Wilbert Locklin, B.S.'57
WILBERT LOCKLIN, B.S.'57 23 December 1999 Mame Warren, interviewer Warren: This is Mame Warren. Today is the 23rd of December, 1999, last interview of the year, with Bill Locklin, and we're in Herndon, Virginia, of all places. All right, let's start at the beginning. Why Johns Hopkins? What brought you there in the first place? Locklin: Okay. In 1938, when I graduated from high school, Irene Davis Corwin was the registrar, and the registrar was the director of admissions, the registrar, the director of financial aid, the housemother, ran the dormitory, the whole nine yards. And Irene had the theory that Hopkins was too in-bred, and she created, with President Isaiah Bowman's approval, the open scholarship program, wherein she provided full tuition to ten students whose only qualification, aside from being able to intellectually get in, was they lived outside of the State of Maryland. I lived outside of the State of Maryland by about a mile, in Washington, D.C., and I could no way-I was the first person in my family to go to college-I could no way go to college without a full scholarship. So I came from a very good high school in Washington and I had a good college advisor, and he said, "Hey, how about this," and he discovered this. And so I applied, and then I went over to Hopkins for an interview with Irene, and a few weeks later she wrote me a letter saying I was in. And I was thrilled. It's the only place I applied to, because I couldn't find that many full scholarships, and even a full scholarship meant I had to 1 work for my room and board and stuff like that.
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