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71 hard core of serious students. I thought I was going to change the world. I didn't. But idealism was rampant. Yes, Bob Schutz was one of them. He was very idealistic. I agree that Kessel had an influence on Bob Schutz, very much so. What differences do I see between the I-House then and now? Well, there are many more undergraduates now. The current director, Martin Brennan, has said that the foreign international students at the graduate level have said they wished there would be more Americans at the graduate level. Martin introduced some extra scholarship program or something to try to attract more American graduate students, but they have said again and again that they can live more cheaply elsewhere. There is a lot of housing available now. Still, it horrifies me that you can no longer afford to live in I-House on an Instructional Assistant income. When I lived in I-House, I became a TA, and I could afford to live at I-House and have my hair done every week! So things have gotten out of whack. My time in I-House was enormously rewarding. I was grateful then, and I am grateful now. To that end, I continue to contribute to the Golden Age/Rafael Rodriguez scholarship. Jean Sullivan Dobrezensky conceived of the idea and enlisted a group of us to endow a residential scholarship in I-House linked to that of Rafael, "The Renaissance man," as a "Thank You" for our experience in I-House. Taken from an interview by Tonya Staros in July of 2010; editing assistance by Jeanine Castello-Lin Sunday Supper, Fall 1947. Seated at back table, from left to right: Mrs. Blaisdell, Wendell Lipscomb, Lottie [Wallerstein] Salz, Dr. Lawrence Cross (Mayor of Berkeley), Mr. Blaisdell, Mrs. Cross, Gerard Godet, Iva Dee Hiatt, Abbas Ghesselayagh and Marion Ross.