Interviews 481 - 490

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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Musical background; Father Leon Iltis's employment as professor in UW School of Music; Descriptions of School of Music playbills, programs and pictures; Civic Music Association; Lucille Kimball; Experience as a faculty member's son.

Early music education; Undergraduate studies; Graduate studies at UCLA; Student protests; Conflict in UW School of Music; Dale Gilbert; Changes in School; Ethnomusicology as new field; Changes in ethnomusicology; Gender issues; Musical events in Madison; Future of music education; Problems with applied undergraduate degrees; New Grove Dictionary; Research projects.

Background; Undergraduate training; WWII; Graduate training; Long Beach Community College; Coming to UW; Art Department in 1950s; John Guy Fowkles; McCarthyism; Chairmanship of Art Department; Leo Steppat; London, Paris and Rome; Development as artist; Growth of printmaking at UW; Fred Logan; Career retrospective, silkscreen to etching; "Atom Boy"; Early years at UW; Students; Alfred Sessler; London and Anthony Gross; "Mach 5"; "Tidepool"; Shift to etching; "Ziggy"; "Colescott's USA"; Prints on assassination, war and struggle; "Verdun Defense" and "Verdun Attack"; "Poker Night at the Pentagon"; "The Last Judgement Update"; "NEA"; Painting.

Background; Cincinnati Conservatory; Charles Hamm; Army service; Early teaching career; Decision to come to UW; Teaching at UW and Milton College; UW in 1960s; Appreciation course; School of Music; Milton College; Dissertation on John Cage; "Urinal Event"; Music director at Unitarian Meeting House; Other activities.

Undergraduate work at UW; Carl Bricken; Haresfoot Club; Charles Mills; Raymond Dvorak; Irene Eastman; WPA project.

Early music training; Education at Oberlin College; Graduate training at Northwestern University; Cadenza Club; Career at UW; John Barrows; Memorable students; Career highlights; Student protests; Art Becknell; Future of School of Music.

Background; Education; Jazz studies at UW; Sexism in music world; Madison Music Collective; "Inside Out"; Electronics in music.

Early childhood and education; Undergraduate studies at UW; Department of Romance Languages faculty; Undergraduate living conditions and social climate; Commerce Department; Teaching at University of Florida; Trip to Spain, 1928; Doctoral studies at UW; Albert Markham fellowship; Medieval Spanish Seminary and General Estoria; Depression; Casa Cervantes; Experimentation in Department of Spanish and Portuguese during Depression; Lecturas Escogidas; Student Conduct Committee; Intensive language training programs for WWII GIs; Impact of WWII on UW; Seminary's dictionary work; Campus clubs; Helen C. White; Spanish Department secretaries; English Department faculty, 1920-40; Introduction of Portuguese classes; Teaching; Former graduate students; Spanish and Portuguese Department faculty members after WWII; Scholars of medieval Spanish studies; Student riots of 1960s; Seminary since 1937 and its contributing members; Seminary's use of computers; Future of Seminary; Publications of non- profit organization, Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies.

History of sports at UW; Evolution of football; Development of Big Ten; Locations of UW sporting events; Memorable football, basketball and baseball coaches; Boxing; Elroy Hirsch; Crew team; Pat Richter.

Early women's physical education; Blanche Trilling; Women's Division of National Amateur Athletics Federation; Women's Athletic Association; Play days and sports days; Women's athletics at UW to 1960s; Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women; Title VI and Title IX; 1971 committee appointed by Edwin Young to study athletic facilities and opportunities for women at UW; Campus attitude to Title IX; Club sports; Women's intercollegiate athletics; Reasons Flarup came to UW as women's sports information director; Office conditions; Reasons Saunders-Nordeen became UW's first women's athletic director; Effect of Title IX; Conflicts between men's and women's sports on campus; Difficulties obtaining media coverage for women's sports; Outstanding athletes and coaches; Women's basketball; Suzy Favor; Women's athletic directors Cheryl Marra and Paula Bonner; Athletic Director Pat Richter; Future challenges for women's sports.

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