Leon Fleisher was born July 23, 1928 in San Francisco, California and began studying piano at the age of four. A noted child prodigy, Fleisher became a student of Artur Schnabel at the age of nine, after which Fleisher's career in piano began in earnest. In 1964, he began to suffer from focal dystonia, a condition that cost him the use of his right hand until corrected in the mid-1990s. Fleisher is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recepient of the Kennedy Center Honors Award (2007), and the Andrew W. Mellon Chair at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins. In this oral history, Fleisher describes his early career and mentors, his experiences with the Peabody Institute and Baltimore, and the history of the Peabody Institute, including its formal association with Johns Hopkins in 1978. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.

Dr. Donald Henderson was born in Lakewood, Ohio on September 7, 1928. He received his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College, his M.D. from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and his M.P.H (Masters of Public Health) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Henderson headed the World Health Organization's Global Smallpox Eradication Campaign beginning in 1966, which successfully saw the eradication of smallpox from the entire world by 1977. After his tenure with the WHO, Henderson became dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and acted as a senior advisor to many federal departments and commissions related to health and safety. He has received numerous honorary degrees, awards, and honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2002). In this oral history, Henderson describes his career as an epidemiologist, his relationship to Johns Hopkins, and the history of the School of Public Health. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.

William Banks, a Baltimore native, received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins in 1929. Shortly after graduating, he joined the Lord Baltimore Press, a company specializing in folded paper boxes with brightly colored advertisements. A booming success, the business was bought by International Paper Co., of which Banks became the vice president in 1969. In this oral history, Banks describes what Hopkins was like in the 1920s, as well as his activities with the Black and Blue Jay and Barnstormers. Banks also discusses his favorite classes at Hopkins as well as fundraising for the university as an alumnus. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.

Barbara Bonnell attended Wellesley College and was a Fulbright scholar before coming to Hopkins in 1953 for her M.A. in international relations. She was deputy director of the Greater Baltimore Committee in the 1950s and director of information for Charles Center-Inner Harbor Management. She was also the first Baltimore native to become the president of the Association of Junior Leagues of America, in 1962. In this oral history, Bonnell discusses being a female graduate student and instructor on campus in the 1950s, undertaking research with Professor Malcolm Moos, McCarthyism, and community organizing in Baltimore. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.

Forrest Tobey is a composer, conductor, and a double-degree graduate of the Peabody Institute. He is best known as a computer music artist, and created the Virtual Orchestra software. His compositions were played in Times Square on New Year's Eve of 2000. In this history, Tobey discusses his career as a conductor, music, and the Peabody Institute. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.

Helen Blumberg, a Baltimore native, entered Hopkins as a sophomore in 1970 as part of Johns Hopkins' first class of female undergraduates in the School of Arts and Sciences. She graduated in 1973. In this oral history, she describes her lifelong connections to Hopkins, via her father who was himself an alumnus and the director of alumni relations in 1970, and her personal experiences as one of Hopkins first female undergraduates. She touches on Baltimore as a city, student unrest on campus, and feminism. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.

Martha Hill earned a diploma from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1964 and received her bachelor's degree from the university in 1966. She earned a master's in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977 and a doctorate in behavioral sciences in 1986 from what is now the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She served as dean of the School of Nursing for more than a decade and was formerly the president of the American Heart Association. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and holds joint faculty appointments in the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health. In this oral history, Hill describes her time as a nursing student in the 1960s, her medical career, and her work with the School of Nursing as a faculty member and dean, as well as changes in the practice of medicine generally over time. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.

Kishin Moorjani was born in India. After working in France for a brief period of time, he became a theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory and worked there for more than thirty years. In this interview, Moorjani discusses the growth and development of the Applied Physics Laboratory. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.

Kelly Gebo earned her B.S. (1992), M.D. (1995) and MPH from Johns Hopkins, completed her medical residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and is currently the first vice provost for education at Johns Hopkins. She is also a professor in both the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health, as well as the director of the undergraduate program in Public Health Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences. She was an American Council on Education fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's provosts's office in 2013 and 2014. In this oral history, Gebo describes her early life and undergraduate experience at Hopkins in the late 1980s, her experiences with athletics, Spring Fair, and Blue Key, as well as her medical education, career, and teaching. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.

Morris Offit earned his undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1957, going on to receive an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1959. In his career, Offit became an executive at both Offit Hill Capital Management, LLC and Offitbank, both of which were purchased by Wachovia in 1999. He has since taken the position of chairman, managing member and co-founder of Offit Capital Advisors, LLC. Outside of his work in finance, Offit has held Board positions at American International Group, Inc. (AIG), United Jewish Appeal – Federation of New York, The Jewish Museum, Columbia Teachers College, Union Theological Seminary, American Museum of Natural History, Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins University. In this history, Offit discusses his tenure and contributions as a member of the Johns Hopkins Board of Trustees. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.