Wendy Mathewson and Beth Watkins · Voices of Illinois · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Title: Wendy Mathewson and Beth Watkins
Date(s): 3/9/2018
Interviewee(s): Wendy Mathewson and Beth Watkins See all items with this value
Interviewer(s): Alicia Hopkins See all items with this value
Interviewer Position: Archives Staff
Summary: Wendy Mathewson and Beth Watkins (both BA '96) met in an avant-garde honors seminar, "The History that Music Made." They became roommates and lifelong friends. Both graduates of the Department of History, both women are employed by the university today. Mathewson is the undergraduate advisor for the Department of History, and Watkins is the Education and Publications Coordinator at the Spurlock Museum. In this interview, they describe campus life in the 1990s and the gradual shifts in their political, religious, and worldview perspectives that they attribute to a liberal arts education. They reflect on enduring friendship across deep differences, the value of finding smaller communities within a large university, exposure to diversity, and the importance of resilience.
Subject(s): alumni See all items with this value; department of history See all items with this value; honors See all items with this value; housing See all items with this value; krannert center See all items with this value; orientation See all items with this value; religion See all items with this value; spurlock museum See all items with this value; student life See all items with this value
Related Resources: Beth Watkins Oral History; Voices of Illinois Oral History Project, 2018 - (RS: 35/3/98)

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