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Several decades ago, in an effort to add voices to our collection, the oral history program mailed questionnaires to UW-Madison alumni with hopes that some might send us their recorded answers in return.   Among the many respondents was Sandra E. Kroll. 

Sandra studied history and education while she attended UW-Madison from 1955 to 1959.  In her oral history interview (#425), recorded nearly forty years after the start of her freshman year, Kroll reflects on her days as an undergraduate in Madison.  We imagine many of Kroll's memories will remind former and current students of their own experiences navigating life in the dorms or balancing academic demands with social activities.  However, other of her recollections may surprise listeners.  Take, for instance, her memories of State Street, physical education classes, and student curfews in the late 1950s.

In anticipation of the start of a new semester, we have selected a (127 second) clip in which Kroll discusses the sense she got of UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Idea during her first week on campus.

The full interview is not yet online, but here is the cataloging record.

Bree Romero, Women Inspire Project Assistant, UW-Madison Oral History Program

Photo courtesy of UW-Madison Archive (Identifier: S12344)

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For more information about UW campus history, contact [email protected] or visit library.wisc.edu/archives. On, Wisconsin!

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Horsepower vs hearing: UW-Madison audiology takes on rural noise

Buhr-Lawler and her colleague, Clinical Associate Professor Amy Kroll, work in the College of Letters & Science’sDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, a nationally-acclaimed program where faculty prepare graduate students for clinical careers in speech pathology and audiology through outreach in Wisconsin and beyond. Buhr-Lawler focuses on what she calls an “under-the-radar” problem: rural noise.

Thunder rumbled over the grandstands at last summer’s annual Budweiser Dairyland Super National Truck and Tractor Pull (aka the Tomah Tractor Pull), but the deafening roar of turbo-charged, 3,000-horsepower machines easily drowned it out. As the ground shook with noise (click to listen), five University of Wisconsin-Madison audiology students and two professors saw their supply of 2,000 complimentary earplugs vanish faster than cheese curds at the snack tent.

“When people learned we were giving out free earplugs, they were very excited,” says Clinical Associate Professor of Audiology Melanie Buhr-Lawler, who led the first-ever hearing conservation outreach project, funded by a Statewide Outreach Incentive grant, at the event last June. “A tractor pull is one of the loudest places on earth – as loud as a jet plane at takeoff. If you attended the entire four-day event, you would be at significant risk for hearing loss.”

Buhr-Lawler and her colleague, Clinical Associate Professor Amy Kroll, work in the College of Letters & Science’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, a nationally-acclaimed program where faculty prepare graduate students for clinical careers in speech pathology and audiology through outreach in Wisconsin and beyond. Buhr-Lawler focuses on what she calls an “under-the-radar” problem: rural noise.

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"But the Wisconsin tradition meant more than a simple belief in the people. It also meant a faith in the application of intelligence and reason to the problems of society. It meant a deep conviction that the role of government was not to stumble along like a drunkard in the dark, but to light its way by the best torches of knowledge and understanding it could find."

Adlai Stevenson  Madison, Wisconsin  October 8, 1952