Scope and Contents Alumni SAGE Society Legacy Oral History Project Adorjan, Director of Public Affairs for the Illinois Department of Transportation for 34 years discusses his decision to complete a Management degree in 1988 at Sangamon State University. He describes prior work experience as a photojournalist for United Press International and identifies Chris Vlahoplus (former SSU Director of University Relations) as one person who inspired him to attend the newly created local college in Springfield. See...

Scope and Contents

See W840 Women's Rights Project

Barbara Dickerman, Jacqueline Ferguson, and Karen Hasara. Narrators discuss their lives during the women’s movement in the 1960s, their opinions of women’s organizations and leaders, and their work for the ERA and in the National League of Women Voters. Hasara (R) is a former Illinois State Representative and Senator and Mayor of Springfield, Illinois.

3 tapes, 150 min., 60 pp. Interviewed by Margaret Herath, 1998 OPEN

Scope and Contents Alumni SAGE Society Legacy Oral History Project Hurwitz discusses his experience in the creation of Sangamon State University. He along with other business people and legislators (former Governors Otto Kerner and Richard Ogilvie, former Mayor Nelson Howarth, land owner Adolf Lubin, and Board of Education member George Cohen) were instrumental in establishing the university after the law allowed it in the late 1960s. At that time, industry was reluctant to locate in the city because of the...

Scope and Contents

WOMEN'S RIGHTS PROJECT Barbara Dickerman, Jacqueline Ferguson, and Karen Hasara. Narrators discuss their lives during the women’s movement in the 1960s, their opinions of women’s organizations and leaders, and their work for the ERA and in the National League of Women Voters. Hasara (R) is a former Illinois State Representative and Senator and Mayor of Springfield, Illinois.

3 tapes, 150 min., 60 pp. Interviewed by Margaret Herath, 1998 OPEN