http://historycoalition.org/2009/03/25/noted-historian-john-hope-franklin-passes-away/ Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://historycoalition.org/2009/03/25/noted-historian-john-hope-franklin-passes-away/comment-page-1/#comment-4125 Wilton Corkern Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:04:38 +0000 http://historycoalition.org/?p=1381#comment-4125 I thought of Dr. Franklin last night during the President's press conference, hoping that President Obama has had the opportunity to meet him. I thought of him again today when I saw the NCH alert about the requested increase for NEH. In 1976, while a grad student at GWU, I worked at NEH in the Public Affairs office. John Hope Franklin was the Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities that year and I was assigned to meet his plane at the airport and drive him around town while he was here. I have had several occasions to meet him since then - most recently at his "book and author supper" at the Cosmos Club - and I always reminded him that carrying his bags back in 1976 was one of the greatest thrills of my professional life. Although I hardly knew him, I will miss him dearly. I thought of Dr. Franklin last night during the President’s press conference, hoping that President Obama has had the opportunity to meet him. I thought of him again today when I saw the NCH alert about the requested increase for NEH. In 1976, while a grad student at GWU, I worked at NEH in the Public Affairs office. John Hope Franklin was the Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities that year and I was assigned to meet his plane at the airport and drive him around town while he was here. I have had several occasions to meet him since then – most recently at his “book and author supper” at the Cosmos Club – and I always reminded him that carrying his bags back in 1976 was one of the greatest thrills of my professional life. Although I hardly knew him, I will miss him dearly.

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