Pogo was a great strip. I will try to find those strips. On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 7:49 AM kara posso <k.po...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone, > > Below is a message i received from a fellow through the grotto email the > other day. I thought that he would have better luck solving his mystery > with the help of all of you since my institutional knowledge does not go > back this far. Ross is included on this email, please reply to hum or > remember to hit REPLY ALL to keep him on the email chain since he is not > signed up on the listserve. > > Also Ross, if there is anyway you can share the comic strip (or part of > it) i am sure people would be interested to see! > > Thanks folks! > Kara > > > My name is Ross Burns, and several people on Facebook suggested that I > post this question to your group.It concerns spelunking in the Austin area > in the period of 1953-54. > > I am a fan of the old Pogo comic strips by Walt Kelly. He frequently > mentions real people. events, and groups in the strip. I have been reading > a recent re-issue of the strips for 1955 and 1956. In a storyline he > published beginning in January of 1955, he repeatedly mentions the > University of Texas Spelunking Team. Partly I know that he loved to play > with words including spelunking. However the repeated mention of UT and > Texas over 2 or 3 months, makes me wonder if there was a particular event > that he was referring to. Some of the characters are trying to reach the > team to help rescue a frog that was swallowed by Albert the alligator. So, > it may have been some sort of rescue or similar event. > > Since Kelly wrote the strips well ahead of publication date, he probably > started this storyline in November or December of 1954. > > I would appreciate any information that you might be able to shed on this > mystery. > > Thank you for your time and attention. > > Ross Burns > > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers > -- Charlie Loving
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