Anita Meyland Oral History Interview Transcript, Tape 1 of 4

Art professor Anita Meyland discusses moving to Marquette in the 1920s with her husband, English professor Gunther Meyland. Topics include her first impressions of Northern, social activities and chaperoning student events, her memories of various Northern presidents and faculty members, efforts to save Kaye Hall from demolition, art professors at Northern, interactions between the college artists and the local art community, the Lake Superior Art Association, her involvement with the "Faculty Wives" (now the American Association of University Women, AAUW), the Depression and World War II, changes in the university community, history professor Lew Allen Chase, and Art on the Rocks.