Burns _ TP #12

Meeting with Dae for final discussion of his journal article.  That article has now been submitted for faculty review prior to submission to a journal.  Dae is quite comfortable with the status of his writing, to include the introduction that was his only real problem at the beginning.  So we continued to discuss significant cultural events in America since JFK election.  Today we discussed the Kennedy Inaugural and the impact that it had upon teens and college students at the time.  It was the Cuban Missile Crisis that riveted young people to the young President.  Our discussion continued through the JFK assassination and the MLK "I Have a Dream" speech as watershed events that roused a generation from complacency to activism.  We compared that activism to student activism in South Korea.  We compared young America's attitude toward Havana to young South Korea's attitude toward Pyongyang.  We agreed to focus on 1968 as a key year in forming the worldview of the generation that now governs much of the United States, leads its churches and leads American business.