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A People's University, image files
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Western Connecticut State University -- History.
Abstract
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Images used for Dr. Herb Janick's 2003 book on WestConn. Some images were not used in the final publication and most were taken from the WCSU Photographs and Miscellanea Collections, RG8
Date
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2003
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A People's University, Image Files, Final draft
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Western Connecticut State University -- Photographs.
Description
An account of the resource
55 images
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Images are from page 8, 9,20,21,32,35, 36, 37, 49, 58, 59, 72, 73, 74, 75, 89, 100, 101, 118, 119, 120, 121, 132, 135, 153, 158, 159, 172, 173, 174, 175, 179, 181, 182, 188, 190, 191, 205, 207, 208, 209, 222, 226 and 227
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Janick, Herbert F.
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2003
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Western Connecticut State University
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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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Oral History
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Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview.
Friel, Jack
Interviewee
The person(s) being interviewed.
Wagner, Neil
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
Running Time: 90 min
Time Summary
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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)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Danbury (Conn.)--History
Description
An account of the resource
Tape stock length: 90 min
Running Time: 90 min
Abstract
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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
Creator
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Friel, Jack -- interviewer
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1976
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Jack Friel University History Collection, MS004
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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
The person(s) being interviewed.
Haas, Dr. Ruth
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
Running Time: 75 min
Time Summary
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0-10 Min: started at WCSU in 1931 as dean of women; appointed president in 1946, first women in the U.S. to hold such a position; took job here because as a political science major in 1931 she did not have much of a future in that field; fond memories of living in Fairfield Hall with the students; one of her duties was to find suitable off-campus housing for students who were not living on campus;
10-20 Min: anxious to always be expanding to attract a larger variety of students; wanted from very early on to make WCSU a co-ed college; wanted the earlier male students to act as if every woman on campus were his little sister; recalls that WCSU got a decent amount of students who were originally bound for the ivy league but could no longer afford it due to the depression; state would offer a complete free ride to any student who promised to teach for two years in a rural area after graduation, this again was a by-product of the depression;
20-30 Min: intensive training program, a program devised for college graduates that took one year of schooling to become qualified teachers; around 1960 WCSU began to attract a portion of students from New York because it was easier and cheaper to commute to Danbury rather than New York City; addition of more technical two-year programs created to serve the changing industrial needs of the greater Danbury area; familial nature of the student/teacher relationship and how it influenced the creation of do-day;
30-40 Min: origins of do-day continued; Dr. Haas made it a point to interview every potential student and teacher to determine if the person would be a good social fit for WCSU; felt she needed this level of personal contact to allow her to perform her job effectively; origins of the music program at WCSU
40-50 Min: Dr. Haas began to realize that WCSU would fail to exist if they merely offered liberal arts and teaching degrees; such areas as nursing and business administration; difficulties in placing black teachers in rural areas; lack of diversity was due to lack of applications; her college baseball career and the development of the athletics programs at WCSU
50-60 Min: her motto on the athletic programs was that if it could not be fully funded and supported by the school then WCSU should not advocate a sport;
60-70 Min: memories of staff that made impressions on Dr. Haas; the construction of the new campus is an issue that Dr. Haas feels needs to and will be completed;
70-80 Min: touts the amount of curriculum expansion that WCSU has engaged in over the years; laments the speed with which WCSU has outgrown its current facilities;
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Haas, Dr. Ruth A. parts 1- 2 (tape #1)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Danbury (Conn.)--History
Western Connecticut State University
Description
An account of the resource
Tape stock length: 90 min
Running Time: 75 min
Abstract
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Dr. Haas opens by explaining how she came to be at WCSU, her original job title, and the duties that it entailed. She then talks about what she accomplished during her time as president of the college and what she wishes she could have completed before she retired.
Label Contents: 09/15/1976, 09/20/1976
Creator
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Friel, Jack -- interviewer
Date
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1976
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Athletics
Do-day
Music
Ruth Haas
Westside Campus
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Jack Friel University History Collection, MS004
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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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Donnelly, Alice (Dr.)
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
Running Time: 40 min
Time Summary
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0-10 Min: Interview is barely audible - origins of the name "Old Main"; Student attitudes in 40s and 50s; teacher do's and do-day;
10-20 Min: athletic program development; intramural programs;
20-30 Min: the nature of the lack of athletic program development;
30-40 Min: West Side campus; gym uniforms;
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Donnelly, Dr. Alice part 2 (tape #7, side b)
Subject
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Danbury (Conn.)--History
Western Connecticut State University
Description
An account of the resource
Tape stock length: 90 min
Running Time: 40 min
Abstract
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Health education professor who came to the school in 1948 and stayed until the early 1970's (most of the interview is inaudible)
Label Contents: 12/1/1976
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Friel, Jack --interviewer
Date
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1976
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Do-day
Dr. Alice Donnelly
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Jack Friel University History Collection, MS004
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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
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Interviewer
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Cook, Dr. Burton
Interviewee
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Friel, Jack
Duration
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Running Time: 37 min
Time Summary
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-10 Min: talks about the tunnels connecting the WCSU buildings; talks about the founding of do-day, the idea came from UConn having a similar day called Connecticut day; do-day projects were determined by a committee; interview cuts out
10-20 Min: talks about the differences in college life between the 1930s and 1970s; talks about the rise of individualism on the campus; interview cuts out; talks about the 1960s cultural revolution as it affected WCSU
20-30 Min: talks about the expansion and founding of various departments; specifically how the science, history departments grew
30-40 Min: Dr. Cook's wife, Peg, talks about the relationship between the faculty wives; interview cuts out
40-50 Min: talks about how in his tenure as dean, Dr. Cook would make the entire schedule; interview cuts out
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Cook, Dr. Burton parts 3-4 (tape #33. sides a/b)
Subject
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Danbury (Conn.)--History
Description
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Tape stock length: 60 min
Running Time: 37 min
Abstract
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Dr. Cook talks about the tunnels connecting the various buildings and how students would use them to walk to class during particularly snowy winters. Dr. Cook also expounds on how the idea of departments first started and how they grew. Dr. Cook's wife, Peg, talks about how the faculty wives got along and about the club that they started together
Label Contents: 12/20/1976
Creator
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Friel, Jack -- interviewer
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
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Do-day
Student life
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https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/omeka/files/original/Jack_Friel_University_History_Collection_MS004/2181/tape_04.mp3
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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
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Collins, Francis
Interviewee
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Friel, Jack
Time Summary
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0-10 Min: Mother and sisters all graduated from the Danbury Normal School; tuition for Mr. Collins was 10 dollars a semester in 1951; his wife went to WCSU while he was in the army; WCSU was viewed as a local college for those who could not get into any other college; recalls a three week interim program in which WCSU closed down and had its students work at internships; refers to the quonset huts being used as permanent facilities at WCSU; recalls male/female ratio was slightly tipped in favor of females; talks about Neil Wagner and the expansion of WCSU sports; Do day: a day when all the students would help to clean the campus;
10-20 Min: Describes associations with projects initiated at WCSU; served in the State legislature starting in 1967; minority leader in 1971; majority leader in 1973; State legislature having a great respect for Dr. Haas; West Side campus plans formulated in 1969 with the first appropriations of state funds to find a location; from 1969-1974 budgets included steadily increasing dollar amounts for WCSU; In 1974 several of WCSU's key advocates left the state legislature - one for congress - another was appointed a judge, and Mr. Collins decided not to run again; as a result of the plans for the West Side campus, WCSU administration opted not to improve the midtown campus
20-30 Min: Reputation that Dr. Haas fostered between Danbury and WCSU; Athletics programs at WCSU; Dr. Haas was an advocate for the whole state college system not just WCSU; until 1971 there was only a nominal tuition fee throughout the state; Addition of a higher tuition resulted in marches on the capitol; Race situation at WCSU
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Collins, Francis (tape #4, sides A)
Description
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Tape stock length: 90 min
Running Time: 29:16 min
Abstract
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Recording starts with interview in progress with Mr. Collins recounting his childhood memories of WCSU, as well as his time as a student at the University. He speaks of his work in the state legislature and how he and several others would help WCSU and all state colleges obtain better funding
Label Contents: 9/22/1976
Creator
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Friel, Jack -- interviewer
Date
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1976
Subject
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Danbury (Conn.)--History
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
1f0b6551-77ee-438f-b105-b70c770353cc
Athletics
Do-day
Ruth Haas
Westside Campus
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https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/omeka/files/original/Western_Connecticut_State_University_Photographs_and_Miscellanea_RG8/1347/RG008_Fairfield0001.tif
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Western Connecticut State University Photographs and Miscellanea, RG8
Description
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This is a collection of photographs and realia spanning the history of Western Connecticut State University. The collection includes images and objects that document the growth, evolution and public profile of the institution.
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Western Connecticut State University
Western Connecticut State University. Archives and Special Collections
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UUID
d67bbcf8-05c1-405b-a8ee-e0c64144a353
Still Image
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Title
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Do Day, Danbury Teachers College
Subject
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College students
Description
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3x 5" x 8"
Abstract
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Students around Fairfield Hall during Do Day clean-up.
Date
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1948
References
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<a href="http://simpson.edu/library/archives-special-collections/college-archives/campus-day-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An article from Simpson College about the history of their Campus Day (similar to WCSUs do-day).</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_service#Colleges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An article from wikipedia about community service.</a>
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
18f6adec-2014-4d42-909b-3f257eb989d3
Danbury State Teachers College
Do-day
Fairfield Hall
HIS148