Interviews 231 - 240

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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Teachers' union in 1930s; Reasons for joining; Membership; Issues; Efforts to rectify faculty salaries in late 1940s; Administration's reactions; End of union; Glenn Frank; E. B. Fred; George Sellery; Role of Progressives in UW affairs; Economics Department; Walter Morton, Milton Friedman and others; Edwin Young's chairmanship; Hiring of Guy Orcutt; Personalities in Committee for Economic Development; Move to California.

Background; Psychology as discipline in 1950s; Psychology Department's reputation over years; Culture of Department; Encouragement of laboratory research; Failure to attract theoreticians; Department faculty; Graduate training; Hiring and tenure policies; Department during protest era and TA Strike of 1970; Research.

Appointment to Chemistry Department; Salary; Foundation grants; Issue of work space in new building; Farrington Daniels; Graduate and post-doctoral students; Faculty in 1920s; Department attitude towards "slop chemistry"; Work during WWII; E. B. Fred's support; Department's relations with Biochemistry and Physiological Chemistry; Faculty meetings; Fred's Blue Ribbon Horse Committee; WARF money; Dining club; Computers; Teaching in sciences.

Reasons for coming to UW; Experimental College; UW presidents; Treatment of students; George Sellery's deanship; T. S. Eliot's visit to Madison; Madison in 1920s; Depression; Faculty antipathy to emphasis on intellectual achievement; Failure to address student writing problems; Ruth Wallerstein; "Publish or perish" in humanities; Campus architecture; McCarthy hearings; Rotating chairmanship.

Background; Undergraduate life; Opening of Union; Experimental College; Faculty meetings; Value of University Club; Committee to study effects of Depression; Athletic Board; University Committee; Working with E. B. Fred; Hiring of LeRoy Luberg; Sarles's relationship with Fred.

Bacteriology Department in 1920s; E. B. Fred as classroom teacher; Organization of laboratories; Colleagues in Department; Department governance; Ranking; Establishment of Microbiology Department and its effect on Bacteriology; Support for Conrad Elvehjem as president; Enzyme Institute; Robert Alberty; Chairmanship of Lakes and Streams Committee; Teaching.

E.B. Fred's background, undergraduate and graduate education, appointment to UW, individual and collaborative research, teaching, and public service; Root-nodule bacteria; Nitrogen fixation; Fermentation.

Student life at UW; Years in Hawaii; Return to Madison; Elizabeth McCoy; Bacteriology faculty; Husband Oscar Allen's research and her role in it; Completion of their book after his death; Contact with women faculty and faculty wives.

Reasons for coming to UW; SOAR program; Courses; Relationship with professors; Dormitory life; Difficulty making friends; Jobs; WSA and student apathy; Course requirements; Intramural sports; Leisure activities; Plans for future.

Issues in French Department; Salary decisions; Hiring and treatment of women faculty; Armed Services Training Program and resulting changes in language teaching; Relationships in Department; Treatment of instructors; Social life in Madison in 1920s and 1930s; University Club, Gertrude Slaughter's teas; Dances.

Background; Appointment as associate director of Extension; Extension in 1930s; Bringing School for Workers into Extension; Working with E. B. Fred; Institute and conference program; Associating Extension departments with campus departments; Growth of Centers after WWII; Responsibilities of local communities; Relationship with deans; Competition with state colleges; Working with Fred Harvey Harrington; Chancellors' meetings; Student protest movement; Deans' meetings with Fred; Adolfson's opposition to Extension Merger; More on presidents; Homosexual cases; Extension budget; Courses; Retirement activities; Correspondence courses.

Recollections of childhood in Nebraska; Interest in engineering; Teaching Extension classes; Railroads; Work during WWI; Textbook on gasoline automobile; Mechanical Engineering Department; Industrial research; Dean F. Ellis Johnson; Glenn Frank; Engineers' Day; Engineering personalities; Changes in College of Engineering; University issues; Relationship between Engineering and Agricultural Engineering; Leisure activities.

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