Gates, Robert June 14, 1991

Creator:

Freedman, Jean

Scope and content:

Robert Gates attended Indiana University as an undergraduate from 1938 to 1942 and then received his law degree in 1949. He began practicing law but remained involved with university life, serving as a trustee for twenty-one years and as president of the Union Board. Gates discusses the challenges of funding and maintaining state schools, the development of programs, and the impact that the nineteen sixties had on Indiana University's campus.

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:

14 pages; 1 audiocassette, 1 7/8 ips, 39 minutes; index, 1 VHS

Subjects:

campus buildings
campus growth
endowments
Indiana University Memorial Union
nineteen sixties
optometry
tuition
university budget
university funding
Vietnam War
World War II
attorney
Indiana University trustee
navy paymaster
Union Board president

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