Reminiscences of Osborne Bennett Hardison, Jr. : oral history, 1981.

Biographical Note

Educator.

Scope and Contents

Family and early education; growing interest in arts and literature; decision to leave Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), 1947; work in mining camp; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, B.A. and M.A.; courtship and marriage to Mary Frances Fitzgibbon; University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ph.D.; experiences teaching English composition, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Princeton University; teaching at Chapel Hill; hiring by trustees of Amherst College as Director of Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 1969; duties and responsibilities as Director, Folger Shakespeare Library: fundraising, founding of Folger Theater, renovation and reorganization, attempts to generate community interest and involvement.

Subjects

• Education, Higher.
• Educational fund raising.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Folger Shakespeare Library.
• Hardison, O. B., Jr. (Osborne Bennett), 1928-1990.
• Interviews.
• Jessup, Frederick Peterson, 1920-2005, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Libraries--Cultural programs.
• Libraries and community.
• Oral histories.
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
• Special libraries.
• Theater--Museums.
• Theater libraries.
• United States--Intellectual life.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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