Freda and the ice storm

[Wayne Johnson]

The name of Claude Allen re-surfaced for me again in the late Sixties, early
Seventies when I had a friend who had gone to school in Cincinatti and said
that Claude become something of a "radical" icon, well favored by the more
liberal students.  I hope this was true for several reasons...which I won't
go into right now.

wj
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@HotPOP.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 3:00 PM
Subject: Freda and the ice storm


> Jon,
>
> Wayne & I both remember Claude Allen well. He was
> active in the local NAACP & the civil rights struggle.
>
> I vaguely remember that he was teaching English
> lit at Antioch but didnt get tenure.
>
> Wasn't Joann married to Ramsey? Their apartment
> must have been across the yard to the south. Later
> on Rip Off Ralph Macelroy lived in one of those apartments
> with a German guy named something German. And they
> started importing Mercedes cars bought in Germany.
> This was enterprising.
>
> I seem to remember that when I knew Freda she
> was living in far West Campus perhaps near
> Grandview. That was when I was living in a now
> torn down apartment on 17th street near Congress
> just north of the Catholic Consistory building (still
> there). One morning at dawn Freda phoned me
> waking me up and telling me to look out the window:
> an ice storm had coated all the trees and shubbery
> with icicles. What a gal!
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jon Ford" <jonmfordster@hotmail.com>
> To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 11:35 AM
> Subject: Re: Sept. 18, Spencer Perskin & the Shiva's Headband Experience
>
>
> > Mike--
> > The Tommy Hall schedule  is listed on the flyer; it must be a "homage"
> band, since the focus of the whole concert seems to be on his era. Your
> memories are pretty  good; the woman with the baby carriage must have been
> Joann, who lived across from Tommy and me a year or so earlier than your
> observation.  Gilbert I think lived in the house next door to the one I
> described in this morning's post.  Did you ever run into the mysterious
> English lecturer Claude Allen , who managed the building? I heard he moved
> to Cleveland shortly after, having been bounced from UT. Tary was living
> with Madeleine when I was there, but no baby that I remember.
>
>