0-10 Min: Junior board representative in the student government; 1938 Dr. Warner came to WCSU; had not graduated high school with the intent to enroll in college; was familiar with WCSU as he was a Danbury native; theorizes that most men at WCSU during this time period were there by default; talks about the change in tone WCSU underwent as a result of the influx of men; the influx of men caused an overhaul of the math and science departments at WCSU
10-20 Min: talks about Dr. Higgins' programs to improve science education at the elementary school level; recalls his hobby interest in his family history, but didn't connect his interest in his family history with the academic pursuit of history; Kay Agusto a professor at WCSU during Dr. Warner's undergrad years that helped him realize his calling to history;
20-30 Min: discusses the problems of being among the first men to enroll in the college; initially the men were part of the female athletic department and teams, along with a complete lack of housing for men; even with such a small number of men as early as 1940 men were elected as class presidents; the advantages of being a small college, the main focus being that field trips both sanctioned and unsanctioned to New York City to take in the culture that city had to offer;
30-40 Min: dinner for Lord Marley; an example of the type of formal events that WCSU would host during Dr. Warner's time as a student; Mrs. De Villafranca; music instructor during Dr. Warner's years; recalls that all students at WCSU be competent enough in music (reading, playing, singing) to teach it in the schools they would eventually work; recalls conflicts between the students and Mrs. Harrison, the theater director at WCSU, due to her conservative views to the point that students sometimes went over her head and put on plays without her assistance; recalls that drinking was forbidden, and remembers the opening of a student lounge that permitted smoking;
40-50 Min: graduated WCSU in 1941; began teaching at the consolidated school in Brookfield at the salary of $1,000/year; remembers hearing about the Pearl Harbor attacks on the way into work; the immediate impact of WWII on his and his peers lives;
50-60 Min: recalls the rationing that began almost immediately; spent three years in the army, upon returning to the U.S. he began teaching again in Old Lyme; recalls the resistance he met with when applying to Yale; recounts his transition into anthropology after he had completed his master's in history;
60-70 Min: offered the job of Director of Admissions at WCSU, which he took due to his parents health as well as a new school president in Westchester that drove most of the teachers out of it, Dr. Warner included; got the job roughly around 1957-58, but let it be known that he would prefer to teach, so he taught one class per semester for the first couple of years, until he switched jobs with a Mr. Wallrath in the social science department and began teaching full-time; discusses the close and fluid relationship between history and the social science majors as he sees it, that both benefit from the other;
70-80 Min: the general attitude of his generation in their ability to effect direct change vs the current generations feeling that why bother to strive for change, since you would not be able to effect it; recalls that even though the dorms were female only, men did not pause to enter the dorm and use the common rooms for whatever student purpose was required; recalls his generation having a greater concern for structure and that even if they did not like it they had more respect for a structure; feels that people unfairly judge schools like WCSU by comparing the WCSU of Truman Warner's student era to colleges from the current time period, rather than to other colleges of the same era; recalls the the small size of WCSU allowed him greater opportunities that would not have been possible at larger institutions.