HAMILTON COLLEGE SPECTATOR, 1958-1962
File — Box: 117
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
John Nichols' papers document a wide range of history and culture and personal connections in New Mexico (and elsewhere) over the last 55 years. This all-inclusive collection contains almost every draft of every manuscript Nichols has written, and every piece of correspondence that he has sent and received since the late 1950s. The collection not only documents the creation and evolution of his literary works, but precisely documents the literary process. His correspondence, speeches, and artwork chronicle contemporary political and social issues and shed light not only on John Nichols, but also illuminate the perspectives of a large array of contemporary literary, political, and everyday figures and issues in New Mexico and around the globe.
Activities, 1970-2008: These files include speeches, political organizing, trips, magazine articles, and many other projects and activities undertaken by Nichols.
Articles, 1969-2007: Contain various newspaper and magazine articles about John Nichols and his books.
Artwork, 1969-2004: Sketchbooks, drawings and cartoons by John Nichols. Significant works including a complete set of pen and ink calavera drawings, artists proofs, and etchings of calaveras done to illustrate The Magic Journey; published and unpublished political cartoons, mostly done during the 1970s for Albuquerque's alternative newspaper, Seer's Catalogue, and illustrations and cartoons done for Hamilton College's track & field newsletter The Good Scout.
Book Reviews, 1965-2007: Published reviews of John Nichols' books.
Book/Film Contracts, 1964-2012: Xerox copies of some of the main contracts Nichols has signed for book publishing, film options, and screen-writing assignments. With a few magazine and journal and audio recording pufferies thrown in.
Book/Movie/Agent Correspondence, 1963-2007: This consists of files of correspondence between Nichols and agents, editors, publishers, producers, directors, production people, and others involved with his professional life of writing books and screenplays.
Correspondence 1950s-1960s, 1950-2012: This series contains letters from Nichols' teenage years, while at Hamilton College, and then living in New York City until 1969. Later correspondence is often included, the criteria being that the letter exchanges began in the 1950s or 1960s.
Envelope Diaries, 1998-2002: Envelope diaries and field observations played a huge role in creating Nichols' literature. He kept a record of hikes on the backs of envelopes and carefully typed up these transcripts afterwards. Once he began carrying a little tape recorder that was the end of the envelope diary field notes.
Eulogies, 1980-2007: Written by John Nichols for some of his departed friends.
Fan Letters, 1969-2011: Consist mainly of letters to Nichols, mostly from strangers, commenting on his books or other projects, and of carbons of some of his typed replies to these letters from strangers.
General Correspondence, 1970-2012
Jouranl/Diary Ephemera, 1955-1966: Ephemera connected to Nichols' life between age 15-26, during prep school and college and a few years after college.
Journal/Diary Files, 1956-2007: Nichols has kept journals off and on since age fifteen.
Manuscripts, 1957-2012: This series contains nearly every draft of every title that John Nichols wrote between 1957 and 2012. Notable titles include "The Sterile Cuckoo" and the New Mexico Trilogy: "The Milagro Beanfield War," "The Magic Journey," and "The Nirvana Blues."
Memorabilia, 1968-1997: Hermes Rocket typewriter used to type Milagro, and Olympia typewriter used to type manuscripts from 1974 until 1997, when Nichols finally began using the computer.
Miscellaneous Carbons, 1964-2009: These are carbon copies of business and personal letters, typed by Nichols and not matched up with correspondence files elsewhere.
Novel Notes, 1961-2006: Notes that Nichols scribbled in notebooks and on the backs of envelopes. He often wrote dozens of variations on a theme in notebooks trying to get a handle, find a starting point.
Phone Messages, 1987-2007
Photographs, 1955-2013: This is a cross-section of photographs of Nichols, his family and friends, lots of photographs related to publicity for his books, or hiking mesas and climbing mountains.
Photography Workshops in Taos, 1988-1998: Nichols' friend sponsored the Owens Valley Photography Workshops (begun in 1975) for many years. The workshops catered to serious, and usually large-format, photographers in the mold of Ansel Adams and others of his ilk. Nichols guest lectured at the workshop for 10 summers, beginning in 1988.
Pocket Notebooks, 1980-2010: Things to do, lists, notes for novels, field notes when hiking, random thoughts, and so forth.
Publications, 1959-2007: Magazines and newspapers containing articles by or about Nichols. This includes prep school and college literary magazines, the Hamilton Spectator and New Mexico Review.
Request Letters, 1970-2012: Mostly letters from people asking John Nichols to "do stuff," like read their books, blurb their books, find them a publisher, come and speak to their class, do a workshop, contribute books for their benefit auction, etc.
Royalty Statements,1965-2011
Screenplays, 1965-2004: Includes screenplays, drafts, and edited drafts of screenplays written by Nichols, or written by others as adaptations of Nichols' works. Notable titles include "Missing" and "The Milagro Beanfield War."
Slides, 1960-2000: Most of the slides were taken between 1973 and 1995, primarily in and around Nichols' Taos home, in Taos proper, or around the immediate Taos valley and western mesas, or on some of the small streams southeast of Taos or in the mountains of Taos County.
Videos 1984-2013: This is a collection of videos include interviews or documentariesJohn Nichols has done I've done or documentaries I've done, or have been included in.
Activities, 1970-2008: These files include speeches, political organizing, trips, magazine articles, and many other projects and activities undertaken by Nichols.
Articles, 1969-2007: Contain various newspaper and magazine articles about John Nichols and his books.
Artwork, 1969-2004: Sketchbooks, drawings and cartoons by John Nichols. Significant works including a complete set of pen and ink calavera drawings, artists proofs, and etchings of calaveras done to illustrate The Magic Journey; published and unpublished political cartoons, mostly done during the 1970s for Albuquerque's alternative newspaper, Seer's Catalogue, and illustrations and cartoons done for Hamilton College's track & field newsletter The Good Scout.
Book Reviews, 1965-2007: Published reviews of John Nichols' books.
Book/Film Contracts, 1964-2012: Xerox copies of some of the main contracts Nichols has signed for book publishing, film options, and screen-writing assignments. With a few magazine and journal and audio recording pufferies thrown in.
Book/Movie/Agent Correspondence, 1963-2007: This consists of files of correspondence between Nichols and agents, editors, publishers, producers, directors, production people, and others involved with his professional life of writing books and screenplays.
Correspondence 1950s-1960s, 1950-2012: This series contains letters from Nichols' teenage years, while at Hamilton College, and then living in New York City until 1969. Later correspondence is often included, the criteria being that the letter exchanges began in the 1950s or 1960s.
Envelope Diaries, 1998-2002: Envelope diaries and field observations played a huge role in creating Nichols' literature. He kept a record of hikes on the backs of envelopes and carefully typed up these transcripts afterwards. Once he began carrying a little tape recorder that was the end of the envelope diary field notes.
Eulogies, 1980-2007: Written by John Nichols for some of his departed friends.
Fan Letters, 1969-2011: Consist mainly of letters to Nichols, mostly from strangers, commenting on his books or other projects, and of carbons of some of his typed replies to these letters from strangers.
General Correspondence, 1970-2012
Jouranl/Diary Ephemera, 1955-1966: Ephemera connected to Nichols' life between age 15-26, during prep school and college and a few years after college.
Journal/Diary Files, 1956-2007: Nichols has kept journals off and on since age fifteen.
Manuscripts, 1957-2012: This series contains nearly every draft of every title that John Nichols wrote between 1957 and 2012. Notable titles include "The Sterile Cuckoo" and the New Mexico Trilogy: "The Milagro Beanfield War," "The Magic Journey," and "The Nirvana Blues."
Memorabilia, 1968-1997: Hermes Rocket typewriter used to type Milagro, and Olympia typewriter used to type manuscripts from 1974 until 1997, when Nichols finally began using the computer.
Miscellaneous Carbons, 1964-2009: These are carbon copies of business and personal letters, typed by Nichols and not matched up with correspondence files elsewhere.
Novel Notes, 1961-2006: Notes that Nichols scribbled in notebooks and on the backs of envelopes. He often wrote dozens of variations on a theme in notebooks trying to get a handle, find a starting point.
Phone Messages, 1987-2007
Photographs, 1955-2013: This is a cross-section of photographs of Nichols, his family and friends, lots of photographs related to publicity for his books, or hiking mesas and climbing mountains.
Photography Workshops in Taos, 1988-1998: Nichols' friend sponsored the Owens Valley Photography Workshops (begun in 1975) for many years. The workshops catered to serious, and usually large-format, photographers in the mold of Ansel Adams and others of his ilk. Nichols guest lectured at the workshop for 10 summers, beginning in 1988.
Pocket Notebooks, 1980-2010: Things to do, lists, notes for novels, field notes when hiking, random thoughts, and so forth.
Publications, 1959-2007: Magazines and newspapers containing articles by or about Nichols. This includes prep school and college literary magazines, the Hamilton Spectator and New Mexico Review.
Request Letters, 1970-2012: Mostly letters from people asking John Nichols to "do stuff," like read their books, blurb their books, find them a publisher, come and speak to their class, do a workshop, contribute books for their benefit auction, etc.
Royalty Statements,1965-2011
Screenplays, 1965-2004: Includes screenplays, drafts, and edited drafts of screenplays written by Nichols, or written by others as adaptations of Nichols' works. Notable titles include "Missing" and "The Milagro Beanfield War."
Slides, 1960-2000: Most of the slides were taken between 1973 and 1995, primarily in and around Nichols' Taos home, in Taos proper, or around the immediate Taos valley and western mesas, or on some of the small streams southeast of Taos or in the mountains of Taos County.
Videos 1984-2013: This is a collection of videos include interviews or documentariesJohn Nichols has done I've done or documentaries I've done, or have been included in.
Dates
- 1958-1962
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research, however, researchers must sign consent form prior to gaining access to materials. Calavera drawings, proofs, and etchings as well as "little diaries" (Boxes 14, 125, 126, 129, 142) are housed in high security and may require up to 24 hours for retrieval. Enlarged photocopies and typed transcriptions of "little diaries" in Box 142 are located in Box 184.
Extent
From the Collection: 184 boxes (172 cu. ft.)
General
This was Hamilton's weekly paper when I was there. Eventually I wrote a column for the paper called "Just No Stories." These columns were very stupid and almost always ended with a pun for the punch line. They were gross, sophomoric, offensive, and nonsensical. I'm surprised somebody on the editorial board, or faculty, didn't have me cashiered immediately. There was a flap by an alumnus over one scatological column that became a tempest in a teapot; I was defended by the newspaper as if it were defending Shakespeare or Chaucer. Fair enuff. I guess we were intent on protecting Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press. But my gosh, those columns give me the willies today!
I seem to have started Just No Stories in the autumn of my junior year (1961), though there are Spectators aplenty before that are included in this collection, from 1958 and 1959, as well as 1960-1962. But so far as I know the first Just No was published on Sept. 23, 1960. By my count, 24 were published in the next two years.
The gruesome list:
I seem to have started Just No Stories in the autumn of my junior year (1961), though there are Spectators aplenty before that are included in this collection, from 1958 and 1959, as well as 1960-1962. But so far as I know the first Just No was published on Sept. 23, 1960. By my count, 24 were published in the next two years.
The gruesome list:
- Sept. 30, 1960: "Number One."
- Oct. 7, 1960: "Lotus-Eater Lathrop."
- Oct. 21, 1960: "The Night They Stole The Moosehead."
- Nov. 4, 1960: "Eat-Em-Up Moe Maybe's Initiation."
- Dec, 9, 1960: "The Immortal Love."
- Jan. 6, 1961: "The Last Word."
- Feb. 3, 1961: "Smudgy Potatoes New Needle."
- Mar. 3, 1961: "Marshall Attaboy vs. Peter Tiptoes."
- March 17, 1961: "Scraggly Peanuts Starts a Craze."
- April 14, 1961: "Earl."
- April 28, 1961: "Frizzly Grissitt."
- May 19, 1961: "Timothy Mellow Grows Up."
- Oct. 6, 1961: "The Image Creator."
- Oct. 20, 1961: "Politics."
- Nov. 3, 1961: "The Seventy Five Pound Pumpkin."
- Nov. 17, 1961: "Joe."
- Dec. 8, 1961: "Cabbage Ludlow and Deceptable Dunkins."
- Jan. 12, 1962: "Dennis Awlthings." Though paper has no title.
- Feb. 9, 1962: "Ned Sniff And His Guitar Without a G-String." * (Created a hullaballoo of angry letters to the editor).
- Feb. 23, 1962: "Who Howcum's Houseparty Date."
- March 16, 1962: "The Silver Trumpet."
- April 13, 1962: "The Chee Chee Paddle."
- May 11, 1962: "Tiptoe Time."
- May 25, 1962: "Joe Thompson Makes A Discovery."
- June 9, 1962: (No title) "The Just No Book."
SPECTATORS included in this collection:
- Sept. 26, 1958: I think I kept this because it lists the freshman pledge classes for all the fraternities. I'm listed on back page with Theta Delt. I grew to despise fraternities
- Oct. 3, 1958: Don't know why I kept this. Maybe because of the FB game. We had an undefeated team my freshman year and I played in most of the games, missing a letter by I think one or two quarters. But I hated the violence of the game, and quit before the season of my sophomore year. I wound up running cross-country for Gene Long my junior and senior year, and loved it.
- Oct. 10, 1958: Again my guess is I kept this because of another football rout, though my name isn't mentioned.
- Oct. 17, 1958: Another great game for our FB team. A little all-America end, John Stevens, was a Theta Delt, and taught me a lot. The sophomore QB, Dick Blessing, was a friend. He tried to talk me into staying on the team in 1959; I refused. After college he became a fine writer, specially a poet. He died young of a brain tumor. I have letters from, and to him in my General Correspondence files.
- Oct. 31, 1958: Another FB triumph. I also notice that we freshmen burned our beanies. And my pals John von Bergan and Frank Hamilton were elected officers of our class.
- Feb. 20, 1959: I spoze I kept this one because of Timmy Norbeck's great night against Cornell in hockey. We had a fabulous team. I played third line. We wound up with the second best record in the country, I believe, behind Middlebury.
- May 1, 1959: I got my name in this one in a write-up about a track meet where I came in 2nd in the low hurdles. My freshman and sophomore years I lettered in track. Sophomore year I also lettered in hockey. Junior year I lettered in Cross-country and hockey. Didn't run track because of anterior cruciate damage from playing hockey. Senior year I lettered in Cross-Country and hockey. 7 varsity letters in all.
- January 8, 1960: More fantastic hockey. But, this paper is notable for a long review of my story "Lagrimas" in the literary magazine, The Continental. On the back page. This qualifies as the first written critique of my work. Calls it slushy, sentimental, almost professional in a few spots, strongly influenced by Steinbeck, Hemingway, etc. After shitting on it a lot, the reviewers said, "Nevertheless, this story is an earnest attempt to write creative literature."
- Jan. 15, 1960: More fabulous hockey team, and irate letters about the reviews of The Continental, mentioned just above.
- Feb 19, 1960: Humor issue, my sophomore year.
- April 29, 1960: * On page 2 there's a photograph of me being tapped (chosen) for the junior honorary society, Was Los. I was tapped for the sophomore (DT), junior (Was Los), and senior (Pentagon) honorary societies--fairly prestigious honors. Also spent junior and senior years on the Honor Court.
- May 20, 1960: I came in 5th in low hurdles at the state meet. I actually remember there was a tie and we drew numbered bullets out of a hat for the 3,4,5 positions. I drew fifth.
- Sept. 23, 1960: I get mentioned in a cross country article, and publish my first Just No Story, "Number One."
- Sept. 30, 1960: I'm mentioned in a cross country article.
- Oct. 14, 1960: I get mentioned in a cross country article where I finished last for Hamilton. I remember the agony and humiliation of that meet, my first in competition.
- Oct. 21, 1960: Just No Story, "The Night They Stole The Moosehead." Also a foto of me in bullfighting school in Spain. And a long article on Bill Willis and our summer in Spain in 1960. I came in third for Hamilton in a cross country meet we lost to Cortland.
- Oct. 28, 1960: I get mentioned twice in a cross country article.
- Nov. 4, 1960: Paper is missing (I clipped it) Just No Story "Eat-Em-Up Moe Maybe's Initiation." On the sports page I'm in a foto of cross country runners practicing.
- Nov. 11, 1960: I scored 7th for Hamilton in the state cross-country meet.
- Nov. 18, 1960: Humiliating hockey article where writer neglects to state that I'm a letterman from previous year. I musta wanted to choke him!
- Dec. 2, 1960: Hockey article mentions I'm sidelined with a torn ligament.
- Dec. 9, 1960: Another review of The Continental, this time savaging my Barcelona drunk story, "The Still Sad Music." One comment is that it's "incredibly hackneyed." The writer gives me a bit of credit, but considers my tendency "toward prurience" to be a grave fault. I love this critique! (And the last one, also. Real treasures and indicative of what was to come in my professional life.)
- Jan. 6, 1961: Scored a goal in a hockey game. And published a Just No Story, "The Last Word." Also the editor of The Continental defends me and other writers who were dumped on in the review last week.
- Jan. 27. 1961: I scored a goal during a disastrous four game losing streak. In hockey, of course.
- Feb. 2, 1961: I clipped out a Just No Story, "Smudgy Potatoes New Needle." There's an article on sports page announcing the alumni hockey game, in which I was checked by John Beebe and sheared both anterior cruciates, and tore the left meniscus. Huge life changing injury. Stopped me from becoming the hockey player I yearned to be. And also made me 4-F for the Army (A great boon in my life).
- Feb. 24, 1961: More hockey humiliation. Crippled by no cruciates I hadda leave the middle of a game.
- Serial 14, Number 17B: Humor issue for Winter Carnival. There's a vicious satire of my writing called "Please, No Stories" in the space where Just No stories was usually published.
- March 3, 1961: Just No Story, "Marshall Attaboy vs. Peter Tiptoes." Also: Huge upset of Williams in which I scored 2 goals. Also scored against AIC.
- March 10, 1961: I scored a couple of goals against Middlebury and got elected co-captain. Dismal year. I played most of the season in excruciating pain, missing both ACLs and with a torn meniscus in my left knee. Gene Long, hockey trainer (and track and x-country coach) got me on the ice every practice and game with amazing casts and tape jobs. I played the entire next season like this also, a mediocre player at best. Sad, because hockey had driven me for years.
- March 17, 1961: Just No: "Scraggly Peanuts Starts a Craze."
- April 7, 1961: Another great critique of The Continental, this time by Dick Blessing, my pal. Of my Poem "Peace and a Soul," he says, "At last John Nichols will not be accused of copying Hemingway. He will not be accused of prurience. There is little in fact, in Peace and a Soul to criticize; unfortunately, there is little to praise either. The poem equates a chord of music with a human soul, and I am not sure that there is any more that can be said about Peace and a Soul."
- *There's also a foto of my best friend (still) Alan Howard, being tapped for Was Los.
- April 14, 1961: It's announced I'll be an advisor in Dunham next year, guarding frosh. And Just No Story, "Earl."
- April 21, 1961: Carl Hayden being thrown up in the air by Was Los. I am standing beside Phil Hineline. Can just see part of my face and glasses.
- April 28, 1961: Just No Story about "Frizzly Grizzit" is clipped out. Big article on Paul Goodman, who read at ELS and was the first real writer I ever heard in person. I remember being very impressed. Also response to Alan Howard and Kenny Kahn's "Fair Play for Cuba" riffs.
- May 5, 1961: Photo of Was Los (Junior Honor Society) guys tapping Wes Oler for next year's Was Los. I am in the foreground throwing him up in the air. Wes donated his name to the Oler family in THE WIZARD OF LONELINESS.
- May 12, 1961: Me and Alan Howard mentioned in article about Honor Court. We were elected for another year. Little riff on my accomplishments.
- May 19, 1961: I get tapped for Senior Honorary Society, Pentagon. Picture of me with Phil Hineline, Jack Moore, Harvey Bricker, and Bill Nelson. Dick Blessing is slightly behind me. Interesting how our lives followed similar paths. Sadness of his death of a brain tumor. I wrote him a long letter shortly before he died. He would have become a wonderful writer. He got the highest college prize at his graduation. I think people were stunned I got selected for Pentagon. I wasn't considered academic enuff...or honorable enuff! As if to prove the point this paper also has a Just No Story, "Timothy Mellow Grows Up," which is the sort of drek and drivel no self-respecting Pentagonian would ever publish.
- Sept. 29, 1961: Mention in Cross country article.
- Oct. 6, 1961: Just No Story, "The Image Creator." And mention in cross country article.
- Oct. 13, 1961: Photo of Cross country guys taking off in a time trial. And I'm mentioned in a Cross country article.
- Oct. 20, 1961: This one is a classic. On the back page is an informed angry political analysis of conservatives and liberals by Alan Howard, my dear friend and ultimately political mentor for life. On the 2nd page is an absurd and very offensive Just No Story called "Politics." Jesus!
- Oct. 27, 1961: I am mentioned in a cross-country article. As usual I sucked.
- Nov. 3, 1961: I came in third for Hamilton in a cross country race. 5th. in another. Just No Story, "The Seventy-five Pound Pumpkin."
- Nov. 10, 1961: Mention in cross country article. And a The Hot Corner column, a lovely and humorous portrait of Cross Country captain Phil Hineline.
- Nov. 17, 1961: Mention in Cross Country article. And Just No Story, "Joe."
- Dec. 1, 1961: Mention in hockey article on back page.
- Dec. 8, 1961: Start of dismal hockey season. And Just No Story, "Cabbage Ludlow and Deceptable Dunkins."
- Jan. 12, 1961: Just No Story, "Dennis Awlthings."
- Feb. 2, 1962: Didn't even make the hockey article. We're 0-8!
- Feb. 9, 1961: Just No Story, "Ned Sniff and His Guitar Without a G-String."
- Feb. 16, 1962: I got mentioned in a hockey article for "nearly scoring" against Army, which beat us 2-0. How humiliating. We're now 0-10.
- Feb. 23, 1962: I scored a hat trick against Amherst. I had invited my little brothers, Dave and Tim, up to Hamilton to see the game. I believe that's the only time anyone in my family saw me play a varsity game in prep school and college. Just No Story, "Who Howcum's House party Date."
- Feb. 24, 1962: Humor issue. I was the co-editor. I get ribbed in a mock hockey article that perhaps I wrote myself, I don't remember. A foto I took of guys and kids in Cordoba, Spain is used in the middle section: "Grin and Bear It." Took foto near a statue of Manolete in summer of 1960. I think I wrote MASTER HANDLERS MAKE MOX, GENE TASTE BIG BIRDIE. My revenge on Gene Long who once beat me 21-0 in a badminton match. I also think I wrote WINNIE THE POOH JOINS MAU MAUS, TAKES OVER STORE. There's another spoof on Just No Stories called Just Any Old Story. And I may have written a story on rushing. Seems to have my style. But I dunno. Have no real recollection. But it’s a funny satirical issue.
- March 9, 1962: Sorrowful wrapup to hockey season. I scored against Middlebury, a hat trick against Penn, a goal against Williams. I'm leading scorer for thr team with 8 goals, 2 assists. How bad is that? But, it's a miracle I played at all, given the pain. Man, I was grateful when the season (and pain in my knees) ended. I remember crying in frustration. Another article mentions I'm gonna be in the play, "Waiting for Lefty." There's also a comical toast from Prof. Todd spoofing Pentagon. *And there's an exchange of letters between editor Bill Nelson and an alumnus about the merits of my prurient and scatological Just No Story about Ned Sniff and his Guitar Without a G-String." Very funny! And passionate. And stupid.
- March 16, 1962: I'm in a foto on the front page, rehearsing "Waiting For Lefty." Mentioned in the article along with Alan Howard. Just No Story, "The Silver Trumpet." More letters to the editor, defending me, and a wonderful Just No satire by David Parsells, shitting on me, capturing Just No perfectly in the process.
- March 23, 1962: Review of play "Waiting for Lefty," where Sean Fitzpatrick treats me kindly and says Alan Howard is a great method actor, but couldn't figure out if he was Brando or Newman. An article on back page talks about views on rushing and the fraternity system. I sound fairly intelligent. Didn't believe fraternities were the only answer.
- And there's one more letter to the editor shitting on the newspaper's exchange of letters critiquing my Just No Story.
- April 13, 1962: Just No Story "The Chee Chee paddle" is clipped out.
- April 20, 1962: Oh dear. This paper seems to be absent any mention of me! Why in god's name did I save it?
- May 4, 1962: I'm in a foto on front page in the play "My Three Angels." My dear friend Alan Howard is elected chairman of the Honor Court. There's a review of the play in which I get tweaked briefly. In The Hot Corner on the sports page I do a profile of Tim Gow, but man is it mean. I don't remember him much today, but it's a brutal roast. I wonder what I was thinking.
- May 11, 1962: Announcement on front page that along with others including Alan Howard, I'll be included in next Continental. A Just No Story, "Tiptoe Time." There's an article on proposals for a student union, and I'm quoted at length in favor of it.
- May 18, 1962: Picture of Alan Howard and Ken Kahn, still two of my close friends today (April 2008). Another review of The Continental, by Ed Kenny, who died of cancer a few years back, and was a good friend of Kenny Kahn's. I get a pretty good review for "A Season of Dying." A story written after my pal Bill Willis's girlfriend died in a car accident that Willy was in also. In another article, it's announced that Frank McCoullough and I share first prize of $75 in a literary contest. The Hot Corner, written by Alan Howard, is a tribute to me. And on the back page I do a long Student Analysis. About guitars. My career with them. And my experience with Rev. Gary Davis in New York, summer of 1961.
- May 25, 1962: Picture on front of me and current Pentagon members, and the new Pentagon group we've just chosen. I'm standing behind Alan Howard. Kenny Kahn is chosen also. Article on back page about comprehensive exams. I'm one of students interviewed, quoted at length. Just No Story, "Joe Thompson Makes a Discovery."
- June 9, 1962: Last Just No Story, about the Just No Book. My literary swansong at Hamilton! .
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University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451