Caress, Mark April 22, 1994

Creator:

Freedman, Jean

Scope and content:

Mark Caress received his BA from Indiana University in 1948 and stayed involved with the university for many years thereafter earning an advanced degree, as a teacher, and as president of the Indiana University Alumni Association. He went on to a career in baking, serving as a bank president for 20 years. Caress discusses the differences between undergraduate and graduate life, Indiana University presidents, the campus atmosphere after World War II, and what he sees in the future for Indiana University.

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:

18 pages; 1 audiocassette, 42 minutes; index, 1 VHS

Subjects:

1944 GI Bill
army barracks
drugs
Great Depression
Indiana University alumni
testing
traffic
university funding
World War II
assistant superintendent
assistant to the director of the division of research and field services
bank president
Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents president
Indiana Bankers' Association president
Indiana University Alumni Association president
teacher
United States Civil Service Commission federal investigator

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