Interview with Lee F. Browne - Caltech Oral Histories

Browne–27
COHEN: So you came in about 1970?
BROWNE: No. I started in ’68.
COHEN: ’68, OK.
BROWNE: I was part-time.
COHEN: OK.
BROWNE: Yes, I’m sure it was ’68.
COHEN: OK.
BROWNE: But I came to work full time in ’70, but I’d already been working many, many years.
COHEN: Already doing programs, yes.
BROWNE: Yes. So anything I’d think of doing I’d try to do. I had a lecture series for kids.
There’d be hundreds of kids there. I’d have maybe 500 kids in the summer. There were twelve
classes you could take in the summer: three biology classes, three chemistry classes, three
physics classes, and three math classes.
COHEN: Now, were you getting minority students in these things?
BROWNE: Yes. There were maybe thirty or so kids—well, more than that; there would be
maybe forty kids—on campus in those various and sundry classes. But it was hard to get kids
who wanted to do that amount of work in the summers.
COHEN: Yes.
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