Interviewer:
Why did you agree to go to Duke to [teach]?

Bonnie E. Cone:
Well, I just know that on my own I would not have done it…I needed to be sure I was not getting out on a limb because I needed to continue to work.  Anyway, Dr. Gergen contacted Dr. Garinger, who was my principal, and Dr. Garinger said yes, he wanted me to do that but he wanted me to come back to Charlotte.  My job would be available when I came back.  So that assurance, you know, made it easier for me to do it.

- Bonnie E. Cone, teacher and administrator at UNC-Charlotte during 1940s-60s

Interview with Bonnie E. Cone by Lynn Haessly, January 7, 1986, Interview C-0048, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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