Oral history interview with Gerrard Haworth
Oral history interview with WMU alumnus Gerrard Haworth, conducted by Thomas Coyne and Alan Brown. Haworth discuss college life, campus jobs during the Depression, the classes and professors, and minority students on campus in the 30s. Upon graduating from WMU in 1937 with a B.A. in education, Haworth moved to Holland to teach industrial arts at Holland High School. In 1940, he earned a Master of Arts degree in educational administration from the University of Michigan. In the 1940s, Haworth left the teaching profession to build a special-order wood products enterprise, which grew into global corporation later called Haworth Inc., a manufacturer of office environments. Haworth discusses the processes of promoting his business into a global, multi-million dollar enterprise. He retired officially in 2005. He passed away October 25, 2006.