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Letter from Carl D. Duncan to Patricia Whiting, December 26, 1965
Duncan, Carl D. (Carl Dudley), 1895-1966
1965-12-26
English
Duncan mentions a trip with friends and an afternoon spent with the Whiting family.
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Correspondence
Whiting, Patricia, 1940-2010
San Jose -- California
Dr. Carl Duncan and Patricia Whiting Collection
San Jose State University Library Special Collections & Archives
Series I, Box 1, Folder 147
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Dr. Carl. D. Duncan (1895-1966), former SJSU professor and chairman of the National Science Department, began his career at San Jose State College in 1922. During his tenure he mentored many students, and between the years 1964-1966, he mentored Patricia Carpio (Whiting), a student in the Humanities & Art. Whiting worked for Dr. Duncan, who served as the secretary of the Field Studies program at that time. Whiting went on to become the first Filipino woman elected to the Oregon State Legislature, serving three terms from 1972-1978, and a community activist and beloved leader. Duncan and Whiting maintained a long-term friendship that lasted until his death in 1966. Patricia Whiting died at age 69 on July 1, 2010 of cancer. She is survived by her husband Vincent Whiting.
Dearest Patricia: I got home this evening about 8:30. Tom wanted to hear the opening lecture of the AAAS meetings at Berkeley tonight at 8:00 o’clock, so we drove to the bay area this afternoon. They brought me to the airport where I picked up my car; then they returned to Berkeley for the lecture at U.C. Please phone me tonight when you get in or first thing in the morning. If you do not have other plans and can spare the time, I’d like to take you to breakfast somewhere. If you are short on time, will you stop by and have breakfast with me here? If you don’t phone tonight, I’ll wait for the call in the A.M. I’ve missed seeing you these last two days though I’ve had a most happy and wonderful time with Tom and Joyce and their son Dan (whom you haven’t met) and his family. Tom and Joyce send you their best and hope you can go up with me some time in the spring and visit them again. Yesterday, I spent an hour and a half at the Whitings. Vince drove down and got me, so now I know the whole family, including Bob Whiting’s mother, who is as spry and lively and is interesting as al the rest of them. They all send you their love. They say that now, like you, I am a member of their family, too, so I am invited any time I can go up to see them. And, like Tom and Joyce, they hope that we will both come to see them. I don’t know any family who are as uniformly interesting and friendly. A welcome such as theirs is heartwarming. I’ll have more to tell you when I see you and we can visit a little while. But do phone and, if circumstances are favorable, let’s have breakfast together here or somewhere else. I phoned your mom and let her know I was home. Also I agreed to go out and pay them a brief visit tomorrow P.M. With much love as always -Carl. P.S. I dutifully wore the red scarf, but I still have a bronchitis so I’m going to contact Dr. Rumsfeld tomorrow.
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