Interviews 31 - 40

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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Family background; Education; Inequalities in advancement; English Department personalities: Grace Wales, Helen C. White and Ruth Wallerstein; Teaching vs. research; Institute for Research in Humanities; English Department in 1960s; Freshman English; Relevance of literature courses; Demonstrations and TA Strike of 1970; Helen C. White Hall; Women on faculty; Writing and teaching; English Department guidance for beginning teachers; Retirement activities.

Background and education; WWII experience; Functions and Policies Committee; Dean's office supervision of grant applications and use of grant money; Cost sharing; Grants and overstaffing; Hiring and promotion policies; Affirmative action; Recruiting costs; Mark Ingraham; E. B. Fred; Student Life and Interest Committee; Formation of TAA; TAA leaders; Council of Ten; Bargaining experience; Final bargaining sessions before TA Strike of 1970; Effects of Strike on campus; Inflexibility of college budgets.

Background; Symposium on solar energy; Attitudes toward research in 1950s and 1960s; Work of Farrington Daniels in Solar Energy Laboratory after retirement; International Solar Energy Society; Life expectancy of solar energy system; History of Solar Energy program; WARF; Money brought into UW by Solar Energy program; Accomplishments of program.

Early UW Band history; School of Music; WHA radio; Teaching; More on Band; John Philip Sousa; Recordings and copyright law; Uniforms and Rose Bowl.

Welcome to Wisconsin; Student open houses; Visiting notables; Madison friends; Experimental College; Clarence Dykstra as director of Selective Service; Faculty- student relations; Teaching vs. producing; Clarence Dykstra's concern with dormitories; Lillian Dykstra as farmer.

School for Workers; Allen Survey; John R. Commons, Selig Perlman and other faculty; University-Legislature relations; Establishment of separate School of Commerce; Curriculum; Struggle for Commerce Building; Links between UW and state; Wisconsin Center.

Experiences as student at UW; UW in 1930s compared with 1960s; Issues during deanship; Social Sciences Divisional Committee; University Research Committee; Dow Protests; Fire bombing of South Hall; Political Science Department; Building program in 1960s; Enrollment growth; Extending campus south of University Avenue.

Philosophy Department; Graduate program; Department meetings; Colloquia and peer review; Employment in philosophy; Ford Foundation fellowship program in late 1960s; Relations with TAs and TAA; Philosophy undergraduates; Mermin Committee; Dow Protests; Anti-war stand; Interdisciplinary courses; Decline in quality of UW.

Interest in philosophy; Writing; Teaching.

Early life and education; Experiences as TA; Mulvihill Committee report; Faculty-graduate student communications; TA Strike of 1970; Anti-war protests; Fellow TAs in Spanish; Teaching techniques; Spanish Department faculty.

Career, including role as mediator; Lloyd Garrison; Conservative-liberal split in 1930s and 1940s; Fayette Elwell; School for Workers; UW faculty role in beginnings of public sector bargaining in state; TA Strike of 1970.

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