Interviews 641-650

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Childhood; Education at Madison Area Technical College; Position at University Extension management institute; Transfer to School of Business; Construction of Grainger Hall; Current responsibilities; Changes in the School of Business.

#642. YOUNG, M. Crawford (1931- )
Professor of Political Science; Husband of Rebecca Young (#660)
At UW: 1963-2000

Family; Undergraduate education at University of Michigan; Military service; London, Paris and Leiden; Interest in anti-colonial movements in Africa; Graduate work at Harvard; Research in Belgium and the Congo; Appointment to UW; Tenure; Colleagues in political science; TAA strikes; Diversity in political science; Terms as department chair; Student protest years; Establishment of African-American Studies Department in 1969; Establishment of African Studies Program in 1962; Term as chair of African Studies Program; African Studies Association; Teaching; Research; Publications; Term as associate dean in the graduate school; University Committee; Term as acting dean of L&S; L&S student academic services; Appointment of Phillip Certain as dean of L&S; Wife Rebecca Young’s career in community leadership; Search and screen committees on which Crawford Young served.

#643. SEGAR, William E. (1923- )
Professor of Pediatrics
At UW: 1970-89

Childhood; Medical education; Residency in Indianapolis; Appointment to Indiana University School of Medicine; Research; Appointment to UW in 1970; Chairmanship of pediatrics department, 1974 to 1985; Consolidation of neonatal intensive care facilities; Faculty in pediatrics; Move to the new hospital; Residents; Shortage of primary care patients; Establishment of mentor program; Teaching; Payment system for pediatrics department.

Childhood; Undergraduate and graduate work in electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Appointment to UW; Problems caused by colleague; Tenure; Women in engineering; Service; Engineering education; National Institute for Science Education; Appointment as dean of the University of Washington College of Engineering.

Childhood in Milwaukee; Interest in math and science; Undergraduate education at Carleton College; Discovery of ecology and environmentalism; Decision to study botany at UW; Experience as a teaching assistant; Protest years; Appointment to landscape architecture department; Women in the botany department and in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences; Teaching; Research; Service.

#646. MEISNER, Lorraine (1931- )
Chief of Cytogenetics Section, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
At UW: 1968-

Interviewed: 2003	Length: 1.75 hours
Series: Women in Science and Engineering Interviewer: Joyce Coleman

Childhood; Undergraduate education at Wayne University; MA in anthropology and PhD in zoology and genetics at University of Chicago; Work in Boston, Virginia and Palo Alto; Appointment to Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene; Work with committee on childcare; Committee on Non-Discrimination and Affirmative Action in Faculty Appointment; Discusses two gender discrimination cases; Gender pay equity; Research; Teaching.

Development of University Research Park; Education; Service as State Budget Director; Changes in state budgetary procedures; Service as Commissioner of Administration; Reorganization of state government; Public collective bargaining; Coordinating Committee on Higher Education; Deputy Secretary, Department of Transportation; Acting Vice Chancellor for Center for Health Sciences; Director of Budget Planning & Analysis; UW-Madison campus building program; Executive Assistant for Chancellor Donna Shalala; Capitol and campus protests; Medical School and UW Hospital issues; Comparisons between working for state government and university; Career reflections.

NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW IS RESTRICTED UNTIL 2010 AND CAN ONLY BE USED WITH THE EXPRESSED, WRITTEN CONSENT OF WAYNE F. MCGOWN.

Childhood; Medical education at Boston University; Experiences in Navy; Residency at UW; Colleagues in radiology department, including John Juhl, Charles Mistretta and John Cameron; Research; Move to new hospital; Relationship with Veterans Administration Hospital; Changes in radiology; Teaching program; Retirement.

Background; Development of the University Research Park; Early challenges; Current projects.

Background; Undergraduate education at Illinois Institute of Technology; Masters at University of Illinois; PhD in physics at UW; Raymond Herb; Expedition to Antarctica; Appointment to UW; Teaching; Graduate students; Research; Facilities; Changes in meteorology; Positions held outside of academia; Current position at University of Washington; Retirement.

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