It was quite a ride
Subtitle: moving through the twentieth century
By: Bonnie Graham
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud
Published: 2009
Place of publication: St. Cloud, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780878393411
Subjects: History; Publications; Faculty; Women college teachers; Biography; College teachers; College presidents' spouses; Women; Social conditions; St. Cloud State University; Hamline University
Description: In this memoir, Bonnie Graham shares her experiences as a student, teacher, and wife of a college president, and reflects on the changes in women's roles and prospects during her lifetime. Graham's story takes the reader from her childhood years in Duluth, Minnesota, to St. Cloud State University and Hamline University (her husband, Charles J. Graham, served as president of SCSU from 1971-1981 and of Hamline from 1981-1987), to her time in Japan during the establishment of Minnesota State University-Akita in the early 1990s.
Notes: "This work has evolved with twists and turns and unexpected new directions much as the pattern of my life. I began with small essays for my family. Then the scope grew as I realized that over the last fifty years I've been in the middle of a landslide of changes, especially concerning women. The 1960s and 1970s were difficult times on the college campus and everywhere. I felt the buffeting in my own life as I was caught in the dramatic scene, but I was too busy with my own family and other activities to try to sort it out. However, I mused often, hoping to make sense of the changing times. I did quite a bit of writing for my counseling workshops and college classes that provided some of the underpinnings for this book. However, it was not until the 1990s when I took my first writing class that my thoughts began to unfold. My ideas came out in small essays--snippets here and there. I saw my life's path running alongside the Women's Movement, but in its own unique way. I wrote what I felt, and enjoyed putting my thoughts on paper. Gradually, the idea of a book evolved."--Introduction.
Table of contents: title: Remembering : the early years; title: Getting started; title: The fifties : togetherness; title: The sixties : a testy and testing time; title: The seventies : a decade for women; title: The eighties : some new beginnings; title: The nineties : life's twists and turns.