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Class of 1942 Reunion, Group Interview
Created 19 June 1992; Published 17 February 2006
Alumni from the class of 1942 share their experience and memories of Carleton at their 50th reunion in 1996.
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Transcript
Group Interview Class of 1942
June 19, 1992
Tape One. Side One
00:00 Introductions and convening with jumbled conversation
17:52 Introduction by Nancy Soth
18:21 Sue Garwood the archivist
18:35 Deane Barbour the co-hostess
20:02 Sue Garwood describes how the group interview should be conducted
21:55 More questions and answering about the natuire of this interview
23:53 Did the war affect you?
24:26 Most students weren't aware of the war
25:45 Pearl Harbor wasn't mentioned much- not even in the yearbook
27:47 Summer school let students complete their diplomas before the draft
29:57 Courtney says Class of 42 was of a different social situation
Tape 1 Side 2
00:00 Courtney speaks about the war changing people's plan while in college
1:05 Now he speaks of a time when he told Carls to live normally and the speaker contradicts him and tells the students their lives would change very much
2:20 Ruth Davis-Helgren remembers being told by Alan Hall to pay attention to the world around them
4:06 Jack Bundy speaks about anti-war pacifist sentiment
5:44 Signing petitions saying they would not bear arms
6:54 Isolationism in the midwest
8:32 Faculty views were often very Marxists
9:00 Chick defends their ignorance by saying that they were busy and young
11:30 Hitler Youth groups
12:30 Sitting in the chapel and listening to FDR declare war
13:29 Comparing their ignorance with the unknowing during the 80's of Hussein
14:05 Diana teaching modern dance as part of a feminist movement
16:27 Florence talks about a black woman come in from D.C. creating the Living Newspaper in the spring of 42
18:44 Dean Catton was very concerned about their virginity which demonstrated the dated traditions and the lack of 'cutting edge'
20:45 Carleton's cutting edge was in the activities of Carls themselves
23:24 Carleton opened students to new experiences
24:12 Chick talks about Victor Pingham saying all the revolutions started in the universities
25:39 Students were addressed as Ms. and Mr. but invited to their home regularly
26:39 Arthur Burnstan invited people to his home
28:23 Music faculty always had open house and
28:50 Dr. Keith Clark has lunch with a student every week
29:01 Bill Duhnham talks of rationing
Tape 2 Side 1
00:00 Harold Miller talks of Dean Lindsey Blainy formally invited students
00:53 Alice Kellogg talks about Dr. Cowling inviting students over
1:42 Talks about her close relationship with Ruth Elliot and her lack of driving skills
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