Interviews 421 - 430

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; Botany major; Botany Department; E. M. Gilbert; Student life; Forest Products Laboratory; Students and Depression; Career after graduation.

Background; Football; Tulane; Transfer to UW; School of Journalism faculty; Practical vs. theoretical courses; "Wild Bill" Kiekhofer; August Derleth and Extension course; Alpha Tau Omega; Haresfoot Club; Fraternities and sororities; Leisure time; UW boxing team; Death of boxer Charlie Mohr; Football at UW; Part-time job; St. Paul's; Alpha Tau Omega; Minorities and discrimination; Ted Zillman; Career goals.

Background; Student life; Leisure time; "The Jazz Singer"; Sorority rush and pledge; Louise Nardin; Depression; Paul Fulcher; Senior Swing-Out; Muir Woods; Board of Visitors.

Background; Early career at Memorial Union; Wisconsin Union Directorate and multicultural education; Ten Percent Society; Minority Recruitment Committee; Union multicultural education program; Fiji incident; Multicultural Center; Zeta Beta Tau slave auction; American Indian Studies program; Gary Sandefur; Wonk Sheek.

Dean of women Lois Matthews; Leisure activities; Matthews and fraternities and sororities; Abby Marlatt; Dean of women Louise Nardin; WWI; Women and careers; President Charles Van Hise.

Background; Robert LaFollette and decision to attend UW; Courses and professors in Political Science Department; Pitman Potter; Frederick A. Ogg; John M. Gaus; John Chapple; Dissertation and orals; Experimental College and Alexander Meiklejohn; Oliver Rundell.

UW's "atheistic" reputation; Journalism School; Helen Patterson; Max Otto; Journalism professors Willard Bleyer, Grant Hyde and Ralph Nafziger; Theta Chi; Daily Cardinal; Women's role on Cardinal; Julia Wilkinson; UW during Prohibition; Scott Goodnight; Louise Troxell.

Childhood and education; Politics; WPA; Post-WWII Art Department; Its personalities; McCarthyism; Facilities; Campus personalities; Poker club; Career.

Transfer to College Library; Student protests; Work at Memorial Library; Student library jobs; Development of Network Library System (NLS); Introduction of Online Computer Library Center (OCLC); Faculty response to automation.

Background; Undergraduate training at UW Extension-Green Bay and UW- Madison; Student library jobs; Library School; Library trainee; Memorial Library central technical services; Associate director of College Library; Director of College Library; General Library System directors; Development of NLS; Involvement of University of Chicago and IBM; Library staff response; Installation of NLS; Faculty reaction to NLS; Creation of automation department; Impact of Internet.

Background; New biology; His recruitment and hiring by UW; California Institute of Technology; McArdle Laboratory in 1960s; Virology and cancer; Teaching method; Work on role of viruses in cancer; Choice of problems; Women and minorities at McArdle; Independent work; Work with post-doctoral and graduate students; Seminars; Maintenance of small laboratory; Relationship between choice of problems and funding; Rejection of his ideas in 1960s; Nobel Prize ceremonies in Sweden; Effects of Nobel Prize; Decline of biology at UW; Current research; Retrovirus variation and its relation to understanding and developing AIDS vaccine; Constructing viruses; His most important scientific accomplishments: provirus hypothesis, reverse transcriptase and determination of relationships among proviruses; His model of "doing science"; Establishment of program project grants and seminars relating to virology and tumor virology; Independent scientific research; Interaction in community of independent scientists; Harold Rusch; Family; Influence of scientific community's interest in choice of problems; Competition and funding in science; Harold Varmus; Outside activities: editorial boards, NIH committees and AIDS-related NAS activities; Rusch professorship; Importance of retrovirology.

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