Tufts, Dr. John part 3(tape #26 side a)
Tape stock length: 60 min
Running Time: 19 min
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
1976
Friel, Jack
Tufts, Dr. John
Running Time: 19 min
-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;
Tufts, Dr. John parts 1-2 (tape #25 side a/b)
Tape stock length: 60 min
Running Time: 60 min
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
1976
Friel, Jack
Tufts, Dr. John
Running Time: 60 min
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;