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Ed Coltman, E49 and Eleanor Dwyer Coltman J37, F38 biography ~ interview

Margaret Holmes Cook, J25 biography ~ interview

Theodore Dushan, A42, M50 biography ~ interview

Matthew Lambert, A39 biography ~ interview

Ralph Palange, E36 biography ~ interview

Ruth Mary Parks Rooney, J37 biography ~ interview

Helen Taylor, J36 biography ~ interview

A romantic stroll around the Rez, compulsory chapel, the Tufts golf course, chemistry lab and a 25-cents-an-hour job at Eaton Library: these are some of the many memories of the first graduates interviewed for the Tufts Oral History Project.

As America struggled with the Depression, Tufts undergraduates discovered their capacity for persistence, resourcefulness and frugality in a college community that valued tradition, achievement and friendship.

While the complete taped interviews and their transcripts will be preserved in Tufts Digital Collections and Archives, here we've selected excerpts under different topics.

The oral history project was started by and will continue under the direction of Laura Ferguson, associate director of communications and marketing for alumni relations. For more information or to get involved, you may contact her at:

Laura Ferguson
Tufts University
95 Talbot Avenue
Medford, MA 02155
laura.ferguson@tufts.edu
617-627-3602