Randall Grubb describes providing the University of Southern California with high-quality glass from Correia. Oral history interview with Randall Grubb by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, January 24, 2020, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 02:16.

Randall Grubb: I was forbidden to pick up a blowpipe at work, but one of my jobs at night often was to change the color in the color tank. So you got to shovel out a hundred pounds of cobalt blue, shovel it into a bucket full of water, turn it into cullet, throw it away, and then refill the furnace with green glass, ‘cause tomorrow we want to have green. No problem. ‘Hey Steve, this hundred pounds of blue cobalt that I just dug out of here, how’d you like to donate it to USC glassblowing program?’ ‘Sure, that’d be great. Go ahead. Take it.’ ‘Great.’ So I loaded in my truck, and I take it over to USC [University of Southern California], where I had three furnaces of my own that I had built, and I had a full glassblowing facility virtually of my own, because I had built it for USC. USC is a business school. It always struggled to get the minimum number of glassblowers to run the program. There would never be more than 10 or 15 people in a class. So here again, the fact that I’m living on campus, living in a fraternity near campus and could ride my bike over—hell, I lived at the glassblowing studio, blowing glass day and night. You know, I’d ride back to the fraternity house all sweaty after—at 10 o’clock at night to join the fraternity party, because Randy had been at the glassblowing studio all evening, blowing glass. So it was—it was the most unbelievable situation. Here, they’ve, they forbid me to blow glass at work, but yet they’re giving me the beautiful, soft, blowable glass that we’re melting at Correia [Correia Art Glass, Santa Monica, California]. A special formula that’s made for glassblowing, not like the old bottle glass that were—that we normally had at USC, just broken bottles that were remelting. No, this is actual—beautiful colors, and so I had two different color furnaces and a clear tank at SC. So I’d go to SC, and I had, like—and SC is paying for the gas, and paying for the whole thing. So I mean, what a—talk about, you know—you feel like you’re robbing the bank. It was just like, too good to be true.