Michael Wesbecher, Director of Communications and Events in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, University of Illinois Chicago. Oral history conducted for inclusion in the COVID-19 Documentation Project, a collaboration between the University of Illinois Archives and the University of Illinois System.
Michelle Lore, Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) Application Specialist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Oral history conducted for inclusion in the COVID-19 Documentation Project, a collaboration between the University of Illinois Archives and the University of Illinois System.
The first 5 pages of the program for the 2001 Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Arriving at UI shortly before the war, Millicent Lane (1923-2018) recalls the outpouring of emotion by fellow students following Pearl Harbor. Lane was a part of the collective of women who edited the Daily Illini during WWII and describes how they led the paper and featured a column about GIs to encourage greater civility between soldiers and students on campus.
Neil Rosenberg earned a Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University and is Professor Emeritus of Folklore at Memorial University in Newfoundland. He is a renowned scholar of bluegrass and folk music and author and editor of a number of texts including Transforming Tradition and The Music of Bill Monroe (co-author). As a graduate student during the 1960s, he also served as president of the IU Campus Folksong Club and later as manager of the Bill Monroe Memorial Music Park in Bean Blossom, Indiana. As an accomplished musician, Rosenberg also played in Monroe's house band at the park. During the early to mid 1960s there was considerable collaboration between the folksong clubs at Indiana University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with members from each university traveling to the other to perform and attend events. In particular, UI CFC events such as the Flatt and Scruggs concert and the D. K. Wilgus lecture left a lasting impression on Rosenberg.
