Dona Strauss oral history interview

Oral history interview with Dona Strauss, Associate Professor of Mathematics, 1966-1969, for the Dartmouth Vietnam Project. Strauss discusses growing up in South Africa during apartheid and why her family moved from eastern Europe to South Africa. She describes her educational path and how she arrived at Dartmouth College to teach. Strauss tells of her time at Dartmouth and her participation with antiwar activity. Strauss describes a trip she took to a march in Washington D.C. with the Students for a Democratic Society and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Strauss describes the student take-over of Parkhurst Hall, the administration building on May 6, 1969 and her involvement and the college’s response to her participation with the event. Strauss describes the disciplinary process that she and Paul S. Knapp went through by the Committee Advisory to the President. She discusses the outcome of the trial and her subsequent departure from Dartmouth College. Strauss discusses living in England, raising her children, and being a professor of mathematics at the University of Hull. She describes the differences between academia in England and the United States.