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“Accentuate the Positive”: And what do you suppose happens when the college gets accredited by professors like Dr. Lafcadia Weltgeist?
“Homecoming”: You wonder, “Now What?” as the Nazi-brownshirt searches for you and your mother who are hiding in a closet.
“Just Another Day At The Office”: With the storm raging full force and the electricity off all over campus, how are you going to get those two students out of that in-between floors stuck elevator?
“Memories of Brooklyn”: When first coming to America, they lived in Brooklyn. Wonderful memories – Dewey Junior High, yo-yo's, handball, Red Barber and the Brooklyn Dodgers, sewing shoulder pads, not to forget the girls jumping rope: “Lulu had a baby- She named him Tiny Tim- Put him in a . . . . pot, to teach him how to swim.”
“Norm”: Nobody works harder or longer than Norm as he tells us what he thinks go into making “a really good man.”
“Madera”: The family decides to move from New York to Madera, California, so that Father can have a bookkeeping job at $80 a month and a house for his family to live in free.
“The Marimba Band”: “Now What?” when there is a ton of opposition to a tiny one-unit class for students who want to play in a marimba band?
“If Music Be The Food Of Love, Play On” says William Shakespeare. But if, while you and your fellow musicians are playing, the family that lives right above you lowers a Nazi flag so that the huge swastika in its center is right in the middle of your front window, “Now What?”
“Chris” is an art teacher already very much against the war in Vietnam. One night, he has his students launch balloons with anti-war propaganda on them. And that upsets just about everybody.
“Become a 'Late Bloomer' Like It Says in the Brochure”: Paul, who's been a severe stutterer for 36 years, takes Mr. Purcell's English class and gets so mad at him, that for the first time in his whole life, he starts talking.
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Franz Weinschenk was born into a Jewish family in Germany in 1925. He and his family were lucky to escape from there in 1935. After graduating from Fresno State University in California, he served in the Army for two years and then became an instructor and Dean at Fresno Ctty College where he worked for 60 years. He currently lives in Fresno with his wife Sally. An enthusiastic runner, biker, and swimmer, he recently was the first over 90-year-old to finish the Merced Gateway Triathlon. He served as the host of a public radio show called "Valley Writers Read" featuring local writers for over twenty-five years.
