John Littleton and Kate Vogel discuss Harvey Littleton’s students getting teaching jobs.  Oral history interview with Kate Vogel and John Littleton by Barb Elam and Caleb Weintraub-Weissman, conducted via telephone, December 12, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:55.

John Littleton: In the early years, Dad’s [Harvey Littleton] students could pretty much—most any of them could get a job teaching.

Kate Vogel: So many students who had gone through college on the GI Bill, and there was a huge expansion of art departments during that time period in the sixties. And so there was a lot of places that were hiring teachers, where in the past there hadn’t been a lot of positions, and I think that some of it was the right time, the right place. So those people graduating from Madison [University of Wisconsin-Madison] with a degree in ceramics or glass, if they were one of Harvey’s grad students, he had the connections to help connect them with those people and encourage them. And he also was going around the country at that time, encouraging art departments to start a glass program. So if they wanted to start a glass program, he was the person that they would call and say, ‘Gosh, who do you recommend?’