Campuses join in RetroFest 60s community celebration
By Anette Germinario, reporter

     Tandy/Radio Shack RetroFest 2000, a celebration of the 1960s, will be Sept. 15–Nov. 17.
     RetroFest, a biennial community-wide effort, celebrates specific decades in history, through various activities.
     The first RetroFest in 1996 focused on the 1910-1920 era, followed by RetroFest 1998, which revisited the 1940s.
     This year TCC District will contribute lectures, exhibits and performances that look back to the 1960s.
    The centerpiece of TCC's RetroFest activities will be the premier display of historical artifacts from the John F. Kennedy Museum Foundation's collection.
    Kennedy: The Man, The President, The ’60s will display items that give a tangible look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, the space race and the Kennedy administration and assassination.
     South Campus will host the exhibit in the Carillon Gallery Nov. 2-April 25.
TCC will join numerous cultural, educational, historic, civic and social organizations, including the Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau, Van Cliburn Foundation, Fort Worth Dallas Ballet, Texas Christian University, Amon Carter Museum and Allied Theatre Group.
     The county celebration kicks off with a block party in Sundance Square Thursday, Sept. 14, from 5-10 p.m.
     Bruce Wood Dance Company, Fort Worth Dallas Ballet, Arlington Heights Show Choir and 1964, a Beatles cover band, will be a part of the evening’s entertainment.
TCC events, held on all four campuses, include the following:

 SEPTEMBER
 NE Campus
     Friday, Sept. 15, Dr. Jesus Chuy Negrete, Mexican folklorist, Issues of Mexicans and Civil Rights during the ’60s, 12:30 p.m. in the Student Center.
     Sept. 15-Nov. 15, three ’60s exhibitions, including Culture: Music, Arts, Literature in the LRC; Vietnam War, Civil Rights and Protests in Science and Technology Building; NASA and the Space Program, Student Corner; Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, LRC.
     Wednesday, Sept. 27, Capt. Richard Gordon, Gemini XI & Apollo XII astronaut, discussing personal experiences, the ’60s space race and future projects, 11 a.m. in the Student Center.
 NW Campus
    Wednesday, Sept. 27, Capt. Richard Gordon, Gemini XI & Apollo XII astronaut, discussing personal experiences, the ’60s space race and future projects, 9:05 a.m. in B-118 East and West

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 OCTOBER
 NE Campus
     Wednesday, Oct. 11, Dr. Sergei Krush-chev, Brown University Center for Foreign Policy Development, Cold War Policy in the USSR during the ’60s, 9:05 a.m., 10:10 a.m., 2:30 p.m. in the Student Center
 South Campus
     Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 18–21, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, 2 p.m. Thursday and 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday in the Carillon Theatre.
 SE Campus
Oct. 2-14, Political Button Display in Library.
Wednesday, Oct. 11, Dr. Sergei Kruschev, Brown University Center for Foreign Policy Development, Cold War Policy in the USSR during the ’60s, 7 p.m. in the North Ballroom.

 NOVEMBER
 NE Campus
     Wednesday, Nov. 15, Jim Lane, local attorney, The My Lai Massacre: An American Tragedy, luncheon at 12:30 p.m. in the Student Center.
     Friday, Nov. 17, What Were You Doing during the 1960s?, a campus community “happening” of shared memories with music by NE Jazz Band, poetry, storytelling, 2 p.m. in the Student Center.
 NW Campus
     Wednesday, Nov. 1, RetroFest Fair, booths by student organizations, individuals and classes representing themes from the ‘60s, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
     Thursday, Nov. 9, Veteran’s Day Celebration, personal perspectives about life in the ’60s and the Vietnam War by Vietnam era veterans, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
 South Campus
     Nov. 1-April 25, Kennedy: The Man, the President, the ’60s, artifacts from the JFK Museum collection, in the Carillon Gallery.
     Nov. 1-December, In My Life: Artistic Reflections on How Time and Transitions Have Formed Us, South Campus Women in New Roles program travels off campus with an exhibit of today's art with ’60 impact, in the Circle Theatre lobby in downtown Fort Worth.
     Wednesday, Nov. 29-Saturday, Dec. 2, The Sound of Music, a musical, 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Thursday in the Carillon Theatre.
SE Campus
     Wednesday-Saturday, Nov. 15-18, SALVATION, a rock musical that questions the “establishment” of the ’60s, 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday in the Roberson Theatre.