Alma Mater by wysiwig
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You Can't Go Home Again.
~ Thomas Wolfe
You can go home again, it's just that someone else lives there now.
~ wysiwig
During my visit to San Francisco I paid a visit to my alma mater at San Francisco State University. I went to school at a time when Ronald Reagan was governor of California and student demonstrations were fairly common. The president of the university was Samuel I. Hayakawa, a man who had supported the internment of Japanese in America during World War II. Did I forget to mention he was a Canadian citizen and was not interned? Hayakawa, the acknowledged expert in semantics, became popular with mainstream voters after he pulled the wires out from the speakers on a student van at an outdoor rally, dramatically disrupting it. He later served one term in the United States Senate.
Boy, you go away for thirty years and everything changes, or so it seemed. The campus had grown with many new buildings. The trees were larger as was I. The large grassy area known as the "Quad" where students had battled San Francisco police dressed in riot gear was peaceful. As always, the center of action was the Student Center now known as the Cesar Chavez Student Center. The gathering place in front of the center is Malcom X Plaza.
Some things, however, never change. Students in their collective misery still line up to receive punched computer cards reserving their place in a class they want and the Marxist Forum still meets on a regular basis to complain about something, anything. Ah, good times, good memories! Zooming is pretty much required.
Comments (11)
Faemike55
Great collage, Mark It is said that you can never go back - I guess that applies to old colleges as well
beachzz
I knew someone who was at SF State at the same time you were. He talked a lot about what it was like and how intense things were. How cool you were able to go back and revisit the campus.
whaleman
Great, a college collage!
mariogiannecchini
Great collage and story ! How many memories, if we think!
GARAGELAND
Looks like a nice place!
durleybeachbum
So true. My millinery evening class is at the art school I attended in the 60's and it isn't even on the same site!
SIGMAWORLD
Excellent collage!
tennesseecowgirl
Great collage, and I like the quote. :)
sandra46
SUPERB COLLAGE AND QUOTE
bmac62
Wow, Mark...my military college in the late 50s and early 60s sure had zero in common with your digs:) Since then I lived two years in SF and came to have an appreciation for some of the many differences... In 2012, my 50th reunion will roll around and my school looks exactly the same today as it looked in 1962 with one huge exception...an almost all inclusive student body. Good collage...you got me thinking.
psyoshida
Lol, great take on the quote about going home again. Times have surely changed. Fun to go back and see just how much. Great shots.