Dean of women

And to hear that great tabernacle full of students singing this hymn was just a wonderful experience.

And I remember the Dean of Women, Miss Ruth Dearing, quoting those verses, "'They who trust him wholly find him wholly true.'" And I have found that to be true.

The deeper my faith goes, the more I trust him, the more evidence I find of his absolute trustworthiness.

And those of you that are a little shaky on whether or not you really can trust God, well, my advice to you is take the risk.

Yeah.

Um, so but initially I was dean of women, which was a great gig.

I loved it.

Loved that job.

Um, so I was-

You just kept rising up

... department chair, then dean of women, then dean.

Then I was, like, a dean over a bunch of colleges here at ASU-

On campus, she'd wear her slacks here, and as you mentioned, it was pretty atypical at the time.

We have video interview with Dean Emerita Dorothy Stratton, who was Dean of Women at the time that Earhart was here, and she recalls that when Amelia started here, she'd be seen wearing trousers across campus, and then women students would start wearing trousers on campus as well, which was really not typical at the time.

There were some other great stories that she recounts as well, just like Amelia's influence on students on campus, particularly women students.

When she was here, she stayed at Dewees Residence Hall, and in some of the residence halls, they'd have these formal dinners all together.