Interviews 1 - 10

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.

Alphabetical Index

Oral History Guide

1. AGARD, Walter R. (1894-1978 )
Professor of Classics
At UW: 1927-1964

Interviewed: 1972	Length: 1.5 hours	Transcript: 48 pages
Interviewer: Stephen Lowe

Teaching; Experimental College; ILS; Classics Department; UW personalities; Retirement activities; UW community.

2. AHRNSBRAK, Henry C. (1905-1995 )
Undergraduate and Graduate Student; Professor of Educational Administration; Extension
At UW: 1923-1927; 1945-1972

Interviewed: 1976	Length: 5 hours
Interviewer: Laura Smail

Background; Undergraduate days at UW; Teaching career in Beaver Dam; Graduate study; Extension field work in Wausau; Northern Wisconsin Economic Development Center; Extension faculty vs. regular campus faculty; Year in Nigeria; Extension arts; International seminars; Career education; Extension personalities; UW Center System; Adult education.

3. ASPINWALL, William H. (1906-1983 )
Undergraduate Student; Assistant to Director of Athletic Department; Secretary of Athletic Board
At UW: 1924-1972

Interviewed: 1976	Length: 6 hours
Interviewer: Donna Taylor

Background and education; Purchase of Camp Randall; Changes to stadium, 1920-67; Fieldhouse; Quonset practice building; Natatorium; Nielsen Tennis Stadium; Changes in playing fields; Safety of artificial grass; Seating of UW presidents in stadium; Arrangements for Rose Bowl games; Other away games; Early Lower Campus activities; Sports during Depression; Awards; Boxing program and its elimination; Individual sports and their coaches; Black athletes; Financing athletics; Title IX and women's athletics; Faculty control of Athletic Board; Filling director and coaching vacancies; Resignations of Walter Meanwell and C. W. Spears; Athletic directors; Football and its coaches; Fraudulent use of athletic tickets; Athletic staff size; Athletics and news media.

4. BALDWIN, Ira L. (1895-1999 )
Graduate Student; Professor of Bacteriology; Dean of Graduate School; Dean of College of Agriculture; Vice President
At UW: 1925-1966

First Interview

Interviewed: 1974	Length: 41.5 hours	Transcript: 577 pages
Interviewer: Donna Taylor

Background; Doctoral work at UW; Appointment to faculty; Research in bacterial physiology; Assistance to state industries; Bacteriology Department; Cooperative research with other departments; Assistant dean of Agriculture; Recruitment of students from state; Relations between colleges of Agriculture and L&S; Financing students during Depression; Glenn Frank and Clarence Dykstra; Appointment and achievements as dean of Agriculture; Developments in research after WWII; Achievements of Agriculture faculty; Appointment as vice president; E. B. Fred; Coping with post-war enrollment; Post-war funding of research; Center System; Building program; Changes in organizational structure of University; Pressure to establish veterinary school; Deans during Fred's presidency; University and politics in 1940s and 1950s; Board of Regents; Return to teaching; Past presidents; School of Education; Land Grant College Association; Committee for Institutional Cooperation; AID; Environmental issues; Work in biological warfare during WWII; Dining clubs; Graduate School; Views on recent developments; Agricultural experiment stations; Research at UW; WARF; McCarthy era; Extension; Industrial Relations Research Center; History of campus buildings; History of student housing; Expansion of administration; Faculty governance; University-Legislature relations; University and city; CCHE; WARF; UW Foundation; Major University figures.

Second Interview

Interviewed: 1985	Length: .5 hour
Interviewer: Julie Nelson

Early days of Economics Department; Strong Department personalities: Fayette Elwell, Richard Ely and Walter Morton; Problems caused by differences among strong personalities; Attempts at solving Departmental problems; McCarthy era and fight for freedom of expression.

Third Interview, with Ineva Baldwin

Interviewed: 1987	Length: 1.5 hours
Interviewer: Laurie Sears

Involvement in university programs providing assistance to underdeveloped countries; MUCIA program in Indonesia; Impressions of Indonesia in late 1960s.

5. BAUMEISTER, George F. (1889-1985 )
Undergraduate Student; Associate Professor of Agricultural Extension
At UW: 1912-1914; 1929-1958

Interviewed: 1977	Length: 2 hours
Interviewer: Donna Taylor

Education; Previous employment; Hay problem; Perfect Seed Circle; Milk marketing problems in Shawano County; Consolidated Badger Co-op; Grasshoppers and drought in early 1930s; Feed relief programs; Opposition to cooperatives; Personalities; Farm loan program; County 4-H facility; Tennessee Valley Authority program; UW Extension supervisory work; Artificial breeding project; County zoning; UW associates.

6. BIRGE, Anna G. (1884-1979 )
Daughter of Edward A. Birge (Professor of Botany; President)

Interviewed: 1972	Length: 1.5 hours	Transcript: 13 pages
Interviewer: Stephen Lowe

Recollections of Madison and University at turn of century; Personalities; Anecdotes and information about President Edward A. Birge.

7. BOGHOLT, Carl M. (1896-1978 )
Professor of Philosophy
At UW: 1926-1961

Interviewed: 1973	Length: 2 hours	Transcript: 47 pages
Interviewer: Donna Taylor

Educational background; Alexander Meiklejohn and Experimental College; Faculty associates; Bleyer Committee; Badger Village.

8. BOHSTEDT, Gustav (1887-1986 )
Undergraduate and Graduate Student; Professor of Animal Husbandry
At UW: 1911-1921; 1928-1957

Interviewed: 1972	Length: 6 hours	Transcript: 73 pages
Interviewer: Donna Taylor

Student life; Animal feeding experiments; Early facilities; Stephen Babcock; Faculty associates; Wisconsin Idea.

9. BORCHERS, Gladys L. (1891-1988 )
Undergraduate Student; Professor of Speech
At UW: 1919-1921; 1924-1962

Interviewed: 1972	Length: 4 hours	Transcript: 98 pages
Interviewer: Donna Taylor

Student years; Speech Department; Colleagues and associates; Human Rights Committee; Wisconsin High School; Debating; Eight-Year Study; Exchange visits between Wisconsin High and Chicago's Wendell Phillips High; Speech training for teachers; Status of women in University.

10. BRADLEY, Harold C. (1878-1976 )
Professor of Physiological Chemistry
At UW: 1906-1949

Interviewed: 1973	Length: 1.5 hours	Transcript: 34 pages
Interviewer: Donna Taylor

Early Medical School; Faculty; Wisconsin Union; Dining clubs; Research at Woods Hole; Sierra Club.

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