Harnest, Grant Hopkins (faculty), March 18, 1986

1 interview with Grant Hopkins Harnest, Middlebury College Professor of Chemistry. Harnest discusses getting a masters in Chemistry at Middlebury; changes in the Chemistry faculty in the 40's; salaries for professors; being an assisting professor; tenure; trustees; building homes; President Bates; how much time he spent with the students; new faculty; administration faculty relations; balancing research and teaching; buying equipment; President Stratton; Stratton's financial priorities; lack of funds for laboratories; President Armstrong; differences in salaries for professors; differences in chairmen in the past vs. today; department interworkings; changes with Armstrong; being chairman for the planning committee for science development; adminstration fund raising; building the science complex; expanding the student body; students turning away from science after Vietnam War; design of the science building; Starr Library; Science library; comparing Middlebury to other little Ivys; need blind; economic makeup of the students; and contact with the students.