reunion, re-onion in some spellings...

[Wayne Johnson]

For the record, I think, Pat Brown and I were co-editors.  There was some
lady who was a Journalism shill that Lloyd hung on us to ensure something or
another.  She and Joe Levering (an Arch.) student were, I think, the
absolute last of the Editors.  Their versions of the beloved Ranger were
incredibly vapid and ugly.  Of course, I was prejudiced, but still they
stank.

wj
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frances Morey" <frances_morey@excite.com>
To: <scolange@accd.edu>
Cc: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>; <ghetto2@lists.whathelps.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 12:06 AM
Subject: RE: reunion, re-onion in some spellings...


>
> Sharon,
> It was "The Ranger" humor magazine and they were sold on campus for a
quarter, a nickel of which went to the monthly beer party. To actually sell
them was one way to get invited to the Ranger party. This was during the
time of Travis Rivers who served as business mgr. for the eventually
too-controversial publication.
> I'm sure you remember the bru ha ha. They went through five editors in a
very short span, each in turn getting fired for one editorial transgression
or another, and I knew three of them. Billy Jim Strong, who is coming over
from Montgomery County, was a staff writer for it.
> Gilbert Shelton was an editor. Wayne Johnson is another, but he lives in
VA and won't be here. Pat Brown was also an editor--she is also invited. If
I run accross the actual party address, I'll send it, for mapquest.
> Perhaps I should elaborate a bit about the Ghetto group. It is a loose
association of persons who became acquainted through various UT campus
groups in the early '60s: Daily Texan journalists, Student Union folk
singers, bridge nuts, Rangeroos, spelunkers, SDSers, and Young Democrats, my
particular cadre, who were all basically GDI's. The place we gravitated to,
to drink and be merry, was an eight-unit frame apartment house, no longer
extant, behind Dirty Martin's on Nueces, where it meets Guadalupe. The rents
were $40 - $45 a month, and it was ramshackle even by the standards of the
time. Almost like a counter-culture animal house, it was humorously
nicknamed, The Ghetto. The most exuberant parties were those having the
largest cache of Grand Prize and they often coincided with the Ranger coming
out. Some Ranger parties might have been held there but Travis also had them
at his house on Salado. Those were my favorites.
> I'm cc-ing this version of Ghetto history to the list, too, to see if I
got it about right.
> Frances
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