Interviews 341 - 350

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.

Last Page

Alphabetical Index

Oral History Guide

Next Page

Changes in attitude of student personnel staff in 1950s; Role of housefellows; Student problems in 1950s; Beginning of student power movement; Deans Louise Troxell, Theodore Zillman, LeRoy Luberg, Martha Peterson and Joseph Kauffman; Protest movement and long-term effect on campus religious centers; Issues in jurisdiction of student affairs; Reorganization in late 1960s; Attitudes of student affairs staff; More on protest movement; Creation of dean of students office; Closing down off-campus housing office; Memorial Union; Latitude allowed him as dean; His goals; Issues between dean of students office and L&S; His philosophy of counseling and views on academic misconduct; WSA; Minority programs, Multi-Cultural Council and Fiji affair; Madison Plan; Reasons for leaving deanship.

UW in 1950s; Beginning of student power movement led by young conservatives; Residence halls; E. B. Fred; Martha Peterson; Formation of dean of students office; Evolution of student affairs on campus; UW in 1960s; Student protest; Impact of assassinations; Anti-war movement, police and administration; Bombing of Sterling Hall.

Goals as dean; Changes in school population and teacher training; Outreach; Computing; Importance of upgrading equipment; Irving Shain as chancellor; Robert O'Neil; New chancellor Donna Shalala; Inception of Madison Plan; Hiring minorities under Plan; New attention to undergraduate education; Paul Ginsberg as dean of students; Madison schools and Madison Plan; Madison Plan to date; Shalala after six months; Role of faculty governance.

Background; Coming to UW; Chemical Engineering Department; Olaf Hougen; Research in 1940s.

Appointment as director of Library School; Building up School; National revolution in libraries and resulting availability of funding; Growth of information science; Search for faculty; Move to new building; Student revolt and change in faculty approach to teaching; Student protest era; Retirement; Research; UW- Milwaukee's library school; Effects of UW Merger; Faye McBeath Institute on Aging: research, faculty and funding; More on training of Library School students.

Background; First position at UW; Appointment as dean of students; Plans; Policy regarding student orientation and counseling; Issues of academic misconduct; Support for family: spousal hires and child care; SOAR program; Fall plans for freshmen; WSA; Multicultural Center; Relationship with faculty.

Glenn Pound's deanship; Current concerns; Extension; Pressure from farmers and farm organizations on College of Agriculture regarding appointments and research directions; Competing interests within College; Effect of budget cuts during deanship; Background of appointment as dean; Attempt to fulfill Madison Plan in College; Loss and recruitment of faculty; Issue of reporting outside activities; Effect on College of Extension Merger and organization of Extension under System Merger; Recent developments in Extension; Changes in farm organizations; Present needs of UW.

Change in top administration; Contrast between Irving Shain and Donna Shalala; Personnel case; Library staff and Hayes-Hill retitling effort; Shalala's efforts to defuse academic staff unionization; Gapen's working relationship with System; Library budget; Automation; Collection development; UW-Milwaukee library; Circumstances of appointment as director; Problems encountered in first months; Staff reorganization; Relationship with directors of other campus libraries; Tension in periods of change; Library profession.

Background; Experiences as Margaret H'Doubler's student in early 1950s; Other faculty members; Changes in Department after H'Doubler's retirement; Appointment to faculty; Failure to secure tenure.

Background; Experiences as undergraduate major in dance.

John Bowers as dean of Medical School; Issues in Medical School during Eichman's deanship, 1965-70; Building new UW Hospital and Clinics; VA Hospital; Recent developments in Medical School.

Last Page

Alphabetical Index

Oral History Guide

Next Page