Interviews 221 - 230

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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Background; Appointment as Medical School business manager; Changes in Medical School budget process; Expectations of John Bowers as dean; Research in Medical School; Clinical practice plan; Chairmanship appointments; New departments; Faculty Advisory Committee; Surgery Department issue; Bowers's actions and their reception; His success obtaining grants; Restructuring of hospital fiscal policies; Underfunding of allied health programs; Nursing School; Wisconsin Medical Alumni program; Bowers's gold braid advisory group; Increasing hostility to Bowers; Surgery problem; Reaction to firing of Bowers; Medical School reaction to Hamilton Report; School's reputation in University; Concerns about new hospital; Position of dean in new structure.

222.   HART, Henry C.  (1916- )
Professor of Political Science; Husband of Virginia B. Hart (Instructor, Extension, #286)
At UW: 1948-1982

Background; Interest in India and water resources management; UW role in technical assistance to India; Dean Morton Withey; AID; Controversy over area studies in 1950s; Murray Fowler's role in area studies; National Defense Education Act; Growth of federal funding; Proposal for Indian language study at UW; Mark Ingraham and Conrad Elvehjem; Ph.D. program in Buddhist studies; Indian Studies Department; Joseph Elder; Outreach; Comparison with other programs; Ford Foundation; MUCIA; Linguistics Department; Water Resources Management program; Institute for Environmental Studies; Plans for retirement.

Graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; John Gaus; Research on the Missouri Valley; Frederic A. Ogg; MA work; Area studies program; Behavioral revolution; Research on river basins in India; House Un-American Activities Committee; Reflections on career highlights; Assessment of the Political Science department.

223.   SENN, Milton J. E.  (1902-1990 )
Medical Student
At UW: 1922-1927

Background; Instructors; High percentage of women in class; Observations about medical training; Career after medical school.

Writing history of McArdle Laboratory; Role of UW presidents in development of cancer research; E. B. Fred; McArdle Laboratory; Administrative work in research institutions; Issues in cancer research; Funding; International community of scientists.

225.   RUEDISILI, Chester H.  (1910-2002 )
Undergraduate and Graduate Student; Professor of Psychology; Associate Dean of College of Letters and Science
At UW: 1929-1980

First Interview

Interviewed: 1982	Length: 5 hours
Interviewer: Donna Hartshorne

Background; Undergraduate jobs; Decision to go into psychology; Appointment as assistant and then associate dean; Work with freshmen; Teaching; Protest movement; Mark Ingraham's reorganization of dean's office; Beginning of honors program; SOAR program; Grants for honors theses; Biology core curriculum; Big Ten Honors Committee; Honors program under various deans; Survey of foreign students and faculty; Carnegie grant to work with black undergraduates; Student personnel services and institutes in Japan; Brittingham Viking Scholars program; University Faculty Assembly; Faculty Senate; Minimum credits issue; Disciplinary action against students; Computerization of student personnel files; Changes in admissions policy; ILS; UW's contribution to American Association of University Professors; Area studies programs; Institute for Environmental Studies; Junior year abroad; Special study for undergraduates; Career advising; Committee on Student Conduct and Appeals; ROTC; Dormitory issues; Commencement; His responsibilities as South Hall building custodian; Relations with regents; Anecdotes about Ingraham.

President Clarence Dykstra and Personnel Council; Changes on campus due to WWII; Counseling for male students bound for armed services; Military programs on campus; Harry S. Truman and atomic bomb; Veterans as students.

Student life during Depression; Politics; Engineering curriculum; Lawyers vs. engineers; Glenn Frank; Outside jobs; Work on University Committee in 1960s; Fred Harvey Harrington as president; Concern about enrollment; Second campus plan; Revision of faculty rules and regulations; Students' rights issues; Encounter with Paul Soglin; Efforts to give students voice in governance; Reactions to handling of second Dow demonstration; Appointment of Edwin Young as chancellor; William Sewell's chancellorship; Restructuring of College of Engineering; Origins of civil engineering; Changes in curriculum; History of Hydraulics Laboratory; More on student life; WARF grant; Service during WWII; Participation in program to improve Indian engineering schools; Teaching aims; Issues in engineering.

Background; Teaching at Iowa; Invitation to UW; Efforts to build up European history; Changes in history profession; Addition of African and third world history to Department; Distinguished reputation of Department; Introduction of women's history; Bureaucratization of Department; Department during protest movement; Protest movement on campus; Importance of Crow Committee in restructuring student-University relations; End of Student Life and Interest Committee; National influence of Crow Committee; Committee on Discipline and Appeals; Faculty lunch meetings in late 1950s and early 1960s with Dean of Students Martha Peterson.

Background; Student life during Depression; Social life; Jobs; Daily Cardinal strike; Work with Margaret H'Doubler; Helen White; Oscar Hagen; Political views; Glenn Frank; Lillian Dykstra; ROTC; Classes; Appointment as director of Union Theater.

Background; Interest in science, medicine and research; Training at Johns Hopkins; Collaboration with Jerzy Rose; Coming to UW; Co-workers; Facilities; Cooperation with Harry Harlow; Post-war research; Funding; Use of computers; Work on NIH committees; Founding of neurophysiology laboratory; Research.

Glenn Frank; His biography; Experimental College; Dean George Sellery; Carstensen's invitation to UW; Division of work between himself and Merle Curti on The University of Wisconsin: A History, 1848-1925, volumes I and II; Research assistants; Search for sources; Founding UW Archives; Obtaining regents' papers for Archives; Interviews done for UW History; Scarcity of information on students; Suggested topics for updated UW History; Efforts to obtain WARF grants for social sciences; Important issues in recent UW history; Sifting and winnowing plaque and regents' initial reaction; Ambiguity of Wisconsin Idea; Emphasis on teaching in History Department in 1940s; Paul Knaplund's role in UW affairs; E. B. Fred; Clarence Dykstra; Carstensen's opinion of UW History.

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