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Oral History Interview, Frank Larson and Myrna Traver Larson (591)
No full textIn this 2002 oral history interview, Doctors Frank and Myrna Larson discuss their backgrounds and careers spent at University Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. To learn more about this oral history, download & review the index first (or transcript if available). It will help determine which audio file(s) to download & listen to.In this 2002 oral history interview, Doctors Frank and Myrna Larson discuss their backgrounds and careers spent at University Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. In his portion of the interview, Dr. Frank Larson discusses his time spent studying radioactivity for the atom bomb project in the 1940s, then his subsequent career in medicine until his retirement in the 1980s. He also discusses endocrinology, radioactive medicine, laboratory management, his time as a mentor, and his retirement. Dr. Myrna Larson explains how blood banks operated at University Hospital in the 1960s and the changes it has acquired up until her retirement in the 1990s. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the UW-Madison Archives and Records Management oral history collection
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Natalie M. Larson, Jochen Mueller, Alex Chortos, Zoey S. Davidson, David R. Clarke, Jennifer A. Lewis. Rotational multimaterial printing of filaments with subvoxel control. Nature 613, 682–688 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05490-
Bioinformatics and drug discovery / edited by Richard S. Larson.
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Interview with Goodman Larson, December 2, 2002 by Dorothe Norton, Minnetonka, Minnesota. Also present: Marge Larson
No full textOral history interview with Goodman Larson. Dorothe Norton as interviewer.
Mr. Larson spent time in the military before becoming a FWS employee. He worked with River Basin Studies, waterfowl surveys, and hired Cleveland Vaughan (The first African American law enforcement officer in the FWS). He retired as the Personnel Director in R3.
Organization: FWS
Name: Goodman Larson
Years: 1940's-1973
Program: Budget, Planning and Human Capital
Keywords: History, Biography, Wildlife refuges , Art Hawkins, Audrey Berge, John GottschalkINTERVIEW WITH GOODMAN LARSON
DECEMBER 2, 2002 BY DOROTHE NORTON
MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA
Also present: Marge Larson
MS. NORTON: Good morning “Goodie”, it’s good to see you again after all these years!
MR. LARSON: Good morning! It’s been quite a while.
MS. NORTON: This interview will be between Dorothe Norton and Goodman Larson,
the former Personnel Director of Region 3. The first thing I want to know Goodie is your
birthplace and date.
MR. LARSON: I was born in the little town of Marietta, Minnesota on the South
Dakota boarder near Watertown on October 30, 1915.
MS. NORTON: What were your parents’ names?
MR. LARSON: Oscar J. Larson was my father. Marie Q. Larson was my mother. My
dad had a little grocery store in that small town, Marietta.
MS. NORTON: What was your parents’ education?
MR. LARSON: My mother, I think was lucky to…she was from Thief River Falls and I
don’t think they even had a high school there. She had her ninth grade education. My
dad lived in Madison as a boy and graduated from high school. He went to Montevideo;
there was a little college there. He went there for a year or so. Then the store burnt down
and his dad told him he would have to come home and collect money so they could
rebuild. That was the end of his education.
MS. NORTON: Did you spend all of your early years out in Marietta?
MR. LARSON: It was Madison. We moved to Madison when I was six years old.
That’s where…all my education was there. I went to Madison High School. Later on I
traveled to Brookings, South Dakota where I spent one year of college. Then I was at
Lacrosse State Teachers. I lived with my sister and went to college there for one year.
That’s in Lacrosse, Wisconsin. I was interested in wildlife management and the only
place I could take that was at the University of Minnesota. I transferred there and spent
three years there.
MS. NORTON: What town was that in?
MS. LARSON: That was in St. Paul. That is the farm campus of the University of
Minnesota.
MS. NORTON: When did you get your degree?
MR. LARSON: That was in 1939. And that’s where I met my future wife.
MS. NORTON: What high school did you go to?
MR. LARSON: Madison High School, in Madison, Minnesota. I graduated in 1929.
MS. NORTON: What hobbies, books or events influenced you the most as a child?
MR. LARSON: As a child, it’s seems like I was interested in plants and animals. I
helped my brother with a colony of bees. We had six or seven beehives in our backyard.
I was interested, and I got stung many times. Then, gardening was always there. My dad
had a pretty good-sized garden. He allowed me to chop the weeds. Then I raised
chickens. I was a chicken raiser. I had Light Brahma Chickens. I got the eggs from a
minister who was interested in kids. He was a Congregational minister. He was willing to
start a 4-H Club for kids interested in raising chickens. I got to know him. His name was
Rev. Bergman, but we called him “Bergie”, it was that informal of a situation. We would
help him in his chicken pens and we got interested. He said he would, if we got his eggs
we’d get the best quality birds we could get. He recommended Light Brahma Chickens
for me since I looked in the book and that’s the kind I liked. They were big. They’d get
to be thirteen pounds in size. I became a chicken raiser.
MS. NORTON: Was that a job, more or less?
MR. LARSON: I was in grade school and high school at the time. It seems like when
other kids were out playing baseball I was always working in the garden or on the lawn or
something. So I guess I missed a little of my childhood because I did like nature.
Between bees, chickens, the garden and the lawn; then I had a paper route. I delivered the
St. Paul Pioneer Press, “the greatest paper in the northwest”! I would collect once a
month. So I did have a job. As a result, I didn’t go out for little league baseball like a lot
of my buddies did. I didn’t get in to athletics until my senior year in high school. That
year I was on the football team. That’s pretty much the high school years.
MS. NORTON: Did you hunt of fish when you were a child?
MR. LARSON: Yeah, we did a lot of fishing, and even hunting. I had an older brother
who was a real avid hunter. I remember going out with him in the fall, when it was cold
and not feeling that this was a great sport. He would shoot the ducks and I would help
carry them back to the car. At the time I figured, “Gee, there must be sports that are
more fun than this!” After he left home I started to get interested in hunting on my own,
when I was about fifteen years old. I got a .22 and would go pheasant hunting. I
remember one of the first pheasants I ever shot was …I was able to drive the car but an
adult had to be with me. My mother said she’d come when I wanted to go out pheasant
hunting. I hunted with a .22, not with a shotgun. We came to a place where there was a
flock of pheasants out in an open field. I crawled along a drainage ditch and snuck up and
shot. With the .22, I thought for sure I’d hit the pheasant but it flew off. I went back to
the car and told Mom that I must have missed. She said, “No, you didn’t! I saw the bird
fly high in the air and all of a sudden drop like a bullet!” She told me exactly where it had
hit the ground. She said exactly where it was. I walked over and picked it up. That was
the first pheasant that my mother and I had shot!
MS. NORTON: Who do you think most influenced your education and your career
track?
MR. LARSON: It was hard to tell. Everyone from the minister to my older sister who
went to college. My brother who was older went to college. I guess it was just assumed
that I’d go to college, and I’d better pick a profession that required college. That’s the
way it worked I think.
MS. NORTON: Did you have any mentors or courses that especially stuck with you?
MR. LARSON: The reverend certainly was an influence. But you’d think I would have
stayed in the poultry business, because he loved poultry. He was a judge at the State
Fair. One of the incidents where I had these Light Brahma chickens happened; he told me
that I should give them a bath before I took them to the fair so they’d look better and the
judge would give me more points. He said to get warm, not hot, warm water and soap
and get these white birds; duck them in a big tub of water and dry them off with a towel.
He told me it was even good to use a little bluing. My mother wasn’t home, so I went
down to the laundry and found this big bottle of bluing… I poured it into the water that I
was using for the chickens. I didn’t realize what a little bluing would do! It ended up that
by washing these chickens, the white feathers stayed blue! The judge gave me First Prize,
but he said that those were the first “blue brahmas” he had ever judged!
MS. NORTON: Were you ever in the military service?
MR. LARSON: Yes, I took ROTC at Brookings and at the University. I got a
commission through ROTC as a First Lieutenant in 1939 when I graduated. That’s the
year that things started to get hot over in Europe. My dad was a veteran of the Spanish-
American War and he always encouraged me to take ROTC and other things. I got that
commission and I applied for active duty with the military when I graduated from college
in 1939. I was assigned to Fort Sheridan, Illinois as a Second Lieutenant. I reported there
in July of 1939. From there on, little did I know I was going to spend the next six years
in the military. I went from second Lieutenant to first Lieutenant and eventually Captain.
I ended up spending most of my service as a Captain. But when I retired and went into
the Reserves, I was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. So when I retired from the
Reserves…it took twenty years before you could…in other words, I had six years of
active duty, then I stayed in the Reserves and went to camp every year and did other
activities with that program. I ended up as a retired Lieutenant Colonel. I still get my
retirement from that.
MS. NORTON: What other duty stations were you on after you left Fort Sheridan?
MR. LARSON: It was mostly in Texas and Alabama, Mississippi. My only overseas
duty was in Panama. I spent between one and two years in Panama. When I came back, I
was used in the various training schools. When the war ended I was in Intelligence
Training Schools as an instructor. I didn’t become a Lieutenant Colonel until I retired.
MS. NORTON: Did your military service relate in any way to your employment with
FWS?
MR. LARSON: Well, I think it didn’t directly. It was experience that was helpful;
certainly as a Personnel officer. A lot of the things I learned and in the military I was able
to use.
MS. NORTON: Can you tell me when, where and how you met your wife Marge?
MR. LARSON: Actually, me degree was in Forestry. After going to Lacrosse for one
year, and Brookings one year, and signing up to come to Minnesota; I was required to go
to Itasca Summer Camp. At Itasca Summer Camp I was roommates with a lot of other
Forestry students who knew all of the girls on the campus. Of course, part of the time
was spent discussing their dates and whom I would like and whom I wouldn’t. One of
them said that Marge Samuelson was going steady with someone, but he thought I’d like
her! I was introduced to her up at Itasca and when I got down to go to school in the fall I
had had two years of college and she had had one. I was still more of a sophomore
because I had transferred into Forestry. I was able to meet her. One of the stories is
this…on the first picnic we went to, the way I got her attention was this; she was
cooking stew. She was home-ec and the foresters and Ag students were all together. I
had broken up some sticks and when she wasn’t looking, I through sticks into her pot of
stew. Then I looked down in there and said, “What kind of stew is that? It looks like
stick stew to me!” She said, “Why how did those get in there!?” She took a spoon and
dished out these sticks and put them on the ground. It wasn’t until a couple of years later
that I finally admitted that I had done that!
MS. NORTON: When and where did you get married?
MR. LARSON: One of my assignments was in Chicago. I was assigned to National
Guard Squadron, the 108th Observation Squadron. The O-47 was the observation plane.
I was the observer. There was also a pilot and a gunner. We were in the combat ready
organization. When we moved to Chicago, Marge decided to visit her brother who lived
in Chicago. We were able to date there. We became engaged. We were going to have the
wedding back in Minnesota. But I got orders to go to San Antonio, Texas. I had to
report within five days. I called her sister and told her was has going to happen. I didn’t
dare to call Marge. Her sister immediately said, “No problem! We will have the wedding
in our house tomorrow night!” She told me that she would break the news to Marge. She
called her and told Marge what could be done. We just had a group of our friends there. I
fixed the ‘Coast Artillery Punch’, I remember. There was a recipe where you used black
tea and mixed the liquor with the tea. She fixed a nice lunch. Marge’s friends were there
too. We spent the first night in the Drake Hotel in Chicago. Then we headed the next
morning for San Antonio, Texas. That was in 1941 before war was declared. My
memory of calendar dates isn’t very good. But it was well before the war.
MS. NORTON: Can you tell me the names of your children and what they are doing
now?
MR. LARSON: Our oldest daughter lives in Richmond, Virginia. It’s Ann and husband
is John. He is British. She met John in the Sultanate of Oman where she with the Peace
Corps and he was a British person assigned to the Sultan to help with administrative
work. She got to meet John there. He was divorced and had two sons back in England.
They lived in the Sultanate of Oman and two of the first children were twins. When they
came back to the States a couple of years later we met them out in Mexico. We got to
know the twin then. They came to our condominium that we had in Mexico along the Sea
of Cortez. That’s Ann. She has three children. The youngest is about fourteen. She’ll
be coming out here to help us move.
MS. NORTON: Is she currently employed?
MR. LARSON: She is with Save the Children. That’s the organization that’s semi-religious
organization. They accept donations and use money overseas mostly, to run
programs that help mothers and children. She is still with the, but still on a part time
basis. She works in a library too. Our next child is Kenny, who is a carpenter. He went
to university for a couple of years. He now has his own business in Minnetonka. He
lives close to us and is sort of taking over the management of the farm. He is a hunter like
all of our family has been. We enjoy having him around very much. Our youngest is
Gary. Gary is 51 now. He lives in Duluth. He is with IRRRB, which is the Iron Range
Rehabilitation Association. He also has been very active in the Olympic organization.
He spent a month out at the Salt Lake Olympics, pretty much in charge of the Cross
Country Ski program.
MS. NORTON: Why did you want to work for the USFWS?
MR. LARSON: I think it was a natural thing that when I was a young kid I think a
typical thing that my sister used to tease me about was when wasps flew in to our picnic
table, and one lit on my hand, everybody ran. I put it up to my lips and said, “Kiss me
little wasp, kiss me!” And it did!
MS. NORTON: Did the lip swell up?
MR. LARSON: It did! My sisters tease me about it to this day. They introduced me to
their friends as their ‘wasp kissed brother’! I always did, I was born with a love of
growing plants and animals. We always had dogs and cats. For many years we had
chickens. Later on, we had riding horses. I guess the love of the outdoors and nature was
in my soul. While originally I didn’t feel strong about hunting, I eventually did. I could
see that there was a beautiful relationship between the love of animals and hunting; using
them to eat, but not to waste them. I think I was destined to be a biologist. I enjoyed the
training and the school. I worked as a summer student on the shores of Lake Superior for
the government one year when I was in college. Every bit of my college work, I really
enjoyed. I wasn’t always the best student. I didn’t study as hard as some. But I
certainly enjoyed my college. The people that I had as professors; I don’t know if you
remember Gus Swanson, who worked for FWS. He was in charge of Research in Chicago,
when I first joined the FWS. He’s one that I’ve always figured who must have
recommended me to Diffenbach, who headed up River Basin Studies. My first job was
with River Basin Studies. The head of the Washington office was Diffenbach. I was
pleased when I applied and got the job. I moved to Billings, Montana for my first
assignment. I had to report to Chicago to the Regional/federal office. I met Mr.
Diffenbach, who was the head. Gus Swanson was in charge of Research and I knew that
he was the one who recommended me to Mr. Diffenbach. They gave me a jeep with open
curtains. It was in the middle of winter when I was to drive that jeep from Chicago all the
way to McCook, Nebraska to report to duty. My first job was leaving Chicago in the
middle of winter in sub-zero weather without a heater in the car! I drove out on highway
30 and reported to McCook, Nebraska where the River Basin people had one of their first
projects. That’s where I started working for FWS.
MS. NORTON: What did you do?
MR. LARSON: I was a biologist. What we’d do was to interview farmers and find out
what wildlife was on their land. We’d make game counts of pheasants and we’d write up
a story. In River Basin studies, the FWS was asked to analyze what effect this project
would have on the environment. If you are going to flood ten thousand acres for a
reservoir, or irrigate land down-stream, what is the overall effect for the wildlife? Then,
we would often include in our reports recommendations for certain enhancements. What
can they do to make a little change in the project to benefit wildlife so that there would be
better hunting and fishing? That was what River Basin Studies was all about. I was on
the early stages of that. Mr. Diffenbach was in Washington in charge. Harold
Mossbaugh was in charge of the MRBS. [Missouri River Basin Studies] I started
working there in McCook but our home station was Billings, Montana. I ended up by
going back, with the gang to Billings, and eventually I got permission to go back to
Minnesota and pick up my wife and young daughter. We drove back to Billings and lived
in a motel for a while until we could find a house.
MS. NORTON: How long were you in Billings?
MR. LARSON: I would say about six months. Then they needed field stations. There
was one in Billings. There was also one in Bismarck and Pierre. They set one up in
Grand Island, Nebraska. Wendell Johnson was in charge of the one in Nebraska and I was
transferred there to be his second in command. After about six months he went to
Washington and I was put in charge.
MS. NORTON: Where did you go from Grand Island?
MR. LARSON: From there, I there until all of a sudden, after being there for quite a few
years, I got a call asking if I could come up to Minneapolis. Mr. Burwell wanted to
interview me for of all things, a personnel management job in the Regional Office. I went
back to Minnesota to talk to him about that job. We’d even bought a house in Grand
Island and we had been there for quite a few years. Minnesota was our home state. We
also had built a brand new dream house. Marge had designed it, and we had a contractor
build it. We had moved in and spent a year seeding the lawn, and painting and all of the
things that go on with a new home. We loved that new place, but when Burwell offered a
job in Minnesota, which was our home state, and the place where I had a farm, and
farmland that I had to manage and visit periodically; we also had all of our college friends
there; the offer was too great. It wasn’t a promotion right away. I think it took a year
before I got a promotion out of it. And it was a change of professional skills, from being a
field biologist where you traveled a lot outdoors and walked in the woods and valleys and
identified birds and animals to a job where you were working with people. Burwell
convinced me by saying that he wanted a field person as a personnel office. I was the one
who did the hiring and firing. He wanted someone with a biological feeling to have this
job. So I accepted it and went back home and told Marge we were moving. One of the
saving graces was Audrey Burke. She’s the one who really should have had the job. She
was knowledgeable and knew all of the strings. She’d told Burwell that she didn’t want
it. She thought that it should be a man, and someone whose first love was the nature part
of it. She would do all she could to help make the transition possible. That’s one of the
things; if Audrey Burke hadn’t been there I don’t know if I would have taken the job. It
was obvious, the type of person she was when I first met her. She did everything to
make it easy. I remember at some of the conferences the whole staff would be there.
Someone would ask a question about whether they could hire someone the following
summer for a certain job, and I didn’t know anything about the register or anything.
Audrey would speak up! But instead of just giving the answer she’d say the she and I
had discussed it and here was my recommendation. She’d cover up for my lack of
knowledge for the first couple of years! She was just a wonderful partner to have. I was
also lucky to have someone like Burwell as the Director, who understood our abilities and
out limitations. I do think that in my career as a Personnel officer, management felt that
we were able to do a good job of getting high quality people into the important jobs.
Audrey and I worked as a team. There were of course all the others on the staff who
worked hard too. I was lucky to have a partner like Audrey.
MS. NORTON: What did you feel the pay and benefits were like?
MR. LARSON: I guess I wouldn’t have much….I didn’t think there was anything we
could do to control that. We just accepted that if you work for the government, they told
you what you would get. I don’t think I ever had much influence on that.
MS. NORTON: Did you have promotions opportunities?
MR. LARSON: It was actually slow. I transferred from River Basins to the Regional
office at the same grade. I didn’t get a promotion right away, but eventually I did.
Eventually, I got a promotion to GS-13 as the Personnel Officer.
MS. NORTON: Did you socialize with any of the people that you worked with?
MS. LARSON: Actually, I think one of the most socializing things was in the carpool.
There were about five or six in the same carpool, who lived out. Ed Stephenson was an
Engineer. He lived just six blocks away. It was Betty who found this house for us. To
this day we say, “thank you Betty”, every time we drive past her house.
MS. NORTON: Ed is passed away
Postcard Written by Richard E. Larson to the Bryant College Service Club Dated April 21, 1945
No full text[Transcription begins] S/Sgt. R. E. Larson 31189453 Sqdn. S Lowry Field, Colorado
April 21, 1945 [Postmark Date]
Bryant Service Club Bryant College Providence, Rhode Island
Hello People,
Your package and letter arrived a few weeks ago after being sidetracked along the route. The sweater came in very handy. Since the so called spring in Colorado has been more like winter than any thing else. Thanks a lot.
I expect to be here for about another month but the army has ways of changing things rather unexpectedly.
Thank you once again.
Sincerely, R. E. Larson [Transcription ends
Postcard Written by Richard E. Larson to the Bryant College Service Club Dated June 14, 1943
No full text[Transcription begins] A/S Richard E. Larson 315th C. T. D. Flight S Tempe, Arizona
June 14, 1943 [Postmark date]
Chairman Bryant Service Club Bryant College Providence, Rhode Island
Hello Folks,
So many things have happened and I have been to so many different places that some of my mail has taken quite some time to reach me. I did however receive the package you sent to me a few weeks ago. It was in fairly good shape considering the time it had been traveling. I want to thank you very much for remembering me. Expect to be here a few months at Arizona State Teachers College.
Sincerely, Dick Larson [Transcription ends
Christmas Card from Richard E. Larson to the Bryant College Service Club Dated December 15, 1942
No full text[Transcription begins] A MERRY CHRISTMAS!
[Inscription]: A HEARTY GREETING, A SONG OF CHEER FOR CHRISTMAS AND THE COMING YEAR!
[Handwritten on back]: Service Club - - -
Your package of candy was received in good condition. You can be assured that the contents didn’t last long once the boxes were opened. The boys here in the barracks and I did a quick job on the candy.
I do want to thank the Service Club very much for the gift.
Sincerely,
Dick Larson
December 15, 1942
Pvt. R. E. Larson 769th T. S. S. (Sp) Barracks E – 433 Buckley Field Colorado [Transcription ends
No.131, Jackie Nokes, interview by Tim Larson
No full textTranscript (51 pages) of interview(s) by Tim Larson with KSL employee Jackie Nokes on June 10, 1986. This interview is no. 131 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project, and tape no. U-475Nokes (b. 1930) recalls her career in television at KSL and comments on many of the people employed at the station, 1950s-1980s. Interviewer: Tim Larso
Episode 08: COVID-19’s Effects on Local and National Elections with Bruce Larson
No full textIn Episode 8 of Conversations Beneath the Cupola, podcast host, Gettysburg College President Robert W. Iuliano is joined by Chair and Prof. of Political Science Bruce Larson. Iuliano and Larson discuss how the COVID-19 outbreak has and will continue to impact ongoing primary elections across the country, how the administration’s response to the health crisis today may affect the presidential election in November, and more.
The episode begins with Larson making sense of the current health situation from a political angle, particularly looking back over time. During the ongoing primary elections, it is a health risk to show up at the polls, and he says the uncertainty about how long the virus and subsequent closures will last, make this context fairly unique in American political history. He shares that the closest event in history to what the country is experiencing now, was the flu pandemic of 1918.
The conversation continues as Iuliano asks Larson about the practicality of the government, in short notice, introducing a new means of voting that would still be fair and that wouldn’t undermine legitimacy. Larson notes that several states are currently implementing mail-in voting, and looking at the scenario from an observer’s point of view, he says Democrats typically favor and benefit from mail-in balloting. Beyond the effects of mail-in voting positively affecting one political party over the other, Larson shares that he doesn’t think that the COVID-19 situation will help people with differing views find common ground, though he wishes it would.
Looking forward to the November presidential election, Larson says its uncharted territory. On the day the podcast conversation took place, it was 209 days until election day, and Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race. What’s in store in the months to come is uncertain, but Larson predicts that it may be another close election.
The episode concludes with an anecdotal “Slice of Life” told through the president’s perspective. Iuliano spotlights biology major Julia Palmucci ’18, who read about an older couple who was anxious about visiting the grocery store amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and she saw an opportunity to help. She and a team of friends have since joined together to help at-risk populations by picking up their groceries or running other essential errands
No.208, Florien Wineriter, interview by Stan Larson and Lorille Miller
No full textTranscript (28 pages) of interview(s) by Stan Larson and Lorille Miller with Florien Wineriter, a member of First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City, on June 8, 1989. This interview is no. 208 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project, and tape no. U-999Wineriter (b. 1925) discusses his personal life, his association with and philosophy about Unitarianism, and particularly his activities in the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City. Interviewers: Stan Larson, Lorille Mille
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