Sound Clips

NB: These sound clips are delivered as RealAudio files. To access them you must have RealPlayer installed on your desktop. RealPlayer G2 is freeware (as opposed to RealPlayer G2 Plus, which costs $29.95), therefore you may download it free of charge by linking to RealNetworks. It is available for both Windows and Macintosh platforms.

Listen to Warrington Colescott, well-known printmaker and UW-Madison art professor, discuss his first meeting with friend and fellow artist Alfred Sessler. Read a transcription of the clip.

Listen to Martha Peterson, Dean of Students at UW-Madison in the 1950s and 1960s, talk about the position of women on campus at that time. Read a transcription of the clip.

Listen to Merle Curti, distinguished historian and Professor of History at UW-Madison, relate how he became involved in writing the University's history. Read a transcription of the clip.

All images courtesy of the Iconography division of the University Archives. Photograph of Martha Peterson by Edward C. Schumann and Associates; Photograph of Merle Curti by Harold Hone.

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