Interviews 491 - 500

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Arrival at UW; Katherine Saunders-Nordeen; Title IX; Peter Tegen; Track career; Membership on Athletic Board; Gender equity; Non-income sports; UW women's basketball program.

Undergraduate education at UW; Basketball; Baseball; Football; Professional football career; Employment as UW athletic director; Chancellor Donna Shalala; Hockey; Women's sports; New field house; Current challenges for college athletic programs.

Discussion of career of father Alfred Sessler: Childhood; Milwaukee art scene in 1930s and 1940s; Move to Madison; Career as art student; Politics; Health concerns; Evolution of art; Impact of McCarthyism; Artistic influences; Subject matter; Exhibitions; Career highlights; Milwaukee influence on UW Art Department.

Background; Painting; Claire Van Vleet; Posters; Vietnam War; Controversial work; Environment; Tandem Press; Visiting artists; Venice Biennale; Jones Road Shop; Exhibitions; Grants; Students; Future of Art Department; Posters (offset printing); Anti-war images; Hiring by UW; Need for change in Art Department; Silkscreens; Move from political to abstract work; Papermaking; Relief prints; "Environmental mode"; Computer technology.

Background; Depression; Quaker influences; Education; Coming to UW; WWII; Campus environment; Soil Science Department; Indian myth of soil; State soil; Reflections on Muir Woods; Construction projects; National parks; Study of ants and prairie soil; Soil awareness program.

Background; Pratt Institute; Wayne State University; First books; UW Art Department; Claire Van Vleet; Making ordinary extraordinary; Teaching; Form of book; Creative process; Photography; Boxes; Gabberjabb series; Scatology of art; Book as aquifer/river/worm; Collaboration; Disillusioned Solipsist and Nine Related Poems; Paul Blackburn; Paul Clay; Conrad Hilberry; Jack Beal; Book binders Elizabeth Kner and Bill Anthony; Artist Henrick Drescher; Poet Diane Wakoski; History of Perry Township; Journals; Rubber stamps and Gabberjabb #6; 1985; Gabberjabb #7; Papermaking.

Early life on Langdon Street; UW at turn of century; Undergraduate studies; History Department; Experimental College and Alexander Meiklejohn; Daily Cardinal; Phi Beta Kappa; Fraternity; Union Theater; Sports; Religion; Minority groups and discrimination; Dean of men Scott Goodnight; President Glenn Frank; Hang-outs; Law School; State Historical Society; Wisconsin History Foundation; Past, present and future challenges for Historical Society; Teaching in Law School; Law School deans; Academy; Honorary degree.

Early education; Education at UW-Stout; Navy service; M.S. degree at UW-Stout; Employment at UW-Milwaukee; Korean War; Employment at UW College of Engineering and UW Extension Center; Descriptive Geometry; Service as chairman of General Engineering Department; Kurt Wendt; Robert Marshall; John Bollinger; Advising Wisconsin Engineer magazine; Engineering College Magazines Associated; Service as commander of Madison's naval reserve unit; Community work; Retirement.

499.   INHORN, Stanley L.  (1928- )
Director of Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene; Professor of Pathology and Preventative Medicine
At UW: 1956-1960; 1964-1965; 1986-

First Interview

Interviewed: 1996	Length: 2 hours
Interviewer: Rjurik Golubjatnikov

Undergraduate education; Medical school; Pathology internship at UW; Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene; Cytogenetic research; Lectureship in Department of Pathology; Alfred Evans; Responsibilities as director of State Laboratory; Memorable colleagues; Toxicology; Former Medical School deans; Center for Disease Control; Professional organizations; Important State Laboratory programs; William Stovall's cancer research; Chairmanship of Department of Pathology; Former chairs of Department of Preventative Medicine; Future of State Laboratory.

Second Interview

Growing up in Cleveland; family; Western Reserve University; Cancer Research Department at Columbia University medical school; residency at UW Hospital; Naval service; State Laboratory of Hygiene; cytology research; pap smear research; recollections of colleagues; Clinical Laboratory Improvement Acts; Pathology Department and curriculum; American Cancer Society; family life in Madison.

500.   MYERS, Frances (1938-)
Undergraduate and Graduate Student; Professor of Art
At UW: 1956-60; 1964-65; 1986-

Background; Undergraduate training; San Francisco "beat" experience; East-West House; Stanley William Hayter; Graduate training; England; Birgit Skiöld's basement workshop; Architecturally-inspired work; Frank Lloyd Wright; Color xerox machines; Computers; Wonder Woman; Feminism; Wonder Woman and major events in life of Christ; Linoleum prints; Monoprints; Morality of improvement; Woodcuts; Still life; Intaglio; Tandem Press; Photo- and collage-influenced prints; Print series on St. Theresa of Avila; "An Examination of the Phenomenon of Ecstasy"; Rodent and bird skeletons and hair as art material; Installations; Cloth and ritual; Computers; Her and husband Warrington Colescott's modes of work.

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