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Justine Wilcox, fascinated with the budding film industry in Hollywood, but not at all interested in California, penned 14 blockbusters under the nom de plume "Chester Manfredgenson," and delivered all of her scripts by air mail and insisted that she was Mr. Manfredgenson's personal assistant when someone just had to talk on the phone.

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MFA graduate, did some writing, and taught at the City College of San Francisco. Otherwise, nothing too exciting, I鈥檓 afraid.

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Contributor to Gazebo, also a professor of Spanish at the University. He also set up a scholarship.

A man works at a typewriter and a holstered gun hangs in the foreground

Went on to become an English instructor at the University in 1948, and eventually became assistant dean (and associate dean) of Fairmount LAS. He also did work tracing the route of the Chisholm trail. His wife, Marjorie, taught Spanish at the university. It's awfully sad how many of these husband-wife duos have the feller die first, but I suppose that鈥檚 how it is in the real world. I must say, reading these early 1900s archival materials is certainly making me think about my own mortality. Heavy stuff.

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In the early 1950s, there were English readings scheduled for the university and the general public, which I found to be pretty nifty. Nice little public outreach effort. There seems to be the beginning of complaints here about not having enough teachers to adequately teach the amount of students for Comp classes, and not having the resources to pay for said teachers should they be acquired. Issues in 1958 with budget cuts led to some friction about cutting graduate courses down. This seems fair, and rough, and something that I imagine the English Department has to deal with today.

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Seems to have become a lawyer. I have him cited as assisting in one Sampson v. Hunt (1977), and arguing in one Chipp v. Murray (1963). I found a few other cases he worked, but nothing that particularly stood out to me.

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The son of Charles Iseley Sr., who ran for the U.S. Senate, and whose papers we have in Special Collections. I don鈥檛 think he has any other relevance, aside from that his name certainly tripped some my research sensors when I did my cross-referencing. It could be that Iseley Sr. submitted to the Gazette in 1929, but I have to express doubt, as he would鈥檝e been 54 at the time, and likely more concerned with his lumber business. Still, if one were looking to promote the English Department, you could do worse than to suggest a former graduate was a nominee for the U.S. Senate.

A man works at a typewriter and a holstered gun hangs in the foreground

Contributor to Gazebo, also a professor of Spanish at the University. He also set up a scholarship.

A man works at a typewriter and a holstered gun hangs in the foreground

Contributor to Gazebo, also a professor of Spanish at the University. He also set up a scholarship.

A man works at a typewriter and a holstered gun hangs in the foreground

(Later Rozella Smith) contributed to the Gazette, and was a real renaissance woman. She published extensively on every damn thing after graduating from the university with both graduate and undergraduate degrees in entomology. From there, she did a buttload of work, but among her big achievements is digitizing all of her and her husband鈥檚 work, and in doing so creating a load of computer analytic frameworks. Very impressive, if not terribly English-y.