[Magdalen] Where Were You?

[Allan Carr]

Thinking more about it, I was 38. Now I’m 88.

Allan Carr


> On Jul 16, 2019, at 8:07 PM, Allan Carr via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Allan Carr
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>> On Jul 16, 2019, at 7:21 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> I was celebrating my birthday with friends.
>>> We went across the river to Maine for fried clams,
>>> then all took celebratory drugs.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Three weeks later we went to Woodstock.
>>> Three years later I was working with the designers of Skylab.
>>> -M
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It was a transcendent experience. Despite being in a group of 300
>>>>> engineers who mostly did not know how to weep with joy.
>>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Ann
>>>> 
>>>> The Rev. Ann Markle
>>>> Buffalo, NY
>>>> www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>>>> 
>> 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
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