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Oral history interview with Anne Gould Hauberg, April 24, 1985

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Anne Gould Hauberg (1917 – 2016) was a Seattle civic activist, philanthropist, and patron of the arts.

Anne and her husband John Hauberg emerged as patrons of the arts in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest in the 1950s. They collected art works, and provided support for emerging Northwest artists. By the 1960s, Anne Hauberg particularly focused on supporting the crafts through the philanthropic organization, the Friends of the Crafts. By the 1960s, Anne Hauberg was involved in the Seattle Municipal Art Commission, the predecessor to the Seattle Arts Commission, and she was a founding member of the civic activist organization, the "Committee of 33," devoted to the enhancement and beautification of the city of Seattle, pushing to preserve historic buildings in the way of new development.

Among their early philanthropic efforts, Anne and her husband John Hauberg started the Pilot School for Neurologically Impaired Children in 1960, after two of their children were diagnosed with mental disabilities. Originally two small buildings on the University of Washington campus, the school is now the Experimental Education Unit at the Center on Human Development and Disability at the UW.

In 1969, the Haubergs supported glass artist Dale Chihuly's idea for a glass-blowing summer school program in the Northwest. The subsequent development of this program became the Pilchuck Glass School in Snohomish County.

Anne Hauberg was also deeply involved in the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, and other Northwest arts organizations. She was an honorary member of Northwest Designer Craftsmen. In 2007, the University of Washington Libraries' Artist Images Award was renamed the Anne Gould Hauberg Artist Images Award in her honor.

Interview conducted by Donald A. Schmechel on April 24, 1985. This interview is part of the Donald Schmechel Oral History Collection. Don Schmechel, who was a member of the Seattle Public Library Foundation board, began this project with Seattle Public Library in 1984, with the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) brought on board as a partner in early 1985. Schmechel himself worked to raise the funding for the project, and volunteered his time to manage the project, and to conduct interviews along with a crew of volunteers. Originally titled the Videotaping Historic Figures (VHF) Program, the project interviewed 91 people, and MOHAI holds the interviews for 32 of these individuals.
ID Number: 1985.135.11
Date: 1985
Creator(s): Hauberg, Anne Gould, Interviewee
Physical Description: 5 video cassettes : Betacam
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2017 National Endowment for the Humanities grant. View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv11499 Interview online at Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/mohai?tab=collection&query=1985.135.11
Credit: MOHAI, Donald Schmechel Oral History Collection, 1985.135.11
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