Interviews 611-620

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Undergraduate education; Physical Education and Dance;Margaret H'Doubler; Curriculum; Teaching at Ohio State; Graduate education at NYU; Orchesis; Dance courses.

Early dance experiences; Teaching positions; Decision to enroll at UW and earn a Masters in physical education; Introduction to kinesthetic approach to movement; Margaret H’Doubler; Ph.D. program in physical education; Teaching; Rhythm class; Notation system.

E.B. Fred; Fred and WP's research on converting pentose sugars into acetic acid; Work with commercial solvents; WP's service on the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation fellowship committee; Funding.

Childhood; Undergraduate education at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst; Army career; Graduate education at the University of Chicago; Quincy Wright; Teaching at Mt. Holyoke and Amherst; Behavioralism; Work for the Legislative Reference Service; Roger Hilsman; Appointment to Wisconsin; Vietnam War; Grade inflation; International relations field in the department; Stephen Kleene; Experience as department chair; Graduate students; Athletic Board; Reflections on the political science department.

Childhood in New York; Undergraduate work in government at Clark University; Origin of her feminist politics; Graduate work in political science at Michigan; Center for Political Studies; Appointment to UW in political science and women's studies; Discrimination against women; Research; Teaching; Service at the national level; Chairing of the women's studies and political science department; Reflections on her administrative career; Recent events in the political science department.

#616. MERELMAN, Richard M. (1938 - )
Professor of Political Science
At UW: 1969-2001

Interviewed: 2003	Length: 2 hours
Interviewers: Crawford Young and Matthew Dull

Early life in Washington, DC; Desegregation of DC public schools; George Washington University; Murray Edelman; Austin Ranney; Harold Lasswell; University of Illinois; Yale political science department; UCLA; David Sears; James Scott; TAA; Vietnam War; Research; UW political science graduate program; Political science faculty.

Childhood; Undergraduate education at University of Wisconsin-Madison; Work at State Department during the Kennedy administration; Graduate education at University of California, Los Angeles; James Coleman; Dissertation research in Zambia; Appointment to Wisconsin; Research shift to studying bureaucracy and administration in the United States; Review of Wisconsin state personnel system; President Jimmy Carter's civil service reforms; Governor Patrick Lucey; Governor Tony Earl; Notable students; Tenures as associate chair and chair; Founding of the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs; Board of Athletics; Assessment of the political science department.

Background; Growing up in Ohio; Study of political methodology; Conscientious objector; Vietnam era draft; UNC political science department; Paul Kreps, Duncan McCrae, George Rabinowitz; Theodore Lowi; Frank Munger; Ira Sharkansky; Joel Grossman; Dave Trubeck; Department of Justice research contract on the cost of litigation; Term as department chair; Department budgeting; Two profession households.

Childhood and early education; Undergraduate degree in history from Swarthmore; Graduate work at Johns Hopkins; Marriage and homemaking; Decision to attend University of Chicago Law School; Law clerkship in the city attorney's office in Rochester, N.Y.; Position as legal counsel for Rochester school board; Appointment at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations; Appointment to UW; Research and teaching on public sector labor law; Efforts to reform Wisconsin's marital property law; Service to university; Retirement activities.

Childhood; Undergraduate research with Harold Rusch; McArdle Laboratory; Medical degree at UW; Graduate work in biochemistry with James Miller; Appointment to UW; Research in Germany and Brazil; Professional associations; Service; Gordon Research Conferences; Research.

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