the Mississippi at the time, which was in
Colorado. Because she thought her
chances of being accepted would be slim,
she began to focus on the six medical
schools that were in California.
American psyche” Fulwider maintained,
“the attitude that Americans have
regarding technology and what
technology could do for us as a group.”
Adjustment of the American
Psyche
While doing undergraduate work as a
freshman and sophomore at Long Beach
State University, Cole realized that she
“was a science geek” and enjoyed
chemistry, math and physics. She won a
Regents Scholarship for her last two
years of undergraduate work which she
completed at UC Berkeley.
“I didn’t want to study just science” said
Cole, who explained how she put both
science and social science classes
together and then wrote a unifying
thesis on “The Shaping of American
Psyche Toward A Libratory Technology,”
which is printed on the face of the
degree that Ronald Reagan signed.
“We needed an attitude adjustment
about what work is and how it’s going to
be distributed because we need to
distribute work so that people have
meaningful work,” says Cole Fulwider.
She went on to explain, that around
1970 when she was writing her thesis,
there ceased being a shortage of labor in
the United States and how technology
offered the potential to free up people
for higher pursuits from the tasks that
we complete at the expense of our body,
joints and muscles.
Actualization of the Human
Personality
Looking back, the relevance of her work
at UC Berkeley seems profoundly
applicable today. “My idea was that
technology was advancing so quickly
and jobs were leaving—with technology
there’s fewer man and women hours
needed to accomplish tasks,” explained
Fulwider. “So, I was thinking there
needed to be an adjustment of the
“The higher pursuit of any culture is
what remains,” lamented Fulwider—
“their art and maybe their grand
architecture.” “These are higher callings
than just daily labor and were in my
mind when I was writing that essay,”
said Cole, as she suggested that “the
great dream could be to realize the
potential in every human—to be creative
and contribute to culture.”
“I suppose that it’s idealistic to think
that there would be some sort of
compunction by our leaders to actually