Highlights: Sample the richness of Experiments: Old Westbury Oral History Project digital archive. Participants discuss coming to Old Westbury, the exhilaration and challenges of founding a college, the college’s commitment to including a diverse student body, along with some of the lessons they took from their experiences. These interview selections are also located in the relevant themes below.
The Founding Document
Harris Wofford
The Riddle of Human Justice
John Maguire
These Beautiful Quonset Huts
Carlos Russell
I Was Valued For Who I Was
Deborah Leavy
It’s like Class Struggle
Elizabeth Ewen
The Periodic Table
Samuel von Winbush
30-30-30-10: No One Group
Felt Left Out
John Maguire
We Were Ahead of Our Time
Carlos Russell
We Are Going to Get
Ahead of Berkeley
Harris Wofford
The Lesbian Conference
and the Fox Hunt
Elizabeth Ewen
The Broadest Education Possible
Dr. Calvin Butts
College Seemed So Rigid
Candida DeLuise
Paranoia Is True Perception
Frank Miata
125th Street
Francis Koster
It Was the Holy Ghost
Dr. Calvin Butts
You Don’t Want All Yeast
and No Leven
Harris Wofford
The Door was Wide on Entrance, Narrow on Exit
Samuel von Winbush
The Dashiki Was Made in Taiwan
Ghebre Mehreteab
Major Change Institution
Elizabeth Ewen
We Got It Started The Right Way
John Maguire
