WENDLINGTRANSCRIPT

Interview with Aubrey Wendling, Transcript, 1994

 

1994-07-25

 

Interviewer: Olsson, Lyn

Aubrey Wendling was born in San Francisco in 1918. He graduated from San Francisco State College with an A.B. in 1944. He received an M.A. in Sociology in 1952 and a Ph.D in Sociology in 1954, both from the University of Washington. He held teaching positions at the University of Washington and in 1954 became an Assistant Professor at San Diego State College. From 1962 to 1982, Wendling was a full Professor of Sociology and became Department Chair as well as Director of the Social Science Research Center in 1962, the first research center in any of the California State Colleges. . He directed the Center's activities for twenty years. From 1982 to 1988, he was Professor Emeritus at SDSU and from 1985 to 1991 he was President of the SDSU Retirement Association.

Interviews; Oral Histories; Lyn Olsson; Aubrey Wendling; Robert King Merton; Carlo L. Lastrucci; Robert Alexander Nisbet; Donald Walker; Donald R. Watson; Santa Ana winds; Quonset huts; Orrin Klapp; Social Science Research Center; Social Science Research Laboratory; Douglas Coe; Keypunch machines; Academic tenure; Delbert Elliott; Research grants; John Birch Society; Lucille Wendling; James Crouch; Malcolm A. Love; Sociology Department; Donald R. Watson; San Diego State University Retirement Association; Sue Earnest; Norma Summersgill; Grant Nielsen; Mortar Board (San Diego State University); Elderhostel, Inc.; Harvey Goodfriend; Fols Bos; Tom Davies; Lead dog paperweights; Kenneth E. Barnhart; Sabbaticals; Bomb scares; Teaching outdoors

 

 

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