UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON ARCHIVES
ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

Interview #172
ANDERSON, JOHN E.

ANDERSON, John E. (1915-99)
Professor of Physical Education
At UW: 1946-77

Interviewed: 1978	
Series: School of Education
Interviewer: Mark Van Pelt
Length: 2 hours, 4 minutes

Background; Career of father Charles Anderson in UW School of Education; Education and early teaching; Committees; "Publish or perish"; Specialization pressures; Doctoral program in physical education; Research; Compulsory vs. voluntary physical education; Facilities; Intramural program; Influence of athletics on curriculum; Women's physical education; Merger of men's and women's departments; Fate of boxing; Wisconsin's influence on American Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation; Comparison of students in 1940s vs. 1960s and 1970s; Faculty-student relationships.

Tape 1/Side 1

00:00:28	Family background; parents' teaching experience.

00:00:57	Father's early career (Charles Anderson).

00:02:13 	Relationship of School of Education and Department of Public Instruction; Warren Southworth.

00:03:33	Charles Anderson's influence on and concept of role of School of Education.

00:06:40	Charles Anderson's relationship to faculty.

00:08:05	Impact of Progressive Education at Wisconsin.

00:09:34	Early relationship of School of Education to local public schools; Phil Falk.

00:11:12	Influence of Charles Anderson on Department of Educational Methods.

00:13:00	Charles Anderson's role in making Wisconsin nationally known; role in National Education Association.

00:14:48	School of Education-Letters and Science relationship under Anderson; M. Willing, O. Barr, C. Ragsdale.

00:17:00	Charles Anderson's role in initiating elementary education program.

00:19:28	John Anderson's educational background; career desire.

00:21:40	Influence of Russell Rippy on John Anderson.

00:22:33	Appointment to Madison campus; public school teaching; Robert Nohr.

00:24:40	Experience as student at Wisconsin High School.

00:30:30	Participation on university committees.

00:31:11	End of side.

Tape 1/Side 2

00:31:12	Committees (conclusion).

00:33:43	Publish or perish; pressure from John Guy Fowlkes; response: "Fun With Games."

00:37:15	Double standard in publishing requirements.

00:38:18	Specialization pressures in physical education.

00:40:10	Development of and justification for doctoral program in physical education; Columbia University influence.

00:42:42	Reaction of faculty to doctoral program; influence of Bruno Balke; Leonard Larson charged with doctoral program development.

00:45:40	Early research efforts in physical education; Robert Francis; American Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.

00:51:13	Development of research program in phy ed department; J. Wolf, Larry Rurek.

00:55:49  	JA's view of role of physical education in higher education.
00:57:18	Compulsory vs voluntary physical education.

00:58:25	Development of facilities in physical education.

1:02:31	End of side.

End of Mp3 File.

Tape 2/Side 1

00:01:50	Organization of intramural program; Arthur Thomsen.

00:03:35	General vs professional faculty and program.

00:05:46	Changing nature of the phy ed major: public school.

00:12:44	Segregation of general and professional students; nature of curriculum.

00:14:53	Athletes in physical education; influence of athletics on curriculum; integrity of program.

00:21:25 	Women's phy ed program development.

00:24:43	Recent development of men and women's combined faculty; federal intervention; handling of merger of departments.

00:31:00	End of side.

Tape 2/Side 2

00:32:05   	The fate of boxing; boxing had become a "jamboree."

00:34:37   	Sports club program.

00:36:45	Impact of Wisconsin boxing incident on collegiate boxing.

00:37:47	Department of Public Instruction influence on physical education indirect.

00:42:26	Influence of Wisconsin on American Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation; Robert Nohr, Robert Francis, Larry Rarick.

00:46:29	JA's analysis of changing nature of student body, especially in physical education; comparison of students of 1940s and 1960s and 70s.

00:49:16	Faculty's relationships with students.

01:01:54  	End of side.

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