Dr. Charlotte Gerrard was born in Stamford, CT on March 10, 1928. In 1965 she was hired as a French professor and continued in the position until her retirement. She discusses cultural changes she obserrved in her time at the university, her teaching philsophosies and research areas, and the development of the Strasbourg study abroad program. Further she discusses the community that developed among faculty in the department and her high and low moments teaching.