UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON ARCHIVES
ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

Interview #187
SOUTHWORTH, WARREN H.

SOUTHWORTH, Warren H. (1912-1999)
Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Preventive Medicine
At UW: 1944-1981

Interviewed: 1979		
Series: School of Education
Interviewer: Mark Van Pelt
Length: 2 hours
Transcript: 46 pages

School of Education in 1944; Deans John Guy Fowlkes, Lindley Stiles and Donald McCarty; Elementary Education program; Accreditation; Controversy; Programs in teacher education; Family background; Coming to UW; Course work in health education; Driver education; Civil defense work; Research; Faculty personalities.

Tape 1/Side 1   

00:00:00	Introduction.

00:00:30	Prefatory remarks.

00:01:40	Charles Anderson; John Callahan; situation of School of Education when Southworth came; Matthew Willing; joint appointments of faculty in Letters and Science and Education common; School's structure; men and women's physical education; Blanche Trilling; Marie Carns.

00:12:05	John Guy Fowlkes' administration; Arvil Barr; Fowlkes' character and style of administration; Margaret Ellingson; Ragsdale-Willing-Jensen controversy; Ira Davis; creation of business education program; creation of elementary education program; Lois Nemec; Virgil Herrick; Southworth's role on elementary education committee; inclusion of course "Health Information for Teachers"; analysis of Fowlkes' contribution; list of faculty Fowlkes brought in; examples of Fowlkes' personality.

00:29:30	Lindley Stiles' administration.

00:30:02	End of side.

Tape 1/Side 2

00:30:05	Wisconsin High School; growth of Department of Education in 1950s; reorganization of School of Education; Stiles encouraged research; Robert Francis; the NCATE (National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education) controversy in early 1960s; problems involved; John Mayor.  

00:40:10	Stiles' attempts to get new facilities for School.

00:41:20	Cooperative Educational Research Services; Fowlkes; Wisconsin Improvement Program.

00:42:50	Stiles' work in changing teacher education; origins of Wisconsin Elementary Teacher Education Project.

00:46:25	Donald McCarty's administration; how Angus Rothwell made sure School received teacher education buildings.

00:50:40	John Palmer's administration; proposal for a new undergraduate program in health.

00:54:30	Chairmen of Department of Education; Ira Davis; chairmen of Department of Curriculum and Instruction changes in promotion and merit procedures; Camilla Low; Southworth example; Cliff Liddle.

01:01:17	End of side.

Tape 2/Side 1

01:01:19	More on Southworth's promotion to full professor.

01:02:55	Changes in promotion and merit procedures in mid 1950s.

01:06:25	Southworth's early background; graduated from M.I.T. in public health; public school teaching experience; Panzer College of Physical Education and Hygiene; Federal Venereal Disease Program; family.

01:11:00	How Southworth came to UW; John Callahan; Fred Bishop; Carl Neupert; Charles Anderson; Dorothy MacDonald; expansion of Wisconsin Cooperative School Health Program; Catherine Campbell; materials Southworth helped prepare for state; Southworth named as school health coordinator for DPI; financed by W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Gordon MacKenzie; Edward Krug; Southworth's activities as health coordinator.

01:19:41	Development of course work in health education; use of automated lectures; development of minor in health education.

01:25:33	Development of program in safety and driver education in early 1950s; William Gorham Rice's objection to the program; Allstate Insurance Company support for program; Wisconsin Industrial Commission; Wisconsin Insurance Alliance support; Frazier Damron.

01:32:05	End of side.

Tape 2/Side 2

01:32:06	More on driver education.

01:34:05	Civil defense work.

01:35:30	Development of health courses.

01:37:38	Work in nursing education.

01:40:50	Development of health and safety education program in late 1970s; problems.

01:47:20	Southworth's research; interests.

01:50:13	University, state and national service.

01:54:49	End of side.

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