Interview with Eleanor Irwin
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Participant: Eleanor Irwin
Researcher: Stephanie Hinds
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2015
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Scarborough
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Eleanor Irwin, a retired UTSC faculty member, speaks about her educational experience first at the University of Toronto St. George campus as an undergrad studying Classics in the 1950s and later as one of the first appointed faculty members at Scarborough College (UTSC) in the 1960s. Eleanor paints a fascinating picture of what it was like for young women in university in the post-WWII period. She talks about how the UTSC campus has changed over time and how the student demographic has also diversified over the years. She comments about how the campus has gone from being a small tight-knit community to being a large campus.
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Eleanor Irwin, a retired UTSC faculty member, speaks about her educational experience first at the University of Toronto St. George campus as an undergrad studying Classics in the 1950s and later as one of the first appointed faculty members at Scarborough College (UTSC) in the 1960s. Eleanor paints a fascinating picture of what it was like for young women in university in the post-WWII period. She talks about how the UTSC campus has changed over time and how the student demographic has also diversified over the years. She comments about how the campus has gone from being a small tight-knit community to being a large campus.