Ok Gerald Painter, nineteen fifty, business, I'm one of Elkie's boys.
And Elkington was Elkie, we never said that to his face, hu hu, he was professor Elkington.

One of the things I wanted to talk about was the, the influence I immediately had thrown at me when I came to Linfield. In the spring of nineteen, I started the spring of forty six, in the, I the fall of forty six, the fall. In the spring of forty six there were less than four hundred students here at Linfield. In the fall there were almost eight hundred. The student body more than doubled between spring and fall. Why? World War Two veterans. I was an eighteen year old, green as you can imagine, from the farming communities of south central Idaho thrown in with all these World War Two vets and I've often said I had two educations at Linfield, one in the classroom, the other from the veterans. O aw, I am sure because I did some analysis of this, a um, my class was the largest class Linfield ever had, and it was the largest class for the next fifteen years I think. Well, almost half the student body that year were freshman. And I remember the, ah, sophomores trying to, to have freshman week and wearing old beanies and pajamas and you know. I uh have a stupid week and the veterans looked at them and said "get lost kid."

To me the value of a school like this and I, I must admit I am totally biased for the small private college. I think those of us that have gone to that are very privileged to have gone to a small private school. You get to know your classmates better, you get to know the faculty and that is really, you know the big universities could you imagine going to a school with fifty thousand students? You know, you're taught by grad students and such. Any way I just think it was a real privilege. So I, I just feel I'm very lucky.