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Centennial Oral History Project Oral Histories, 1982-1988
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Washington State University.
- Title
- Centennial Oral History Project Oral Histories
- Dates
- 1982-1988 (inclusive)19821988
- Quantity
- 11 Linear feet of shelf space, (22 Boxes)
- Collection Number
- Archives 202 (collection)
- Summary
- Interviews and records from Washington State University Centennial Oral History Project.
- Repository
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Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu - Access Restrictions
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This collection is open and available for research use.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
The Washington State University Centennial Oral History Project (COHP) was formally established with a $5,000 grant from the WSU Foundation in 1983. From this beginning, COHP coordinator Linda Lilles initiated a network of volunteer interviewers and interviewees from the various facets of the University community, including alumni, retirees, faculty, staff, and administration of long standing. Since the initial grant, the Office of Centennial Planning and the History Department have funded the COHP, with the bulk of the program under the leadership of Keith Williams. Coordinator from August, 1983 to November, 1987, Williams built up the collection to include 150 interviews with as many as 80 volunteers.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The COHP operates under a "unit history" format whereby each university department or unit has been asked to participate so that a balanced collective history emerges. Forty-five departments/units are represented in the collection. An important emphasis of COHP in addition to departmental/unit histories has been the 25 Golden Grad interviews, undertaken from 1984 to 1987, during the 50th anniversary alumni celebrations held each spring. By the end of the Centennial Oral History Project in June, 1988, 174 interviews have been processed and transcribed. This is a significant feat, as the Oral History Office has no interviewing staff and relies soley upon volunteers to conduct the interviews. The resulting interviews have been made available to Centennial historians and any others who wish to research or just reminisce.
Each interview in the first series has been transcribed, but due to budget constraints, most of them have not been edited. If in doubt on a name or years, consult Campus Directories or Catalogs in Holland Library. Also, remember that these interviews are informal conversations where errors in grammar sometimes occur. The description outlines basic information--the interviewer, interviewee, number of tapes, interview date, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) location, any additional material filed with the originals, and a brief sketch of topics discussed during the interview.
An index to departments and subjects exists in print form at WSU Libraries: Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections. In addition to information presented here, the print index also contains a subject index and a university department index.
During digitization of these in 2013, it was realized that a 1970 History of WSU's Physics Program roundtable was included in the Golden Grads cassettes in box 21; its provenance is unknown but it is speculated that it might have come as supporting material to Dr. Band's interview (Box 1).
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
The majority of the audio recordings from this collection have been digitized and can be found online in the WSU Oral Histories Project Digital Collection.
Restrictions on Use
Copyright restrictions may apply.
Preferred Citation
[Item description]
Centennial Oral History Project Oral Histories, 1982-1988 (Archives 202)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
This collection is divided into three series. The main series (Box 1-20) consists of one-on-one interviews. The second series lists the Golden Grad interviews- group interviews with returning alumni (Box 21). The final series (Box 22) contains all relevant paperwork.
Acquisition Information
This collection is a compilation of the accessions: UA 84-33, UA 84-37, UA 85-05, UA 85-08, UA 85-12, UA 85-16, UA 85-27, UA 85-28, UA 85-45, UA 86-02, UA 87-17, UA 87-30.
An interview, with James Elder, was discovered in another collection in 2011 and moved to this one.
Processing Note
This collection was partially processed in May of 1986 by Barbara Kovarik Gahl. The Centennial Oral History Project Index was compiled in 1988 by Sara Addis Colbert and Christine Hadlow.
Separated Materials
One additional Centennial Oral History was completed too late to be included, and is now held separately as the Centennial Oral History Interview with Charles Byron "CB" Jones, 1990 October 31 (CT 23)
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series 1: One-on-one Interviews Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box | ||
| 1 |
Ackley, William
B. Horticulture - Chair
Bertramson, B.
Rodney
(interviewer)
3 tapes
Development of landscape architecture program at WSU. Washington state's
wine grape industry. Horticulture Department's relationship with
neighboring states and provinces. Horticulture department at Johnson
Hall. Cooperation with USDA. Responsibilities as chairman. Research
stations. Changes in the department over the years. Foreign work and
cooperation. Extension programs.
Photograph of Ackley, 1985. Resume. Ackley's Recollections and 5 pages of
notes used for the interview.
|
March 15, 1985 |
| 1 |
Adams,
Janet Alumni - Education, 1976
Thonney,
Phyllis
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Family members who are WSU graduates. Personal background. Student
experiences at WSU - work, studies, activities, classes, professors,
equipment, and facilities. Campus and social life in the early 1970s.
Comments on research and teaching assistants. Campus health care.
Religious activities of the early 1970s.
Family tree.
|
July 16, 1986 |
| 1 |
Adams, Mark
F. Division of Industrial Research
Schnaitter,
Allene
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Student days at WSC, 1938-51. Professional career at
WSU, 1942-74. Personal research at WSU. Shift in research and teaching
duties. Relationship between the Division of Industrial Research and the
College of Engineering. Administration of, and attitude toward Division
of Industrial Research. Early days in Pullman. Materials donated to WSU
archives. Personal interests.
|
September 5, 1986 |
| 1 |
Adams, Ruth
Alumni - Music/Education, 1941. Faculty Wife - Mark F. Adams, Division
of Industrial Research
Schnaitter,
Allene
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Student days at WSC, 1936-41. Early years in
Pullman. Impressions of WSC. Marriage to Mark F. Adams, Professor of
Chemistry. Founding of Montessori School in Pullman, 1969. Montessori
theory of education. Activities with faculty wives. Mark F. Adam's
consulting work. Personal interests.
|
September 5, 1986 |
| 1 |
Anderson,
Gilmore Engineering - Foundry and Wood Products Lab
Backus,
Janice
(interviewer)
3 tapes
Personal background. Work at WSU Foundry, 1943-1950 - facilities,
supervisors, work with light alloy metals, and crew. Employment with
foundry at the Division of Industrial Research. Extensive discussion on
various projects the foundry undertook. Work with Hydraulics Department.
Work on developing hop dryer. Closure of foundry. Employment with Wood
Products Lab - crew, supervisors, graduate students, facilities,
salaries and promotions, and departmental social activities. Extensive
discussion on Wood Products Lab's projects. Chairs of Engineering.
Physical development of campus.
|
June 9, 1987 |
| 1 |
Backus,
Donald Alumni - Agricultural Engineering, 1952
Backus,
Janice
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Pine Manor, a male residence hall - social events,
house mother, fellow hallmates. Student life and favorite instructors. A
typical day.
Photocopy page of Pine Manor residents, including Backus.
|
June 3, 1987 |
| 1 |
Bailey, Roy and
Wanda Animal Science - Farm Manager
Bertramson, B.
Rodney
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Roy's career, 1924-72 (manager of Farm Services,
1944-72). Locations of various buildings on campus. Bailey's work with
Clydesdale horses and blacksmithing. Locations of plots of farm land
near campus. Colleagues over the years.
Paper entitled "Recollections of WSU" by Roy Bailey. Copies of photos
about cutting wheat, Clydesdales, sunflowers, and Bailey's retirement
party. Photos of Roy and Wanda Bailey, and photo of Roy with Rod
Bertramson.
|
February 20, 1985 |
| 1 |
Band,
William Physics - Chair
Park, James L. and
George E. Duvall
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Recollections of Physics department since 1949. Band's chairmanship,
1958-67. WSU administration. Importance of teaching.
Autobiography and a March, 1967 WSU Invited Address entitled "Shocks in
Physics and in Society." Paper by Alfred B. Butler, Physics, entitled
"Some History of the WSU Physics Department."
|
April 25, 1985 |
| 2 |
Bartuska, Tom
J. Architecture
Graham,
Channell
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Undergraduate and graduate career at the University
of Illinois. Travelling scholarship to Europe, 1958 - worked at a United
Nations Association work camp in Austria building houses for refugees.
WSU career, 1963 to present. Architecture department - size, faculty,
courses, and facilities. Cooperative program. Outstanding students. 1970
Fulbright and sabbatical to Afghanistan and its positive affect on his
career.
Resume
|
November 26, 1985 |
| 2 |
Bearse,
Gordon Animal Science - Poultry Science, Puyallup
Experiment Station
Rasmussen, Lowell
W.
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Biography of Bearse. Professional career at WSU, 1929-72. Poultry
industry problems and research programs. Colleagues and their work.
Communication of research findings to industry groups, producers, and
other researchers. Personal service to scientific community and local
area.
Biographical sketch. News release from WWREC about Bearse's
retirement.
|
May 1, 1984 |
| 2 |
Bement, Kenyon
T. Alumni - Business Administration, 1934
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Student days at WSC -fraternities, teachers, "Yell King" activities,
student attitudes, and classmates.
|
May 14, 1987 |
| 2 |
Bennett, Edward M.
(#1) History
Hadlow,
Robert
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1961-present. History
department - students, courses, faculty, and facilities. Focus of
departmental change, 1961-85. Praise for WSU's graduate program. Social
atmosphere of Pullman. Personal hobbies. Private and professional
associations and activities. Athletics at WSU. Student protests of the
late 1960s and early 1970s. Administrative response to students.
Violence on WSU campus. Mascots and student identity. Salary inequities.
Performance of three WSU administrations.
Curriculum vita.
|
October 30, 1985 |
| 2 |
Bennett, Edward M.
(#2) History
Hall, David
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Professional career at WSU, 1961-present. History department - courses,
work load, research, faculty, character of department, and students.
Experience as Faculty Athletic Representative to the Pacific 10 Athletic
Conference. Importance of athletics in generating alumni financial
support and identification. Why Bennett came to WSU and reasons for
staying.
|
July 22, 1986 |
| 2 |
Benzel,
Brian Alumni - Business Administration, 1970
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Student days at WSU - student politics, student attitudes, and
experiences as Associated Students of Washington State University
(ASWSU) President.
|
February 8, 1988 |
| 2 |
Bertramson, B.
Rodney Agronomy and Soils - Chair
Ehlers, Melvin
R.
(interviewer)
3 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1949-85. Highlights in
Agronomy program. Agronomy Department - faculty, cooperation with other
departments, extension, and chairs. Arrival at WSU and living in
Pullman. Relationships with state and regional associations and USDA.
Professional societies. Tenure as department chairman. Philosophy on
departmental administration. Mission of a land-grant university.
Professionalism. Program for observing teaching. Land and facilities
supervision. Teaching loads. Tribute to Ag. teachers. Turbulent times of
the late 1960s and early 1970s.
6 articles by Bertramson. Bibliography on professional agronomists. Four
photos of Bertramson - 1945,1952,1970, and 1984.
|
December 30, 1985 |
| 2 |
Betts, Attie
L. Electrical Engineering
Knox, R. F.
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. World War II. WSU career, 1955-1978. Growth of
Engineering Department and faculty. Development of honors and PhD
programs. Academic cooperation with other Pacific Northwest electrical
engineering departments. Colleagues. Outstanding students. WSU
administration under President C. C. French.
|
April 21, 1985 |
| 2 |
Bhatia, Vishnu
N. Office of International Education and Honors Program -
Director. Pharmacy
Slind,
Marvin
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Early years of International Programs Office. Establishment of study
abroad and exchange programs. Directors of International Programs.
Professional career at WSU, 1952-present. Changes in personnel and focus
of International Programs. Administration's support. Creation of
International Programs Development Office. Bhatia's guidelines for
establishing study abroad programs. Rewarding aspects of experience with
International Programs. Creation of Language Center.
Biographical data.
|
March 26, 1986 |
| 2 |
Bobb,
Bernard History
Hall, David
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Professional career at WSU, 1949-1980. Early years of the Political
Science and History department - course load, extension programs,
research interests, and split of the department. Publications and
dissertation background. Colleagues. Impressions of chairmen and WSU
presidents. Effects of McCarthy era on department and campus. Campus
unrest of the 1960s and 1970s. Effect of Chicano Studies on Mexican
history. Changes from Resident Instructional Staff to Senate. Financial
conditions and status of department and faculty. Pullman. History
department (academic quality, publication standards, pay, Latin American
historians, and grad students). Retirement. Current Latin American
events. Lack of objectivity in history.
|
July 11, 1986 |
| 3 |
Bonn, Art and
Marge Alumni - Entomology, 1925 (A.B.); English, 1924
(M.B.)
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Student days at WSU - teachers, fraternities and sororities, social
activities, library, classmates, fashions, and campus grounds.
|
December 12, 1986 |
| 3 |
Boyington,
Alfred Music
Spicer,
Randall
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. How Boyington came to WSU. Career, 1933-1973. WWII,
and graduate school at the University of Michigan. Colleagues. Agony
Hall (old music building). Music facilities. Performing days and
undergraduate years at Julliard. Outstanding students. "Tall Indians"
organization at WSU.
|
April 27, 1983 |
| 3 |
Brain,
George Education - Dean
Grunewald,
Marjorie
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. WSU career, 1965-1983. Establishment of the the
Department of Education, 1964. Evolution of Home Economics and
Agricultural Education. Basic Education Act. Contributions of WSU's
Education department to the state. Distribution of Education graduates
from Washington universities and colleges. New thrusts: industrial
technology, and expanding international market in education. Impressions
of being a Dean.
Memorandum from Dean Zeno Katterle indicating merger of the two Physical
Education departments with the College of Education and the
establishment of the Department of Education. Newspaper article on
Brain's resignation from Education Deanship.
|
May 10, 1983 |
| 3 |
Breakey, Nettie C.
(Esselbaugh) Food Sciences and Human Nutrition
Hard,
Margaret
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Professional WSU career, 1946-1956. Nutrition
classes, graduate students, and curriculum in related sciences.
Impressions of the Palouse country. College of Home Economics - faculty,
research facilities, and research. Social activities. Professional
salaries. Travel. Relationship with Home Economics Extension staff.
Copy from "Who's Who of American Women" & "American Men of Science."
List of professional publications. 2 reprints co-authored by Breakey:
"Nutritional Status of -Ten Family Groups in WA. St.," & "Effect of
Nutritional Education on Food Habits."
|
April 4, 1988 |
| 3 |
Bucklin,
Robert Alumni - 1925
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Reminiscences of Bucklin's father, Robert Eden Bucklin, a WSC alumnus.
Impressions of WSU Presidents.
|
December 12, 1986 |
| 3 |
Bundy, Murray
W. English - Chair
Elder, James
H.
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1928-56. Phi Beta Kappa
honor society. Extensive discussion on President and Mrs. Compton and
the Compton administration. Beaver Creek Camp Association.
Responsibilities of department chairman. Early days of the English
department.
|
June 16, 1984 |
| 3 |
Bushaw,
Donald Mathematics
DeTemple,
Duane
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Campus and math department as an undergraduate,
1943-1949. Campus changes over the years. Influential professors.
Graduate experience at Princeton. Professional career at WSU,
1952-present. Math department in the 1950s - colleagues, curriculum,
etc. Students over the years. Pure and applied mathematics. Changes in
teaching math, and new directions. Professional organizations and
research interests. Comparisons of various
administrations/administrators. Affiliated departments - astronomy and
computer science. Doctor of Arts program.
|
May 14, 1986 |
| 3 |
Buss, Irven
0. Zoology
Jonas, Robert
J.
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1948-73. Early years of
Wildlife Biology. Personal research (elephants). Wildlife Biology
program - graduate students, faculty, and zoology chairs. WSU's
administration in relation to Wildlife Biology. Principles of Wildlife
Conservation class.
Paper on history of Wildlife Biology program by Buss entitled, "Status,
Needs, and a Proposed Program for Wildlife Biology at Washington State
University." No date.
|
September 18, 1985 |
| 3 |
Calbick, Chester
J. Physics
Donaldson,
E.E.
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Student career at WSU, 1921-25. Work at Bell Labs, 1925-68, including
electron diffraction, electron microscopes, Calbick-Davisson formula,
early television, et cetera. Senior research physicist with WSU after
retirement from Bell Labs, 1973-present.
|
January 27, 1985 |
| 3 |
Caraher,
Joe Alumni Association
Caraher,
Pat
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Establishment of alumni clubs in and out of
Washington. Alumni meetings and gathering support. Changes in
responsibilities of Alumni Association (AA). AA's relationship with the
President and Board of Regents. Principles in early AA and Cougar Club.
Alumni leadership scholarship program and alumni achievement award.
Student involvement in AA. Caraher's feelings of establishing an alumni
house on campus. Golden Grad reunions. New directions Caraher believes
AA should take.
|
July 5, 1983 |
| 3 |
Chisolm, Florence and
Marshall Alumni - Mathematics, 1927 (F.C); 1928 (M.C.)
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Student days at WSC - professors, Greek versus dormitory living, clothing
fashions, social activities, and classmates.
|
January 17, 1987 |
| 4 |
Coleman,
Dorothea Physical Education
Washburn,
Joanne
(interviewer)
1 tapes
WSU career, 1948-1974. Supporter of women's unlimited dribble basketball.
Eligibility of women in athletics. Restrictions in athletics.
Involvement with volleyball. Officiating. Physical Education department
- colleagues, courses, and students. Personal background. Concerns for
teaching competency - teacher education standards in Physical Education
program. Committee work on maintaining attendence requirement in P.E.
courses. Contributions to P.E. department. Committee service. Sexism and
maintaining University standards.
TAPE 1 IS MISSING
|
September 9, 1983 |
| 4 |
Cook,
Dorothy Education
Grunewald, Marjorie
B.
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. WSU career, 1949-1973. Philosophy of education.
Computers. Attraction of, and life at WSU. Fine Arts and Education
departments. Sabbatical in Mexico. Artistic goals for children. The "Art
Shop." Pullman schools. Workshops and extension classes. WSU's changing
curriculum. Inspirational teachers. WWII years.
|
June 15, 1983 |
| 4 |
Coonrad,
Dan Animal Science
Bertramson, B.
Rodney
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Animal Science student, 1958-63. Career with WSU
Animal Science Department, 1967-present. History and uses of the Old
Beef Barn. Colleagues. Discussion of manure lagoons, and silage and hay
making. Future of the beef industry. Cross breeding of cattle.
Copies of photographs about rope halter tying class, 1959; Coonrad with
grand champion bull, 1960. 2 photos of Coonrad at Old Beef Barn,
1985.
|
February 12, 1985 |
| 4 |
Cosgriffe,
Harry Adult and Continuing Education
Long, James
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Masters of Adult and Continuing Education Program
(MACE) - adult learning course, program planning course. Transition from
Masters of Extension Program to MACE program. Development of a regional
association of adult educators (Northwest Adult Education Association).
Future of adult education.Reflections on career at WSU as extension
administrator, professor in the MACE, and as international
developer.
Resume
|
May 30, 1985 |
| 4 |
Cossalman,
Gertrude Education - Administrative Assistant
Grunewald,
Marjorie
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. WSU career, 1942-1976. Early years of the Education
department. Professors. College Hall. History of teacher certification.
Job description and evolution of duties up to Administrative Assistant.
Recollections of and relations with students. Establishment of the
department and Cleveland Hall. Colleagues. Relations with the rest of
the university. Support services for the faculty. Problems with the
program. State Office of Education. Dean/chairman split of authority.
Student teaching program. Teacher quality.
|
February 3, 1984 |
| 4 |
Crawford,
William Education
Grunewald,
Marjorie
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1954-72. Junior colleges
and their separation from public schools. Early years of the Education
department. Influence of Education department on Washington's community
colleges. Current issues in education, especially in community colleges.
Comparison of junior colleges and universities. Crawford's
retirement.
Obituaries from local papers, March 26, 1983.
|
March 23, 1982 |
| 4 |
Deeter, Isaac
(Ike) Physical Education - Alumni, 1928. Boxing Coach
Tidrick, K.A.
(Andy)
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Student experiences - Sigma Nu fraternity, social
events, and athletics. Boxing experiences - Golden Gloves. Job at
Potlatch, 1929. WSU professional career as boxing coach, 1931-1967.
Amateur and college leagues, notable boxers, and memorable bouts. Navy
Pre-flight program during WWII. Demise of boxing program. Intramural and
instructional boxing. Colleagues and anecdotes. Family. WSU
administrations. Student athletes. Retirement activities.
|
June 23, 1984 |
| 4 |
Deutsch, Lenna
Baird Bacteriology - Alumni, 1926. Instructor. Faculty
Wife - Herman Deutsch, History
Nakata,
Herb
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Circumstances bringing Deutsch to WSC. Student years at WSC, 1922-1926.
Anecdote on diptheria scare. Graduate student experiences, 1928-1929.
Experiences as an instructor, 1929. Relationship between Bacteriology
professor, Dr. Victor Burke and History professor, Dr. Deutsch. Marriage
to Dr. Herman Deutsch, 1930. Bacteriology department - facilities,
students, faculty. Presentation of Sigma Alpha Omicron pin to H.M.
Nakata. Social life and codes on WSC campus.
|
June 6, 1984 |
| 4 |
Dils, Eugene
W. Dean of Students, Alumni
Fry, Richard
B.
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Dils' student days at WSC in the (?)1930s - organizations (Theta Nu
Epsilon, TNE), social rules, teachers, clothing fashions, classmates,
and student politics.Noel: Reminiscences of Buck Bailey and WSU
baseball. Norman: Perceptions of college athletics today.
Tape and transcript also contains short interviews with WSU alumni, Bob
Noel and Stanley Norman.
|
May 12, 1987 |
| 4 |
Dingle, Richard
W. Forestry and Range Management
Harris,
Grant
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. WSU career, 1953-1983. Forestry department -
facilities, faculty, courses, memorable students, and the Forestry
Nursery. Types of trees grown on campus and their uses. Clark-McNary
Act. Accreditation. Women in the Forestry Program. Dingle's experiences
with the Indonesian Agricultural Education Project, 1981. Evaluation of
WSU's Forestry Program.
|
April 15, 1986 |
| 4 |
Dykstra,
Henry Alumni - Animal Science (Dairy Science), 1926
Ehlers, Mel
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Hand milking cows. Education in the early decades of
the 20th century. Student life and layout of campus in the early 1920s.
Importance of agriculture. Professional recognition and Dykstra's
honors. Dairies in the Soviet Union. Artificial insemination and Bang's
disease.
|
October 4, 1986 |
| 5 |
Eastlick, Herbert
L. Zoology - Chair
Jonas, Robert
J.
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1940-73. Zoology
department - research, equipment, facilities, curriculum, and faculty.
Eastlick's chairmanship, 1947-1965. Mentions various faculty and deans
he worked with. Five year sabbatical. Students and classes, 1940-70s.
Recognition of Eastlick's research. Eastlick's philosophy of
academics.
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October 22, 1985 |
| 5 |
Eckblad,
Inez Home Economics - Food Science & Human Nutrition.
Extension
Hard, Margaret
M.
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1946-1967.
Responsibilities of a land-grant university. Extension programs.
World-wide recognition of Extension programs. Professional conferences.
Changes in Extension Services to fit changing demands of the public.
Colleagues Eckblad worked with in Home Economics and Agriculture.
Published bulletins and other types of educational information which
might be on file with Cooperative Extension Services, WSU.
|
December 4, 1986 |
| 5 |
Ehlers, Melvin
R. Animal Science - Dairy Science
Bertramson, Rodney
B.
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Recollections of Dairy Science Department. Ehlers' Biography.
Professional career at WSU, 1953-82. Dairy Science merger with Poultry
and Animal Science. Dairy herds at WSU and the dairy industry. The
continuing role of a land-grant university.
Photograph of Ehlers, January 1985.
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January 17, 1985 |
| 5 |
Enberg, Mary
Lou Physical Education. Alumni, 1950. Professor
Washburn,
Joanne
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Women's Recreation Association. WSU - campus,
enrollment, and strengths. Davis Residence Hall. Athletics - facilities,
games, clubs, and Crimson W. Restrictions on women on campus. Student
activities and alcohol use. Influx of WWII veterans - housing, social
changes, and competition. WSU professional career, 1960-1983. Physical
Education Department - faculty and faculty committees. Merger of Men's
and Women's departments - good and bad points.
|
June 27, 1983 |
| 5 |
Entenmann,
Felix Alumni - Agronomy and Soils, 1951
Bertramson, B.
Rodney
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background and work as an agronomist with the Army. Agronomy
graduate, B.S. and M.S., 1946-51. Agronomist with Cooperative Extension
in Washington, Whitman County. Problems the Extension faced (stripe
rust). Cooperation with WSU Agronomy department. Work with peas and
lentils. Erosion research and soil conservation. Future for the soil in
Whitman County. Training of extension agents. Role of agents in the
future.
Photograph of Entenmann, 1985. Notes used in the interview.
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March 14, 1985 |
| 5 |
Fitch, William and
Alice Alumni - English/Journalism, 1950 (W.F.); 1949
(A.F.)
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Education at WSC versus education at UW. Student days at WSC - teachers,
social rules, fraternities and sororities, veterans as students,
clothing fashions, student politics, classmates, and social
activies.
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December 13, 1986 |
| 5 |
French, C.
Clement President Emeritus
Helton,
Harold
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal biography. French's philosophy of administration. Administrative
duties prior to WSU. Describes first visit to Pullman in 1952.
Professional career at WSU, 1952-66. His role in creating the Council of
Presidents of Washington Colleges and Universities and in creating
Evergreen State College. French's philosophy and goals for administering
WSU. Growth of college programs and of the campus. Restoration of WSU to
the Pacific-10 Athletic Conference.
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May 18, 1983 |
| 5 |
Frykman,
George History
Hall, David
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. WSU career, 1950-1987. History department - classes
and faculty. Personal research and Publications. Professional
activities. Split between History and Political Science departments.
Effects of McCarthy era on WSU.
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July 21, 1986 |
| 6 |
Gannon, Gertrude
Bryan Alumni. Daughter of President E. A. Bryan
Lilles, Linda
Scott
(interviewer)
8 tapes
Personal background-- Pullman and Boise. Exctensive selections on her
father, President E.A. Bryan. Friends on Maple Street. Flood of 1910,
Pullman. Prohibition. Deans of Women, White and Annie Fertig. President
Bryan's political philosophy. Senator McCroskey. Dedication of Bryan
Hall. President Bryan's death. The President's House. Contribution of
WSU to the nation. World War II years. Marriages and career work.
Husband, Senator George Gannon.
Article about the Fortnightly Club. Unpublished Clarence Daniel Martin
Papers, 1896-1954, with inventory and index. Unpublished Enoch Albert
Bryan Papers, 1893-1916, with inventory.
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June 29, 1983 |
| 6 |
Gibson, Weldon B.
"Hoot" WSU Foundation. Alumni - Business Administration,
1938
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
4 tapes
Student days at WSU during the late 1930s - classes, buildings, social
life, professors, and classmates. Theta Nu Epsilon (TNE), a secret
campus political organization in the Greek system. Gibson's business
activities as a student. Student body elections. Student Strike, 1936.
Football. Graduate school at Stanford.
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January 5, 1987 |
| 6 |
Goldsworthy, Harry
E. Department[Unit:Alumni - Business Administration, 1939
(?)
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Student days at WSC in the 1930s - fraternities, student politics (Theta
Nu Epsilon, a secret greek political organization), classmates, and
teachers. Extensive discussion on the Student Strike of 1936. Change in
social attitudes among students. President of student body.
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May 21, 1987 |
| 7 |
Gordon,
Carol Physical Education
Washburn,
Joanne
(interviewer)
3 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1962-1982. Women's
Physical Education Department - faculty, curriculum, coed activities,
facilities, enrollment, and graduate programs. Teaching versus coaching.
Pre-Physical Therapy Program. Title 9 and its impact on WSU's Physical
Education program.
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June 14, 1983 |
| 7 |
Greenaway,
Donald Hotel and Restaurant Administration
Schnaitter,
Allene
(interviewer)
5 tapes
Changes in the restaurant industry since 1950. Changes in functions of
corporate lodging and food service organizations since 1950. Trends
influencing hospitality industry's future. Changes in hospitality
education - courses. Personal background. WSU career, 1947-1951, and as
Westin Distinguished Professor at WSU, 1983-1985. WSU's Hotel and
Restaurant Administration Program - students, field trips, courses, and
faculty. Changes at WSU since the 1940s - buildings, as an agricultural
institution, faculty, administration, professionalism. Describes various
major hotel and restaurant companies and their corporate officials.
Advice to students entering the hospitality industry.
Photograph of D. Greenaway, 1960. Copy of "Who's Who" entry, 1984-1985.
Resume of business and professional experiences. Copy of entry on
Northwood Institute, Midland, Michigan, from "Ohles and Ohles Private
Colleges and Universities."
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January 31, 1986 |
| 7 |
Greenaway,
Louise Faculty Wife - Donald Greenaway, Hotel and
Restaurant Administration.English instructor
Schnaitter,
Allene
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Impressions of WSU and Pullman. Professional WSU career, 1947-1948 in the
English department - students, classes, and faculty. College social
life. Impressions of being a faculty wife. Housing and living conditions
in Pullman. Relationship between WSU and Pullman. Women faculty members.
Veterans on campus.
THIS INTERVIEW IS PART OF THE DONALD GREENAWAY INTERVIEW.
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February 3, 1986 |
| 7 |
Greenfield, Eugene W.
and Louise Division of Industrial Research -
Director.Electrical Engineering
Schnaitter,
Allene
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Professional career at WSU, 1958-73. Industrial Engineering Research
Division (later called Engineering Research Division) at WSU.
Greenfield's research (electric acoustics). Development of Engineering
college. Personal biography. Greenfield's particular field of interest.
Retirement activities. Recollections of Pullman and WSU. Louise
Greenfield's work with acoustic sonograms.
Resume.
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December 30, 1986 |
| 7 |
Gunsul, Richard
"Brooks" Alumni - Architecture, 1952
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Student days at WSC - campus housing, teachers, social activities, G.I.'s
as students, and classmates. Hiring WSU Architecture graduates. Personal
background.
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May 4, 1987 |
| 7 |
Hanson, Tom
Student, 1965-66
Backus,
Janice
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Student life at WSU - classes, teaching methods,
typical day, entertainment, ROTC, dormitories, cafeterias, and Orton
Hall. Professional career in transit business. Training needed in a
service industry. Comments on April, 1987 Federal Transportation Act's
impact on Washington State.
Hanson's business card as well as those of others in the transit
business.
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Apri129, 1987 |
| 8 |
Harrington, Albert
H. Agricultural Economics - Chair
Bertramson, B.
Rodney
(interviewer)
5 tapes
Personal background. WSU career, 1946-1983. Agricultural Economics
department - courses, students, teaching methods, integrated courses,
and chairmen. Chairmanship and Acting Chairmanships. Reinstatement and
Scholarship Committee chores, 1948-1968. Harrington's goals and
ambitions at WSU. Personal research. Participation in extension
programs. Differences in operation of research programs and the
extension programs. Role of Ag. Econ. in the development of the Columbia
Basin. Agriculture and government. Role of a land-grant university, its
president, and its students.
2 Photographs of Harrington, 1968 (Teaching Award), and 1986. An article
by Harrington and Bertramson. Teaching diagram. Retirement seminar
presentation by Harrington.
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April 3, 1986 |
| 8 |
Hein, Mel
Alumni - Physical Education, 1931(?)
Fry, Richard
B.
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Football at WSC - 1931 Rose Bowl game, Coach Hollingberry, train trips,
league coaches, teams played, teammates, game strategies, and memorable
games. Student days at WSC, late 1920s, early 1930s - teachers,
fraternities, and meeting Florence, his future wife. Professional
football career. Coaching career. Football honors. Other professional
football players. Football theory.
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June 8, 1987 |
| 8 |
Herdering,
Judy Student Health Services
Backus,
Janice
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Impressions of Student Health Center (SHC) upon
arrival in 1958. Organization of SHC. Medical Technician Department at
SHC. Reminiscences of WSU students. Current concerns of patients - sex,
drugs, alcohol. Work with handicapped students. Family. Impressions of
Pullman. Experiences as a sorority advisor. Advice to medical technician
students. Rewards of career at WSU.
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April 29, 1987 |
| 8 |
Hicks,
Maynard Communications
Hamm,
Richard
(interviewer)
3 tapes
Personal background. WSU career, 1937-72. Early work load. News Bureau.
Student participation in newswriting. WSU administrations from Bryan to
Terrell. Growth during the Compton years. Arson story. Helen Compton.
Student unrest in the late 1960s, early 1970s. Butch, the live cougar
mascot. Growth and changes of News Bureau. Relationship with the
Athletic Department from 1937 to 1983. Relationship with Student
Publications, as advisor.
Several newspaper articles by and about M. Hicks. News releases. A 16
page history of the College News Bureau. Hicks' tenure academic
rank.
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August 12, 1983 |
| 8 |
Hill, Alberta
D. Home Economics - Dean
Hard, Margaret
M.
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Education and career before coming to WSU. Career at
WSU, 1969-83. Dean, 1975. Reasons for coming to WSU. Facilities and
programs within the College of Home Economics. Composition of student
body and faculty. Relationship between Home Ec. and Agriculture.
Professional societies. Philosophy of Home Ec. over the years and
development of various programs at WSU. Internships and field
experience. 75th anniversary of the Home Ec. program at WSU. The
program's influence upon the state. Merger of the Colleges of Home Ec.
and Agriculture.
Several newspaper articles; letter on international programs;
commemorative address, 1967, by Matsuyo Yamamoto; American Home
Economics Association article; 75-year history of the department; and
Margaret M. Hard's vita.
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March 29, 1984 |
| 9 |
Hinrichs,
Bob Alumni - Animal Science, 1954
Thonney,
Phyllis
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Family members who are WSU graduates. Student
experiences at WSU - studies, fraternities, ROTC, married life on
campus, financing education, equipment, student-teacher relationships,
social activities, and classes. Agricultural consulting work overseas.
Comments on foreign countries, foreign trade and embargoes. Relationship
with the Athletic department. Physical development of the campus. Impact
of WSU on business in Pullman.
Family tree.
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June 19, 1986 |
| 9 |
Hinrichs,
Max Alumni - Agriculture, 1925
Thonney,
Phyllis
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Student experiences at WSU - financing education,
expenses, and ROTC. Influence of WSU throughout life. Reflections on WSU
and its people. Comments on fraternity houses, especially Alpha Gamma
Rho. Family members who are WSU graduates. Farming of seed-plants in the
Palouse. Comments about national politics and their affects on the
Palouse.
Family tree.
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July 28, 1986 |
| 9 |
Hinrichs,
Phil Alumni - Agricultural Economics, 1979
Thonney,
Phyllis
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Student experiences at WSU - studies, athletics,
financing his education, faculty, work, scholarships, and tutors.
Business relationship with WSU. Professional baseball career.
Relationship and affect of WSU on Hinrichs' rape seed business.
Family tree.
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July 17, 1986 |
| 9 |
Hix, Clarence
L. Administration - Finance. Alumni - Civil Engineering,
1909
Knight, Margot
H.
(interviewer)
6 tapes
Personal biography. Early life in Spokane. Student days at WSC, 1905-09.
Summer work with Milwaukee and Great Northern Railroads. Taught physics
and math at Pullman High School, 1909-11. Professional career at WSC and
WSU, 1911-57 (teacher and business administrator). Military influence on
campus during WWI and WWII. Hix's religious activities. Recalls various
Regents. Anecdotes. Colleagues over the years, especially William
Kruegal, E.O. Holland, and Wilson Compton.
Summary of student & professional career at WSU. Several newspaper
articles about Hix. Paper about WSU by George Frykman, Professor of
History.
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July 16, 1980 |
| 9 |
Hodgson, A.
Scott Animal Science - Dairy Science. Alumni, 1950.
WWREC-Puyallup
Ehlers, Melvin
H.
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Impressions of Pullman and WSU. Dairy Science
Department - students and faculty. Student experiences at WSU and the
judging team. Work as Junior Dairy Husbandman for WSU. Professional
career at Western Washington Research and Extension Center (WWREC) in
Puyallup (formerly Western Washington Experiment Station, WWES),
1951-1971. Early history of WWES. Research at WWES and WWREC.
Faculty resume
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November 8, 1986 |
| 9 |
Hume,
Richard History - Chair
Hall, David
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. WSU career, 1968-present. History department -
faculty, classes, enrollment patterns, curriculum, World Civilization
course, teaching vs. research, administration's perception of History
department, undergraduate and graduate students, effect of Public
History program on the department, teaching assistant stipends, student
non-politicism, foreign student recruitment, and the budget's effect on
morale. Personal research. Chairmanship and goals. Campus unrest of the
1970s.
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July 23, 1986 |
| 9 |
Jacobsen,
Marion Home Economics - Food Science & Human
Nutrition
Hard,
Margaret
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Professional career at WSU, 1956-75. Changing philosophy of the Home
Economics College. Research emphasis and results. Cooperation with
Agriculture, Poultry Science, and Dairy Science departments, as well as
cooperative extension and the USDA. Development of the Food Science
department. Teaching innovations in Food Science. Loss of community
feeling among Home Economics staff with the merger with the College of
Agriculture.
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December 3, 1986 |
| 10 |
Jacquot, Harley
D. Agronomy and Soils
Bertramson, B.
Rodney
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Dry farming and Grand Coulee Dam. Superintendent of
WSU's Lind project, 1937-47. Much discussion on research - nitrogen
fertilizer. Discussion of the McGregor Corporation and his work there.
Future of farming and the soil. Jacquot's wheat variety, "Jacmar."
Paper by Jacquot on his professional recollections. Photograph of
Jacquot, 1985. Harley Jacquot's obituary, February 17, 1987.
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February 8, 1985 |
| 10 |
Johnson,
Barbara WSU Libraries
Thonney,
Phyllis
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Family background. Foreign Language degree (WSU, 1939-1943). Parent's
floral shop and lunch counter in Pullman (Neill's). Classes and entrance
tests at WSU. Growth of WSU. Sigma Kappa social events. World War Two.
Extensive discussion on Library work. Library career at WSU,
1967-present. Holland Library, 1950 to present.
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November 13, 1986 |
| 10 |
Johnson,
Mary Physical Education. Faculty Wife - Claudius O.
Johnson
Kiessling,
Karen
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background and education. WSU professional career, 1923-1924,
and 1927-1929. Women's Physical Education Department - facilities and
courses. Faculty salaries, "nepotism" clause, and social life and rules.
President E.O. Holland. Anecdote on scheduled Will Rogers/Claudius O.
Johnson debate. Student Strike of 1936. Husband's (C.O. Johnson)
education and career, chair of the Political Science and History
Department. Claudius' Fulbright assignments and travels. Health care in
Pullman. Mary's colleagues. Edward R. Murrow. Women's clubs, especially
the Fortnightly Club.
Article from the Pullman Herald, "AAUW Pays Tribute to Mary M. Johnson,"
February 8, 1984.
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December 16, 1983 |
| 10 |
Jones,
Marguerite Alumni - Speech & Education, 1960
Jones, Barbara
S.
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Speech and Education curriculum. Typical day at WSU.
Social life and student life. Duncan Dunn.
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March 16, 1985 |
| 10 |
Just,
Amanda Music
Spicer,
Randall
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Biography of Just. Professional career at WSU, 1938-72. Retirement and
community service. Memorable students of Just.
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September 13, 1983 |
| 10 |
Keene, Phillip
E. University Architect
Bertramson, B.
Rodney
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Job description.History of campus buildings, golf
course, and parking. The future - "The Campus Scheme."
Photograph, vita, and postion description.
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April 19, 1985 |
| 10 |
Klopfer, Jean
M. Home Economics - Clothing, Interior Design, and
Textiles
Perry,
Mignon
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1950-62, 1968-present.
Changes within Interior Design/Home Economics Department. Interior
Design Department - Foundation of Interior Design Research
accreditation, professional organizations, curriculum. Merger of
Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics in 1980. Research/teaching
balance. Klopfer's involvement on campus and on committees. Professional
research.
Vita. Pamphlet for 75th anniversary of College of Home Economics, WSU,
1978.
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August 15, 1985 |
| 10 |
Klossner, Erich and
Alma Alumni - Foreign Languages, 1918. US Postal Service,
campus branch
Widman,
Mary
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Student days at WSC - tuition, campus grounds,
extra-curricular activities, athletics, curriculum, enrollment,
fraternities, buildings, professors, social activities, and fashions.
Pullman community. Alma Klossner's personal background. WSU presidents.
Career with the U.S. Postal Service in Pullman and on WSU campus.
Retirement.
Notebook of letters, newspaper articles, and photos concerning the
destruction of Ferry Hall. Folder with newspaper articles and
photographs about the Flood of 1910, and a report, "Chronological Record
of Pullman Business Since 1902."
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February 3, 1987 |
| 10 |
Kottke,
Frank Economics
Backus,
Janice
(interviewer)
3 tapes
Personal background. Professional WSU career, 1961-1979. Economics
department - undergraduate and graduate students. WSU committees Kottke
served on. Student unrest of the 1960s and its impact on WSU. Research.
Career with the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D. C. WSU
Library system.
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May 27, 1987 |
| 11 |
Kreizinger, Everett
J. Adult and Continuing Education
Cosgriffe, Harry A.
and Liebel, Lester N.
(interviewer)
1 tapes
TELEPHONE INTERVIEW. WSU career, retired in 1969. Masters of Extension
program. Colleagues. Students, courses, agricultural extension.
Cooperation with other departments - Sociology, Home Economics,
Anthropology, etc.Ag. Extension as a minor - resistance from other
departments and the graduate school.
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March 5, 1985 |
| 11 |
Krueger,
Hanna WSU Libraries - Head of Humanities Library
Vyhnanek,
Lou
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1953-1970. Location of
library. Head of Technical Services. Organization of Holland Library.
Head of basic college library. How a library operates - collection
development, faculty relations, divisional setup. Impressions of library
administration. Impressions of faculty status for librarians. Value of
M.L.S. degree for librarianship as a profession. Role in writing
Washington State College Library Handbooks, in instruction activities,
and in library automation. Changes at WSU Libraries. Accomplishments and
disappointments.
Summary of training and experience. Four page description of library
situation from G. Donald Smith, March 11, 1949. Memo from G. Donald
Smith on reorganization of Holland Library, February 11, 1952.
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March 14, 1986 |
| 11 |
Landerholm,
Helen Alumni - Education, 1922
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Campus life - rules, boarding homes, social life (entertainment and
dating), classmates, and religious life. Family background. Husband, Ed
Landerholm. Clothing and hair fashions. Household chores. Family members
(past, present, and future) who attended WSU.
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June 23, 1987 |
| 11 |
Landis,
Paul Sociology, Rural Sociology, Dean of Graduate School
Miller,
Isabel
(interviewer)
15 tapes
#1) Family background. Sociology Department. Published works. WSU career,
1935-. Previous teaching and job experiences. #2) Soc. Dep't. -
colleagues, students, social work program, development of the Rural Soc.
Dep't. Government project works. Public attitudes toward soc. Family
life in Pullman. Great Depression and westward migration to Washington.
Research. #3) Soc. Dep't. - colleagues, course load. Holland
administration. Landis' deanship - Graduate School. Compton admn.
Resignation from deanship. Compton's real estate developments. #4) Real
estate, cont'd. Colleagues. Changed atmosphere on campus during &
after WWII. Student Strike, 1936. Veterans as students. Gov't programs
during Depression. Compton's demise. Pullman community. Landis' real
estate development. #5) Landis' real estate, cont'd. Graduate exams.
Graduate faculty. His deanship. Graduate language requirement. Committee
system within departments. Work with Farm Home Administration (FHA)
during WWII. #6) FHA, cont'd. Effects of WWII on campus. Landis' real
estate development. Landis' college employment. WSU career. #7 & #8)
Landis' sabbaticals around the world, esp. Africa. #9) Sabbaticals. His
achievement drive. Much on family and background. #10) Family &
background. #11) Family & background. Hunting trips. His diet.
Landis' children. #12) His children and grandchildren. #13) Children,
grandchildren. Relationship between Pullman and WSU. Much on his real
estate developments & role in building Pullman. Corrections &
insertions by Landis. His declining health. #14) Landis' declining
health and attitude toward it. Reflects on life's rewards and his
failures. Reflects on his wife, Bess. Family members and their health.
Graduate School. Sociology Department - facilities. Retirement. #15)
Landis' teaching career. Reflects on Bess, his marriage, and
fatherhood.
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March 1, 1984 |
| 12 |
Law, Alvin
G. Agronomy and Soils
Bertramson, B.
Rodney
(interviewer)
3 tapes
Personal background. Impressions of WSU, 1941-79. Courses Law taught.
Origins and work of Washington State Crop Improvement Association.
Facilities. Observations of Law on bridging gap between academics and
agricultural industries. Various faculty and ag. extension staff. Role
of a land-grant university. Seed and turf research at WSU. Work as Vice
Chairman of Agronomy and Soils. Collegiate Crops Judging, participants
and coaches. Law's outlook on foreign service. Law's views on consulting
as a professional agronomist. Law's reflections on his experiences.
Journal article about Law. Photo of Law teaching, 1960. Photo of Alvin
and Roberta Law, 1985. Photo of Law and Bertramson, 1985.
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August 14, 19857 |
| 12 |
Lawrence, John
M. Institute of Biological Chemistry
Bertramson, B.
Rodney
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1948-81. Ag. Chemistry
department (later named Institute of Biological Chemistry) - faculty,
chairmen, and facilities. Shift in departmental research emphasis from
nutrition and foods to plant biochemistry. Formation of Biological
chemistry. Members at outlying stations. Retirement work with Department
of Agronomy and Soils. Hobbies and recreation. Retrospection of life at
WSU and Pullman.
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November 20, 1985 |
| 12 |
Lincoln,
Keith Alumni - Physical Education, 1961. Assistant
Football Coach
Fry, Dick
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Football at WSU. Professional football with the San
Diego Chargers. Coaching at different levels-high school, college,
professional. Teammates and outstanding players at WSU and San Diego.
Sid Gillman, Charger coach. [Lincoln was a WSU student from 1957 to
1961. He returned to WSU as an assistant football coach, 1971 to 1973.
Lincoln then transfered to the Alumni Center in 1973, and currently is
the Director - though not discussed in the interview].
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January 30, 1986 |
| 12 |
Littlewood, Robert
A. Anthropology
Dahl,
Kathleen
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Sociology%Anthropology Department - faculty,
locations, tensions, and unity. Anthropology boom of the 1960s. Faculty
government and problems with French and Terrell administrations.
Salaries and economics of WSU. Future needs of the program and the
university.
|
February 6, 1986 |
| 12 |
Liu Maoling
Electrical Engineering
Knox, R.
Frank
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background - born and raised in China, and experiences in a
tuberculosis sanitarium. Immigration problems. WSU career, 1958-1969.
Electrical Engineering department and faculty. Locations of EE, math,
and architecture departments, and the development of laboratories.
Administrative personnel. Graduate students and secretaries.
Retirement.
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November 19, 1984 |
| 12 |
Loreen, C.
Oscar Vocational Agriculture
Bertramson, B.
Rodney
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Recollections of Vocational Agriculture, 1920-80. Loreen's biography.
Development of young farmer education. Origins and development of FFA.
Dedicated Washington Vo-Ag teachers. Locations of the Vocational
Agriculture department on the WSU campus. FFA annual convention.
Loreen's philosophy of Vocational Agriculture extention training.
Loreen's 1980 paper for a Future Farmers of America convention on
agricultural education entitled "An Association of Long Standing:
Washington State University and the FFA."
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January 15, 1985 |
| 12 |
Manring, Betty
H. Alumni - Liberal Arts, 1932
Thonney,
Phyllis
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal and family background. 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and Hollywood.
The Depression. Social life on campus. Campus housing. Courses and
faculty. Emphasis on proper etiquette. WSU YWCA. Extension Service and
4-H. Manring's children's education and careers.
Family tree of WSU graduates.
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July 31, 1986 |
| 12 |
Matsen,
Joseph Alumni - Business Administration, 1949
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Student days at WSC - changed atmosphere on campus
following WWII, dormitory living, and student politics. Development of
Wilson Compton Union Building.
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December 12, 1986 |
| 13 |
Mauss,
Armand Sociology
Backus,
Janice
(interviewer)
5 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1969-present. Sociology
department - students, graduate courses, grants, facilities, research,
department of Rural Sociology, and faculty. Attitude toward
administration and campus service. Professional activities. Teaching
versus research. Theory of teaching. Personal research. Student unrest
of the 1960s. Programs - Urban Research Center, Alcohol Studies, and
Religious Studies.
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May 28, 1987 |
| 13 |
McCloskey,
Gordon Education
Grunewald,
Marjorie
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Biography of McCloskey. Professional career at WSU, 1947-74. Philosophy
of land-grant colleges. Student strike, circa 1970. Development of the
Department of Education since 1947. WSU's role in state education.
Friendship with Carl Sandburg and McCloskey's poetry. Issues facing
educators today.
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March 16, 1982 |
| 13 |
McDonough,
Ellen WSU Food Services
Grunewald,
Marjorie
(interviewer)
2 tapes
McDonough's early life with sister Caroline Cooper, head of Duplicating
and Mailing. Student career at WSC and WSU, 1935-82. Professional
associations. Advantages and disadvantages of being a registered
dietician. Changes on campus over the years. Retirement activities.
Recollections of life as a child in eastern Oregon mining
communities.
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November 27, 1984 |
| 13 |
McNeil,
Charles Zoology
Jonas, Robert
J.
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1946-76. Courses taught
by McNeil. Zoology department - research, faculty, chairs, facilities,
G.I. students. WSU administration - quarter system, tenure, curriculum
committee. Entomology's separation from Zoology.
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September 16, 1985 |
| 13 |
Migaki,
James Education
Grunewald,
Marjorie
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Undergraduate years, 1949-1951. Professional career
at WSU, 1967-present. Stimson Hall and YMCA. Experiences in ROTC.
Experiences as a Japanese-American during WWII. Development of
Asian-American program at WSU and Affirmative Action. Graduate years at
WSU. Physical changes on campus over the years. Student life.
Influential professors. Teaching in Spokane - first Asian-American to
teach there.
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February 9, 1984 |
| 13 |
Moree, Ray
Zoology - Alumni, 1937. Professor
Jonas, R.
J.
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Student experiences and memorable faculty at WSU,
1934-1937. WSU professional career, 1942-1977. Zoology department -
courses, facilities, and research. Formation of the Entomology
department. General reminiscences.
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February 11, 1986 |
| 13 |
Morrison,
Dennis Administration - Executive Assistant to President
Fry,
Richard
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Journalism career. Professional career at WSU,
1947-85. Initial impressions of Pullman. Experience as Editor, Office of
Publications. Experience as member of Agriculture Advisory Board.
Working under C. Clement French. Importance of intercollegiate athletics
to WSU's image. Change from college to university. Washington governors.
President Compton's attitude toward salary increases. Experiences as
presidential assistant to Glenn Terrell. Student unrest of the late
1960s and early 1970s. Change in student attitudes. Media reporting of
student unrest.
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May 19, 1986 |
| 13 |
Muse, Raymond
(#1) History - Chair
Hall, David
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Professional career at WSU, 1948-1979. Relationship between Political
Science and History departments. The History department from 1955 to the
'60s. Balance between teaching and research. Impressions of WSU
students. Reminiscences of colleagues. Opinions of WSU presidents Muse
worked under.
|
July 7, 1986 |
| 13 |
Muse, Raymond
(#2) History - Chair
Grunewald,
Marjorie
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal biography. Served as first chairman of the History department,
1956-79. Service on various university committees. Muse's opinions of
presidents he worked under. Muse's colleagues.
Vita
|
July 14, 1986 |
| 14 |
Neill,
Marion Alumni - Home Economics, 1936
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Student days at WSC - Student Strike of 1936, social rules, classmates,
teachers, housemothers, dress codes, job, and sororities. Home Economics
department.
|
January 21, 1987 |
| 14 |
Neill, Thomas
C. Alumni - Mechanical Engineering, 1938
Thonney,
Phyllis
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Neill Hall. Neill family in Pullman. Entrance
requirements at WSC in 1934. College living expenses. Sigma Alpha
Epsilon fraternity. Memorable classes and professors. Student strike,
1936. Business in Pullman.
Family tree of WSU graduates.
|
November 7,1986 |
| 14 |
Nelson, C.
Emil Agronomy and Soils
Rasmussen, Lowell
W.
(interviewer)
3 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU's Irrigated Agricultural
Research and Extension Center (IAREC) in Prosser, WA, 1937-71.
Agronomist for USDA Bureau of Plant Industry, Prosser, 1942-57.
Extensive account of research activities, equipment, and facilities at
IAREC. Relationship between Prosser station and the Agronomy department
and faculty. Description of research farms. Nelson's feelings about his
experiences and his views on research and farming.
Biographical sketch by Nelson.
|
April 25, 1984 |
| 14 |
Nelson, Helen
S. Faculty Wife - James C. Nelson, Economics
Schnaitter,
Allene
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Wife of WSU Economics Professor Emeritus, James C. Nelson. Impressions of
WSC. Bob Jeffrey's school bus route. Family recreation on campus. Clubs.
Education classes. Experiences teaching Social Studies and Language
Arts, 1962-64, at Lincoln Middle School, and History, 1966-74, at
Pullman High School. Model United Nations Assembly program and High
School Bowl. Experiences as a faculty wife. Faculty Wives Association.
Campus issues. Travels.
|
February 13, 1986 |
| 14 |
Nelson, James
C. Economics
Schnaitter,
Allene
(interviewer)
6 tapes
Extensive personal background. Professional WSU career, 1947-1974.
Reasons for coming to WSU. Development of Transportation Economics
courses. Establishment of PhD program in Economics, 1959-1960. Obtaining
library resources. Development of Public Utility Economics courses.
Economics department - students, faculty, graduate students, and
courses. Personal research, deregulation, and publications. Federal
government's role in transportation.
Nelson's entry in Who's Who in America. Letter from Vice Provost to
Nelsons, commending his service to WSU; and from Brookings Institution
lauding the Nelsons. Two reviews of Nelson's book, "Regulation and
Competition in Transportation. Curriculum vita.
|
November 15, 1985 |
| 14 |
Northrup,
Catherine Dean of Women. Associate Dean of Students
Washburn,
Joanne
(interviewer)
3 tapes
Personal background. Government Nursery School Project. Montevista
schools until 1937. World War II. WSU career, 1956-1972. WSU and women
students. Associated Women Students. Residence Halls. Rules and
Regulations. Duties and involvements of the Dean of Women. Sexual
Information Resource Center (SIRC). Student unrest of the late 1960s,
early 1970s.Changes over the years regarding women's opportunities.
Professional organizations.
Personnel sheet. Five articles from local papers on her retirement -
originals and copies. Dean of Women and Associate Dean of Students
Annual Report, July l, 1971-June 30, 1972.
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September 8, 1983 |
| 14 |
Oden, DuAnn
Alumni - Physical Education, 1971
Jones,
Barbara
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Physical Education curriculum. Student Health.
Intercollegiate volleyball (1968-71) and basketball (1968-70).
Streit-Perham residence hall. Influence of WSU on Oden's life.
|
March 10, 1985 |
| 15 |
Osburn, Orren
E. Electrical Engineering
Seamans, David
A.
(interviewer)
4 tapes
Personal background. Professional WSU career, 1922-1961. Electrical
Engineering department - faculty, facilities, courses, equipment, and
students. Depression years at WSC. Professional and community service -
Academic Standards Committee, Boy Scouts, etc. WWII years at WSC.
Retirement.
Photograph of a DC motor tested by Osburn at General Electric. Citation
of service and recognition to Osburn from the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers, Spokane Section. May 18, 1956.
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May 2, 1984 |
| 15 |
Ostrom,
T.G. Mathematics - Chair
DeTemple,
Duane
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1960-1981. Mathematics
department - teaching loads, hiring faculty, students, graduate
students, class size, facilities, classes, departmental library, and
grants. Perceptions of WSU and its administrations. Shift to a
research-oriented university. Professional travelling experiences.
Chairmanship.
|
June 3, 1986 |
| 15 |
Pence, William
B. WSU Fire Department - Chief
Bennett, S.
Randal
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1947-75. Changes at WSU
Fire Department during Pence's career. Recounts student unrest in late
1960s, early 1970s. Social activities at the Fire Department. Fire alarm
systems on campus. Retirement activities.
|
September 12, 1985 |
| 15 |
Perry,
Mignon Home Economics - Clothing, Interior Design, and
Textiles - Chair
Klopfer, Jean
M.
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1958-1985. Chair,
1959-80. Changes within Clothing and Textiles department - students,
emphasis on retailing, field trips, faculty, curriculum. Museum work.
Off-campus graduate programs. Committee involvement. Changes within
departmental structure and those involved. Home Economic's relationship
with administration. Professional organizations. Perry's research and
travel.
Mignon Perry's vita.
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August 15, 1985 |
| 15 |
Petragallo,
Roy Alumni - 1930s
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Boxing at WSC in the 1930s - training, coach (Ike Deeter), teammates, and
memorable fights and meets.
|
January 18, 1987 |
| 15 |
Poe, Albert
Donald Architecture
Graham,
Channell
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Architecture employment prior to WSU. Professional
WSU career, 1958-1983. Architecture department - faculty, research, and
degree program. Sabbaticals. Chairmanship. Development of Construction
Management Program. Professional organizations. Retirement.
Resume.
|
February 5, 1986 |
| 15 |
Pratt, George
W. Student, 1930s. WSU Custodian
Backus,
Janice
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Student days at WSC during the 1930s - dormitories,
tuition, teachers, buildings, enrollment, classes and class size, social
activities, distinguished visitors, and traditions. Work with the
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Depression. Work as
custodian at Wilson Compton Union Building. Organizations.
Retirement.
Photograph of George Pratt
|
April 26, 19871 |
| 15 |
Pratt,
Marjorie WSU Food Services
Backus,
Janice
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Growing up in Pullman. Campus and summer school at
WSC in 1933. Career at WSC as cook and supervisor, 1955-1980.
Marjorie's Recipe Magic cookbook, 1974.
|
May 19, 1987 |
| 15 |
Rademacher,
Peter Alumni - Animal Husbandry, 1953
Schnaitter,
Allene
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Student days at WSU - professors, work with grounds
keeper, boxing, academic work, roommates, athletics, and coaches.
Marriage. Experience attending Castle Heights Military Academy.
Volunteer work. Employment with Kiefer-McNeill Company. Recounts his
participation in 1956 Olympics. Amateur boxing career. Return to WSU for
Hall of Fame presentation and celebrations. Wife, Margaret, and their
marriage. Extensive discussion of professional boxing career. Philosophy
on work.
Article, "Pete Rademacher." Chapter from uncited book, "Pete Rademacher:
The Impossible Fight." Nominee information for WSU Athletic Hall of
Fame. P.R. packet made by Rademacher about himself - articles, photos,
and brochure on life & career.
|
April 13, 1987 |
| 16 |
Rasmussen, Lowell
W. Agronomy and Soils
Bertramson, B.
Rodney
(interviewer)
3 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1948-75. Research and
colleagues at WSU. Development of Experimental Design course. Weed and
herbicides program. Organized communication with farmers. Regional weed
researchers. Career as Assistant Director of Agriculture Experiment
Station, 1956-75. Creation of commodity commissions and their benefits.
The role & requirements of an Ag. Research Director. Regional
research programs and the USDA. Relationship with State Dept. of Ag. and
other agencies. Foreign service and WSU international development
programs. Tribute to extension services. Outlook from 38 years at WSU.
Family and social recollections.
Vita and two photographs.
|
November 9, 1985 |
| 16 |
Sandberg,
Robert Administration - Executive Assistant to President.
Alumni
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Student days at WSC during the 1930s - housing and teachers. WSU career
years, 1947-1952. Story about WSU presidency being offered to Edward R.
Murrow. Wilson Compton administration - moving WSU to Spokane, Compton's
demise. Development of Wilson Compton Union Building.
|
May 22, 1987 |
| 16 |
Schnaitter,
Allene WSU Libraries - Director
Vyhnanek,
Lou
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Director of WSU Libraries, 1976-1984. Condition of
WSU Libraries in 1976. Her administration and management style. Physical
changes of the libraries. Budget crisis and WSU administration.
Automation of the libraries. Role of departmental libraries.
Schnaitter's reasons for stepping down because of University pressure.
Current position as Coordinator of Library Development. Accomplishments
and disappointments as Director.
Vita
|
November 14, 1985 |
| 16 |
Schwartze, Chester
D. Horticulture - Alumni, PhD 1935. WWAREC-Puyallup
Rasmussen, Lowell
W.
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Student at WSU, 1920-1924 (BA Agriculture),
1932-1935 (PhD Horticulture). Professional career at WSU, retired 1969.
Western Washington Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Puyallup.
Research - berry breeding, preservation of fruits and vegetables by
freezing, and berry harvesting. Future of berry production in
Washington. Cooperation with Washington Horticultural Association.
Biographical sketch
|
April 30, 1984 |
| 16 |
Scott, David
M. Architecture - Alumni, 1953. Professor and Chair
Graham,
Channell
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. First impressions of WSC. Student days at WSC -
professors and classmates. Professional career as an architect. Graduate
school at M.I.T. Professional career at WSU, 1960-. Chair, 1966-1976.
Teaching methods. Definition of architecture. Purpose of the
university.
Vita. Video tape of interview.
|
February 4, 198 |
| 17 |
Shaw, C.
Gardner Plant Pathology - Chair
Grunewald,
Marjorie
(interviewer)
5 tapes
Personal background. World War II experiences. WSU career, 1947-1983.
Beaver Creek Camp development. Sabbaticals and research. Publications.
Plant Pathology Department - colleagues. Experiences becoming chair and
running the department. College of Agriculture administration. Grants
and working with undergraduate and graduate students. Financial aid and
teaching assistantships. Shaw's family. Department locations. WSU
overseas projects. Recounts heart attack. Experiences as advisor of
Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Shaw's contributions to his field and to
WSU. Travels. Work in New Zealand and India. Professional conferences.
Much on his participation in WSU's Pakistan and Jordan projects.
Retirement.
|
November 23, 1987 |
| 17 |
Smith, Elizabeth
(Liz) Alumni - Physical Education and Health, 1937
Washburn,
Joanne
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Student days at WSC - impressions, work with Dr.
Helen G. Smith, fees, classes, social activities, intramurals, campus
grounds, and buildings. Student Strike, 1936. Professional training and
career in physical therapy.
|
September 10, 1983 |
| 17 |
Smith,
Floyd Alumni - Agriculture, 1913
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Student days at WSC - boxing coach (Fred "Doc" Bohler), ROTC, Lake
DePuddle, fraternities (ATO), professors, classmates, buildings,
traditions, campus grounds, organizations, and clothing
fashions.Personal background.
List of Alpha Tau Omega members and their pictures, including F.R.
Smith.
|
April 10, 1987 |
| 17 |
Smith, G.
Donald WSU Libraries - Director
Vyhnanek,
Louis
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. WSU career, 1946-1976. Library situation upon
arrival. Holland Library. Efforts and opposition to centralization of
departmental libraries. Smith's directorship of the libraries. Library
training. Collection development and computerization of library.
|
June 21, 1985 |
| 17 |
Smith, Helen
G. Physical Education - Chair
Washburn,
Joanne
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Biography of Smith. Professional career at WSU, 1925-61. Chair,
Department of Physical Education for Women. Smith Gym dedication and
evolution of building plans. Department courses, activities, and
faculty. Professional associations.
Retirement article.
|
September 8, 1983 |
| 17 |
Snow, Marian
Neill Alumni - Foreign Languages, 1934
Thonney,
Phyllis
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Family members who are WSU graduates. Student days
at WSC - fees and finances, jobs, sororities, courses, student
attitudes, social activities, traditions, and graduation. Snow's
husband, a 1933 WSC graduate. Health care facilities. Effect of the
Depression on students. Relationship between WSU and Pullman.
Family tree.
|
August 15, 1986 |
| 17 |
Stone, Linda
S. Anthropology - Alumni. Professor
Dahl, Kathleen
A.
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. WSU career, 1981-present. Undergraduate years at WSU
in the 1960s. Women in anthropology. Changes in student attitudes. The
Anthropology department's attitude. Colleagues. Anthropology's
relationship with Administration. International Development Program.
Relationship with students. Faculty salaries and morale. Reputation of
WSU's Anthropology department. Changes (and lack of) in Pullman. Stone's
goals for the Department.
|
February 7, 1986 |
| 17 |
Strait, Leland
C. Agriculture
Bertramson, B.
Rodney
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal biography. Work on Indian reservations. Professional career at
WSU, 1956-76 as County Extension Agent in Indian Affairs under WSC;
conference and short courses coordinator for College of Agriculture; and
Assistant Director of Resident Instruction for College of Agriculture.
Evaluation of short courses. Advising students. The future of the
College of Agriculture. Retirement activities.
Photograph of Leland and Freda Strait, June, 1979.
|
January 15, 1985 |
| 18 |
Stratton, David
H. History - Chair
Hall, David
(interviewer)
2 tapes
FIRST MINUTES OF TAPE INAUDIBLE - STATIC. WSU career, 1962-present.
Courses taught. Personal research. Publications. Professional
activities. American Studies Program. Chairmanship and goals. History
department - declining enrollment, early impressions, faculty, financial
crisis, and undergraduate, graduate, and foreign students. Teaching
versus research dilemma.
|
November 12, 1986 |
| 18 |
Sunnell,
Agnes Home Economics - Extension
Hard,
Margaret
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Academic and professional career at WSU, 1942-58.
Research and extension work in Tacoma, King County, and Yakima.
Extensive discussion on work and life in West Pakistan, 1954-56 (a WSU
international development program). Colleagues at WSU. Comments on WSU's
support and enthusiasm shown towards her work.
|
December 6, 1986 |
| 18 |
Thompson,
Albert Foreign Languages and Division of Humanities -
Dean
Elder,
James
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1930-1964. Reasons for
coming to WSC. Administrative policies of four WSU Presidents. Post-WWII
development - enrollment and physical expansion of the campus.
Experiences as chairman of Humanities and Dean of College of Arts and
Sciences. Retirement. Buildings on WSU campus.
Report entitled "The Checkered Career of the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures," by A. Thompson
|
May 2, 1985 |
| 18 |
Thonney,
Larry Pullman business - Photography and Dairy Farming
Thonney,
Phyllis
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Impressions of WSU. Experiences at WSU - selling
milk to dairy on campus, social life - 1945-1948, students, private
dairy in Troy Hall, photographic work on campus, dances, student
attitudes, 4-H, and FFA. Effects of WWII on campus and farm life.
Relationship and affect of WSU on local business. Attitude toward
education. Religious activities of late 1940s. Family members who are
WSU graduates. Impressions of WSU's future.
Family tree.
|
June 17, 1986 |
| 18 |
Thonney,
Phyllis Alumni - General Studies, 1988 (Began 1946,
returned 1985)
Thonney,
Phyllis
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Family members who are WSU graduates. Impressions of
WSU. Impact of VWVII veterans on WSU campus. Student experiences at WSU
- classes, living conditions, social activities, student/teacher
relationships, rules, work, and volunteer work. Married couples and
student housing.Campus health care, 1946-1948. Building changes at WSU.
Returning as a student in 1985. Differences between student community
and Pullman community.
Family tree.
|
July 28, 1986 |
| 18 |
Thoney,
Steven Alumni - Agricultural Education, 1975. MA, Animal
Science,1978
Thonney,
Phyllis
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Family members who are WSU graduates. Reasons for
choosing WSU. Requirements for agriculture. Attitude toward WSU. Reasons
for choosing major. Student experiences at WSU - classes, a typical day,
wife, grades, fraternities, professors, and social and religious
activities. Thoughts on studying and impact of courses on career. Drug
use on campus. Professional career as orchardist in Prosser. Support of
Greek system. Cougar athletics. Current contact with WSU. Political
support for WSU. Needs of the state. National issues during the
1970s.
Family tree.
|
October 4, 1986 |
| 18 |
Thonney,
Walter Pullman business - farming
Thonney,
Phyllis
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Grade school and high school experiences in Pullman.
Experiences as an Army nurse on WSU campus during the Flu Epidemic of
1918. Army service.
Family tree.
|
July 27, 1986 |
| 18 |
Tjomsland, Arnold
C. Education
Grunewald,
Marjorie
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Biography of Tjomsland. Work with State Office of Public Instruction,
1950-1960. Capital Outlay Program for Washington. Design and
construction of schools in the state. Professional career at WSU,
1960-1979. Department of Education. Retirement and work outside of the
United States. Outstanding issues in education today.
|
May 27, 1982 |
| 18 |
Urdal,
Lloyd Education - Chair
Grunewald,
Marjorie
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background and education. WSU career, 1955-83. First chair of
Education department, 1964. Education program - heavy loads, chair
duties, growth, transition to department, growth of specialty areas, and
minority programs. Current problems in education and adult education.
Pluses and minuses of chairmanship. Planning and building of Cleveland
Hall and the Education Library. Faculty cooperation and social
activities. Retirement.
|
February 9, 1984 |
| 18 |
Vatnsdal,
Mildred Mathematics Alumni, 1924. Instructor. Faculty
Wife - J.R. Vatnsdal, Mathematics
DeTemple,
Duane
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Student days at WSC - athletics,
buildings/facilities, professors, majors, and sororities.Professional
career as high school teacher and coach. Personal background on
Vatnsdal's husband, J. Russell Vatnsdal, a professor of Mathematics at
WSU. Mildred Vatnsdal's professional career at WSU, 1930-1932.
Mathematics department - teaching loads, chairmen, association with the
College of Engineering. Taught Air Corps students during WWII.
Establishment of retirement program at WSU.
|
June 3, 1986 |
| 19 |
Vogel, Orville
A. Agronomy and Soils, USDA
Rasmussen,
Lowell
(interviewer)
3 tapes
Wheat variety and disease research. WSU career, 1931-76. Cooperation with
WSU. Team research. Cooperation and support from farmers and wheat
organizations. Technology improvements for wheat research. Federal and
state colleagues. Problems with the program. Importance of WSU's
contributions to the region, and importance of endowments to WSU. The
Vogel Fund for the support of research and graduate students. Western
Wheat Quality Laboratory.
Vita
|
March 28, 1984 |
| 19 |
Waterman, Albert
D. Education
Grunewald,
Marjorie
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Career at WSU, 1952-77. Early days at WSU and
colleagues. Work with professional organizations. Problems and projects
dealt with - selection of superintendents, school projections (Kellogg
Project in the Columbia Basin), and school district policies. Changes in
school administration. Education curriculum at WSU. Discussion of
Comparative Education Society tour of Eastern-bloc countries.
Department's outreach to public schools. Current and future issues in
education. Education department fishing trips.
Vita (missing page 1).
|
June 23, 1982 |
| 19 |
Webster,
Dorothy Alumni - Mathematics & Education, 1927
Thonney,
Phyllis
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Family members who have graduated from WSU. Student
days at WSC - finances, dining hall rules, athletics, social life,
buildings, fashions, dormitory living, and classes.
Family tree.
|
August 18, 1986 |
| 19 |
Webster, Emma
Lou Alumni - Home Economics, 1930
Thonney,
Phyllis
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Family members who are WSU graduates. Student days
at WSU - classes, job, dormitory living, graduation, finances,
equipment, typical day, dining hall, and athletics.
Family tree.
|
August 18, 1986 |
| 19 |
Weller,
Harry Architecture
Lilles,
Linda
(interviewer)
8 tapes
Personal biography. Student days at WSC, 1919-23. Professional career at
WSC and WSU, 1928-66. Discussion of the Architecture department,
including curriculum, faculty, enrollment, architectural engineering
degree, and the split between the University Architect's Office and the
Department of Architectural Engineering in 1946. Also, design,
construction, location, and use of various buildings on campus. Work
with architects, 1923-28. The Great Depression and WWII years at WSC.
Weller's teaching style. Professional organizations. Issues in
architecture today. Retirement activities. Mission of a land-grant
university.
Several newspaper articles, photocopies of WSU buildings and
architectural drawings, and Weller family history. Also, M.A.S.C.
container list for Harry Charles Weller collection.
|
May 31, 1983 |
| 20 |
Wells, Donald A.
#1 Philosophy - Chair
Elder, James
H.
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Personal background. Professional WSU career, 1948-1969. Establishment of
the Philosophy department and its expansion. McCarthyism in the Pacific
Northwest. Events leading up to President Wilson Compton's resignation.
Change in election of department chairs. Composition of the Philosophy
department. Reaction to Wells' opposition to the Vietnam War. Teaching
at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle. Account of Wilson
Compton's aquisition of Priest Lake property, known as Beaver Creek Camp
Association.
|
July 25, 1985 |
| 20 |
Wells, Donald A.
#2 Philosophy - Chair
Brown,
Barbara
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Philosophy department - faculty, facilities, graduate program, and
chairmanship. McCarthyism and WSU. Development of the Philosophy
department during the 1950s.
|
August 19, 1987 |
| 20 |
Wysong,
Mary History - Administrative Assistant
Hall, David
(interviewer)
1 tapes
Professional career at WSU beginning in 1942, then intermittently. Then,
returned in 1970 as secretary to the History department. Retired in
1988. Impressions of the History department. Other History department
secretaries. Graduate students. Faculty. Personal background.
Chairmen.
|
November 7, 1986 |
| 20 |
Yothers, Robert
A. Alumni - Political Science, 1930s
Stimson,
William
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Extensive discussion on Student Strike of 1936 and Yothers' role in it as
chairman.
|
December 11, 1986 |
| 20 |
Young, Leonard
W. Agriculture - Experiment Stations
Bertramson, B.
Rodney
(interviewer)
2 tapes
Personal background. Professional career and duties, 1936-67.
Recollections of early WSU campus. Administrative processes, 1930s and
1940s. Young's publication, "75th Anniversary of Washington Agricultural
Experiment Stations History." Dean Edward Johnson's administration.
President Compton's ideas. President Holland's administration. Student
Strike of 1936. Johnson Hall. World War II years. Columbia Basin
development. Colleagues. Unity of the various agricultural units.
Experiment stations.
Two photos of Young and Bertramson.
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April 22, 1985 |
Series 2: Golden Grad Interviews Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box | ||
| 21-22 |
Keith P. Jones,
William A. and Edith Steward Hooper, Guy P. Miller
Anne
Freeman
(interviewer)
|
May 31, 1984 |
| 21-22 |
E. L. Steinke, Gustav
and Jessica C. Bliesner, Virginia Harger, Elizabeth B.
Hartup
Marjorie
Grunewald
(interviewer)
|
May 31, 1984 |
| 21-22 |
Shirley Greening
Morgan, Roy T. Olson, Paul F. Schedler, Wilma Ingle Hill
Anne
Freeman
(interviewer)
|
May 31, 1984 |
| 21-22 |
Theodore S. Borg,
Tobey Leonard Henrichsen, Catherine Diener Simpson
Richard
Hamm
(interviewer)
|
May 31, 1984 |
| 21-22 |
Irwin A. Davis,
Lindsay Kinney, John E. Fowler, Fritz Vawter
Richard
Hamm
(interviewer)
|
May 31, 1984 |
| 21-22 |
Wilbur D. Simons,
Zylda Elliot, Evelyn K. Hickman, Robert Emerson, Claude
Irwin
Andy
Tidrick
(interviewer)
|
May 31, 1984 |
| 21-22 |
Jervis D. Swannack,
Edward M. Gaines, Robert G. Evans
Andy
Tidrick
(interviewer)
|
May 31, 1984 |
| 21-22 |
Kenyon T. Bement, H.
DeWayne Kreager, John W. Kelly, Loran P. Richey
David L.
Hood
(interviewer)
|
May 31, 1984 |
| 21-22 |
Dorothy Lois
Smith-Kenney, Carville E. and Dorothy H. Sparks
Margery
Sharkey
(interviewer)
|
May 31, 1984 |
| 21-22 |
Bernadine Du Bois,
Cliff M. Irvin, Ruth Klumb, Donald W. Stevenson, Helen A.
Minkler
Margery
Sharkey
(interviewer)
|
May 31, 1984 |
| 21-22 |
Mary Ena Hall Link, M.
C. "Mel" Hougan, William H. Munson, Marie Trupp Krieger
David L.
Hood
(interviewer)
|
May 31, 1984 |
| 21-22 |
Bernice Snyder, Erva
S. Mosher, Oswald Gates
Marjorie
Grunewald
(interviewer)
|
May 31, 1984 |
| 21-22 |
Walter P. and Enis
Wallace
Lisa M.
Donaldson
(interviewer)
|
May 8, 1985 |
| 21-22 |
Lester and Clair
Winter
Lisa
Donaldson
(interviewer)
|
May 10, 1985 |
| 21-22 |
Elinore Crowley
Coogan
William E.
Brandt
(interviewer)
|
May 10, 1985 |
| 21-22 |
Donald E. Coogan and
Wendell H. Clark
David
Seamans
(interviewer)
|
May 10, 1985 |
| 21-22 |
L. Gordon (father) and
Larry G. Soderholm
B. Rodney
Bertramson
(interviewer)
|
May 10, 1985 |
| 21-22 |
Harvey H.
Olsen
B. Rodney
Bertramson
(interviewer)
|
April 28, 1986 |
| 21-22 |
John B. Kinney and
Richard O. Moss
David
Seamans
(interviewer)
|
May 8, 1986 |
| 21-22 |
Mary "Peg" Hoenack,
Dorothy Flynn, Ella A. Frantsen
William E.
Brandt
(interviewer)
|
May 8, l986 |
| 21-22 |
Rolf B.
Jorgensen
Grant A.
Harris
(interviewer)
|
May 8, 1986 |
| 21-22 |
Lawrence
Giles
Marjorie
Grunewald
(interviewer)
|
May 8, 1986 |
| 21-22 |
Harry E.
Goldsworthy
Terrence G. Popravak,
Jr.
(interviewer)
|
May 8,1986 |
| 21-22 |
Harold and Evelyn
Miller
B. Rodney
Bertramson
(interviewer)
|
May 9, 1986 |
| 21-22 |
Kay Bell and Garry M.
Cameron
Rod Commons
(interviewer)
|
May 7, 1987 |
| 21-22 |
Roundtable: History of
WSU Physics Program. Professors Band, Barker, Butler,
Riggins
|
1970 |
Series 3: PaperworkReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description |
|---|---|
| Box | |
| 22 | 3: Paperwork relating to interviews.
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Corporate Names
- Washington State University -- History.
- Washington State University -- Records and correspondence.
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Lilles, Linda. (creator)
Finding aid prepared by Barbara Kovarik Gahl, Sara Addis Colbert, and Christine Hadlow
2021
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