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"Having just written about myself as a writer, (ha-ha) I started thinking about real writers."

"I was 12 years old and had been going to Hebrew School for three years."

"As we were approaching our last semester at Stuyvesant High School in the spring of 1945, the New York State Board of Regents announced a new way of awarding the 300 scholarships that were given to the 300 smartest high school graduates in the…

"When I was at City College I heard a story about a professor who required his students to show him their note books at the end of the semester."

"Looking back on my life (as I have been doing most of my life) I began to see it as a tower. "

"In June 1949, I graduated from CCNY, during July and August, I worked as a counselor at Camp CEJWIN, in September, I started taking classes as part of the newly created Master’s in Education program at CCNY, (known as the Free Fifth Year) and I…

"In May 1951, I had 'graduated' from the ILGWU Training Institute, but because I was now subject to the draft, I was not given an assignment."

"After 2 1/2 years (from September 1951 to January 1954) working full time as an organizer for Local 38 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), and going full time to NYU, ostensibly working toward a PhD in Economics, and having…

Another (later?) draft of #44 Music in My Life

"I have previously written about my six years at the Jewish Labor Committee (1956-62), and the move to Washington DC in December 1964 to be the Education Director of AFSCME."