From those formidable years of growing up in Brooklyn, we always identified with he gound hogs and underdogs. A knothole kid, sitting in the bleachers of Ebbets Field, the basketball team at Midwood High School and the intramural Gremlins outside the schoolyard….the basement gym on Coney Island Avenue and Avenue I I basement gym.
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However at UCLA, our ”Over the Rainbow” dream converted a Plato Greek hum, our honky heroes becoming.. ProfwessorFrederic Woellner in Education. “Heave is o the way to it”thebasketball heroics of coach Wilbur John s hiring John Wooden, an All American player to govern and lead the Bruins to the brink of immortality.… NCA championships galore!
The initials J.W being the reverse of Wilbur Johns, who saw “God’s way”.
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Although we identified with the victims of the Holocaust, those FDR 4 terms and President Truman nuclear bombinging, WW2 to its Hiroshima ad Nakasaki finality, our identity furtive years realized in mist of heroes, we identified with our ASUCLA President, who was in his role at teaching at Berkeley. And enrolled in
Graduate school.
Teaching “Core” at Likndbergh Junior Highy in ong Beach…substituting in the San Fernado Valley and East Los Angeles secondary schools in the Barrio.
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Afdtertwo furtive attempts at Law Schoolk, we bumped into ouirLoyola law Professor Aarvo Van Alstyne told me’’ “Hernerrt, my old roommate at Yale. Lou .P ol;lockj. He’s the Dean of Yaole Law School.”
At the same time, UCLA Theater Arts Professor Sam Selden of Theater Arts offered to perform “Mozart and Mushroom ”. Comedic one actor, published in New Haven..
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So from identifying with our m heroes, the biggest was the call to “Benjamin Franklin in Paris” where we met our wife of 30 years,nothole kid ofd Brooklyn to a mrried fixture in the Borough.…living out his Ebbets Field knothole kid dream,escribing our Marfk Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn “ “Tale of two Cities” by Dickens.
July 24, 2016 Brooklyn, the City that never sleeps.
