0-10 Min: Durkin's diner a popular hangout for the students during Mrs. Shearons time, 1945-1949; remembers the students making great use of the quanset hut to relax and socialize; picnics at Squantz Pond, as well as parties that students who lived in Danbury hosted; remembers many a trip to Brewster, N.Y. since the drinking age was eighteen; the students made a trip to the state legislature to plead their case for funding for the CT state teachers colleges; The impact that veterans had on her particular class, enrollment requirements were made stricter during this time to cope with the post-war influx. Remembers Emma Burger as a particularly strict teacher in the student teaching program; remembers her starting salary at roughly $2,000; had to be in the dorms by 10:00 or 11:00 p.m. on weeknights and 12:00 or 01:00 on weekends; remarks on the rarity of having a women president and the positive impact that the women at WCSU had on the students;
10-20 Min: recalls a total student population of about 350, and her graduating class was only 60; Elizabeth James, English prof, she was a much beloved teacher at WCSU; May Sherwood director of student teaching for both Mrs. Shearon's time as well as her mother's; personal correspondence