Interviews 551 - 560

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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551.   SUNSTAD, Norm  (1943- )
Director of University Housing
At UW: 1983-98

Childhood and education; Graduate studies and employment at the University of Nebraska; Early interest in the field of housing; Employment at the University of Michigan; Arrival at UW; Newell Smith; Renovation of residence halls; Living/learning communities; Implementation of computer technology; Changes in housing; Closing remarks.

Childhood and education; Influences of family and church; Virginia Union College; Graduate education at Hartford Theological Seminary; Spelman College; Ottawa University; Job search in Madison; Program development with Paul Ginsberg; Interest in support for minority students; Bryant Kearl; Irving Shain; Minority recruitment and retention; Merit-based scholarship idea; Chancellor's Scholarship Program for Minority and Disadvantaged Students; Fundraising efforts; Marion Brown; David Ward; John Wiley; Scholarship program events; Mercille J. Lee Chancellor's Scholarship.

Childhood and family; Early interest in athletics; La Crosse Central High School and girls' athletics; College recruiting; Women's basketball at UW; Student athletes and academics; Career after UW.

Women's history program at Sarah Lawrence College; Purpose of establishing a graduate program in women's history; Arrival at UW; Development of women's history program at UW; Robinson-Edwards chair in the Department of History; Funding for women's history graduate students; Importance of women's history; Outreach activities; Impact of women's history program at UW; Research on the women's movement and women's organizations; Founding of NOW; The Madison Plan and race relations at UW; Teaching at Long Island University-Brooklyn; Creating a women's history community at Sarah Lawrence College and at UW; Teaching women's history; Retirement; Research interest in Jewish history; Research interest in hierarchic structures; Closing remarks.

Childhood and education; Undergraduate years at UW; World War II and Army service; Badger Village; School of Pharmacy at UW after World War II; Physical research movement in pharmacy of 1940s and 1950s; Dale Wurster; Takeru Higuchi; Louis Busse; Graduate education at UW; Employment at Merck Company; Joining the pharmacy faculty at UW; Teaching; Pharmacy faculty; Pharmacy Dean Arthur Uhl; Changes in pharmaceutical certification and education; Food and Drug Administration; State Board of Pharmacy in Wisconsin; Importance of teaching; National Industrial Pharmacy Research Conferences; Department of Health Sciences; Deanship of School of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago; Deanship of School of Pharmacy, UW; Clinical education faculty and Tenure-track faculty; Probation of School of Pharmacy; Sonderegger Research Center; Irving Shain; Donna Shalala; Rennebohm Hall

556.   GILBRIDE-BROWN, Jennifer (1972- )
Residence Life Coordinator, Chadbourne Residential College
At UW: 1998-2001

Childhood and education; Student teaching at Aiken High School, Cincinnati, Ohio; Employment as Residence Life Coordinator at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa; Arrival at UW; Chadbourne Residential College; Scott Seyforth; Students in leadership and governance at CRC; William Cronon; Diversity; Residential and academic communities at UW; Future goals.

Childhood and education; Bavarian State School of Photography; Training and service in World War II; Work in Germany after WWII; United States Department of Agriculture; Bryant Kearl; Arrival at UW; Students; Filmmaking for Agricultural Journalism; Editing; Filming style and techniques; Fulbright grants; University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim; Hans Rheinwald; Budapest, Hungary; Colleagues at WHA; Gaylord Nelson; German Agricultural Film Festival; Max Kade Institute; Ties to Germany.

Education; Interest in architectural preservation; Wisconsin Capitol; Red Gym; Mary Rouse; Historic Structure Reports; Preservation and adaptive use; Chancellor Richard Wells of UW-Oshkosh; Historic value of UW buildings.

559.   DELUCA, Hector (1930- )
Professor of Biochemistry
At UW:  1951-

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BREMER, Howard (1923- )
Undergraduate; Law Student; Patent Counsel, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF)
At UW:  1941-44; 1946-48; 1960-88

Harry Steenbock and the creation of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation; William Hendrickson; Marvin Woerpel; The federal government and intellectual property; Norman Latker; Provision 8.2(b); Institutional Patent Agreements; Bayh-Dole Act; Foreign patents; The Federal Technology Transfer Act; Chakabarty case; WARF patent royalties; Pure versus applied research.

Note: See also individual interview with Howard Bremer, #565.

Early public speaking courses; Departmental chairpersons since 1878; Growth of department, 1878-1920; Research in radio and television; Andrew Thomas Weaver; WHA-TV; Growth of department in 1950s and 1960s; Recruiting new faculty; Service as chairperson; Communications Research Center; Mass Communications History Center; Vilas Communications Hall; Research and teaching.