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[Oral History Program interview with Porter Butts, 1979]
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Early years and education -- Experiences as undergraduate -- Union Vaudeville -- Frederic March -- Octopus -- Daily Cardinal -- Haresfoot -- Graduate studies in art history -- Origins of union idea...
Early years and education -- Experiences as undergraduate -- Union Vaudeville -- Frederic March -- Octopus -- Daily Cardinal -- Haresfoot -- Graduate studies in art history -- Origins of union idea at UW -- Early Union quarters -- Centennial Exposition -- Grid Graff -- Fund-raising -- Memorial Union Building Committee and Memorial Union trustees -- Memorial Union Council -- Self-government -- Life memberships -- Alumni association -- Harold Bradley -- Zona Gale -- Wisconsin University Building Corporation -- Union Planning Committee -- Objectives -- Constitution -- Building the Union -- Labor union troubles -- Equipping and furnishing the Union -- Union's use by women -- Early law suits -- Room names, decor, and uses -- Art gallery -- Craft shop -- Union programs and projects -- Hoofers outing club -- Building of the theater wing -- Uses of theater and Play Circle -- Foreign unions -- Butts's writings -- Renovation project -- Food service -- Wisconsin Center Building -- Projected high-rise building on Red Gym site -- Purchase of Lowell Hall -- Union South Project -- Updating Memorial Union -- Location of Vilas Hall and results -- Parking -- Kiosk -- Experimental College -- Porter's brother, Freeman -- Christian Abrahamsen and President Birge's portrait -- Henry Herman -- Relations with administration -- Vietnam protest years -- List of Union firsts -- Summation of successes and difficulties or failures -- Follow-up on students with Union training and experience -- Union as a cultural, social, leadership training center vs. a service center -- Prospects for Union's future.
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- audiocassettes (14 hrs.) : transcript (134 pages) : analog, 1 7/8 ips, monophonic and
- 1 transcript
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- ocn227212334
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- Interviewer, Donna Taylor Hartshorne
- Undergraduate and Graduate Student; Director, Wisconsin Union, at UW: 1920-73.
- Early years and education -- Experiences as undergraduate -- Union Vaudeville -- Frederic March -- Octopus -- Daily Cardinal -- Haresfoot -- Graduate studies in art history -- Origins of union idea at UW -- Early Union quarters -- Centennial Exposition -- Grid Graff -- Fund-raising -- Memorial Union Building Committee and Memorial Union trustees -- Memorial Union Council -- Self-government -- Life memberships -- Alumni association -- Harold Bradley -- Zona Gale -- Wisconsin University Building Corporation -- Union Planning Committee -- Objectives -- Constitution -- Building the Union -- Labor union troubles -- Equipping and furnishing the Union -- Union's use by women -- Early law suits -- Room names, decor, and uses -- Art gallery -- Craft shop -- Union programs and projects -- Hoofers outing club -- Building of the theater wing -- Uses of theater and Play Circle -- Foreign unions -- Butts's writings -- Renovation project -- Food service -- Wisconsin Center Building -- Projected high-rise building on Red Gym site -- Purchase of Lowell Hall -- Union South Project -- Updating Memorial Union -- Location of Vilas Hall and results -- Parking -- Kiosk -- Experimental College -- Porter's brother, Freeman -- Christian Abrahamsen and President Birge's portrait -- Henry Herman -- Relations with administration -- Vietnam protest years -- List of Union firsts -- Summation of successes and difficulties or failures -- Follow-up on students with Union training and experience -- Union as a cultural, social, leadership training center vs. a service center -- Prospects for Union's future