Oral history interview with Henry W. Ahrens, 1985.

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Oral history interview with Henry W. Ahrens, 1985.

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Ahrens discusses how the college changed from his early days when it was a small teachers college with 1,200 students and 80 faculty members. Topics include the physical makeup of the campus when he arrived, the curriculum of Art Department, and his close working relationship with Education Department. The interview also includes a long discussion of puppetry around the world, the broader changes that had occurred in art education, and his philosophy thereof. People mentioned include Gladys Andrews, Bob Burns, Chris Craig, Joe Demercy, Wendy Hutchinson, Mark Lehman, Ed Martin, Peter Nicholson, Marilyn Pavlosky, Dorothy Titus, Hida Wagner, and Roscoe L. West.

Transcript: 15 leaves ; 28 cm.Videorecording: 1 videocassette (VHS) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

The College of New Jersey, TCNJ Library

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The College of New Jersey, TCNJ Library

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Ahrens, Henry Thomas, 1969-

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Henry W. Ahrens, Professor Emeritus of Art, was born in 1918 and earned a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute (1941), an M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University (1943), and an Ed.D. from New York University (1964); taught at Trenton State College from 1957 to 1983 and served as chair of Art Department from 1965 to 1970 and from 1972 to 1975. From the description of Oral history interview with Henry W. Ahrens, 1985. (Trenton Free Public Library). WorldCat record id: 557325955 ...

Johnson, Ilse,

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Trenton State College

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