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Posted in Experiences on Dec 30th, 2005
Talk delivered by JJG before a James Madison University journalism class (14 women, one man) Monday, November 14, 2005.
This is quite a pleasure for me, talking about reporting with a group of young aspirant newspersons. The proportion of sexes is a little surprising. Don’t young men want to be newsmen any more?
Well, I was a [...]
Posted in Experiences on Dec 24th, 2005
The last vocation I ever thought I would be involved in is teaching. But a teacher I became — for a memorable three weeks. It was in a remote one-room school in the mountains of Montgomery county Virginia. I had about 18 students enrolled in six grades. Six of the 18 were only five years [...]
Posted in Experiences on Dec 24th, 2005
I dislike shaving. I’ve learned to do it first thing in the morning (most of the time), because it is doubly difficult to go back and do it later in the day. I also do the following: I soften my beard by washing thoroughly with soap, then covering my beard for 15 or 20 seconds [...]
Posted in Experiences on Dec 24th, 2005
I remember a late winter afternoon when I experienced a strange sense of being lost that I had not experienced before, nor have I since. I was seventeen, it was during my high school year in Pittsburgh, and I was visiting with my aunt, Katherine Waddell, her husband, Herb, and their two young daughters, Ruth [...]
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