Interviews 741-750

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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Early years in Oklahoma; Education; University of Oklahoma; Graduate study at Stanford University; Teaching at Oklahoma; Research; UW School of Social Work and Department of Sociology; Research; Committee service; American Indian Studies Program; Teaching; Graduate students; Associate Vice-Chancellor; Madison Plan; Provost; Administrative response to September 11, 2001; Deanship of the College of Letters & Science.

Family history; Ukrainian culture; Early education; Fairfield University; Teaching Latin; University of Florence; Dissertation; Williams College Museum of Art; Directorship of the Elvehjem [now Chazen] Museum of Art; Acquisitions; Departments of art and art history; Hollaender Collection; Relationships with collectors and donors; Fund-raising; Arts Consortium; Arts Institute; Changing museum name.

NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW IS RESTRICTED UNTIL 2015 AND CAN ONLY BE USED WIT THE EXPRESSED, WRITTEN CONSENT OF RUSSELL PANCZENKO.

#743. MAGNUSON, John (1934 - )
Professor Emeritus, Department of Zoology; Emeritus Director, Center for Limnology
At UW: 1968-1990

Early years and education; High school; Northern Illinois State Teachers’ College; University of Minnesota; Lloyd Smith and family; Master’s thesis; University of British Columbia; Dissertation; Tuna behavior; Hiring by UW; Arthur Hasler; Zoology department; Madison Ecology Group; Teaching; Graduate students; Sea Grant; Center for Limnology; Long-Term Ecological Research; Climate change research; Planning grant exercises; Waters of Wisconsin Project; Great Lakes Fisheries Commission; International Joint Commission on Water Quality; American Fisheries Society; Ecological Society of America; Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change; Politics of climate change; National Research Council committees; Service activities; Dane County Lakes and Watershed Commission.

Background information; Growing up Jewish; Early interest in theater; College experience at Union College and then at Cornell; Professional directing; Work ethic, Job available at UW; Theater department changes; Vietnam War protests; Receiving tenure; Bread and butter course; Associate Vice Chancellor position; Unionizing the faculty; Building Vilas Hall; Fulbright to Israel; Chair of the department of theater; Holocaust theater; Center for Jewish studies; Changes in students expectations; Fulbrights to Israel, Vienna, Chile, and Netherlands; American drama course; Living with Jewish communities in Cuba, Argentina and Turkey; Evaluations of the deans, Donna Shalala, John Wiley, and David Ward; Relationship between state legislature and Bascom Hall.

NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW IS RESTRICTED UNTIL 2009 AND CAN ONLY BE USED WITH THE EXPRESSED, WRITTEN CONSENT OF ROBERT SKLOOT.

#745. HUTCHISON, Jane (1932- )
Professor, Department of Art History; Graduate student
At UW: 1959-

Family background; Education; Western Maryland College; Illustrating; Oberlin College; European travel; Museums; UW-Madison; Development of art history department; Graduate education; Fulbright in the Netherlands; Research; James Watrous; UW faculty; Teaching; New courses; Tenure; Dow Chemical riots; Elvehjem Museum; Museum directors; Relationship between the Museum and the Art History Department; Sterling Hall bombing; TAA; Committee service; Undergraduate Education Committee; Dutch Club; American Association of University Professors (AAUP); University Club; Wisconsin Association of Scholars; Committee on Faculty Rights; Abolition of the speech code; University Committee; Humanities Divisional Committee; 602 Club; Humanistic Foundation; Graduate students; Merger; Department chair; Teaching load; Watrous Fund; Evolution of the art history department; Departmental review; Research and publications; PhD and ABD students; University administration; University Committee–procedures for dismissal; Future of higher education.

NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW IS RESTRICTED UNTIL JUNE 16, 2016, AND CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED WITH THE EXPRESSED, WRITTEN CONSENT OF JANE HUTCHISON.

#746. REUTER-FOSS, Kitt (1956- )
Undergraduate and graduate student, School of Music
At UW: 1974-1982

Interviewed: 2006	Length: 3 hours
Interviewer: Robert Lange	RESTRICTED UNTIL 2036

Upbringing in a musical family; Instruments; Singing; UW-Madison; Wisconsin Singers; Lois Fisher; Madison Opera; Metropolitan Opera; UW School of Music; Madison Opera.

NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW IS RESTRICTED UNTIL JANUARY 1, 2036 AND CAN ONLY BE USED WITH THE EXPRESSED, WRITTEN CONSENT OF KITT REUTER-FOSS.

#747. TUAN, Yi-Fu (1930- )
Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography
At UW: 1983-1998

Father’s education; Growing up in China during wartime; Elementary education; Moves to Australia and the Philippines; Living in London; Oxford University; Study of geography; Religion; Graduate study at University of California at Berkeley; Teaching at Indiana University; Postdoctoral fellowship; Research in Panama; University of New Mexico; University of Toronto; University of Minnesota; Fulbright lectureship; Topophilia; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Teaching; Publications; Students; Letters; Committee service; Transformation in teaching of geography; Chancellors; Higher education.

Education; Twentieth Century Fox; Graduate study; UW department of communication arts; Teaching; Sexism; Committee service; Associate Dean for the Social Sciences; Deans; Research on violence and fear in the media; Publications; Terrorism; Honors and awards.

#749. BAHR, Jean (1954 - )
Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics
At UW: 1987-

Early education; Travel; Undergraduate education at Yale; Ground water project in Mali; Graduate education at Stanford; Hiring by UW; Tenure; Teaching; Research; Publications; Faculty governance; Service; Department chair; Leisure.

Instructor for UW Extension Center System; Wayne State University; UW-Madison speech department; Statewide television network; Presidency of Stevens Point; Patrick Lucey; Merger; Gubernatorial campaign; Term as governor; Board of Regents; State Superintendent of Public Instruction; Relations between state legislature and UW.

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