LEADER 03419oam 22004454a 450 001 9910595089603321 005 20230414205115.0 010 $a1-55753-949-9 035 $a(CKB)5680000000080950 035 $a(OCoLC)1354203587 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_102843 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/93154 035 $a(EXLCZ)995680000000080950 100 $a20220925e20221995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Force for Change $eThe Class of 1950 /$fJohn Norberg 210 $cPurdue University Press$d1995 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2022 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (400 pages)$cillustrations 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-55753-966-9 327 $aIntroduction -- Chapter 1. "I wish you could turn back the clock" : remembering how it was -- Chapter 2. "The loneliness is disappearing" : some who added the feminine touch -- Chapter 3. "Times were very tough" : the Great Depression's lifelong effects -- Chapter 4. "We had a ton of guys playing" : on the gridiron and the court -- Chapter 5. "I told her I'd give her a call" : boy meets girl -- Chapter 6. "I was an aviation bug" : some were flyboys -- Chapter 7. "Everybody was going" : into the Army, Navy, and Marines -- Chapter 8. "Look at all those free people" : the African-American experience -- Chapter 9. "It was a fantastic time" : from radar through space -- Chapter 10. "Like riding a roller coaster down" : the night the bleachers collapsed -- Chapter 11. "We had a great wrestling team" : Hoosier hysteria goes to the mat -- Chapter 12. "I never did go home" : students from faraway places -- Chapter 13. "Now it's your turn" : from college to Korea -- Chapter 14. "They could do anything they wanted to" : college, careers, children, and careers -- Chapter 15. "Back home again in Indiana" : memories of more Purdue athletes. 330 $aSome of them were grown men going to college on the new G.I. Bill, and some were boys -- eighteen years old, straight out of high school. There were also young women coming to campus, rich in the traditions of their mothers and grandmothers. These women didn't know it, but the seeds of the modern women's movement had been planted during the war and in their generation. There were African-Americans who came to campus and found segregation and racial stereotypes, even after some of them had fought a war for freedom. This mixture of students blended together on the college campuses of America in the late 1940s and exploded into the world in 1950. Journalist John Norberg's illuminating oral history allows members of Purdue University's Class of 1950 to tell their stories in their own words. "(This is) a narrative that will hold special interest for those with Purdue or West Lafayette ties, but its scope is broad enough to interest a wider population". 606 $aHistory of the Americas$2bicssc 610 $aHistory of the Americas 615 7$aHistory of the Americas 676 $a378.772/95 700 $aNorberg$b John$01147091 712 02$aPurdue University.$bClass of 1950. 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910595089603321 996 $aA Force for Change$92996188 997 $aUNINA