The two official volumes of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s history cover the time period only up to 1961. Because of this, the Retirees Association of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s (RAQ) and Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s University Archives decided to team up in 2007 and launch an oral history project.
The project, known as the Human History of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s, has been run each summer with the help of SWEP (Student Work Experience Program, a initiative of Career Services) funding, and consists of several students serving as the interviewers.
The interviewees have been a range of faculty, staff, and administration who were at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s during the 1960's and are willing to share their memories for the project.
Each interview has been transcribed and they are available for researchers in the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s University Archives.
It is anticipated that the new University Historian, Dr. Duncan McDowall, will find the oral history interviews very useful for his research for the third volume of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s history (1961-2004).
The full Oral History can be found online in the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s Library Database.