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  Lucile Speer Interview, February 11, 1981

  Lucile Speer

  Lucille Speer describes how the University of Montana faculty union (then Montana State University faculty union) decided to form a faculty senate in the 1950s in part to take over the functions of the grievance committee. She details the relationship between the grievance committee, faculty ... Read More

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  Lucile Speer Interview, February 17, 1981

  Lucile Speer

  Lucile Speer recalls the history of the University of Montana Library (then Montana State University Library). She describes being hired by Gertrude Buckhous, the first trained librarian at the University, when the library was just one room in the basement of Main Hall in 1922. ... Read More

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  Lucile Speer Interview, February 3, 1981

  Lucile Speer

  Lucile Speer discusses the development of the University Teachers Union at the University of Montana (then Montana State University) in Missoula, Montana. She notes its primary goal was the economic improvement of the University and its employees, not collective bargaining. Speer explains how the Teachers ... Read More

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  Lucile Speer Interview, January 13, 1981

  Lucile Speer

  Lucile Speer discusses being a charter member, along with Mike Mansfield, in the 1944 formation of the Montana Farmer-Labor Institute. She describes the support for the Institute from the University of Montana (then Montana State University) faculty union, the Montana Farmers Union, and the American ... Read More

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  Lucile Speer Interview, January 20, 1981

  Lucile Speer

  Lucile Speer names many of the people involved in the Montana Farmer-Labor Institute including Executive Secretaries Pete Rudiman and John Swackhamer, and Presidents Don Chapman and Leonard Kenfield. She discusses member of the Teachers Union in Bozeman—Karl Kraenzel and Paul Dunbar—and Harry and Gretchen Billings, ... Read More

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  Lucile Speer Interview, March 10, 1981

  Lucile Speer

  Lucile Speer describes serving as a delegate during the 1971-1972 Montana Constitutional Convention. She recalls her works as a member of the Legislative Committee and which issues were debated, such as adding an environmental article, expanding the Bill of Rights, and dealing with water rights ... Read More

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  Lucile Speer Interview, March 17, 1981

  Lucile Speer

  Lucile Speer describes serving as a delegate during the 1971-1972 Montana Constitutional Convention. She explains the non-partisan aspect of being a delegate and how delegates were seated alphabetically by last name rather than by political affiliation. Speer notes that the Constitutional Convention delegation had the ... Read More

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  Lucile Speer Interview, March 24, 1981

  Lucile Speer

  Lucile Speer reminisces on the final days of the 1971-1972 Montana Constitutional Convention. She notes that higher education issue was solved by a compromise of allowing the Montana Legislature to continue allocating a certain amount of the state’s budget for higher education, but creating a ... Read More

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  Lucile Speer Interview, March 31, 1981

  Lucile Speer

  Lucile Speer explains how different issues at the 1971-1972 Montana Constitutional Convention such as gambling, capital punishment, and a unicameral versus bicameral legislature were placed on the ballot as Referendum No. 68. She recalls the Montana Farm Bureau suing the State of Montana over the ... Read More

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  Lucile Speer Interview, March 3, 1981

  Lucile Speer

  Lucile Speer recalls the history of Montana’s constitutional conventions and her role on the Local Government Committee during the 1972 Montana Constitutional Convention. She describes authoring studies for the League of Women Voters in preparation for a constitutional convention, prior to her appointment as delegate ... Read More