I spent the better part of Wednesday preparing for my class UT. Due to my absence during last week’s session, I had both a written and oral report due on Adult Education pioneer Malcolm Knowles (1913-1997) as well as a book review on Roger Hiemstra’s Lifelong Learning (1976). The good news about this overload is that I have only one major assignment left before the end of the semester. The bad news is that it is a major assignment and due in only two weeks, on November 19th, though I learned on this night that the professor has granted extensions through December 3rd. I may take him up on that offer.
The class met in the sweltering confines of the Humanities Building. The university is on central heating which tends to mean that the learning environment is either uncomfortably cold or hot. On this night it was the latter.
After a long discussion (read: celebration) regarding the election, we watched a film from 1948 entitled An Apartment For Peggy. Believe it or not, I do not already own a copy of the film. It has yet to be released on DVD. The copy we viewed was a very old bootleg recorded from American Movie Classics. The film stars William Holden (1917-1981) and Jeanne Crain (1925-2003). More importantly, Betty Lynn appears briefly in the film in only her second film role, years before she played “Thelma Lou” on “The Andy Griffith Show”.
The entire class loved the largely forgotten Fox comedy. It is very topical to my class as Holden plays Jason, a World War II veteran going to college on the GI Bill in the hopes of beccoming a teacher. Jason, with his young expectant wife Peggy, move into the attic of suicidal professor Henry Barnes (Edmund Gwenn) as they are strapped for funding. His wife also particpates in adult education as she organizes a class for GI's wives, taught by Barnes.
As noted, it is a great film which is unfortunately largely lost to history.
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