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Interview #117: Young, H. Edwin

UW-Madison TEI edition, March, 2010

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Young, H. Edwin (1917- )
[Oral History Program interview with H. Edwin Young, 1977. First interview of five]
number 117
number 117
number 117
number 117
number 117
(Teaching assistants strike of 1970)
University of Wisconsin, 1977

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Contents

[Title Page]

[abstract]

First Interview

Second Interview

Third Interview

Fourth Interview

Fifth Interview

First Interview Session (June 21, 1977): Tapes 1-2

00:00:02–00:02:24 Introductory remarks about leaving Bascom Hall.

00:02:24–00:03:31 Amount of time and attention devoted to...

00:03:31–00:05:00 Thinks Mulvihill recommendations should...

00:05:00–00:05:46 Discussion of desirable faculty contact hours.

00:05:46–00:11:15 Madison campus not faced with problem of...

00:11:15–00:12:04 Dual function of TAA in its beginnings.

00:12:04–00:14:06 Wasn't particularly, or doesn't remember...

00:14:06–00:17:17 Also doesn't particularly remember the...

00:17:17–00:19:34 Student union can't be a bona fide trade...

00:19:34–00:23:48 Comments on fact that TAs now trying to...

00:23:48–00:25:44 EY's relations with faculty—there was...

00:25:44–00:27:35 Why he waited a week after the first...

00:27:35–00:29:40 His understanding of the right to strike...

00:29:40–00:31:31 Comments on the real intentions of the...

00:31:31–00:32:48 More on TAA leadership’s intentions....

00:32:48–00:35:29 Discussion of language used in bargaining...

00:35:29–00:36:40 Extent of Bucklew's keeping in touch with...

00:36:40–00:41:23 Comments on Arlen Christenson....

00:41:23–00:45:48 Response to Christenson's remark that...

00:45:48–00:46:14 Bargaining took so many months because...

00:46:14–00:49:12 Question of Jim Stern's judgment of stand...

00:49:12–00:50:48 How Stern was hired....

00:50:48–00:53:19 Question of how much you can afford to...

00:53:19–00:57:45 EY's view at the time (he assumes) of...

00:57:45–00:59:15 Analysis of Teamster's position.

00:59:15–01:00:25 EY used to go and talk with the pickets...

01:00:25–01:02:28 EY never allowed any list of disrupters...

01:02:28–01:02:58 The injunction was important; the strike...

00:00:04–00:01:38 EY continues talking about violence during...

00:01:38–00:02:42 The things EY had to worry about—the...

00:02:42–00:04:48 Did he ever worry about losing control?...

00:04:48–00:05:51 LS trying to get to the bottom of contrast...

00:05:51–00:10:07 On Feinsinger. He loves the UW above...

00:10:07–00:10:40 Importance of making one's own decision...

00:10:40–00:14:41 On EY's parents. He was independent from...

00:14:41–00:21:54 Suspended sentences were held for about...

00:21:54–00:28:12 Question about compunctions in regard to...

00:28:12–00:29:00 Never know what may arouse students; they...

00:29:00–00:31:23 Thinks TAs more trade union-minded now...

00:31:23–00:33:16 EY continues talking about TA teaching...

00:33:16–00:36:15 Ed Krinsky left because didn't like being...

00:36:15–00:38:00 TAs' emphasis on undergraduate teaching...

00:38:00–00:39:47 EY's opinion of significance of TAA on...

SECOND INTERVIEW (May 23, 1978): Tapes 3-4

00:00:07–00:02:35 Why EY came to UW. Here as a graduate...

00:02:35–00:03:45 Department needed someone in labor...

00:03:45–00:15:31 School for Workers established in 1926...

00:15:31–00:16:54 On Fayette Elwell, Bob Fleming....

00:16:54–00:17:31 Finnish girl at School for Workers.

00:17:31–00:20:55 The issue of economics becoming part of...

00:20:55–00:31:21 Q. re EY's efforts to get more money for...

00:31:21–00:32:21 Morton's attack on Groves, supported by...

00:32:21–00:32:38 Quarrels in department were not taken...

00:32:38–00:34:32 Students had to take Morton's course...

00:34:32–00:35:48 EY comments on what such people can do...

00:35:48–00:39:11 The hiring of Guy Orcutt....

00:39:11–00:41:20 Bob Lampman brought here on EY's salary...

00:41:20–00:42:41 Bill Sewell was leader in pushing for...

00:42:41–00:44:18 Resentment at control of place by biologists...

00:44:18–00:45:09 EY was interviewed for associate deanship...

00:45:09–00:48:27 EY bored by building program....

00:48:27–00:51:35 EY, as chairman of department, was chairman...

00:51:35–00:54:47 Ag school puts a lot of energy into...

00:54:47–00:55:33 Department of Planning and Construction...

00:55:33–00:56:42 EY's efforts to get bus shelters when he...

00:56:42–00:59:42 Cars on campus issue....

00:59:42–01:02:17 Most good things around here were due to...

00:00:00–00:01:00 Young does not believe the front and back...

00:01:00–00:01:16 The issue was not whether the structure...

00:01:16–00:02:33 Rudolph Langer, professor of mathematics...

00:02:33–00:03:40 The center not only aided the UW's math...

00:03:40–00:06:23 When E.B. Fred announced his retirement...

00:06:23–00:07:17 Harrington and Elvehjem became the two...

00:07:17–00:09:07 The regents selected Elvehjem by a narrow vote.

00:09:07–00:09:37 At the same time they appointed Elvehjem...

00:09:37–00:09:46 Elvehjem was a good president to work...

00:09:46–00:10:24 In his year as president, he was deeply...

00:10:24–00:12:03 Elvehjem died in the summer of 1962...

00:12:03–00:14:39 Jacob Friedrick and Gelatt (of Board of...

00:14:39–00:16:20 EY has doubts that Governor Gaylord Nelson...

00:16:20–00:17:01 At the time, EY knew Harrington well...

00:17:01–00:17:43 At first EY believed Wendt was only...

00:17:43–00:18:41 EY has been at the UW long enough to know...

00:18:41–00:19:46 EY was selected dean of L&S while he was...

00:19:46–00:22:09 He became dean at a time when the college...

00:22:09–00:22:26 Leo Jakobson, director of campus planning...

00:22:26–00:24:04 Jakobson had a total concept of what the...

00:24:04–00:25:20 Jakobson left the UW and was succeeded...

00:25:20–00:25:48 In his first years as chancellor, EY...

00:25:48–00:28:31 Warren Knowles was supportive of the UW...

00:28:31–00:29:17 The 1969-70 protest period put the UW...

00:29:17–00:30:37 Many UW-related individuals have gone to...

THIRD INTERVIEW (December 16, 1981): Tapes 5-6

00:00:06–00:01:00 On Milton Friedman. Reasons for his departure.

00:01:00–00:03:44 Walter Morton.

00:03:44–00:06:11 The Groves-Morton-Evjue affair.

00:06:11–00:07:27 Morton and Elwell.

00:07:27–00:07:50 Conflicts in the department were not...

00:07:50–00:09:38 How EY became Selig Perlman's TA....

00:09:38–00:13:10 Ed Witte, Martin Bronfenbrenner.

00:13:10–00:13:53 Morton's relations with new department members.

00:13:53–00:14:57 How salary decisions were made in the...

00:14:57–00:16:08 More on Groves and CED affair.

00:16:08–00:16:59 Perlman and Morton.

00:16:59–00:24:23 EY describes Perlman and Witte....

00:24:23–00:28:45 Department's reception of Keynesian...

00:28:45–00:30:17 William Evjue, the Capital Times.

00:30:17–00:31:30 Morton and Elizabeth Brandeis.

00:31:30–00:35:20 Faculty and graduate student social life...

00:35:20–00:39:51 The Industrial Management Institute...

00:39:51–00:40:19 E.B. Fred, Ullrickson, and the School...

00:40:19–00:44:35 Fred's efforts on behalf of academic...

00:44:35–00:46:41 How administrative files have changed.

00:46:41–00:48:17 Erwin Gaumnitz.

00:48:17–00:50:53 More on Fayette Elwell.

00:50:53–00:52:11 EY's directorship of School for Workers in IRRI.

00:52:11–00:54:43 Hiring of Bob Ozanne....

00:54:43–00:56:26 Why Fleming left. Elwell frustrating...

00:56:26–00:58:52 IRRI. German students....

00:58:52–01:00:20 EY went to Europe. Reed Tripp.

01:00:20–01:03:02 Nathan Feinsinger. His personal life...

00:00:01–00:01:30 More on Feinsinger as mediator....

00:01:30–00:04:20 IRRI. Management Institute never achieved...

00:04:20–00:06:20 Economics department's hiring in the...

00:06:20–00:10:19 Ingraham's help to department....

00:10:19–00:12:27 Department's agreement to put aside...

00:12:27–00:15:18 Lescohier. Earley found Pete Steiner...

00:15:18–00:17:53 Gerry Somers another "great catch....

00:17:53–00:19:55 Earley, Steiner, and Young discussed need...

00:19:55–00:22:12 EY's talk with Sumner Slichter at Harvard...

00:22:12–00:24:19 Steiner a student of Orcutt's The boost...

00:24:19–00:25:34 More on the financial arrangements and...

00:25:34–00:28:26 Orcutt's scheme. EY didn't think he'd...

00:28:26–00:29:42 EY's story of getting Bob Lampman....

00:29:42–00:31:01 EY says ideas on improvement of department...

00:31:01–00:31:25 Goldberger.

00:31:25–00:32:47 The congeniality of the department after...

00:32:47–00:38:21 Orcutt. Why he failed....

00:38:21–00:43:36 The problem with statistics....

FOURTH INTERVIEW (June 18, 1987): Tapes 7-8

00:00:04–00:02:20 Edwin Young relates the creation of the...

00:02:20–00:03:58 Neither the manufacturers’ association...

00:03:58–00:04:53 EY became the “caretaker” of the IRRC...

00:04:53–00:05:31 EY initially opposed the establishment...

00:05:31–00:09:56 He describes the transformation of the...

00:09:56–00:13:56 The dean of the business school, then...

00:13:56–00:18:11 EY relates a story about how he became...

00:18:11–00:19:14 He describes how UW hired him with the...

00:19:14–00:21:03 Fleming and Selig Perlman asked EY to...

00:21:03–00:23:14 He talks about the separation of the IRRC...

00:23:14–00:25:00 Nathan Feinsinger of the law school was...

00:25:00–00:32:41 Fleming created a program to bring in...

00:32:41–00:36:36 Budget support for the IRRC came from...

00:36:36–00:37:54 EY left the directorship of the IRRC in...

00:37:54–00:43:21 He describes his involvement in the IRRC...

00:43:21–00:46:38 EY discusses the shifting emphasis within...

00:46:38–00:53:35 Edwin Young describes the political...

00:53:35–00:55:50 He surveys the current state of the...

00:55:50–01:00:40 EY hopes that the IRRI will not be subsumed...

00:00:01–00:02:52 Edwin Young lists some key contacts for...

FIFTH INTERVIEW (February 6, 2006): Tapes 9-10

00:00:00–00:02:12 H. Edwin Young talks about Arlen Christenson...

00:02:12–00:04:14 Christenson did not consult him about...

00:04:14–00:05:34 EY explains why it was necessary to have...

00:05:34–00:09:28 He had been a teaching assistant under...

00:09:28–00:10:25 His personal TA experience influenced...

00:10:25–00:11:25 EY went along with Christenson’s decision.

00:11:25–00:13:25 He was anxious that the union’s principle...

00:13:25–00:18:16 EY describes the bargaining agreement...

00:18:16–00:18:32 He did not speak with state government...

00:18:32–00:21:12 He and Fred Harrington agreed to put off...

00:21:12–00:22:19 Some faculty blamed EY for subsequent...

00:22:19–00:23:11 TAA as a revolutionary organization.

00:23:11–00:26:59 He describes the attitudes of faculty...

00:26:59–00:27:36 Reactions of the math faculty.

00:27:36–00:30:08 Reactions of the economics department...

00:30:08–00:31:28 Union restrictions.

00:31:28–00:33:49 H. Edwin Young continues to talk about...

00:33:49–00:39:00 He discusses the problem of individual...

00:39:00–00:41:23 EY did not think the TAA was a solution...

00:41:23–00:42:42 He does not remember the process of...

00:42:42–00:45:02 He enjoyed being dean of the College of...

00:45:02–00:51:52 EY left the University of Maine to return...

00:51:52–01:03:14 He disliked serving as President of the...

00:00:06–00:03:48 H. Edwin Young and Judith Craig discuss...

00:03:48–00:06:14 He supported Title IX and affirmative...

00:06:14–00:07:48 Appointment of Cyrena Pondrom.

00:07:48–00:09:49 EY served as director of the School for...

00:09:49–00:16:47 He talks about being recruited to the...

00:16:47–00:17:08 EY describes his chairmanship of the...

00:17:08–00:21:29 He discusses hiring new faculty.

00:21:29–00:22:52 He describes Bob Doremus.

00:22:52–00:25:09 Comments on Reed Bryson.

00:25:09–00:28:02 EY recalls searching for accommodations...

00:28:02–00:30:34 He addresses the formation of new...

00:30:34–00:31:34 Recollections of the Sterling Hall bombing.

00:31:34–00:33:23 H. Edwin Young talks about his administrative...

00:33:23–00:33:57 He worked on a project advising the...

00:33:57–00:36:04 He also describes work in Kuala Lumpur.

00:36:04–00:43:06 Running the Center for Development.

00:43:06–00:44:26 Financial support for students in need.

00:44:26–00:46:49 EY returns to his discussion of the Center...

00:46:49–00:50:02 Current placement of his old office furniture.

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