Interviews 391 - 400

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; Decision to attend college and choice of UW; First impressions of Madison and campus; Courses, examinations and grades; Dormitory life; Extracurricular activities; Sex and drugs on campus; Minorities and women; ROTC controversy; Plans for future.

Course of study; Courses and instructors; Anthropology Department; Finances; Jobs; Housing; Wisconsin Product Information Research Group (WISPIRG); Leisure time; Political issues; Alcohol; "Generation X."

Background and creation of UW Arboretum; Michael Olbrich and Paul Stark; Colonel Joe Jackson's leadership; Aldo Leopold's arboretum idea; Restoration of prairie; Conservation movement; CCC in development of UW Arboretum.

Background and education; Decision to come to UW; Professors and courses; Graduate work; Major professor Walter Meek; WARF fellowship; Research assistant to Meek and Raymond Herrin; Teaching; Chairmanship; Physiology Department and its rating; Faculty and staff; Deans and administrators; Controversies in Department; Protest era; TA strikes; Blacks; Committees.

Creation of University Book Store (UBS) as cooperative; Redesigned as trust on Harvard Cooperative model; Store locations; Connection between University and UBS; UBS Board; Reasons for UBS's success; Patronage refund and charge account system; Book pricing; Battle between institutionally and privately-owned stores; Effect of leasing on ownership; Career in bookstore business; Manager of UBS; Faculty and administrators; Vandalism and thievery; Commencement.

CCC experience at Camp Madison; Development of prairie; Role of CCC in Arboretum development; Personalities, including G. William Longenecker, Aldo Leopold and John Curtis; Burning experiments; CCC reunion.

Early development of Arboretum by CCC; His background; Philosophy of Depression era in relation to CCC; Others involved in development of prairie, including Aldo Leopold, G. William Longenecker, John Curtis and Joseph Jackson.

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Education; Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC); Aldo Leopold; Camp Madison; Prairie project; Work and workers on the prairie; Plant species; Second World War; Consulting work in the Belgian Congo; Teaching; Curtis Prairie.

396.   HOME MANAGEMENT HOUSE  

Jean Brandon Burnt, Gail Gralle Cody and Harriet Allender Steil, UW graduates of early 1950s, discuss Home Management House as part of old UW Home Economics Department.

Background; Reasons for coming to UW; Background in women's studies; Restructuring in Women's Studies Department; Reaction to his acceptance of TAship in Women's Studies; Semester as TA; Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill controversy; Class evaluation; Publicity regarding appointment; TAship in Educational Policy Studies.

Background; Early interest in art; Army; Life at Badger Village; Art classes at UW in 1947; John Guy Fowlkes and James Watrous; Early career in art; Ben Shahn; Art Department; The Elements of Design; The Art of Written Forms; Career as "mall artist."

Economics Department; Controversy over letter to Governor Julius Heil; Work on Daily Cardinal; Involvement with swim team; Induction into Phi Beta Kappa.

Background; Enrollment at UW; French Department, French House and French Club; Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Rocking chair incident; Life at University Club; President Glenn Frank; Alexander Meiklejohn and Experimental College; Concerts in Stock Pavilion.

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