Long Beach City College - Saga Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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PLACING THE LAUREL CROWN on the head of LBCC Poet Laureate Greg Gregory is Skalds advisor George Dewitt. LBCC'S PGET LAUREATE Greg Gregory, president of the LBCC literary society Skalds, was named Viking Poet Laureate for the school year and received the laurel crown at the semesterly publications banquet. The prize poem which won the honor for Gregory was Many Green Manhattan Summers Ago. A panel of judges of Skalds officers and English instructors made the selection. Many Green Manhattan Summers Ago Years and years ago when I was a boy, when there were bathroom-mice in Manhattan, and golden, gothic bells that played pigeons sang out Sunday mornings over Amsterdam street, when we ran and waged war in the fourteen story canyons against the ones who dwelt there, before the Edsel, before the atom bomb before Grant was anything more than Grant's tomb, where you could find pigeons, popcorn and puppydogs, and where in the Plaza San Marco loff Morningside Drivel you could watch the proud Venetians Ifrom Hobokenl hurry by, among the wise and ravenous birds, there used to be a wonderful river that was a Tiber and a Thames to a small boy in New York. On Saturday afternoons we could climb to a great grass-green hill that we never knew looked like the hills of Italy and there, as proud as Henry Hudson, we would watch the great tugs of the grey river baying soot and sea gulls and then, if we dared, land we didl we would roll down and down, so far, so incredibly fast that our spinning eight-year-old senses would submit to the painfully superb sensuality of being eight years old in New York and drunk with life. There we would lie on the summer grass and practice a spiritual photosynthesis of child sun and summer. Sometimes we would lie riverside still by the green hill and peer down through great, barred gates in the grass into fantastic caves that must have been built long ago before the motor car and the skyscraper, caves inhabited by Indians and almost certainly trolls caves built by giants that only the pigeons can remember long before the Pilgrims and the Dutch And there we would wait for the new masters of the cavern to come.

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CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER Glenn Hundley inspects part of the negatives taken and processed for LBCC publications lupper left photol. REPRESENTATIVE OF PUBLICATIONS this semester was Linda Gallagher Iupper right photol. DIRECTOR OF THE COLLEGE NEWS BUREAU is Donald A. Drury lrightl. DISCUSSING FOOTBALL PROGRAMS are Steve Sampley Ileftl and Viking-Saga sports editor Ken Pivernetz Ilower left photol. VIKING DISTRIBUTION was handled by the AWS Viking committee llower rightl. PUBLICA TIONS continued X Ol ,f-J' gif fd

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