Sally Miller's Job Application to UOP
Sally Miller was hired as Assitant Professor of History for the 1967/68 school year. This document provides information about her personal life, educational background, research interests.
In the application she says that she wants to teach at University of the Pacific due to the smaller student population. This is a reason many people still choose Pacific today.
Miller explains in her Emerita interview that while she grew up and went to school in the midwest, she wanted to teach on the coast. She mostly looked at teaching positions in California and New York. UOP seemed like "the right place" to her because of its smaller size and its location.
She also immediately fell in love with the climate in Stockton. The lack of snow and ability to wear sandles in Febuary were a big selling factor for UOP.
Stockton California may be the most diverse city in the United States today, but in 1967 Miller was disapointed by the lack of diversity that she saw around UOP. She also describes that UOP looked beautiful from the outside but some of the buildings needed work. She even mentions that the social sciences building, Bannister Hall, was "like being in a dungeon" and that she was embarassed to bring guests to her office. It was hard for her and her collegues to be separated in Bannister Hall while most of the College of the Pacific was centered in the Wendell Philips Center.