Welcome to the Moth Podcast. I'm your host, Kate Tellers. For 2022, the 25th anniversary

of the Moth, we've been counting down and celebrating every year the Moths been around.

This episode we're at 2012, which is the year we formalized our education program.

Through workshops and story slams, the education program provides students and teachers with

a forum to share personal stories with one another, then on a stage, and often on this

very podcast. EDU reaches hundreds of middle and high school students and teachers every

year all across the country. And at the Moth, we know that every level of education can

be story worthy, which is why since 2006, we've been developing stories from Barnard College

Alums for a special event at their annual reunion. We'll be playing one of those stories,

and then I'll be chatting a bit with my co-authors about how it relates to a conversation we've

been having when we talk about our new, now-New York Times best-selling book, How to Tell a

Story, the essential guide to memorable storytelling from the Moth. Before we listen,

I should note, this was before we had a podcast or radio program, so the audio here is not

perfect. We think it's worth it. Here's Dorothy Stork.

Hi, I transferred up because I was working part-time and went to get a job at the McLean

Trucking Company because the campus library was only paying 50 cents. They were paying

a buck. The Dean of Whitman sent a committee down to see if the McLean Trucking Company

was appropriate for Duke Cohen. It wasn't. So I transferred to Barnard for my senior

year. I was the January 1951 graduate. Around that time, the Korean War was ratcheted

up. There was a marine recruiting sergeant on campus, and he offered me this time to

deal. I could go to the Platoon Leader's Course in Plotico, Virginia for the summer. Then

when I graduated, I would be a lieutenant at the United States Marines, and I thought,

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