ORAL HISTORY PROJECTS A number of oral history projects and informational interviews have occurred at the Hankey Center in recent years. New projects are in development. Coeducation – attitudes of current Wilson students. Pilot project by the students of Shippensburg University’s Master’s Program in Public History. The Radical 60s at Wilson College – interviews with members of the classes of 1964 and 1969. The Save Wilson Committee – interviews with committee members of the near-closing of Wilson College in 1979. Integration of the Penn-Wilson Restaurant – interviews with members of the class of 1961 regarding their involvement in integrating the Penn-Wilson restaurant in Chambersburg in the fall of 1960. Pat Vail and Freedom Summer – interview with Pat Vail regarding her experiences at Wilson College and as a study abroad student in France, and how those experiences shaped her decision to become a Freedom Summer volunteer in 1964-65. Includes detail of the Freedom Summer experience. Julia Billings Crothers – transcript of interview about her experiences at Wilson College as a student in the 1930s. The Women’s Movement – how Wilson alumnae were affected by the women’s movement of the 1970s. In development.
