Renee Diamond - Excerpts 4 & 5 Transcript
(Las Vegas, Nevada; August 30, 2001)

VC: What would you consider Jean Ford's legacy?

RD: I think her legacy for women like me who actually - I mean, her legacy was cut short. She - She died way too young. Her legacy should be, you know, communicated on to young people every day. And I think that that was what, (Rdiamond4) when we knew that she was not going to live, was what was the most stunning to me, is that another generation should have had the chance to - to know her, to talk to her, and to learn about her, and to kind of mentor with her, and that was just stunning to me. I think her legacy is all around us, I think her activism for the libraries, for the wilderness, her photography collection that I think is up at UNR, is just so amazing, and she was so connected both to the land and - and to the world of ideas. You know, usually people are one or the other. She was both. And in that sense, I think she was a real Renaissance woman. (Rdiamond4) (Rdiamond5)You know, it wasn't just politics and - and - and - and the world of - of getting things done. She could go out with the rest - the best of them and laugh and - and sit outdoors and, you know, just have a real appreciation of the outdoors, and in Nevada that's a real attribute, because a lot of people don't ever get to look at the outdoors, they stick into the - what is now a big city. You know, when we came here - when I came in the seventies and when she came before that, you could just turn around and see from end to end. Now you really have to look for it, and Jean never let that population stop her. So I think that both the marriage of her - her interest in things outdoors and her intellect was just outstanding and is greatly missed.(Rdiamond5)