Interviews 241 - 250

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 and education; Move to Wisconsin; Founding nursery school; Work during Depression; Work for Progressive Party, 1928; Formation of new Democratic Party in Wisconsin; Role as faculty wife; Disapproval of wives' taking courses; Attitude to working wives; Social life; Mixed dining club; Continuing political work; Chicken farm.

Background; Employment; Supporting husband Leonard Fahien through medical school; Life as faculty wife; Activities of University League; Volunteer work; Influence of husband's profession on their life.

Background in Madison; Experiences as war bride; Badger Village; Husband Robert Lampman's faculty appointment; Changes in Economics Department social life; Courses taken; Entertaining students; Living abroad; Leisure activities.

Husband George Collins; Earning B.A. at UW; Handling course work and family; Family time; Her background and work experience; Attitude of professors to having faculty wife as student; TA Strike of 1970; University League and League of Women Voters; Member of Middleton City Council; Advantages of living in academic community.

Background; Teaching at Wisconsin High School; Teaching correspondence course; Developing assessments of radio and television program quality; American Council for Better Broadcasts.

Background and education; Early career; Appointment as dean; Rigidity of UW regulations governing students; Reputation as radical; Relationship with dean of men; Support of influential faculty; Contacts with parents; Hierarchy of Memorial Union student jobs; Hiring house mothers and residents; Racial discrimination in Beloit sorority; Exchange program; Rennebohm Foundation Educational Project; Concern about neglect of student needs in Center System campuses; Colleagues; Abolition of position of dean of women.

Childhood and education; University of Kansas; Hiring as dean of women at UW; University dean of students; Louise Troxell; Ted Zillman; In loco parentis; Discrimination; Kennedy assassination; Student protests; Treatment of women; Presidents E. B. Fred and Fred Harvey Harrington.

Note: See also joint interview with Elizabeth McCoy, #634.

247.   NICHOLS, Nell Beaubien (b. 1896)
Graduate Student, Home Economics; Staff, Journalism Department
At UW: 1916-1919

Early education; Undergraduate work in home economics at Kansas State University; Master's work in nutrition at UW; Influential professors; Soybean research; Position in Journalism Department; Early freelance writing; Field editorship with Farm and Fireside; The Farm Cook and Rule Book; Work at Women's Home Companion; Foods editorship with Farm Journal; Developing recipes; Cookbooks for children; Recent works; Future plans.

Chemistry Department; NSF high school teaching improvement program and Department's opposition to it; Work during WWII; Lectures on dangers of atom bomb; More on Department; Salary issue; University life; Meeting Glenn Frank; University Committee chairmanship; Teaching during student protest era; Department personalities.

Background; Undergraduate life; War career; Law School; Political and anti- McCarthy activities; Assistant deanship of Law School; Memorial Union; ROTC; Directorship of UW National Security Studies; Importance of ROTC at UW; Service in Washington, D.C.; CCHE; Center System, Merger and Governor Patrick Lucey; Extension; Council of Economic Growth, Technical and Public Policy; Law and society course; Urban and Regional Planning Department; Institute for Environmental Studies; Center for Public Policy; Work for United Nations in Yugoslavia; Liaison with National Guard during student protest era.

Background; Coming to University Club; Rules for women; Formality of Club; Social program; Meals; Laundry and supplies; Club during WWII; Issue of black graduate student; Matrix and patrix dinners; Membership requirements; Board of Directors; Changes in food service; Faculty; Roomers; Crises with residents.

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