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Anonymous:
It was my junior year, 1976, I was new at the school and and to my knowledge there were only 5 of us from the Seed.  Only once did I ever tell someone I couldn't talk to him because he hadn't been in the Seed.  To this day, I remember the look on his face.  I felt absolutely awful and never said it again to anyone.  

By the time I graduated from Dixie in l977, there were only 3 of us and we all pretty much went our separate ways.  I joined a few clubs, made a few friends and even went on a senior trip to Europe, and had a wonderful time.

Somewhere along the line and pretty quickly, I figured out that I had to live in the real world, and so I adapted.  It serves me well, even today, to be able to adapt to the situations I find myself in.  And I've made some wonderful friends along the way that I wouldn't trade for anything in the world.

ChrisL:
It took me until about my second year in college right around 1977 to realize that I had to communicate with, share & listen to others in order to grow and become more of a whole person.
I credit going to SPJC (now SPC) with helping me "grow up" I took a number of humanites, writing and communications classes where we worked in groups. I began to realize, slowly, that just because someone was different did not mean there were a bad person, and finally just because a person had adddictions and may have been still struggling with drugs and alcohol did not make them evil. I was married to a functional alcoholic for 22 years and just because I had been sober for that last 14 of them did not mean I cared any less for her, just meant I could not change her...

Antigen:
Wow, Chris, you went to SPJC? When? In around `80 - `82 sometime, Miller Newton started sending Straight staffers and proteges to SPJC. I don't know what kind of messed up things they were teaching or how much of the messed up ideas that showed up in group came from there, but I do suspect some significant influence coming out of that nexus. In around `99 or `00 sometime, we found out that Virgil Newton was actually teaching classes there. A couple of his good old friends from Straight took a binder full of lawsuit docs, newspaper articles and other juicy bits to the personnel dept. Within a week, he'd been let go.

I wonder what's sort of psychology and humanities doctrin they're teaching there now?


I didn't intend for this to take on a political tone, I'm just here for the drugs.
--First Lady, Nancy Reagan at a Just Say No rally
--- End quote ---

ChrisL:
"Wow, Chris, you went to SPJC? When? "
I went to SPJC from 75 - 77 & then transferred to Emory U to finish a 4 year degree. I took most of my classes at the Clearwater campus, yeah seems stupid now looking at it, I lived 5 minutes away in Pasadena and used to drive US-19 (the "killer" highway) to Clearwater 5 days a week for classes. but the last 1/2 year in 77 I changed my focus to a get a general "associate in Arts" degree so I wound up going my last 6-8 mos in St Pete with just a few  classes in Clearwater. Looking back on one of the creative writing classes I had the proff took "an interest" and even had me over to his house to discuss my writing and I had shared that I had been in the Seed... Now looking back on this years later it is obvious to me he was gay & interested but I was so naive or dare I say "innocent" at the time that he did not make a pass... and I did not realize it at the time. The other class I remember in particular was a communicatons class where we worked in groups and had to give "presentations" on short subjects in front of the class, one of the classes they videotaped our presentations and how we reacted to each other working in groups. I remember that was such a shock for me to see myself "outside of myself", I learned a lot from that class. We had a nutty "survivalist" professor for Anthropology (although that is kind of an oxi-moron eh...) and this guy had us convinced the world was coming to an end in the next two years, the Apocalypse was near and we would be canibals eating each other to survive, this and that all the guys should be having sex with multiple partners and never get married because it was "against the natural laws of survival" He was great, if you wer able to take it with a grain of salt. The Humanities proff I remember was a huge guy (I mean big, large, you know whatever the PC term is these days) and he had an extremely humourous take on the studies of chaucer, and the other classics I seem to remember him being overly focused on the sexual nature & content and the more "base" aspects of human behavior, you know farting, belching, puking etc...
 
"I wonder what's sort of psychology and humanities doctrine they're teaching there now?"

I hope something with more meaning that's for sure....

Anonymous:
I was also at SPJC from 77-79, ended up leaving 1 semester shy of graduation, because I got married and was working full time and aggravated with the head of the program.  My business math teacher and I became friends and I ended up volunteering for years with her as a Girl Scout Leader.  I was the youngest leader in St. Pete at l9.  Funny through my scouting adventure with her, I met a future boss that I ended up working with for 3 years at a fundraiser car wash.  Adapting to real life and making it work for me.

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