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Jack Friel University History Collection, MS004
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The Jack Friel University History Collection contains his research for a book about the history of Western Connecticut State College. Starting in 1976, under a grant authorized by the WestConn Foundation, Friel began to collect information about the history of then named Western Connecticut State College with the intended goal of writing the history of the college. Friel, who was a former graduate student, took on the task with the help of two students, Ronald Douglas and Sandy Connor. When it became apparent that he would be unable to accomplish his goal, he agreed to leave all the information he had collected with the school so the story could be told at later time.
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Friel, Jack
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McGrory, Dr. Kathleen
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Running Time: 17 min
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0-10 Min: origins of the writing lab; establishment of the writing majors: journalism, creative, and expositional; wants WCSU to offer as many courses of study as possible; faculty advisory council included representatives from each of the four state colleges; did not feel that the state colleges were in direct competition with each other; explains that WCSU felt entitled to the West Side campus because WCSU sat by throughout the 1960's while the other state colleges expanded physically;
10-20 Min: opening WCSU to the area population for organized events coordinated by community groups; creation of intern programs through the school; the legal trouble that was encountered in trying to establish intern programs;
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McGrory, Dr. Kathleen part 2 (tape #17 side a)
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Danbury (Conn.)--History
McGrory, Kathleen
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Tape stock length: 90 min
Running Time: 17 min
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Dr. McGrory talks in great detail about establishing new majors at WCSU, the writing lab, and internship programs. She also talks about the relationship between WCSU and the other state colleges
Label Contents: 11/1/1976
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Friel, Jack -- interviewer
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1976
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Dr. Kathleen McGrory
Westside Campus
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Jack Friel University History Collection, MS004
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The Jack Friel University History Collection contains his research for a book about the history of Western Connecticut State College. Starting in 1976, under a grant authorized by the WestConn Foundation, Friel began to collect information about the history of then named Western Connecticut State College with the intended goal of writing the history of the college. Friel, who was a former graduate student, took on the task with the help of two students, Ronald Douglas and Sandy Connor. When it became apparent that he would be unable to accomplish his goal, he agreed to leave all the information he had collected with the school so the story could be told at later time.
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Oral History
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Friel, Jack
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Whitcomb, Dr. Mervyn
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Running Time: 60 min
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0-10 Min: department head of music for ten years; details the expansion in the music program he saw during his time at WCSU;
10-20 Min: the majority of instruments at WCSU were privately bought( at the time of this interview); recalls that when he first arrived at WCSU there were not appropriate facilities for a music program, most notably that the classrooms allotted to the program were not sound-proofed;
20-30 Min: recalls that he was simply told one day that he was given the chair of the Music Department as opposed to a vote from within the department; details the specific music courses that education majors were responsible for;
30-40 Min: laments the lack of community awareness about the music program at WCSU;
40-50 Min: the impact of the Westside campus on the music department;
50-60 Min: personal banter;
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Whitcomb, Dr. Mervin part 1 (tape #20 sides a/b)
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Danbury (Conn.)--History
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Dr. Whitcomb talks about how the music program blossomed along with WCSU's expansion beyond that of a normal school.
Label Contents: 11/03/1976
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Friel, Jack -- interviewer
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1976
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Danbury Normal School
Music
Westside Campus
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Jack Friel University History Collection, MS004
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The Jack Friel University History Collection contains his research for a book about the history of Western Connecticut State College. Starting in 1976, under a grant authorized by the WestConn Foundation, Friel began to collect information about the history of then named Western Connecticut State College with the intended goal of writing the history of the college. Friel, who was a former graduate student, took on the task with the help of two students, Ronald Douglas and Sandy Connor. When it became apparent that he would be unable to accomplish his goal, he agreed to leave all the information he had collected with the school so the story could be told at later time.
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Oral History
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Friel, Jack
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Warner, Dr. Truman
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Running Time: 85 min
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0-10 Min: Junior board representative in the student government; 1938 Dr. Warner came to WCSU; had not graduated high school with the intent to enroll in college; was familiar with WCSU as he was a Danbury native; theorizes that most men at WCSU during this time period were there by default; talks about the change in tone WCSU underwent as a result of the influx of men; the influx of men caused an overhaul of the math and science departments at WCSU
10-20 Min: talks about Dr. Higgins' programs to improve science education at the elementary school level; recalls his hobby interest in his family history, but didn't connect his interest in his family history with the academic pursuit of history; Kay Agusto a professor at WCSU during Dr. Warner's undergrad years that helped him realize his calling to history;
20-30 Min: discusses the problems of being among the first men to enroll in the college; initially the men were part of the female athletic department and teams, along with a complete lack of housing for men; even with such a small number of men as early as 1940 men were elected as class presidents; the advantages of being a small college, the main focus being that field trips both sanctioned and unsanctioned to New York City to take in the culture that city had to offer;
30-40 Min: dinner for Lord Marley; an example of the type of formal events that WCSU would host during Dr. Warner's time as a student; Mrs. De Villafranca; music instructor during Dr. Warner's years; recalls that all students at WCSU be competent enough in music (reading, playing, singing) to teach it in the schools they would eventually work; recalls conflicts between the students and Mrs. Harrison, the theater director at WCSU, due to her conservative views to the point that students sometimes went over her head and put on plays without her assistance; recalls that drinking was forbidden, and remembers the opening of a student lounge that permitted smoking;
40-50 Min: graduated WCSU in 1941; began teaching at the consolidated school in Brookfield at the salary of $1,000/year; remembers hearing about the Pearl Harbor attacks on the way into work; the immediate impact of WWII on his and his peers lives;
50-60 Min: recalls the rationing that began almost immediately; spent three years in the army, upon returning to the U.S. he began teaching again in Old Lyme; recalls the resistance he met with when applying to Yale; recounts his transition into anthropology after he had completed his master's in history;
60-70 Min: offered the job of Director of Admissions at WCSU, which he took due to his parents health as well as a new school president in Westchester that drove most of the teachers out of it, Dr. Warner included; got the job roughly around 1957-58, but let it be known that he would prefer to teach, so he taught one class per semester for the first couple of years, until he switched jobs with a Mr. Wallrath in the social science department and began teaching full-time; discusses the close and fluid relationship between history and the social science majors as he sees it, that both benefit from the other;
70-80 Min: the general attitude of his generation in their ability to effect direct change vs the current generations feeling that why bother to strive for change, since you would not be able to effect it; recalls that even though the dorms were female only, men did not pause to enter the dorm and use the common rooms for whatever student purpose was required; recalls his generation having a greater concern for structure and that even if they did not like it they had more respect for a structure; feels that people unfairly judge schools like WCSU by comparing the WCSU of Truman Warner's student era to colleges from the current time period, rather than to other colleges of the same era; recalls the the small size of WCSU allowed him greater opportunities that would not have been possible at larger institutions.
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Warner, Dr. Truman parts 1/2 (tape #02 sides a/b)
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Danbury (Conn.)--History
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Tape stock length: 90 min
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Dr. Warner recalls his time as a student at WCSU and the type of education he received at the institution. The types of teachers he had while completing his undergrad work. Dr. Warner stresses the personal benefits he saw in attending such a college as small as WCSU was at the time.
Label Contents: 09/16/1976
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Friel, Jack -- interviewer
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1976
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Jack Friel University History Collection, MS004
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The Jack Friel University History Collection contains his research for a book about the history of Western Connecticut State College. Starting in 1976, under a grant authorized by the WestConn Foundation, Friel began to collect information about the history of then named Western Connecticut State College with the intended goal of writing the history of the college. Friel, who was a former graduate student, took on the task with the help of two students, Ronald Douglas and Sandy Connor. When it became apparent that he would be unable to accomplish his goal, he agreed to leave all the information he had collected with the school so the story could be told at later time.
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Oral History
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Friel, Jack
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Warner, Dr. Truman
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Running Time: 35 min
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0-10 Min: as a child, recalls his father had a business as a painter/general handyman, but his father was contracted to work on one of the dorms associated with WCSU; feels that for the greater Danbury area the college was perfect for the local schools who never wanted for teachers; notes that the lack of community involvement with the school is simply lack of community attendance at college events that are open to the public; feels that it is a failing on both sides, on the public a lack of follow-through and on the university for a lack of or misguided promotional efforts; feels their is a lack of state support that also causes the lack of awareness about what WCSU has to offer;
10-20 Min: feels that the large contingent of republicans that get elected and sent to Hartford from this area is a large factor in the lack of movement on the WestSide campus; Grant Finch, geography professor that Dr. Warner mentions because he was one of the few men on the staff at the time Dr. Warner was a student; Hazel Tobias was an art teacher that Dr. Warner feels she was another example of a terrific teacher at WCSU;
20-30 Min: recalls fondly his relationship with May Sherwood; feels that as the college expands its course catalog it is also expanding its ability to help and benefit the Danbury area; remarks that Mr. Friel should look for a textbook that Dr. Higgins wrote and that the Danbury schools used for a time;
30-40 Min: suggest that Mr. Friel research the effect of the massive growth on the attitudes and administration of the college;
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Warner, Dr. Truman parts 2/2 (tape #03 side a)
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Danbury (Conn.)--History
Western Connecticut State University
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Tape stock length: 90 min
Running Time: 35 min
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Dr. Warner closes the talks by discussing childhood memories of WCSU as well as the teachers he had while an undergrad at WCSU that made a lasting impression.
Label Contents: 09/16/1976
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Friel, Jack -- interviewer
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1976
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Jack Friel University History Collection, MS004
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The Jack Friel University History Collection contains his research for a book about the history of Western Connecticut State College. Starting in 1976, under a grant authorized by the WestConn Foundation, Friel began to collect information about the history of then named Western Connecticut State College with the intended goal of writing the history of the college. Friel, who was a former graduate student, took on the task with the help of two students, Ronald Douglas and Sandy Connor. When it became apparent that he would be unable to accomplish his goal, he agreed to leave all the information he had collected with the school so the story could be told at later time.
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Friel, Jack
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Warner, Mrs. Lewlyn
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Running Time: 60 min
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0-10 Min: first teaching job in Wilton; recalls taking correspondence classes in order to get her teaching certificate from WCSU; began teaching when she was just 18
10-20 Min: discussion of the teacher supervisors and their functions; how she got from Bethel to WCSU every day; remembers that when she got shifted from a 5th grade position to a 6th grade position that she demanded more money to teach the higher grade; remarks that she has lost respect for teachers due to their current day ability to strike, feels that they are losing sight of why they became teachers and doing a disservice to the children;
20-30 Min: Old Main was simply referred to as the Teacher's College, as that one building was the entire campus; all of her children went to WCSU; personal banter;
30-40 Min: personal banter about Mr. Friel's family; the location of Danbury High School was not originally White Hall but rather Fairfield Hall;
40-50 Min: personal banter about Mr. Freil's completion of his master's degree; discussion of Mr. Higgins personality and his abilities as a professor at WCSU; recalls him setting up a program for which rural area schools could get a kit with basic chemistry supplies and experiments for the children to do; she did her student training at the Locust Avenue School; during student teaching period the students did not report to the Normal School, with the exception of getting books from the campus; recalls the various penmanship courses and the fact that by the end of it a teacher had exquisite hand-writing at the cost of individuality
50-60 Min: When she began teaching children were legally obligated to attend school until fourteen years old; discussion of the ethics of skipping children ahead and sectioning children off based on academic abilities; discussion of the philosophy of methods of teaching and the discipline of students; became a teacher because she liked to learn, and that was one of the few ways she could pursue a higher education; recalls the possibility of a single man that graduated from the normal school with her, but cannot recall the name; possible name was Ralph Castleton;
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Warner, Mrs. Llewlyn parts 1/2 (tape #21 sides a/b)
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Danbury (Conn.)--History
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Tape stock length: 60 min
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Mrs. Warner recounts the experiences of being a teacher at 18 in the first half of the 20th century, as well as talking about being a resident of Danbury for such a long time and what changes she saw during that time.
Label Contents: 11/03/1976
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Friel, Jack -- interviewer
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1976
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Danbury Normal School
Llewlyn Warner
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Student life
Teaching
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Jack Friel University History Collection, MS004
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The Jack Friel University History Collection contains his research for a book about the history of Western Connecticut State College. Starting in 1976, under a grant authorized by the WestConn Foundation, Friel began to collect information about the history of then named Western Connecticut State College with the intended goal of writing the history of the college. Friel, who was a former graduate student, took on the task with the help of two students, Ronald Douglas and Sandy Connor. When it became apparent that he would be unable to accomplish his goal, he agreed to leave all the information he had collected with the school so the story could be told at later time.
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Friel, Jack
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Wagner, Neil
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Running Time: 90 min
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0-10 Min: Dean of extended services, which includes career and co-operative education programs; Captain of the WCSU basketball team in 1952 when he was a student; Co-operative education program that lets students work full-time jobs or internships for course credit; also beginning to offer classes that are not specifically geared towards a degree program, but rather are geared towards classes that help professionals hone their skills set; seminars for retirees to provide learning and activities not necessarily geared towards a degree program;
10-20 Min: evening program has an estimated enrollment of 3300 students; programs that were not previously offered at WCSU are being offered in concert with such schools as UCONN and Univ of Bridgeport at the WCSU campus to better service the region WCSU serves; recalls having to go through a series of interviews and exams to get admitted; once he was admitted he was mistakenly given a dorm room because administration had assumed that he was in fact a women;
20-30 Min: while going to WCSU Mr. Wagner lived with a family on Beaverbrook Road who's matriarch was the first women in Danbury to vote as well as the first one to get a hunting license; recalls that on the first day of classes he went to the Registrar's office and was simply handed a complete schedule of classes for the semester; recalls roughly 60-70 men in his freshman class; recalls the do-days he participated in during his time as a student;
30-40 Min: do-day led to a larger production called spring weekend that saw larger projects and Broadway play productions rather than just simple skits; the interim was program for freshman and sophomores for four weeks in February was an exploratory intern program;
40-50 Min: recollections of playing basketball for WCSU; the extent of the sports programs at WCSU; at the time football started up at WCSU Mr. Wagner was athletic director; the initial proposal was for a football club, which the board was not in favor of due to lack of administrative control; in the following spring the board began to build itself a legitimate football team;
50-60 Min: the ethnic make-up of Danbury, its large pockets of Portuguese and Syrian immigrants, WCSU has had an exceptional soccer team; at the time all of the varsity sports were financed by a $9 per student per semester fee;
60-70 Min: alumni association and funding of it, the alumni assoc wish to further increase the amount of scholarship money they can make available per semester; recalls receiving a 32 page booklet upon graduating that outlined every guideline and expectation for the first year teacher; anecdotes about Mr. Durgy the janitor at WCSU during the first part of the 20th century;
70-80 Min: feels that in order for WCSU to physically expand they need to provide for the community in such a way that the community demands expansion and not the college itself; the impact of the explosion in student populations, talks about the university attempting to institute a carpool among its commuter students;
80-90 Min: personal banter
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Wagner, Neil parts 1/2 (tape #05 sides a/b)
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Danbury (Conn.)--History
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Tape stock length: 90 min
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Mr. Wagner goes into great detail about every aspect of life at WCSU from both his time as a student and as an employee. He looks back with great fondness on his time as a student, and stresses the importance of maintaining those aspect of the college that made his experience here so memorable for future classes.
Label Contents: 9/24/1976
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Friel, Jack -- interviewer
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1976
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Jack Friel University History Collection, MS004
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The Jack Friel University History Collection contains his research for a book about the history of Western Connecticut State College. Starting in 1976, under a grant authorized by the WestConn Foundation, Friel began to collect information about the history of then named Western Connecticut State College with the intended goal of writing the history of the college. Friel, who was a former graduate student, took on the task with the help of two students, Ronald Douglas and Sandy Connor. When it became apparent that he would be unable to accomplish his goal, he agreed to leave all the information he had collected with the school so the story could be told at later time.
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Friel, Jack
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Vacha, Dr. Kathryn
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Running Time: 35min
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-10 Min: stresses the point that she is not an ardent feminist, due to the fact that she is spearheading the push for more women's studies courses at WCSU; general discussion of the women's movement and how she interprets it personally; the role of both genders in the days of the Danbury Normal School;
10-20 Min: influx of male teachers helped to improve the salary scale for female teachers; more discussion about the gender roles at WCSU in the early years;
20-30 Min: discussion of maintaining the graduate studies catalog; m.a. in oceanology, m.a. psychology, and m.s. in social sciences were being added at the time; how the growing student population affected the graduate program; from 1968-1969 the graduate population doubled;
30-40 Min: origins of the multiple commencement ceremonies which started in 1972;
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Vacha, Dr. Kathryn parts 2/3 (tape #14 sides a/b)
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Danbury (Conn.)--History
Western Connecticut State College
Description
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Tape stock length: 60 min
Running Time: 35min
Abstract
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Dr. Vacha continues her discussion of feminism and how she relates to and interprets the movement for her life. She talks about the impact of the expanding student population on the graduate program.
Label Contents: 10/13/1976
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Friel, Jack -- interviewer
Date
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1976
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UUID
5df3f9d6-5e50-493a-9bce-1413a4e16619
Danbury Normal School
Graduate program
Kathryn Vacha
-
https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/omeka/files/original/Jack_Friel_University_History_Collection_MS004/2265/tape_13_b.mp3
d4fc0a8fbde6f2e7faf2a18c9a529ef6
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Jack Friel University History Collection, MS004
Abstract
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The Jack Friel University History Collection contains his research for a book about the history of Western Connecticut State College. Starting in 1976, under a grant authorized by the WestConn Foundation, Friel began to collect information about the history of then named Western Connecticut State College with the intended goal of writing the history of the college. Friel, who was a former graduate student, took on the task with the help of two students, Ronald Douglas and Sandy Connor. When it became apparent that he would be unable to accomplish his goal, he agreed to leave all the information he had collected with the school so the story could be told at later time.
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fecd3d56-fcce-41c0-a6be-51e66108fef9
Oral History
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Interviewer
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Friel, Jack
Interviewee
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Vacha, Dr. Kathryn
Duration
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Running Time: 45 min
Time Summary
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0-10 Min: Assistant. Director of graduate studies and professor of education; B.A. from University of Iowa, Masters and PhD at Columbia;
10-20 Min: the time-line for WCSU name changes from Danbury state teachers college to Danbury state college in 1967 and western Connecticut state college in 1970; cooperative teacher education program between WCSU and the town of Darien, purpose was to help people with B.a.'s not in education get their teaching certificate; She both taught and supervised the program; ipcg= intensive program for college graduates. Another program was designed to help college graduates get their certification to teach elementary school. This program operated under the rule that those who completed it were required to teach in Connecticut for 1 year after completing the program;
20-30 Min: The sixth year certificate is a program that is a year longer than a masters degree program;
30-40 Min: personal banter not related to WCSU
40-50 Min: the development of courses pertaining specifically to women, courses that deal with the changing roles of both women and men in the current society; there was a program that was very much like the Darien one in Westport at the same time;
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Title
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Vacha, Dr. Kathryn part 1(tape #13 side b)
Subject
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Danbury (Conn.)--History
Description
An account of the resource
Tape stock length: 90 min
Running Time: 45 min
Table Of Contents
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Dr. Vacha talks about the many different ways in which WCSU offered certification programs for teachers. She also talks about WCSU and how it was dealing with the changing gender roles of the time period.
Label Contents: 10/13/1976
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Friel, Jack -- interviewer
Date
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1976
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6b809cf2-6b5f-48d8-9b2c-fb54ea6fdc28
Danbury State College
Danbury State Teachers College
Kathryn Vacha
-
https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/omeka/files/original/Jack_Friel_University_History_Collection_MS004/2264/tape_26_a.mp3
82a7e09e98ab4e91a6ab6487aeb72d86
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Title
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Jack Friel University History Collection, MS004
Abstract
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The Jack Friel University History Collection contains his research for a book about the history of Western Connecticut State College. Starting in 1976, under a grant authorized by the WestConn Foundation, Friel began to collect information about the history of then named Western Connecticut State College with the intended goal of writing the history of the college. Friel, who was a former graduate student, took on the task with the help of two students, Ronald Douglas and Sandy Connor. When it became apparent that he would be unable to accomplish his goal, he agreed to leave all the information he had collected with the school so the story could be told at later time.
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fecd3d56-fcce-41c0-a6be-51e66108fef9
Oral History
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Interviewer
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Friel, Jack
Interviewee
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Tufts, Dr. John
Duration
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Running Time: 19 min
Time Summary
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-10 Min: the growing student population creates a need for a larger full-time faculty staff; remembers that during his tenure he had to moonlight due to the poor pay at WCSU;
10-20 Min: the problems that the fast increase in student population has caused; the problems he faces in teaching classes as large as 80 students; the foundations of the writing lab; references a recent by-law that states that a teacher may withhold a grade until they feel the student has submitted work up to the college standard, in reference to the problem of student writing abilities at WCSU;
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Title
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Tufts, Dr. John part 3(tape #26 side a)
Subject
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Danbury (Conn.)--History
Description
An account of the resource
Tape stock length: 60 min
Running Time: 19 min
Abstract
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Dr. Tufts talks about the impacts of the student body population explosion the WCSU experience throughout the 1960s and the various impacts it had on the school.
Label Contents: 11/15/1976
Creator
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Friel, Jack -- interviewer
Date
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1976
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UUID
19572df6-7b20-4268-831a-8103702c856b
Danbury Normal School
John Tufts
-
https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/omeka/files/original/Jack_Friel_University_History_Collection_MS004/2263/tape_25.mp3
29b6e5597c14629aa3720bc0b4d23be1
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Jack Friel University History Collection, MS004
Abstract
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The Jack Friel University History Collection contains his research for a book about the history of Western Connecticut State College. Starting in 1976, under a grant authorized by the WestConn Foundation, Friel began to collect information about the history of then named Western Connecticut State College with the intended goal of writing the history of the college. Friel, who was a former graduate student, took on the task with the help of two students, Ronald Douglas and Sandy Connor. When it became apparent that he would be unable to accomplish his goal, he agreed to leave all the information he had collected with the school so the story could be told at later time.
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<a href="https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/findingaids/ctdbn_ms004_friel.xml">Link to finding aid.</a>
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UUID
fecd3d56-fcce-41c0-a6be-51e66108fef9
Oral History
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Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview.
Friel, Jack
Interviewee
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Tufts, Dr. John
Duration
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Running Time: 60 min
Time Summary
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0-10 Min: Public Relations officer for WCSU
10-20 Min: began as a high school teacher in New York then joined the navy, came back from the war and taught in Texas for two years then went back to Columbia to finish his education; talks about the growth of WCSU in every way and focuses on the steadily increasing drawing power that WCSU has; the various changes in scope that occurred at WCSU
20-30 Min: the operations of the faculty associations;
30-40 Min: the CSU system and how it interacted with state legislative boards as well as with each other
40-50 Min: sports at WCSU and how the lack of male students affected the development of the sports program; when Dr. Tufts took over public relations for WCSU in 1952 Dr. Haas was the only woman president of a co-ed college in the country and she refused to let him ever publish that fact; credits for common courses were supposed to be completely interchangeable, but each college should be allowed to have control of their individual area of specialty; Dr. Haas as her open door policy and long hours;
50-60 Min: each of the four state colleges had a public relations officer as did the state board of education and all five of these people would meet once a month;
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Title
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Tufts, Dr. John parts 1-2 (tape #25 side a/b)
Subject
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Danbury (Conn.)--History
Description
An account of the resource
Tape stock length: 60 min
Running Time: 60 min
Abstract
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Dr. Tufts talks about his time as the school's head of pr and the finer points of how the state colleges interacted with each other as well as the state. He also talks about Dr. Haas, her reputation and the sports programs at WCSU
Label Contents: 11/15/1976
Creator
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Friel, Jack -- interviewer
Date
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1976
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
3ea72640-8c37-4bdd-8e91-fcc5984449ba
Athletics
John Tufts
Ruth Haas