The two official volumes of ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ history cover the time period only up to 1961. Because of this, the Retirees Association of ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ (RAQ) and ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Archives decided to team up in 2007 and launch an oral history project.
The project, known as the Human History of ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥, has been run each summer with the help of SWEP (Student Work Experience Program, a initiative of Career Services) funding, and consists of several students serving as the interviewers.
The interviewees have been a range of faculty, staff, and administration who were at ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ during the 1960's and are willing to share their memories for the project.
Each interview has been transcribed and they are available for researchers in the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Archives.
It is anticipated that the new University Historian, Dr. Duncan McDowall, will find the oral history interviews very useful for his research for the third volume of ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ history (1961-2004).
The full Oral History can be found online in the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Library Database.