Interviews 61 - 70

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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Education; Early career; School for Workers; Organizing TAA; State Employees Union; Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission; TA Strike of 1970; Collective bargaining for faculty.

Background; Undergraduate days; History Department in 1920s and early 1930s; Courses and instructors; Faculty social life; Home and family; Experimental College; Women's rights; Paul Knaplund's work; Town and gown relations; Helen C. White; UW faculty and administration personalities; Teachers' Retirement Fund; Origin of Department of Comparative Literature; Commonwealth professorship; Frank Lloyd Wright; Paul Knaplund's book, Moorings Old and New; Relations with students and colleagues; Projected gifts to UW from classes of 1925 and 1927.

Education; NSF's Centers for Excellence program; Chemistry Department admissions policies; Graduate student support; Mulvihill Committee; Dow interviews; TA Strike of 1970 and its handling; Council of Ten; Harassment; Peer review issue; Evaluation of TAs; Graduate Student-Faculty Conference Committee; Language requirements in Chemistry Department; Delivery of chemicals; Class size.

Early engineering facilities; Beginning of Chemical Engineering Department; Committee of Twenty-Five; Funding compared with that of College of Agriculture; Chemical manufacture course; Chemistry-Chemical Engineering relations; Charles Burgess; Effects of WWI; Effects of Depression; Dormitory system; Faculty and administrative associates; Teaching; Retirement.

Background; Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission; Acceptance of job to bargain with TAA; Relationship between TAA and Wisconsin Federation of Teachers and between latter and AFL-CIO; Division between chancellor's and L&S dean's offices; Class size issue; Contacts with faculty; TAA support; Effects of contract; Failure of informal talks; TA leadership; Health insurance program; Harassment.

Graduate work; Introduction to UW administration; WWII; Veterans; Enrollment fluctuations; Building program; Campus expansion; Memorial Library; Hill Farms development; Firing of President Glenn Frank; Depression; Badger Village; Student finances; Howard McMurray case; UW centennial; Attempts at Merger; CCHE; Merger; High school relations; Academic freedom; Communist speakers on campus; Joseph McCarthy; Year in Governor Vernon Thomson's office; Dean of students position; Changing student regulations and controls; Sorority and fraternity discrimination; Liquor on campus; Human Rights Committee; 1967 Dow Protests; Student protest movement; Army Mathematics Research Center; WARF; Bombing of Sterling Hall; Crowd control; Role of students in administration; Alumni; Regents; Board of Visitors; Land acquisition and campus planning; Federal funding; Faculty governance; Presidents E. B. Fred, Conrad Elvehjem and Fred Harvey Harrington; Chancellors; Controversy over location of new Clinical Sciences Center; Closing reflections.

Beginnings of WHA radio; Statewide FM development; State broadcasting's opponents and supporters; Educational programming; "School of the Air" and "College of the Air"; Finances; Faculty Radio Committee; Political broadcasts; First radio station on air; Impact of WHA outside Wisconsin.

Choosing UW; Graduate work in English Department; Fellow TAs; William Ellery Leonard; Alexander Hohlfeld; Extension teaching in Fond du Lac, Green Bay and Waupaca; Extension high school courses; United States Armed Forces Institute; Correspondence courses; WWII service personnel; Courses for physically handicapped and prison inmates; Salaries; Status of women; Extension faculty; Retirement; Writings.

French background; French House; WWII Civil Affairs Training Course; Junior year abroad program; Fulbright program; French radio programs; Teaching; Position of women; Interdepartmental relations; Faculty associates; University Club.

Early years in Department of Education; Experience as registrar; Work in state; Relationships with students; UW personalities; Changes in education.

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