T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

 

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Janie Bankston               # 4700.0094

 

IDENTIFICATION: LSU Alum and former school teacher

 

INTERVIEWER: Megan Mitchell

 

PROJECT: LSU History

 

DATE: 6 March 1992         FOCUS DATES: Early 1920's

 

ABSTRACT:

 

Tape 118

 

Her first LSU registration; tuition; first classes and their locations; the first three LSU sororities; campus life in the 1920's as simple; teaching at Istrouma; her love of reading, love of travel; travel out west; favorite thing about teaching, communication; various methods of teaching; key to teaching; administrators at Istrouma; description of herself as a teacher; key to being a good teacher; deciding what to teach in class; flags her students made; learning to sew; LSU before teacher's college; favorite course at LSU, education; decision to teach at Istrouma; favorite subject to teach, history; why history books are enjoyable to read; St Peter's cathedral in Rome; her siblings; volunteer work during World War II; teachers then more respected; reasons those attitudes have changed; start of desegregation; improvements in treatments for deafness and blindness. 

 

 

 

TAPES: 1 C 90 CASSETTE         TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 90 min.

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