Some 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".