Transcription: "It was, for me, a very exciting time. I came full-time in the fall of ’69. And that’s when there was the—in terms of the Vietnam War—that many campuses were really getting active. One of the things that was so wonderful at Mundelein,…
Transcription: "We used to have a pretty rigid dress code. No jeans, none of that kind of thing. In fact, the women who used to live in the residence hall could not even go to the dining hall in jeans or slacks. They had to wear dresses all the time.…
Transcription: "As we got more minority students, we began to change. We had our own problems on campus in 1975, ’76, when sort of the ‘black revolution’ took place. I was part of it. We had a woman, we’re good friends today, was director of the…
Transcription: "As we got into the late ‘60s and the early ‘70s, students became restless. In ’69 when we had the strike and all that kind of thing, I never saw such networking as when Kent State occurred, that happened in the college and university…
Transcription: "It was announced to the student body that some of their activity fee would go to help pay for the bus going to Selma. A group of anti-black, against the black movement, threatened to throw themselves across the parking place so the…
Transcription: "I had always assigned African American kids with white kids. I just took it for granted; and they had friendship, etc. When Martin Luther King was shot the black students from Coffey Hall disappeared over into Northland with black…
Transcription: "Ann Jones was Miss West Point—she lived at West Point, and her roommate Judy Whitman was dating a West Point man. What I want to bring out here is that the Vietnam War was going on, and in residence where the freshman, sophomores,…
Transcription: "To make a long story short, Mundelein went on strike, we had no school. It was a beautiful sunny spring. Every night kids would stand at the corner of Sheridan at the curve holding up a big anti-Vietnam War banner that said, 'Honk…
Transcription: "The science department refused to close school. They said, some kids were going on to med school, they’ve got to have this science. So the anti-war people went up to the sixth floor where the science department was and stood outside…
Transcription: "First of all, the obvious one, it was buttressing the Roman Catholic tradition, you could say that whether your father was a judge or whether your father was a bricklayer. Everybody there with few exceptions…But in the main it was…