Interview of John E. Corbally by Robert Butche

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Butche, Robert W., 1936-Subjects (LCSH):
Ohio State University -- History -- SourcesOhio State University. College of Education
Ohio State University. Administration
Ohio State University. University College
Ohio State University. College of Arts and Sciences
Fawcett, Novice G. (Novice Gail), 1909-
Fawcett, Harold
Corbally, John E. (John Edward), 1924- -- Interviews
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2008Metadata
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Ohio State University ArchivesSeries/Report no.:
Ohio State University. University Archives Oral History Program. Ohio State University Oral History ProjectAbstract:
Dr. John Corbally, former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and member of the College of Education Faculty, 1955-1969, enjoyed a long and distinguished career at Ohio State and other institutions of higher learning. He discusses his career as a faculty member and administrator. Topics discussed include the controversy over the Speaker's Rule (banning Communists from speaking on campus,) difficult times emanating from the Free Speech Front, Viet Nam protests, protests by African-American students, (especially the "kidnapping" of Gordon Carson and his secretary in 1967) and a strike by classified employees of the university. Corbally's administrative accomplishments included the creation of five new Colleges that comprised the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences, the controversial decision to close University School. He discusses OSU President Novice Fawcett at length
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John Ramsayer: (p. 2) --
Della Campbell: (p. 2) --
Roald Campbell: (pp. 2-3) --
Fred Staub: (pp. 2-3) --
Walter Hack: (pp. 2-3) --
Ted Jenson: (pp. 2-3) --
Harold Fawcett: throughout --
Hank Hullfish: (p. 2) --
Harold Alberty: (p. 2) --
Ruth Streitz: (p. 2) --
Earl Anderson: (p. 2) --
Ross Mooney: (p. 2) --
Paul Klohr: (p. 2) --
Donald Cottrell: (pp. 2-3) --
Fred Heimberger: (pp. 3-6, 10) --
Herbert Aptheker: (p. 4) --
John Bricker: (pp. 4-5, 13) --
Fred Heimberger: (pp. 4-5) --
Richard Armitage: (p. 4) --
Jack Fullen: (pp. 4-5) --
John Herrick: (p. 6) --
John Weaver: (pp. 8, 10) --
Donald Cottrell: (p. 2) --
Paul Klohr: (pp. 2, 9) --
John Mount: (p. 9) --
James Osborn Fuller: (p. 8) --
Gordon Carson: (pp. 11-12) --
John Evans: (p. 12)
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SPEC.RG.4.eCollections
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