Oral History Interview, Sue Searing (1499)

Abstract

Sue Searing was born in 1950 in New York State as the oldest of three daughters. She grew up in Lockport, slightly north of Buffalo, on the Eerie Canal, where she grew up with a “nuclear” family. Her father was a lawyer prior to working for General Motors, and her mother was a stay at home mom, and then later as a secretary in the Urban Renewal Department in Lockport. She eventually went on to graduate from New York State University after earning a degree in Russian. In 1972, she then attended graduate school at the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor and earned another degree to further her employment as a librarian. She then worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1981 until 1997 as the Gender and Women Studies Department librarian and as a member of the Curriculum Committee. She now resides in Illinois with her partner, as they both work for the University of Illinois.