1970s PhD Program: TCU, Oxford Studies & Live-In Indian Seminar

1975 FRED IN PhD PROGRAM AT TCU

FUNDED WITH GRANT (SCHOLARSHIP) FROM AAL

DMLC GRANTED SABBATICAL FOR ONE YEAR

HIS GRADUATE WORK WAS IN AMERICAN HISTORY 

WITH MINOR IN HISTORY OF ENGLAND

KIMBALL ART MUSEUM, FORT WORTH TEXAS

KIMBALL ART MUSEUM
THOMAS ATKINS. WATER HOLE

AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART
FAMOUS COLLECTIONS OF RUSSELL & REMINGTONS PAINTINGS

 ANNETTE STARTED A LUTHERAN SCHOOL IN FORT WORTH WITH ALL GRADES

THE CLASSROOM

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN SCHOOL

FORT WORTH, TEXAS

BEFORE THE YEAR WAS OVER A NEW SCHOOL & CHURCH WAS BUILT

MOM & DAD WULFF & HELMERS VISIT FORT WORTH

FRED'S UNCLE DON HELMER PhD (SHOWN WITH WIFE LOUISE) 

HE TAUGHT THERMODYNAMICS  COURSES AT NEARBY TEXAS TECH

 OUR DAUGHTERS FOUND RABBITS ON PLAYGROUND OF IMMANUEL LUTHERAN SCHOOL

BILL WULFF FAMILY VISITED FORT WORTH, TEXAS

WATER GARDENS,  DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH

THE WULFF COUSINS ENJOYED FORT WORTH AMUSEMENT PARK

LYNN WULFF DURING A WEEK END SCHOOL BREAK AT LYNDON JOHNSON RANCH

MID-TERM BREAK AT TCU

WE TRAVELED TO FLORIDA VIA NEW ORLEANS

THE GIRLS WERE SKETCHED AT JACKSON SQUARE, NEW ORLEANS

ST. LOUIS SQUARE

NEW ORLEANS, LA

VICKSBURG. MISSISSIPPI

CHANNEL

VICKSBURG COURTHOUSE (BUILT BY SLAVES)

TRIP FROM TCU TO MINNESOTA

STOP AT CARRIE NATION HOUSE

KIM POSES AS CARRIE NATION WITH

THE REAL HATCHET AND BIBLE USED BY CARRIE

MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS

PHOTO OF THE REAL CARRIE NATION 

ARMED WITH A HATCHET AND BIBLE

SHE INVADED TAVERNS

FAMILY CATS HAPPY TO BE HOME AGAIN

1976 ANNETTE & FRED ATTEND OXFORD UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND

Fred received a scholarship to attend classes at Worcester College, University of Oxford in England. His English history courses were in conjunction with his PhD program at TCU. Credits earned would be through Stanford University in California. All of Fred's transportation, tuition and lodging were covered, Ann agreed to attend Oxford, too, and took a course in British Paintings of the Romantic Age. We paid for Annette's expenses. We stayed in the New Dorm (1714), ate meals in the college dinning room and sipped tea in the Commons. Classes were taught Oxford style in seminar rooms or at sites.  

FRED'S OXFORD PROFESSOR (FELLOW) JESSUP IS THE GREY HAIRED MAN ON THE LEFT. HIS STUDENTS ARE TOURING A HISTORIC MANSION IN THIS PHOTO.

TH ENTRANCE TO OUR COLLEGE

NO ONE COULD LEAVE OR ENTER EXCEPT THROUGH THESE GATES.

OUR DORMITORY

THE NEW DORM

THE OLD DORMS THAT DATE BACK TO 1242 

(AND WAS SPARED WHEN HENRY VIII ABOLISHED MONASTERIES.) 

WE DID NOT STAY HERE BECAUSE THEY WERE RESERVED FOR SINGLES.

THE OLD DORM AS SEEN FROM THE WINDOW OF OUR ROOM

THE CAMPUS HAD ITS OWN POND

ANNETTE AND I USED TO FED THE DUCKS

AFTER LUNCH WITH HARD ROLLS FROM THE TABLE

OUR DINNING ROOM

WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD, ENGLAND

WE WERE REQUIRE TO DRESS UP FOR MEALS

COAT AND TIE FOR MEN

WAITRESSES SERVED MEALS

OXFORD HAS MANY HISTORICAL SITES

MARTYRS' MONUMENT TO RIDLEY, CRANMER AND LATIMER

(THE THREE BLIND MICE KILLED BY MARY TUDOR)

THEY WERE BURNED ALIVE ON THIS SITE

CARFAX TOWER FROM WHERE CRANMER WATCHED FRIENDS BURN

HE THUS CAME TO REGRET DENYING HIS PROTESTANT FAITH

HE RECANTED HIS CONFESSION HERE IN ST. MARY THE VIRGIN CHURCH

THEN WAS USHERED OUT TO BE BURNED AT THE STAKE

ST. MARY THE VIRGIN CHURCH

OXFORD, ENGLAND

VIEW FROM THE TOWER OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN CHURCH

"CITY OF SPIRES"

TAVERN IN OXFORD CALLED BEARS INN

STARTED IN 1242

 BEARS INN HAD EXHIBITS WITH OVER 4,500 SNIP-LETS OF TIES

IF ONE CONTRIBUTED A TIE HE RECEIVED A PINT OF BEER. FRED HAD TO PAY.

WE ATENDED CHURCH AT CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL AS OBSERVERS

There were more people in the formal procession o Sundays than people in the pews. 

Those who attended were visitors like us.

Pews faced the center aisle.

PUNTING AT MAGDALENE COLLEGE, OXFORD, ENGLAND

PUNTING WAS MORE DIFFICULT THAT IT LOOKED

ANNETE AND COULD NEVER COORDINATE WITH OUR POLES

SIDE TRIP

HAMPTON COURT PALACE

RESIDENCE OF CARDINAL WOLSEY

THE BECAME PALACE OF HENRY VIII

SIDE TRIP

ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELD CHURCH, LONDON

WE ATTENDED A FREE PUBLIC CONCERT HERE

#10 DOWNING STREET, LONDON

RESIDENCE OF PRIME MINISTER

PARLIAMENT LONDON

STATUE OF WINSTON CHURCH BY PARLIAMENT

LONDON

ALBERT MEMORIAL

KENSINGTON GARDENS

ROYAL ALBERT HALL KENSINGTON

BELOW: OUR PROFESSOR TOOK US TO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY FOR A SESSION THERE. THE BUS DRIVER PULLED OFF THE HIGHWAY SO PROFESSOR JESSUP COULD

SET UP FOR A PICNIC LUNCH. (WINE WITH AN OXFORD UNIVERSITY LABEL) WAS PASSED AROUND.

CAMBRIDGE PROFESSOR WAS GUEST TEACHER WHILE WE WERE AT CAMBRIDGE

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE HAVE CLOSE RELATIONSHIP KNOWN AS OXBRIDGE

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

CHAPEL, KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

SIDE TRIP

WE VISITED THE ANCESTRAL HOME OF GEORGE WASHINGTON 

-- VERY FITTING SINCE THIS WAS 1976, AN ANNIVERSARY OF 1776.

SIDE TRIP

ANCESTRAL HOME OF GEORGE WASHINGTON

SIDE TRIP

WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL

WINCHESTER OLD CAPITAL

PHILIP II KING OF SPAIN MARRIED  "BLOODY" MARY TUDOR AT WINCHESTER
MANY ENGLISHMEN OPPOSED THE MARRIAGE.

SIDE TRIP

ANNE OF CLEVES HOUSE, LEWES, ENGLAND

HENRY VIII HAD HIS MARRIAGE ANNULED BUT CONTINUED GOOD RELATIONS

PROVIDED HER WITH THIS HOME AND MADE VISITS

THAT IS ANNETTE PEEKING INTO WINDOW

SIDE TRIP

GREENWICH, ENGLAND

CUTTY SARK

WORLD'S LAST TEA SHPPER SHIP

CUTTY SARK

SIDE TRIP 

PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND

NELSON'S SHIP HMS VICTORY

HE HAD THE SHIP PAINTED YELLOW AND BLACK 

TO HELP DISTINGUISH IT IN BATTLE WITH FRENCH

 WE BOARDED SHIP AND WERE GIVEN TOUR BY SAILORS

SIDE TRIP

BLENHEIM PALACE

SHEEP ON THE GROUNDS

 GARDEN

BLENHEIM PALACE

SIDE TRIP

STAFFORD ON AVON

SHAKESPEARE COUNTRY

POND

STRATFORD ON AVON

SIDE TRIP SUDELEY CASTLE

RESIDENCE OF KATHERINE PARR

LADY JANE GREY,& ANNE BOLYN RAISED HERE

(HENCE PROTESTANT LEANINGS)

BATTLE OF BOSWORTH

ANNETTE'S STUDIES AT OXFORD

Annette took a course on British Artists at Oxford because that was a course Fred had wanted to take. Fred concentrated on Tudor and Stuart history that fit in with his PhD program. What worked out nice for Fred is that Annette's teacher had thought he was to hold classes seven days a week and Fred asked if he could tag along as they took tours to various art museums and large mansions that housed valuable works of art. Annette's teacher ad sure and that all I had to do was board the bus with Annette. This was great! What a wonderful way to see masterpieces of art and famous historic mansions at the same time.

First the British paintings. Since Annette's professor was the curator of the famous Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, we will begin with some works of Hogarth.

HOGARTH

THE PRE-RAPHAELITES 

WILLIAM TURNER

GAINSBOROUGH

"WATERING PLACE"

OTHERS

WILTON PLACE

FEATURED IN MOVIE BARRY LYNDON

SALISBURY, ENGLAND

BRIDGE ON THE ESTATE

ALTHORP HOUSE

SUNDERLAND ESTATE

NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON

NATIONAL ART GALLERY, LONDON

PHOTO OF LADY JANE GRAY'S EXECUTION

AFTER OUR CLASSES ENDED AT OXFORD, WE RENTED A CAR AND TOOK OFF FOR A TRIP AROUND ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES

WE STAYED IN B&Bs LIKE THIS ONE WITH A THATCHED ROOF

IT DATES BACK TO HENRY VI

 VIEW FROM THE B&B

 COVENTRY

GERMANY BOMBED ST. MICHAEL'S CATHEDRAL WW II (1940)

THE  RUINS ARE NOW A MONUMENT

THE ALTAR MEMORIAL

THE B&B WHERE WE STAYED HAD STRUCTURAL DAMAGE

THE NEW ST. MICHAEL'S CATHEDRAL IS VERY MODERN

LADY GODIVA LEGEND IS STILL ALIVE IN COVENTRY

GODIVA MONUMENT BELOW

COVENTRY, ENGLAND

NEW LANARK, SCOTLAND

ROBERT OWEN'S IDEAL WORKERS' COMMUNITY

COUNTING HOUSE BELOW

WORKERS' RESIDENCES 

(HIS HOUSE WAS AMONG THEIRS)

HIS STORES WERE NON-PROFIT TO SERVE WORKERS

HE ESTABLISHED THE INSTITUTE FOR THE REFORMATION OF CHARACTER

THE SETTING WAS OUT IN THE COUNTRYSIDE

INDIAN LIVE-IN SEMINAR WITH UWM 1977

The University of Wisconsin asked that spouses and children attend this living in the wilderness exercise because a real Indian village had families. We asked our daughters if they wanted to participate or they could stay with an aunt in New Ulm. They wanted to live like Indians in Northern Wisconsin. We all had to agree to absolve the University of Wisconsin in the event of injury or death. A requirement also stipulated that everyone had to take part in all activities (no spectators) of the program, including food gathering, living in a tent, ceremonial dances, building a canoe, making our own moccasins, etc. I called and asked that an exception be made for anything religious because it could be a matter of conscience.

They agreed. Later when we were asked to find a tree we felt confortable with for meditation we declined. On another occasion when I could have been adopted into a tribe I declined because  I felt uncomfortable with the ritual. UWM was accommodating. All the Indian instructors were wonderful and we became friends. The Medicine Woman became especially close. When we had to give up our camper

and parked it in Minoqua, Wisconsin, we gave her permission to use it when she wanted to get away for her doctoral studies. PS We not only gave up our Starcraft camper we had to surrender our car keys.

ENTIRE CAMPGROUND IN NORTHERN WISCONSIN WAS SET ASIDE
AS OUR INDIAN VILLAGE.

CAMPGROUND WAS OFF LAKE TOMAHAWK

ANNETTE AND FRED WITH KIDS AND UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PROFESSORS

ALL OF THE WHITE PROFESSORS WERE STUDENTS TAKING COURSEWORK

WE HAD TO GIVE UP OUR STARCRAFT CAMPER 

AND EITHER MAKE A TEEPEE OR SET UP A TENT

NO ELECTRICITY AND WE SHOWERED UNDER THE STARS

OUR DAUGHTER KIM BROUGHT ALONG A FRIEND TO BE AN INDIAN

HERE THEY WORK BESIDE THE CEREMONIAL PIT

D.N.R.  BROUGHT US A DEER. OUR TEACHERS UTILIZED EVERYTHING
STARTING WITH THE DEER SKIN

THE YOUNG LADY IN THE BACKGROUND WAS FROM ENGLAND. WHEN SHE HEARD OF THIS SEMINAR, SHE CANCELLED HER TRAVEL PLANS TO JOIN US.

NOTHING WAS DISCARDED AND UNUSUAL STUFF APPEARED IN OUR SOUP.

WE TRAPPED A PORCUPINE AND CALLED HIM "LUNCH." HE LIVED UP TO HIS NAME.

OUR INSTRUCTOR SHOWED US HOW TO MAKE A MEDICINE POUCH FROM LUNCH.

ANNETTE HELPED WITH COOKING CHORES

PROFESSOR FROM UW DULUTH TOOK HIS TURN WITH FOOD PREPARATION

WE ATE SOME MEALS COMMUNAL STYLE, 

OTHERS WE ATE AT OUR CAMPSITES

THE RULES DICTATED YOU MUST SHARE, 

SO OTHER MAY SIT DOWN AT YOUR TABLE

HERE KEE JOINS US

THE THREE GUESTS ON THE RIGHT WERE UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS 

WHO WERE STUDENTS OF THE SEMINAR

FRED CHOPS WOOD AT OUR CAMP SITE

DAILY EXCURSION UNDER GUIDANCE OF PROFESSOR KEE (LEFT)

 ANNETTE LOOKING FOR DECONGESTANT (ROOTS TO MAKE DRISTAN)

 STUDY OF MUSHROOMS

 STUDY OF BEAVER HABITAT (KOREAN PROFESSOR FROM UW STOUT)

STUDY OF LAKE ENVIRONMENT & LUNCH BREAK)

WE ALSO VISITED A BOG ENVIRONMENT

STUDY OF FOREST ENVIRONMENT

KEE SHOWS CONTEMPT FOR LUMBER INDUSTRY 

ON THE FLAMBEAU RESERVATION VISIT

DAUGHTER KIM DRYING OUT HERBS, BARK STRIPS AND TEA LEAVES

WE STORED OUR PRODUCTS IN SMALL JARS

 DAUGHTER LYNN LEARNED HOW TO DO BEADWORK W/ PORCUPINE QUILLS....

DEERSKIN STRETCHED OUT FOR FUTURE MOCCASINS

MOCASIN MAKING INSTRUCTOR

 DRUMMERS AT CEREMONIAL DANCING AT NIGHT

INDIAN DANCES (EVERYONE PARTICIPATED)

ANNETTE KEPT UP WITH THE BEST OF THEM

DANCING AROUND THE CEREMONIAL FIRE PIT
THESE THREE INDIANS HAD BELLS ON THEIR SHOES FOR EFFECTS

ATTENDANCE AT NEAR BY POW WOW

NEXT TO US WERE CHILDREN OF MIXED BLOOD; MOST ATTENDEES WERE INDIANS

CEREMONIAL DANCES AS SEEN FROM THE STANDS

FRED MOVED UP CLOSER FOR THIS SHOT

AND CLOSER YET

THE MAIN SUBJECT OF FRED'S  DISSERTATION WAS A BRITIH INDIAN AGENT

ALEXANDER MCKEE BELOW: FATHER WAS WHITE TRADER, MOTHER SHAWNEE 

THIS 1760 PAINTING WAS  TOUCHED UP. HIS RELATIVES HAD MODIFIED HIS NOSE AND CHANGED HIS TOMAHAWK TO A CLARINET. I ARGUED WITH THE MUSEUM THAT HE WAS MIXED BLOOD AND HAD A SHAWNEE MOTHER.

ALEXANDER MCKEE'S FATHER HAD A TRADING POST 

ON THIS ISLAND ACROSS THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER

AT ONE TIME DELAWARE AND SHAWNEE INDIANS

TRADED ON THIS RIVER IN PENNSYLVANIA

A BELOW-WATER-BRIDGE TO MCKEE'S ISLAND FORMED MCKEE'S RAPIDS

ALEXANDER MCKEE BEFRIENDED THE MORAVIAN INDIANS WHO WERE TRAPPED BETWEEN BRITISH INDIAN ALLIES AND COLONISTS DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. HE WAS SADDENED WHEN A LARGE NUMBER OF  MORAVIAN INDIANS WERE MASSACRED AT GNADENHUTTEN, OHIO  (28 men, 29 women and 39 children). WHEN OUR COLLEGE STUDY TOUR VISITED THE GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS, WE WERE TOUCHED BY THE MEMORIAL MARKER FOR THOSE CHRISTIAN INDIANS

HE GAVE THEM THEM REFUGE IN AT HIS ESTATE IN CANADA LOCATED ACROSS FROM FORT PONTCHATRAIN (DETROIT). LATER HE PROVIDED A VILLAGE SITE FOR THEM FURTHER INLAND OF UPPER CANADA, PRESENT DAY FAIRFIELD, ONTARIO.

IN A VILLAGE MORAVIAN INDIANS (DELAWARE) LIVED IN HOMES SIMILAR

TO THE MISSIONARIES.

EXCEPT THAT INSIDE THE FLOOR WAS JUST GROUND

AND A FIRE PIT WAS PLACED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM.

THE MORAVIAN MISSIONARIES BUILT THEIR HOMES RIGHT AMONG THE NATIVES.

MORAVIANS STRESSED THAT PEOPLE SHOULD BE HUMBLE AND THEREFORE THEIR GRAVESTONES WERE FLAT. THE NAMES INSCRIBED ON THE GRAVESTONES OF THESE NATIVES WERE CHRISTIAN  NAMES, NAMES FROM THE BIBLE.

I ALSO SPENT CONSIDERABLE TIME AT THE CANADIAN NATIONAL ARCHIVES IN OTTAWA,  CANADA. WITH A GRANT FROM A.A.L. TCU CONTACTED THE MUSEUM TO ALLOW ME SPECIAL ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS IN STORAGE NOT ORDINARILY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.