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By ELIZABETH LYNCH
Staff Writer
Think of how the world has
change over the past 42 years.
Man has gone to the moon, the
world has been at war, Vietnam
was fought and bell-bottoms barely
scratched the surface of
modernization.
However, one thing has not "
changed over the past 42 years: the
dedication and work that Lillian
Mixon has given to USC.
Lillian (or Sis, as she is called
by everyone) is the longestemployed
person at USC. Mixon,
64, has worked here since 1947.
She graduated from USC in
1945 and began working for the
university two years later. Mixon
works in the University Campuses
and Continuing Education Division
as an office manager and bookkeeper.
"I've seen a great deal of
changes in my lime. The first thing
that comes to mind is that the students
keep looking younger and
younger every year," she said.
When Mixon attended USC and
first started working, the university
was much smaller and she knew
virtually every student, she said.
"Now there's no way I could
meet everyone. I think it's great
that it's expanded, it's just that the
faculty does not know the students
individually. That's one of the negative
changes that's happened in
my 42 years.
'Today I think the students are
more mature. When I first came to
school a lot of the students were
veterans who had a different look
on education," Mixon said.
However, Mixon feels today's
students are more serious and
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seemingly more in control of their
lives, she said.
"Students back then liked to
party. I think students now are
more serious," she said. "They
know what they want out of life
and how to work for it with the
help of counselors and advisers to
guide them along the path."
Mixon said the 1960s were a
time of great change for USC. "I
remember very clearly the protests
over racial integration and
Vietnam. It seems to me there
were more protests over the
Vietnam War than anything else.
We, the staff for the extension
program, were told not to get involved
and to ignore the protests,"
she said.
"A student is a student I think
they had a right to protest over integration.
When the students
charged into the administrative offices
during the early '60s it was a
very uncertain and unsettling
time."
During August 1988 Mixon had
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six weeks later while continuing
her speech therapy. 'They would
have to keep me in an insane asylum
to keep me home."
Having not had any children of
her own, Mixon thinks it is always
a little sad at graduaton time to say
goodbye to the students, especially
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Staff Writer
The "godfather of the historical
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book is California Gold, spoke on
the importance and necessity of a
knowledge of history.
Dr. Thomas Terrill, who arranged
the lecture presented by the
history department, introduced
Jakes and credited him with "communicating
the past to the
present"
Jakes said he considers himself
a "staunch ally" of professional
historians seeing the goal of historians
and historical writers as the
same.
Jakes' love of history goes back
to his childhood, he said. His parents
were movie fans and he
watched many historical films as a
child.
A Chicago native, Jakes graduated
from DePauw University
with a degree in creative writing
and from Ohio State with a master's
in American literature. Jakes
said he has a love for academics
and originally wanted to be a
teacher hut went into advertising
for economic reasons.
Jakes' work always involved
writing, and he even wrote after
work to help finance his children's
education. He began his career
with science fiction, western and
mystery novels.
In the early 1970s he began The
Kent Family Chronicles. This
eight-volume series began his intense
research in history as a topic
for writing.
The next project for Jakes was
the North and South trilogy that
was later turned into two television
miniseries. Though there were
many changes in the novel, Jakes
said the series helped attract readers,
so the effort wasn't all bad.
The latest product of Jakes' historical
research and creative hand
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setting while researching the novel.
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"I am amazed over and over
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they may be related to a
character he's mentioned and want
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'Today's primary and secondary
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history of the country and world
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concern for the neglect of
libraries where history lives on the
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"I never knowingly falsify history,
but sometimes I take advantage
of it," Jakes said. He gave the
example of placing a character in
the role of a person unidentified in
history.
Jakes has been named a research
associate at USC, which gives him
access to the university's information
facilities and an office here
when he needs it.
His current novel is keeping him
busy with book tours, but he has
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a project concerning South
Carolina, but said his writer's
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