Way It Was : The University of Iowa, 1964-1989

by Spriestersbach, D. C.

• ISBN13: 9780877456667
• ISBN10: 0877456666
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr

Summary

The fall of 1964 was an exciting time at the University of Iowa. Its fourteenth president, Howard Bowen, had just arrived, and on a sunny October afternoon he made his first speech to the faculty. This occasion was noteworthy enough -- former president Virgil Hancher had held the job for twenty-four years -- to attract the attention of a professor of speech pathology who had previously confined his considerable energies to teaching and research. Bowen's vision of what the university could become was so intriguing, so compelling, that this professor wrote and offered to help him achieve his objectives in any way possible. This quixotic offer changed Duane Spriestersbach's life and becomes the starting point for his story of his years as a University of Iowa administrator.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Preface	xi
The Bowen Years, 1964--1969	1	(34)
The Boyd Years, 1969--1981	35	(69)
Seven Months in Charge: Sweet-Sour, 1981--1982	104	(9)
The Freedman Years, 1982--1987	113	(32)
The Remington Interim, 1987--1988	145	(3)
My Rawlings Year, 1988--1989	148	(6)
The Computer Invasion	154	(15)
Student Unrest: The War and the Roses	169	(40)
The Laser Center: Will-o'-the-Wisp	209	(15)
Commentaries, 1995--1997	224	(13)
Epilogue	237	(2)
Appendixes	239	(20)
Index	259