Dr. Jonathan Greenwald (interview); Creator: Greenwald, Dr. Jonathan; Interviewer(s): James Litwin and Eileen Curran; Interview location: Midtown campus; Running time: 55 min., Apr 29, 1998

Coverage: 1959-1998
Topics discussed : (side A): History of WestConn; transition from a Normal School to a college; Creating Humanities program; Personal schooling; Reasons for coming to WestConn; Humanities program; Great Brooks program and Columbia University program; evolution at Western; Literature in Humanities; Music and Art; Social Man; History of the Interdisciplinary Department; Program of the 1990s; Personal History; work experience, military experience; living in California; meeting his wife; deciding to go into teaching (side B): Change in students; business majors began to come to humanities classes disinterested; had few bad experiences w/ students; Truman Warner; considered him his best friend; Library committee; was asked by Dr. Haas to be chairman of the committee; library in Old Main didn't meet standards and needed to build one; suggested hiring an architect specializing in libraries to survey area; the library they got was a complete disaster; no one from the committee was invited to groundbreaking; Leaving WestConn; retired in 1985 and didn't return until after his wife died in 1991; came back at urging of Dr. Janick and Dr. Warner; Changes at WestConn; only connection to students through professors; Returning to WestConn; Hopes for WestConn; that it would continue to be better; Benefits of WestConn; great teachers; smaller classrooms; better connections w/ professors; Library and textbooks; New Library; will be building a swing space to house books while building new one; have to tear old one down and rebuild; should start this fall (1998); plans for a new science building are also in the works; School land; proposed to move campus to Fairfield Hills Hospital; felt there was enough land and space to do so; beautiful land; there was also a proposal to purchase land near Poverty Hollow Road in Newtown, but turned down; Westside purchased after other proposals failed; State attitudes towards WestConn; Final comments; his wife's death; return to WestConn