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quite common. In those days, you could not get beer or any kind of drink within two
miles of the campus. So there was one place that everyone would pile into different
cars and go to in Emeryville: Vernetti's, a kind of a broken-down place. But they had
good music and good beer. And then there were two or three places across from the
old train station where students would go to have a drink. They were all mature men
or women – especially the fellas, who had all been in the war. And they knew about
drinking and how to drink. All that has changed.
How has I-House changed me? Tolerance for all nationalities and points of view
and cultures. And the kind of friendships. There was something very binding about
the friendships that we made then. Because we all came from a world at war, and
then you come into I-House where all of these different nationalities were mixing and
becoming friends. Norwegians were marrying Muslims and you couldn't believe it –
how the world could be! That's why they called it golden. It was just remarkable!
Taken from an interview by Jeanine Castello-Lin on April 6, 2010;
editing assistance by Tonya Staros
From left to right: Vincent Porcaro, Dorothy Lazinby, Sue Mangin, Clive Justice,
William Reifsnyder, Joan [Obidine] Rush and George Dove.
Clockwise from bottom left:
Joan [Obidine] Rush, Roland Rush and Joan.
