[Magdalen] Where Were You?

[Allan Carr]

I was 39 years old with a wife and three young children. I had come to Pasadena 2 years before and the company established a new division in Thousand Oaks. I bought a new house a year later, the house I’m still living in 50 years later.

Allan Carr


> On Jul 16, 2019, at 7:21 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>> From: ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Jul 16, 2019 10:15 PM
>> To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Where Were You?
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>> I was celebrating my birthday with friends.
>> We went across the river to Maine for fried clams,
>> then all took celebratory drugs.
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>> By the time we made it back to a friend's house,
>> the television was broadcasting the snowy black&white image of the stiff
>> flag.
>> We watched for awhile, but it was boring,
>> so we went to sit on the porch and listen to the night and the leaves
>> blowing.
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>> Three weeks later we went to Woodstock.
>> Three years later I was working with the designers of Skylab.
>> -M
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>>> On Tuesday, July 16, 2019, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:
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>>> I was 17 years old, a new mom, sweltering in our tiny, newlywed studio
>>> apartment, lights off for the sleeping baby, and glued to our tv screen.
>>> The husband was working his well-paying factory job at Columbia Records.
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>>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 9:20 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> I was in a small auditorium at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in
>>>> Greenbelt, Maryland. Goddard was not directly involved with manned space
>>>> flight, but there was an strong sense of community. I got to be there
>>>> because I had a job working for one of the researchers involved with
>>> Apollo
>>>> 17.
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>>>> It was a transcendent experience. Despite being in a group of 300
>>>> engineers who mostly did not know how to weep with joy.
>>>> 
>>> --
>>> Ann
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>>> The Rev. Ann Markle
>>> Buffalo, NY
>>> www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
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> I was 25 years old newly ordained sitting with my parents in my nice rectory suite watching the event on Tv on a Sunday afternoon. I don't know what we did later. I am imagine we went out to dinner. Not knowing the lay of the land I didn't recommend any nice restaurant but maybe we got a suggestion from someone.
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> Joe Cirou