[SweetTeaParty]

Thank you, Tess. I really don't want to offend any members of the groups I just named - 'cos this was actually a GREAT moment for PanHel. Each of the GLOs at my school have (today) members of every color and religion - so we live in a different time. In fact, the 'colorization' of the GLOs was just starting in the 1970s - and today, I believe it is fairly complete. (Don't throw some of those big SEC schools at me - - I talking about MY school)

(Now, this is NOT going to be a flattering picture of the alumnae of the GLO groups – sorry, but, there it is. The average alumnae in 1973 had gone to college in the 1950s – in the south (most folks didn't go further than 200 miles away to go to college). And, some were racists. If you've seen the movie, The Help, you saw that some of those characters were awful, and some were courageous. This is about the courageous types. I'm just glad I haven't met one of the awful racists types in about 30 years.)

When Lisa was a freshman the college was only about 5% non-white - - The school's administration had gone out of their way to encourage non-white enrollment – they established several 'full-ride' scholarships during the late 1960s and had struggled to boost their enrollment. They had started in 1965 with a few athletes, but by 1975 there were about 100 black students (also, some Asians – but they were mostly international students, the larger influx of Asians would be in the 1980s)