UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON ARCHIVES
ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

Interview #18
CHALKLEY, GLADYS B.

CHALKLEY, Gladys B. (1891-1979)
Undergraduate Student, Home Economics
At UW: 1910-13

Interviewed: 1976	
Interviewer: Donna Taylor
Length: 1 hour

Background; Faculty; Courses; Field of home economics; Athletics; Sororities; Alumnae activities; Protests of 1960s; Red Gym; Student teaching; Teaching at Central High; Campus and national politics; UW presidents; YWCA and YMCA; Separation of vocational from academic schools; Later career; Feelings as professional woman; Women at present.  
 
Tape 1/Side 1

00:00:14	Background, childhood.

00:01:48	Why she came to UW as sophomore in 1910.  Lived in Madison.

00:02:20	Transferred from history major to home economics major in College of Agriculture.

00:02:55	Talks about faculty--Alice Loomis.

00:05:09	Lathrop Hall.  Dean Matthews.  Marge H'Doubler.  University mixers.

00:06:43	Alpha Gamma Delta, her sorority. Numbers in freshman chemistry.  Heads of department taught beginning courses.  Other required courses.

00:08:16	Benny Snow, physics teacher.  His preparations.  His famous lecture on snowflakes.

00:10:09	Many women took physics; many more men, of course.

00:11:13	Home economics a field in which women had room to move.  Discussion of field.

00:14:43	Pre-game rallies.  Lovely spots on campus.

00:15:53	Sky rocket for professors.  Carl Russell Fish; Dr. Sellery.

00:16:39	Going through old programs.  Farm and Home Week.

00:17:54	Lois Kimball Matthews, dean of women.  Her history of AAUW.

00:19:02	Miss Zuill, a friend, succeeded Miss Marlatt.

00:19:46	GC's first teaching job--at Central High.  Then to Platteville Normal.

00:21:00	Comments about California educational system.

00:22:34	About dual system here--vocational schools separate from others.

00:25:46	Subsequently taught at Montana and Ohio State.

00:28:11	Areas covered by home economics.

00:30:42	End of side.

Tape 2/Side 1

00:31:15	Athletics chief source of University spirit in GC's time.

00:32:29 	On interest in politics--campus and national.

00:33:31	Her interest in women's suffrage.

00:34:25	Women's athletics, a good deal among sororities--basketball, tennis, canoeing.

00:36:46	Old Armory.

00:38:22	Alumni activities.  Attitude of alumni to protest movement in sixties.

00:44:27	Importance of YWCA and YMCA.

00:46:01	Attitude of sorority members to dictation of policy by administration.

00:48:44	For student teaching, practiced on each other.

00:51:00	Went to Columbia for Ph.D.

00:51:49	Building dormitories at Montana.

00:54:59 	Some talk about various presidents.

00:57:17	Discusses her feelings as professional women.  Was dean of home economics at Ohio State.  Women at present.

1:00:25	End of interview.

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