Interviews 801-810

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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Childhood and education in New Jersey, Egypt, Pennsylvania and Connecticut; family life; undergraduate studies at Ohio Wesleyan, career as an English teacher in various states; graduate studies and research; Ph.D. work at the University of Alabama; Faculty position at the UW School of Library and Information Studies; teaching and research at UW; tenure process; service on campus committees; family and personal life.

#802. HANDELSMAN, Jo (1959 - )
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, UW Plant Pathology Department
At UW: 1985 -

Family background; Early education; Undergraduate study at New York University and Cornell; Graduate study at University of Wisconsin; Climate for women in the sciences; Postdoc at UW; Faculty position at UW Department of Plant Pathology; Establishing research lab; Research; Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute: Tenure process; Teaching and teacher training; Professional service activities; National Academy Summer Institute for Undergraduate Education; Climate for women on the UW campus; Honors and awards; Family and personal life.

Childhood and education in New York and Tucson, Arizona; undergraduate studies in math at Stanford; graduate studies at MIT; research in risk management; faculty position at the UW College of Engineering; teaching and graduate students; research and project funding from the Department of Homeland Security; the climate for women in the sciences at UW; professional organizations; family and recreational activities.

THIS INTERVIEW IS RESTRICTED UNTIL 2012 AND CAN ONLY BE USED WITH THE EXPRESSED, WRITTEN CONSENT OF VICKI BIER

#804. JOHNSON, Jean (1925 - )
Professor Emerita, School of Nursing
At UW: 1966-1971 as student and researcher; 1998-current as faculty emerita

Childhood and early education in rural Kansas; Undergraduate studies at Kansas State University; Clinical nurse training in Kansas City; Teaching in Iowa and Colorado; Master’s degree at Yale; Research in surgical patient stress; Grant funding; Ph.D. training at the University of Wisconsin; Center for Health Research at Wayne State University; Associate Director for Nursing in the Cancer Center and Professor of Nursing in the School of Nursing at the University of Rochester; Advances in nursing research; Awards and honors; hobbies and recreational activities.

Childhood and early education in Queens, New York. Parents and siblings; Undergraduate education in speech pathology at UCLA; Graduate studies at UCLA; Becoming a computer programmer for System Development Corporation; Marriage and children; Career in hospital information technology; Career in university information technology management; Positions at the University of Rochester, Northwestern, Cornell; Chief Financial Officer and Director of the Division of Information Technology at the UW; Climate for women at UW; Professional service; Awards and Honors; Hobbies, recreation, and post-retirement.

#806. MORGRIDGE, Tashia (1933 - )
Undergraduate student, member of boards and committees, major donor
At UW: 1951-1955

Interviewed: 2006	Length: 2 hours
Interviewer: W. Charles Read	RESTRICTED UNTIL 1/1/2026

Childhood and early life in Milwaukee and Wawautosa, Wisconsin; undergraduate career at University of Wisconsin; courses in Education Department; Student teaching; Teaching elementary school in California and Delaware; Children and family life; graduate school at Lesley University in Boston; Career in Special Education; Involvement with UW boards and committees; Donation to the School of Business for Grainger Hall construction; The Morgridge Center for Public Service; Gifts to fund additional renovation and programming on campus; University leadership; The relationship between UW and the state legislature

THIS INTERVIEW IS RESTRICTED UNTIL 2026 AND CAN ONLY BE USED WITH THE EXPRESSED, WRITTEN CONSENT OF TASHIA MORGRIDGE

#807. TORTORICE, John (1951 - )
undergraduate student
At UW: 1970-
See also: Interview #227 with George Mosse

John Tortorice discusses the life of George Mosse–Family history; Education; Identity; Graduate study at Harvard; Political activities; Research interests; Teaching at Iowa; Hiring by UW; Publications; Colleagues in the history department; State politics; International reputation; Gay history; Graduate students; Donations from family fortune;

Childhood and early years in the New York City area; public and private schools; early volunteer work in school libraries; undergraduate studies at Marquette University; graduate work at the School of Library and Information Services at UW-Madison; work history at area libraries; hiring by UW library system; duties and projects in SLIS; mentoring students; professional development and service; campus climate for women; personal life and hobbies.

#809. BLESS, Diane M. (1942 - )
Professor, Division of Otolaryngology, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
At UW: 1971

Childhood and early education in La Hoya and other parts of Southern California; public school education; undergraduate studies at San Diego State University; MA work at the University of Redlands; Ph.D. training at UW-Madison; hiring to UW faculty; research and lab administration; research; teaching and mentoring; grant funding; committees and professional associations; campus climate for women in the sciences; family and personal life.

Education; Lawrence College; Graduate study in mathematics; Master’s thesis; Computer technology; Dissertation research on virtual memory; Work overseas; Hiring by UW; Teaching; University of Wisconsin Computing Center (UWCC); Development of computing capacity at UW; Madison Academic Computing Center (MACC); Administrative computing; Technology management; Office of Information Technology; Computer industry; Networks; WiscNet; Division of Information Technology (DoIT); Retirement; Current issues facing DoIT; UW Credit Union.

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