Portrayal of Ellen Swallow Richards with Joyce Miles

<p>•  My husband also retired from his program, and we spend our time when students are here, working with students on campus as full-time volunteers. We have a number of advisory boards that we're on, we spend a lot of time with student life, student life covers everything but sports and academics, so this is all the musical organizations, all of the housing units. We both lived in cooperative housing, these are small units, anywhere from 15 to 40 people living in one house and they share the duties and learned all the life skills that many of us learned at home. Today, too many are not learning in them at home., so we learned them in school. We work with those students, there's about 400 students in 11 cooperatives, so we work a lot with that. The pandemic, of course, was a blip on our radar, like it was on everyone else's... We were not allowed to be on campus, the students were sent home the second semester in 2020, and then all semester they came back, but we could not... So we learned how to zoom and learn how to connect vicariously.  (3:00)</p><p>•  Well, and when I look back, it was a question that hit my mind right off with a lot of people  maybe questioning why we spend so much time looking at the history. Shouldn't we be looking ahead pushing forward? And there's some thought to that, but I think in our profession, particularly, we have such a rich history, and there are so many people practicing today who maybe don't even know that rich history, The fact that the science background was so grounded in... I think about the science courses I took here at Purdue, I could have been a science teacher. In fact, one of my roommates was a science teacher, that wasn't the way I wanted to go, but I certainly had the background to do that. I think the more I did the study in the history, the more proud I became of what I chose to do for a life skill, a lifetime of working... I don't know that I thought about that when I was practicing, I taught for a very short length of time and then spent all the rest of my tim