A Conversation with Shirley Molligan Laque

This is an interview conducted by Elizabeth Rizzo Lord of her grandmother, Shirley Molligan Laque, with her mother, Judy Laque Rizzo. The interview took place right before Shirley’s 90th birthday. As a random side note, we are all three left...

interviewing my aunt

we talked about memories. we also talked a lot about what life used to be like.

Nita Morgan Hawkins (7/4/18)

This is a recording of my beautiful grandmother Nita Morgan Hawkins talking about her life growing up on Pecan Island, LA and of her experiences going to Baptist Hospital/Tulane University for Nurses Training in the late 1940's/early 1950's. She also...

Jennifer and Michael

We talked about what it was like for her in the past and the significance of certain things that have happened around her.

Zoe & Claire: Waldorf School of New Orleans Alumnae & BFFs

Best friends from the age of two - hear about their 11 year journey through Waldorf education: “I feel like Waldorf taught you things, but in a deeper way. You really learned something from multiple perspectives. You learned about it,...

Muted by Despair but Unloyal to Illusions

Fredrick Mitchell was born into a time of gray mists and steady rain. At the age of 5 living in Biloxi Mississippi, things started to get seized from him. First the rights of school were taken from him, then his...

Interview with Dad

A shortened version of my Dad’s early childhood, Military life, and professional career.

Waldorf School of New Orleans Librarian Lesley Rubenstein

Lesley has been a Waldorf classroom teacher, but her most notable accomplishment at WSNO is our beloved library, which she built from nothing. Find out how she did it.

Waldorf Grades 5 & 6 Teacher & Pedagogical Chair Rebecca Nelson

Rebecca Nelson thought she was going to become an anthropologist, but life had different plans for her: “I feel that I am really helping create the kinds of people I want to be leading our society, and that is my...