Carbone Cancer Center @ 50 Oral History Project

The Carbone Cancer Center (Carbone) Oral History Project was commissioned to commemorate its 50th anniversary. Carbone’s website offers a comprehensive overview its past & current work. The Oral History Program has compiled research to help conduct these oral histories; contact the OHP to gain access to that material. For more on the UW’s history of cancer research, check out Harold P. Rusch’s Something Attempted, Something Done: A Personal History of Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin, 1934-1979.

Interviews

The following interviews were conducted with current & former Carbone staff, as well as others instrumental in its history. In general, narrators describe their relationship to Carbone, as well as stories & anecdotes which further illustrate the institution’s history & importance. Note: if the narrator’s name is hyperlinked, one can click on it to access the full interview in our Digital Collections.

Howard Bailey (OH# 2455)David Carbone (OH# 2450)
Jim Cleary (OH# 2454)Maury Cotter (OH# 2406)
David DeMets (OH# 2429)Phil Farrell (OH# 2488)
Mark Lefebvre (OH# 2407)John Niederhuber (OH# 2481)
Patrick Remington (OH# 2402)Paul Sondel (OH# 2408)
Richard Steeves (OH# 2403)Bill Sugden (OH# 2417)
George Wilding (OH# 2459)

Acknowledgments

The Oral History Program would like to offer a special thanks to Dr. Howard Bailey for his desire to document Carbone’s history, as well as Carbone staff Joyce Jackson & Meredith Luschen for their help behind the scenes. We’d also like to thank OHP Staff: Evie Erickson, Madeleine Culpepper, Rachel Reichard and Troy Reeves for their work conducting & processing the interviews and creating this webpage. Finally, we would like to thank all of the narrators of this project for their generosity.