Interviews 11 - 20

Each Guide entry contains information about an interview, including biographical data about the interviewee (name, vital dates, dates at the UW-Madison, and principal positions held as of the interview date), information about the interview (interviewer, year conducted, length, and series, transcript, and restriction information if applicable), and a list of key topics discussed in the interview. For more detailed information about an interview, or to obtain a copy of an interview contact the Oral History Program.

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John R. Commons and labor legislation; Teachers' union; Experimental College; UW personalities; Status as woman on faculty; Method of teaching.

Education; Graduate work; Establishment of Genetics Department; Relating genetics to farmers' problems; Work on hybrid corn; Henry Wallace; Cooperative field corn breeding with Agronomy Department; Financing Seeds Building; Basic research in College of Agriculture; Associates and administrators; Interdepartmental cooperation in College of Agriculture; Joshua Lederberg.

Early theater in Madison and at UW; Open-air theaters; Building scenery; Wisconsin Players; Lawyers vs. engineers; Homecoming; Green caps and bag rush; Bascom Hall facilities and productions; Financing; Road shows; Foreign film series; Origin of Wisconsin Idea Theater; Theater curriculum; Building Union Theater and Play Circle; Union Theater productions; Haresfoot; Designing Communication Arts Building; Speech Department; Teaching at Wisconsin High; University personalities and associates; European tours; Theater consulting; Madison Auditorium problem; Stock Pavilion.

Background and early education; Previous teaching; School of Music's relationship with School of Education; Practice teaching in Madison schools; Wisconsin High School; Committee work; Music courses for non-music majors; Chairmanship of School of Music; Eligibility standards for music courses; Applied music; Teaching loads; Music listening facilities; Pro Arte Quartet; Artist in residence; Growth of School of Music; Staff; Courses; Space; Facilities, 1953-54; School of Music personalities.

Student life in 1960s; Student protest movement; Grievances before TA Strike; TAA executive board; Physics Department; TA Strike of 1970; Subsequent history of TAA to 1973; Guerrilla theater; New Left.

Choosing UW; Disenchantment with TAA; Teaching experience; New courses: Physics in the Arts and Physics for Poets; TA Strike; TA-faculty relations in Department; Tandem accelerator; Bombing of Sterling Hall; Training of TAs; Support for Physics TAs; Job market; Quality of graduate students; Students of 1960s compared with those of mid-1970s.

Background; Student life; Business office in 1926; Acquiring land for Arboretum and Picnic Point; Job in business office; Financing buildings; Working with Legislature; Governor Julius Heil's "snooper's bureau"; Department of Administration; Quarrel with Governor Walter Kohler; E. B. Fred years; Comparison of Post-WWI and post-WWII years; Effect of UW's growth on its finances; UW presidents and administrators; Enrollments; Non-resident tuition; Protestors in 1960s; Campus Planning Committee; Maurice McCaffrey and A. W. Peterson; Supportive regents; Depression and pay cuts; Hill Farms; Campus expansion; University Club; WARF; Civil service; Faculty unionization.

Background; Faculty; Courses; Field of home economics; Athletics; Sororities; Alumnae activities; Protests of 1960s; Red Gym; Student teaching; Teaching at Central High; Campus and national politics; UW presidents; YWCA and YMCA; Separation of vocational from academic schools; Later career; Feelings as professional woman; Women at present.

Early work with fertilizers; State Soils Laboratory; Agricultural Extension; WPA; Soil testing; Cooperation of fertilizer and farm machinery companies; Fertilizer demonstration program; Lime production and federal agencies during Depression; Tennessee Valley Authority aid to farmers; Whole farm demonstrations; Early opposition to fertilizers; Teaching; UW personalities.

Background and education; War Department service; Career conferences for women; Career-recruiter demonstrations; Dealing with L&S graduates; Program for seniors; Educational ideals and values; Writing; Job market of 1960s vs. 1970s; Effect of Dow Protests on other recruiters; Black Student Strike; Placement of blacks and women; Faculty and administrators; Faculty policy statement of 1971 and its implementation; Student practice interviewing; Faculty Senate; University of Michigan guidance career workshop; Restrictions on program and course offerings; Mini-courses on career choices; Trend away from liberal arts programs; Remembrances of Lillian Gilbreth; Louise Troxell's special fund; Mark Ingraham's Committee on Functions and Policies; Retirement; Faculty Document #191 regarding interview policy on campus.

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