...the college physical plant at that time consisted of Old Main, Edens Hall, Sam Carver Gym, the Library and the Industrial Arts Building and that's all there was. The college students and the training school students all were going to class in the same building. In fact, the ninth-grade classroom was next to the President's office near the front door. Some of us little girls that were fourteen or fifteen (trying to get away with wearing Tangee lipstick, thinking nobody would notice), discovered that if we went out to the one drinking fountain that was there in the central hall at the entrance to Old Main during the breaks when the college students were changing classes, we could see all the eighteen and nineteen year old college freshmen with their athletic sweaters and their mysterious ways. We drank a lot of water! We spent a great deal of time going to the drinking fountain! ... Read the complete interview!

I think the great opportunity for me came in the creativity of all of the programs and all of the special attention we got and the chance of self expression. I have never been afraid to speak in public and one of the reasons is that we were always up giving reports and doing spelling bees and we were in the auditorium doing plays and various kinds of activities. My favorite kinds of things to do had to do with speaking and it had to do with English. We had Spanish classes, even. We even learned to type here in the third-grade. That was an experiment at the time. I, to this day, have a 1928 Royal portable typewriter, that I use for the fun of it from time to time. I learned to type and I could type 120 words a minute by the time I got to high school. It helped me through college, but it was an experiment here at Campus School to teach us to type. ... Read the complete interview!

...they had something going in the auditorium and they took us kids in there and we could sit in the last two rows to see what was going on. In the auditorium, I remember when we went there, we stood for a little while in the very back to find a place -- the far section of the audience, first two rows, were men. All the rest were women. ... Read the complete interview!

I remember I was tagged with a reading comprehension problem. I was assigned to a fellow and he was living right behind the library there up on a rock hill that is now gone. He had a small apartment downstairs. We became great chums. Unfortunately I can't remember his name. He loved to build gliders or airplanes and that started my hobby of building model airplanes stick by stick. I remember he got two pretty good sized gliders and we hiked up the hill behind Waldo Field. It was a space that is still there, all the way from the road up on Sehome Hill and the stadium was in that opening and we launched the glider up on the road above on Sehome Hill and it flowed majestically all the way down to Waldo Field and landed down below. We really thought we had a great thing there. ... Read the complete interview!

...most of the time ... we had three or four cadet teachers every quarter. So we would go through about 13 teachers a year there. I remember, by the time we got to eighth grade, they thought we were pretty much on to them (the cadet teachers) and could manipulate them or whatever. It never dawned on me that we were, but maybe we were. They were concerned about it. ... Read the complete interview!

... We did a lot of weaving. We would weave these mats, but then because of the philosophy of Campus School, we also had to make the looms.  Particularly like in Mr. Miller's class, the idea was that you could make this loom out of something you found around the house.  So we used coat hangers to make those bars and then pieces of wood and it was quite amazing.  The idea was that you could learn the whole process.  That was what Campus was about, it was about the process.  That's why the report cards were narrative, because a simple grade was a little goal oriented.  It was felt that this process, for instance, the weaving, you start with your loom and you weave your mat was more like a real life experience. ... Read the complete interview!

I remember doing wood working, I remember weaving, and the clay work. I loved working with clay. Reading, I enjoyed the reading. We had Dick and Jane and I remember the stories of Sally, Dick and Jane and Muff, the cat I think, little Muffy the cat. I remember spelling. My first big spelling word I think in second grade I think was 'constellation'. I remember that was just a huge achievement to learn how to spell that. I think some of the special things -- other than doing just math and English and reading -- I really enjoyed the industrial arts that we got to do, [plus] swimming, going to the library, some of those things. ... Read the complete interview!

... In the sixth grade, the classroom was on one side of the hall and the work room was on the other side. In the work room we had artwork and industrial arts projects and that sort of thing. The other unique part of it was that there was a separate office for the teacher, which was very unique. Right off the classroom was this nice little office. The facilities in that school were just absolutely magnificent. They were absolutely first rate. It was a joy to teach there in terms of facilities. Ray Hawk had a philosophy that materials were cheaper than people. If you wanted things that were within reason for materials, he would try to get them for you. In that sense it was a joy to be there. ... Read the complete interview!

...on Fridays, we had the unusual special advantage of being able to go over to the swimming pool. We could take these little kids, Kindergarten through fifth-graders to the swimming pool. The room teachers and their student teachers would bring them over to us and then we'd collect them at the entrance to the pool. Kindergarten, first and second were all in the girls' locker room, by the third, fourth and fifth then there had to be a man student teacher to take them into the boys' locker room. It took a bit of doing, we had to get the boys accustomed to being able to change and shower. Part of the effort was just getting them through the showers and back out. ... Read the complete interview!

Campus School had sort of a family feeling.  I mean, there’s a lot of continuity because most people, if they had their kids in Campus School, they sent all their kids to Campus School.  I remember, Irene Elliot saying, "Your faces don’t look familiar, but your clothing certainly does."  ...  This is Irene; she had a great sense of humor. ... Read the complete interview!

...when my son married, his wife-to-be asked, who's this woman in California? And he said, ''She's my first-grade teacher''. She was startled that Bill would send his first-grade teacher, Katherine Casanova, a wedding invitation. ... Read the complete interview!