friday, february 29, 1980
page 6
daily nebraskan
Oral historian hears words of time
By Bill Graf
During a 44-year career in agricultural communications
he has seen much Nebraska history unfold.
Today, for posterity's sake, George Round-continues
a seven-year effort to "preserve the human side of NU's
and Nebraska's history."
So far, Round's work as an oral historian, which is en
shrined on the shelves of the NU archives in Love Library,
has yielded 260 transcribed interviews with Nebraska's
greats and near-greats.
"Much of this history hasn't been recorded by the
press." So it's important to get these historical pieces
from the people who were involved first hand before they
pass on, he said.
I'm not an historian and I don't mean to pose as one.
Bronze Cross given
to Cadet MacMillan
UNL Army ROTC Cadet James M. MacMillan has been
named one of two cadets in the western United States to
receive the Legion of Honor Bronze Cross for Achieve
ment. MacMillan, a senior in electrical engineering, was given
the award at a ceremony Thursday in the UNL Military
and Naval Science Building by Col. E.H. Kauffman, a
member of the sponsoring Legion of Valor, Inc.
The Legion of Valor Bronze Cross for Achievement is
provided annually for achievement of scholastic excel-1
lence in military and academic subjects to stimulate
development of leadership in ROTC cadets. It is based on
the cadet's performance through the third year of ROTC.
MacMillan is a Cadet Lieutenant Colonel and comman
der of the cadet battalion. He is a four-year Army ROTC
scholarship winner and has been designated a Distinguished
Military Student.
'Historians may say, 'this guy Round don't know what he's
talking about.' But that don't bother me." he added.
Student takeover remembered
Some of Round's work includes interviews with Joe
Soshnik, the first president of NU and Dan Ladely direc
tor of the Sheldon Film Theater about their roles in the
1970 student takeover of the Military and Naval Science
building on the UNL campus. He also interviewed Ed
Weir, a Nebraska All-American tackle from the 1920s.
Other interviews include those of George, Beadle, the
only Nebraskan to win a Nobel prize; Cliff Hardin, former
NU chancellor and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; UNL
Athletic Director Bob Devaney; former Nebraska State
Sen. Terry Carpenter; farmer Sherman Hendrickson from
Eagle, national corn-picking champion of 1933. Besides
these, Round has 252 other interviews.
Most of the background for the interviews comes from
his long experience with NU and Nebraska's past, Round
explained.
Round, who joined the NU staff in 1933, said that
when he started this project in 1973 most of the inter
views were about Nebraska agriculture. But after a short
time, the interviews covered other aspects of Nebraska.
Rich media history
Several interviews deal with what Round calls "Ne
braska's rich history of radio and television." Some are
based on his experiences as chairman of the university's
Educational Television Committee in the early 1950s.
The committee was responsible for establishing KUON
TV, NU's television station.
Round also helped put several programs on the air, in
cluding "Backyard Farmer," now in its 27th year.
Round retired form UNL as a professor of agricultural
communications in 1977. And although funds for his
oral history research ran out, the university still supplies
him with an office. And the list of interviews gets longer.
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George Round
Round, who is often too humble to say I, instead of
we, said, "We had a small grant when we started. But it
was gone a long time ago. It's strictly volunteer."
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