RICHARD DYER: when you got into any of the classes did you find it difficult to adjust to the environment?

CONSUELA CLINTON: I think we took care of that one time when John Hankstrum asked the students because of lack participation, in a literature class—in an English class—if they were intimidated by the older people. And as usual I answered first and said that we were intimidated by them.  And I’d hoped that they would understand how difficult it was because we had learn to learn to study all over again, we had to change our whole life to study habits, we couldn’t remember as well as they did, and it was very difficult for us, and I was so afraid of them…

END OF TAPE

General Information:

Interviewer: Dyer, Richard L.

Interviewees: Clinton, Vince and Consuela (Students)

Name of Tape: Student interviews in the History of Columbia Junior College (CC_hist_10_1)

When: Spring of 1971

Transcriber: Ariella (September 2008)

Transcriber’s Note: This is a continuation of Vince and Consuela’s interview from the end of tape CC_hist_10_0