Abstract The Randi Brye collection consists of two audiocassettes and the transcript of an oral history conducted between Brye and Connie Marker during the autumn of 1986. In the interview, a foreign language and world literature teacher at Central High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin, discussed her views on teaching, her experiences as a life-long learner, and how her role as an educator evolved during her career.This oral history interview was conducted as a requirement for a course...

Abstract The collection contains a typed copy of reminiscences by George Griffin written in the fall of 1941. Griffm focused on his numerous jobs. He recalled his youthful occupations and reminisced about working on a threshing crew, being a carpenter, running steam engines, and working in boiler rooms at various factories and mills located in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Griffin's activity with the Baptist Church, membership on the Board of Trustees for Pillsbury Academy, and his...

Abstract The Roger Higgs collection contains an audiocassette tape, a CD duplicate of the audiocassette, and transcript of an oral history interview conducted between Higgs and Julie L. Higgs during the fall of 1989. Roger Higgs began working as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in 1966. In the interview, he discussed changes in the role of the university teacher from 1966 to 1989. He noted changes in the institution’s curriculum, along with modernization and internalization,...