Commuter Students

Date
Fall 1990

Kathryn Thomas Daugherty (Class of 1946) describes her experience as a commuter student in an interview. She chose to complete two years of study at the college before taking courses in Harrisburg to become a medical technician. Although she had planned to become a doctor, finances prevented this course of action. In order to pay for school, she worked in the library as an assistant to the librarian, shelving books and helping library users. In order to commute to Dickinson from Harrisburg everyday, she and three or four other students paid a Dickinson professor to drive them to school. During Rush season, however, she took a room off-campus with other female commuter students against college rules because she "could not find the time to commute."

Location of Document in Archives
World War II Oral History, Daugherty, Kathryn Thomas