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Worth Quoting
Welcome to the Worth Quoting Collection.
Worth Quoting is a speaker series sponsored by the College’s Center for the Continuing Education of Women which ran for over twenty years, beginning in June 1982 when author Judith Viorst came to Jacksonville for a speaking engagement. The Florida Junior College Television Department, then part of the Division of Continuing Education, recognized the value of capturing these interviews with locally and nationally known women speaking on topics of interest to women, and beginning with Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman’s visit in January 1983 recorded the sessions on tape and made them available to students and the community. Goodman was followed by notables such as Margaret Atwood, Shirley Chisholm, and Alice Walker. The initial focus on women and women’s issues gradually enlarged to include noteworthy men on social, political, and literary issues. Claude Pepper, Stanley Karnow, and Rushworth Kidder were among those who graciously granted interviews. The program ran on Channel 26, one of the local Cablevision educational channels which hosted the College’s telecourses. Eventually Channel 26 featured programming from 6 a.m. to midnight every day, and reached over 200,000 households.
This collection represents the majority, but not by any means all, of the interviews filmed for this series. If you have information regarding existing copies of interviews with speakers not represented here, please contact Jennifer Grey at jennifer.grey@fscj.edu. Opinions and views of the speakers in this series do not necessarily represent those of Florida State College at Jacksonville.
