ICYDK (In Case You Didn’t Know) Short Biographical notes on the boldly named (compiled by Steven Lavoie). Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~ first language was French Eugene O’Neill ~ built Tao House near Danville to entertain Charles Chaplin Henry Miller ~ in Paris in the 1930s Kenneth Rexroth ~ MC at Six Gallery, Oct. 7, 1955 Herb Caen ~ coined words using Russian endings for San Francisco newspapers Allen Ginsberg ~ read “Howl” at Six Gallery, Oct. 7, 1955 Lenny Bruce ~ arrested for obscenity at the Jazz Workshop, San Francisco, Oct. 4, 1961 Carol Doda ~ wore Rudi Gernreich’s monokini at the Condor Club William Carlos Williams ~ Allen Ginsberg’s mentor Duncan McNaughton ~ established the Poetics Program at the New College of San Francisco Patrick Marks ~ see text Steve Dickison ~ born in Duluth, Minn. Bill Berkson ~ friend of Frank O’Hara Robert Duncan ~ partner of Jess Jack Spicer ~ co-founder of Six Gallery Helen Adam ~ a Scot Philip Whalen ~ Zen abbot from Oregon Richard Brautigan ~ Aquarius who fished Joanne Kyger ~ born in Vallejo, Calif. Clark Coolidge ~ drummer for Serpent Power Michael McClure ~ read at Six Gallery, Oct. 7, 1955; Libra, from Wichita, Kans. Ginger Rogers ~ movie star Billie Holliday ~ played by Diana Ross in a biopic with Richard Pryor Lester Young ~ from Count Basie’s Orchestra Mal Waldron ~ also played with Charles Mingus Larry Rivers ~ read eulogy at O’Hara’s funeral Philip Guston ~ birth name “Goldstein,” born in Montreal, first language was French Alice Neel ~ Aquarius, portrait painter black-listed as a communist Jean Dubuffet ~ French painter, wine seller Joe Brainard ~ grew up in Tulsa, Okla. Richard O. Moore ~ pacifist, helped organize KPFA-FM Kenneth Rexroth ~ see text George Leite ~ first “beatnik”?, grew up in San Leandro Bern Porter ~Aquarius, published Henry Miller Tom Parkinson ~ decades at the University of California, Berkeley Elaine Katzenberger ~ executive director, City Lights Books Maureen O’Hara ~ Maureen Granville-Smith, not the movie star Kathleen Fraser ~ 20 years at San Francisco State Crystal Sasaki ~ dance student at Cal Alana Siegel ~ valedictorian at Plainedge High School, Long Island, New York Kit Robinson ~ went to Yale University with Alan Bernheimer Laura Moriarty ~ sister-in-law of Kit Robinson Paul Hoover ~ 12 years at San Francisco State, from Chicago Rod Padgett ~ born in Tulsa, Okla. Ted Berrigan ~ University of Tulsa alumnus Hilton Obenzinger ~ teaches at Stanford University, from Brooklyn Colter Jacobsen ~ artist represented by Gallery Paule Anglim Elaine Kahn ~ “founding member of the P. Splash Puppet Collective” Garrett Caples ~ co-editor of the Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia, lives in Oakland Alan Bernheimer ~ went to Yale University with Kit Robinson David Meltzer ~ lead singer & songwriter in Serpent Power Gloria Frym ~ studied with Robert Creeley, 15 years at New College of California Michael Palmer ~ all-star third-baseman for the Best Minds Jim Nisbet ~ furniture maker from North Carolina Tinker Green ~ 20 years at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, came here from Vermont .