This one has GOT to be my favorite!
A NEW CLAIM! NOW that she first took PRIVATERussian lessons in 1959
with Concevitch!
She does maintain the class at Manatee Jr. College was started just
for her .... but, as posted previously, there are 3 things in print
that show manatee Jr College already had a Russian class up and going
as early as the Fall of 1958 (when the college first opened its
doors).
1. An article on the increase in the number of schools teaching
Russian between 1957 & 1959.
2. A presentation by the person teacher Russian at Manatee on the
subject of having a Russian class at a junior college at a conference
in 1958 ... article about it published early 1959.
3. The Fall 1959 catalog for Manatee Junior College listing Russian as
a class for both Fall 1959 & Spring 1960.
(Complete citations and links already posted)
On 15 May 2008 10:34:37 -0400, "Martin Shackelford"
<mshack4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>a) in 1999, a record of my being enrolled and attending Russian in 1960
--
>evening cl***** --was verified...
>
>1. Early in 1959, Col. Doyle and his military friends asked me to learn
>Russian. They had nobody in the area interested in the sciences who knew
>any Russian. They knew I was conducing cancer research experiments by
1959,
>thanks to Dr. Michaelson, who organized equipment and tests, etc. for
bright
>students at my high school interested in science -- but again, especially
>for me (by the way, nobody can find the man's name anymore in the
records,
>though he went on to attend im****tant conferences in radiation and
>genetics...yet we have an extensive article on Michaelson and his
im****tant
>visit to my high school in my national award-winning high school
>newspaper..). Michaelson organized interest in my work and in equipping
the
>school with advanced science equipment.
>
>2. I told the retired officers that I had to have an instructor.
>
>3. I had to attend cl***** during the day at high school. I could not
>attend cl***** in Russian during regular high school class hours.
>
>4. They finally found someone who could teach at night ---Dr.
Concevitch.
>
>5. Dr. Concevitch taught me privately in1959.
>
>6. In 1960, the night class at the college finally 'made.' I was
enrolled
>and attended as often as I could. Due to many events (I haven't gone
into
>detail, but this included science fairs at various levels at night, etc.
>throughout the state, fund-raising events, a 'brain bowl' event, and
finally
>the International science fair), I missed too many cl***** and changed to
>'audit.'
>
>7. I audited cl***** in 1961, as my mother's letter indicates.
>
>8. The Russian night class was created expressly because I couldn't go to
>day cl*****.
>
>9. Of course, other students had to attend so the class would 'make' --
or
>otherwise, it would have still been private tutoring, a drive to
Sarasota,
>which required a car trip, whereas in 1959-60 I lived only two blocks
from
>the community college, an easy walk.
>
>10. It was expensive getting private lessons from Dr. Concevitch, though
I
>didn't have to pay for them. It cost my sponsors just as much to have
him
>teach at night at the college. The fees also that I should have paid,
were
>paid for me.
>
>I never thought I'd have to go into such meticulous detail for such a
simple
>matter. I do appreciate the efforts made to obtain records from the
past.
>I do not understand why hostile comments have to accompany these efforts.
>Had I said "Oswald killed JFK" I believe hostility toward me would be
>markedly less. I wasn't lying when I said the course was organized
>especially for me. It was the simple truth.
>
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