Senior Class President: Engaging with Other Students
John Earnhardt discusses his duties as president of the Class of 1963. He primarily developed means for informing his classmates of where they needed to go on campus to get help.
Interview on 2012-11-12 00:00:00 -0500
Transcript
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You had to make sure that there was an organization-that students knew
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where the organizations were that helped them. As I recall there was
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a couple of little flyers or something that I got involved in,
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using the students in the dorm there as examples, people I knew,
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just asking them some questions, and the purpose of this was-
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and I do forget what they called that-but the purpose was to make sure
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that students weren't just drifting along and not knowing things
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they needed to know. So it was kind of [to] inquire. We tried at one time
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a little buddy system, and that seemed to work for some people
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and not for others, but the whole purpose
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was to make sure
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that people in the class knew what they needed to know.
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