{"id":174,"date":"2009-04-17T12:50:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T19:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.csun.edu\/CSUNStories\/?p=174"},"modified":"2017-03-30T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T16:40:23","slug":"hinda-lee-sheffer-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/csun-stories\/2009\/04\/17\/hinda-lee-sheffer-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Hinda Lee Sheffer, Alumna"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I wanted to go to a state college. Let me say that– one of the questions you asked was,\u00a0 “what was the most significant day for you?” It was my graduation day. My high school guidance counselor said I was not college material, I had to take a business class and I would never graduate from college. So for me, I was looking for something that was small and easily managed. After I went to junior college I came here, I did not want something mammoth like a UCLA. What I\u2019ve seen today of this campus is nothing what it was like when I first came here. It was a small city — not even a small city —\u00a0 it was just very small and very comfortable and very familiar. And now I see so many buildings and so many things, it\u2019s so huge, compared. You have a three or four story parking lot. We had outdoor parking lots that, you know, that might be filled. So that was one of the things I wanted. I wanted a smaller school, which is what this afforded me at that time.<\/p>\n

Even though I only lived over the hill, I wanted to stay in the dorm and it was very exciting for me. My sister had lived in a dorm in college and I wanted the same experience. It was all so new. I was with the big kids, so to speak. To be quite honest, most of my memories are centered around the dorm life, although I have some wonderful memories of the school life also.<\/p>\n

[Living in the dorms was] very much like a sorority of sisters. We had interesting things. Like if someone got engaged, there\u2019d be a message on the bulletin board, there\u2019s going to be a candle-lighting tonight. They\u2019d pass around a candle with an engagement ring on it and when it got to the girl who was getting engaged she\u2019d blow it out. Oh, and we\u2019d cheer and have a bridal shower and all that stuff. Which today sounds like totally ridiculous I\u2019m sure, but in those days that was something you did if she got pinned or she got engaged. And there was a big social hall where we did that.<\/p>\n

They had what\u2019s called a panty raid. And if you\u2019re not old enough you don\u2019t know what a panty raid is. It\u2019s when the guys break into the dorm and steal all the girls panties and then the next day. . . I have a photo of it with me, and the panties were all strung from the Sierra Hall tower. I for whatever reason locked my door, and then ended up because I was judicial vice president, I ended up helping the police type up a report and everything. The best part of it is, they gave us a party afterwards. You know, like a \u201cwe\u2019re sorry\u201d party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wanted to go to a state college. Let me say that– one of the questions you asked was,\u00a0 “what was the most significant day for you?” It was my graduation day. My high school guidance counselor said I was not college material, I had to take a business class and I would never graduate … <\/p>\n

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