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Klamer, Alice, Slim Brundage correspondence, 1965-1972

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Title Klamer, Alice, Slim Brundage correspondence, 1965-1972

Date 1965-1972

Language English

Subjects Alternative education, Culture Vulture (Chicago, Ill.), Dill Pickle Club (Chicago, Ill.)

Description Writings and correspondence of Slim Brundage, founder of the College of Complexes, which operated on and off out of several locations on Chicago’s Near North Side during the 1950's-1960's as a forum where speakers and the audience debated controversial topics and read poetry. The collection also includes a variety of documents relating to the College of Complexes itself, such as correspondence, press releases, speaker solicitations, and poetry written by the College’s “students.”

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription June 28, 1972
117 W. Dayton
Madison Wi. 53703
Dear Slim:
As soon as you feel good you get ambitious and get involved with all kinds of things and the people you contact are more cautious and you get irritated and your ulcer starts up again. These old people's programs to make things better have not done so and they are suspicious no. They don't believe anyone any more and don't expect anything good to happen. — Like if S.S. is raised there is much written about it but nothing is said or written about the Medicare or Medicaid card cost being raised too and wipes out almost all the gain.
Here either I'm beginning to understand things better or all is getting worse. The University of Wisconsin spend 50 million dollara a year. The corruption is so bad you can't believe it. Still no one says or does anything. The good people all leave Wisconsin — it's one of the few states that shrunk in population. The students say there are still good teachers at the technical college but I'll bet that won't last much longer. It's about 50% good teachers left. But students are not too good at judging because the lower schools all have poor teachers too. So there is nothing to compare with.
I happened to see last year's June Curriculum

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Transcription Note This document was transcribed by volunteers as part of the Newberry Transcribe crowdsourcing initiative.

Archival Collection Title Slim Brundage papers

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

Call Number Midwest MS Brundage Box 6 Folder 176

BibID 991840788805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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