Background
Heller, Elinor Raas was born on October 3, 1904 in San Francisco, California, United States. Daughter of Alfred E. and Ida B. (Fisher) Raas.
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Heller, Elinor Raas was born on October 3, 1904 in San Francisco, California, United States. Daughter of Alfred E. and Ida B. (Fisher) Raas.
Born in San Francisco, California, Heller graduated from Mills College in 1925.
From 1961–1976 she was a Regent of the University of California. She served as Chair in 1975–1976, and Vice-Chair in 1968–1969 and 1971–1972. In 1973 she was appointed to serve on California"s Postsecondary Education Commission.
At the time of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in 1964, another regent, Edwin Pauley, with the covert assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, attempted to remove her from the board.
She was one of six regents who voted against the firing of Angela Davis in 1969. She was an alternate delegate to the 1944 Democratic National Convention, and a delegate in 1948 and 1956.
In the 1952 presidential election, she was a candidate for Presidential Elector in California on behalf of Adlai Stevenson. The couple resided in Atherton, California and had three children.
Edward Heller died in 1961.
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Member Democratic National Committee, California, 1944-1952, also past member executive committee. Delegate Democratic National Convention, 1944, 48, 56. Board directors Childrens Health Council Mid-Peninsula.
Trustee Station KQED, Inc., 1968-1976, Heller Charitable and Educational Fund. Member board visitors Drew Postgraduate Medical School, Hastings College Law. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Member League of Women Voters (past director California, San Francisco and Palo Alto), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Edward Hellman Heller, May 26, 1925 (deceased December 1961). Children: Clarence E., Alfred E., Elizabeth.