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    • Young, Leonard W.

    • Universities & colleges; College administrators
    • 106 minute oral history interview conducted with Young, Leonard W., Washington State College/University Agriculture - Experiment Stations. Topics include: Personal background. Professional career and duties, 1936-67. Recollections of early WSU...
    • Bushaw, Donald

    • Universities & colleges; Mathematics; Mathematicians
    • 112 minute oral history interview conducted with Bushaw, Donald, Washington State College/University Mathematics. Topics include: Personal background. Campus and math department as an undergraduate, 1943-1949. Campus changes over the years....
    • Hill, Alberta D.

    • Home economics; Universities & colleges; College administrators
    • 116 minute oral history interview conducted with Hill, Alberta D., Washington State College/University Home Economics - Dean. Topics include: Personal background. Education and career before coming to WSU. Career at WSU, 1969-83. Dean, 1975....
    • Cook, R. James

    • Agriculture; Universities & colleges; Biotechnology
    • 119 minute oral history interview conducted with Dr. R. James Cook, former dean of Washington State University's College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences. He speaks on his experiences growing up on a farm in Minnesota and...
    • Migaki, James

    • Universities & colleges; Students; Japanese Americans
    • 122 minute oral history interview conducted with Migaki, James, Washington State College/University Education. Topics include: Personal background. Undergraduate years, 1949-1951. Professional career at WSU, 1967-present. Stimson Hall and YMCA....
    • McDonough, Ellen

    • Universities & colleges
    • 128 minute oral history interview conducted with McDonough, Ellen, Washington State College/University Food Services. Topics include: McDonough's early life with sister Caroline Cooper, head of Duplicating and Mailing. Student career at WSC and...
    • Northrup, Catherine

    • Universities & colleges; Students; Women
    • 129 minute oral history interview conducted with Northrup, Catherine, Washington State College/University Dean of Women; Associate Dean of Students. Topics include: Personal background. Government Nursery School Project. Montevista schools until...
    • Ackley, William B.

    • Horticulture; Universities & colleges; College administrators
    • 143 minute oral history interview conducted with Ackley, William B., Washington State College/University Horticulture - Chair. Topics include: Development of landscape architecture program at WSU. Washington state's wine grape industry....
    • Smawley, Bob

    • College administrators; Sports & recreation facilities; Rogers Stadium Fire (1970); WSU Alumni Relations
    • 174 minute oral history interview conducted with former Washington State University student, administrator, and Alumni Association President Robert ""Bob"" Smawley. Interview recounts Robert Smawley's experiences as both student ('52) and...
    • Rasmussen, Lowell W.

    • Universities & colleges; Agriculture
    • 174 minute oral history interview conducted with Rasmussen, Lowell W., Washington State College/University Agronomy and Soils. Topics include: Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1948-75. Research and colleagues at WSU. Development of...
    • Hicks, Maynard

    • Universities & colleges; Journalism
    • 206 minute oral history interview conducted with Hicks, Maynard, Washington State College/University Communications. Topics include: Personal background. WSU career, 1937-72. Early work load. News Bureau. Student participation in newswriting. WSU...
    • Osburn, Orren E.

    • Universities & colleges; Engineering
    • 244 minute oral history interview conducted with Osburn, Orren E., Washington State College/University Electrical Engineering. Topics include: Personal background. Professional WSU career, 1922-1961. Electrical Engineering department - faculty,...
    • Fry, Richard B.

    • Universities & colleges; Sports; Journalism;
    • 278 minute oral history interview with Dick Fry, former Washington State University sports information director. Interview recounts Dick Fry's experiences as an employee at WSU. Positions held include Alumni Editor, Sports Info Director, and...
    • Buss, Irven 0.

    • Universities & colleges; Zoology
    • 29 minute oral history interview conducted with Buss, Irven 0., Washington State College/University Zoology. Topics include: Personal background. Professional career at WSU, 1948-73. Early years of Wildlife Biology. Personal research (elephants)....
    • Hix, Clarence L.

    • Universities & colleges; Teachers
    • 294 minute oral history interview conducted with Hix, Clarence L., Washington State College/University Administration - Finance. Alumni - Civil Engineering, 1909. Topics include: Personal biography. Early life in Spokane. Student days at WSC,...
    • Weller, Harry

    • Universities & colleges; Architects; Architecture; Land use
    • 396 minute oral history interview conducted with Weller, Harry, Washington State College/University Architecture. Topics include: Personal biography. Student days at WSC, 1919-23. Professional career at WSC and WSU, 1928-66. Discussion of the...
    • Deutsch, Lenna Baird

    • Biologists; Universities & colleges
    • 40 minute oral history interview conducted with Deutsch, Lenna Baird, Washington State College/University Bacteriology - Alumni, 1926. Instructor. Faculty Wife - Herman Deutsch, History. Topics include: Circumstances bringing Deutsch to WSC....
    • Gannon, Gertrude Bryan

    • Universities & colleges; College administrators; College presidents
    • 431 minute oral history interview conducted with Gannon, Gertrude Bryan, Washington State College/University alumni. Daughter of President E. A. Bryan. Topics include: Personal background-- Pullman and Boise. Exctensive selections on her father,...
    • Stone, Linda S.

    • Universities & colleges; Anthropologists
    • 49 minute oral history interview conducted with Stone, Linda S., Washington State College/University Anthropology - alumni. Professor. Topics include: Personal background. WSU career, 1981-present. Undergraduate years at WSU in the 1960s. Women in...
    • Elder, James

    • Psychologists; Universities & colleges; Experiments; Clinics
    • 53 minute oral history interview with for Washington State University Psychology Chair Dr. James H. Elder. He speaks about his early life when he farmed, how he met his wife, and his start in psychology. He also talks about his positions at...

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