| Description | Interview conducted by Kate Redrup.
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Part One
00:00-00:50: Introduction
00:50-06:00: Employment with Battersea College: Description of administration of London County Council; details of interview process; mentions previous employment, The Economist; considers women in academia
06:00-07:28: First impressions: discusses negative attitude of engineering department towards women; mentions mixed facilties in Ralph West halls of residence
07:28-08:46: Female academics: Mentions Daphne Jackson, physics; mentions Dr Teresa Poole, Polish chemistry lecturer
08:46-10:31: Female Students: Considers percentage of female students; mentions Hotel and Catering Department, nicknamed 'Hot Cats'
10:31-17:10: Move to Guildford: Describes expansion of departments and contrast to Battersea College; mentions commuting between campuses; details introduction of General Studies lectures; mentions Morag Morris and Bice Bellairs, School of Dance and Drama; mentions Ian Ricketts; describes staff and student societies, Stag Hill Players, Auriel Earl, Gilbert & Sullivan Society, West Side Storey, 1987
17:10-20:57: International Students: Polish staff; mentions female staff from Europe; discusses choice of Guildford for new campus
20:57-25:52: Plans for Guildford Campus: Discussion of opinions relating to move; mentions debate on new name; mentions Peter Leggett and the Principal's Policy Committee, Dr Mike Clark, Dean of Students
25:52-30:14: Building Guildford: consideration of attitudes to proposed building plans, brick colours; mentions flat roofs of halls of residence; recalls staff visits to site during construction
30:14-33:26: Facilities at Guildford: Blackboards in lecture theatres; mentions hot desking; describes canteen in marquee; description of new Senate House, café downstairs, bar and staff room
33:26-36:07: Facilities at Battersea: Mentions Senior Common Room; Chastleton Road annexe, old school; pre-fabricated huts in quadrangles of main building; Usk Road annexe, very dilapidated; mentions The Eagle public house and Green café
36:07-37:38: Student Fashions: describes changes from 1950s-1970s; mentions mini-skirts
37:38-41:50: Entertainment in London: Staff and student trips to the theatre, Old Vic, Festival Hall; mentions head of Music department, Tate Organ in Battersea Main Hall, Tonmeister; critique of Great Hall in Surrey designed by Professor Makovsky
41:50-49:29: Memorable Staff: Large number of Polish staff, mentions Professor Makowski; describes background of Professor Zarek and Lewis Elton; Bob Lord, Russian language teacher, created language laboratory; mentions Falcon Road annex; mentions language facilities at Guildford
49:29-53:04: Reception of University of Surrey: discusses quality of staff; mentions work placements and Metallurgy department; sandwich courses for Economics students, Bank of England
53:04-01:06:29: Exchange Students: 1973 Professor Zarek, biomechanics, working with Michigan State University, describes exchange programme; Beaver College, Pennsylvania; recalls role as academic tutor for exchange students; 1980 Professor Pockney arranged exchange of students with Russian university, developed into Anglo-Soviet cultural agreement transferring teachers, collapse of Soviet Union; details about Professor Bert Pockney; international television and radio for language students to watch and listen to; Erasmus scheme; trip to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for a students, Margot Light, Kiev, Moscow; recalls becoming associate Dean
01:06:29-01:13:26: Benefits of International Exchange: discussion of differences in teaching style between United Kingdom and United States; differences in examinations; trips to Colorado, describes facilities; consideration of student and lecturer relationship; exchange of engineering student to Michigan State accompanied by family
01:13:28 - End
Part Two
00:02-03:21: Student Newspapers: Describes 'Bat Chat'; recalls Peter Leggett's plan to create another student magazine, once a term; cooperation between staff and students, like Stag Hill Players, student led; describes value of student newspaper for relations on campus
03:21-14:56: Guildford School of Acting: describes Bice Bellairs establishing dance school; pageants of dances on Shalford Meadows; Bellairs Studio, opposite Yvonne Arnaud Theatre; alumni Brenda Blethyn, Bill Nighy, Ian Ricketts; link to University of Surrey through General Studies course; describes drama weekends at Moor Park College, Farnham to put on plays; formation of Dance Division in Music department thanks to funding from Gulbenkian Foundation;
Reduction in students: describes debate on course cancellations, merits of combined courses; dance course survived, June Layson, National Resource Centre for Dance; describes incorporation of Guildford School of Acting into University of Surrey; mentions development of theatre on campus, Ivy Centre
14:56-17:48: Battersea College Memories: Describes life in London; appreciation of purpose-built facilities in Guildford; recalls class room in empty swimming pool; mentions Battersea Park sculpture exhibitions and local public house
17:48-23:54: Surrey Memories: critique of emphasis on funding at end of career; Victor Griffiths suggestions relating to holidays; mentions reductions in student grants; discusses changes to start dates of terms; introduction of February reading week; mentions transfer into university archive
23:54 - End |