Interviews 41 - 50

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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Boyhood in Madison; Undergraduate years at UW; Beginnings of Memorial Union; Pres House; Arboretum; Administrators; UW during WWII; Rotary Club; YMCA; University-city relations; Campus planning.

Background and education; Experiences as TA; TA Strike of 1970; TAA, 1970- 72; Communication Arts Department; TAs on other campuses; UW hiring policies; Undergraduate teaching.

Background; Reasons for coming to UW; History of TAA, 1973-77; Role of women in TAA; Chemistry Department.

Childhood; Undergraduate experience; Women students' activities; Daily Cardinal; UW role in developing National Organization of Women's Athletic Associations; Career as teacher; Colleagues; Developments in physical education and intercollegiate athletics for women; Dance major; Athletic facilities for women; Position of women in University.

Background; TAA, 1973-77; Problems with grievance procedures; Class size grievance; TA wages; Food stamp program; French Department.

Faculty governance at UW contrasted with Minnesota's system; Howard McMurray case; Rose Bowl controversy; Elimination of boxing; Faculty meetings and faculty governance; Committee work; Human rights; Max Lerner case and policy on controversial speakers; Loans and scholarships; Geography Department; Faculty and administrative associates; Women and blacks in geography; ILS; Emeritus faculty attitude toward UW.

TA bargaining in 1976; His Background; Anti-war movement; SDS; Dow Protests; Factions in TAA; TA Strike of 1970; Beginning of TAA; Undergraduate and minority teaching; Graduate work; Army Mathematics Research Center; Science for the People; Institute for Environmental Studies; Experiences at Baraboo College; Committee to End the War in Vietnam compared to SDS; Other student leaders.

Mormon family background; Graduate work; Zoology Department; Ecology and conservation; Limnology Building; Work on water pollution; Problems of Lake Mendota; Competition for funds; Institute for Environmental Studies; Trout Lake Laboratory; DNR-UW relations; Mormon Church in Madison; Study of salmon.

Arboretum staff and administrators; Research in Arboretum; Creating ponds; Faculty work in Arboretum; Brule River study; DNR cooperation; International Biological Program on Lake Wingra; Gillen and Rahr estates; Trout Lake; Grady tract; Arboretum Committee; Horticulture; Forestation projects; Beltline Highway; Houses in Arboretum; Land use conflicts; Biological departments in Birge Hall.

Background; Early graduate work and teaching; WWI; German Department; WWII; Teaching electronics and physics; Department of Comparative Philology; First phonetics laboratory for students; German House; Staff recruitment; Graduate School; Presidents Clarence Dykstra and E. B. Fred; University Club; Retirement.

Lewis Institute and Hull House; Early teaching in Wisconsin schools; Work in Harlem and the Bowery; Wisconsin High School; Eight-Year Study; Department of Home Economics; School of Education; Teaching abroad; Experimental College; Women in academic world; Men in home economics.

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