The First Librarian
Elizabeth (Betty) Breid, MBA ’31, the second woman to graduate from the Business School , served as its librarian from 1934 until 1936. Appointed by Stanford University President Ray Lyman Wilbur, her starting annual salary was $1440. Just weeks later, citing “an unusual emergency in the University’s finances,” Wilbur notified all university academic employees that salaries would be cut 10 percent for anyone earning over $1,000 a year.
Breid and the facility, then known as the Business School Industrial Relations Library, located in the School’s first home in Jordan Quad, survived the economic squeeze.