"Sweet revenge" brings former professor, student together
April 28, 2021ALTON — Alton resident and retired attorney Ruth Larson spoke to members of the Alton Centennial Rotary Club via Zoom as the club's Guest Speaker last Thursday.
She talked about why and how she became a lawyer, and her life-long dedication to the rights of women and minorities. It all began when she was a student at Antioch College, a private liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Antioch, in her description was "a very liberal college" with a work study program, under which students took semesters off to work on jobs throughout the country, and no grades, just a pass-fail system. Ruth spent her junior year abroad, in Kenya in East Africa.