Economics -- Study and teaching

Scope and Contents Arthur saved notebooks and academic coursework from his years at Middlebury. Topics of study are English, Political Science, Economics, Geography, History, Shakespeare, and Administration. Also included in the collection are photos and content from his years at Middlebury as well as some reunions he has attended since. As he attended during WWII, while Arthur started at Middlebury in 1940, he took time off and graduated in 1949. The dimploma he recieved is included in the collection as...

Scope and Contents 1 interview with John V. Craven, Middlebury College Professor of Economics. Craven discusses his transition into Middlebury; economics; Eisenhower; working for Washington; Colgate; teaching graduate programs; getting his degree; President Stratton; Faculty publications; changes after Stratton; student faculty relationship; junior faculty; tenure; being invited to be chair; trying to grow the department; Marxism; capitalism; politics; running for state treasurer; comparing Stratton to other...

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Frances Hutner, Middlebury College class of 1940. During the interview, Hutner discusses her family connection to Middlebury; her father's time as faculty member at Middlebury; the economics major; select school for women; intellectual home life; politics; economics; farm issues; co-ops; campus social life; the relationship between Middlebury College and the town of Middlebury, Vermont; research interests; women's economic issues; The Economic Role of Women (1977); Equal Pay...

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Howard Munford, Class of 1934, and his wife, Marion Munford, Class of 1932, conducted by David Stameshkin at the Munfords' home. The Munfords discuss when they started working at Middlebury; why they chose to attend Middlebury; Eleanor Ross Dean of women; strictness on campus; gender segregation; President Moody; Cornwall's dismissal; Redfield Proctor; fraternities; social events; social groups; rushing; sororities; kappa kappa gamma; discriminatory fraternities; black...

Scope and Contents 1 oral history interview with David Kingsbury Smith (Class of 1942).Grew up in Pittsford Vermont (00:20); Great depression (:53); bank holiday (3:17); Middlebury College 1938 (6:30); schloarship and tuition (6:43); finding work during college/depression years (9:58); commencement 1942, World War II (13:32); army reserve in general terms 1943 (14:23); V-12 navy unit at Middlebury (14:40); daily chapel in Mead (16:27); Veterans of World War II coming as students after the war...

Scope and Contents 1 oral history interview with David Kingsbury Smith (Class of 1942) conducted by David Stameshkin on March 10, 1975. Arrives at Middlebury on scholarship in 1938 (00:35); Secondary education in 1930s (01:30); President Moody (02:36): Dean Ross in 1943 gives permission for David's wife to marry him (04:30); Dean Elizabeth Kelly (07:00); 1938 class size, Influence of President Moody and Dean Ross (09:00); Harry Fife (10:40); Waldo Hendrich (11:18); Moody during World War II...

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Geoffrey Wolff, writer and faculty member at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, conducted by Alison Kirk.Geoffrey Wolff retired 1981 (00:35); PhD, Chicago 1959, taught, Rollins College, Florida, for two years (01:30); dissertation at University of Chicago, received $3k grant, entrepreneurial history at Harvard research center (01:40); Sam Stratton asked Arthur Cole for names as faculty hires, Wolff hired informally with Walter Brooker (04:04); college needed...