Roger Darnell: On & Up » Observations http://www.darnellworks.com/onup The writer. Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:39:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Apr. 3, 1990: Paying Homage to April Fools http://www.darnellworks.com/onup/2009/04/apr-3-1990-paying-homage-to-april-fools/ http://www.darnellworks.com/onup/2009/04/apr-3-1990-paying-homage-to-april-fools/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:01:00 +0000 Roger D. http://www.darnellworks.com/onup/?p=4 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> In the late summer of 1989, I had an idea to approach the University of Central Florida’s student newspaper, “The Future,” about writing a column. I wrote the first one and very humbly submitted it in person to the editor, Scott Altman. Without much fanfare, it was accepted, and so it went for the next fifteen months. Ultimately, many positive experiences grew from these efforts. One esteemed instructor made much of my work and was instrumental in my winning a Scripps-Howard Foundation Fellowship for the column that appeared July 25, 1990, under the headline, “Wishing for Chicago Life in the Heart of Orlando.” Thank you, Keith Fowles. The sincere appreciative feedback of several friends (including Beth Kiefert, now Beth Darnell) and a few other tips of folks’ hats made the experience most worthwhile.

I have just posted the full time capsule, featuring the thoughtful, humorous, satirical and/or fictional work of a rather atypical central Florida college student at the turn of the 1990s, online at www.rkdarnell.com (in the “What’s New” section, please see the “Observations” entry). And although this is not the best or most coherent of the bunch, I thought I’d use this space to share the entry that appeared 19 years ago to this day.

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