Interviews 101 - 110

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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Robben Fleming's chancellorship; Board of Regents and handling of protest movement; Regents' other concerns; Fred Harvey Harrington's position, 1967-68; Background to October 1967 Dow Protests; Student leaders; Faculty reactions to Dow Protests; Discussions with campus and city police; People involved in handling of Protests; Other problems during chancellorship; Law and pharmacy deanships; Crisis following Martin Luther King's assassination; Decision to establish Afro-American Studies Department; UW and state government; Influential friends of UW; WARF; Town and Gown Club; Teaching; TA system and Sociology TAs; Attitude towards TA Strike; Background; Funding for social sciences; Harrington and Edwin Young; Merger; Loss of top scholars and effects on University.

History of Sociology Department; Rural sociology; Weakness of Department by late 1930s; Outside funding for research; Division of anthropology and sociology into separate departments; Talent searches; Center for Demography; Attempt to gain more grant money for social sciences; Opposition of presidents Conrad Elvehjem and E. B. Fred; Department's high national rating; Likely effects of recent budget reductions; Pressure to publish in Department.

College education and early interest in medicine and sociology; Graduate work at University of Minnesota under Stewart Chapin; Teaching and research at University of Oklahoma; Statistical and sociological work for Navy during WWII; Recruitment by E. B. Fred; Post-war research on child and adolescent socialization and revision of post-Freudian psychoanalysis; Research on social stratification; Wisconsin High School student data and Wisconsin Longitudinal Study; Collaboration with and impressions of Otis Dudley Duncan, Robert Hauser and Sewall Wright; Writing; Involvement in national organizations; Current research.

Background and research.

102.   SOGLIN, Paul R.  (1945- )
Undergraduate and Graduate Student, History; Law Student
At UW: 1962-1966; 1969-1972

Interviewed: 1977	Length: 3.5 hours
Interviewer: Laura Smail	RESTRICTED UNTIL 2045

Undergraduate career at UW; Graduate studies; Civil rights movement; Teach-ins; Committee to End the War in Vietnam; Women in anti-war movement; SDS; Draft sit-in; WSA involvement; University-Community Action Party; National Student Association activities; WSA leaders, 1964-68; Leftist differences; Sterling Hall bombing; Bus demonstration; Dow Protests; Restraining order against dean of students; Police on campus; Use of National Guard; Running for alderman; Drug situation in Madison in 1960s; Mifflin Street Co-op; Mifflin Street residents.

Early work in Iowa; Wisconsin potato growing; 4-H clubs; Forest fire prevention; School forests; County forests; Land use program in Oneida County; Rural zoning; Depression; Northern Wisconsin settler relocation; Resort industry; Drought of 1930s; Federal aid programs; Farm labor program; Producing plays and books on Wisconsin; Associates in Extension; Other personalities.

Background; Gajah Mada project; Junior year abroad; Programs in Indonesia; Student exchange program; Ford Foundation; MUCIA projects; Budgets and accounts; Admissions; Problems of foreign students; Retirement plans.

Background; Undergraduate life; WWI Army career; First teaching experiences; Comparison of WWI and WWII veterans; Extension work helping dairy plants solve problems; Development of cooperative dairy plants; Manufacturing laboratories; Relations with commercial dairies; Unionization of Dairy Department; Merging of dairy plants; Purchasing requirements; Salary decisions; New Dairy Building; Work with other schools; Ice cream ingredients.

Background and education; Separation of Geography and Geology into separate departments; Study in Japan and Japanese maps; Field study and mapping; Wisconsin Geographical Press; TAs; Weekly Department luncheons; Depression years; Department growth; Department ratings; Committees; General Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Commander for Allied Powers (SCAP) Committee; Edwin Reischauer; Emperor Hirohito; Population geography; UW Press; Geography Department map collection; Faculty associates; Faculty Club; Dining clubs.

Education and early career; History of UW School of Pharmacy; American Institute of History of Pharmacy; Curriculum; Internship program; WARF; Pharmacy at UW-Milwaukee; Growth from Department to School; Facilities.

Committee work; History of Elvehjem Art Museum; Campus planning and architecture; Curriculum committee; Board of Regents; Merger; UW Arts Council; University Club; Courses; Art Department faculty; Art History Department; TA Strike of 1970; Retirement.

Memorial Library mosaic; Printmaking book; Elvehjem Art Center; Teaching.

Background; Education; Move to Madison; Undergraduate years; Graduate work; Madison Salon of Art competitions; Paul Bunyan murals; Appointment to faculty; WWII experience; Printmaking research; Other murals; Studying mosaics in Rome; Changing relationship between UW and its faculty in years of expansion; Role of UW in Madison arts; Building Elvehjem Museum; Art History Department; University Committee; Faculty governance; UW personalities.

Design and construction of two mosaics for the lobby of the commerce building; Design and construction of a sculpture for the lobby of the social sciences building; Reflections on public art works.

 

109.   WEBB, THOMPSON, Jr.  (1917-1998 )
Director of University Press
At UW: 1947-1985

UW in 1940s; Livia Appel; State printing statute; Publishing committee; Merle Curti and Vernon Carstensen's history of UW; Budget problems; Process for approving manuscripts; Howard Hughes anecdote; Graduate School and president's office; Publishing goals; Press Committee; London office; Effects of Merger; WARF grants; Press editors.

Background; Short Course beginnings; Farmers' Institutes; Courses; Facilities; Housing; Enrollment trends; Scholarships; Foreign student programs; Short Course alumni associations; Personalities; Short Course development.

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