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Call Number OH2035Date 2016Contents single recording; 75 minutes, 49 secondsDescription Richard Behrmann talks about his family’s agricultural history in Boulder County, which began with immigration from Germany to Boulder in 1880. He describes the family’s long history of farming, which included dairy, pigs, eggs, hay and grains. He describes farming equipment, techniques, innovations, and other aspects of running a farm. There is an extensive discussion of water rights, irrigation ditches, and the cost of water. Other topics include schooling, transportation, development and how it impacts agriculture, the open space program, and the aftermath of the 2013 flood in Boulder County.
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Call Number OH2036Date 2016Contents single recording 55 minutes, 11 secondsDescription This oral history is a follow-up to OH2034, an interview conducted by Jerry Jacobson. Bruce MacKenzie outlines some of his lineage and reviews his history in the state of Colorado. He starts with his time as a minister in a Congregationalist Church in Denver and then moves on to talk about his twenty-seven years as minister at the First Congregational Church of Boulder. Mr. MacKenzie relates the history of the Congregational church in Boulder and speaks about the wide array of initiatives he led and the groups in which he was involved, addressing religious, community, and social justice needs in Boulder. He then tells about his and his wife’s family’s history. He details his time after serving as minister at the Boulder church, which includes time in Chicago, Illinois, and various places in Hawaii. Mr. MacKenzie ends the interview with an amusing anecdote about his great-aunt and her romantic troubles in California.
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Call Number OH2037Date 2016Contents Single audio file, merged from two original video files; 115 minutes, 29 secondsDescription CU Professor Paul Levitt, born in Newark, New Jersey, and who grew up mostly in the San Fernando Valley in California, has led a life focused on literature, writing, and political action. He begins by describing his Jewish family’s origins in Eastern Europe, his relatives’ immigration to the United States and his own boyhood. He came to the University of Colorado as an undergraduate student in 1954, began teaching at CU in 1964 and was the founder of CU’s Creative Writing Program. He also lived in London and wrote plays for the BBC for two years. Levitt became a prolific writer of historical novels and scholarly nonfiction. He also has strong beliefs about the importance of university faculty teaching lower-classmen as well as pursuing their own scholarship. Professor Levitt was an outspoken opponent of university participation in the investigations and subsequent firings that grew out of McCarthyism. He sponsored a meeting that resulted in university officials’ apologies to Morris Judd for his firing in 1952 and a lawsuit that resulted in the release of a previously secret report about President Robert Stearns’ investigations into the political leanings of CU faculty, which resulted in many firings and resignations. Professor Levitt discusses a number of his critically acclaimed books, including Stalin’s Barber and Come With Me to Babylon.
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Call Number OH2038Date 2016Contents single recording; 43 minutes, 20 secondsDescription Kathy Kaiser, editor, journalist and writer, talks about the culture in Boulder during the late 1960s and middle 1970s through the eyes of a journalist. As a long-time resident of Boulder, describes the progressive movements that began in Boulder during the late 1960s, details some of the issues of the time, and reflects on how the culture of the‘70s evolved into the current culture of Boulder. She talks about ways in which print media has changed over the years, using changes at the Daily Camera as illustrative of those changes. She gives her first-hand recollections of the beginnings of the Boulder Weekly. She also tells personal stories of what life in Boulder was like for a resident in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Call Number OH2039Date 2016Contents single recording; 24 minutes, 23 secondsDescription Lisa Potter talks about her almost four decades on staff at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Potter has worked as a custodian, custodial manager, and now as associate director of facilities operations for the Boulder campus, where she began working in 1982. She discusses her development of the recycling program, the impact of budget cuts, her experience with workplace dynamics and intercultural team-building, and other issues involving the custodial community. She also discusses the effect of immigration policy on providing custodial services, the team-cleaning approach to custodial work, supporting individual growth through services such as English as a Second Language classes, and custodial interactions with staff and students.
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Call Number OH2040Date 2016Contents single recording; 28 minutes, 11 secondsDescription Lisa Tedesco worked as the employee relations advisor in the Department of Facilities Management at CU Boulder, from 1984 to 1988. She discusses addressing the needs of recent immigrants with regard to English skills, learning about job expectations, understanding cultural differences, dealing with medical issues, and helping them feel a part of the community by, for example, producing a multi-lingual newsletter. In 1988, she began working for the Department of Employee Development. She also talks about her work with Boulder Friends of International Students.
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Call Number OH2041Date 2016Contents single recording; 30 minutes, 15 secondsDescription This interview is part of the Custodians in Conversation oral history project. Beth Kroger is the chief of operations at JILA. The conversation focuses on what makes JILA such a good place for people to work and study, for everyone from students to custodians to faculty. Beth talks about her commitment to people as the root of all enterprises, and the idea that serious work can best happen in an environment where people have fun, care about their community, and have a strong desire to give back. She describes feeling rewarded by working in a place where people are engaged in what they’re doing and excited to be there; she discusses the importance of engaging with the broader CU campus and the community at large. She talks about how something as simple as a bake sale, in which the proceeds are given back to the community, can reinforce for students and staff that the primary purpose of science is to serve the world. She emphasizes the impact that custodians can have, in large part because of their opportunity for direct contact with students, as well as the fact that they are essential to the physical operation of a building or campus.
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Call Number OH2045-VDate 2015Contents recording lasts 117 minutes, 10 seconds.Description This interview is part of a series about three football games known as the Hairy Bacon Bowl, which occurred during the early 1970s. Participants included University of Colorado students who identified with hippie culture and/or anti-war sentiment, versus campus and Boulder police officers. The games were seen as a way to address tensions between the two groups. David Emigh, who was a student at CU at the time, describes attending the second of the football games as a spectator and also participating in an anti-war march that closed down a roadway.
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Call Number OH2046-VDate 2015Description This interview is part of a series about three football games known as the Hairy Bacon Bowl and played during the early 1970s. The teams were made up of University of Colorado students who identified with hippie culture and/or anti-war beliefs on the one hand, and campus and Boulder police officers on the other hand, as a way to address tensions between the two groups. Michael Riversong took part in some of the planning for the first game, and was a spectator at part of that game. He talks about being part of the counterculture movement at that time and about relations between hippies (also known as freaks) and the police.
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Call Number OH2047-VDate 2015Description This interview is part of series about three football games known as The Hairy Bacon Bowl, which occurred during the early 1970s. Participants included University of Colorado students who identified with hippie culture and/or anti-war sentiment, versus campus and Boulder police officers. The games were seen as a way to address tensions between the two groups. Cliff Chuvarsky was a CU student during the early 1970s and lived in the co-op called Cloud 9. Cliff identified with hippie culture of the time, and he played in the second of Hairy Bacon Bowl games. He talks about the football game, drug use among students, anti-establishment and anti-war attitudes of young people, and student life and politics of the time. He reflects on ways in which anti-establishment attitudes moderated for many of his generation, while at the same time, some of the political values of the 1960s and 1970s continued as part of their value system.
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Call Number OH2048-VDate 2015Description This interview is part of a series about three football games that were played during the early 1970s and were known as the Hairy Bacon Bowl. The teams were made up of counterculture-identified students from the University of Colorado, Boulder, versus campus and city police. Although Jay Jurie did not play in the Hairy Bacon Bowl games, he was a high school and college student during the late 1960s and early 1970, and was involved with the counterculture both in terms of lifestyle and politics. He talks about being a young person in Boulder during that time, including describing places where people hung out together and the social/musical/intellectual and drug culture of that decade, as well as giving a detailed account of anti-war political actions of groups such as Student Mobilization Committee, Student Peace Union, and Students for a Democratic Society. He discusses interactions between student activists and the university administration as well as the police.
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Call Number OH2050Date 2015Contents single recording; 1 hour, 17 minutes, 56 secondsDescription This interview is part of a series about flag football games, collectively known as the Hairy Bacon Bowl, that were played during the first half of the 1970s at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The teams were made up of university students, many of whom identified with hippie culture and/or anti-war beliefs, on one team, and campus and City of Boulder police officers on the other team. The goal was to ameliorate tensions between the two groups. Tim Gablehouse is a Boulder native who was a University of Colorado student from 1969 to 1973. While a student he worked for the campus police for two years, from 1971 to 1973. He talks about the difference in policing attitudes between student and non-student campus police staff, as well as the difference between the city and campus police approaches to law enforcement; the way that city, county and campus police cooperated; and the nature of student/campus police relations overall during the 1970s. He played on the police team in the second Hairy Bacon Bowl in 1971, and he describes the good-natured atmosphere of the game. He discusses the way that hippie culture took on a particularly Boulder flavor compared to hippie culture on the coasts and reflects on the laid-back nature of student life during the 1970s. He also talks about the anti-Vietnam-War protests that took place in Boulder during the early 1970s and he touches on the military draft and the way it affected students once the lottery for the draft began.