Interviews 321 - 330

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; Economics Department during WWII; Post-war expansion; Department office staff; Faculty; Graduate students; Social life in post-war years.

Background; Undergraduate years at UW; Daily Cardinal; Working for WIBA; Army service during WWII; History of UW News Service; Administrations of presidents E. B. Fred, Conrad Elvehjem and Fred Harvey Harrington; Speech writing; McCarthy era; Budget presentations; Governor Walter Kohler's merger effort; CCHE; Protest movement; Draft policy; Legal problems; Cardinal in 1960s; Merger; Vice president of UW System.

Background; Childhood; Interest in science fiction and chemistry; High school activities; Undergraduate work at University of Washington; WWII and Army service; Return to college after war; Marriage; Graduate work; Decision to pursue teaching career; Hiring by UW; Early years as instructor in Chemistry Department.

Chemistry Department; Chairmanship of Department; Teaching; Research; Selection as vice chancellor; Merger; Affirmative action; Budget; Medical center task force report; Building of University Hospital; Center for Health Sciences and School of Allied Health; Institute for Environmental Studies; Student protest movement; Faculty Senate; University Committee; Sterling Hall bombing; 1970 TAA collective bargaining agreement; Mulvihill Committee; Madison Academic Computing Center (MACC); Fund raising; WARF; Law School; University of Washington; H. Edwin Young; Selection as chancellor; Administrative team; Olin House; School of Veterinary Medicine; Structure Agreement; TA Strike of 1980; Athletic Department; Hiring of deans and directors; Extension; Synchotron Radiation Center; Memorial Library; Fowler Committee report; Dean's Council; UW System; Building projects; School of Music; Visits to China; Exchange programs with China; Chancellor's minority scholarship program; Legislature; University Research Park; Decision to resign chancellorship; Olin Corporation; Return to Madison.

Causes of Merger; Ambitions of Fred Harvey Harrington administration; WSU chancellors and TAUWF; Political ambitions of Governor Patrick Lucey; Donald Percy's career at UW; Young and Smith's efforts to preserve campus autonomy and WARF funding for Madison campus; Their efforts to stop proliferation of Ph.D. and research programs outside Madison and Milwaukee; John Weaver's presidency; His relationship with regents; His relationship with Legislature under governors Lucey, Lee Dreyfus and Anthony Earl; Important legislators; Problems of personnel policy and collective bargaining in merged system.

325.   WINTER, Robert W.  (1924- )
Undergraduate Student; Business Officer of Wisconsin State Universities; Vice President of UW System
At UW: 1950-1985

Interviewed: 1987	Length: 4 hours
Series: Merger Interviewer: Laura Smail

Functioning of WSU System under Eugene McPhee; Relationship between WSU and old UW; Varying quality of WSU; Appointment as UW System vice president; Responsibilities; UW System staff under presidents John Weaver, Edwin Young and Robert O'Neil; Young and Governor Lee Dreyfus; Allocation of fee income; Problems of UW-Milwaukee; Handling building priorities; Presidents' entertaining; Board of Regents appointments; O'Neil's presidency; Alternatives to catch-up; Lack of strong leadership under Merger.

326.   HOVE, Arthur  (1934- )
Undergraduate Student; Assistant to Chancellor
At UW: 1952-1956; 1959-1996

Background; Work for Alumni Association and central administration; Appointment to chancellor's office in spring 1970; Changes in organization of office in 1960s and early 1970s; Irving Shain's departure for University of Washington; Edwin Young's administrative style; His relationship with Fred Harvey Harrington and Governor Patrick Lucey; Glenn Pound's effectiveness as acting chancellor in 1977; Shain's administrative style; Madison and System administration; Lobbying; Robert O'Neil's presidency; Consequences of Merger.

Childhood in Chicago; Undergraduate education at UW; Editorship of Wisconsin Alumnus magazine; Wisconsin Alumni Association; Work for university beginning in 1970; Administrations of chancellors Edwin Young, Irving Shain, Donna Shalala, and David Ward; Student protests; TAA strike; Black student movement; Athletics; Relationship between Madison campus and System; Deans and other key campus figures; Arthur Hove's roles at the university.

Note: See also joint interview with Anne Biebel, #281.

327.   MUNTS, Mary Lou  (1924- )
Law Student; State Assemblywoman; Public Service Commissioner
At UW: 1973-1976

and FLINTROP, Richard A.  (1945- )
State Assemblyman

Interviewed: 1987	Length: 3.5 hours
Series: Merger Interviewer: Laura Smail

Work on UW System budgets during Governor Patrick Lucey's administration; UW System lobbying; Legislative leadership vacuum on higher education in late 1970s; UW-Madison's lobbying; Its standing in Legislature; Functioning of Legislature; Changes in Legislature since 1972; UW presidents; Regents; Principal issues: Merger, collective bargaining, Veterinary School, enrollment projections and catch-up; UW's attitude towards Legislature.

Background; Reasons for coming to Wisconsin; Election to Legislature; Merger bill; UW's failure to mount opposition to it; Reasons it passed; Changes in Legislature; System's approach to lobbying; Aborted plans for 1987-89 biennial budget; Current prospects for UW; Considerations in preparation of first biennial budget; Star fund; Faculty reactions to salary freeze; Faculty Compensation Review Committee; Two differentials it proposed; Catch-up dispute and its consequences; Academic staff issue; TA collective bargaining bill; His contacts on Madison campus; His regent appointments.

329.   PETERSON, Harry L.  (1940- )
Graduate student; Assistant to Chancellor; Executive assistant to Chancellor
At UW: 1973-76; 1978-1990

Background; Reasons for his appointment; Lobbying methods; Functioning of Legislature; Catch-up; UW-Madison issues; Athletics; Functioning of chancellor's office; Search for new chancellor; Changes required of UW-Madison due to new conditions in state.

Childhood and early education; Masters degree in social work at Berkeley; Post-graduate work in community mental health at Harvard; Directorship of student life programs at UW-Green Bay; PhD in educational policy studies at UW-Madison; Beginning of career in politics; Appointment to UW-Madison; Irving Shain; UW golf course; Kohl Center; Athletics; Bernard Cohen; Donna Shalala; Arboretum; University of Wisconsin Foundation; Madison Plan; Relationship between UW-Madison and System; Campus building program; Memorial Library addition; Positions after departure from Madison; Presidency of Western State College in Colorado; Retirement activities.

School of Agriculture's early support for veterinary school at UW; CCHE study; Deans' study, 1973; Difficulties with regional program; Governor Patrick Lucey's opposition; Support from rural groups in state; Martin Schrieber's support; Planning and funding for Veterinary School; Campus opposition; Recruiting faculty; First graduating class; Changes in animal medicine; Accreditation; River Falls story; His background; Department of Veterinary Science; Role of Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Association; Extension and veterinary medicine; Veterinary School's relationship with local veterinarians; Future plans.

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