Fay, Leo June 7, 1994

Creator:

Freedman, Jean

Scope and content:

Leo Fay arrived at Indiana University in 1952 as a professor in the School of Education. He discusses his experiences setting up educational systems in Thailand on behalf of the university. He also talks about his university career, his service on the faculty council, the changes that have taken place in education since the nineteen fifties, Indiana University's different presidents, and the qualities that make a good 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:

26 pages; 2 audiocassettes, 83 minutes; index, 1 VHS

Subjects:

campus presidents
censorship
conservatism
elementary education
libraries
McCarthyism
reading
teaching
teaching awards
World War II
education professor
faculty council secretary

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