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Yount, Virgine, Slim Brundage correspondence, 1965, 1971-1972

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Title Yount, Virgine, Slim Brundage correspondence, 1965, 1971-1972

Date 1965, 1971-1972

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.”

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User-Contributed Transcription Sept 16, 1972
El Grito del Dolores
and
The Day After Don's Birthday
2 AM
Dear Slimbo:
It seems I'm always writing to you on some Mexican fiesta/holiday or other! Have just now put Don to bed SOBER after celebrating his birthday. The big news here is that Don has joined AA (12 days ago). It took a little persuasion but he has a nice guy for his sponsor — and he's take to it like a duck to water. He has to go to a meeting (2 hrs. every evening) which cuts into his TV watching but I'm sure he enjoys his meetings more than he did the poetry meetings in Chicago. Tonight, being his birthday, I went with him, and even cold sober I really enjoyed the speakers. One guy was better than any I ever heard at the College — and last week I heard a hard-boiled dame of 65 (ex-waitress, widow of a truck driver) who has probably the largest vocabulary of racy slang in the world. Wish I'd had the tape recorder with me — but it would have been illegal. They're not all of them that great, but I was lucky the 2 meetings I've been to. However, I'm not going on the wagon myself.

Transcription Status Needs review

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 188

BibID 991840788805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL15HBI

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