Oral History Interview with Dona Strauss
Title
Oral History Interview with Dona Strauss
Narrator (written)
Dona Strauss
Narrator First Name
Dona
Narrator Last Name
Strauss
Interviewer
Hannah Solomon
Abstract
Dona Strauss, Associate Professor of Mathematics, 1966-1969. Oral history interview for the Dartmouth Vietnam Project. Strauss discusses growing up in South Africa during apartheid. She describes why her family moved from eastern Europe to South Africa. She describes her educational path and how she arrived at Dartmouth College to teach. Strauss discusses her time at Dartmouth and her participation with antiwar activity. Strauss describes a trip she took to a march in Washington D.C. with the Students for a Democratic Society and the Quakers. Strauss describes the student take-over of Parkhurst Hall, the administration building on May 6, 1969. She discusses her involvement and the college’s response to her participation with the event. She describes the disciplinary process that she and Paul S. Knapp went through by the Committee Advisory to the President. She discusses the outcome of the trial and her subsequent departure from Dartmouth College. Strauss discusses living in England, raising her children, and being a professor of mathematics at the University of Hull. She describes the differences between academia in England and the United States.
Date of Interview
February 23, 2016
Subject
Dartmouth Faculty
Dartmouth History
Protest/Antiwar Activism
Political Participation
Language
English
Rauner ID
DOH-494
Rights
CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Interview Audio Source (MP3)
//rcweb.dartmouth.edu/DDHI/histories/strauss_dona/strauss_dona.mp3
Interview Transcript Source (PDF)
//rcweb.dartmouth.edu/DDHI/histories/strauss_dona/strauss_dona_transcript_final.pdf
HTML
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