Smith, Stephen Kendall July 9, 1992

Creator:

Freedman, Jean

Scope and content:

Stephen Kendall Smith was born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1941. He moved with his family to Lafayette, Indiana, in 1952. He attended Indiana University from 1960 to 1964, lived in the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, was actively involved in campus politics, and was student body president in 1963-64. He describes many aspects of campus life: fraternity life and "hell week," campus campaigns and elections, social events, the presidencies of Herman B Wells and Elvis Stahr, and campus reactions to the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Smith describes his experiences as a Rhodes Scholar and briefly describes his post-graduate career.

Physical location:

Interviews are housed in Radio-TV Building, Room 314. Copies of interview transcripts are also held by the IU Libraries University Archives. Contact archives@indiana.edu for more information. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for Documentary Research and Practice office.

Physical description:

38 pages; 2 cassettes, 1 7/8 ips, 1 hour, 51 minutes; index, 1 VHS

Subjects:

Breaking Away
campus politics
Cuban Missile Crisis
elephants
female students
fraternity initiation
fraternity life
fraternity pledgeship
John F. Kennedy assassination
Rhodes Scholarship
Vietnam War

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