Collections : [Indiana University, Center for Documentary Research and Practice]

Peggy Elliott, born in Matewon, West Virginia on May 27, 1937, was both a student and faculty member at Indiana University. She discusses her time as a female student with children in the 1970s, her work as an administrator at Indiana University Northwest, and the challenges of being a female chancellor. Also she discusses changes to Indiana University Northwest under her leadership and Indiana University Northwest's relationship to the Indiana University system.

Joseph Hartley became a full professor at Indiana at the age of 32. He remained with the university for the rest of his career as a professor and also, as the associate dean of faculties and as Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs. Hartley discusses IUPUI, Indiana's business and law schools, diversity, Indiana University regional campuses, and student protest movements.

Georgette Mosbacher was born January 16, 1947 in Hammond, Indiana. She attended Indiana University from 1965-1969 graduating with a degree in radio and television. After college, she moved back to Highland, IN before moving to California to start a career as an entrepreneur. Finding success in her business, she went on to become an author and political advisor serving on the Republican Party Executive Council and the Advisory Commission on Trade and International Negotiations under President George Bush and President Bill Clinton. She discusses her experience as a student and her time on the Indiana University Foundation Board.

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.