Pat Carrigan received her bachelor’s from MSU in education and after teaching several years, attended University of Michigan. There she studied teaching methods and skills needed to help special needs kids and emotionally disturbed children with learning disabilities. Carrigan completed her PhD at the U of M, majoring in psychology. She helped establish a local MSU Alumni Club in the Ann Arbor area, and was the first woman elected to the MSU Board of Trustees where she served as a member from 1970-1978.
Topics/People Covered in the Interview include: Walter Adams; Ellsworth Bangree; Bendix; Val Berryman; Jonathan Bickham; David Bishop; Ken Bloomquist; Jack Breslin; Jonathan Brickham; John Bruff; John Cantlon; Mouse Carrigan; Harold Clark; Duffy Daugherty; Detroit Project; Kurt Dewhurst; James Forger; General Motors; special ed; Marge Gerlack; John Hannah; Frank Hartman; Warren Huff; Sara VanHeusen Jones; learning disabilities; Kellogg Center; John F Kennedy/assassination; Lonnie King; Martin Luther King Jr; George "Biggie" Munn; Blanche Martin; Frank Merriman; abortion issue; MSU Alumni Association; campus in 1965; co-ed living on campus; Development Fund; faculty salary issue; faculty unionization; First Companion Animal Fund; grape/lettuce boycott issues; NCAA investigations; Spring Sing; student activism; student representation on Board of Trustees; William Milliken; clinical psychology; “domain of behavior”; Gwen Norrell; Pat Carrigan Fund for Feline Health; Herb Ross; Clare Smith; Donald Smith; Barrick Stees; Keith Stein; Troy Sterns; Don Stevens; MSU Union; Elsa & Walter Verdehr; green beanie; Ingham Regional Hospital; Wright Patterson Airfield; Zeta Tau Alpha; Wharton Center for Performing Arts; Clifton & Dolores Wharton; Clare White; Roger Wilkinson; G Mennen Williams; Matilda Wilson; Coleman Young; Washington and Livingston Alumni Club; FORTRAN