Interviews 281 - 290

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Development of Rague Campus Plan; Development of Bascom Hall; Original Science Hall Building; Warren Laird and Paul Cret's plan for campus expansion; Arthur Peabody; Lakeshore Hall dormitories; John Sterling; Effects of Great Depression on UW; Badger Village; Quonset huts; Campus expansion south of University Avenue; History of campus parking problems; Sketch Plan; Campus Planning Commission; Bureau of Facilities Management; University Hospital and Clinics facility; Memorial Union and Union South; Elvehjem Museum of Art.

282.   SYMON, Mary Louise  (1922- )
Wife of Keith Symon (Professor of Physics)

Interviewed: 1984	Length: 1.5 hours
Series: Faculty Wives Interviewer: Jean Barreras

Background; Marriage; Coming to Madison; Physics Department social life; Security measures; Work for husband Keith Symon; Madison Friends of International Students; Pre-Madison political activity; Work for minority housing; Triangle area report; Chairing citizen's group; Breeze Stevens incident; Work on Dane County Board; Anti-war movement; Observation of Mifflin Street block party; Other causes; Women's movement; Husband's household role; His support of her work.

Background; Zoology Department; Faculty in early 1940s; Changes in departmental politics after retirement of Michael Guyer; Division in Department; Botany Department; Question of merging departments; Recruiting problems; Chairmanship; Aldo Leopold; Game management attitudes; Zoology Department social life; TAs; Income and overhead; Presidents; Computer use; Committees; Ford Scholars program; Mark Ingraham's deanship.

Background; Canadian government positions; Marriage; Indonesia and Gajah Mada project; Invitation to come to UW; Employment in International Studies and Programs; Developing artistic career; Involvement in Madison Art Guild and Madison Art Center.

Childhood in Switzerland; Early interest in science; Education; Opportunity to study in U.S.; Cold Spring Harbor; Barbara McClintock; Joshua Lederberg; Developments in study of chromosomes; Work at Columbia and Johns Hopkins; Reasons for coming to Madison; Zoology faculty, salaries and hiring practices; Fund raising among geneticists to oust Joseph McCarthy; Rift between cell biologists and ecologists; NIH career award; Securing funding for Zoology Research Building; Courses; Botany Department figures and issues; Zoology's loss of students to Molecular Biology; High voltage electron microscope; Failure to develop cell biology at UW; Hiring of Gary Borisy; History of electron microscopy at UW and in U.S.; Importance of attending meetings and keeping abreast of recent literature; Attempts to get molecular biologist in Zoology; Teaching; Competitiveness among scientists; Attitudes towards women in Zoology Department; Bilstad and Namenwirth cases; Female graduate students; Departmental administration; Chairmanship; David Green; Gary Borisy; Personal interests.

Background; Teaching in School for Workers; Women's movement; Work for Democratic Party; Political Science Department; Husband Henry Hart's support for her work; Stay in India; Positions in state government; Women in government; Home life; Husband's role.

Childhood and education; Position at International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in Tennessee; Graduate work at UW; Teaching in School for Workers; Classes; Students; Colleagues; Women and the labor movement; Appointment to state government.

Background; Research on cherry tree virus; National program for research on stone fruits; Discovery of transmission of viruses from woody to herbaceous plants; Developing virus-free stock; Work on apple scab; Research on effects of fungicides on fruit; Environmental issues; Center for virus-free stock at Prosser, Washington; Research on conserving energy in greenhouses; Decline of interest in applied research and consequences for state farmers; Work in Nigeria; Other programs in third-world countries.

Background; First impressions of UW; Employment while at UW; Teachers; Dormitory and sorority life; Experimental College; Political views while at UW; Activities and organizations; Contrast between students then and now; Views on women's movement; Career.

Background; Fraternity life; Courses in engineering; Professors; St. Patrick's Day parade; Speakeasies; Radio programs; Sports; Lack of political awareness; Graduation; Career.

Their backgrounds; Reasons for coming to UW and choosing course in commerce; Housing; Formality of classes; Instructors; Jobs; Social life; Influential English teacher; Memorial Union; Athletics; Racism on campus; State Street; Daily Cardinal; Graduation; Importance of campus churches; Quality of education; Their careers.

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