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Oral history interview with Ruth Miller
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Miller discusses her family background and childhood in Indiana, her college education, and the education and career of her husband Leon Miller, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at La Cro...
Miller discusses her family background and childhood in Indiana, her college education, and the education and career of her husband Leon Miller, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse from 1926-1967. She offers her impressions of several university faculty and also mentions the Campus Dames organization.
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- Creator
- interviewed by Howard Fredricks
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- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
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- 1977 Oct. 6
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- 1 audiotape reel (approximately 90 min.) : analog, 3 3/4 ips ; 7 in.+ 2 audiocassette + 1 DVD-ROM (sound ; 4 3/4 in.)
- OCLC
- ocm46418712
- Family ancestry, German and English--Growing up in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, early 1900s--Pursuing college, Physical Education, 1916-1920, Normal College of the American Gymnastics Union, Indianapolis, Indiana--Teaching career after college and meeting Leon Miller, Peoria, Illinois, 1920s--Marriage to Leon Miller, 1924--Memories of World War I, 1904-1918--Memories of parents and childhood home, Lawrenceburg, Indiana, early 1900s--Importance of religion in the family--Struggles with living on a teacher's salary and raising a family, Peoria, Illinois, 1920s--Moving to La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1925--First impressions of La Crosse, Wisconsin--Classification as a member of La Crosse Normal School (1925)--Meeting Faculty members at La Crosse Normal School, Clayton A. Whitney (later Vice-President, La Crosse Teachers College), 1925--Characteristics, opinions on faculty members and spouses, La Crosse Normal School: Everette L. Walters (taught 1920-1958), William Laux (taught 1922-1963) and wife Claire, Albert H. Sanford (taught 1909-1936) and wife, David O. Coate (taught 1909-1938) and wife, Hans Rueter (taught 1920-1956) and wife Ella--Book review meetings, La Crosse Normal School faculty and spouses, 1925--Campus Dames Club, faculty wives, La Crosse Normal School, 1925--Campus Dames Club, veteran appreciation events, World War Two (1939-1945)--Impressions, characteristics of La Crosse State Teachers College President George M. Snodgrass (1927-1939) and family, 1925--La Crosse State Teachers College Vice President Clayton A. Whitney (1915-1952) and wife, characteristics and opinions, 1925
Subjects
- Miller, Ruth
- Miller, Ruth, 1896-
- Wisconsin. State Normal School (La Crosse) -- History.
- Wisconsin. State Teachers College (La Crosse) -- History.
- Wisconsin State College (La Crosse) -- History.
- Wisconsin State University (La Crosse) -- History.
- Families.
- Education.
- Universities and colleges -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse -- Faculty.