Hiss, William (Bill), 1984 or 1988
Scope and Contents note
Interview covers Hiss’s observations and reflections on Bates College’s social world in the early 1960s and late 1980s including size and composition of student body, gay and straight student relations, recreation/social life, gender relations including Sadie Hawkins dance, egalitarianism, and the relationship between students and administration including pranks; also includes comments on expansion of curriculum and the faculty; the Vietnam War, political activism on campus; the emotional response of the nation to major events of the 1960s; college facilities; President T. Hedley Reynolds; relations between the College and Lewiston-Auburn; and growth of the Office of Career Services.
Dates
- 1984 or 1988
Access Restrictions
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Biographical note
William C. “Bill” Hiss was born on August 4, 1944 in Orange, NJ. He grew up in Mountain Lakes, NJ. and graduated in the Bates class of 1966. He then went to Harvard Divinity School. Before finishing he went to live in a parish in East Harlem and taught at a public middle school in Morrisania in the Bronx. He then went to Tufts for his Masters degree and his PhD. He returned to Bates in 1978 as Acting Dean of Admissions and then became Dean of Admissions the following year.
Extent
1 vhs_videocassette
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
General note
The interview was conducted for The Sixties, an interdisciplinary General Studies course taught by professors Robert Branham, Ned Harwood, Steve Hochstadt, and William Matthews. Footage from the interview is used in Student Union, a student- and faculty-produced documentary on student social life in the early 1960s.
Creator
- From the Collection: Bates College (Lewiston, Me.) (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Repository
70 Campus Avenue
Lewiston Maine 04240 United States of America
207-786-6354
muskie@bates.edu