Interviews 631-640

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Childhood in Bruce, WI; Interest in home economics; Undergraduate years at the UW; Home management house; Career as a homemaker.

Childhood; Home economics program at UW; Practice cottage experience; High school teaching; Reflections on home economics education.

Childhood; Early interest in home economics; Undergraduate education in home economics; Foods and nutrition classes; Experience in the home management house; Helen Cramer.

#634. McCOY, Elizabeth (1903-1978)
Undergraduate student; Graduate student; Professor of Bacteriology
At UW: 1930-73

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PETERSON, Martha (1916- )
Dean of Women
At UW: 1956-67

Recollections of E.B. Fred; Fred’s support for women faculty and students.

Note: See also individual interview with Martha Peterson, #246.

#635. NAUGHTON, Jeffrey F. (1959 - )
Undergraduate student; Professor of Computer Sciences
At UW: 1977-82; 1988-

Childhood and early education; Undergraduate major in mathematics at UW; Decision to pursue graduate work in computer science at Stanford; Interest in database management systems; Dissertation; Position at Princeton; Decision to accept position at UW; Changes in computer sciences department; Teaching; Research; Intellectual property issues; Service; Awards and honors.

#636. TYLUS, Jane (1956- )
Professor of French and Italian; Associate Dean for the Humanities
At UW: 1985-2003

Interviewed: 2003	Length: 1.25 hours
Interviewer: Judy Craig

Background; Appointment to Department of Comparative Literature and subsequent transfer to Department of French and Italian; Recruitment as associate dean of humanities in College of Letters and Science; Responsibilities; Hiring; Research in the humanities; Decision to leave UW.

Childhood; Undergraduate education at Princeton; Graduate education at Iowa; Appointment to Washington and Lee University; Arrival at UW; Junior faculty in the English department in the early 1970s; Chairmanship of the English department (1980-83); Appointment as associate dean for the humanities in the College of Letters and Science; Deans of Letters and Science Donald Crawford, Crawford Young and Philip Certain; Hiring; Service; Research.

Childhood in Geneva, NY; Military service; Medical school at University of Rochester; Internship at Newhaven Hospital; Residency in pediatrics at University of Rochester; Appointment to UW; Medical school under William S. Middleton; Nathan Smith; John Z. Bowers; Chairmanship of pediatrics department; Research on cystic fibrosis; Deanship of University of Missouri Medical School; Associate deanship for academic affairs of UW Medical School; Neo-natal intensive care in Madison.

Childhood in Wisconsin Dells; Undergraduate education at Ripon College; Work in public relations; Impressions of UW's MBA program; Current position.

Childhood in India; Interest in engineering; Decision to earn a Masters in Business Administration; Impressions of UW Business School; Current position.

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