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🪩 The 1970s

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The John Essene Club

Reflections on legendary 1970s co-oper, Ed Menard

I recently discovered that Ed Menard passed away in February 2023. I wrote some reflections about him here: https://sites.google.com/view/ucla-coopreunion/home/reflections-on-ed-menard

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backwardsmsj
backwardsmsj
5 days ago

how could i forget ed menard? thinking i was a wrestler i decided to have a go at ed, who outweighed me by fifty pounds. it was over in ten seconds with me pinned to the floor. then there was the hitchhiking. left school two consecutive spring quaters to go from the coop to chicago and back and from the coop to washington dc and back. that delayed my graduation a bit. lucky i got back and lucky i graduated. that was ed menard stuff. and my last memory of ed. heckling a speaker at ackerman union. ed was a real contrarian and it rubbed off on me. like a big brother. mike jordan...

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