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Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr.

Associate Professor • Chicanx-Latinx Histories • Pomona College

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For tomorrow’s class. She was going to be coming next week before the pandemic. Now she’s rescheduled for spring ‘21, and we’ll have to make due with her amazing early story.

Office hours profe, in hoodie.

She made a raspberry chocolate cake. From scratch! No boxes, no mixes. And it was delicious!

I got this in the mail the same day as the campus sent out the email saying we are going online for the remainder of the semester. I hope we have the chance to celebrate our seniors as planned. My heart breaks that anyone’s academic term has to be like this but especially the seniors who deserved the right kind of transition away.

February 7. In 1961 on this day the Beatles played their first gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where they’d go on to play a total of 292 times in less than two years. They’d meet Brian Epstein, they’d change drummers, and they’d become famous. Today is also the anniversary of the Beatles arrival in the US in 1964. They’d appear on Ed Sullivan two days later and then appear twice more on the show over the rest of the month. From playing a small club to being the biggest cultural phenomenon in the so-called Western world, all in less than three years.

If you drop a rag on the floor she will sit on it because you must have put it there just for her.