This project is a compilation of interviews of subjects with strong ties to and memories of Indiana University, primarily at the Bloomington campus. The interviewees include former students, faculty, and staff, among others. The information contained in the interviews generally spans a little more than the first half of the twentieth century and often deals with the administrations under presidents William Lowe Bryan and Herman B Wells. The project is a survey of Indiana University's history as a whole including information about various academic departments, athletics, student organizations, campus growth, university development, living conditions, segregation and the treatment of African-Americans, the administration, and the importance of jazz at Indiana University. In addition, the impact of specific events, such as the Great Depression, World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, and water shortages, is detailed in many of the interviews in this project.
Allen, Frank Emerson
Allen, Howard "Wad"
Allen, Ross
Anderson, Hanson; Barnhart, Dean L.
Arlt, Gustave O.
Baker, David N.
Banta, Frank
Barnhart, Dean L.; Gill, George E.
Barnhart, Hugh
Blough, Earl
Bluhm, Maurice L.
Bradfield, Joseph L.
Buehrig, Edward H.
Burton, Narcissus N.
Butcher, Joseph O.
Byrnes, Robert F.
Byrum, Arlo E.
Chamness, Ivy Leone
Clevenger, Zora G.
Clevenger, Zora G.
Davidson, Frank
Dean, Everett S.
Dunn, Oscar
Edwards, Edward E.; Wells, Herman B
Elliott, Byron K.
Ewing, Oscar R.
Fox, Jane
Fraenkel, Peter
Franklin, Joseph A.
Franklin, Joseph A.
Garrett, William L.
Good, Kenneth J.
Harrell, Charles E.
Hastings, John S.
Hill, Patton J.
Hynenam, Charles; Carter, Byrum
Jasper, Paul G.
Johnson, George A.
Jordan, Harold W.
Juergens, George
Kidd, Robert L.
Kinsey, Clara M.
Kohlmeier, Albert L., Mrs.
Konopinski, Emil J.
Kuntz, Edward J.
Link, Goethe
Lundin, C. Leonard
MacClintock, Lander
Martin, Wallace H.
Mathers, Frank C.
Mathers, Frank Curry
Maurer, Mary Rieman
McNutt, Ruth J.
Mogge, Arthur R.; Mogge, Arthur R., Mrs.
Nelson, Alice
Nelson, Alice M.
Norvell, Lee
Norvelle, Lee
Orwig, Bill
Payne, Fernandus
Peak, Philip
Peterson, J. Dwight
Phillips, Ardith L.
Prickett, Alva L.
Shaffer, Robert
Shrock, Robert R.
Snow, Charles Wilbert
Sollitt, Ralph V.
Solt, Leo F.; Baxter, Maurice G.; McGarr, Philip M.; Harris, William H.; Wilson, William E.
Solt, Leo F.; Wells, Herman B; Glad, Paul; Mooney, Chase C.
Stahr, Elvis J.
Stempel, John E.
Stempel, John E.
Stempel, John E.
Strack, William N.
Stuart, James A.
Sulzer, Elmer G.
Thompson, Stith
Thornburg, William D.
Von Tress, Edward C.
Von Tress, Edward C.
Wallace, Leon H.
Warren, Winifred Merrill
Weathers, Cecil; Weathers, Cecil, Mrs.
Weatherwax, Paul
Wells, Herman B
Wells, Herman B
Wells, Herman B
Wilson, Lucia A. Showalter
Young, John L.
Interviewee: | Allen, Frank Emerson |
Call number: | 69-016 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 7, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 22 pp.; 1 reel, 3 1/4 ips, 60 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Cuffel, Victoria; Pickett, William B. |
Born in 1891, Frank Emerson Allen, athletic director from 1955 to 1961 and former trustee at Indiana University, discusses the development and changes undergone at the university in the post-World War II era. An Indiana University alumnus and former athlete, Allen talks of the university's sports programs and recruitment efforts both as they existed under his management and at the time of the interview. Allen also touches upon the financial development of Indiana University, the milestone retirement of President William Lowe Bryan, and the introduction of a retirement plan for the university's faculty. The interview concludes with Allen's opinion and response to conflicts, demands, and needs of the student body at that time.
Bryan, William Lowe
McNutt, Ruth J.
Wells, Herman B
athletic director
trustee
1944 GI Bill
athletic recruiting
retirement
Interviewee: | Allen, Howard "Wad" |
Call number: | 73-003 |
Date(s) of Interview: | January 18, 1973 |
Physical Description: | 46 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 110 minutes; index, photograph of interviewee, resumé |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Howard "Wad" Allen, born 1902 and a native of southern Indiana, attended Indiana University from 1920 to 1920 to 1926.1926. The Indiana University students experienced a lot of social changes at this time with the return of soldiers from World War I, the enactment of Prohibition, and the beginnings of the jazz age. Allen was very active in campus life. He wrote for and the , was varsity yell leader, and a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. Allen was also a member of Hoagy Carmichael's band, Carmichael's Collegians," in which he played saxophone and violin. He discusses some of the changes that the jazz age brought to the Indiana University campus and also talks about some of his professors and fellow students. After graduating from Indiana University, Allen was a reporter and a columnist for the , He eventually settled in New York City and worked for Johns Manville as Director of Public Relations and Vice President of Sales.
Arbutus
Army ROTC
Book Nook
Carmichael's Collegians
DePauw University
Delta Upsilon
Indiana Daily
Student
Indiana University
Johns Mansville Corporation
Ku Klux Klan
Princess Theater
Sigma Delta Chi
University of Michigan
Vagabond
Washington High School
Beiderbecke, Bix
Bryan, William Lowe
Carmichael, Hoagy
Costas, Peter
Hastings, John S.
Herold, Don
Moenkhaus, William J.
Nichols, "Red"
Pyle, Ernie
Tonner, Ed
Wells, Agnes E.
Wells, Herman B
Anderson, Indiana
Chicago, Illinois
Martinsville, Indiana
New Orleans, Louisiana
Paris, France
Terre Haute, Indiana
southern Indiana
journalist
musician
Baptist church
Jazz Age
Prohibition
World War I
alcohol
automobiles
dances
fiddle
jazz music
saxophone
Interviewee: | Allen, Ross |
Call number: | 70-008 |
Date(s) of Interview: | September 21, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 49 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 120 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Ross Allen was a member of the Department of Music's faculty beginning in 1953. He initially discusses the growing popularity of classical music in the United States and then moves on to explain the growth of Indiana University's Department of Music. He mentions the concept of the stage consecrating festival play. Mr. Allen is primarily interested in opera. He focuses on how the music department won fame and respect for their ability to perform the Wagner opera, , annually and also, the times when the Metropolitan Opera came to perform at Indiana University.
Indiana University
Indiana University School of Music
Metropolitan Opera
Bain, Wilfred C.
Bing, Rudolph
Hoffman, Ernst
Leger, Francine
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Wagner, Richard
Weil, Kurt
Wells, Herman B.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Germany
Linz, Austria
Salzburg, Austria
instrumentalist
music director
professor
singer
Broadway
German language
Parsifal
World War II
chamber work
high school bands
music education
musical community
musical theater
opera
prima donnas
radio
television
Interviewee: | Anderson, Hanson; Barnhart, Dean L. |
Call number: | 69-010 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 8, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 41 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 160 minutes; index; photograph of Dean Barnhart, newspaper clippings about Hanson Anderson |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Cuffel, Victoria; Pickett, William B. |
Hanson Anderson and Dean Barnhart both attended Indiana University from 1907-1911. They discuss the changes that have occurred on campus over the past sixty years. During Anderson and Barnhart's day, Indiana University had only 1,800 students, African-Americans were not permitted to participate in varsity sports, and a date cost only twenty cents. At the time of their interview, the campus has swelled to 28,000 students and there is widespread discontent about the quality of teaching and the role of Teaching Assistants. Mr. Barnhart discusses his life. After leaving Indiana University, he first found work as a reporter and later, worked for the Department of Health in drug and alcohol education. Mr. Anderson became an educator and the school principal of Arsenal Technical High School.
Arsenal Technical High School
Delta Tau Delta
Indiana Daily
Student
Indiana Men's Union
Indiana University
Public Service Commission
Aley, Robert J.
Bryan, William Lowe
Johnson, Fred Bates
Lardner, Ring
Miller, Robert A.
Sheldon, James
Snyder, John W.
Wells, Herman B
Woodburn, James A.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Madison County, Indiana
Vincennes, Indiana
editor
journalist
school principal
teacher
African-Americans
alcohol
alcoholism
boarding houses
drug education
educational quality
journalism
mathematics
segregation
smoking
student population
swimming pools
water supply
Interviewee: | Arlt, Gustave O. |
Call number: | 81-002 |
Date(s) of Interview: | August 17, 1980 |
Physical Description: | 11 pp.; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 30 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: |
Gustave O. Arlt, a member of the German Department at Indiana University from 1923 to 1925 and from 1931 to 1935, relates the events occurring after World War I that led to the beginning of his career in Bloomington. Arlt tells anecdotes about his co-workers, the community and society of Bloomington in the early twentieth century, and the development of Indiana University in this same time period.
Indiana University Department of German
Voss, Bert John
Wooley, Elmer Otto
Bloomington, Indiana
professor
World War I
community life
Interviewee: | Baker, David N. |
Call number: | 80-047 |
Date(s) of Interview: | July 30, 1980 |
Physical Description: | 31 pp.; 1 reel, 1 7/8 ips, 60 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Kirkendall, Andrew J. |
Born in 1931, David N. Baker is a renowned African-American jazz musician, innovator, composer, teacher, and author who recounts his jazz-influenced youth in Indianapolis, his career as a musician, and his arrival as a student at Indiana University in 1950 in this interview. This was the beginning of a relationship that would last decades and have a meaningful impact on the Indiana University School of Music. Baker began teaching in the School of Music in 1966, and soon thereafter created one of the first jazz degree programs in the country. His interview reveals many of the influences in his life and music, including his fellow musicians, experiences of racism and segregation, and society in that time period.
George Russell Sextet
Indiana University School of Music
Coker, Jerry
Hampton, Locksley Wellington
Hubbard, Freddie
Jones, Virgil
Pennick, Bill
Bloomington, Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana
composer
jazz musician
professor
African-American Studies
bebop
jazz music
jazz studies
music
racism
segregation
writing
Interviewee: | Banta, Frank |
Call number: | 81-003 |
Date(s) of Interview: | September 19, 1980 |
Physical Description: | 10 pp.; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 35 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Remak, Henry H. H. |
Frank Banta, a student of the Indiana University German Department and alumnus of Indiana University, relates his memories and experiences of the department in the late nineteen thirties and early nineteen forties. Banta discusses specific professors, the strengths of their classes, and anecdotes of the personal relationships he shared with some professors. Included are especially poignant sequences describing some effects of World War I and the Holocaust on one professor Banta was close to.
Department of German
Leser, Hedwig Gruen
Zucker, Adolph
Bloomington, Indiana
Germany
professor
Holocaust
World War II
Interviewee: | Barnhart, Dean L.; Gill, George E. |
Call number: | 70-003 |
Date(s) of Interview: | 1970 |
Physical Description: | 52 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 120 minutes; black & white photo of interviewee |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D.; Harshman, Kemp; Kosarko, Joseph |
Indiana University alumni Dean L. Barnhart, born in 1889, and George E. Gill, who graduated in 1911 and 1912 respectively, discuss their time at the University in the first and second decades of the twentieth century. Central to the interview is their contribution to and participation in the origination of the Indiana University Memorial Union in 1909. They relate their experiences as students at Indiana University in such areas as Greek life, women's clubs, and campus activities; also described is the general environment in Bloomington in that time period, which was reflective of contemporary national issues including Prohibition and typhoid epidemics. Through the course of their studies at Indiana University and their lives afterwards, both men maintained friendly relations with many of the most prominent names in the University's history, such as William Lowe Bryan and Ernest H. Lindley.
Acacia
Arbutus
Delta Tau Delta
Indiana Daily
Student
Indiana University Memorial Union
Women's League
Bryan, William Lowe
Lindley, Ernest Hiram
Smith, U.H.
Sollitt, Ralph
Whittenberger, John M.
Bloomington, Indiana
Prohibition
college traditions
dances
diversity
fraternities
sororities
typhoid
Interviewee: | Barnhart, Hugh |
Call number: | 71-019 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 13, 1971 |
Physical Description: | 35 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 85 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara E.; Peterson, D. Scott |
Hugh Barnhart, an alumnus of Indiana University who graduated in 1915, tells of his college experiences, including university costs, Greek life, travel by rail, diversity issues, the coming of World War I, athletics, and various university activities and traditions that took place in the second decade of the twentieth century. Barnhart also discusses his personal knowledge, and in some cases, acquaintance with some United States presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, achieved through his father's position as a congressman. Also detailed in Barnhart's posting as conservation commissioner of the state of Indiana from 1941 to 1945, and a discussion of the issue of conservation as it existed in the World War II and post-World War II eras.
Delta Tau Delta
Indiana State Conservation Department
Purdue University
Taft, William Howard
Bryan, William Lowe
Roosevelt, Theodore
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow
Bloomington, Indiana
Rochester, Indiana
commissioner
1898 Spanish-American War
World War I
basketball
college traditions
conservation
diversity
dress code
fraternities
railroads
sororities
Interviewee: | Blough, Earl |
Call number: | 71-011 |
Date(s) of Interview: | May 11, 1971 |
Physical Description: | 75 pp.; 3 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 180 minutes; no index; copy of obituary, biographical sketch |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Earl Blough was born in 1876 in LaGrange County, Indiana and received early education there. In his interview he reflects on his education in a largely Amish community. He was an Indiana University student from 1895 to 1899, majoring in chemistry, and receiving an A.B. He recalls student life and many of his professors there. He taught science at LaGrange (Indiana) High School from 1899 to 1900 and physics and chemistry at Iron Mountain (Michigan) High School from 1900 to 1902. He worked briefly in 1902 as a chemist with Oliver Mining Company in Iron Mountain. From 1902 to 1903, Blough studied engineering at Cornell University. In 1905, he started work at Pittsburgh Reduction Company (later called Aluminum Company of America and Alcoa). In 1928, Blough became vice president and director of Aluminum Limited in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He recalls the building of the Shipshaw hydroelectric power plant on the Saguenay River in Québec. Blough died in 1971.
Alcoa, Incorporated
Cornell University
Oliver Mining Company
Pittsburgh Reduction Company
Acres, Harry G.
Alexander, Clyde Lauder
Alexander, William A. "Red"
Bancroft, Wilder D.
Crone, Frank L.
Eigenmann, Carl H.
Hall, Charles M.
Jordan, David Starr
Lauder, Mae
Lyons, Robert E.
Mellon, Andrew
Stephenson, Harry Thew
Swain, Joseph
Woodburn, James A.
Iron Mountain, Michigan
Lagrange, Indiana
New Kensington, Pennsylvania
Niagara Falls
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Saguenay River, Québec
associate instructor
high school teacher
metallurgist
aluminum
classical music
iron industry
metallurgy
mining
Interviewee: | Bluhm, Maurice L. |
Call number: | 69-011 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 8, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 38 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 90 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Cuffel, Victoria; Pickett, William B. |
Maurice L. Bluhm graduated from Indiana University in 1913. After majoring in history, he went on to become a history teacher, a attorney, vice president for the Milwaukee Railroad, a judge, and then a prosecutor. From 1950 to 1955, he served on the Indiana University Athletics Commission. Bluhm discusses two of his more notable classmates, Wendall Wilkie, Bluhm's roommate, and Paul V. McNutt, who both went on to have successful political careers. He goes on to provide more general information about life at Indiana University at that time, including water problems, transportation, the quality of education, and living conditions.
Bryan's house
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
Indiana University
Milwaukee Railroad
Phi Delta Phi
United States Naval Academy
University of Chicago
McGuffey
Atwater, Amzi
Bryan, Charlotte Lowe
Bryan, William Lowe
Gill, Thomas
Hepburn, Charles McGuffey
Hogate, Enoch George
Johnston, Harold W.
McNutt, Paul V.
Minton, Sherman
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Truman, Harry S.
Wells, Herman B
Willkie, Wendell L.
Akron, Ohio
Annapolis, Maryland
Chicago, Illinois
Kendallville, Indiana
Monticello, Indiana
Winnetka, Illinois
attorney
high school history teacher
judge
politician
prosecutor
Cornfield Conference
World War I
cost of living
dating
discrimination
fraternities
law school
politics
school activities
sororities
transportation
water supply
Interviewee: | Bradfield, Joseph L. |
Call number: | 69-003 |
Date(s) of Interview: | March 27, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 9 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 20 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Joseph Bradfield attended Purdue University from 1903 to 1905 and from 1907 to 1909. He discusses the huge Indiana/Purdue rivalry that existed at that time, and especially, a train wreck that occurred in 1903 when Purdue students were traveling to Indianapolis to watch a football game with their rivals, eighteen Purdue students were killed in the crash.
Indiana University
Purdue University
Westinghouse
Ade, George
Stoner, Richard B.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Licking County, Ohio
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
train wrecks
university rivalry
Interviewee: | Buehrig, Edward H. |
Call number: | 73-008 |
Date(s) of Interview: | April 19, 1973 |
Physical Description: | 21 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 55 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Edward H. Buehrig, born on October 4, 1910, began teaching at Indiana University in 1934 in the early years of the Department of Political Science. He continued teaching throughout three university presidencies, namely, those of William Lowe Bryan, Herman B Wells, and Elvis J. Stahr; this experience gave Buehrig many insights into the growth and expansion of Indiana University in the middle of the twentieth century. Also discussed are various important personalities in the history of Indiana University, including Peter Fraenkel and Fernandus Payne.
Indiana University
Indiana University Department of Political
Science
Briscoe, Herman T. "Kay"
Bryan, William Lowe
Fraenkel, Peter
Hall, Ford P.
Payne, Fernandus
Stahr, Elvis J.
Wells, Herman B
political science professor
libraries
university growth
Interviewee: | Burton, Narcissus N. |
Call number: | 78-048 |
Date(s) of Interview: | 1978 |
Physical Description: | 6 pp.; 1 reel, 1 7/8 ips, 15 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara E.; Pickett, William B. |
In 1926, Mrs. Narcissus N. Burton came to study at Indiana University. As a female African-American student, she was in the vast minority of the student population and, as such, gained first hand experience with segregation and discrimination, as was typical of the time period. Despite these not inconsiderable setbacks, Mrs. Burton received her degree in home economics in 1930 and has many positive comments about her professors at Indiana University.
Bryan, William Lowe
Bloomington, Indiana
professor
African-Americans
discrimination
segregation
Interviewee: | Butcher, Joseph O. |
Call number: | 69-019 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 16, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 28 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 60 minutes; no index; photo of interviewee, news article |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Cuffel, Victoria; Pickett, William B. |
Joseph O. Butcher, retired Marine Corps general and Indiana University alumnus, recounts his experiences at the university as a student and as an interested and active alumnus. Butcher discusses Bloomington society, the effects of the Great Depression, diversity and the African-American presence at Indiana University in the nineteen thirties, his role in the Korean War, and views on communism. Tied to his remarks on these subjects are Butcher's comments and opinions of the student protests at the university in the nineteen sixties and the importance of specific areas in students' education.
Industrial College of the Armed Forces
United States Marine Corps
Davis, Benjamin
Bloomington, Indiana
Panmunjom, Korea
marine corps general
African-Americans
Great Depression
Korean War
communism
community life
diversity
student protests
Interviewee: | Byrnes, Robert F. |
Call number: | 68-010 |
Date(s) of Interview: | December 20, 1968 |
Physical Description: | 41 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 100 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Robert Byrnes was a history professor at Indiana University from 1956 through at least the time of this interview. During that time, he also served as chairman of the department. This interview primarily focuses on the changes that have occurred in Indiana's history department from the nineteen forties through the nineteen sixties. According to Byrnes, the department was weak during the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties due to a poor quality of students, bad attitudes, lack of leadership, and inter-departmental conflicts. When Burnes took over as chair he resolved to improve things and he did. He made the department more international, placing a greater emphasis on studies of eastern Europe, Russia, and South America. Burnes was helped by the support of Chancellor Herman Wells. The interview concludes with Burnes' thoughts on students of the present day.
Ford Foundation
Indiana Univeristy Department of Government
Indiana University
Indiana University Department of English
Indiana University Department of History
Students for a Democratic Society
Ashton, John W.
Briscoe, Herman T. "Kay"
Grimm, Harold
Gucker, Frank G.
Murray, John J.
Wells, Herman B
history professor
Eastern European studies
academic incompetence
department rivalry
inbreeding
inferiority complex
Interviewee: | Byrum, Arlo E. |
Call number: | 70-020 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 28 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 70 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara E.; Pickett, William B. |
Arlo Byrum attended Indiana University from 1915 to 1920, with the exception of the 16 months in which he served during World War I. Once on campus, he opened a clothes pressing business, which proved very lucrative since all of the male students wore suits at that time. Byrum comments on the social life at the university. As president of the sophomore class and a member of the basketball team, he was a well-known student. He says that the most important thing he learned at Indiana University was how to deal with people. While at the university, Byrum also became involved with the local YMCA. This led him on to his future career; he became a secretary and executive for the YMCA, which allowed him to travel all over the country.
Phi Psi
Valparaiso University
YMCA
Bryan, William Lowe
Bumbright, Carl
Lindley, Ernest H.
Logan, Harlan
Stiehm, Ewald Ortwin "Jumbo"
Stout, Selatie Edgar
Anderson, Indiana
Santa Monica, California
Torch Lake, Michigan
YMCA president
basketball player
dry cleaner
tennis player
Greek system
World War I
basketball
campus life
class size
clothing
economics
fundraising
travel
Interviewee: | Chamness, Ivy Leone |
Call number: | 68-012 |
Date(s) of Interview: | January 24, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 19 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 45 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Ivy Leone Chamness attended Indiana University from 1902 to 1906. After working as a teacher and for a publishing company for eight years, she returned to Indiana University to work as an editor and publisher on several university publications. She remained at Indiana University until her retirement. Chamness mentions several aspects of campus life including the look of the campus, room and board, a water shortage, train travel, and a smallpox outbreak.
Alumni
Quarterly
Bobbs-Merrill
Monthly
Showers
Weir
Breed, Mary Bidwell
Bryan, William Lowe
Eigenmann, Carl H.
Kinsey, Alfred C.
Maxwell, Julia
Sampson, Martin Wright
Hagerstown, Indiana
editor
publisher
teacher
campus life
clothing
medical school
room and board
smallpox
smoking
train travel
university fees
water shortages
Interviewee: | Clevenger, Zora G. |
Call number: | 69-020 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 16, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 30 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 70 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Cuffell, Victoria; Pickett, William B. |
Zora G. Clevenger, an Indiana University alumnus from the class of 1904 and the Athletic Director from 1923 to 1946, tells of his memories of Bloomington, the Indiana University campus, and athletics at the beginning of the twentieth century. Clevenger discusses the changes in the game of football that occurred in the first half of the century and describes Greek life, female students, and the life-style and living conditions of Indiana University students in that time period. He also comments on his knowledge of and friendship with three of the university's presidents, Joseph Swain, William Lowe Bryan, and Herman B Wells. Throughout the interview, Clevenger traces the history of the Indiana University Athletics Department.
Athletic Department
Purdue University
Bryan, William Lowe
Dean, Everett
McCracken, Branch
Rothrock, David A.
Swain, Joseph
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
Muncie, Indiana
athletic director
World War II
athletic funding
baseball
boarding houses
campus life
early twentieth century athletics
female students
football
fraternities
railroads
sororities
Interviewee: | Clevenger, Zora G. |
Call number: | 69-041 |
Date(s) of Interview: | November 25, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 12 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 30 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Zora G. Clevenger, an Indiana University alumnus from the class of 1904 and the Athletic Director from 1923 to 1946, tells of his memories of the university campus, athletics, and fellow football players in the first decade of the twentieth century. He also discusses former Indiana University president Joseph Swain and his experiences as the Athletic Director, including the hiring of Alvin N. "Bo" McMillin.
Chandler, "Happy"
McMillin, Alvin N. "Bo"
Pihos, Pete
Sparks, William
Swain, Joseph
athletic director
baseball
campus life
football
Interviewee: | Davidson, Frank |
Call number: | 68-011 |
Date(s) of Interview: | January 16, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 41 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 100 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Frank Davidson, Indiana University alumnus from the class of 1913 and long-time professor in the university's English Department, discusses his years as a student and the life and times in Bloomington in the early twentieth century. Davidson relates memories and anecdotes of favorite professors and the university presidents he had the opportunity to work with. Also covered in the interview are Davidson's experiences as a soldier in World War I, his thoughts on Indiana's public school system at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the changes it has since undergone.
Department of English
Bryan, William Lowe
Hendricks, Cecilia Barbara Hennel
Hershey, Amos S.
Howe, William David
Leonard, Bob
Leser, Eugene
Wells, Herman B
Woodburn, James A.
Bloomington, Indiana
professor
World War I
advertising
boarding houses
epidemics
football
public schools
Interviewee: | Dean, Everett S. |
Call number: | 69-012 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 9, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 25 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 60 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Cuffel, Victoria; Pickett, William B. |
Everett S. Dean came to Indiana University in 1917. He received his degree in economics, was vice-president of the senior class, and played basketball and baseball for Indiana University. He was also a member of the SATC, or the Student Army Training Corps. After graduation, Dean went on to coach baseball and basketball at Indiana University, Stanford University, and Carleton College. He concludes his interview by discussing present-day student dissent at the university along with the interviewers.
Alpha Tau Omega
Carleton College
Stanford University
Student Army Training Corps
Bryan, William Lowe
Hay, John
Jordan, David Starr
Morrison, Sarah Parke
Sembower, Charles J.
Snyder, John W.
Struck, Raymond "Dutch"
Salem, Indiana
baseball coach
basketball coach
Great Depression
Indiana University alumni
basketball
dissent
religion
teaching assistants
Interviewee: | Dunn, Oscar |
Call number: | 70-019 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 7, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 22 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 50 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara E.; Pickett, William B. |
Oscar L. Dunn was born in Sandborn, Indiana, on 21 June 1914. He describes his days as a student at Indiana University from 1932 to 1936, during the Great Depression. Dunn also describes his work at General Electric, fundraising for Indiana University, the Indiana University Foundation, and alumni relations. He also reflects on student uprisings of the late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies.
General Electric Company
Armstrong, William S.
Bryan, William Lowe
Lusk, Harold
Wells, Herman B
Vincennes, Indiana
Great Depression
Indiana University alumni relations
fundraising
student life
student protests
Interviewee: | Edwards, Edward E.; Wells, Herman B |
Call number: | 74-011 |
Date(s) of Interview: | August 5, 1974 |
Physical Description: | 34 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 80 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D.; Collins, Dorothy |
Edward Edwards was a professor at Indiana University and Herman Wells was its chancellor. In this interview, they discuss the positive changes that Wells made to the University. The discussion is mainly centered around the financial matters of the University.
Public Works Administration
Purdue University
WPA
Bartley, E. Ross
Kinsey, Alfred C.
McKinley, Richard
Shrader, Edward Albert
Wells, Agnes E.
professor
university chancellor
Indiana Institutions Acts
National Banking Act
New Deal
clergy
football
insurance
physical plant
regulatory commissions
salaries
university finances
Interviewee: | Elliott, Byron K. |
Call number: | 70-012 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 9, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 40 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 95 minutes; no index; black and white photo, transcription of entry from 1970-71 edition of Who's Who in America |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Restricted |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara E.; Pickett, William B. |
Byron K. Elliott was born in Indianapolis on May 5, 1899. He attended Shortridge High School there before going to Bloomington, where he attended Indiana University from 1917 to 1920. Elliott describes student life and life in a fraternity and reflects on the friendliness of Midwesterners. Elliott also describes being elected to the Indiana Superior Court in 1926. In 1929, he became general counsel of the American Life Convention. His involvement in the John Hancock life insurance company began when he became general solicitor in 1934. He became president of the company in 1957 and chairman of the board in 1963. He talks about his involvement with Indiana University as an alumnus and as national chairman of the university's 150th Birthday fundraising efforts.
American Life Convention
Indiana Daily
Student
Indiana Superior Court
John Hancock Financial Services, Incorporated
Ku Klux Klan
Shortridge High School
alumni association
DeHority
Rawles
Bryan, William Lowe
Buley, Roscoe Carlyle
DeHority, Edward H.
Hale, Will Taliaffero
Rawles, William A.
Watson, James E.
Wells, Herman B
Young, Grace
Midwestern hospitality
World War I
economics
fraternity life
fundraising
oral history
student life
student protests
Interviewee: | Ewing, Oscar R. |
Call number: | 70-011 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 7, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 34 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 80 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara E.; Pickett, William B. |
Oscar R. Ewing, an Indiana University alumnus from the class of 1910, became a successful attorney and presidential appointee to the position of federal security administrator from 1947 through 1953. In this interview, he discusses his experiences, professors, and life as a student at Indiana University in the first decade of the twentieth century. Ewing also relates memories and stories of Greek life on campus, as well as his transition to Harvard Law School, and service in World War I. The interview concludes with Ewing commenting on his association with Judge Charles Evans Hughes and Harry Truman, among others, in the course of his long and distinguished career.
Beta Theta Pi
Choate Club
Harvard Law School
Bryan, William Lowe
Harding, Samuel Bannister
Hughes, Charles Evans, Jr.
Hughes, Charles Evans, Sr.
Lindley, Ernest H.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Taft, Robert A., Sr.
Truman, Harry S.
attorney
federal security administrator
World War I
campus life
fraternities
Interviewee: | Fox, Jane |
Call number: | 79-013 |
Date(s) of Interview: | February 15, 1979 |
Physical Description: | 34 pp.; 1 reel, 1 7/8 ips, 75 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Giroux, Vincent A., Jr. |
Jane Fox, a professor in the Indiana University Department of Physical Education for Women from 1927 through 1965, specialized in teaching dance. In this interview, she tells of her experiences in the early twentieth century which led to her career as a dance teacher. She details the movements of natural dance and modern dance, describing the associated costumes, important role models and mentors, and the general purpose of each. Ms. Fox discusses the impact of World War II on Indiana University dance classes and the changes dance at the university has undergone through the decades.
Columbia University
Indiana University Department of Physical Education for
Women
Duncan, Isadore
Holm, Hanya
Bennington, Vermont
Bloomington, Indiana
professor
Natural Dance Movement
World War II
modern dance
Interviewee: | Fraenkel, Peter |
Call number: | 70-013 |
Date(s) of Interview: | July 30, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 53 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 135 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Peter Fraenkel was a German-born trilingual teenager living in Bolivia when he first encountered Indiana University president, Herman B Wells, the man who would exert one of the central influences on his life. Fraenkel and Wells quickly established an excellent rapport resulting in a young Fraenkel traveling with Wells to West Germany on a federal education redevelopment project, enrolling as a student at Indiana University in the late nineteen forties, and later becoming one of Wells' most trusted aides. In this interview, Fraenkel discusses his relationship with Wells, Wells' beliefs, the growth of the university under Wells' leadership, and the administrators and faculty who served under him, including Joseph Franklin and Herman T. "Kay" Briscoe, among many others.
Bartley, E. Ross
Biddle, Ward G.
Briscoe, Herman T. "Kay"
Bryan, William Lowe
Collins, Ralph L.
Franklin, Joseph A.
Herring, Hubert
Rich, Claude T.
Visher, Stephen Sargent
Wells, Herman B
Wright, Wendell W. "Whack"
Berlin, Germany
Bloomington, Indiana
Bolivia
assistant to president
Indiana University administration
Kinsey reports
World War II
post World War II period
public education
university growth
Interviewee: | Franklin, Joseph A. |
Call number: | 69-029 |
Date(s) of Interview: | September 29, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 18 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 45 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Joseph Franklin attended Indiana University as a student beginning in 1922. Forty-nine years later, he was still a Hoosier, serving as Fiscal Counsel to the President. He spent the years in between as a member of the university administration in various positions including vice-president and treasurer of Indiana University. Franklin briefly discusses some problems that have plagued the university over the years like operating a university during the Great Depression, the chronic water shortage, and the "pest house" where sick students were sent. He spends the rest of the interview talking about important administrators, like William Lowe Bryan and Herman B Wells, and some of his favorite professors.
Indiana University
School of Business
Briscoe, Herman T. "Kay"
Bryan, William Lowe
Esarey, Logan
McNutt, Ruth J.
Wells, Herman B
Williams, Kenneth P.
Woodburn, James A.
vice president of financial affairs
Great Depression
higher education funding
nepotism
pest house
university finances
water shortages
Interviewee: | Franklin, Joseph A. |
Call number: | 74-012 |
Date(s) of Interview: | July 18, 1974 |
Physical Description: | 28 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 60 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Warriner, David |
Joseph Franklin attended Indiana University as a student beginning in 1922. Forty-nine years later, he was still a Hoosier, serving as Fiscal Counsel to the President. He spent the years in between as a member of the university administration in various position including vice-president and treasurer of Indiana University. In this interview, he primarily discusses the financial affairs of the university, including the impact of World War II veterans and the GI Bill.
Indiana University
WPA
Biddle, Ward G.
Harles, Cecil E.
Harper, Fowler V.
Nelson, Alice M.
Wells, Herman B
accounts comptroller
auditor
treasurer
1944 GI Bill
World War II
grocery co-op
highway
international students
married students
nursing
off-campus housing
university fees
university finances
veterans' housing
veterans' wives
Interviewee: | Garrett, William L. |
Call number: | 70-016 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 5, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 24 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 60 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open (oral Deed of Gift) |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara E.; Pickett, William B. |
William Garrett attended Indiana University from 1947 to 1951, majoring in business and physical education. He was the first African-American athlete in the Big Ten to be offered a basketball scholarship. Garrett discusses what it was like to be a minority on campus and on the basketball them in the late nineteen forties and expresses frustration with the lack of career placement services offered to African- Americans. He compares this to the treatment of minorities on campus in 1970 and speculates on what can be done to improve their situation. After leaving Indiana University, Garrett was recruited by the Boston Celtics but did not have a chance to play with them due to his service in the Korean War. Upon returning to the United States., Garrett played for the Harlem Globetrotters for a few years. He eventually settled in Indianapolis, working as a business and physical education teacher.
Boston Celtics
Crispus Attucks High School
Harlem Globetrotters
Indianapolis Olympians
Kappa Alpha Psi
YMCA
alumni association
Capehart, Homer Earl, Jr.
McCracken, Branch
Wells, Herman B
Indianapolis, Indiana
Japan
Shelbyville, Indiana
Toledo, Ohio
army special services
athletic director
basketball coach
basketball player
teacher
1944 GI Bill
African-Americans
Greek system
Korean War
basketball
career placements
discrimination
minority groups
scholarships
segregation
Interviewee: | Good, Kenneth J. |
Call number: | 71-003 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 7, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 24 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 60 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara E.; Pickett, William B. |
Kenneth Good attended Indiana University from 1916 to 1920. He majored in history and was very active in the History Club. Good also worked as a stenographer on campus, typing letters and manuscripts for professors. During his college years, Good took a break from school to help train World War I recruits at Drake University. In addition, Good provides more details on his life at Indiana University, including social life, lectures, and studying. After graduation, Good had two careers, one in banking and the other as an escrow businessman in California.
Army ROTC
Drake University
Harvard Law School
Indiana University
Indiana University History Club
National Guard
Phi Beta Kappa
Student Army Training Corps
Dean, Everett
Elkin, William B.
Hale, George C.
Woodburn, James A.
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana
Knox, Indiana
Los Angeles, California
bookkeeper
cashier
legal assistant
recruit trainer
secretary
stenographer
1898 Spanish-American War
World War I
lectures
social life
study habits
studying
Interviewee: | Harrell, Charles E. |
Call number: | 74-013 |
Date(s) of Interview: | July 16, 1974 |
Physical Description: | 58 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 100 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Warriner, David |
Born in 1911, Charles E. Harrell was an Indiana University student who received his undergraduate degree in philosophy in 1933 and his law degree in 1936. Harrell later eschewed a career in law for employment at Indiana University, first as assistant to the assistant registrar. Through the years, Harrell became registrar, dean of admissions, and finally, the secretary of the Indiana University board of trustees. in this interview, he discusses the university's post-World War II growth, the effects of the GI Bill and veterans enrolling at the university, Greek life, and the creation of dormitories and apartments for married students.
Purdue University
Sigma Chi
Tuttle
Handbook
Briscoe, Herman T. "Kay"
Wells, Herman B
Wright, Wendell W. "Whack"
Bloomington, Indiana
director of admissions
registrar
1944 GI Bill
World War II
dormitories
fraternities
married students
sororities
university growth
veterans
Interviewee: | Hastings, John S. |
Call number: | 70-014 |
Date(s) of Interview: | November 19, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 79 pp.; 4 reels, 3 3/4 ips,190 minutes; no index; 2 photos of interviewee |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D.; Collins, Dorothy |
Born in 1898, John S. Hastings attended Indiana University beginning in 1916, served in World War I, and returned to the university to finally earn his law degree between 1921 and 1923. Though never a professor of law, Hastings rose through the ranks to become a chief judge of the seventh court of appeals in Chicago, while maintaining extensive contact with his Alma mater, Indiana University. This contact occurred in the form of Hastings' membership to and later, role as presiding officer of, the Indiana University board of trustees from 1936 through 1959. In this interview, Hastings discusses his personal relationships and memories of such notable university figures as William Lowe Bryan, Herman B Wells, and George A. Ball, and more specifically, he describes the transition between the Bryan and Wells administrations.
Indiana State Legislature
Indiana University Foundation
International Cultural Administration
board of trustees
Ball, George A.
Bartley, E. Ross
Biddle, Ward G.
Bryan, Charlotte Lowe
Bryan, William Lowe
Eigenmann, Carl H.
Emerson, Charles P.
Fesler, James W.
Gatch, Willis D.
Herron, James P.
La Follette, J.J.M.
Stahr, Elvis J.
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
judge
Kinsey reports
West German redevelopment
World War I
World War II
honorary degrees
Interviewee: | Hill, Patton J. |
Call number: | 69-015 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 6, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 26 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 60 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Cuffel, Victoria; Pickett, William B. |
Patton J. Hill was born in Evansville, Indiana, and graduated from Indiana University with an A.B. in economics in 1920. He returned to Indiana University to earn an A.M. in education in 1934. In his interview, he describes what it was like to be an African-American in Bloomington and Indiana University. He describes his early jobs and his work as a junior high school principal in Trenton, New Jersey, at the time of its desegregation.
Moore Rubber Company
Bryan, William Lowe
Robley, Mary G.
Stahr, Elvis J.
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
Trenton, New Jersey
junior high school principal
African-Americans
Great Depression
distinguished alumni
racial discrimination
school desegregation
student life
Interviewee: | Hynenam, Charles; Carter, Byrum |
Call number: | 79-002 |
Date(s) of Interview: | December 5, 1978 |
Physical Description: | 39 pp.; 1 reel, 1 7/8 ips, 75 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Ostrom, Elinor |
Charles Hyneman attended Indiana University as an undergraduate and returned to Bloomington in 1956 as a political science professor. Hyneman and Byrum Carter speak about Indiana University during the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, especially the changing role of African-American students, student protests, and the Vietnam War. They then move onto more theoretical topics, including academic freedom and tolerance within the university environment.
Gruniger, Pauline
Pozzatti, Rudy
Cambodia
professor
university chancellor
African-American students
English classes
McCarthyism
academic research
graduate students
sociology
student protests
Interviewee: | Jasper, Paul G. |
Call number: | 71-015 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 12, 1971 |
Physical Description: | 31 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 70 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara E.; Peterson, D. Scott |
Born in 1908, Paul G. Jasper entered Indiana University as an undergraduate student in 1927 and completed his degree in law by 1932. His successful career included work as a attorney, a supreme court judge for the state of Indiana, and later, special counsel for and vice president of Public Service Company, Indiana. In this interview, Jasper discusses various aspects of Indiana University throughout the decades, including student life and activities, student housing, attendance policy, and many others. In addition, Jasper comments on politics of the state of Indiana; he emphasizes such issues as pollution, pollution legislation, and the patronage system.
Indiana University Board of Aeons
Bryan, William Lowe
McCracken, Branch
Ryan, John W.
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
Indiana supreme court judge
attorney
Great Depression
Indiana University attendance policy
Indiana politics
Indiana state government
World War II
coal
diversity
football
housing
patronage
pollution
pollution legislation
student life
university growth
Interviewee: | Johnson, George A. |
Call number: | 69-014 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 7, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 26 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 60 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Restricted |
Interviewer: | Pickett, William B. |
George A. Johnson, a native of Bloomington, Indiana, was a student at Indiana University from 1911 to 1915. He describes his time as a student and his experiences as an African-American. He also describes his experiences as a history teacher and school administrator in Vincennes, Indiana, Fort Smith, Arkansas, Wilmington, Delaware, and Cheyney, Pennsylvania.
Correctional Institution of Delaware
NAACP
Bryan, William Lowe
Harris, Archie
Hill, Patton J.
Johnson, Fred Bates
Johnson, George L.
Owens, Jesse
Stahr, Elvis J.
Wells, Herman B
Woodburn, James A.
Wilmington, Delaware
high school administrator
teacher
African-American soldiers
African-Americans
World War II
distinguished alumni
racial discrimination
Interviewee: | Jordan, Harold W. |
Call number: | 72-008 |
Date(s) of Interview: | May 2, 1973 |
Physical Description: | 34 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 80 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Harold W. Jordan came to Indiana University in 1928 and graduated in 1932 with a degree in business. Jordan maintained close ties with the school, serving as manager of the Indiana University Bookstore, Director of Indiana University. Service Enterprises, and Director of the Indiana Memorial Union. Jordan discusses several influential university administrators, including William Lowe Bryan, Ward G. Biddle, and Herman B. Wells. A large part of his interview is spent discussing the evolution of the social and cultural life on campus, especially how it improved with the construction of the Indiana University Memorial Union and the Indiana University Auditorium. He concludes by speaking about notable performances at the university, including those of the Metropolitan Opera.
Eggers and Higgens
Hoosier Art Salon Patrons Association
Indiana Memorial Union
Indiana University
Indiana University Auditorium
Indiana University Student Union board
Metropolitan Opera
Showalter
Beecham, Thomas
Benton, Thomas Hart
Biddle, Ward G.
Bryan, William Lowe
Cornell, Katherine
McNutt, Paul V.
Nelson, Alice M.
Steele, T.C.
Sutherland, Joan
Wells, Herman B
Indiana University administrator
actor
artist
bookstore manager
governor
instrumentalist
singer
After Opera Antics
Hall of Murals
artists
dormitories
fine arts
social life
Interviewee: | Juergens, George |
Call number: | 78-054 |
Date(s) of Interview: | October 12, 1978 |
Physical Description: | 27 pp.; 1 reel, 1 7/8 ips, 60 minutes |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Goggins, John H. |
George Juergens, born in 1932, has been a professor in the Indiana University Department of History since 1967. In this interview, he discusses his experiences at Indiana University in the nineteen sixties. Juergens' memories of student activism, race relations, protests, and strikes at Indiana University parallel the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War. Events such as the Dow Incident, the Ballantine Hall Lock-In, the 1969 tuition increase, and the reactions of the student population to each event are detailed. Juergens also comments on the beginning of Black Studies course offerings at Indiana University, racism, and the Black Movement in general.
Columbia University
Dillencourt, Jane
Johnson, Bob
Rubin, Jerry
Bloomington, Indiana
professor
Vietnam War
1969 tuition increase
African-American Studies
Ballantine Lock-In
Black Power Movement
Civil Rights Movement
racism
Interviewee: | Kidd, Robert L. |
Call number: | 69-017 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 9, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 9 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 25 minutes; no index; small photograph |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Cuffel, Victoria; Pickett, William B. |
Robert L. Kidd came from Brazil, Indiana, to attend Indiana University from 1919 to 1923. He majored in geology and used his education in family businesses in the coal industry and with Cities Service Oil Company. Kidd was chair of major gifts for the 150th anniversary fundraising efforts of Indiana University. He died in 1972.
Army ROTC
Cities Service Oil Company
Cummings, Edgar Roscoe
Kidd, Linn S.
Logan, William N.
Reeves, John R.
geologist
fundraising
geology
student life
Interviewee: | Kinsey, Clara M. |
Call number: | 68-013 |
Date(s) of Interview: | February 17, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 26 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 60 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Clara M. Kinsey began as a student at Indiana University in 1917 majoring in chemistry. While on campus, she met and married Alfred C. Kinsey. Mrs. Kinsey discusses life in Bloomington in the nineteen twenties. She spends about half of the interview talking about her husband's career; focusing on his studies and collections of gall wasps and then, how he became interested in studying human sexual behavior and the reactions to his studies in this area.
Indiana University
Indiana University Department of Botany
Indiana University Department of Zoology
Sigma Xi
Women's Athletic Association
Eigenmann, Carl H.
Kinsey, Alfred C.
Mottier, David Myers
Scott, William
entomologist
professor
World War I
gall wasps
human sexuality
student life
Interviewee: | Kohlmeier, Albert L., Mrs. |
Call number: | 68-006 |
Date(s) of Interview: | November 11, 1968 |
Physical Description: | 27 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 65 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Restricted (no deed of gift) |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
The wife of Indiana University professor Albert L. Kohlmeier describes social life in Bloomington during the administration of President William Lowe Bryan.
Indiana University Department of History
Indiana University School of Music
Eigenmann
Woodburn
Bain, Wilfred C.
Bryan, William Lowe
Channing, Edward
Eigenmann, Carl H.
Harding, Samuel Bannister
Hershey, Amos S.
Kohlmeier, Albert L.
Woodburn, James A.
Bloomington, Indiana
faculty wife
history professor
Great Depression
train travel
university faculty
Interviewee: | Konopinski, Emil J. |
Call number: | 73-004 |
Date(s) of Interview: | February 20, 1973 |
Physical Description: | 31 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 75 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Born in 1911, Emil J. Konopinski came to Indiana University in 1938 as a professor of physics. In this interview, he tells of his experiences in nuclear physics. These experiences focus on World War II, the use of the atomic bomb, and his contributions to the creation of this weapon. Konopinski comments on fellow physicists, including Albert Einstein and fellow Indiana University professor, Alan Mitchell, and their respective roles in World War II nuclear tests, experiments, and warfare.
Indiana University Department of Physics
Compton, Arthur
Curtis, Lila
Einstein, Albert
Fermi, Enrico
Hitler, Adolf
Langer, Lawrence M.
Mitchell, Alan
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Bloomington, Indiana
Chicago, Illinois
Germany
Hiroshima, Japan
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Nagasaki, Japan
nuclear physicist
professor
World War II
atomic bomb
nuclear physics
Interviewee: | Kuntz, Edward J. |
Call number: | 74-014 |
Date(s) of Interview: | July 18, 1974 |
Physical Description: | 57 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 75 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Warriner, David |
Born in 1921, Edward J. Kuntz is an Indiana University alumnus for both his undergraduate and graduate degrees, earned in 1942 and 1948, respectively. After serving in World War II, Kuntz returned to Bloomington to begin his career at Indiana University. He became a faculty member in 1948, teaching business courses, and serving as assistant dean, dean, and director of various academic areas over the course of his career. Kuntz recalls student life at Indiana University before and after World War II, putting emphasis on veterans, their experiences at the university, and how they made an impact on Indiana University.
Army ROTC
School of Business
Bodine, Richard
Leser, Hedwig Gruen
Rich, Claude T.
Shoemaker, Raymond L.
Stahr, Elvis J.
Weimar, Arthur M.
Bloomington, Indiana
professor
university administrator
American Civil War
Indiana business
World War II
housing
student life
transportation
university growth
veterans
Interviewee: | Link, Goethe |
Call number: | 70-001 |
Date(s) of Interview: | January 23, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 42 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 100 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Harshman, Kemp; Owen, Kent Christopher; Perry, Chris |
Born in 1879, Goethe Link was an Indiana University alumnus and renowned physician. In this interview, he tells of his years as a student at Indiana University, from 1894 to 1896, and his involvement with the fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi. A widely respected physician, Link helped in the organization of the first medical department at Indiana University, located in Indianapolis, in addition to performing many innovative medical procedures, including the first medically performed drainage of the pancreas in the world. This interview chronicles Link's involvement in Greek life and campus activities while he was a student at the university, as well as his lengthy medical career.
Indiana University School of Medicine
Phi Delta Theta
Phi Kappa Psi
Wabash College
Showers
Fisher, Carl
Mumford, Bish
Myers, Burton Dorr
Olivwylie, Grace
Rice, Thurman B.
Van Buskirk, Carl George
Bloomington, Indiana
physician
professor
German language
fraternities
student life
Interviewee: | Lundin, C. Leonard |
Call number: | 72-014 |
Date(s) of Interview: | October 10, 1972 |
Physical Description: | 38 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 90 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Charles Leonard Lundin was a professor of history at Indiana University. He was born in 1907 in Montréal, Québec, Canada, and was raised in New England. He describes the provincialism of Bloomington in the late nineteen thirties and early nineteen forties, Herman B Wells' presidency at Indiana University, the impact of World War II on Indiana University, race relations, history faculty, the Indiana University Auditorium, and student protests during the Vietnam War. Lundin died in Bloomington in 1998.
American Veterans Committee
FBI
First Presbyterian Church
Indiana University Auditorium
NAACP
Shortridge High School
Andressohn, John C.
Anguizola, Gus
Barnhart, John D.
Benns, Frank Lee
Bryan, William Lowe
Buley, Roscoe Carlyle
Douglas, Paul H.
Esarey, Logan
Kohlmeier, Albert L.
Lynch, William Orlando
Morgan, William T.
Mueller, Kate
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Rusk, Dean
Stahr, Elvis J.
Taylor, Maxwell
Townsend, Prescott
Wells, Herman B
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Bloomington, Indiana
Nigeria
barber
history professor
Hall of Murals
Spanish Civil War
Vietnam War protests
World War II
World War II veterans
barber shops
communism
desegregation
race relations
racial discrimination
Interviewee: | MacClintock, Lander |
Call number: | 68-008 |
Date(s) of Interview: | December 10, 1968; December 11, 1968; December 17, 1968 |
Physical Description: | 57 pp.; 3 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 135 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Winther, Oscar O.; Clark, Thomas D. |
Lander MacClintock, born in 1889, was a professor in the Department of French and Italian at Indiana University. He recalls his parents, education, and career as a member of the Indiana University. faculty. In particular, he reflects on the operations of the Department of Romance Languages, later called the Department of French and Italian, after the formation of the Spanish Department. He recalls the administrations of presidents William Lowe Bryan and Herman B Wells, cultural life, and the construction of buildings on campus. MacClintock died in 1980.
Indiana University Department of Romance Languages
Vagabond
Indiana University Department of French and
Italian
Indiana University Department of Spanish
University of Chicago
MacClintock
Maxwell
Bryan, Charlotte Lowe
Bryan, William Lowe
Buley, Roscoe Carlyle
Dewey, John
Hershey, Amos S.
Hill, Elijah C.
Hill, John
Kohlmeier, Albert L.
Mathers, Frank Curry
McMillin, Alvin N. "Bo"
McNutt, Paul V.
Merrill, B. Winfred
Payne, Fernandus
Scheifley, Alfred
Swain, Joseph
Wells, Herman B
Young, Bert
Young, Grace
professor
Indiana University physical plant
Prohibition
faculty life
Interviewee: | Martin, Wallace H. |
Call number: | 69-008 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 9, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 20 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 50 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open (oral Deed of Gift) |
Interviewer: | Cuffel, Victoria; Pickett, William B. |
Wallace H. Martin attended Indiana University in the years before World War I. Once the United States. entered the war, he went overseas and fought in France. After the war, Martin received his law degree and went on to practice in New York City for several decades. Martin discusses his Indiana University coursework and professors and also contemplates the effect the university had on his life.
Emanon Club
George Washington University
Indiana University
Indianapolis
Star
New York University School of Law
Bryan, William Lowe
Nims, Harry D.
Woodburn, James A.
Alto, Indiana
France
Kokomo, Indiana
New York, New York
Washington, DC
attorney
author
sergeant
Indiana University regional campuses
World War I
World War I battles
law school
town and gown relations
Interviewee: | Mathers, Frank C. |
Call number: | 72-009 |
Date(s) of Interview: | October 25, 1972 |
Physical Description: | 50 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 120 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D.; Day, Harry G. |
Frank C. Mathers, professor emeritus at Indiana University, came to the university as an assistant in 1905. This interview outlines various experiences and contributions made by Mathers to the field of chemistry, specifically electroplating, including a method of creating fluorine gas upon which he had a patent. In addition, Mathers discusses fellow members of the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University, the administration under William Lowe Bryan and Herman B Wells, and life in Bloomington in the first years of the twentieth century.
Department of Chemistry
Sigma Xi
Willkie
Alter, Chester
Blough, Earl
Briscoe, Herman T. "Kay"
Bryan, William Lowe
Davis, Louis Sherman
Henke, Clyde Overbeck
Hitler, Adolf
Isobe, Paul F.
Lindley, Ernest H.
Lyons, Robert E.
Smith, Lee
Strope, Ben
Warner, John Christian
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
professor
World War I
World War II
aluminum
electroplating
fluorine gas
Interviewee: | Mathers, Frank Curry |
Call number: | 70-018 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 22 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 55 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara; Pickett, William |
Frank C. Mathers attended Indiana University as an undergraduate from 1899 to 1903. After graduation, he received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Cornell University and returned to Indiana University, becoming a full professor in 1923. Mathers discusses his work with fluorine and how this element was used as a weapon of war. He also discusses growing up on a farm in southern Indiana and his life at the university as an undergraduate and a professor.
Cornell University
Indiana University
Indiana University Department of Chemistry
Brown, Oliver W.
Bryan, William Lowe
Foley, Arthur L.
Hitler, Adolf
Swain, Joseph
Washington, DC
chemistry professor
farmer
livestock trader
miner
physician
1898 Spanish-American War
1918 Influenza Epidemic
Great Depression
World War I
atomic bomb
boarding houses
chemistry
cows
farming
fluorine gas
water shortages
weapons
Interviewee: | Maurer, Mary Rieman |
Call number: | 69-013 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 7, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 28 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 65 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Cuffel, Victoria; Pickett, William B. |
Mary Rieman Maurer, born in 1895, attended Indiana University from 1912 to 1916, getting her degree in philosophy under the teaching of Dr. Ernest H. Lindley, her highly esteemed mentor. A teacher, former trustee of Indiana University, and treasurer of the Distinguished Alumni Service Club, Maurer was also an active member of the sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, during her days as a student. In this interview, she discusses memories of Indiana University, student life and activities in the second decade of the twentieth century, and the administrations of William Lowe Bryan and Herman B Wells.
Kappa Alpha Theta
Bryan, William Lowe
Howe, William David
Isobe, Paul F.
Lindley, Ernest H.
McNutt, Ruth J.
Wells, Herman B
teacher
trustee
African-Americans
campus life
racism
transportation
water shortages
Interviewee: | McNutt, Ruth J. |
Call number: | 69-002 |
Date(s) of Interview: | March 27, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 32 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 75 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open (oral Deed of Gift) |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Ruth J. McNutt's official title was secretary to William Lowe Bryan, the President of Indiana University, however, during her years in this position, she essentially acted as vice president of the university, even planning the university's budget. Miss McNutt discusses what it was like working for Bryan and how he dealt with faculty and students. She also discusses the situation with Mrs. Bryan, whom many thought to be an invalid and who took up a lot of Mr. Bryan's time. Due to this situation, Miss McNutt did all of the entertaining for the Bryans during her time on campus.
Board of Aeons
DePauw University
Indiana University
board of trustees
Bryan, Charlotte Lowe
Bryan, William Lowe
Eigenmann, Carl H.
McNutt, Paul V.
Ralston, William A.
Wells, Herman B
New York, New York
chauffeur
secretary
commencement
student-faculty relations
university budget
university finances
university politics
Interviewee: | Mogge, Arthur R.; Mogge, Arthur R., Mrs. |
Call number: | 69-018 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 9, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 29 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 70 minutes; no index; black and white photograph and negative |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Restricted |
Interviewer: | Cuffel, Victoria; Pickett, William B. |
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Mogge were students at Indiana University from 1915 to 1920. He went to Indiana University. after attending high school in Evansville, Indiana. She attended high school in Lafayette, Indiana. They describe their student life: transportation, faculty, administration, housing, social life, sports, water shortages (and how they affected bathing and laundry). They also talk about their involvement as alumni of the university.
Alpha Tau Omega
Bryan, William Lowe
Piercy, Joseph W.
Rawles, William A.
Stahr, Elvis J.
Stiehm, Ewald Ortwin "Jumbo"
Bloomington, Indiana
Indiana University alumni
advertising
campus life
public relations
student protests
train travel
water supply
Interviewee: | Nelson, Alice |
Call number: | 69-004 |
Date(s) of Interview: | April 28, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 34 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 80 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D.; Cuffel, Victoria |
This interview with Alice Nelson covers her years at Indiana University in charge of residence halls. Arriving in 1920, she was given charge of the run-down women's dormitory at Alpha Hall. Initiating countless renovations to improve the few existing residence halls, Nelson also worked tirelessly to get many new residence halls built and to create a system of dining halls. She tells of the impact of World War I, the Great Depression, African-Americans at Indiana University, World War II, and the residential life at Indiana University.
Indiana University Alpha Hall
Bryan, William Lowe
Louden, Theodore J.
Rich, Claude T.
Wells, Agnes E.
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
women's residence halls director
African-Americans
Great Depression
World War I
World War II
co-educational housing
dining halls
diversity
housing
Interviewee: | Nelson, Alice M. |
Call number: | 76-010 |
Date(s) of Interview: | August 17, 1973 |
Physical Description: | 5 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips; no index; partially transcribed |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Warriner, David |
Alice M. Nelson describes the housing of veterans on the campus of Indiana University just after World War II. Nelson died in 1978.
university administrator
World War II veterans
university housing
Interviewee: | Norvell, Lee |
Call number: | 70-007 |
Date(s) of Interview: | March 6, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 44 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 105 minutes; curriculum vitae |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Lee Norvelle attended Indiana University for one year as an undergraduate student, receiving his BA in 1921. He began teaching at Indiana University in 1925 and remained there until his retirement. Norvelle talks about several aspects of Indiana University life from his student days, like classes, boarding houses, and the water shortage. He then moves on to his career as a professor and focuses on the development of theater and opera at Indiana University and his role in the formation of Indiana University's Department of Speech and Theater.
Asbury College
Indiana University Auditorium
Indiana University Department of Speech and
Theater
Indiana University School of Music
Metropolitan Opera
Taylor University
United States Army
Bain, Wilfred C.
Biddle, Ward G.
Book, William F.
Bryan, William Lowe
Carmichael, Hoagy
Halleck, Charles A.
Morrison, Henry Clay
Steele, T.C.
Stout, Selatie Edgar
Wells, Herman B
Brown County, Indiana
Kentucky
professor
Aida
Birth of a
Nation
boarding houses
entertainment
psychology
smoking
speech
theater
water shortages
Interviewee: | Norvelle, Lee |
Call number: | 70-002 |
Date(s) of Interview: | February 19, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 12 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 30 minutes; no index; partially transcribed |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Restricted |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Norvelle describes the speech department and theater at Indiana University in the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties, during the presidency of William Lowe Bryan.
Bryan, William Lowe
McNutt, Ruth J.
professor
speech instruction
theater
Interviewee: | Orwig, Bill |
Call number: | 74-015 |
Date(s) of Interview: | April 22, 1974 |
Physical Description: | 89 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 215 minutes, no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Peterson, D. Scott |
Bill Orwig began his career as a teacher and a coach. In 1961, he came to Indiana University to serve as its athletic director. He discusses the state of Indiana athletics during his tenure there, focusing on problems with financial support, the challenge of recruiting, Indiana's athletic probation, and the place of student athletics within the university.
NCAA
University of Nebraska
University of Toledo
Bell, G. Sam
Pont, John
Toledo, Ohio
athletic director
insurance agent
teacher
Big Ten
Indiana University alumni
University student athletics
World War II
athletic boycott
athletic facilities fee
athletic recruiting
basketball
financial support
football
hockey
income sport
probation
soccer
student athletes
underwriting
varsity club
women's athletics
Interviewee: | Payne, Fernandus |
Call number: | 68-002 |
Date(s) of Interview: | October 8, 1968; October 12, 1968; October 15, 1968; November 2, 1968 |
Physical Description: | 98 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 240 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D.; Winther, Oscar O. |
Fernandus Payne attended Indiana University as an undergraduate starting in 1902. After obtaining his Ph.D., he returned to Indiana University as an assistant professor in zoology. Payne remained at Indiana for the rest of his career, eventually becoming Dean of the Graduate School. Payne discusses his own work in zoology and biology and that of his colleagues, the William Lowe Bryan administration, various university departments and their curriculums, and other aspects of the university's academic and social life.
Columbia University
Johns Hopkins University
Purdue University
Stanford University
Valparaiso Normal School
Woods Hole Research Center
board of trustees
Bryan, William Lowe
Dabney, Richard Heath
Eigenmann, Carl H.
Harding, Samuel Bannister
Jordan, David Starr
Kohlmeier, Albert L.
McNutt, Ruth J.
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Sampson, Martin Wright
Scout, Selatie E.
Wells, Herman B
Wilson, E.B.
Woodburn, James A.
Zeleny, Charles
graduate school dean
ichthyologist
professor
teacher
zoologist
Drosophila
agriculture
biological station
biology
cells
chromosomes
curriculum
equipment
fraternities
graduate placement
ichthyology
inbreeding
medical school
psychology
religion
retirement
taxonomy
town and gown relations
zoology
Interviewee: | Peak, Philip |
Call number: | 74-016 |
Date(s) of Interview: | July 17, 1974 |
Physical Description: | 23 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 55 minutes; no index; small photo of interviewee |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Warriner, David |
Born in 1908, Philip Peak, a former chair of the Math Department and professor in the School of Education, came to Indiana University in 1942. He discusses the impact of World War II on Indiana University, emphasizing in particular the effects of the influx of World War II veterans into the Indiana University system. With regard to these veterans, Peak speaks of their contributions to classes, changes in Bloomington society, veterans' housing, and the excellence of married veteran students. Throughout the course of the interview, he discusses with approval the attitudes and changes that were brought into Indiana University classrooms by the GIs.
Wright, Wendell W. "Whack"
Bloomington, Indiana
professor
veterans
World War II
married students
university growth
veterans' housing
Interviewee: | Peterson, J. Dwight |
Call number: | 69-009 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 9, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 31 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 70 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Cuffel, Victoria; Pickett, William B. |
J. Dwight Peterson, born in 1897, was an Indiana University student from 1919, with a brief interruption when he enlisted in the military during World War I. Earning his A.B. in economics later in 1919, Peterson went on to a successful career in business, served as an Indiana University trustee from 1937 to 1945, and was treasurer of the Indiana University Foundation for many years. In this interview, he discusses his years as an Indiana University student, his fellow African-American students, campus social life, water shortages, and the impact of World War II on the university. In addition, Peterson speaks of the growth of the university campus housing in the post-World War II period, and the method used for financing this building spurt.
Indiana University Foundation
Sigma Delta Chi
Bryan, William Lowe
Rawles, William A.
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
African-Americans
World War II
campus life
housing
student life
university growth
water shortages
Interviewee: | Phillips, Ardith L. |
Call number: | 70-021 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 31 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 75 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara E.; Pickett, William B. |
Ardith L. Phillips, Indiana University alumnus from the class of 1920 was, through the course of his career, a high school teacher, coach of various sports at both the high school and college levels, and a college professor. He discusses his life as an Indiana University student in the early twentieth century, recalling the 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Bloomington, social life, and basketball memories. In addition, Phillips tells of the impact of World War I, the Great Depression, and diversity at Indiana University. Throughout the interview, he traces the changes that teacher education, physical education, and athletics have undergone through the decades.
Ball State University
Phi Kappa Psi
Student Army Training Corps
Bryan, William Lowe
Bloomington, Indiana
professor
teacher
1918 Influenza Epidemic
Great Depression
World War I
basketball
diversity
physical education
student life
Interviewee: | Prickett, Alva L. |
Call number: | 68-003 |
Date(s) of Interview: | October 24, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 31 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 70 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Restricted |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D.; Winther, Oscar O. |
Alva L. Prickett, born in 1890, was Dean of the School of Business at Indiana University starting in 1919. He talks about student life, business school curriculum, and funding for higher education. Prickett retired in 1960.
Indiana Daily
Student
Ku Klux Klan
School of Business
Bryan, William Lowe
Rawles, William A.
Weatherly, Ulysses G.
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
School of Business dean
farmer
higher education funding
Great Depression
World War II
World War II veterans
agriculture
fraternity hazing
Interviewee: | Shaffer, Robert |
Call number: | 74-017 |
Date(s) of Interview: | July 17, 1974 |
Physical Description: | 25 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips; 60 minutes.; no index; rough transcript |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Warriner, David |
Dr. Robert H. Shaffer, born in 1915, was a native of Delphi, Indiana, and was formerly chair of the Department of Higher Education in the School of Education at Indiana University. After World War II, Shaffer was an assistant dean of students at Indiana University and director of it veterans' guidance center. Shaffer describes the impact of returning veterans on the university and the services provided to them.
American Legion
American Veterans Committee
Wells, Herman B
Wright, Wendell W. "Whack"
Bloomington, Indiana
university administrator
World War II
World War II veterans
student life
university housing
Interviewee: | Shrock, Robert R. |
Call number: | 72-013 |
Date(s) of Interview: | April 20, 1972 |
Physical Description: | 45 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 105 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Robert Shrock was born in Miami County, Indiana in 1904, and attended school there before attending high school in Kokomo, Indiana. He attended Indiana University and studied geology there in the nineteen twenties. Schrock describes student life and the atmosphere in Bloomington during that time. He also describes faculty members with whom he worked.
Bloomington Telephone
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Wisconsin
Bradfute, Blaine
Briscoe, Herman T. "Kay"
Bryan, William Jennings
Bryan, William Lowe
Bryan, William Lowe
Carmichael, Hoagy
Cummings, Edgar Roscoe
Eigenmann, Carl H.
Kinsey, Alfred C.
Malotte, Clyde Arnett
Merrill, B. Winfred
Moenkhaus, William J.
Payne, Fernandus
Senour, Frank
Stempel, Guido H.
Visher, Stephen Sargent
Weatherwax, Paul
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
Wawpepong, Wisconsin
geologist
paleontologist
dams
geology
philanthropy
student life
water shortages
Interviewee: | Snow, Charles Wilbert |
Call number: | 70-009 |
Date(s) of Interview: | May 2, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 36 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 85 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Charles Wilbert Snow, a professor, politician, poet, folklorist and veteran of World War I, served on the academic faculty in the English Department at Indiana University from 1916 to 1921. Between these years, Snow taught with a brief interruption when he enlisted and served in World War I. In this interview, Snow discusses a wide variety of topics and acquaintances, including Amos S. Hershey, Hoagy Carmichael, Alfred C. Kinsey, folk ballads, politics, women's rights, and professors' salaries, among many others. His insightful comments and memories add depth to historical figures and events and tie them to Indiana University.
Bourdin, Henry L.
Bryan, William Lowe
Campbell, Olive D.
Carmichael, Hoagy
Eigenmann, Carl H.
Hershey, Amos S.
Howe, William David
Howells, William Dean
Hyde, William Dewitt
Jordan, David Starr
Kinsey, Alfred C.
Marshall, Thomas R.
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Sembower, Charles J.
Sharp, Cecil
Smoot, Reed
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
Seward Peninsula, Alaska
Spruce Head, Maine
folklorist
poet
professor
World War I
faculty salaries
folk ballads
fraternities
pollution
women's rights
Interviewee: | Sollitt, Ralph V. |
Call number: | 71-039 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 22, 1971-June 23, 1971 |
Physical Description: | 68 pp.; 3 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 165 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Born in 1888, Ralph V. Sollitt earned his A.B. degree in 1910 from Indiana University and his L.L.B. degree in law in 1911, also from Indiana University. Although trained as a attorney, Sollitt's career was steered into different directions; he became the Alumni Secretary at Indiana University shortly after earning his degree in law, and later became influential in politics and became the president of a major advertising agency. In this interview, Sollitt discusses his life as a student at Indiana University in the early twentieth century, remembering many acquaintances and friendships with some of Indiana University's most renowned names, including William and Charlotte Lowe Bryan, Carl H. Eigenmann, and Harold W. Johnston. In addition, he speaks of his active days in national politics in the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties and the men with whom he worked.
Indiana University Memorial Union
Indiana University Student Union board
Lord and Thomas Advertising Agency
Willkie
Atwater, Amzi
Barnhart, Dean
Beveridge, Albert
Bryan, Charlotte Lowe
Bryan, William Lowe
Conwell, Russell
Cummings, Edgar Roscoe
Eigenmann, Carl H.
Ewing, Oscar R.
Fesler, James W.
Harding, Samuel Bannister
Harding, Warren G.
Hays, Will Harrison
Herold, Don
Hershey, Amos S.
Johnston, Harold W.
Marshall, Thomas R.
McNutt, Paul V.
Sembower, Charles J.
Whittenberger, John M.
Willkie, Wendell L.
Woodburn, James A.
Bloomington, Indiana
advertising executive
alumni secretary
attorney
World War I
advertising
college traditions
national politics
student life
Interviewee: | Solt, Leo F.; Baxter, Maurice G.; McGarr, Philip M.; Harris, William H.; Wilson, William E. |
Call number: | 73-021 |
Date(s) of Interview: | May 3, 1973 |
Physical Description: | 21 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 50 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Mooney, Chase C.; Memorial Service |
As a transcript of the Chase C. Mooney Memorial Service, this document encompasses sentiments, memories, and traits of the late Chase C. Mooney, a distinguished professor of the Indiana University Department of History. Beloved by both colleagues and students, Mooney is remembered here through anecdotes and some of his favorite literary passages.
Indiana University Department of History
Crawford, William H.
Mooney, Chase C.
history professor
Civil Rights Movement
Interviewee: | Solt, Leo F.; Wells, Herman B; Glad, Paul; Mooney, Chase C. |
Call number: | 70-010 |
Date(s) of Interview: | May 28, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 15 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 35 minutes; no index; two photos |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Winther, Oscar Osburn; Memorial Service |
This transcript of the Oscar Osburn Winther Memorial Service includes words from Leo F. Solt, Herman B Wells, Paul Glad, and Chase C. Mooney. Within the transcript, Winther's contributions to Indiana University's Department of History and to the field of history are emphasized. In addition, his founding of the Indiana University Oral History Department and his many positive personal and professional qualities are discussed.
Department of History
Journal of American
History
Winther, Mary
Winther, Oscar Osburn
Bloomington, Indiana
history professor
oral history
Interviewee: | Stahr, Elvis J. |
Call number: | 68-004 |
Date(s) of Interview: | November 5, 1968; December 21, 1968 |
Physical Description: | 58 pp.; 3 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 140 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Elvis J. Stahr, president of Indiana University from 1962 until 1968, discusses his years at the university. Stahr reveals opinions about Indiana University's growth and the importance of maintaining a first-rate faculty. He recalls the impact made upon the university campus by the Civil Rights Movement, black and white extremist groups, and protests against the Vietnam War. In addition, Stahr speaks of Indiana University's sources of funding and how this funding allowed for the increased growth of the university in the nineteen sixties.
DuBois Society
Indiana University Press
Branigan, Roger D.
Rich, Claude T.
Rusk, Dean
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
university president
Civil Rights Movement
Indiana University administration
Vietnam War protests
federal education funding
higher education funding
residence halls
university growth
Interviewee: | Stempel, John E. |
Call number: | 70-004 |
Date(s) of Interview: | April, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 73 pp.; 3 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 170 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara E.; Clark, Thomas D. |
Born in 1903, John E. Stempel was a 1923 alumnus of Indiana University who returned to the university as an instructor in journalism in 1926 and 1927. He joined the faculty in the Department of Journalism in 1936, where he taught until his retirement in 1968. Stempel recalls his years as a student at Indiana University, the accompanying water shortages, and his fellow students. He describes life in Bloomington and life on the Indiana University campus throughout his years there, including the effects of the Great Depression and the presence of African-American students. In addition, Stempel relates anecdotes of his associations with many of Indiana University's elite, including William Lowe Bryan, Herman B Wells, and Ward G. Biddle.
Indiana Daily
Student
Indiana University Department of Journalism
Kappa Alpha Psi
Press Club
Sigma Delta Chi
Biddle, Ward G.
Briscoe, Herman T. "Kay"
Bryan, William Lowe
Crone, Frank L.
Field, Oliver
Foley, Arthur L.
Harding, Samuel Bannister
Harper, Fowler V.
Herold, Don
Johnson, Fred Bates
Louden, Theodore J.
Mellett, Don
Payne, Fernandus
Pittenger, Nicholas
Pyle, Ernie
Stempel, Guido H.
Swain, Joseph
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
editor
professor
African-Americans
Great Depression
World War II
community life
transportation
water shortages
Interviewee: | Stempel, John E. |
Call number: | 79-070 |
Date(s) of Interview: | November 19, 1979; January 21, 1980; January 28, 1980; February 4, 1980; February 11, 1980 |
Physical Description: | 196 pp.; 6 reels, 1 7/8 ips, 620 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Giroux, Vincent A., Jr. |
Born in 1903, John E. Stempel was a 1923 alumnus of Indiana University who returned to the university as an instructor in journalism in 1926 and 1927. He joined the Indiana University faculty as a member of the Department of Journalism in 1936 where he taught until his retirement in 1968. Stempel recalls his years as a student at the university, his involvement with the and Sigma Delta Chi, water shortages, and Bloomington life in general. He describes his career as a journalist in New York City, Pennsylvania, and his eventual choice to teach at Indiana University. Stempel discusses Prohibition, the Great Depression, the expansion of the university campus, faculty, and student body, segregation and integration, the Ku Klux Klan, and the effects of all of these phenomena on Bloomington and Indiana University.
YMCA
American Council on Education for Journalism
Arbutus
Bloomington Evening
World
Columbia University
Department of Journalism
Easton Express
High School Journalism Institute
Indiana Daily
Student
Indiana University Department of Radio and
Television
Ku Klux Klan
Lafayette College
New York Sun
Phi Kappa Psi
RCA
Rotary Club
Sigma Delta Chi
The Optimist
Cravens
Biddle, Ward G.
Bradford, Walter
Bryan, William Lowe
Cravens, John W.
Cravens, Oscar
Feltus, H.J.
Wagner, Paul
Wells, Clifford
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
Easton, Pennsylvania
New York, New York
journalist
professor
1944 GI Bill
African-Americans
Flesch formula
Great Depression
Prohibition
World War II
basketball
campus life
fraternities
integration
newspapers
offset printing
readability testing
segregation
television broadcasting
transportation
university growth
water shortages
Interviewee: | Stempel, John E. |
Call number: | 77-014 |
Date(s) of Interview: | February 24, 1976 |
Physical Description: | 35 pp.; 1 cassette, 1 7/8 ips, 80 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Taylor, Bobbie |
John Emmert Stempel, born in 1903, describes his student days at Indiana University and as a member of the School of Journalism faculty. He describes water shortages and transportation to Bloomington, including the founding of the municipal airport. Stempel describes his career as a Journalist, Bloomington newspapers, and fundraising activities.
Bloomington
Star
Bloomington Airport
Bloomington Evening
World
Bloomington Religious
Times
Bloomington Telephone
Community Chest
Courier
Indiana Daily
Student
New York Sun
Showers Brothers Furniture Company
United Fund
United Way of America
Stempel
Arpan, Floyd
Esarey, Logan
Farmer, Eli P.
Pyle, Ernie
Stempel, John D.
Stempel, Mary Farmer
Stiehm, Ewald Ortwin "Jumbo"
Bloomington, Indiana
Griffy Creek Reservoir, Indiana
Griffy Creek, Indiana
professor
journalist
basketball
football
fundraising
journalism
linguistics
newspapers
philology
railroads
university housing
water shortages
water supply
Interviewee: | Strack, William N. |
Call number: | 70-015 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 5, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 29 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 70 minutes; index; 1 song sheet, large photo of interviewee |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara E.; Pickett, William B. |
William N. Strack, born in 1893, was a successful attorney who received his A.B. degree in economics from Indiana University in 1915 and his L.L.B. (law) degree in 1917 from Indiana University. He earned both of these degrees before enlisting in the military for service in World War I. Strack discusses his years as a student at Indiana University, including student housing, water shortages, and social life at the university. He also talks of the creation of the School of Law and the School of Music at Indiana University, and of some of the major influences he saw at the university, including Herman B Wells and Claude T. Rich. Strack also tells of his closeness to his professor, Albert L. Kohlmeier.
Indiana University School of Law
Indiana University School of Music
Bryan, William Lowe
Geiger, Jack
Hepburn, Charles McGuffey
Hogate, Enoch George
Kohlmeier, Albert L.
Rich, Claude T.
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
attorney
World War I
housing
student life
water shortages
Interviewee: | Stuart, James A. |
Call number: | 70-017 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June, 1970 |
Physical Description: | 18 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 45 minutes; index; biographical sketch, article |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara; Pickett, William |
James A. Stuart was born in Bloomington, Indiana in 1880 and attended Indiana University from 1897 to 1901. After graduation, Stuart entered a career in the newspaper business and spent the majority of his years as an editor for the . He briefly discusses academics at the university and what campus life was like when he was a student.
Bloomington High School
Indiana University Department of English
Indianapolis
Star
Muncie Star
Sigma Delta Chi
Bryan, William Lowe
Jordan, David Starr
Lindley, Ernest H.
Pullian, Eugene C.
Sutton, Elmer
Swain, Joseph
Wells, Herman B
Muncie, Indiana
editor
groundskeeper
laborer
1898 Spanish-American War
Interviewee: | Sulzer, Elmer G. |
Call number: | 68-009 |
Date(s) of Interview: | December 18, 1968 |
Physical Description: | 29 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 70 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Elmer Sulzer attended Indiana University as an undergraduate for one year, from 1920 to 1921. He went on to teach at the University of Kentucky, eventually becoming head of the Department of Radio. In 1952, he returned to Indiana University to serve as the head of its Department of Radio and Television. Sulzer discusses Prohibition and student life with regard to his earlier days at Indiana University. He also talks about campus and academic growth, the increasing internationalism of the university, and the impact of the nineteen sixties on campus.
DePauw University
Indiana University Band
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky Department of Radio
Bryan, William Lowe
McVey, Frank LeRond
Stahr, Elvis J.
Visher, Stephen Sargent
Wells, Herman B
band director
public relations director
teacher
Prohibition
campus growth
geology
homeopathy
militancy
nineteen sixties
nineteen twenties
provincialism
railroads
state schools
student life
teaching
Interviewee: | Thompson, Stith |
Call number: | 68-005 |
Date(s) of Interview: | November 10, 1968 |
Physical Description: | 36 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 85 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas; Winther, Oscar |
Stith Thompson arrived at Indiana University as an English professor in 1921. He remained at Indiana University for the rest of his career, serving as Dean of the Graduate School from 1947 to 1950. Thompson discusses the Indiana University curriculum, town and gown relations, salaries, faculty, and the university administration. He mentions a large number of professors and administrators, especially William Lowe Bryan.
Department of English
Harvard University
Indiana University Faculty Club
Indiana University Folklore Institute
Indiana University Press
Yale University
Merrill
Stempel
Alexander, William A. "Red"
Bryan, William Lowe
Eigenmann, Carl H.
Haskins, Charles
Hershey, Amos S.
Howe, William David
Kinsey, Alfred C.
McNutt, Ruth J.
Mottier, David Myers
Muller, Herman
Payne, Fernandus
Rea, John
Roberts, Elizabeth Mattocks
Sembower, Charles J.
Senour, Frank
Wells, Herman B
Woodburn, James A.
Kentucky
dean
professor
teacher
Great Depression
Indiana University administration
Prohibition
divorce
folklore
fraternities
freshman composition
inbreeding
pensions
salaries
social life
sororities
town and gown relations
transportation
Interviewee: | Thornburg, William D. |
Call number: | 69-006 |
Date(s) of Interview: | May 29, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 30 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 70 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D.; Cuffel, Victoria |
William Thornburg received his BA from Indiana University in the early nineteen twenties and became a geology professor at Indiana in 1928. He spends a lot of the interview discussing the problems of a water shortage on campus and how these problems were remedied. Thornburg also spends some time discussing his colleagues at Indiana University and what life was like when he was an undergraduate on campus.
Book Nook
Central Normal College
Indiana University Department of Geology
Student Army Training Corps
Allen, Ward
Bryan, William Lowe
Carmichael, Hoagy
Cummings, Edgar Roscoe
Logan, William N.
McNutt, Paul V.
Moffet, Archie
Visher, Stephen Sargent
Griffy Creek Reservoir, Indiana
Lake Monroe, Indiana
geologist
professor
Great Depression
Indiana Geological Survey
World War I
cisterns
kaolin
limestone
malaria
town and gown relations
water shortages
water springs
water supply
Interviewee: | Von Tress, Edward C. |
Call number: | 72-007 |
Date(s) of Interview: | December 12, 1972 |
Physical Description: | 33 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 75 minutes; no index; photo of interviewee |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Edward C. Von Tress, born in 1899, was a 1921 Indiana University alumnus. In this interview, he discusses the role he played when he returned to Indiana University in 1923 to become Alumni Secretary. Of central importance in his memories of this position is the Memorial Fund, a financial drive for pledges from both students and alumni. This fund, and Von Tress's activities for the fund, are directly related to the growing dream of creating a truly great institution at Indiana University. Throughout the interview, Von Tress relates anecdotes of friends and colleagues, including John S. Hastings, James S. Adams, U. Z. McMurtrie, and Herman B Wells.
Curtis Publishing Company
Flying Squadron
McNutt
Adams, James S.
Alexander, William A. "Red"
Bryan, William Lowe
Hastings, John S.
Heighway, George "Dixie"
McMurtrie, U.Z.
McNutt, Kathleen
McNutt, Paul V.
Metz, Arthur R.
Riley, James Whitcomb
Wells, Herman B
Wildermuth, Ora L.
Bloomington, Indiana
alumni secretary
Indiana University alumni
memorial fund
Interviewee: | Von Tress, Edward C. |
Call number: | 69-040 |
Date(s) of Interview: | November 24, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 11 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 25 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Edward Von Tress attended Indiana University as an undergraduate starting in 1916. He remained involved with the university by acting as the alumni secretary. He talks about his years at Indiana University as an undergraduate, the impact of World War I, and William Lowe Bryan. He also discusses what it was like trying to raise money for the Indiana University Memorial Fund Campaign.
Army ROTC
Indiana University Memorial Fund Campaign
Student Army Training Corps
Alexander, William A. "Red"
Bryan, William Lowe
Eigenmann, Carl H.
Warner, Archie
alumni secretary
biologist
Indiana University alumni
World War I
blind fish
golf
squirrels
trees
Interviewee: | Wallace, Leon H. |
Call number: | 69-005 |
Date(s) of Interview: | May 2, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 31 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 70 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Leon H. Wallace, born in 1904, discusses the history of the School of Law at Indiana University. First, the origins of Indiana University are outlined. In addition, Wallace speaks of the differing qualifications necessary to practice as a attorney over the past century and a half in different areas of the United States, including the state of Indiana. He discusses the introduction of accreditation to various law schools, and the development of the law program at Indiana University.
American Bar Association
Association of American Law Schools
Indiana State Legislature
Indiana University School of Law
Harrison, William Henry
Hepburn, Charles McGuffey
Jennings, Jonathan E.
McDonald, David
Read, Daniel
Bloomington, Indiana
Indiana
attorney
law professor
1851 Indiana State Constitution
accreditation
attorneys
Interviewee: | Warren, Winifred Merrill |
Call number: | 69-007 |
Date(s) of Interview: | May 27, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 28 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 65 minutes; index; photos, essay |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Winifred Merrill Warren, a teacher in the Music Department at Indiana University from the mid nineteen twenties until the second half of the twentieth century, discusses the beginnings of the Music Department and the Music School. In particular, Mrs. Warren emphasizes the deeds of her father, B.Winfred Merrill, a renowned musician and conductor who came to Indiana University and virtually created the Music Department from nothing. She also mentions the music building. She talks of how presidents William Lowe Bryan and Herman B Wells affected the growth of music at Indiana University.
Indiana University Department of Music
Indiana University School of Music
Merrill
Bryan, William Lowe
Campbell, Charles Diven
Hoffzimmer, Ernest
Merrill, B. Winfred
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
music professor
musician
Interviewee: | Weathers, Cecil; Weathers, Cecil, Mrs. |
Call number: | 71-017 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 13, 1971 |
Physical Description: | 40 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 95 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara E.; Peterson, D. Scott |
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Weathers, alumni of Indiana University, discuss their lives as married students at the university, including information about their housing, board, transportation, health care, and professors. In addition, the Weathers comment on their experiences teaching in the state of Indiana, especially in the nineteen twenties. Mr. Weathers speaks of the effects of the Great Depression on the business community, of which he was a part throughout his career in the securities business. Indiana University figures including Kenneth P. Williams and Charles J. Sembower are mentioned in the Weathers' memories of the university.
Bryan, William Lowe
Sembower, Charles J.
Williams, Kenneth P.
Bloomington, Indiana
teacher
African-Americans
Great Depression
World War I
discipline in education
health care
housing
railroads
room and board
teaching
university requirements
Interviewee: | Weatherwax, Paul |
Call number: | 69-001 |
Date(s) of Interview: | March 5, 1969 |
Physical Description: | 30 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 70 minutes; index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Paul Weatherwax received his BA from Indiana University in the 1910s and returned to Bloomington as a botany professor in 1921. He talks about the changes that took place between the Bryan and Wells administrations. He also discusses campus life during his time as a student here and about tensions between other professors that existed during his teaching years.
Indiana University College of Arts and
Sciences
Bryan, William Lowe
Cummings, Edgar Roscoe
Eigenmann, Carl H.
Hoffman, Horace A.
Mottier, David Myers
Rothrock, David A.
Stout, Selatie Edgar
Wells, Herman B
Willkie, Wendell L.
Thailand
professor
teacher
teaching assistant
boarding houses
botany
campus radicalism
retirement
student life
trees
zoology
Interviewee: | Wells, Herman B |
Call number: | 68-001 |
Date(s) of Interview: | January, 1968 |
Physical Description: | 42 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 100 minutes; index; small photo of interviewee |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas D. |
Born in 1902, Herman B Wells, former president of Indiana University, discusses the controversial Kinsey research, papers, and Institute. Wells speaks of the origin of the idea for Kinsey's research, the progression of Kinsey's marriage classes, Kinsey's book, and eventually the Kinsey Institute. Also included is Wells' description of the university's stand throughout the controversy; for example, Indiana University's response to a protesting letter from a Catholic bishop is discussed.
Indiana University Board of Trustees
Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and
Reproduction
Huxley, Julian
Kinsey, Alfred C.
Tello, Juan
Bloomington, Indiana
university president
Kinsey marriage class
Kinsey research
Interviewee: | Wells, Herman B |
Call number: | 76-054 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 16, 1976 |
Physical Description: | 10 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 25 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Weaver, Bill L. |
Herman B Wells, former president of Indiana University, describes the University's efforts to bring European scholars to the United States, particularly those who had a difficult time due to the rise of totalitarian governments in their home countries. Wells was born in 1902 and died in 2000.
Hlavaty, Vaclav
Hopf, Eberhard
Kronenberger, Albrecht
Manes, Alfred
Yusufzai, Baqi
Yusufzai, Olga Hlavaty
Afghanistan
Czechoslovakia
Nigeria
language instruction
émigrés
Interviewee: | Wells, Herman B |
Call number: | 71-007 |
Date(s) of Interview: | March 6, 1971; March 10, 1971 |
Physical Description: | 90 pp.; 4 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 215 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Clark, Thomas; Collins, Dorothy |
Herman B Wells, born 1902, died 2000, attended Indiana University as an undergraduate. After an initial career in banking, he returned to Indiana University to serve as a professor, Dean of the Business School, and then, the University's president. Wells primarily discusses his tenure as president, comparing his administration to that of William Lowe Bryan's and discussing the impact that other universities had on his management style, the teaching and roles of various professors, and the improvements and changes that came to Indiana University during his years as president.
Indiana Bankers Association
Indiana General Assembly
Indiana University Lilly Library
Kelley School of Business
Time
United Nations Relief and Works Agency
Bartley, E. Ross
Biddle, Ward G.
Briscoe, Herman T. "Kay"
Bryan, William Lowe
Coffman, Lotus
Edwards, Edward E.
Elliott, Edward
Harper, Fowler V.
Hastings, John S.
Hutchins, Robert M.
Jordan, David Starr
McKinley, Richard
McNutt, Paul V.
Swain, Joseph
Thompson, Stith
attorney
banker
dean
farmer
legislator
professor
teacher
university president
Marshall Plan
World War II
faculty clubs
intellectualism
lending acts
politics
rare books
retirement
salaries
self study survey
student leadership
universities
university finances
Interviewee: | Wilson, Lucia A. Showalter |
Call number: | 71-018 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 12, 1971 |
Physical Description: | 44 pp.; 2 reels, 3 3/4 ips, 105 minutes; no index |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Restricted |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara E.; Peterson, D. Scott |
Lucia Wilson, née Showalter, received an A.B. degree from Indiana University in 1922. She describes campus life and courtship with her future husband, Stuart Wilson. She also describes professors with whom she worked. Wilson compares her undergraduate days to those of 1947 and 1948, when she and her husband returned to Indiana University for graduate school.
Cosmopolitan Club
Culver Military Academy
Indiana University Alpha Hall
Lee, Higginson and Company
Radford Normal School
Bryan, William Lowe
Edmondson, Frank K.
Eigenmann, Carl H.
Rawles, William A.
Weatherly, Ulysses G.
Wilson, Stuart
Woodburn, Janet
Bloomington, Indiana
student health
student life
Interviewee: | Young, John L. |
Call number: | 71-016 |
Date(s) of Interview: | June 13, 1971 |
Physical Description: | 28 pp.; 1 reel, 3 3/4 ips, 65 minutes; index; photo of interviewee, brief biography of interviewee |
Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
Access Status: | Open |
Interviewer: | Benson, Barbara E.; Peterson, D. Scott |
John L. Young, born in 1899, earned his undergraduate degree from Indiana University in 1921, graduating with the university's first class from its School of Business. Enlisted in the military during World War I, Young went on to a very successful career as an engineer. Within the interview, iron ore mining, smelting, and the creation of steel are described. Young recalls Indiana University from his standpoint as a student, remembering William Lowe Bryan, Herman B Wells, with whom he graduated, the campus, diversity, and various academic requirements.
Alpha Tau Omega
Timken Roller Company
Bryan, William Lowe
Wells, Herman B
Bloomington, Indiana
Duluth, Minnesota
Evansville, Indiana
engineer
African-Americans
World War I
academic requirements
band
campus life
diversity
films
iron ore mining
steel production