Bella Skolnik’s interview provides a passionate story of activism in health, education, and welfare. She begins by reflecting on her thoughtful and supportive family and her childhood and moves on to tell vivid stories of her freshman year at Pembroke College, including her college friendships, house mother, dating, dormitories, "gracious living," and seeing the world through rose colored glasses. She considers the stock market crash in October 1929and the way it formed her and her peers’ college careers. She talks about her courses and professors, and her marriage to her husband at the end of her senior year at Brown. Also in Part 1, Skolnick begins to discuss her work with handicapped children, and becoming a private tutor and social worker.

In track 2, Skolnick expands on her activism, and the process of beginning the Rhode Island Chapter of Crippled Children and Adults as part of the Easter Seal Agency of Rhode Island. Her stories speak to the process of activism and working within communities to assess need as a base of advocacy and education. She moves on to discuss transitioning from working with handicapped children to working with the elderly, using the same process of surveying, advocacy, and education to establish organizations working to make social services accessible to the elderly community.

In track 3, Skolnick considers the arch of her career and the triumph at seeing changes at an institutional level. She ends her interview by contemplating the gratitude she has for her life.