- Shirley Park Lowry (1933-2013) by YourEnchantedGardener
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Shirley P. Lowry
June 26, 1933 - April 21, 2013
Pacific Palisades, California
Shirley P. Lowry was my first English teacher at Los Angeles Valley College in 1965. We were friends through the period of my first bilateral hip replacements in 1976. She sent me a copy of the "Hobbit" while I was in the hospital.
There were numbers of letters between us. I visited her in her home in Pacific Palisades a number of times.
I was going through some archives today and started to write her a letter. It has been many years since we talked.
I sent the card to her husband. I did not find an obit on him.
Perhaps he is still in the body.
I hope she doesn't mind me writing to her now.
Dear Shirley,
I started to write to you today. I put a stamp on an envelope, and was cutting out a card to send that says, "How Fast Can a Dream Grow? ~As Fast as a Blade of Grass!
I am sorry I am a year late. I see you have passed to the underworld or world where souls go.
I want to thank you for being my first English teacher at Los Angeles Valley College in 1965. I am glad you liked the bagels I brought.
I want to apologize for my rudeness regarding food. I deserved to be cut out of your life. You made meals with extreme reverence. You laughed and enjoyed life. I noticed and appreciated the preciousness of your relationship with your husband Ira.
The meals that you offered me were made with love and care and good spirit. I am sorry that in my early passion for food that I learned from Dr. Bernard Jensen that I was rude to you and ungraceful about your offerings.
You were the sweetest of friends.
I want to thank you for your many letters.
I will be going over some of them again soon.
I am glad you wrote a book about Myths.
I have journeyed to the underworld too
more soon.
Sending love,
Leslie
4:30 pm
January 3, 2015
Familiar Mysteries: The Truth in Myth
Shirley Park Lowry
Oxford Uiversity Press, 1982 - Social Science - 339 pages
Have you ever wondered why so many heroes--from Odysseus to Tom Sawyer--journey to the underworld? Or why virgin births occur in so many stories around the world?In the first comprehensive view of mythology directed toward the general reader, Shirley Park Lowry tells why we find recurring patterns and symbols in stories that are centuries--or continents--apart. Drawing upon tales ranging from the ancient Middle East to modern North America, Lowry shows how "myths reflect and dramatize ordinary experience, illuminating our deepest and least articulated hopes, fears, and quandaries. Their extravagant plots and images are recognizable because they are the language of our own dreams."Lowry defines what myths are; why they are important; what they share with folk tales, dreams, and fantasies; how we developed a symbolic language and what such symbols as blood, milk, sunlight, and monsters mean; how heroes from Moses and Jesus to Charlemagne and Superman relate to one another; and how myths reconcile us to life's limitations.
Shirley was married to Ira S Lowry.
Here is one listing. I know he worked for the Rand Corporation when I knew them.
A Riot of Color
The Demographic Setting
Published in: The Los Angeles Riots: Lessons for the Urban Future / M. Baldassare (ed.) (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994), Chapter 2, p. 19-46
by Peter A. Morrison, Ira S. Lowry
Related Topics: African-American Populations, Black Populations, Demography, Hispanic Populations, Latino Populations, Population and Aging, Racial Discrimination
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Access further information on this document at http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com
This article was published outside of RAND. The full text of the article can be found at the link above.
Abstract
The Los Angeles riots of 1992 were examined in the context of changing demographic and socioeconomic conditions. There was not support for the notion that the disturbance was a rebellion of Blacks against Whites. In fact, the ethnic composition of the area in question was mixed, and over 50% of those arrested were Hispanics. The main thesis of this demographic analysis was that the setting was conducive to the resulting conflict; the preconditions for South Central's riots were ethnic conflict and competition for limited resources and the availability of large numbers of young men ready to participate in unrest.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19940003.html
LINKS
http://libpac.sdsu.edu/record=b1428935
A review of the book
Ouch!
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/1787/15%282%29%20192-196.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
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- Re: Shirley Park Lowry (1933-2013) by Barbsplace
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I'm so sorry Shirley has passed away.
She contacted me in the late '70s
while I was attending LA Valley College. Although a student, at the
time, I had made my career as an
illustrator. Shirley had seen my work in a literary publication and thought
I would be able to possibly illustrate
a book she had written. Thus, began
our meetings and a wonderful rapport. She was an excellent writer and could clearly express the ideas
she had relating to images and symbols in her book. What a joy to work with her!
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