Interviews 121 - 130

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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Background; Career; Portraits of UW figures; Restoration of Edward A. Birge portrait.

Memorial Library under Fred Harvey Harrington and other administrators; Human Rights Committee; McCarthy era; UW libraries in 1930s; Building Memorial Library; Midwest Interlibrary Center; Gilbert Doane and Kaplan's appointment; Campus Planning Committee; UW-Milwaukee library; Book-buying trips; Special collections; Other campus libraries; Memorial addition and University Bookstore; Esther Kaplan's link with governors Gaylord Nelson and Patrick Lucey; MUCIA; Departmental libraries; Library Committee; Women in University Club.

Background; Renk farm; Appointment as regent; Dow Protests and consequences; Changes in student regulations; Medical schools in state; Need for veterinary school; Formation of satellite campuses; Criticisms of UW in 1960s; Fred Harvey Harrington's resignation; Appointment of John Weaver; Governor Patrick Lucey and Merger; Problems of new Board of Regents; Role of Board of Visitors.

Background; Kurt Wendt's role in campus planning; Organization of Planning and Construction; Campus Planning Committee; Sketch Plan; Issue of high-rise buildings on Bascom Hill; Park Street site for Law School; Campus Development Plan, 1973; University Avenue issue; Buildings for sciences vs. L&S; Humanities Building; UW architects; McArdle Laboratory, Genetics Building, Helen C. White Hall, Vilas Hall and Van Hise Hall; State Building Commission; Cars on campus; Conflict over dormitories.

Arrival in Madison; Students, classes and professors; Exams; Housing; Leisure time; Daily Cardinal; Athletics; Prom; Career.

Background and education; Economics Department personalities; Firing of Glenn Frank; Faculty attitude towards Experimental College; Lillian Dykstra's personality and influence; Clarence Dykstra's weaknesses; Disputed Economics Department budget and resulting publicity; Views on unemployment compensation legislation; Issues in Economics Department; Milton Friedman's criticisms of UW statistical program; Work in Washington, D.C.; McMurray case; Abolition of intercollegiate boxing.

Childhood near Lake Wingra; Arboretum area and land acquisition; Madison in early 1900s; Family history; Life in Madison in 1920s and 1930s.

Composition and jurisdiction of State Building Commission; UW appearance before Commission; Route of building requests from Madison campus to Commission; Regents' priority listing; New medical center; Kurt Wendt and engineering library; Funding process changes; Refusing gifts of buildings; Placing University Avenue underground; Energy usage in UW buildings; Presidents' relations with Legislature; Effect of Merger.

Issues involving UW in Legislature; Various aspects of System presidency; Evaluation of Robert O'Neil, Edwin Young and John Weaver; O'Neil's relationship with Legislature; His lobbying efforts in budget and faculty salary controversy, spring 1985; Prospects for his replacement; Role of Board of Regents in salary controversy; State budget crises facing governors Lee Dreyfus and Anthony Earl; Their policies; Star Fund; Passage of Merger, 1971; Effectiveness of PROFS in relation to faculty unionization issues.

Campus Planning Commission (later Committee) responsibilities; Faculty input on building decisions; Pharmacy and Helen C. White; Mid-1950's plan; Financing; UW Building Corporation; Changes in Campus Planning Commission; Sketch Plan; Van Vleck Hall; Law School; Two-level campus plan; Department of Planning and Construction; West side campus plan; Cars on campus; University Bay Center; State engineer and state architect; Bureau of Facilities Management; Van Hise Hall; Elvehjem Art Center; Balancing quality, cost and energy saving; Considerations in using new materials; Wendt's background; Undergraduate thesis on College of Engineering in 1920s; Experiments in teaching; Research on concrete; College accreditation; College's international programs; Trip to India; Work in recent years.

Education; Background in planning and development; Building program for 1965-67 biennium; New medical complex; Architectural diversity at UW; School of Education facilities; Humanities Building; Cars on campus; Growth in 1960s; Elvehjem Art Center; Issue of stone vs. brick; Campus Drive and University Avenue bus lane controversy; Two-level campus plan; Van Hise Hall; Roof installation on Meteorology and Space Science Building; Nielsen Tennis Stadium; Administrative offices in Van Hise Hall.

Initial impression of UW campus; First project as campus planner in 1964; President Fred Harvey Harrington; Campus Planning Committee; State Building Commission; Building during 1970s; High-rise buildings on campus; Campus expansion south of University Avenue; Traffic; Van Hise Hall; Influence of student protests on campus architecture; Campus environmental problems; Eagle Heights; Cret Plan; UW Hospital; Future building projects.

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