Interviews 371 - 380

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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Undergraduate and graduate experience at UW; Registration; Professors and courses; Residence halls and off-campus housing; Financing education; Sports; Clubs and organizations; Daily Cardinal and Octopus; Student attitudes; Radicalism; Campus personalities; Lower State Street and Square; Co-op, shops and restaurants; State Street merchants; Effects of Depression and job market after graduation; New Deal, Federal Emergency Relief Administration and positions with Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Agricultural Administration; Employment as economist for Tennessee Valley Authority; Social Security Act; Career goals.

Background; Reasons for coming to UW; Courses, advisors, professors and majors; Career ambitions; Class format; Army students, women students and graduate students; Grades and blue exam books; Lavine as first female editor of Daily Cardinal; Sororities and rooming houses; Rathskeller; Jewish students; Activities; Movie idols; Theater and radio; Play at Union Theater; Wisconsin Players; Badger; Sports; Social events; Student government committees; Radical student political groups; Deans of men and women; President Clarence Dykstra; Student relationships with Madison merchants and citizens; Effect of WWII on campus; Employment; Quality of UW education.

Reasons for coming to UW; Arrival on campus; Classes; Social and extracurricular activities; Daily Cardinal; Campus norms; Intramurals and athletics; Appearance of military personnel on campus during WWII; Dormitory life; Experiences as housefellow; Donald Halverson and other housing personnel; Membership in Iron Cross Society.

Background and education; Choice of graduate study in history; Undergraduate studies; Work in Washington, D.C.; UW History program; Interest in immigration history; TA experience and TAA; Women in history; Minorities; Job prospects for Ph.D.s.

Arrival at UW; Law School; Boarding houses; Fraternity and sorority life; Max Otto and William Ellery Leonard; Black Friday; Daily Cardinal; President Glenn Frank; Wisconsin Idea.

Background; Transfer to UW; Choice of chemical engineering as major; Dress; Student behavior; Classes; Influential professors, including Otto Kowalke, Olaf Hougen, Roland Ragatz, Edward Maurer and Morton Withey; Undergraduate life and housing; Football and boxing; Extra-curricular activities; Attitudes about alcohol, drugs and sex; Summer employment at Wisconsin Dells; Career after graduation.

Clubs and organizations; Touchdown Club; Doc Spears; 1942 UW football team; Defensive and offensive styles; Religion; Scott Goodnight; Taverns and restaurants.

Russell Jorgensen: Hiring by Porter Butts under National Youth Administration program; Job as business manager; Toboggan slide; Equestrian Club; Faculty advisor Harold C. Bradley. Stanley DuRose: Junior Hoofer at Madison West High School; Ski chairman of Hoofers; Army Specialized Training Program and WAVES during WWII. John B. Lambert: Hoofers as center of social life; Going co-ed in early 1950s; Faculty advisors Bob Bach and Dale Bender. Anna B. Bender: Learning to ski and sail through Hoofers; Faculty advisor Dale Bender, later husband. Barbara Ramsay: Chairman of Riding Club; Sense of camaraderie in Hoofers. Charles Bradley: Harold C. Bradley's son; Early Hoofer headquarters at Union; Formation of Badger Ski Club; First ski jump, built in 1917.

Background; Attending UW; Music major; Grandfather John Parkinson; Courses; Interest in music; Proms and other dances; Langdon, Murray and State Streets; Appearance of UW campus in early 1900s; Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority; Professors Carl Fish, Benjamin Snow, Joseph Jastrow, George Sellery, William Ellery Leonard, Max Otto and Michael Vincent O'Shea; Greenbush; Deans of women Lois Mathews and Louise Nardin; Scott Goodnight; Edward A. Birge; President Charles Van Hise and family; Sports at UW; Extra-curricular activities; La Follette family.

Plight of disabled students in late 1930s and early 1940s; Student academic life; Discrimination on campus; Student social life; Campus religion; Student government; Presidents Glenn Frank and Clarence Dykstra; Effect of WWII on student life; Soldiers and WAVES on campus.

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