Interview with Joe Larson, UMass Amherst faculty member in Forestry and head of Institute for Man and the Environment, historic preservationist, about his undergraduate years at UMass in the mid-1950s (class of '55, graduated with '56). Choosing to come to UMass form high school in Malden; admissions interview; work with the campus radio station; work on wetlands lead to remaining at UMass for a masters degree; forestry work; quality control and dormitory construction on campus; state political influence at UMass in the 1950s, the Freedom Bill, Ralph Van Meter and Jean Paul Mather; growth of campus; growth of research at UMass during the 1950s; tension with Mather and faculty.
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