Oral history of Robert Pond, Sr.

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Robert Pond is a professor emeritus in the Whiting School of Engineering's Department of Materials Science and Engineering Department. He was Hopkins' first metallurgist, notable among students for his aluminum bow ties. In his career, he spent time on rapid solidification technology as well as on solidification phenomena. Pond was also known for his lecture "Fun with Metals," which he gave more than 500 times throughout the course of his career. In this history, Pond recounts his professorship and innovation at the Whiting School of Engineering. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.

Oral history of John Hardwicke

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John Webster Hardwicke was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1927. He received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and studied law at the George Washington University Law School. After school, Hardwicke entered the Maryland Bar and became a judge in Baltimore, specializing in administrative law. He was president of the Harford County Council for many years and published many articles and textbooks on law. Hardwicke also taught business law at Johns Hopkins from 1955 to 1998. In this oral history, Hardwicke recalls his teaching law at McCoy College, the evening school of Johns Hopkins, and what the Homewood campus was like during his time with Hopkins. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.

Oral history of John Gryder

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John Gryder, a longtime chemistry professor at Hopkins, was a noted civil rights activist in Baltimore. He attended the California Institute of Technology for his undergraduate and some graduate work and received his Ph.D in chemistry from Columbia University in 1948 before coming to Hopkins to teach later that year. Gryder partnered with Rev. Dr. Chester Wickwire, the campus chaplain for many years, to help desegregate Baltimore and provide equal educational opportunities for African Americans during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. In this oral history, Gryder discusses being a professor and administrator on campus through various Hopkins presidencies and how Hopkins has changed as an institution from the 1950s forward, especially during the heyday of the student movement in the 1960s. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.

Oral history of Gordon "Reds" Wolman

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Markley Gordon "Reds" Wolman was geomorphologist whose passion for his discipline, dedication to his work, and his uniquely creative ways of looking at problems, resulted in a wide-ranging career. Among the many hats he wore were scientist, environmental activist, teacher and mentor, university administrator, and government advisor on the local, state, national and international level. Wolman was born in 1924 in Baltimore the son of Anne and Abel Wolman. His father was a sanitary engineer whose accomplishments ranged from developing chlorinated water, to designing water supply systems for cities throughout the world, to advising on the safe use of nuclear power. The younger Wolman, known throughout his life as Reds, attended the Park School in Baltimore graduating in 1942. He began his college career at Haverford College, but left to join the U.S. Naval Reserves after his first semester. When discharged in 1946, Wolman enrolled at the Johns Hopkins University where his father was in the Department of Sanitary Engineering. Wolman graduated in 1949 with a degree in Geology and All-American Lacrosse honors. He then took an MA (1951) and PhD (1953) from Harvard University. In 1951, Wolman embarked on a career of nearly 60 years that combined research, service to the profession, and educating the next generation of scientists. In this interview, Wolman discusses his undergraduate career at Johns Hopkins, his memories of notable faculty and administrators including Hopkins president Isaiah Bowman, and the faculty culture he experienced at Hopkins. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.

Oral history of Greg Ball

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Gregory Ball was a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University and also served as Vice Dean for Science and Research Infrastructure in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He played a major role in the creation of the neuroscience undergraduate major in the 1990s. In 2014, he was appointed Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS) at the University of Maryland, College Park. In this interview, Ball discusses the history of the department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and its relationship to other parts of the university. This oral history is part of the Hopkins Retrospective oral histories series.

Oral history of Kelly Gebo

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Kelly Gebo earned her B.S. (1992), M.D. (1995) and MPH from Johns Hopkins, completed her medical residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and is currently the first vice provost for education at Johns Hopkins. She is also a professor in both the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health, as well as the director of the undergraduate program in Public Health Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences. She was an American Council on Education fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's provosts's office in 2013 and 2014. In this oral history, Gebo describes her early life and undergraduate experience at Hopkins in the late 1980s, her experiences with athletics, Spring Fair, and Blue Key, as well as her medical education, career, and teaching. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.

Oral history of H. Alan Shapiro and Sanchita Balachandran

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H. Alan Shapiro is a classical archaeologist serving as a professor in Johns Hopkins University's Department of Classics. Prior to his professorship at Hopkins, Shapiro taught at Columbia, Tulane, Stevens Tech and Canterbury in New Zealand. Sanchita Balachandran is the Curator/Conservator of the Johns Hopkins Archeological Museum and Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. She trained as an objects conservator at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and completed additional training in the Antiquities Conservation Department of the J. Paul Getty Museum and at the Straus Center for Conservation at the Harvard Art Museums. In this interview, Shapiro and Balachandran discuss David M. Robinson's contributions to classics at Hopkins as well as the role of the Archaeological Museum on campus. This oral history is part of the Hopkins Retrospective oral histories series.