Interviews 271 - 280

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; Reasons for coming to UW; Zoology Department in 1920s; Faculty; Opportunity to teach embryology; Equipment in Anatomy Department; Difficulty getting bodies; Graduate instruction; Journal Club; Comparison of anatomy and zoology seminars; Salary and promotion issues; Obtaining research funding; Importance of WARF; E. B. Hart's support; Temporary separation of anatomy from other basic sciences; Discrimination within Department; University Club; Botany Department; Dining clubs; Department library; Anatomy Department personalities; Medical School personalities; Medical library; Medical fraternities.

Background; Undergraduate years at Milwaukee Extension and at UW; Ph.D. work; Industry support for engineering research; Federal grants; Engineering Mechanics Department; Deans; TAs; Committee work; Decisions about commencement; Athletic Board; Quality of WWII students; Work for industries and municipalities in state; Equipment in Department; Effect of new mathematics on student ability; Women in engineering; University Club; Effect of faculty loss due to low salaries in College of Engineering.

College of Engineering and Wisconsin industry; Role of Extension Engineering; Origins of University-Industry Research Program; Choice of W. Robert Marshall as dean; Loss of Engineering's role in licensing and consequences; Changes in College faculty; Division between basic science and engineering courses and consequences for Engineering.

Appointment as dean; Irving Shain's support of College of Engineering; Reducing enrollment; College's image problem in state; Effect of Merger; Robert O'Neil; Lack of state coordination of technology; Other engineering schools; Consequences of separating Milwaukee and Madison engineering programs; Funding new building; Effect of System policies; Some campus problems; Issue of open records; System's new approach to budget planning and accounting; College of Engineering and Madison Plan.

Background; Graduate education; Cold Spring Harbor; Appointment at UW; Joshua Lederberg; Research; Research funding; UW's reputation in genetics; Development of medical genetics at UW; Rift between basic and applied research in Zoology Department; John Bowers's deanship; Philip Cohen's acting deanship; Crow's acceptance of appointment as acting dean; Research in Medical School departments; Bringing Sewall Wright to UW; Graduate students; Cooperation in field of genetics; Computer use; Use of Bascom professorship money; Work on effects of radiation; Recent award from Japanese government; McCarthy era; UW's early reputation for liberalism.

Family background; Childhood; Early education; Graduate school education and research; Teaching at Dartmouth; Teaching during Second World War; Hiring by UW; Madison Symphony Orchestra and Pro Arte Quartet; Acting Dean of Medical School; Committee service; Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation (BEAR) committee; Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission; Committee on the Role of Students in the Government of the University; Advisory committee to the Atomic Energy Commission; Committee on Nuclear and Alternative Energy Sources; DNA forensics; Genetics research.

Background; Undergraduate life; Agriculture curriculum; Draft status; WWII; Graduate work; Issues in Genetics Department; Plant genetics and plant breeding program; Appointment as Hatch Act administrator; Work at Sturgeon Bay Experiment Station; Rudolph Froker as dean; Appointment of Glenn Pound; His contribution to Agriculture; Use of grant overhead; Agriculture faculty salaries; School of Natural Resources and Institute for Environmental Studies; Extension Merger.

Background; Graduate work at UW; Courses and professors; Work during WWII; Return to UW and work on Bang's disease; New equipment for research in late 1940s; Prominent researchers attracting people to campus; Kenneth Raper's work on penicillin; Delay in hiring geneticist; Appointment as chairman of Medical Microbiology; New space; New faculty.

Background; Nurse's training in 1930s at Methodist Hospital, Madison; Job at UW Hospital; Marriage; University houses, 1948-50; Married life; Return to college in agricultural economics; University League and Medical Auxiliary; Medical practitioners vs. Medical School faculty and effect on wives; Effect of computers on volunteer work.

Background; Nursing training; Marriage and part-time nursing jobs; Impact of work in obstetrics in Norfolk during war; Involvement in civil rights movement; Finances during husband J. D. Kabler's internship; Household responsibilities; Medical School social life; Work in civil rights causes in Madison; Alcoholism study; University League; Husband's work patterns; Beginnings of Planned Parenthood organization; Involvement of UW Medical School; Other causes; Service on Dane County Board; Criticism for working with Planned Parenthood.

Background; Nursing school at Johns Hopkins; Employment; Plans for graduate work; Marriage; Move to Madison; Social protocol; Helping husband Clinton Woolsey; University League; Volunteer work; Travel; Courses taken; Views on volunteerism and women's movement; Effect of Vietnam War on her children.

Background; Teaching; Marriage; Life as graduate student's wife and mother; University houses; Department of Journalism social life; Upheaval in Junior League; Work on Kennedy campaign; Position in student placement; Difficulty finding childcare; Husband William Hachten's share of housework; Journalistic employment; Goals as journalist; More on teaching; Department of Journalism; Effect of career on children.

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