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Contains 51 Results:
Interview with Robert (Bob) Matthews, 18 May 2016
Item — Box: 1, item: 45
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The University of Puget Sound Faculty Oral History project aims to document faculty responses to events that occurred on campus in the 1960s-early 2000s. Many of the interviews include multiple individuals.
Dates:
18 May 2016
Interview with Roberta Wilson and Lee Dawn Bowman, 12 May 2016
Item — Box: 1, item: 46
Scope and Contents
Roberta Wilson was a professor of Exercise Science from 1976-2005. Lee Dawn Bowman was an associate professor of Physical Education from 1975-86, as well as the Women's Athletic Director and Coach.The interview traces the development of the Physical Education program (with Athletics) into today's Department of Exercise Science. When Dawn and Roberta arrived in 1975 and '76, their positions required not only teaching but also a heavy load of coaching and administering women's...
Dates:
12 May 2016
Interview with Terry Cooney, 19 July 2016
Item — Box: 1, item: 47
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Terry Cooney was a professor of History and Dean from 1976-2006.An American intellectual historian, Terry came to the university in 1976, soon became a member of the Faculty Senate, served as Associate Dean for a time and then, having returned to the faculty, agreed somewhat reluctantly when President Susan Pierce called upon him to become Dean of the Faculty. He left in 2006, and he is still a Dean, though now of a much larger campus. He credits the Board of Trustees...
Dates:
19 July 2016
Interview with George Mills, 21 July 2016
Item — Box: 1, item: 48
Scope and Contents
George Mills was the Head of Admissions and Vice President.
Dates:
21 July 2016
Interview with Elisabeth Benard, 30 September 2016
Item — Box: 1, item: 49
Scope and Contents
Elisabeth Benard was a professor in Asian Studies and Religion, as well as the director of the Pacific Rim Asia Study Travel Program.
Dates:
30 September 2016
Interview with Suzanne Wilson Barnett, 28 September 2016
Item — Box: 1, item: 50
Scope and Contents
Suzanne Wilson Barnett was a professor of History at the University of Puget Sound.An historian of China and Japan, Suzanne Wilson Barnett critiques what has been achieved under the last three presidents of Puget Sound, and at the same time cautions against our usual habit of crediting the presidents with all the initiatives. On the contrary, the initiatives have come from all different parts of the campus community, especially, in regard to curriculum, from faculty and students...
Dates:
28 September 2016
Interview with Ronald Thomas and Mary Thomas, 21 September 2016
Item — Box: 1, item: 51
Scope and Contents
Ronald Thomas was President of the University of Puget Sound from 2003-2016. Mary Thomas was First Lady of the University of Puget Sound from 2003-2016. Looking back over the thirteen years of his presidency, Ron Thomas focuses on the decisions made in the context of town/gown relationships and their relation to the university’s arc of development as a national institution. The university’s strategic rise to classification by the Carnegie Foundation as a “national liberal arts...
Dates:
21 September 2016
Interview with Donald Duncan and Chris Myhre, 16 December 2015
Item — Box: 1, item: 52
Scope and Contents
Donald Duncan was the swimming coach and pool manager from 1956-1994. Chris Myrhe was the swimming coach and pool manager from 1994-Present.Don and Chris look back over the nearly six decades since Don was appointed Pool Manager for the opening of the Wallace Pool. From that time until now, pending the opening in September of the newer, bigger Wallace Pool, only two men have held the position of swim coach and pool manager: Don until 1994, and Chris from 1994 to the present....
Dates:
16 December 2015
Interview with Geoffrey Proehl, 21 December 2015
Item — Box: 1, item: 53
Scope and Contents
Geoffrey Proehl is a professor of Theater at the University of Puget Sound.What's recorded here is not so much an interview as Geoff's long thoughtful monolog which binds together what he has done in the Theater program and his choice of plays to direct and teach, including Twelfth Night, Chekhov's Seagull, and Angels in America, with his own more private intuitions of life and death. Characteristically, he finds the moments in the play where the action turns on the characters'...
Dates:
21 December 2015
Interview with Anneke (Johanna) Mason, 09 September 2015 - 14 September 2015
Item — Box: 1, item: 54
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Anneke Mason was born Johanna Vermeulen (1930) to Dutch parents on Java, where her father was a high school principal. When the Japanese invaded Indonesia, she and her family spent the war years in captivity, most of the time in a concentration camp deep in the jungle. In two interviews, Anneke narrates her memories of the deportations and forced marches (the subject of her poem, "lima, lima"), of the heat and the hunger, the death of prisoners, and the way the prisoners still managed to...
Dates:
09 September 2015 - 14 September 2015