Interviews 671-680

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#671. YOUNG, H. Edwin (1917 - )
Graduate Student; Professor of Economics; Dean of College of Letters & Science; Chancellor; President of UW System At UW: 1945-46; 1947-65; 1968-87

and HANSON, Ralph (1928-1996)
Director of Protection and Security
At UW: 1965-1991

Bombing of Sterling Hall; Issues for police and administration during protest movement of late 1960s.

Early years; Parents' careers; University of Michigan; Army service; Research interests; Werner Gren Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Cornell University Medical College/Sloan-Kettering Graduate Division; Electron microscope; Marriage; American Cancer Society fellowship; New York University Anatomy Department; Teaching at Cornell University; Hiring by the University of Wisconsin Anatomy Department; Chairmanship of Anatomy; Visiting Scholar at Harvard University; Educational psychology; Retirement; Cell differentiation; AARP activities; Religion.

Early years and family; Pediatrics residency; Research; Pediatric pathology; Motherhood; University of Wisconsin; Sudden Infant Death Syndrome research; University of South Florida; Service on committees and extracurricular activities; Order of Australia; Teratology; Silent Injustice; Gilbert-Barness Lecture.

Early years and education; Studies at Boston College; Student teaching; Graduate school at Indiana University; Dissertation; 1960s in Bloomington; German department at SUNY-Albany; Hiring by University of Wisconsin; Medievalist colleagues at Wisconsin; Chairmanship of German Department; 1980 TAA work stoppage; Teaching Assistant Policy and Procedure Committee; Teaching responsibilities; Research and funding; Publications; Faculty governance; Institute for Research in the Humanities; Honors and awards; Decision to leave UW; Penn State University; Strategic planning.

Early schooling; Undergraduate career at University of Michigan; Medical School at Buffalo; Residency at UW; Tenure; Gender-related issues; Geriatrics; Grant writing; WISELI; National Center of Excellence for Women’s Health.

Second Interview

Interviewed: 2006	Length: 1.5 hours
Interviewer: Sandy Pfahler

Early schooling; Undergraduate career; Medical School; Residency; Research; Mentors; Tenure; Grant writing; WISELI; Climate for women.

#676. KNUDSEN, George J. (1922- )
Undergraduate student
At UW: 1940-1942; 1945-1949

Interviewed: 2004	Length: 1¼ hours
Interviewer: Dawn Ley

Childhood and early years; Love of nature; Encounter with Aldo Leopold and enrollment at the University of Wisconsin; Influential teachers; Wildlife biologist for the DNR; Chief naturalist; Arboretum; Retirement.

Early education; Undergraduate years at Cornell; Emergent interest in medicine; SUNY-Syracuse Medical School; Residency at UW; Russell Chesney; Pediatric nephrology at UW; Move to the new University Hospital; Experience as Vice-Chair and Chair of Pediatrics Department; Support staff; Changes in Pediatrics and medical education; Research; University Committee; Leaving UW.

Early years; rural life in Minnesota; working-class experiences; college education; industrial relations; paper mill workers’ union; hiring by School for Workers; Department of Labor Relations; physical facilities; community classes; teaching; Occupational Safety and Health Act; years as director; research; labor movement; faculty governance.

NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW IS RESTRICTED UNTIL 2010 AND CAN ONLY BE USED WITH THE EXPRESSED, WRITTEN CONSENT OF GEORGE HAGGLUND.

#679. BROTSLAW, Irving (1929 - )
Professor, School for Workers; Graduate Student

At UW: 1951-52; 1955-56; 1960-1991

Early years; Interest in labor relations; International Brotherhood of Papermakers; School for Workers in Madison and Milwaukee; Course materials; Trade union bargaining power; High School Institute; Summer Institutes; Films in labor education; Tenure; Wages; Faculty governance; Political activism; Relationship with unions; Transformation of the labor movement and labor education.

Childhood; Parents' careers; Undergraduate study at MacMurray College; Medical College of Pennsylvania; American Cancer Society fellowship; University of Kansas Medical Center; Residency at the University of Oklahoma; Decision to practice at the University of Wisconsin; Board examinations; Radiation oncology division; High-dose intracavitary radiation; Department of obstetrics and gynecology; Department chairs; Society of Gynecological Oncology; National Cancer Institute review committee service.

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