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Photographic spread about San Francisco State College faculty poetry readings with students on Mondays in the Gallery Lounge.
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Photographic spread about the officers of San Francisco State College's Associated Students who met in the Gallery Lounge to take care of business: Jay Folberg (president), Tom Ramsey (vice president), Sheldon Bacchus (vice president) and Judy Day (secretary).
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Photographic spread of the College Union Committee that worked to support multiple campus activity areas including the planning for the future student union building on the Lake Merced Campus.
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Photographic spread about San Francisco State College's Gallery Lounge hosted concert of bluegrass music featuring Rodney Albin, Jerry Garcia, Robin Maghell, and Bob Hunter.
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Photographic spread about San Francisco State Colleges International Student talent show that featured performers from a dozen countries hosted by Iranian student Abdolla Gharib-Afshar with performers from the Middle East, Soviet Union, China, Philippines, Israel, India, Bulgarioa, Spain, Brazil, Youoslavia, and Nigeria with proceeds going to the International Student Scholarship Fund. After the program, the crowd went to the Gallery Lounge for a buffet.
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Photograph of poet Kenneth Rexroth reading poetry at a jazz session at San Francisco State College's Gallery Lounge for a Poetry Center event. English professor Ruth Witt-Diamant established the Poetry Center in 1954. Witt-Diamant wielded enormous power in the postwar literary world that emerged in San Francisco. During the 1930s the campus's Poetry Club regularly met at her house on Mendoza Avenue for readings. Poets including Dylan Thomas, W.H. Auden, and Madeline Gleason were among her personal friends, and would read their work for her classes. While on sabbatical traveling in Europe and India, Witt-Diamant came up with the idea for the Poetry Center after watching a spontaneous eight-hour long poetry reading in India. On that trip she stayed for a time with Dylan Thomas and his wife in Wales. Thomas advised Witt-Diamant that in the minds of San Francisco poets, "all sorts of 'nasty ideas' were to be found," which "ought to be flushed out and paid for." In 1954, Witt-Diamant persuaded President J. Paul Leonard to invite Auden to speak at the dedication ceremony for the Lake Merced Campus. San Francisco State gave him a $200 honorarium, and he gave half of it to Witt-Diamant to start the Poetry Center. The Poetry Center was established to stimulate both student and community interest in the enjoyment and writing of poetry, and one of its legacies has been the "California Poets in the Schools" program that came out of the weekly reading series. Lecturer of Creative Writing and assistant director of the Poetry Center Robert Duncan asserted, "The Poetry Center as made us all more aware of the variety of poetic life and has played its role in the great increase of activity in this region." Creative Arts lecturer Kenneth Rexroth stated, "The best way for a poet to function, over and above publication is in direct touch with an audience… a living contact with society is essential… the Poetry Center of San Francisco meets all of these qualifications."
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Photograph of San Francisco State College's central Quad: from left to right the College Library, Franciscan Building (future bookstore), Creative Arts Building, the Huts (were student organizations have their offices) and Gator Swamp (operated by Recreation); Arts and Industry building, the Commons (College Union) and Gallery Lounge, the Education building and the open Quad.
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Photographic spread John R. Handy III working with San Francisco State College students who are professional musicians to do a series of jazz concerts held in November and December 1963. Handy started his association with San Francisco State in 1952 first as a student (earning his B.A. in Music in 1964) and then as an instructor teaching a special course on the Development of Jazz Improvisation and later teaching in the Black Studies Department.
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Photograph of San Francisco State College's central Quad: from left to right the College Library, construction of Franciscan Building (future bookstore), Creative Arts Building, the Huts (were student organizations have their offices) and Gator Swamp (operated by Recreation); Arts and Industry building, the Commons (College Union) and Gallery Lounge, the Education building and the open Quad.
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Photographic spread about the new automated eating facility and other student eateries and the Gallery Lounge.