Serial: "Hawkins County" Chapter 2 - Nostalgia of the 1970s.

"Hawkins County" has a dual story line until well into the second act. You have already met Pat O'Connor, the delinquent teenaged boy on the run from the law with the premise: Can Pat O'Connor continue to elude capture by law enforcement indefinitely? In chapter 2, you will meet Jack Johnson a nerdy college student whose live becomes enmeshed with Pat O'Connor's in way the two can not yet imagine.

Majestic strains of Pomp and Circumstance drifted forth from the fieldhouse at Mankato State University with such vigor that motorists o the street outside could hear it. Inside, the spring quarter graduating class was anxious to receive their degrees. The ceremony started 45 minutes ago and it was getting doggone hot in there. On the stage sat the clergyman who gave the invocation, the keynote speaker, Senetor Hubert Humphrey, a politician serving his first term who just cooncluded his address, and the deans of the various schools. The families and friends sat in the bleachers on either sidewhere they could see not only the graduates on the main floor below them, but also, the commencement exercises on stage. Both undergraduate and graduate degrees were to be awarded this fine spring day.

There were 203 graduates, all decked out in blue caps and gowns, receiving degrees from the various schools at the university. Most of them were young and full of hope. They were the ones who knew they could make a positive difference in the world, a real contribution, if only somebody would hire them and give them the chance. (to be continued)

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