Interview with Esther Faris
Date
1987Author
Faris, Esther
Publisher
UW-Stout Archives and Area Research Center
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A tape recorded interview of Esther Faris in May 1985 at her home in Menomonie, Wisconsin conducted by Gayle Martinson representing the UW-Stout Oral History Program. Esther Faris was an English lecturer at Stout who developed the program and subsequently taught English as a Second Language. The interview includes discussion on married life as a homemaker during the 1940's, her subsequent education, Stout's policy against hiring two people from the same family at the time, development and teaching English as a Second Language, support from the English Department, international students, cultural differences, English for Saudi wives, problems on campus for international students, and her philosophic and religious beliefs as a Bahai.