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Gail Feagles

Class of 1976

"All of a sudden you realized a month or two before the end of the year, that you were going to be examined on all of this material."

Gail Feagles talks about how long courses were when she attended Duke Law.

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• Gail Feagles
  "I think being in classes that were almost all men was clearly an adjustment. I had been a French major, and that was primarily all women."
• Gail Feagles
  "I'm going to admit to these three law students I have yet to meet, that I am so scatter-brained I have already locked myself out of my apartment."
• Gail Feagles
  "We had no place to really go to eat; we had vending machines. If you wanted to get something to eat, you had to go over to the main campus."
• Gail Feagles
  "We were typical law students ... we weren't all out there saying, 'Oh let's solve the problems of the world right now.'"
• Gail Feagles
  "I still think it was sad, tragic almost, that he fell so far, when he did accomplish so much."