Paul Quin is a writer and designer who graduated from Hopkins in 1965 with a degree from the Writing Seminars. Quin notes Elliot Coleman, founder of the Writing Seminars in 1947, as an early teacher. During his undergraduate years at Hopkins, Quin witnessed historical events at the school including the anti-segregation protests from 1962-1963 and when Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke on campus. In this interview, Quin talks about his early life, experiences at Hopkins, coming to terms with his identity as a gay man, life in Baltimore in the early 1960s, and the trajectory of his life in his post-Hopkins years. This oral history is part of the Hopkins Retrospective oral histories series.

Donald Perry, a 1961 graduate of Johns Hopkins University, talks about his life, career, and his experience as one of the few African-American undergraduate students at Hopkins.

"T.K." is a member of the Johns Hopkins University graduating class of 2018, and double majored in biomedical engineering and medicine, science, and the humanities. In this interview, T.K. discusses growing up in Taiwan and their decision process when applying to Johns Hopkins. T.K. goes on to discuss their participation in student cultural organizations on campus, religion, and various work experiences as an undergraduate researcher and intern over the course of their studies. This oral history is part of the First-generation Students oral histories series.