Brigham D. Madsen, 2003

File — Box: 31, Folder: 14

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Scope and Contents

Madsen (b. 1914) was born in Magna, Utah. He discusses growing up in the railroad town of Pocatello, Idaho; schooling, family, and the Depression. He attended the University of Utah for two years, completed a LDS mission to the eastern central states and attended graduate school at Berkeley for two years, where he studied history. He was drafted in 1942 and took basic training at Camp Roberts in California. He attended OCS at Fort Benning, Georgia, and upon graduation was assigned as an instructor there. He was sent to Germany at the end of the war for occupation duty. He remained there for eight months, during which time he was assigned as the historian of the Third Army. He returned home in July 1946. Madsen returned to Berkeley to finish his PhD and joined the faculty at Brigham Young University. Later, he taught at Utah State University. He served as assistant director of training for the Peace Corps in Washington, DC, and as training director for VISTA. He returned to Utah as the Dean of the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Utah and served in several other administrative positions including Administrative Vice President, Director of the Marriott Library, and chair of the Department of History. He returned to a full-time faculty position in history before retiring from the University in 1984. Interviewed by Winston Erickson. 58 pages.

Dates

2003

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