Creator: Kathleen Large

Subjects: Anniversaries, Sesquicentennial

Description:

Kathleen Large began working two half-time secretarial jobs at MSU in 1951 and then moved on to a position in Placement, assisting high school administrators who came to MSU to hire teachers.

Large worked for a time at the Kellogg Center, being promoted to manager of the conference desk prior to her transfer in 1960 to the Office of Admissions and Scholarships. In this position, she served as an administrative assistant to Gordon Sabine, the director of that unit. Her duties included working with students, parents, faculty, administrators and legislators as well as being a prominent member of a team that was responsible for the National Merit Scholarship program at the university.

Although she retired in the fall of 1991, Large was asked to come back to the campus in 1993 and work part-time for the MSU Museum.

Topics/People Covered in the Interview include: ADS Program; Jim Anderson; Julie Avery; Country Life Historic Park; Jim Dennison; John DiBiaggio; John Eady; John Forsythe; Eric Goldman; John Hannah; Honors College; Kathy & Paul Hunt; James Madison College; Justin Morrill College; Horace King; budget decrease; MSU Museum; National Merit Scholarship Program; Lyman Briggs College; Cecil Mackey; Merit Corp; activism in 1960s; changes in technology; growth of MSU; labor issues; transportation on campus; Ira Polley; Gordon Sabine; Terry Schafer; Margaret Schmidt; Charles Seeley; Barbara Steidle; Bill Turner; Clifton Wharton

Date: May 8, 2002

Collection Number: UA 3

Language: English

Rights Management: Educational use only, no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by Michigan State University and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.

Contributing Institution: University Archives & Historical Collections, Office of the Provost

Relation: Sesquicentennial Oral History Project

Contributor: MSU Archives and Historical Collections