 mins., 3 vols., 421 pp., plus index Interview by Horace Q. Waggoner, 1979-80 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes, photographs and articles.