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Interview #796: Weiss, Mareda

UW-Madison TEI edition, July, 2010

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Weiss, Mareda (1941- )
[Oral History Program interview with Mareda Weiss, 2006]
Number 796
(Sterling Hall Bombing)
University of Wisconsin, 2006

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Contents

First Interview Session (August 11, 2006): Tapes 1-2

00:00:06–00:01:39 Mareda Weiss was born in Chicago, Illinois...

00:01:39–00:02:24 MW describes her neighborhood, full of...

00:02:24–00:03:37 MW discusses her public school with a...

00:03:37–00:04:04 Father was an accountant and her mother...

00:04:04–00:05:20 MW lost her mother when she was 16, the...

00:05:20–00:06:36 She knew at an early age she would go to...

00:06:36–00:07:50 MW describes how she chose which school...

00:07:50–00:08:55 MW came to the UW in 1959 as a freshman...

00:08:55–00:10:09 MW describes student life while in Madison...

00:10:09–00:11:15 After her first year, MW decided she did...

00:11:15–00:12:40 MW started graduate school....

00:12:40–00:13:10 MW recalls where she was when Kennedy...

00:13:10–00:14:43 MW spent her summers working in a bank...

00:14:43–00:17:23 MW was living in an apartment with friends...

00:17:23–00:19:01 MW did not continue to take classes...

00:19:01–00:20:06 MW stayed at Gibson Grants for five years...

00:20:06–00:22:18 Applied for position in grad school...

00:22:18–00:26:19 MW describes the differences in the...

00:26:19–00:27:42 MW talks about stories from the riot days...

00:27:42–00:29:30 MW was doing system analysis and teaching...

00:29:30–00:31:30 In her spare time, she learned how the...

00:31:34–00:35:02 MW continues her discussion on the academic...

00:35:02–00:36:06 MW discusses how her position in the grad...

00:36:06–00:38:19 MW was volunteered to work on the committee...

00:38:19–00:40:45 MW was able to learn a lot about the...

00:40:45–00:43:22 MW describes what she feels are her major...

00:43:22–00:46:55 University’s grad school activity with...

00:46:55–00:48:57 MW describes the challenges she has faced...

00:48:57–00:51:29 MW’s mentors on campus: Reuben Lorenz...

00:51:29–00:53:16 The graduate school as the off campus...

00:53:16–00:55:01 The arrival of new Chancellors and the...

00:55:01–00:57:55 The climate for women on campus....

00:57:55–01:00:43 MW’s work with extension and WHA TV...

01:00:43–01:03:06 MW’s involvement in professional...

00:00:05–00:01:28 Mareda Weiss talks about her service on...

00:01:28–00:04:15 MW describes numerous higher education...

00:04:15–00:07:30 She discusses the honors and awards she...

00:07:30–00:08:42 She was the first woman and the first...

00:08:42–00:10:28 MW rarely encountered discrimination on...

00:10:28–00:16:23 She talks about her retirement and her...

00:16:23–00:17:06 MW says she has been fortunate to work at UW.

00:17:06–00:19:18 She talks about the impact of the Sterling...

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