Box 135
Container
Contains 74 Results:
MISCELLANEOUS STUFF, LOOMIS/HAMILTON, 1959-1963
File — Box: 135, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents
This folder contains notes; addresses; student receipt for a bill paid at Hamilton; pencil cartoon designs on an envelope for Alan Howard's and my 1962 Jest No greeting card business; my first hand-designed Xmas card; two pages of class notes on Liebniz, Spinoza, Descartes; note to me from Harvey Bricker, head of Pentagon (the Hamilton senior honor society that I was in) about a meeting (on the back of the note I scribbled absurd pun punchlines for my newspaper "humor" column, Just No Stories);...
Dates:
1959-1963
DUNCAN SAUNDERS PRIZE, May 16, 1961
File — Box: 135, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents
I won $100 as half of the Duncan Saunders Prize in English Writing at Hamilton College. My story tied with another Hamilton writer, Frank McCullough. This folder contains a single letter from Hamilton Dean Winton Tolles informing me I won the prize.
Dates:
May 16, 1961
JUST NO STORIES, HAMILTON, 1960-1962
File — Box: 135, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
This folder holds: 1.) A collection of 24 published Just No Stories, the humor column I wrote between September 1960 and June 1962 for the Hamilton College Spectator. (See BOX 117, UNFOLDERED for related material.) 2.) Clipped-out letters-to-the-editor of the Spectator during a flap (over one of my "infantile" columns) launched by an alumnus, Dr. Theodore Ingalls. (The Spectator's editor, Bill Nelson, gave a spirited defense of my moronic work, bless him.) 3.) Dr. Ingalls March 13, 1962 typed...
Dates:
1960-1962
JIM PENNEY ART SHOW, March 1962
File — Box: 135, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents
Jim Penney was my art prof at Hamilton. A good friend, too. This is the catalogue for his show Feb 5 to March 31, 1962 at the Root Art Center at Hamilton College.
Dates:
March 1962
HAMILTON GRADUATION, June 10, 1962
File — Box: 135, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents
In this folder: 1.) 2 invitations to Hamilton graduation. 2.) 2 programs of Commencement. 3.) Schedule of events with some of my notes on it. 4.) A "Your guide to...Hamilton College, Clinton NY." There's a map of the college inside. 5.) Letter from my pal Kenny Kahn, and ancient prof Bobo Rudd, and my public-speaking teacher, Leif Todd, saying I've shared (with Frank McCullough again, see Duncan Saunders Prize above) First Prize for the Hamilton College Sesquicentennial Creative Writing Contest...
Dates:
June 10, 1962
JTN HAMILTON DIPLOMA, June 1962
File — Box: 135, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents
This is a huge, pretentious diploma, written entirely in Latin, including my first name which is JOHANNEM. Yikes. I think the date says June 10, 1962.
Dates:
June 1962
ALICANTE, CURSO DE VERANO, 1962
File — Box: 135, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents
Soon as I graduated Hamilton College I went to Spain to live a year with my grandmother, Maggie Robert Le-Braz, "Mamita," first (during the summer of 1962) in Alicante and then at her Barcelona apartment. I took Spanish classes in Alicante. This folder has: an Alicante city map; a catalogue for the summer classes from August 6 to September 1; and an Alicante bullfight ticket dated August 5, 1962 with my notes scribbled on it.
Dates:
1962
FRENCH LINE, "LE FRANCE", 1964
File — Box: 135, Folder: 33
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I visited my grandmother, Mamita, in Alicante, Spain, during the summer of 1964, and afterwards (in September 1964) I visited friends in Bourg-en-Bresse, France (Chantal Motte), and Paris (the Megerlin family and my relatives Tante Henriette Donzelot and Roger Verdier). This folder has an itemized receipt for my round-trip ticket on The France (left NY June 29, 1964 left Le Havre Sept. 25, 1964); my photo-ID card for another Alicante Curso de Verano; and a pamphlet, "United States Customs...
Dates:
1964
"STAR AND A HALF," HAMILTON SPECTATOR, 1966
File — Box: 135, Folder: 34
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I wrote these articles for the Hamilton Spectator in 1966 while I lived in New York City. (See some of these columns in BOX 4, FOLDERS 14-15.) This folder contains: 1.) 5 letters between me and Spectator editor, Guild Nichols, during Jan-Feb 1966. 2.) Clean carbons of my articles on: Spanish bullfighter Paco Camino; my 1964 trip to Guatemala; satire on the army and warfare; what life is like after college; anti Vietnam war; a battle description of battle in wartime; and a riff You Can't Walk in...
Dates:
1966
"STAR AND A HALF," HAMILTON SPECTATOR, 1966 - PUBLISHED VERSIONS, 1966
File — Box: 135, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents
This folder includes Hamilton Spectators with my published "Star and a Half" articles: 1.) Paco Camino, Feb. 28, 1966. 2.) Guatemala, March 4, 1966. 3.) Hollywood satire, March 11, 1966. 4.) Gene Long and cross-country, March 18, 1966. 5.) Army satire, April 8, 1966. 6.) Life after college, April 15, 1966. 7.) Anti-Vietnam war, May 6, 1966. 8.) Description of battle, May 13, 1966. This folder also includes a December 3, 1965 Spectator with articles on the college students' Vietnam war attitudes.
Dates:
1966
EUROPE, SUMMER OF 1960
File — Box: 135, Folder: 36
Scope and Contents
This notebook has 190 pages of writing, with an added 7 loose pages torn from the notebook in front. First 30 pages of notebook has mostly my journals from March and April 1960 at Hamilton College, except for pages 26-28, which relate to my novel, The Garden, a story about a young guy and old man in prison. Pages 31-50 are solid passages from The Garden. (See more sections of The Garden in my MANUSCRIPT FILES in BOX 2, FOLDERS 5-7.) The first 30 pages also have writing ideas. The diary entries...
Dates:
SUMMER OF 1960
Pedrucho, 1960
File — Box: 135, Folder: 37
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Bill and I took bullfighting lessons from an old matador, Pedrucho (Pedro Basauri, also an actor), in Barcelona. His school was in an Italian film The Moment of Truth--Il momento de verita--starring Linda Christian. This folder has a cartel of Pedrucho and 6 bulls he killed on May 25, 1930; also a July 24, 1960 letter in Spanish from Pedrucho to a Barcelona impresario asking him to admit Bill and me to a sorteo where bulls are chosen for matadors to fight. The letter is written on a card that...
Dates:
1960
Plaza Monumental, Barcelona, Summer 1960
File — Box: 135, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents
This folder has: 1.) Newspaper clippings from La Vanguardia of all corridas we saw in Barcelona. 2.) A cartel of 16 June novillada. #.) Official program of Barcelona bullrings. 4.) Chapbook on Chamaco, a famous gypsy torero we saw. White Guardian Weekly envelope.
Dates:
Summer 1960
Fiestas in Valencia, July 1960
File — Box: 135, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents
Folder contains: 1.) 4 programs for bullfights. 2.) Valencia papers, July 27, 28. 3.) July 29 Granada paper with account of greatest corrida I ever saw, a Mano a Mano between Antonio Ordoñez and Paco Camino in Valencia on July 28. They cut 9 ears, 2 tails! 4.) Also a portrait of Paco Camino in 1964. White Fonkonze envelope.
Dates:
July 1960
Barcelona, Summer 1960
File — Box: 135, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents
Programs from events we attended, bars, fiestas, roller hockey, flamenco dancing. Newspaper from Verbena of San Juan, when Barcelona explodes with bonfires. Guide to the Monestery of San Cugat. A traffic ticket I got. And a plane schedule to London and Paris. White War Times envelope.
Dates:
Summer 1960
Rome Olympics, Summer 1960
File — Box: 135, Folder: 41
Scope and Contents
Welcome to Italy. Programs and timetable for summer Olympics. Map of Rome. White Guardian Weekly envelope.
Dates:
Summer 1960
London, Summer 1960
File — Box: 135, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents
Westminster Abbey; Mme. Tussaud's; What's on in London; Map of London; Bill at Abbey Court Hotel.
Dates:
Summer 1960
Paris, Summer 1960
File — Box: 135, Folder: 43
Scope and Contents
Bill at Madison Hotel. Eiffel Tower. Bateaux Mouches. This Week in Paris. Guide to The Louvre. White Guardian Weekly envelope.
Dates:
Summer 1960
EDITH FRENDO, 1961
File — Box: 135, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents
This folder contains one typed page about a French-Moroccan girl I met briefly summer of 1961 when I was living in New York writing a novel. I thought her beautiful. In French, "Edith" is pronounced "Ay-deet." (Some snapshots of Edith are in my PHOTOGRAPH FILES. Some letters from Edith in my 1960s CORRESPONDENCE FILES.)
Dates:
1961
GRANDMA GLEASON, MONTPELIER, VERMONT, 1961-1963?
File — Box: 135, Folder: 45
Scope and Contents
4 handwritten pages. 2 pages about my stepmother Esther Gleason's mother, Grandma Gleason, who lived in Montpelier, Vermont. I visited her many times. These 2 pages are memories of her as daffy old lady with her "keeper," Stella. Pages 3-4 seem to be notes addressed to my stepmother, Brownie, whom I call "mother" and my brothers Tim and Dave.
Dates:
1961-1963?
WORLD CAFE, NEW YORK, 1963
File — Box: 135, Folder: 46
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I returned to NY from Spain in June 1963, and played my guitar in Greenwich Village folk cafes. One night (August 2, 1963) Bruce Clayman hired me to play in his World Cafe and he was busted for entertainment without a license. I testified for him in court. Later in 1963, briefly, the World Cafe became a great after-hours musician hangout where I was "chef" and played lots of music. This file contains: 1.) Yellow Stenographer Note Book with a diary kept August 7-September 13, 1963 of my life in...
Dates:
1963
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16, 1963
File — Box: 135, Folder: 47
Scope and Contents
2 typed pages. I started the day buying a ticket at Madison Square Garden to a hockey game between NY Rangers and Detroit Red Wings to see Gordie Howe break Maurice Richard's record of 554 career goals. Instead, I had dinner with my great aunt, Susan Nichols Pulsifer, and wrote about her in the diary. The folder contains the unused hockey ticket dated October 16, 1963! I wonder if Gordie Howe broke Richard's record?
Dates:
1956-2007
JUNE-NOVEMBER 1963
File — Box: 135, Folder: 48
Scope and Contents
In this folder are: 1.) 3 typed pages about returning from Spain in June 1963, going to Hamilton graduation, talking to Max Wylie about my novel, The Sterile Cuckoo. (See related MAX WYLIE/STERILE CUCKOO item in BOX 103, FOLDER 11.) 2.) 2-page typed description of posh party on October 13, 1963 on Long Island and shooting my first pheasant the next day. 3.) 1 typed page Day of the Dead and comments about day of JFK assassination, probably November 1963. 4.) 1 page description of waitress and...
Dates:
1956-2007
SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 1963
File — Box: 135, Folder: 49
Scope and Contents
Folder contains 6 typed pages labeled at bottom of page: 1.) 3 typed pages about senile and failing step-grandmother Grandma Gleason and her family, Sept. 1963. 2.) 1 typed page on Oct. 18, 1963 about Russian film "My Name is Ivan." 3.) 2 typed pages of a November 24, 1963 phone conversation between me and Mother (my stepmother, Brownie--Esther Gleason).
Dates:
1956-2007
FAMILY THANKSGIVING, 1963
File — Box: 135, Folder: 50
Scope and Contents
12 handwritten pages about Gleason family's Connecticut Thanksgiving. Paginated at top of page. Much wacko repartee between me and my stepmom, Brownie, and my brothers Tim and Dave.
Dates:
1963