Amazing story, thank you for posting. Any chance you happen to remember which building your class was in? Was it one of the buildings along the south mall?
Oh man. That was 50 years ago. I do recall that my instructor that offered to put in a word for me so I could audit was Professor Flowers, very nice woman.
She was still around when I was there! She was indeed very nice.
Just looked her up, glad to see it seems like she’s still doing well.