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The article develops the concept of "political judgement" - a new, affirmative understanding of the phenomena which are criticized as "political correctness" by both right-wing and liberal commentators To that end, it takes the right's claims, that "political correctness" is slave morality in Nietzsche's sense seriously and proposes a systematic reading of a right-nietzschean position Connecting current "political-correctness"-critique and Nietzsche in this way allows for a deeper understanding of the right-wing rationality and the affective energy underlying the critique Through contrasting this right-nietzschean reading with its systematic opposite, a left-nietzschean position, the article shows that the essence of politics is to design norms which distribute privilege What is critically labelled "political correctness" is, thus, better captured by the notion of "political judgment", because - given an interest in emancipation - such politics should not be demonized when they limit the freedom provided by undeserved privileges.

"This book examines localism as a political idea and policy approach and explains what localism is about, why it's growing in importance, and how it relates to other themes in politics. Illustrated with case studies from the UK, mainland Europe and the Indian sub-continent, the book analyses localism in conceptual and theoretical terms and locates it within the overall landscape of political thought. Key themes covered in the book include place, space and scale; decentralization and devolution; multi-level governance; public value; democracy and empowerment; and political design. With the focus on the bottom-up, constructivist aspects of localism, the book argues that localism is most likely to work successfully in a political order where sovereignty is 'distributed' across various social spheres and levels of government. The book offers a comprehensive view of localism by synthesizing its various strands and creating a distinctive framework for design and evaluation. This book will be of particular interest to scholars, students and practitioners of localism, particularly within local and regional government, public administration and policy, human and political geography, and urban studies"--

I am very grateful for the contributions by Andrew Vincent, James Alexander and John Dunn to this symposium on 'impact' and political theory. Their papers provide insightful perspectives and different critical engagements with my recent piece for this journal. Their reflections force me to revisit my central argument that the impact agenda unveiled in the United Kingdom's new Research Excellence Framework (REF) need not be the negative development for political theorists that many fear – and perhaps even that it should be embraced.

Between 1950 and 1971, Matheson published 89 short stories, among which several proved essential in popular culture, such as "Born of Man and Woman", "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", "Steel", or "Duel". As a very versatile author, Matheson was also a pragmatic and he understood what the science fiction and fantasy magazines expected, especially in the 1950s when such magazines were undergoing deep changes. This study is an attempt to analyze the generic characteristics of Matheson's short fiction, also to be understood from a cultural point of view and through the main features of American society after the second world war: traumas after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, fears of nuclear annihilation, paranoid style in politics and Maccarthyism, development of the suburbs and conformism, as well as social expectations for middleclass white males.Structures such as alienation, alterity (monsters, aliens, robots), mechanization of work, haunted objects, possession, that all highlight Matheson's recurrent themes.Matheson specialized in the writing of loneliness, excelling in making the reader share the character's point of view, that of the paranoid, the monster, the robot or more generally speaking, of the marginal who cannot make sense of their environment. Their metaphysical and ontological questioning create mise-en-abyme of narratives of world building and creation. The solitary character culminate into the character of the survivor, paradigmatic of Matheson's fiction. ; Entre 1950 et 1971, Matheson publie 89 nouvelles dont plusieurs ont constitué des jalons de la culture populaire, par exemple «Born of Man and Woman», «Nightmare at 20,000 Feet», «Steel» ou encore «Duel».Très versatile, il s'imprègne des attentes des magazines de science-fiction et de fantastique américains qui sont en plein bouleversement dans les années 1950. Cette thèse se propose d'étudier les caractéristiques génériques des nouvelles, qui se comprennent également au prisme de la société américaine d'après-guerre : traumatisme de ...

Between 1950 and 1971, Matheson published 89 short stories, among which several proved essential in popular culture, such as "Born of Man and Woman", "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", "Steel", or "Duel". As a very versatile author, Matheson was also a pragmatic and he understood what the science fiction and fantasy magazines expected, especially in the 1950s when such magazines were undergoing deep changes. This study is an attempt to analyze the generic characteristics of Matheson's short fiction, also to be understood from a cultural point of view and through the main features of American society after the second world war: traumas after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, fears of nuclear annihilation, paranoid style in politics and Maccarthyism, development of the suburbs and conformism, as well as social expectations for middleclass white males.Structures such as alienation, alterity (monsters, aliens, robots), mechanization of work, haunted objects, possession, that all highlight Matheson's recurrent themes.Matheson specialized in the writing of loneliness, excelling in making the reader share the character's point of view, that of the paranoid, the monster, the robot or more generally speaking, of the marginal who cannot make sense of their environment. Their metaphysical and ontological questioning create mise-en-abyme of narratives of world building and creation. The solitary character culminate into the character of the survivor, paradigmatic of Matheson's fiction. ; Entre 1950 et 1971, Matheson publie 89 nouvelles dont plusieurs ont constitué des jalons de la culture populaire, par exemple «Born of Man and Woman», «Nightmare at 20,000 Feet», «Steel» ou encore «Duel».Très versatile, il s'imprègne des attentes des magazines de science-fiction et de fantastique américains qui sont en plein bouleversement dans les années 1950. Cette thèse se propose d'étudier les caractéristiques génériques des nouvelles, qui se comprennent également au prisme de la société américaine d'après-guerre : traumatisme de ...

Between 1950 and 1971, Matheson published 89 short stories, among which several proved essential in popular culture, such as "Born of Man and Woman", "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", "Steel", or "Duel". As a very versatile author, Matheson was also a pragmatic and he understood what the science fiction and fantasy magazines expected, especially in the 1950s when such magazines were undergoing deep changes. This study is an attempt to analyze the generic characteristics of Matheson's short fiction, also to be understood from a cultural point of view and through the main features of American society after the second world war: traumas after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, fears of nuclear annihilation, paranoid style in politics and Maccarthyism, development of the suburbs and conformism, as well as social expectations for middleclass white males.Structures such as alienation, alterity (monsters, aliens, robots), mechanization of work, haunted objects, possession, that all highlight Matheson's recurrent themes.Matheson specialized in the writing of loneliness, excelling in making the reader share the character's point of view, that of the paranoid, the monster, the robot or more generally speaking, of the marginal who cannot make sense of their environment. Their metaphysical and ontological questioning create mise-en-abyme of narratives of world building and creation. The solitary character culminate into the character of the survivor, paradigmatic of Matheson's fiction. ; Entre 1950 et 1971, Matheson publie 89 nouvelles dont plusieurs ont constitué des jalons de la culture populaire, par exemple «Born of Man and Woman», «Nightmare at 20,000 Feet», «Steel» ou encore «Duel».Très versatile, il s'imprègne des attentes des magazines de science-fiction et de fantastique américains qui sont en plein bouleversement dans les années 1950. Cette thèse se propose d'étudier les caractéristiques génériques des nouvelles, qui se comprennent également au prisme de la société américaine d'après-guerre : traumatisme de ...

Frank Satterwhite, photo taken at New Zion Baptist Church on January 23, 2014 ; The New Zion Community Advocates worked with community members age 80 years and older to have contributed to the history of Ogden city. The interviews looked at the legacy of the interviewees through armed services, work, social life, church, NAACP and educational systems in an environment where their culture was not predominant. This program has received funding from the Utah Humanities Council and the Utah Division of State history. ; The following is an oral history interview with Frank Satterwhite conducted on January 23, 2014 by Kenneth Wilder. ; 26p.; 29cm.; 2 bound transcripts; 4 file folders. 1 sound disc: digital; 4 3/4 in. ; Oral History Program Frank Satterwhite Interviewed by Kenneth Wilder 23 January 2014 Oral History Program Weber State University Stewart Library Ogden, Utah Frank Satterwhite Interviewed by Kenneth Wilder 23 January 2014 Copyright © 2014 by Weber State University, Stewart Library Mission Statement The Oral History Program of the Stewart Library was created to preserve the institutional history of Weber State University and the Davis, Ogden and Weber County communities. By conducting carefully researched, recorded, and transcribed interviews, the Oral History Program creates archival oral histories intended for the widest possible use. Interviews are conducted with the goal of eliciting from each participant a full and accurate account of events. The interviews are transcribed, edited for accuracy and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewees (as available), who are encouraged to augment or correct their spoken words. The reviewed and corrected transcripts are indexed, printed, and bound with photographs and illustrative materials as available. Archival copies are placed in Special Collections. The Stewart Library also houses the original recording so researchers can gain a sense of the interviewee's voice and intonations. Project Description The New Zion Community Advocates worked with community members age 80 years and older to have contributed to the history of Ogden city. The interviews looked at the legacy of the interviewees through armed services, work, social life, church, NAACP and educational systems in an environment where their culture was not predominant. This program has received funding from the Utah Humanities Council and the Utah Division of State history. ____________________________________ Oral history is a method of collecting historical information through recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account. It reflects personal opinion offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ____________________________________ Rights Management Special Collections All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to the Stewart Library of Weber State University. No part of the manuscript may be published without the written permission of the University Librarian. Requests for permission to publish should be addressed to the Administration Office, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, 84408. The request should include identification of the specific item and identification of the user. It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Satterwhite, Frank, an oral history by Kenneth Wilder, 23 January 2014, WSU Stewart Library Oral History Program, Special Collections, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. iii Frank Satterwhite, photo taken at New Zion Baptist Church January 23, 2014 Abstract: The following is an oral history interview with Frank Satterwhite conducted on January 23, 2014 by Kenneth Wilder. KW: Alright, we are here at the New Zion Baptist Church office with why don't you give us your name and where you live? FS: Okay, my name is Frank Satterwhite and I live at 4563 South 375 East in Washington Terrace, Utah. KW: Good. How did you come to be here in Ogden? Where did you come from? You know where were you born and how did you make it here to Utah and Ogden in particular? FS: Okay, where I was born. I was born in Louisiana in Red River Parish, Louisiana in 1921 in my grandmother's and grandfather's house. So I grew up somewhat in a rural area and I later moved into Caddo Parish and that's where my schooling began, in Caddo Parish, Shreveport, Louisiana. KW: How'd you make it out here to Utah? FS: Well listen, I was in high school there and I visited the post office and what have you and I knew that during WWII, I was subject to the draft after high school. They said this was a policy more or less there so then I went to the post office and looked around. There were jobs listed all around the country in that time and in Utah there was any number of positions there. I had to take a little test and I passed the little test. Let's see in 1942, after the Christmas holidays, I headed this way for Utah for job training. So this is why I'm here in Ogden today because I began working at Hill Air Force Base. In fact it was very little there, there was a few hangers and what have you there and so they were sort of building it up into 1 a depot what they called Ogden Air Depot at the time. I began work, I came to study radio but it was such a popular class. I took aircraft training because I had been wondering what made an automobile engine work. I was interested in that type of job you know as a kid. I had an uncle that worked for a new car dealer, so he would drive his vehicles by the house and things like that. I admired him, I was just a young kid, so I admired him and the vehicles you know. So I got involved in aircraft at Hill Air Force Base. KW: We had talked before and tell us about what you encountered as far as the living conditions, where you could live when you got here to Ogden? FS: Oh yes there was a housing shortage. Because we came in and it was after the holiday into the New Year, I arrived in Ogden by train. A number of people I discovered were coming for the same purpose as I came, for a job, for job training more or less. So there was only one place that I was told that I would be able to live and that was the Royal Hotel. The old Royal Hotel on Wall Avenue and it was just across from the Union Station you know. It was a funny thing, there were so many of us that came in from different parts of the country really. The hotel was overfilled, overrun and Mrs. Davis, the owner of the hotel call us into a little meeting. "Listen you men, there are a number of women who came in with you folk here and I'm overrun already." She says, "Now the few beds we have will be for the women and you fellows are going to have to use pallets on the floor." So that was the situation, it was a housing shortage you know. I understand that the other motels/hotels in the town weren't serving black people. 2 So it was the Royal Hotel. We accepted it and this was a weekend that I came in on the train. So then Monday I went out to Hill Field and then I got the job. There was still this housing thing because I asked around, "Does any family have rooming houses?" I remember there were such things as rooming houses in cities where you rent a room. They said, "No, most of the places that were available were filled." So Hill Field set up barracks for civilians and they had begun to set them up before I came in there no doubt because they couldn't process everyone. They were about three barracks situated by the south gate of Hill Air Force Base. So then it was separated from the military. We were fenced in and they set up cafeterias and what have you, recreational halls because they were segregated. The military had their own recreational set up see, but we couldn't get involved in theirs, you know one of those things. So this was the housing, definitely a housing shortage at that time. KW: I know you're married and how long have you been married? FS: I've been married for let's see I'll have to count. Let's see Jackie Robinson I think was into baseball at that time and that was 1957. I was married in 1957 so 65 or 66 years. To do the math, we were married March the first. LR: 67. FS: Okay thank you, thank you. I just think about people and honeymoons and things like that, but we married on a Saturday at the downtown you know. We went downtown at the bureau or whatever and got the license. The fellow down there says well now what kind of instruction do you need? Do you need the short one? 3 I said well give me the best that you've got. So he talked to me about marriage and things that I should be careful not to be guilty of, one thing to not be guilty of missing dinner that my wife prepared for me. Women just don't like the idea that you're missing dinner when it's prepared for you, you know. So come Monday I went back to work - didn't have any honeymoon, no time off at all you know. So anyway so that was my situation. KW: How did you two meet? FS: We met in school and it was an odd thing because she was busy, she was a busy person, she was doing some work. She'd go down to some little organization in the school there and she would go around and pick up registrations or something of that sort. What we had in our school was study hall. We had time that you could study because a lot of us worked. I worked, especially on the weekend in high school. So I normally was pretty busy so I had to take that study period you know some of my lessons. So then I met her because she happened to been doing the same thing. I think she was doing a little work herself, you know one of those things in high school. So, but we just met on chance but it wasn't one of those things that we were I didn't say she was my girlfriend because she wasn't. It's just that I met her, saw her, and knew a little something about her, one of those things. Later on, now this was in high school and later on after I was in service then we finally got this wedding thing on a Saturday, here you know. She was visiting, she was a visitor that never ended her vacation. She was only supposed to visit me and it was a thing, we knew each other's people. I mean she knew my folk and I wasn't aware of this, but while I was away she really kind 4 of got in with them. I wasn't aware of this, see. So she was pretty well prepared and knew what she was doing I think. LR: You caught her doing some research on her own. FS: That's right, that's right. KW: What are you the most proud of in your life? Any accomplishments? FS: Okay, well it has to do with family for instance because we have four children and they're girls. I didn't have to do a lot of disciplining with them, but whatever they did in school I would drive them around. I would go and attend their activities and what have you. But they grew up, they were smart enough to get a little education for themselves because we wanted them. They did a lot of extracurricular things. They were in speech and they were in music and such. They participated, but then they had to get their work you know. So they were smart enough to get that work so they could do the extracurricular stuff you know. They grew up and I told them that if they were smart, well they were fairly talented kids and they went to college. They all went to college and then when they left home, well they got married and they did leave home for a while. Grandkids, I have ten grandkids and a couple of great-grandkids so I don't know when people talk of success. You know to me it's a family thing. Well, and I'll take this a little farther because religiously or whatever, my folk taught us to not to hate folk, but to respect people and respect yourself first. Be respectable, yourself you know. So we were taught and we were disciplined and this thing I think is important. We were able to discipline our kids to the point where they didn't get into any serious troubles. So I think as far as the 5 accomplishing I think if you're able to do that, to me that's fine. I love school, love myself, and we instilled in them and they love school, learning you know. So at least we got something over to them. We were able to teach them something. KW: You talked a couple times about how important faith and religion is to you. How was it being here and what is it that played in a part of your life? You know the role at the church and religion. FS: Well yes, it was an outlet for me. For instance I'd never been anywhere. There were five brothers of us for instance. I happened to be third brother see. In fact I got an awful lot of learning from those two older brothers. They were pretty good people. My mother, after the war was over, she was saying how blessed she was because we all came back home, after the wars. I didn't think much of it but as I grew older and learned something then I could realize what she meant. Now your question you asked me, I'm losing my… KW: Tell us about your faith in the church. FS: Oh well, yes. They were religious folk. I had uncles who were pastors and preachers. My dad was a deacon, he was a Masonic person. So what we learned is to be something positive in your community, do something. When I came here I was like a fish out of water because I didn't know anyone, well I met one person, Mr. Carter. He was a person that knew people out in Syracuse. He was one person that I learned something about the town from him. I learned to talk to him about things and he was able to move around. He didn't have any problems of moving around doing things because he was known. I learned here that this was important because if they knew you then you were railroad people. Railroad 6 people were a majority of black folk that were here. So with us coming in we folks were migrants. Anyhow, so I learned from him about things. I was the type that couldn't see going to work or the school at that time and coming back and just sitting down. So I start checking out equipment they allowed us to check out of the military you know games, things and what have you. I would check out even boxing gloves, badminton and things like that to do something different. Then baseball equipment and stuff like that and I get guys to play catch or whatever. It was different you know. As I said I wasn't the kind to sit around, to sit down. I was the nervous type. So I got together with a few friends. There was three of us – myself, one fellow from Illinois, and a fellow from Kansas. I met the fellow from Kansas at school who happened to be in a radio class. He was as married and was here just until he got trained and left to go back to his family. There were so many people who migrated from all around. KW: What are some of the changes that you've seen in Ogden since you've been here? FS: Oh I'll tell you an awful lot of changes. For one thing, when I went in to service and after I was discharged in 1946, I came back here for reemployment rights and had a job waiting for me. At least you could buy a home outside of Wall Avenue because most of the black people lived on Wall Avenue and Lincoln Avenue. Realtor people would only show you certain places and usually it wasn't beyond Lincoln Avenue or Grant Avenue. It was a little while before I found a place and there was a fellow building the runway out at Hill because of the jet planes and all were being developed during that time. This fellow was buying a 7 home in the 200 block of Patterson Avenue. He was going back to where he came from because he was brought in because he was an engineer. So I got together with him and he hadn't spent much on his contract and he hadn't been in his home very long. So he contracted with me for a home that he hadn't bought, but hadn't paid for it yet. The person that sold him the home was from a coal company not too far from here that sold this home to this engineer. When she discovered that he was subcontracting with me, she made him pay her a little more money one of those things you know. So that's how I happened to buy a home not from a realtor, but from an engineer. It happened to be a fairly nice place and it still stands right now. That brick home on 208 Patterson just a couple of blocks from here. It was a rough brick type home and it was a beautiful home, but the lady that lived next door happened to been a white lady. She hurriedly sold her place to some people. Well this is the truth now, she sold it to a Spanish group and the fellow worked at Hill. So anyway I happened to outlive the usefulness there because my kids were coming on, so then I needed a bigger place. So that's why I end up where I'm now, out in Washington Terrace. KW: Okay. So what do you like to do for fun now? FS: Oh listen now I don't do much of this but I enjoyed sports and recreation things. I enjoy doing things. I've told you about this little league team here that this one fellow. KW: LaSalle? FS: LaSalle, I told you he was on my little league team and believe it or not we didn't have a part of New Zion Baptist Church. This is why we got it going. This is why, 8 but a fellow in the post office was, we were co-managing it see because his kid was in that. He was one of the good pitchers and Reverend Martin. Reverend Martin was the second pitcher of my little league team now. He was just a kid growing up now. He lived a block or two from me on the terrace so I would go by and pick him up along with his brother John and the mother, Mrs. Martin would say, "Oh I don't know whether I should let him go out there he might get hurt." I told her he can even get hurt crossing the street really. We were going to get him out, he's needed, and he loves to play, and he's a pitcher. You know he's good for our team. The team was a mixture of Japanese person, there was a Spanish and there was black. We didn't have enough out of New Zion around to really make a team. There were many business who would sponsor them, not around here anymore but they would furnish them. My wife was telling you about her experience with our girls because they were jealous because I was taking the guys around. We would practice and listen we had a good team. I told them we win and I'll buy the root beer. Boy I was digging and we were winning, we weren't losing. I enjoyed it so much because I love baseball. I remember my hat and things like that. I love it. I played a little tennis on the grass in Louisiana the ground is you know clay. We could go on the grass and that made it bounce the ball. I was always active, I wasn't big enough to play football and I wasn't fast or tall enough for the basketball. So I settled for baseball. I played it fairly well I was even on the Hill Field team. KW: If you were to talk to the young people today what are two things that you would want to impart to them? Some advice you would want to give them? 9 FS: Well, I would tell them to take advantage of the situation now because it's like me and education. I attended an all-black school and it was segregated. We had used books. I want to get into this just for a minute, one thing that I happen to be was an active person to the point that I was the president of my class in high school. I got a chance to move around. I went to one of the oldest black schools. Oh, not the oldest school is Shreveport, Louisiana and I remember the name of it - Byrd High. No black folk went to Byrd High. I just had a chance to go there just to check on things because I was the class president. I went on a tour. I went into the lab, into the chemistry lab and it was unbelievable, all the room, and there were desks, equipment and burners. We had one burner and the teacher used it you know. We didn't have all this kind of thing. So education-wise, a kid now, I mean the opportunities are open. If you're a kid, take advantage even beyond high school. High school isn't enough now, you have to have some special training and I know this. This age of information you know people you just got to study. Things are changing so fast aren't they? I would advise them to take advantage of a situation and I know that now I understand that if you whip your kid that you can be charged with being abusive parents and all this kind of thing. I want to tell you what, I appreciate the discipline my folk did with me. I try to work in some of mine you know. The mother worked with those girls, worked with my daughters and things like that. If I were to touch them the way they would think they would die. I mean if I ever spoke kind of harsh to them once in a while boy they'd fall apart. There would be a little acting out done in there or something but I didn't have to do it. Anyway 10 they were smart enough to help discipline themselves. So I think this is one of the things, and to not hate and try to be a good citizen where you are. Do something positive. Anything you like to do would be alright. You know I advise them anything you're talented in just expose it and do it. Get enjoyment yourself from it. So this would be my advice to a young person. I'll tell you what they could do, too. If they've got some older folk, talk to them. Because there are things that they could not dream of. I mean a lot of things are being shown not such as the slavery thing I never saw that one, but I understand it's real and I understand it's really an honest thing looking back onto something. I say to them a child is a child and they need to be taught. If they let them grow like weeds they will act like the weed. A little fire on them and they'll be destroyed. All people have problems, all people overcome things because you don't always win at anything. In life you're going to be battered and banged and torn but don't give up on it. Don't say, "Well this is it. I can't." It's just like these winter days, we're going to have some rain coming. What I'm saying is you don't have to try to keep up with the Jones's, you don't have to do what somebody else is doing. Don't begrudge this person because you think you know better. You know as a mechanic or a technician a thing just serves a purpose. That thing serves a purpose for me and that's all it is. As human beings, why can't we get along? I was telling my wife today, that I'm sorry that I didn't really understand my grandparents the way they really were until I grew up and got a little knowledge in my head, past 25. God prepared females to deliver our kids and we males 11 have to get past 25 at least before our brains mature. I'm blessed, I'm going to say this again, young people I think they need to talk with their elders, their old folk and just talk to them. KW: Now did you have a nickname when you were growing up? FS: People tried to hang nicknames on me. but I'll tell you what. I was the youngest I think on the baseball team at one time. Somebody called me baby boy or something like that. I said, "I'm no baby," but he called me baby boy. I learned something from that person because they were much older than me. They were managers and things like that but there was something about friends. You're a friend because I knew you when you were much younger, many years ago. Do you remember? What people saw in you, you know the man that you really are today. I had people who work with me and that helped me along. So other than my family, people I work for and working with you know. They would tell me when I was on the right track and when I got off. So friends, I believe in friends but I'm going to tell you what I believe a friend should be one that can tell you if you happen to be wrong, if you happen to be off track. I was in the military and there was a party going on and there were ladies and I loved to dance. The lady I was dancing with was this one, kind of tough guy's girlfriend or something like that and my friend told me he says, "Frank you've been dancing with that lady for quite a bit and he thinks that you're wanting something other than to dance." I'm teaching you something but take it easy. A friend is one that can really talk to you and can have fun together. You can agree, but you can also disagree. 12 I want to tell you about Marion and me. Marion is an ardent reader; he didn't go to college, but he is so knowledgeable. My friend and my daughters and all call him Uncle Marion. He comes to the house and we can get in a discussion about some book, why water boils here at less temperature than it does at sea level and all that kind of stuff. He knows better and he can just argue but we never do and he's still a friend you know. KW: Let's see what questions Lorrie has. You've mentioned great characters from here and you wrote down Reverend Washington. Talk about that for a little bit. FS: Yeah, he was a military man and besides being a preacher I don't know his history beyond, he was in Wyoming. He was even a chaplain there, he got to be assistant chaplain there in Wyoming. He was from the south. He had the mind of building churches you know. I don't know what his education was other than a pastor. He had a way of getting people to follow him or work with him. When he built New Zion Baptist Church here, we had very little money in the treasury, but by the time we bought this ground and this parsonage here there was no building fund at all. There were people from Wyoming that came here to help him to build this church, he had a way with people. I noticed when he would come around and they were building this he would dressed in work clothes and have his gloves you know. He came out and showed that he would get in and work with you. He would get in and do the dirty work. He wouldn't let people take him away from when people were working around here. He was just that way. He roofed my house I bought on Patterson there. He wasn't afraid of work, but he had an idea and we only had a 138 people from Wall Avenue that came here. He had in mind 13 to build a building a church this large and we only had 138 folk. So he was one man that I thought was exceptional. You could talk to him. You could talk to him; he didn't let the title of pastor get in the way. LR: I just have two questions. FS: Okay. LR: So when you first came here to Ogden, when you came through the train station. What was that like? What was the train station like when you got here? FS: Well it was just an old train station. That's all it was. Well we came in and got off the train and they ushered us in to get our baggage and what have you. That's all, to me it was just a train station. LR: Okay, the reason I ask is during the war it was really busy. So I was wondering if you noticed if… FS: Oh yes! There were people, there were people. Well you know I came from a sizeable town. Shreveport was a sizeable town so I was used to crowds. There were crowds, but they were busy as all get out you know. It was night time, you know getting on to the night so I didn't see the surroundings of it very much. I was anxious to get my baggage and find out where I'm going to stay the night. Yeah, but it's a very important to this town, to Ogden. LR: Thank you. FS: The surrounding you know I really haven't visited it lately. There's an awful lot of things around the station now. Oh there was a theatre and I've been there at the theatre. There's a stage. So activities there that I really need to go there and check out you know even now. Alice is a teacher and she brings her kids there 14 every so often. It's an annual thing that the teachers come over there to the station she was telling me. I don't know exactly what it was, but they come over there. Historically it's such an important part of Ogden. LR: So when you first got there compared to Louisiana was it hard to adjust? FS: Well I'll tell you what it was different. LR: Was it so different that it took a while to get used to being here or did you just kind of… FS: Fell into things? LR: Fell into things. FS: Well I'll tell you what, maybe it wasn't as much of a novelty to me because I'd been in the service. I'd been overseas and had been traveling around to a lot of different communities I'd gone into. I'll tell you what, 25th street now the street itself was different. It really was different. I got to know the Porters and Waiters Club owners you know. KW: Billie Weekly? FS: Billie Weekly. LR: And Annabelle. FS: Yes Annabelle, are you an Ogdenite? LR: I've done some research on 25th street. FS: Okay, alright. Yeah Annabelle, now Annabelle's a Louisianan. She was a Louisianan. I knew Annabelle I knew her pretty well. We were out here at the same time, she went out to Hill Field but I got a big kick out of her. She said that she wasn't interested in the nuts and bolts and things. She wasn't interested in 15 that job there because her husband was in the service. She came out this way because he was in the service. Yeah, 25th street now was different. Yeah it was different and not every town had one because they kind of compared it with Chicago, south side. I was in the Great Lakes. I was in the navy and I trained in the Great Lakes in Chicago. Chicago was a bustling town. During my liberty, it was my town I came into. I'll tell you what, I've never been so cold when you talk about the cold weather. I've never been so cold than I have been in Chicago—the wind off the lake of the Great Lakes. By the way in boot camp we were supposed to have had some boat training but I didn't get a chance to get it because it was frozen over. It was in February, it was frozen. Yes and I was young. I was a young fellow and I'll tell you what I never been so cold in all my life. I didn't have any problem in the service with discipline. I really didn't because my grandpa and my folks had disciplined me. I could understand what discipline mean. I could understand who the leader is and things like that and what you're supposed to do. It was easy for me and another thing I'm left handed all the way until I got into the service. So I had my little problems, but I'll tell you what it didn't take a lot I just had to be taught and worked with and told me to listen. You know you can't learn everything. But it was an experience I would recommend. But I'll tell you what after the Korean War, I was reluctant to recommend a youngster that may want to try the service because that was such a difficult place to be. When you don't know who your enemy is that's the terrible thing. I was over in the Philippines and the Japanese had ravaged that country, the 16 Philippines and just everything. They left some of their soldiers and we had people coming up and getting in our food lines because the war was over. The war was over and because they had been in the jungles and needed food to survive. Where the huge Philippine storm recently hit, I was right in that area – the little village and the little town that was near our navy base. It was rough there. Yeah and boy I'm happy we didn't have that kind of thing when I was over there. LR: So you were in the service and then you did civil service. Is that right? FS: Well yes, I came here out of high school. Yeah and this was my first job at Hill Field. This is the first—well I had jobs but face it, they were part-time or something like that you know. But first full time job was I came out at Hill Field and then I was inducted after I was out here for a year or so. I was inducted in Salt Lake. LR: I was getting confused. FS: Oh okay well I'm glad to clear that up. Yes so I went in the service out here and then I had reemployment rights you know because I had a job here before I went into the service. LR: So that's why you came back? FS: Yes, that's why I came back. LR: Now I understand. You were in the service and you were doing civil service. We're good now. FS: Yeah but you know the funny thing about it. Okay now when I came here now this was an Army/Air Force thing. It was the Army during the time between WWII and 17 after the ending it became an Air Force you know. Its' own Air Force like Navy. So I worked for the Army Air Corp and I worked for the Air Force and I was in the Navy military. So I had a chance to move about. All of these experiences were good. As for friends, there are people that you work with and hit it off and you have the same philosophies or not too far. Now but religion I've never had a problem because as a kid growing up in Louisiana, Catholic predominantly. In Louisiana, they call it the Bible belt throughout the south. See, I've always knew people and always worked with people who were different. Whatever their thing is that's fine. You know I respect them and I want them to respect mine. Out of my five brothers, there's two of us and I'm the older one and there's a younger one left, that's the way I'll put it. Of us five, he tells me about myself saying the oldest person in the family was your boss more or less who could tell you things to do. You're not supposed to buck them you know. They are the oldest and I'm old. I've got a sister now that's in a nursing home that's 100 years old and she's still spunky. She talks to me and asks me about the children and things like that. She was as happy as a lark. We just had a party for her, balloons and things like that, just enjoying herself. . She's in a chair and has to be pushed around a little but her brain still works and it's amazing. So here I am you know my last birthday in June. I might have to think about it. I don't worry about it but once in a while they say well how old are you? Then I have to think, I have to do the math. 1921 so I subtract one from whatever year it is. LR: 93. FS: Hey that's what you get. 18 LR: Well thank you so much for letting me ask those few questions. I appreciate it. FS: Oh well listen you can ask me any question you like. LR: I actually wanted to know if you knew the Porters and Waiters Club and you answered that questions so thank you, I appreciate it. KW: Do you have anything final you want to say or have we about worn you out? FS: No this has been pleasant. This has been okay. You know I did one for a Salt Lake thing. They had lights glaring in on me and I was dry and drinking water and things like that. They had me watching the monitor on the TV when they was talking to me. Golly, you know I was a little nervous but I haven't been in this one. This has been sort of pleasant. LR: That's what it's supposed to be. It's supposed to be pleasant. You've been married 57 years. FS: Yeah I married in 1947. KW: Well sir, I want to thank you for this. FS: Okay well Ken this is pleasant. You know talking with him. Honestly, as I say I have known his family and him for a long time. 19

The interview covered: first involvement with SMU, role and responsibilities, curriculum, student experience, first freshman team building camp, first classes, pioneer class, student activities, student ambassadors, community service, student hostel, student financial assistance. Biography: Founding Dean of Students, SMU, 2000–2011 Member of SMU start-up team An SMU 'pioneer', Professor Low Aik Meng was one of the first three faculty to join the start-up team for the new university in 1998. Curriculum development was one his early responsibilities. Professor Low is best known for his next assignment—in 2000 he was appointed as SMU's founding dean of students, a role in which he was responsible for all aspects of student life outside the classroom. In keeping with the aims of the start-up team, SMU aimed to provide students with a holistic educational experience which included leadership and teambuilding skills, as well as the development of a sense of ethics and social responsibility. Professor Low championed the concept of an 'SMU family' and worked to build a close-knit community with fewer barriers between students and faculty. He took a personal interest in student welfare in matters ranging from freshmen teambuilding camp, to financial assistance, to service projects, clubs and activities. He retired from SMU in July 2011. He established two annual awards, the Dean of Students Award and the AM Low Trailblazer Award. These awards are given to students who have made significant contributions—beyond academic studies— to the university or the community at large. Professor Low worked as an accountant before joining academia in 1974. He was a faculty member at the University of Singapore, the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, before joining SMU. His teaching focus was financial accounting. He served as vice dean of accountancy and business administration at NUS, and as vice dean and director of the MBA programme at Nanyang Business School, NTU. He has published journal articles and book chapters on topics such as auditing, entrepreneurship, accounting and postgraduate education. In recognition of his dedicated service, the Singapore Government awarded him the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2010. Low Aik Meng holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from the then University of Singapore and a master of commerce from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

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