Word: talking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always wanted to meet a Bennington girl but you've never really made it. Tonight you have a chance. Three girls from Bennington who have been touring the East will be here to talk about educational innovations, coed living, and other things you're interested in. Slog through the snow to 14 Plympton Street at 7:30 tonight for free talk and free cokes...
Once we proved to the staff that we were not radical agitators nor ambitious incompetents, we began to talk with the students. At Tougaloo, as with all but one of the other places, I was given free room in the Upward Bound men's dormitory. Having only a budget of $1.50 per day for room and board, this also meant that I could get to know the students better than if I had stayed in a motel and had arranged formal interview hours...
...until this point my youth had been more of a hindrance than a help, but I found in talking to the students it was a definite advantage. The prospect of leaving home in a rural area to go away to school is much less formidable to a black student if he can talk to another black who has already done it. Even then it always took time to open up a two-way conversation...
...first introduction with the "bridge students" (graduated 12th graders) I usually asked the program director to call all of them together for a meeting. I would pass out the outlines and give my talk and ask if there were any questions. Most of the questions were merely polite responses. It was not until later, in the talks with one, two or three students that they would open up and really talk...
Billy Joe Royal once said, "I've got to be somebody." Obviously, Billy wasn't aware of the Spring Competition for the CRIMSON. He could have been somebody if he'd decided to try writing sports for the CRIMSON, and the CRIMSON needs people like Billy to talk with and write about the great sports figures of our times. The John Yovicsins, the Jane Trowbridges. All aspiring writers should show their faces at 7:30 p.m. tonight at 14 Plympton Street. Free eats...