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Item Convocation of Charter Class(1959-09-17) Oakland, Michigan State UniversityItem Crisis no 1 at MSUO – Building Needs(1960-03-26) Varner, Durward B., 1917-1999Item Crisis No 1 at MUSO - Building Needs(1960-03-07) Varner, Durward B., 1917-1999Item Curriculum Michigan State University-Oakland(1959-05-22) Hamilton, Thomas H.; Varner, Durward B., 1917-1999The Meadow Brook Seminars in Higher Education were an attempt to plan the curricula for the newly founded Oakland University. The fomenters of the seminars, John Hannah, president of M.S.U. and Durward Varner, chancellor of M.S.U.-O., proceeded on the assumption that they were creating a new university and a new type of education that could produce liberally educated students despite the field of specialization, they also wanted to begin without the inhibitions that sometimes prevented existing universities from starting anew. Thus, the seminars attempted to attract the leaders of American society and education to shape the curriculum. Among those who participated were such luminaries as Henry Luce, Milton Eisenhower and Henry Steele Commager; distinguished educators in the fields of engineering, business administration, continuing education, the liberal arts and teacher education. In each of the seminars the participants vigorously discussed what had been done wrong in the past and what should be done in the future. The records of this seminar document not only its proceedings but reflect on the elan and sense of mission with which the university was established.Item Interview with Durward B. "Woody" Varner(1998) Varner, Durward B., 1917-1999Item Meadow Brook Seminars 1958-1959(1958) Hamilton, Thomas H.; Varner, Durward B., 1917-1999A collection of documents produced from the Meadow Brook Seminars 1958-1959. Items 1 and 2 are parts of a publication issued in May of 1959, summarizing the ideas and thoughts of the men and women who participated in the seminars. Item 1 is a proposed curriculum for the new school and Item 2 consists of summaries of the 5 seminars. Item 4 is includes some additional information as well as the perspective of someone looking back after the first twenty years.Item Oakland University Chronicles Interview Sampler 1(1996)The Oakland University Chronicles is a set of oral histories dealing with the beginnings of Oakland University, mainly focusing on the years prior to the graduation of the first class. This is the first "sampler", a composite of 11 excerpts from the first year of interviews. There are three samplers in total, which contain excerpts from interviews with George Karas, George Matthews, Richard Burke, Gertrude White, William Schwab, Woody Varner, Sheldon Appleton, Robert Hoopes, Helen Kovach-Tarakanov, James McKay, Robert Swanson, Loren Pope, Herbert Stoutenburg, Frederick Obear, Laszlo Hetenyi, Melvin Cherno, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Edward Heubel, Paul Tomboulian, Donald O'Dowd, Gerald Compton, Michael Deller, Alfred Monetta, William Kath, Joan Gibb Clair, Thomas Werth, Daniel Fullmer, Mildred Hammerle, and Uni Susskind. The interviews were conducted in three series between 1996 and 1999.