No.174, Leonard McDonald, interview by Everett L. Cooley

Transcript (118 pages) of interviews by Everett L. Cooley with Leonard McDonald, former director of the Utah State Retirement Systems, on October 12 and November 2, 1987. This interview is no. 174 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project, and tape no. 706, 707, 708, and 709. Accompanied by McDonald's personal data sheetMcDonald (b. 1914) recalls his childhood, education at Utah State University, tenure as USU Alumni Association executive secretary, and organizer and first director of Utah Retirement System, the Utah State Public Employees Association. Included with the transcript are his vita, summaries of various retirement bills he was responsible for seeing enacted by the Utah Legislature, 1950s-1970s, and the minutes from the first organized meeting establishing UPEA. Interviewer: Everett L. Coole