Thursday, May 8, 2014
Your father was a really great young person. He was in my English class in Stone Mountain High School and he was the editor of Between These Lines, of which I was the faculty sponsor. He and his co-editor Ray Bloodworth led a very intelligent staff to produce a great poetry magazine( which was the first and only one) for the high school students in the state of Georgia. He was dependable, resourceful, creative,and inspirational.
Too, in l962, he introduced me to the novel l984, telling me that after he finished it, he threw it against the wall. I read it because he had read it (I always told my students that I would read any novel they read. I never forgot the experience. Now, 52 years later, I see everything happening that appeared in the novel. I wish that I could have talked with your dad/ husband to tell him that in that year he shoved my and himself into the future.
I hope you get to read this because at 76, I would like you to know that another person is living who truly understood and appreciated your husband/father.
Dr. Gayle Goodin--whom Lanny Jordan permitted to see what the US would become in the 2lst cen.