T. Harry
Williams Center for Oral History Collection
INTERVIEWEE
NAME:
Marian Baun COLLECTION:
4700.0998
IDENTIFICATION: [1915- ]
Former Psychology professor at LSU
INTERVIEWER: Mary Hebert
PROJECT: LSU History
DATES: June 3, and
June 9 1998. FOCUS
DATES: 1930's-1990's
ABSTRACT:
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Birth
place and family information; how Baun and her first husband Charles Arthur
Reynard former law professor at LSU came to live in Louisiana; Charles Arthur
Reynard's education and employment information pervious to LSU; Baun's graduate
work; reactions to moving to a segregated part of the country (Louisiana) in
1948; demonstrations in the early 1950s; the impact of the depression; views of
F. D. R.; reactions to the use of the atomic bomb in Japan; hearing about the
bombing of Pearl Harbor; where Baun and Reynard got there liberal outlooks
from; how Baun and Reynard met; her parents view of Reynard; Reynard's early
involvement with fighting for school desegregation; Reynard's involvement with
the LSU faculty petition against school closer; Reynard's testimony in front of
the Louisiana Legislature; President Middleton's testimony in front of the
Louisiana Legislature in favor of academic intellectual freedom; accusations of
communism among those faculty in favor of desegregation; receiving threatening
phone calls; how the community treated them especially their church; the wire
tapping of Wade Mackie's house and involvement of Jack Rogers; Baun's
involvement with O.P.E.N. Organization for Public Education Now.
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Baun's involvement with O.P.E.N. Organization
for Public Education Now; the political reasons for firing Hollis Hayward as
YMCA director at LSU; Demonstrations to integrate a downtown Baton Rouge lunch
counter; political cartoons; student conflicts to lower the LSU flag after
Martin Luther King was shot; YMCA racial dialogues; efforts by segregationists
to record people attending OPEN meetings; Baun's involvement with the
Governor's commission on alcoholism and her work on alcoholism; Baun's
involvement with the Associated Women Students at LSU and their attempt to
change campus regulations for female students; Baun's involvement with the
Committee on Campus Environment; Baun's experience as chairman of the
Subcommittee on Co-ed Dorms regulations; protest for gender equal campus
regulations led by Lila Tritico; Dean Jamison former Dean of Women; the final
vote for regulation recommendations made by the Committee on Campus
Environment; William Sloane Coffin and the protest in Birmingham; how Baun was
hired by the Psychology department; serving as Assistant and later Associate
Chairman of the Psychology department; Baun's work with the Committee on the
Status of Women and the Day Care Center Committee; Baun's involvement with the
Disciplinary Committee; examples of incidents of cheating in Baun's courses;
the influence of the athletic department and Don Kennard former Athletic
Academic Director at LSU; Baun's involvement with establishing Phi Beta Kappa
at LSU.
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Baun's
involvement with establishing Phi Beta Kappa at LSU; Baun's volunteer
activities after she retired from LSU; Baun's work with the Parenting Center
and manning a “warm line” where parents could call to talk about issues dealing
with their children; Friends of Public Education; CHIPS Coalition Helping in
Public Schools which consisted of Volunteers in Public Schools, Friends of Public Schools as well as other
community based groups; Baun's involvement with the Dial-A-Teacher program a
homework hotline for students; the development of a Math homework televison
show; a final reflection on the work she has done in life.
TAPES:
1454,
1455, 1456 TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 3 hours 45 min.
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PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 109
OTHER
MATERIALS: Interviewee
Release Form; Interviewer Release Form; Correspondence; proper name list;
booklet: A Life and A Legacy Charles Arthur Reynard Dec. 14, 1913- Feb, 2, 1959
(23 pages); 3 newspaper articles; biographical data sheet for Charles Arthur
Reynard; biographical data sheet for
interviewee (2 pages).
RESTRICTIONS: The interview
may be used only with permission of the interviewer until January 1, 2005.