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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; Finances; Housing; Fraternity; Jobs; Course work; Activities; Leisure time; Athletics; Discrimination; Faculty; Medical School; Career.

Background; Course of study; Room and board; Social activities; Kohler School of Nursing; Army Nursing Corps and WWII; Bedpan Commando; Return to UW; Courses and instructors; Discrimination; Campus characters.

Background; Housing; Courses and instructors; Leisure time; Pres House; Athletics; Career and family.

Background; Ruth Doyle; Student protest movement; "Colored Corner"; Leaders of UW black protest movement; Formation of African-American Studies Department; Racism; Failure of Madison Plan.

Education at Brown; Teaching at University of Texas in 1920s; Graduate work at UW under Mark Ingraham; Teaching at UW during Depression and WWII; Husband Joe Hirschfelder; UW presidents and deans; Expansion of UW after WWII; Prominent figures in Mathematics Department; University League; Joe Hirschfelder's early training and work with Robert Oppenheimer; Theoretical Chemistry Institute; Prominent figures in Chemistry Department; Foundation of Hirschfelder Prize; Joe Hirschfelder at University of California-Santa Barbara.

Family background; Early education; Experiences at UW; Reactions to WWII; Work at War Production Board in Washington, D.C.; Graduate school; Marriage; Teaching at Purdue; Work on Henry Wallace's 1948 political campaign; Teaching and daily life at Olivet College in Michigan; Work at Encampment for Citizenship; Experiences at Edgewood College and on Board of Trustees at Alverno College; Work with Martha Peterson's continuing education program for women; Formation of Wisconsin's Governor's Commission on Status of Women and important accomplishments during tenure as chair; Foundation of National Organization for Women (NOW); Early conflicts and problems in NOW, including issue of lesbians and her relationship with Betty Friedan; Importance of state commissions on status of women for development of women's organizations like NOW; Changes in NOW; Tenure as executive director of 1977 International Women's Year Conference in Houston; International travels, including Cuba and Virgin Islands; Advances and setbacks of women's movement.

Nomination to chair of NOW Board in 1966; Role of family and children in her life; Involvement with Wisconsin Governor's Commission on Status of Women; Impact of Wisconsin and other state commissions on NOW; Determining direction of NOW; Educational efforts of Wisconsin Governor's Commission; Creation of National Association of Commissions on Status of Women; Details of job as executive director of International Women's Year Conference; Controversial issues and important figures at Conference; Views on future directions of feminist movement; Her major contributions to women's movement.

Background; Religious influences; UW-Milwaukee; Funding; Debate team; Memorial Union; Harriet Grim; History; Pastorship; Iron Cross Club; Daily Cardinal; Leisure time; Prime minister of India; Discrimination; Northwestern Theological Seminary School; First United Methodist Church; UW social and political climate; Liberalism; Reflections.

Background; Undergraduate courses and instructors; 150-lb. football team; Specialization in Art Department; Exhibitions; Critiques; Students; Faculty artists; Teaching art; Art training past and present; Fred Logan; Women and college art departments; His artwork; Student unrest; Method of work.

Background; Art school; Hiring by UW; John Guy Fowlkes; Art Department and its expansion; Development of print area; Serigraphy; William Stanley Hayter and Atlier 17; Meeker-McFee press; Papermaking; Transition to sculpture; Human form; "Found objects"; Alfred Sessler; Meeker's serigraphy studio; Pre-UW interests and influences; Courses; Print examples, various artists and techniques.

Arrival at UW; Faculty mentors; International economics; Changes in Economics Department; Size of Department; Employment at Syracuse; Religion.

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