3 Wesleyan Class of 1972 History By Andrew A. Feinstein1 The

Wesleyan Class of 1972 History

By Andrew A. Feinstein

The faces in the freshman face book, which arrived at home in August 1968, looked so straight,

so earnest. There were the geeks and the jocks, the blacks/Negroes (the correct nomenclature

was then unsettled and highly charged) and the WASPs. Pervading the book was a look of

confidence. We hardly knew failure. We weren’t all first in our high school class, but we knew

we could have been if we wanted to. We weren’t all captain of the football team, but if not, we

were captain of the debate team or editor of the yearbook. On a lot of the faces we could see

passion, intensity. Maybe we did not know the target of that passion just then.

Upon arrival in Middletown we found out what we were not. We were perhaps not as special as

we were led to believe in high school. We were no longer the golden boys, the best in the class.

And we were not Hoy’s Boys. Jack Hoy, the dean of admissions for the

classes of 1969 to 1971, had built a reputation for admitting interesting,

diverse, challenging classes. These students proved a bit too interesting, too

diverse, too challenging for the administration and trustees. So Hoy was

gently pushed out and Bob Kirkpatrick was brought in to select the classes of

1972 through 1978

Reporting to the Board of Trustees in late spring 1968 on the class he admitted

for the next September, Dean Kirkpatrick said he focused on “the exciting but

not eccentric student.” He advised that “students selected should be willing to

take full advantage of Wesleyan and should be more productive in an

academic sense.” He said he admitted “a group of able and ambitious students

who are dedicated and involved with the urgent matters of national priorities but who are also

willing to pay the price of lonely and difficult study. In this sense, the entering students do

represent a ‘straight’ class.” Of those admitted, 51 percent had been in the top 10 percent of their

high school classes. Board scores averaged 660 verbal and 680 math. A higher proportion

appeared headed for the social sciences than previous classes. Seven were from Phillips

Andover, four each from Deerfield and Mount Hermon, and four each from New London High

School and Syosset High School. The class contained a smaller number (32) of “Negroes,

Puerto Ricans, Indians or Poor Whites” than prior classes. Alumni sons accounted for 28 class

members.

This essay recounts, mainly through a survey of editions of the Wesleyan Argus

, the history of

the Class of 1972 from our entry as freshmen in September 1968 to our graduation in May 1972.

Editor, Wesleyan Argus, 1971.

David Nicoll says, “The story I heard on Jack Hoy's removal was different and had nothing to do with

student admissions. My source is Jack Paton [former University Secretary]. Seems Ted Etherington [President to

be] visited campus and met with some staff. Hoy, having had a bit too much to drink, told Ted ‘You're going to be a

lousy President and here's why.’ Next day Hoy spoke to Paton, concerned he'd hurt his situation. Paton told Hoy,

‘Ted is at the American Stock Exchange cleaning out his office. Go visit him and clear the air.’ So Hoy calls Ted

and they meet in NY. And Hoy, totally sober, tells Ted exactly what he told him the first time. And that's how Jack

Hoy became Dean of Special Projects.”

The footnotes come mainly through Internet searching and Alumni Office information.

Admittedly, the history of the class as seen through the Argus is, at best, one slice of a

multidimensional reality. And much of that reality resists articulation. For it was not just a

different time and place, we were different people. And besides, the Wesleyan experience is not

found in the Argus. It is the feel of the Science Library at 3 a.m., the sound of Neil Young

coming from the next room, the feeling of revelation when

Chad Dunham explained the concepts of Eros and Thanatos in

Thomas Mann, the steamed cheeseburgers at O’Rourke’s, the

excitement of making a film with John Frazier, the intensity of

an intimate conversation with a new friend, the bliss of falling

into a stupor in some black-lit room, the pain and sweat of the

locker room. On this level, this essay is sort of like describing

home sweet home by giving the dimensions of each room or

describing your spouse with a resume. Not only does it not do

justice; it borders on the irrelevant. The irrelevant, however, may be as good as it gets. Let’s

start. …

Freshman Year: 1968-69

January 31, 1968 Combined North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch Tet offensive.

March 12, 1968 Senator Eugene McCarthy comes within 230 votes of defeating

President Lyndon Johnson in the New Hampshire Democratic Primary.

April 4, 1968 The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis,

Tennessee.

June 4, 1968 Presidential candidate Senator Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los

Angeles.

August 26, 1968 Democratic National Convention starts in Chicago. Demonstrations by

protestors are broken up by the Chicago police leading to three days of

rioting.

September 4, 1968 The Jimi Hendrix Experience releases “All Along the Watchtower”.

September 7, 1968 The National Organization for Women targets the Miss America

Pageant. One NOW organizer denies allegations that the organization

encourages women to burn their bras.

September 1968 The Chambers Brothers release “Time Has Come Today”.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (in fact, so long ago and so far away that Star Wars was

years in the future) … 331 young men matriculated at Wesleyan University in September 1968.

We were greeted with the news that the old parietal rules -- rules dealing principally with the use

of one’s own mattress for sexual relations -- were being discarded. Instead, by a 75 percent vote,

any living unit could establish its own rules, subject to some undefined administration review.

By mid-October, the administration had approved the rules for some 23 living units.

When we entered, a group of women transferred in

, making Wesleyan coeducational for the first

time in fifty years. Fraternity rushing began. Until we entered, some two-thirds of the students in

earlier classes had pledged fraternities. Argus editor Jim Drummond greeted us with an editorial

attacking the green-eyeshade mentality of President Super Ted’s [Edwin Deacon Etherington]

accountant assistant, Colin Campbell. In the same issue, Drummond touted the new Students for

a Democratic Society (SDS) chapter on campus.

The Argus interviewed coaches John Edgar and Herb Kenny, who reported

they were particularly excited by the freshman football players, including

Robert Medwid

, Dave Revenaugh

, Ed Tabor

, Jerry Gadsden

, Lex

Burton

, Tommy Dwyer

, Peter Clark

, Don Gavin

, John Burns

, Bernie

Crawford

, Mike Carlson

and Skip Wood

. In an attempt to achieve

balance, the Argus highlighted the freshman soccer team in the next issue,

mentioning Jim Richardson

, Bruce Throne

, Winsor Watson

, George

Zeller

, Mark Gelber

, Mike Doyle

, Peter Phinney

, Jim Cullen

, Herve

The 1968 women were not degree students. The first degree students entered the next fall.

Senior Vice President/Financial Officer, Arbella Insurance Company, Boston.

President, Daval Builders, Berlin, Connecticut. See questionnaire response.

CFO and Treasurer, House Manufacturer, Deck House, Inc., Westford, Mass.

Mr. Gadsden is deceased.

Dr. Burton is a psychologist in St. Johnsbury, Vermont and the father of Matthew, class of 2004.

President, Minshall Development Corporation, Kensington, Maryland

No information available.

The Alumni Office has Mr. Gavin listed as a windsurfing instructor living in Kings Park, New York. He

did win the 50-54 male age group in the Bayville Festival 5K in May 2001 with a blistering speed of 19:55.5, which

translated into miles in 6 minutes, 25 seconds.

Living in Greenfield, Mass.

Currently a cardiothorasic surgeon in New York City.

Currently an author and sports promoter living in London. See questionnaire response.

A lawyer in Wilmette, Illinois.

Living in Essex, Mass.

An attorney in Santa Fe, Mew Mexico. See questionnaire response.

A professor of zoology at the University of New Hampshire.

A minister in Middletown, Connecticut.

A professor of comparative literature, living and teaching in Israel.

The last address found for Mr. Doyle placed him with the United States government in San Jose, Costa

Rica.

Quarter Horse Breeder/Writer, Cold Spring Farm, Glen Harbor, Michigan.

A marine geologist and professor at Salem State College, Salem, Mass.

Macomber

, Peter Barnett

, Dave Riach

, Doug Thompson

, Larry Weinberg

, Bruce Hearey

John Gay

and Bruce Barit

A student poll on the 1968 presidential election found that 31 percent supported Humphrey while

22 percent supported Nixon. At Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE), however, Nixon won 20 to five.

In the class of 1972, the votes were 64 Humphrey and 31 Nixon. The

new Wesleyan SDS chapter traveled to Hartford to disrupt a Nixon

rally. And John Hagel

and Charles Lindley traveled to and reported

on the national SDS convention. Back at home, Executive Vice

President Colin Campbell announced that the new student union would

be completed by 1970. Romance Language Professor Carl Viggiani

and Classics Professor T. Chadbourne Dunham were pleased to

announce that, despite the abolition of course requirements, 65 percent of freshmen took

Humanities 101 and 102.

The nature of our tenure would become more apparent on October 9, when black students burned

the Olla Podrida on the steps of North College, claiming that the yearbook “denied the existence

and the unique expressiveness of the black world. It projects the assimilationist philosophy of

the phony white liberal swine.”

A teacher and assistant JV soccer coach at Pinkerton High School, New Hampshire

An orthopedic surgeon in Hartford, Connecticut.

Mr. Raich did not graduate with our class.

Chairman, Chandler Engineering, Houston, Texas. Chandler Engineering is the world's largest supplier of

instruments for testing oil, gas, and geothermal well cements. See questionnaire response.

A gastroenterologist in Downington, Penn.

A lawyer in Cleveland, Ohio.

First Vice President, Head of Corporate Planning, Merrill Lynch & Company Inc., New York.

President, Advanced Storage Technologies, Amherst, New York

According to Business Week of September 29, 1999: John Maynard Keynes didn't live on Internet time, but

if he had, he probably would have been a fan of McKinsey & Co. strategy consultant John Hagel III. Practical,

powerful men, Keynes wrote, are usually the unwitting slaves of some defunct intellectual scribbler. Hagel is a

scribbler, but these days, because things move so fast, thinkers like him don't have to die before they get the credit

due them. Hagel is a fountain of concepts that are being put into practice all over the Web. In 1997, his book Net

Gain (co-authored by Arthur G. Armstrong) suggested how noncommercial Web communities could use content,

chat, and bulletin boards to promote e-commerce. Hagel's reputation stems from what happened after Net Gain came

out: a burst of new sites serving special interests from cooking to golf. ''I think he's a combination of someone who

can put a name on things that are already happening and an instigator,'' says Ron Martinez, CEO of Brodia Group,

an e-commerce startup. In 1999, Hagel was back with Net Worth (co-author, Marc Singer), arguing that a new way

to make money online is to become an ''infomediary.'' An infomediary would gather its customers' profiles and seek

out special offers and discounts for them from suppliers on the Net. He says an average consumer could save more

than $1,100 a year even after paying commissions on purchases. The infomediary would make the rest of its money

selling profiles to marketers, who would cough up because of the advantages of precise targeting. What's next? Net

Net. It's about how brick-and-mortar companies try to become infomediaries. Don't rush out to buy it, though. Net

Net will be finished ''as soon as my wife lets me,'' says Hagel.

October 18, 1968 Runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists in a black

power salute when accepting their gold medals at the Mexico City

Olympics.

In mid-October the new Science Center is dedicated. Robert Alan Segal writes an angry letter to

the Argus excoriating the leftist political ideology of The Tin Drum, a campus literary journal.

And the brothers of DKE write to deny charges that the fraternity is a “jock house and racist.”

On the cultural front, Steve Schiff

writes a rather negative review of a new Mel Brooks film

called “The Producers.” At the Capitol Theatre, the run of “The Producers” ends, probably due

to Schiff’s adverse critical treatment, and it is replaced by Barbarella, starring Jane Fonda. In a

related move, the College Body Committee votes to grant $850 to the Wesleyan SDS chapter.

The freshman football team beats Coast Guard, 31-24, with Medwid throwing for three

touchdowns, Revenaugh scoring twice and Tabor scoring once. In other sporting news, the

Novice Debate Tournament is won by Brown University, but the team of David Silberstein and

Andy Thomas

wins. Unfortunately, the team of Art Claflin

and Hank

Shelton

loses.

The letters column of the Argus provides a vital forum for self-promotion, ego

gratification, exhibitionism, and meaningful political debate. David Hamilton

writes to attack the College Body Committee for giving money to organizations

that do not represent the entire community, meaning SDS. He is soon joined by

Steve Bayer

, complaining that that the CBC is paying students to be

politically active. And the team of Hagel

and Lindley (before John dumped

Staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He spent many years as a film critic for Vanity Fair magazine,

for the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air", and before that, for an alternative weekly, The Boston Phoenix.

He was also a correspondent on the CBS-TV news magazine show "West 57th" during its final two seasons, 1989-

1990. Most recently, Schiff is the screen writer for the new film adaptation of Lolita, True Crime, and Deep End of

the Ocean.

Now managing attorney, Idaho Legal Aid Services, Caldwell, Idaho.

Partner, Hall, Zanzig, Widell, Seattle, Washington. See questionnaire response.

Attorney, formerly with Krivcher Magids PLC, now with Armstrong Allen, PLLC , Memphis, Tennessee.

List in Best Lawyers in America, 2001-2002.

A team leader in social services in Cheshire, United Kingdom.

Software developer, Servana Communications, Austin, Texas. The company develops Internet software

and services for gas and electric utilities.

John Hagel III, one of the best-known authorities on the Internet, hardly appears to be losing sleep over the

year-long decline of the dot.coms. In fact, he is quite optimistic about the future of e-business in general, provided

the industry wakes up to the need for new strategies. "I often talk about the fashion-oriented aspects of the financial

markets," says Hagel during an interview with Knowledge@Wharton last week. "When you are dealing with major

change, there will always be uncertainty. The problem with fashion is that unrealistic expectations are often not met.

People then flee fashion. And that, in essence, is what is going on with e-commerce. The unrealistic expectations of

the bubble of the last couple of years has led to a [negative] over-reaction." Hagel, the best-selling author of Net

Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities and Net Worth: Shaping Markets When Customers Make

the Rules, has been known as an Internet guru since heading up the e-commerce practice at McKinsey & Co. Last

year he joined 12 Entrepreneuring as its chief strategy officer, whose founders include Eric Greenberg (founder of

Charlie for his main man, Alan Yale

) writes a letter explaining how the black students have

built the only revolutionary organization on campus, that SDS is just a sorry group of guilty

white liberals.

Yet, the real world intrudes. Laurence Rockefeller lands on the football field in a helicopter in

late October, presumably to be solicited by President

Etherington. He is immediately surrounded by a group of

squalid students begging for alms. The final student poll

shows Humphrey garnering 66 percent of the student vote to

19 percent for Nixon. Ready to secede from the union, the

social committee schedules Blood, Sweat and Tears, led by

Canadian David Clayton-Thomas, to play at the fall House

Party Weekend.

November 5, 1968 Richard Milhous Nixon defeats

Hubert Horatio Humphrey in the popular vote by 43.4% to 42.7%.

Donald Lewis

writes to the November 5, 1968, Argus to endorse the SDS statement on

education reform and argue that grades should be abolished. Freshman Roger Jackson

chosen to be part of Wesleyan’s star-crossed College Bowl Team. The much-touted, highly

talented freshman football team forfeits its game to Williams. Only 22 were on the team. Only

14 could play. The hip radical revolutionary Argus opined that the admissions office had not

accepted enough athletes to the freshman class. Arguably, in the post-revolutionary world,

consistency would be dispensed with along with militarism and racism.

Scient and Viant), Halsey Minor (CNET) and Benchmark Capital, among others. Board members include Netscape

founder Marc Andreessen, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and Gateway founder Ted Waitt. Hagel is confident that e-

business of all sorts is here to stay, even though the industry is barely out of its infancy. Companies large and small

have yet to find a way to greatly benefit from their Internet forays, especially when it comes to making value and

cost-cutting count, he says. "There have been efficiencies, but they have been limited by the focus of the market.

Companies were being rewarded for setting up their markets with a lot of participants. True, this would match

buyers and sellers, but when you look at the economics of business-to-business collaboration, that is a small part of

the economic value of the Internet."

Tax manager, Grant Thornton LLP. As the New York Cluster liaison, Yale has more than 10 years of

public accounting experience addressing corporate, partnership, and individual tax matters, both foreign and

domestic. He has valued businesses and holding companies in a number of industries during the past five years.

These engagements are generally for gift tax purposes. They include corporate and partnership forms of ownership.

Before coming to Grant Thornton, Yale was a tax senior with a regional accounting firm, where his valuation

responsibilities included litigation support assignments.

Now an attorney in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. See questionnaire response.

Professor, Carleton College, Minnesota. Roger Jackson teaches the religions of South Asia and Islam. His

special interests include Indian Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan ritual and meditative practices, Asian religious poetry,

and the study of mysticism. He is co-author of The Wheel of Time: Kalachakra in Context (1985), author of Is

Enlightenment Possible? (1993), co-editor of Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre (1996), and author of many

articles and reviews. He served for many years as editor-in-chief of The Journal of the International Association of

Buddhist Studies. See questionnaire response.

The schizophrenia that was to lie like a cloud of stale marijuana smoke over our class becomes

apparent by November of our freshman year. A student referendum votes 2-1 to prevent the

CBC from allocating money to partisan political groups. And four drunk frat boys (but then I

repeat myself), led by Jim Plato

, are punished for disrupting the Blood, Sweat and Tears

concert. On the same weekend, the "Voices of East Harlem" performs on campus, leading Butch

Carson

to write a rhapsodic review.

The 1968 fraternity pledge numbers hit a new low. Only 40 percent of the members of the Class

of 1972 pledged, as opposed to 57 percent of the last of the Hoy’s boys, the Class of 1971.

Eleven fraternities exist. Seven pledge to Alpha Delta Phi

, 10 to Beta Theta Pi

, eight to

Commons Club

, 11 to Chi Psi

, 17 to Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE)

, 26 to Delta Tau Delta

, 13

to Eclectic

, two to Gamma Psi

, six to Kappa Alpha

, 10 to Kappa Nu Kappa

and 23 to Psi

Upsilon

. Animal rights activists are not yet complaining about all the dead reptiles on the

breast pockets of the last mentioned

November 14, 1968 National Turn In Your Draft Card Mobilization Day.

Muhammad Ali cancels his scheduled speech at Wesleyan. Not dispirited, the

freshman wrestling team scores. Lou DiFazio and Tom Halsey

are winners.

Bob White

and Don Gavin win seconds. Mike Hurd

and George Zeller win

Graduated with our class. He is now the President of the Life Insurance Division of UICI, which offers

primary health and life insurance and selected financial services to niche consumer and institutional markets from

offices in Dallas.

Currently, manager of Employee Relations/Labor Arbitration, San Mateo County Transit, California.

Figueroa, Gray, Lawton, Lewin, Robinson, Topping, and Warren-White.

Bell, Brache, Brewin, Cochran, Goodman, Hurd, Rich, Spence, Tegtmeyer, and Testa.

Including Ashkenas.

Berg, Cleary, Crawford, Edelberg, Eidens, Hersey, Plato, and Vinci.

Akin, Barit, Burns, Davis, Donovan, Dwyer, Eckert, Eimers, Hancock, Hicks, Knox, Lee, Mekeel, O’eilly,

Revenaugh, Rumford, Ryan, Simons, Surgeon, Tabor, Walkenhorst, and Willey.

Berman, Birinyi, Blum, Boyajian, Cacciola, Davis, Gallitto, Glendon, Hoxie, Mendelowitz, Shepherd,

Weinberg and Wilder.

Arkin, Brewster, Hearey, Kaye, Mason, Oliver, Sheffrin, Silberman, and Williams.

Finn.

Brown, Gaylord, Hamilton, Larkins, Sargent, and Schenck.

Evans, Gibson, Kossack, Mirsky, Nichols, Thomas, Trepsas, and Tuthill.

Badger, Bailey, Berk, Calhoun, Easton, Gay, Goodrich, Halsey, Hilton, Hunter, Kravitz, Krier, Lawler,

Steve Lewis, Melcher, Reid, Richardson, and Thompson.

Rob Hilton notes, “LaCoste polo shirts didn’t, and still don’t, have breast pockets. Those of our shirts that

did have breast pockets were embroidered with our initials, not dead reptiles.”

Manager, Capitol Markets, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Dallas, Texas.

Medical officer in FDA’s Division of Oncology Drug Products. See questionnaire response.

thirds. Dale Beers, Ken Krier

, Tom Wheeler, Tom Wu

, Dave Cochran

and Bob Weinberg

also wrestle. On the court, Bruce Hearey, Bruce Barit, Jim Akin

, Jim Koss

Bob Medwid, Dave Bohn and Bill Donovan

make up the freshman basketball

team. The freshman swimming team is spectacular. Fred Lieberberg

and Tom

Edmondson

break records their first time in the pool. And the medley team of

Steve Cohen

, Andy Thomas, Bob Purvis

and Rick Biryini

is excellent.

January 7, 1969 Governor Ronald Reagan tells the California legislature

to “drive criminal anarchists and latter day Fascists” off college campuses.

Installation Manager, Applied Mechanical Technology, Inc., Pueblo, Colorado.

Attorney/Partner, Cummings & Lockwood, Washington, D.C.

Stay at home dad in Hong Kong, after corporate career with Sara Lee Corporation, Colgate Palmolive, and

Peat Marwick Mitchell. See questionnaire response.

Works for Caito Food Distributors in Indianapolis.

Works for New York City Department of Investigations.

Lives in West Hartford.

Radiologist living in Medford, New Jersey.

Currently a teacher at Canton High School in Connecticut.

Managing Director, Entrenet Ltd., LLC in Short Hills, New Jersey.

Legal Editor, Bureau of National Affairs, Washington DC

Chair, Social Studies Department, Clarkstown High School, New City, New York.

Bob Purvis is the co-founder of The Prejudice Institute. He served as its legal and administrative director, a

position he also held with its predecessor, the National Institute Against Prejudice & Violence. He is now a senior

consultant to The Prejudice Institute and serves as an advisory editor of Perspectives. He is the author of Bigotry

and Cable TV, a landmark study of the use of public access cable TV by right-wing extremist groups. A nationally

known expert on "hate speech" and first amendment issues, Purvis has consulted with a number of states in the

drafting of bias-crime laws; has regularly assisted human rights and civil rights groups in the preparation of legal

resources addressing ethnoviolence; and has written a guidebook for involving lawyers in community-based efforts

in this area. He has served as a primary resource to national print and electronic media on these issues, and his op-

ed pieces have appeared in newspapers nationally. He was a member of the Maryland Governor's Advisory

Committee on Racial, Religious, and Ethnic Tensions and now sits as a member of the Board of Governors of the

American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland. For twelve years, Purvis was involved as a co-developer and director

of a model community-based chemical dependency treatment program. He served on the Maryland Governor's

Executive Advisory Committee on Drugs, the Baltimore Alcoholism Directorate, and the advisory board of a

hospital-based drug and alcohol treatment program.

Purvis began his legal career with a large Pittsburgh-based law firm, and moved to Baltimore in 1980 where he

focused on providing legal services to community-based nonprofit organizations and low income individuals. His

pro bono activities include representing criminal defendants in non-jury trials. Since moving to Westminster, MD in

1997, Purvis has become involved locally as a member of the Carroll County Human Relations Commission, Carroll

Citizens for Racial Equality, the Carroll County branch of the NAACP, and as a member of the board of directors of

Common Ground Music Harvest.

Mr. Birinyi graduated in 1973. Working with the Seattle firm of Bullivant Houser Bailey PC, Mr. Birinyi

has developed and maintained a regional practice focusing on creditor/debtor issues, corporate reorganizations,

business transactions and complex commercial litigation.

January 20, 1969 Richard Nixon inaugurated as President; Sprio T. Agnew inaugurated

as Vice President.

In February 1969 the Navy retreats from conducting Officer Candidate School interviews on

campus in light of protests. President Etherington says a change in policy on campus recruiting

is overdue. Super Ted is good at making sweeping pronouncements, the exact meaning of which

are elusive. Vietnam veteran Bruce Carpenter

writes to ridicule the notion that free expression

is a reason to permit a military recruiter on campus. Don Lewis accuses campus radicals of

incoherence on the subject of campus recruiting. Rick Berg

writes in favor of free speech.

Etherington appoints a committee on campus recruiting, with two faculty members – Political

Science Professor Russ Murphy and African History Professor Jeff Butler

– and six students.

Roger Jackson and his College Bowl teammates make it to network TV in a close battle with

Goucher College. In a brutal February match, the Cardinals

lose 215-210. Not to be outdone, Wesleyan weasels its way

back on by pointing out rule violations. A new chance is set

for April 13.

In mid-February, the faculty votes to cancel classes for the

third anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. Not to

be outdone, black students occupy Fisk Hall to honor

Malcolm X. Concentrating on more critical issues, campus

political philosopher John Hagel and new ally Nick Dirks

write to protest Nixon’s plan to end youth airline fares as age

discrimination. Jack Hoy resigns to go to the University of California at Irvine.

March 1, 1969 Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from Major League Baseball.

Professor, Tezukayama University, Nara-Ken, Japan. Among the courses he teaches are Kao Lien’s eight

treatises on the nurturing of life and Drinking Water : Lyric Songs of the Seventeenth Century Manchu Poet Na-lan

Hsing-te.

A consultant living in Cedar Crest, New Mexico. Teaches a course at the University of New Mexico

Continuing Education Computer Training Center.

Also, and perhaps more importantly, Katy Butler’s father.

Professor, Columbia University. Nicholas Dirks, professor of history and anthropology, specializes in

South Asian history, historical anthropology, and British colonial history. He received his Ph.D. from the University

of Chicago in 1981. His publications include The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom (1987, 2nd

edition 1993); as editor, Colonialism and Culture (1992); as editor, In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the

Century (1998); "Is Vice Versa? Historical Anthropologies and Anthropological Histories" (1996); "Colonial

Histories and Native Informants: Biography of an Archive" (1993); and "Castes of Mind" (1992). His new book,

Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India, was published by Princeton in 2001. He is currently

working on two new projects, one on the role of empire in India in relationship to the making of modern Britain, the

other on historiography and historical theory.

Race relations, or the lack thereof, continue to dominate campus news in the spring of 1969. In

early March, a cross is burned in front of the Afro-American House. Robert Alan Segal

criticizes the black take-over of Fisk Hall and Peter Gibson

disagrees. President Etherington

announces he is dropping any disciplinary cases stemming from the occupation of Fisk Hall and

the protest preventing Navy OCS from recruiting on campus. In more direct action, Dan Gleich

and Peter Stern

sign a letter threatening to personally commit physical

violence on any future cross-burner. The Butler Committee recommends that

military recruiters should come to campus only if invited

because of sufficient, expressed student interest. A minority

report argues for complete exclusion of military recruiting on

campus. With one Etherington Committee completing its work,

another has to be appointed. So Super Ted appoints a joint

review board to look at future disruptions, selecting professors

Louis Mink, Karl Scheibe and Paul Schwaber from the faculty. On April 11, the

faculty votes unanimously to create the Afro-American Studies Institute.

April 1, 1969 CBS cancels the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour as too controversial.

April 3, 1969 American deaths in Vietnam reach 33,641, surpassing the total number

of Korean War fatalities.

April 1969 Bob Dylan releases “Lay Lady Lay”.

Three hundred young women apply for the 17 degree transfer spots that will

be open for the fall of 1969. Wesleyan leads the way in transfer applicants

within the Ten College Exchange Program. The Social Committee contracts

Laura Nyro to perform at the March 12 prom.

Behind Peter Hicks

and Dave Knox

, the freshman basketball team beats

Williams 104-68. And, Chip Goodrich

, Tom Edmondson, and Rick Biryini

lead the freshman swimming team over Trinity.

Not to be confused with Rob Siegel of our class, who is the former chair of the Day Berry & Howard

LLP’s Executive Committee and is a Partner in the Business Law Department in Hartford, Connecticut. He is also a

member of the Firm's Tax Group. His practice emphasizes the special issues of middle market companies and the

healthcare sector. Rob has considerable experience in the sale and acquisition of closely held businesses and in

dealing with ownership succession issues in family owned businesses. He has advised numerous physician groups

and managed care companies on regulatory, contract and tax issues resulting from the restructured healthcare

economy.

Now, Vice President, Private Banking, FleetBoston Financial Corporation.

He works as a film sound editor and recording engineer in San Francisco. See questionnaire response.

A writer and fundraiser living in Mill Valley, California.

Currently, Managing Director, Furman Selz, LLC; Managing Director/Partner, Linx Partners. Peter J.

Hicks has more than twenty-three years of investment banking experience. Mr. Hicks, a Managing Director of

Schroders from 1987 to 1999, was co-founder and global head of the firm's Industrial Manufacturing Group. Mr.

Hicks is a director of Channell Commercial Corporation, a manufacturer of specialty telecommunication equipment,

In April, Mark Frost

becomes the first member of the class of 1972 to run (unsuccessfully) for

campus-wide office by announcing for the College Body Committee in a field against 12

upperclassmen. The Student Judicial Board issues a strong statement on drug use on campus,

which basically condemns Wesleyan students who sell drugs to Middletown High School kids.

Five members of the class of 1972 – Albert McWhite

, George Walker

, George Jett

, Harold

Williams

and James Robertson

– are charged with

conspiracy, possession of drugs, possession of weapons and

armed robbery in San Francisco. The Freshman Senate votes

to give bail money to these students.

Hewitt 8 votes a ban on drugs in the dorm. Signing the

statement are Steve Atkinson

, Jay Cherner, Richard Hood

and Kevin Mulligan

. But Robert Wahl

writes wondering

whether Unit 8 plans to establish its own corps of narcs to

enforce the policy. Jay Cherner answers that self-discipline is

the key. Meanwhile, Richard Berger

withdraws his statement from a Student Action

Movement (SAM) petition he was listed as having signed. Berger explains that he has no

problem with demanding disinvestments in South Africa, but he does not agree that the finds

should be reinvested in the Welfare State. Dean Johnson limits enrollment in his black drama

and a member of the advisory board of China Online. He is presently a member of the Board of Trustees of

Wesleyan University and a member of the Board of Governors of Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, NY. During the

1985 and 1986 academic years, Mr. Hicks was an adjunct Professor of Finance at Columbia University Business

School. He holds an MBA from the Colgate Darden School of Business of the University of Virginia and a BA

from Wesleyan University.

General Manager, Park Terrace Swimming & Tennis Club, Sacramento, California.

Managing Director, Legal Department, Deutsche Bank, New York; North American co-chair of

International Swaps and Derivatives Association's documentation committee.

Publisher and editor of the Glens Falls (NY) Chronicle.

Did not graduate with the class.

Did graduate with the Class of 1972. However, the Alumni Office has no information on his whereabouts.

Graduated with the class and lives in Laytonsville, Maryland

Did not graduate with the class but remained at Wesleyan through 1977.

Did graduate with the Class of 1972. However, the Alumni Office has no information on his whereabouts.

Associate Professor of English, Park University, Parkville, Missouri.

Associate Professor of English, Denison University. Novelist. Faculty of Durrell School of Corfu, 2002.

Nominee, 1999 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning

Free lance writer living in Los Angeles.

Director of Computer Service, Tunxis Community College, Farmington, Connecticut. See questionnaire

response.

PhD Candidate UCLA.

class to students of color. This draws an indignant letter

from Dave Silberstein, Robert

Newman

, Dale Beers, Mark Bloustein

, David Bohn

, Doug Falk

, James Koss and John

Yost

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Cultural critic Steve Schiff praises Franco Zefferelli’s production of

Romeo and Juliet, but notes that the Shakespeare play is “soppy and

maudlin”. Joni Mitchell is scheduled to appear on campus on April 27,

McCoy Tyner on May 2, the Incredible String Band on May 6, and Sam

and Dave on May 20. After a robust start, the Experimental College has

been reduced to four core courses: Anarchist Theory

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, Auto Mechanics,

Drawing and Chess Technique. The freshman golf team has Gary

Burnett

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in the No. 1 slot, followed by Winsor Watson, Bob Withey

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Dave Silberstein, Larry Littell

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, Jerry Ryan

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and Larry Weinberg.

April 30, 1969 Students at Columbia University occupy two college buildings to protest

military research on campus.

May 13, 1969 President Nixon calls for a lottery to determine which young men are

conscripted.

May 1969 The Who release the rock opera “Tommy”.

April may be the cruelest month in general, but May proves the cruelest month for the

furnishings in the president’s office. In early May, Ted Etherington dutifully collects the costly

glass ashtrays with the Wesleyan crest on the bottom and replaces them with those silver foil

Seth Davis reports that the signatories came from his hall. He claims to have no memory of this. He

claims that they did not ask him to sign. Remarkably, Rob Hilton makes precisely the same claims.

With Arthur Andersen, formerly a major accounting and consulting firm. Rob Newman has had extensive

government contract experience including 16 years as in-house counsel and a member of senior management for

McDonnell Douglas Corporation. He served as General Counsel for McDonnell Aircraft Company, the largest (six

billion dollars per year) and most profitable business unit of McDonnell Douglas. In that role he was also a member

of the senior management team responsible for overall performance of the company. He was also a partner for seven

years at McKenna & Cuneo, LLP, the largest government contract law firm in the country.

A lawyer living in Schenectady, New York.

Mr. Bohn is deceased.

Lives in San Jose, California

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President, Earthwise, consultant in ecotourism development and sometime adventure guide. Lives in

Vallecito, California. See questionnaire response.

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Taught by libertarian scholar John Hagel.

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Real Estate Broker, Arvida Realty Services, Stuart , Florida.

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Teacher/Coach, Rockport (Maine) Elementary School

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VP/Sales, Worsham Sprinkler Co., Virginia.

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Vice President for Healthcare Acquisition, Harborside Health Care, Boston. Acquires convalescent

hospitals, senior housing, assisted living, and continuing care facilities. See questionnaire response.

receptacles, as his office is occupied for 27 hours by students protesting military recruiting on

campus. Organizers explain that it is not a “takeover” but rather a “nondisruptive act,”

presuming that since Super Ted has nothing to do, taking over his office would not disrupt

anything. Over Parent’s Weekend, Etherington’s speech is disrupted by 75 students walking out

to protest the war in Vietnam.

Bruce Lederer

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is appointed to the Student Judicial Board. Alan Yale, still in his pre-

Hagelian

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phase, writes that women “will adorn East and West College” next year. And the

fraternities, ignoring the etymology of the term, announce they will rush women, presumably

using the word “rush” in its technical, fraternity recruitment sense. Jim

Grier writes to answer the “crap in the Argus” about no blacks at the grape

boycott meeting. The faculty votes to end the

physical education requirement and makes the change

retroactive, covering those of us who had skipped out

on PE all semester.

As our freshman year ends with Julian Bond as the

commencement speaker, the administration appoints

Edgar Beckham as associate provost; Steve Buttner,

Lew Bosworth and Angela Moser as assistant deans

and Robert Dunn as associate dean. Etherington creates a new post of

chancellor and names Richard Ohmann to fill it, perhaps to counterbalance the conservatism of

Dean David Adamany. Colin Campbell becomes vice president and Willie Kerr becomes

provost. In making these appointments, President Etherington announced that “an ‘anything-

goes’ attitude cannot exist” at Wesleyan.

June 22, 1969 Judy Garland found dead in London.

July 8, 1969 President Nixon orders the withdrawal of the first US troops from

Vietnam.

July 14, 1969 The movie “Easy Rider” opens.

July 19, 1969 Senator Edward Kennedy’s staff member Mary Jo Kopechne drowns in

a car during a party at Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick home.

July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong becomes the first human being to walk on the moon.

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Did not graduate with the Class of 1972. He is, however, a certified instructor in Washington D.C. with

the Association of Melody Crystal Healing Instructors, whose mission is to teach ever-increasing numbers of people

Melody's scientifically researched and systematic synthesis of ancient and new applications of Crystology; and by so

doing, to kindle and develop the vital conscious awareness and alignment whereby we, humankind, can take full

responsibility for ourselves and our planet; and to teach how the mineral kingdom, which is demonstrably perfectly

organized and focused, transmits unconditional love to empower and support humanity in the quest for self-

actualization and the expression of innate perfection. By so sharing this information that Love Is In The Earth , we

make our contribution to humankind, the planet and the universe.

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Being John III, not Wilhelm Freidrich.

August 9, 1969 Actress Sharon Tate murdered in California. Husband Charles Manson

arrested.

August 17, 1969 Music festival originally scheduled for Woodstock, New York, opens on

Max Yasgur’s farm.

September 1969 The Band releases “The Weight”

Sophomore Year: 1969-70

We return to school as sophomores in September 1969. If race relations was

the keystone of our freshman year, the war in Vietnam becomes the hallmark

issue for our sophomore year. In September after a heated meeting, the Student-

Faculty Committee to End Military Recruitment votes to rename itself the

Union for Progressive Action (UPA). The debate in the CSS lounge over the

name change is vicious. Those claiming that the name Union for Progressive

Action sounds like a local citizens group urging more money for park

maintenance are dismissed by the more radical members who claim that

using the leading alternative name, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), will frighten away

would-be supporters. Dave Aufhauser

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and Geoffrey Rips

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petition the CBC to call for suspension of classes to coincide

with the national student strike scheduled for October 15.

While the administration opposes a campus shutdown, a

program of nonviolent protest is set, including a march and

demonstration in front of the office of U.S. Senator Thomas J.

Dodd. The faculty, ignoring pleas from President Etherington

and Chancellor Ohmann, votes 81-55 for a moratorium on

classes on October 15. Super Ted responds with a letter stating that no one will be punished

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for skipping classes on October 15, as if any Wesleyan student was ever punished for skipping

classes. The Argus publishes a large banner headline saying “Participate Tomorrow” in its

October 14 edition, ignoring the fact that the same paper published a large Air Force recruiting

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Sworn-in as the General Counsel of the U. S. Department of the Treasury by Secretary O’Neill on June 1,

2001. Mr. Aufhauser was nominated by the President to be General Counsel, U.S. Department of the Treasury, on

February 28, 2001. He practiced law with the firm of Williams and Connolly LLP, in Washington, D.C. between

1977 and January 2001. He has represented clients in a wide range of criminal and civil litigation and federal

regulatory enforcement matters, including tax, securities, government contracts, healthcare and environmental

matters. He currently serves as the chairman of the interagency task force on terrorist financing, as counsel to the

President’s working group on capital markets and as a board member and general counsel of the Federal Financing

Bank. Mr. Aufhauser has been a member of the Pennsylvania Bar since October 1977 and the District of Columbia

Bar since September 1978. He has also served on the Steering Committee, Civil Justice Reform Task Force, as

General Counsel for the Republican National Convention Credentials Committee and as a member of the Legal

Advisory Group to the Republican House Leadership Conference.

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Former editor, Texas Observer. Former member, Austin school Board, Policy Director, Texas Center for

Policy Studies, Austin.

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President Etherington does not specify whether this policy is consistent or inconsistent with his announced

end to the anything goes philosophy at Wesleyan.

ad on September 26. Nevertheless, associate editor Jim Repass resigns from the Argus in protest.

The protest in Hartford is well attended. Student radical leader Stewart Reid

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shows his

diplomacy by entering the Federal Building in Hartford to negotiate the use of an electrical outlet

for the protest rally. He is denied. Nevertheless, Reid

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, along with Neil Silberman

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, speaks to

the crowd about the immorality of the war in Vietnam.

Seth Davis Remembers: The October moratorium. Middletown did not have its own event. Some

folks went up to Hartford. A bunch of the rest of us went down to New Haven, where there was a

huge rally on the Green. The Bobby Seale trial was either just starting or about to start, and he

spoke. More importantly, it ended early enough so we could get back to watch the Mets win

game 4 (as I recall) of the World Series.

October 13, 1969 President Nixon vows not to be swayed by

anti-war protests.

October 16, 1969 New York Mets win the World Series.

October 21, 1969 Jack Kerouac dies.

Ninety women register for courses on campus. Fifty-six are in

degree programs. In early October El Gran Ted Reed takes over the

studios of WESU briefly. An upperclassman named Bill Rodgers

runs his best-ever 4.15-mile cross-country race in 20:41 but loses to

Jim Hall of Central Connecticut. Excited by Dave Revenaugh’s

three touch downs against Bowdoin, Bill Falls and Pam Stevens

attempt to put together a cheerleading squad. Five woman and three

men show interest. A new group of parents of Wesleyan students is formed and Gary Burnett,

John Hunter

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, Thomas Tuthill

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and Harold Selesky

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join up. Andrew Feinstein

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is named to

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President, SMR Energy, Inc. Trustee, Wesleyan University. Namesake of Wesleyan Admissions Office.

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When the Wesleyan magazine decided to run a story on Stew Reid for our 25th reunion, Reid insisted that

the magazine publish a picture of him speaking to that rally.

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International Programs Coordinator, Ename Center for Public Archaeology, Brussels. He is an author and

historian with a special interest in history, archaeology, and public interpretation. A former Guggenheim Fellow and

a graduate of Wesleyan University in the United States, he is the author of nine books on archaeological subjects. As

a contributing editor for Archaeology Magazine and frequent contributor to other archaeological and general-interest

periodicals, he has special expertise in the communication of archaeological discoveries and insights to the general

public. His books include The Bible Unearthed (with Israel Finkelstein, The Free Press 2001); Heavenly Powers

(Penguin Putnam 1998); Inheriting the Kingdom (with Richard A. Horsley, Putnam 1997); The Archaeology of

Israel (with David A. Small, Sheffield 1995); Invisible America (with Mark P. Leone, Holt 1995); The Hidden

Scrolls (Putnam 1994); A Prophet from Amongst You: The Life of Yigael Yadin (Addison-Wesley 1993); Between

Past and Present (Holt 1989); Digging for God and Country (Knopf 1982). He has been on the staff of the Ename

Center since 1998, working on various international projects in archaeology and heritage interpretation.

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Hematologist and oncologist, Seneca, South Carolina.

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Teacher, St. Louis (Mo.) Priory School.

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Associate Professor of History, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. U.S. military; American Colonial and

Revolutionary. Publications include War and Society in Colonial Connecticut, Yale Historical Publications series,

the Student Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees and Ray Nichols

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is selected to serve

on the Facilities Committee.

Jean Christensen Remembers: As I recall, there were 100 women and 1,500 men at Wesleyan

our sophomore year. Half the women were permanent transfers, in our class and the class of

1971, and the other half were just there for the year and went back to whichever college they

exchanged from (women's colleges mostly, I think).

Sixteen of us (not all our class--some the older class) lived in East College in a co-ed dorm, and

the rest lived on Foss Hill, I believe in a women-only dorm. As it turned

out, the ones on Foss Hill were the ones who complained about being

unhappy and ignored at Wesleyan. We in East College were pretty happy.

We had two suites, with eight of us in each suite, on top of each other, and

with men's suites on either side. It was like being in a big family--the men

were like brothers to us.

In my suite were Connie Sutherland

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, Bonnie Blair, Susie McGregor

(who was a temporary transfer from Smith or Holyoke), Liz Smith, Carol

St. Onge, Kit Royce, I think, and I don't remember who else--maybe Betty

Weiner

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. I can't remember for sure if Betty and Carol were in our suite or

the one upstairs.

Yale University Press, 1990; Demographic Survey of the Continental Army at Valley Forge, Valley Forge National

Historical Park, 1988; edited works include The Aftermath of Defeat: Societies, Armed Forces, and the Challenge of

Recovery (with George J. Andreopoulos), Yale University Press, 1994; and A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the

Ezra Stiles Papers at Yale University, National Historical Publications and Records Commission and Yale

University Library, 1978. Current research focuses on the Social history of the Continental Army during the

American Revolution

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Attorney specializing in disability rights/special education, Hartford, Connecticut. See questionnaire

response.

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Principal Environmental Specialist, State of New Jersey.

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Naturopathic physician, Hawaii. Dr. Connie Hernandez graduated from Bastyr University in Seattle in

1991, with specialties in women's health care and counseling. With husband, Dr. Marcel Hernandez, she founded

and coordinated the Brattleboro Naturopathic Clinic, in Brattleboro, Vermont. After several years of practice in

Vermont, Dr. Connie and her family re-located to California, a climate Cuban born Dr. Marcel could tolerate better

than those brutal Northeast winters. Drs. Connie and Marcel were active in the naturopathic licensing efforts in

Vermont and Maine (both now licensed states!), and hoped to facilitate the California licensing effort as well. In

California, Drs. Connie and Marcel founded and developed Pacific Naturopathic and the Natural Health Associates,

now in its 8th year and second location. Dr. Connie sees chronic and acute patients of all ages, with any type of

complaint, but has a particular emphasis on women's health care, peri-menopause, adjunctive care for cancer

patients, and spiritual counseling. She emphasizes dietary change, nutritional supplementation, botanical medicine

and flower essences in her treatment protocols, and believes the deepest healing involves spiritual transformation.

Dr. Connie spends about one week a month on the Big Island of Hawaii, where Drs. Connie and Marcel are

developing the Pacific Naturopathic Retreat Center, a one of a kind naturopathic healing retreat. There she balances

her busy clinic life with visualizing the retreat, landscaping, gardening, and family time. She enjoys living two lives

at once.

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Betty Weiner is deceased.

We felt a little odd the first year, since we were a tiny minority of the student body, but it was fun

being pioneers. One thing I remember distinctly is having to appear on panel discussions for

alumni meetings to explain to the alumni that we were not there to ruin their school and corrupt

their sons.

The fraternity front grows even more bleak. Only 31 percent of the class of ’73 pledges, with 24

going to DKE, 22 to Delta Tau, and KNK and Chi Psi each gaining 13. Dave Revenaugh is the

sophomore of the week of the ECAC College Division for two

straight weeks. After beating Amherst under the strong line play of

Jocko Burns and Brian Hersey

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, the football team remains

undefeated. Nevertheless, no Wes player makes the ECAC list that

week because the miserable scum at Amherst Athletic Department,

unable to reconcile themselves to a loss, fail to submit their list of

nominees. The next week, however, Lex Burton is nominated. John

Rothman, Vicki Blumenthal

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and John Berman star in Candida at

the ’92 Theatre. John Paul Maynard

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wins an alternate slot in the

Connecticut Student Poets competition.

Rob Gelblum

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and three other Wesleyan students are arrested while

dining on doughnuts in Meriden. The local law enforcement

personnel mistake the crew for dirty, communist, dope-smoking, flag

burning, free-sex hippies. They ask to search the car and find a hunting knife. The quartet is

packed off to the slammer for the night.

November 15, 1969 More than 250,000 people gather in Washington to protest the war in

Vietnam.

November 1969 Jefferson Airplane Releases “Volunteers”

Jean Christensen Remembers: As for the trips to Washington, I remember going twice, but I

don't remember all the details of getting there. A bunch of us rode in the back of a big truck for

the October moratorium, I think, and inhaled noxious fumes the whole way. We rallied at the

Washington Monument. The crowd was between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington

Monument. I believe, though some have doubted me, that at least some of the Beatles (maybe

John Lennon and Paul McCartney) were there singing "All we are saying is give peace a

chance." We slept on pews at the Methodist Church at American University.

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Senior consultant with Watson Wyatt Investment Consulting, specializing in pension fund investing.

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Now, Vicky Forster. Vicky Forster currently directs young people's drama at The Helen Hayes

Performing Arts Center in Nyack and teaches at the Emelin Theatre in Mamaroneck. For over a decade she ran the

young people's drama program at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. As a singer she has recorded extensively with

artists ranging from Frank Zappa to the Cabbage Patch Kids. Vocal Director on Tom Chapin’s In My Hometown.

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An editor living in Amherst, Mass.

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Until recently, Mr. Gelblum worked as an environmental enforcement attorney for the North Carolina

Attorney General’s office, working in the area of brownfields. He is now the co-executve director of the Mediation

Network of North Carolina.

What tentative racial harmony existed at Wesleyan was shattered in the fall of 1969 when a

number of white students, including Jonathan Berg

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exercised their right of free speech in the

Argus. Kwasi Kikuyu (Kerry Holman) and another black student visit Jonathan Berg to express

(using a fist to the stomach and a foot to the backside) their displeasure at Mr. Berg’s tone and

use of the word “punk” in a letter to the Argus questioning actions of black students. Dean

Adamany expels one student and suspends Kikuyu. Ujaama, the black fellowship, demands

Adamany’s resignation and threatens disruption of the Homecoming football game. The

administration goes to court to secure an injunction to stop the black

students from disrupting homecoming activities. Both the Union for

Progressive Action and the Student Action Movement call for Kikuyu’s

reinstatement, as does a letter signed by Roger Mann, George Taylor, Nick

Dirks, Alan Yale, Steve Lansing

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, Paul Vidich

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, Margot Mann, John

Hagel, Peter Thomas

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, Peter Myette

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, Willie Pinkston

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, Frances

Harwood, Alan Smith, Jane Kent

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and Rich Biryini. Etherington accedes

to that request, overruling Adamany. Bob Spence, Hagel, Yale and Mann

go further with a letter attacking Berg for his insensitivity. A week later,

Jonathan Berg’s room is firebombed. President Etherington publicly

declines to take any further action against either Berg or Kikuyu, thereby

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Not to be confused with Jon Berk, an insurance defense attorney with Gordon, Muir & Foley in Hartford,

Connecticut.

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Anthropology Professor at University of Arizona and father of son in class of 2000. Dr. Steve Lansing

used computers to calculate the effects of different crop management scenarios on irrigation demand, pest

population dynamics, and rice harvest in Bali. The project concluded that the traditional system, using water temples

to allocate water, was more effective than the government's policy. The Balinese farmers also worked with the

researchers to develop a computer application which would analyze agro- ecological data. He is author of several

books on Bali including Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali.

Steve Lansing has become a recognized authority on Bali and water resource management. He has appeared in that

capacity on a number of television programs dealing with that theme.

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Executive Vice President, Time Warner Music Group in New York. Former Trustee of Wesleyan. See

questionnaire response.

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A special education director living in East Montpelier, Vermont.

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Commercial Lender/ Vice President, Banco Popular North America, Living in New York.

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Correspondent, CBS News NYC; Board Member, National ASSN of Black Journalists; Board Member,

Society of Professional Journalists; Daughter, Class of 2005. Pinkston, who has been a New York-based CBS News

correspondent since 1994, reports regularly for the "CBS Evening News" and "CBS News Sunday Morning" and has

contributed to other network broadcasts, including "48 Hours." He has covered many major stories of the past

decade for CBS News, including the devastating earthquake in Turkey; the Albanian refugee crisis in Kosovo and

the U.S. military participation in the Balkans; Saddam Hussein's refusal to allow U.N. inspection officers to enter

Iraq; the U.S. intervention in Haiti; the Susan Smith trial, during which he broke the story of her arrest and landed

the first interview with her ex-husband, David Smith; the Freemen siege in Montana; and the Unabomber story.

Pinkston received a 1996 Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism and the Edward R. Murrow Award

for his reporting on the CBS Reports documentary "Legacy of Shame." He also won two other Emmy Awards: in

1998 for coverage of the death of Princess Diana and in 1997 for coverage of the TWA Flight 800 disaster.

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Now Jane Gionfriddo. Boston College Law School Associate Professor and Director of Legal Reasoning,

Research & Writing. Jane Kent Gionfriddo is the new President of the Legal Writing Institute.

reversing Dean Adamany’s decision

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. Subsequently, Harold T. Williams is arrested for setting

the fire. Berg resigns as chairman of the Student Events Committee. A bomb threat at the

Malcolm X house in early December is followed by a shooting at Rahim Khabib’s apartment.

Dean Adamany states that he has information about a white male throwing logs through the

windows and making the bomb threat.

Seth Davis Remembers: November 69. Racial tension was unbelievably intense. We were ready

for the roof absolutely to be blown off the University. But we white guys could only get a hint of

what was going on (aside from reading the Argus, of course) by listening to the soul shows on

WESU. As a result, that singular song "Backfield in Motion" (Baby, you know that's against the

rules!) acquired a life-long place in my heart.

Saturday of Homecoming Weekend we played Williams for the

Little Three title. We were undefeated. They had Jack

Maitland, who later played for the Baltimore Colts. Williams

led at the half, at which time some Black students seized a

microphone in the press box (where I was covering the game

for WESU) and proceeded to plead their case to the crowd.

"Wesleyan," the speaker cried, "is in trouble!" The Williams

stands erupted in cheers. We went on to win by a score of, I

believe, 19-17, and beat Trinity the following week to go

undefeated.

I and most politically concerned students missed the Trinity game, because we went down to

Washington for the BIG war moratorium. I-95 was a veritable caravan of college students

heading to DC. I rode with Steve Berman

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, Bill Scofield, Roger Jackson and Eddie Ohlbaum (if

he wasn't with us in the car he joined us later staying at Berman's friends place in Washington).

Lenny Kalman was with us too, until we got to New Jersey, where we let him off so he could visit

his parents and, presumably, his girlfriend. We stayed near Dupont Circle, where there was a

major not so non-violent demonstration, and we got a bit of tear gas. During the weekend's

festivities (candlelight procession down Pennsylvania Avenue, going past the White House,

where everyone had the name of a dead soldier to shout at the gates; big rally at the Washington

Monument) you'd keep running into other people from Wesleyan, or in my case, high school,

summer camp or whatever. It was the ultimate convention of the anti-war generation.

This was, of course, when President Nixon surrounded the White House with buses, end to end,

to keep us out while he watched Ohio State beat I forget who.

November 16, 1969 American soldiers line up and murder 567 villagers at My Lai.

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President Etherington does not specify whether this policy is consistent or inconsistent with his announced

end to the anything goes philosophy at Wesleyan.

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Retired short term investment consultant, Las Vegas, Nevada. Retired solo legal practitioner, Toms River,

New Jersey. Five-time winner on Jeopardy! and Tournament of Champions finalist. Independent film producer,

Santa Monica, California. Private investor. See questionnaire response.

December 1, 1969 First Draft Lottery held.

The Planning Office schedules a military recruiter for December 11. Seventy-eight faculty

members vote for a resolution calling for an immediate, unilateral withdrawal of the United

States from Vietnam. Dean Adamany leads a group of 54 professors in a statement of dissent.

Wesleyan Civil Liberties Associates is formed to protect the right of students to stay true to their

individual consciences.

In the face of all this uproar, the football team goes undefeated, beating Trinity in the season

closer by 21-18. With that undefeated season, Wesleyan tied the University of Delaware for the

Lambert Cup, given to the best small college football

team. Don Russell is named New England Football

Coach of the Year. Senator John Tower of Texas and

sportscaster Howard Cosell are invited to come to speak

on campus. Art Wein

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shines in the swimming pool,

wiping out the UConn swimmers. Jim Akin leads the

basketball team to an undefeated beginning of the season.

Earl Hanson wins a gifted teacher prize. The debate

team, with the addition of Betty Weiner, defeats Mount

Holyoke. The Argus names its next staff, including John Hunter as Sports Editor, Andrew

Feinstein as Assistant Editor, Tom Edmondson covering special events, Doug Thompson student

affairs, John Hagel faculty affairs, Alan Yale the administration, and Jean Christensen

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copy

editor.

The matter of campus recruiting continues unresolved. President Etherington appoints Phil

Rockwell as the campus military adviser. In early December, Rockwell calls off military

recruiting and UPA calls off its announced strike.

January 22, 1970 First flight on new 747 jumbo jet.

Returning after Christmas break, we find out that the Middletown police have arrested a student

for possession drugs on campus. The hockey rink is supposed to open in mid-March. And Larry

Mark

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, Argus art critic, lists his Worst Films of 1969, including "Butch Cassidy," "I am

Curious (Yellow)" (“Droopy tits and pot bellies”) and "Hello, Dolly." Jim Akin, the basketball

team’s rebounding leader, is named ECAC sophomore of the week.

The biggest news, however, is a report on academic standards by Joseph McMahon, C. Hess

Haagen and David Adamany. They find that 78.5 percent of all grades are A's or B’s. In 41

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Works in New York; lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.

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A journalist for the 30 years since college, with reporting and editing jobs at the New York Times, the

Kansas City Star, a chain of Kansas newspapers, Knight Ridder Financial News, the Washington Post, the

Associated Press and Bloomberg News. Always a late bloomer, she got married seven years ago and semi-retired

last year to be a (nearly) full-time mother and now is a freelance editor for Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine

and other publications. See questionnaire response.

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Now known as Laurence Mark, film producer, Larry graduated in 1971. He produced Jerry Maguire.

percent of all courses, professors give out only A’s and B’s. Further, they find that students

received B’s for courses from which they withdrew or which they never attended. Almost

immediately after the issuance of this report, Adamany leaves for a

semester of education in the field in the Wisconsin governor’s campaign.

Yet the Adamany report sets off a flurry of controversy for the spring.

Alan Brache

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writes that smaller classes are the answer. Educational

policy savant John Hagel

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is shocked by the lack of faculty response to

Dean Adamany’s transparent attempt to grab faculty prerogatives and

centralize power in the administration. Professor Dick Vann decides to

run for chancellor on an education reform platform, claiming that

Wesleyan has become a draft dodgers’ haven. Professor David

McAllister calls the Adamany report overstated but the dean defends his

report.

February 24, 1970 Georgia restauranteur Lester Maddox begins handing out ax handles as

symbol of segregation.

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Partner in Kepner-Tregoe, an international consulting and skill development firm that specializes in

strategy formulation and implementation, problem-solving and decision-making, project management, and human

performance management. He is responsible for global product/service development and for the delivery of North

American consulting and training services. His client work focuses on strategy formulation/implementation and non-

standard applications of Kepner-Tregoe's decision-making processes. He is one of the six members of Kepner-

Tregoe's Strategic Leadership Committee. From 1978 to 1986, Mr. Brache served in a number of positions with

Kepner-Tregoe, including Product Manager, Technical Director of the Strategy Group, and Vice President of

Product Development. He rejoined the company in 1997. During his ten-year absence from Kepner-Tregoe, Mr.

Brache co-founded and was a partner in The Rummler-Brache Group, a consulting and training company

that specializes in helping companies implement their strategies through the design and management of business

processes, organization structures, measurement systems, and human performance environments. He rotated in and

out of the CEO role and had ongoing responsibilities for marketing, product development, and managing the

company's operations outside of the United States. He co-authored Improving Performance: How to Manage the

White Space on the Organization Chart, the book that launched the process improvement revolution and introduced

the first set of tools for comprehensively managing an organization as an integrated system. He is the author of

2002's How Organizations Work: Taking A Holistic Approach to Organization Health, which enables readers to

diagnose each of the variables that influences their organizations' performance. He resides in Blue Eye, Missouri.

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John Hagel III has served as the chief strategy officer for 12 Entrepreneuring since April 2000. Prior to

joining 12, John was a principal with McKinsey & Company and a global leader of McKinsey's electronic

commerce practice and strategy practice. At McKinsey, John spent 16 years working for a broad range of clients

across many industries on e-commerce issues, with a particular focus on strategic management and operational

performance improvement. His distinctive expertise involves perspectives on the emergence and evolution of new

business models enabled by the Internet, restructuring opportunities created by e-commerce, and new

approaches to strategy under high uncertainty. Prior to joining McKinsey, John served as senior VP for

strategic planning at Atari and as founder and president of Sequoia Group, a systems house selling turnkey

computer systems to physicians. John also worked as a consultant with Boston Consulting Group. He has published

articles in a broad range of business publications, including the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal,

and Business 2.0. His book Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities (HBS Press, 1997) has

been on the business book bestseller lists in the United States and is being translated into 12 languages. His second

book on the Internet, Net Worth: Shaping Markets When Customers Make the Rules (HBS Press, 1999), focuses on

the opportunities and issues related to capturing information about customers on-line and has been featured on

business book bestseller lists in the United States. In 1999, Business Week named John one of the e.biz 25, the most

influential people in electronic business, and Upside designated him one of its Elite 100, the most important

participants in the new economy.

February 28, 1970 Chicago jury bucks presiding judge Julius Hoffman and renders mixed

verdict for seven defendants accused of inciting riots at Democratic

National Convention.

The Chi Psi eating club is closed and the chef fired after the City of Middletown Department. of

Health condemns the kitchen. The chancellor and the dean are given the authority to review SJB

decisions. And then, in early February, Edwin D. Etherington announces his resignation as

President of Wesleyan to run for the United States Senate. This announcement is followed by a

prolonged period of rending of garments, fasting, and public wailing. Robert Rosenbaum

becomes the acting president, but removes himself from consideration for the permanent job. In

one of his first moves, the acting president, under intense pressure from Argus Sports Editor John

Hunter, announces he will reconsider the ban on post-season games at

Wesleyan. This ban was one of two reasons Wesleyan never played in the

Sugar Bowl. Dick Ohmann continues to serve as chancellor. A presidential

search committee is announced and no fewer than 21 members of the class

of ’72 run for a slot. The top nine vote-getters include Experimental

College lecturer John Hagel, Jack Walkenhorst

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, Mark Kravitz

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, and

George Barth

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. Eventually Hagel is one of three students to serve on the

selection committee.

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A veterinarian in Zanesville, Ohio.

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Now, one of the leading appellate lawyer in Connecticut. Mark Kravitz heads Wiggin & Dana’s Appellate

Practice Group. His practice is focused on appellate, as well as constitutional litigation. He served as a law clerk to

the Honorable William H. Rehnquist, then Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, between 1978 and 1979.

He has been a partner in the New Haven law firm of Wiggin & Dana since 1980. Mr. Kravitz has been an Adjunct

Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law since 1995, where he has taught both Federal

Courts and the Law of Privacy. During the Spring semester 2000, he was a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law

School, where he taught Legal Writing. Mr. Kravitz has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 1990. Mr.

Kravitz was elected a member of The American Law Institute in 1992 and a Fellow of the American Academy of

Appellate Lawyers in 1996. He is also a James W. Cooper Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation. In 1995, he

received the Deane C. Avery Award for advancing the cause of freedom of speech in Connecticut. Mr. Kravitz

serves, by appointment of the Chief Justice of the United States, on the Judicial Conference Standing Committee on

the Rules of Practice and Procedure in the United States Courts. He also serves on Connecticut’s Advisory

Committee on Appellate Rules by appointment of the Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court and on the

Rules Committee of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by appointment of the Chief Judge of

the Second Circuit. From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Kravitz served as a member of the Civil Justice Advisory Committee by

appointment of the Chief Judge of the District Court for the District of Connecticut. Mr. Kravitz writes frequently

on legal issues. He is the national commentator on appellate practice and procedure for The National Law Journal

and is a regular commentator for The Connecticut Law Tribune.

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Associate Professor [Teaching] (Piano, Theory), Billie Bennett Achilles Director of Keyboard Programs at

Stanford University. Special fields: Piano and fortepiano, 18th- through 20th-century performance practice, the

piano music of Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Brahms, Ives, and Bartók. Studied with Jon Barlow, Malcolm Bilson,

and John Kirkpatrick. Appearances as recitalist, as soloist with orchestra, and as a contributing musicologist

throughout the U.S. and Central Europe. NEH Fellow, 1989. Publications: The Pianist as Orator: Beethoven and the

Transformation of Keyboard Style, 1992; articles and reviews in Early Music, Early Keyboard Studies Newsletter,

Humanities magazine, Hungarian Quarterly, Music & Letters, Music Library Association Notes, Revised New

Grove Dictionary. Recitals: Mozart Concertos with the St. Lawrence String Quartet (Cantor Arts Center, Stanford,

2000); Trinity Concerts (Berkeley, 1999), Concerts on the Fringe (Berkeley Festival, 1996); San Francisco Early

Music Society (1996). Presenter: Juilliard School's International Symposium on "Performing Mozart's Music" and

In other political news, Willie Pinkston is nominated for WESU vice-president for FM in

February but loses to Peter Gutman, nearly ending Pinkston’s career in broadcasting. Glenn

Harris

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wins VP for administration. Jay Cherner writes the Argus bemoaning that Murray

Krugman is too cool and Mel Dixon

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is racist. The swim team finishes the

season undefeated, led by breast stroker Tom Edmondson.

In late February 1970, the Argus investigative staff discovers that the CBC

has earmarked money for UPA and SAM, the two left

radical groups on campus. The SJB places two students on

probation for blatant marijuana use. Toby Barton insists on

an open hearing. Fellow students create a bail fund. And if

the apocalyptic signs are not clear enough, a near-total

eclipse of the sun occurs on March 7, which turns out to be a

bright and beautiful day suitable for sun worship. Argus photo editor Bud

Spurgeon

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writes advice on how to view the sun. The Social Committee books

Taj Mahal, NRBQ and Mother Earth for Saturday evening. Faced with an

unfinished arena, Wesleyan cancels the balance of its hockey season. Pat

Bauer

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and Mark Frost write in opposition to cuts in financial aid. Galvanized by the SJB case,

Chair of he executive board of the Experimental College John Hagel III, Tom Barton and Earl

Westfield Center's Bicentenary Humanities Symposium on "Mozart's Nature, Mozart's World" (1991), Ira Brilliant

Center for Beethoven Studies, SJSU (1991). Recording, Music & Arts, Boston Public Radio. Lecturer for Stanford

Series in the Arts, 1993, Stanford Continuing Studies, 1998 (Beethoven Quartet Cycle).

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Chair of the Department of Geology and Culpepper Teaching Fellow at St. Lawrence University, New

York. Dr. Harris' teaching and research specialties are environmental history, land-use planning, and environmental

policy. His is the author of over forty scholarly papers, as well as twenty-five technical and community service

reports, many co-authored with students. He has received the SLU Piskor Faculty Lectureship, the Owen D. Young

Outstanding Faculty Member Award and the J. Calvin Keene Faculty Award. A member of numerous professional

and community organizations, Dr. Harris takes particular interest in the Adirondack Park and the St. Lawrence River

Valley.

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Melvin Dixon graduated with the Class of 1971 and then received a doctorate from Brown University. He

was the author of two books of poems, Change of Territory (University of Virginia Press) and Love Instruments (Tia

Chucha Press), two novels, Trouble the Water (Fiction Collective) and Vanishing Rooms (Dutton), and a book of

literary criticism, Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature (University of

Illinois Press). Mr. Dixon taught at Williams College, Fordham, Columbia University, and City University of New

York. He received a Creative Writing Fellowship in 1984. Mr. Dixon died in 1992.

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Senior Network Analyst, University of Texas, Austin. At the University of Texas at Austin he practices the

arcane art of designing and developing campus internets based on high speed switches and routers linking a wide

variety of Ethernet technologies. The university network, known as UTnet, is based on many Cisco routers and

switches, using a fiber optic backbone system. The backbone network consists of fiber optic Ethernet, with many

links running at 1 Gbps. Charles Spurgeon's latest book on Ethernet is published by O'Reilly and Associates, and

features an octopus on the cover. This O'Reilly definitive guide provides a comprehensive and accurate source of

information on the entire Ethernet system in a single volume. Includes 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, and Gigabit Ethernet, as

well as repeaters, switching hubs, full-duplex Ethernet, Auto-Negotiation system, specifications for all media

systems, structured cabling systems for twisted-pair cabling, network management, troubleshooting, and more.

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Professor of Law, University of Iowa. Upon graduating from the University of Chicago Law School in

1975, Professor Bauer worked for a year in Milwaukee as a clerk for Chief Judge John W. Reynolds of the United

States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. He then worked for three years in Minneapolis as an

associate at the law firm of Faegre & Benson before joining the Faculty of Law in 1979. Professor Bauer regularly

Rhodes

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wage a campaign to get the SJB to take a neutral position between alcohol and

marijuana. The SJB ponders a new policy, deciding not to put marijuana in the "most dangerous

drug" category. The policy prohibits the public use, sale or transfer of dangerous drugs. In early

March, West College votes to secede from the SJB. Paul Maynard has a poem published in

Alkchest: American College Poetry. The SJB suspends a student who serves LSD, without

notice, at a party.

January 18, 1970, proves a momentous day for Wesleyan,

for on that cold Sunday the New York Times publishes a

magazine article entitled, “Two Nations at Wesleyan,” an

oversimplified but profoundly disturbing piece about the

futility of Wesleyan’s sincere effort to integrate a

significant number of black students into its campus. The

Argus becomes a forum for letters listing the article's

inaccuracies, including tomes by Worth Hayes, Randy

Miller and Tom Morris.

March 1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young release “Woodstock”.

David Adamany resigns as dean on March 30, 1970, a week after the first-semester grades were

tallied, showing that 26 percent were A’s and 49 percent were B’s. In the Afro-American

Studies program, all grades were A’s. The next day, Andy Feinstein interviewed Adamany. He

states that the students are very mature but Wesleyan is a place of underachievers. He lays the

blame on the uncertainty of the faculty. Adamany says the faculty has no respect for itself as a

corporate body. He professes uncertainty about what to do about drugs on campus. As to the

violence on campus, Adamany blames not the black students but the lack of a policy. He says

we need to talk straight about graduate school, particularly to black students.

April 10, 1970 The Beatles announce the group is splitting up.

April 13, 1970 Apollo 13 mission goes awry when fuel line ruptures.

With Adamany leaving as dean, the deluge follows. He promises to return to campus in January

1971. The trustees cut back on plans for the construction of the Arts Center to save funds

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Latino students announce plans to occupy North College but call it off when the administration

promises to admit more Latinos. Members of the Class of ’72 named resident adviser are

teaches courses in Debtor-Creditor Law, Real Estate Transfer & Finance, and Bankruptcy Rehabilitations, and also

has taught courses in Agricultural Law, Civil Procedure, and Remedies. He has published articles on the historical

development and operation of mortgage foreclosure and farm bankruptcy law, and provided legislative testimony in

those areas. He also has prepared outlines and course materials for continuing legal education programs on various

subjects within his areas of expertise. Professor Bauer's current research includes appellate review of findings of

fact, mortgage foreclosure deficiency judgments, Iowa's homestead exemption, federal farm bankruptcy legislation

in the 1930s, and federalization of debt collection law in the 1990s. See questionnaire response.

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Attorney with Younge & Hockensmith, Grand Junction, Colorado.

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Either due to funding constraints or because of faulty social prognostication, the Arts Center is constructed

with single unisex bathrooms.

Yvonne Allen

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, Bonnie Blair

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, Mady Kraus

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, Anne

Raunio

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and Elizabeth Smith

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. Also, Tom Buford

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Hampton Cross

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, John Hagel

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, Steve Lewis

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, Jim

Moore

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, Karl Schumacher

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, Kevin Smyley

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and David

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Now, Yvonne Goodwin. Worked as a business planning manager for Compaq.

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A utilities lawyer with Thomson Coburn in Washington. Former Wesleyan Trustee. Ms. Blair has twenty-

five years of experience focusing on wholesale ratemaking and regulatory policy in the electric utility industry,

electric industry restructuring, antitrust issues, and complex litigation involving nuclear prudence and contract

disputes. In the past four years Ms. Blair has been actively and increasingly involved in issues arising out of the

restructuring of the electric utility industry in California.

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Now, Mady Kaye. Mady Kaye has been singing ever since she learned to walk. She grew up in a musical

family in Poughkeepsie, New York, in the heart of the Hudson river valley. Mady Kaye studied voice, flute and

piano and taught herself guitar. Performing has always been part of the fabric of her musical life. After earning a

degree in music from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, she went on to get a graduate degree from the

Kodaly Musical Training Institute, in Wellesley, MA. During her last year in college and throughout graduate

school, Mady sang with a western swing band made up of Wesleyan classmates, a band that played in the truck stop

bars in Connecticut and Massachusetts. She got an early taste for the music of Bob Wills. So right after graduation

she got in her car and headed out to Texas, just to see what it was all about. That was in 1975. She wound up in

Austin. It was always Mady's intent to put together a western swing band and front it. But the group of musicians in

her first band – all music students at the University of Texas – had grown up in Texas and weren't interested in

western swing. They had heard it all before. What these guys wanted to do was play jazz. Mady Kaye went along for

the ride. Twenty-five years later, she is a most accomplished jazz vocalist. Ms. Kaye performs in and around Austin

in clubs, theater, jazz festivals and at weddings and parties. For seven years her trio was the house band at the Hyatt

Regency Austin. She is also the soprano and musical director of the Austin Carolers, a four-voice a cappella vocal

ensemble and Austin's only professional caroling group. In addition to performing, Mady is a highly regarded vocal

instructor. The Austin Chronicle's "Critic's Picks" named her the best professional voice instructor in Austin.

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Physician and embryologist in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. With her husband, Scott Gilbert, also a

Wesleyan graduate, published Embryology, Constructing the Organism, the first major textbook on the subject in

years.

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Now, Elizabeth Hartenberger.

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Attorney in private practice in Cleveland.

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Was Director, Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, District of Columbia. Now with Hines

Property Management.

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Northeast Coordinator of the Radical Libertarian Alliance.

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Founding partner of Barg, Coffin, Lewis & Trapp, LLP, San Francisco. Specializes in defense of complex

litigation and product liability suits. He has represented manufacturers of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, medical

devices, and machinery in hundreds of state and federal court actions. See questionnaire response.

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Lives in New Rochelle, New York.

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President of Pitney Bowes docSense. Mr. Schumacher joined Pitney Bowes in 1987 and has held positions

in strategic planning, marketing and product development. As Vice President and General Manager, Document

Factory Solutions, he formulated the Production Mail EDP-to-Mail, Host-to-Post and Automated Document Factory

strategies. Most recently, he led the Pitney Bowes approach to Internet-based bill presentment and payment. Karl is

a noted industry spokesperson and has held positions on several strategic committees in the Xplor™ trade

organization. Pitney Bowes docSense, the leading provider of solutions for the creation and distribution of efficient

and effective documents in digital and hard copy form, received the highest rating according to Giga Information

Group's report ``Electronic Presentment and Payment: Selecting the Right Vendor'' and ``Pitney Bowes docSense: A

Good Solution for Many.''

Yager

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. Betty Weiner and Tim Atwood

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make the quarterfinals in the Chicago Debating

Tournament. Sherry Hilding

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and Mel Dixon stage a spring dance workshop.

Members of the class running for the College Body Committee include George Barth, Rick Berg,

Dave Gerard

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, UPA leader John Hagel, Ed Ohlbaum

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, Earl Rhodes, Paul Vidich, and Alan

Yale. Paul Vidich pronounces his platform in the Argus: "More important than my opposition

are the issues. And a lack of issues has never been an effective barrier to active political

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Vice President for business development of the Cornell Companies, Inc. is a leading private provider of

corrections, treatment and educational services to government agencies. Focusing on adult and juvenile populations

in both institutional and community settings, Cornell provides a full array of services in an environment of dignity

and respect, emphasizing community safety and rehabilitation in support of sound public policy. Mr. Smyley had

been Managing Director, Business Development since January 2001 and was Director of Public Policy since

September 1999 and a Vice President of Cornell Interventions, Inc., a Company subsidiary, since June 1999. From

1997 to 1999, Mr. Smyley served as Co-Executive Director and Project Manager for the Kid's Stuff Foundation.

From 1991 to 1997, Mr. Smyley worked for Lockheed Martin IMS serving as Vice President of Criminal Justice

Services from 1995 to 1997. Mr. Smyley is a member of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement

Executives, the American Correctional Association ("ACA") and the American Probation and Parole Association.

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Associate professor of psychology, University of Maryland. Published Sensory processes: Hearing. In:

The Praying Mantids: Research Perspectives. (Prete, F.R., Wells, H. and Wells, P.H., eds.) Baltimore: Johns

Hopkins Univ. Press.; Behavioral response to ultrasound in the tiger beetle, Cicindela marutha Dow combines

aerodynamic changes and sound production. J. Exp. Biol. 200: 649-659; Sound production and acoustic

communication in Xenopus borealis. In: The Biology of Xenopus. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London No.

67.

(Tinsley, R.C. and Kobel, H.R., eds.) Oxford: Oxford University Press; Nymphal development of the auditory

system of the praying mantis Hierodula membranacea Burmeister (Dictyoptera; Mantidae). J. Comp. Neurol. 364:

199-210.

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Attorney representing gun manufacturers in defense of product liability suits. Father of daughter in class of

2005. Lives in Shelton, Connecticut.

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Special education teacher at Ellis Vocational-technical School in Danielson, Connecticut. Lives in Storrs.

Also, teacher of Tai Chi.

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President, Gerard & Associates in Morgan Hill , California. David Gerard, Ph.D. is a change management

specialist who works with firms in the areas of organizational, team building and executive/employee development,

managing diversity and performance management. He has developed a unique approach to executive assessment and

coaching. His clients have ranged from Fortune 100 firms to start-ups, from large public sector organizations to

small community agencies. Prior to founding his own consulting firm, Dr. Gerard was Vice President of Human

Technology at a Silicon Valley consulting group where he served a wide range of clients. Previously, from 1984 to

1989 he was the top regional human resources executive for a major health care chain where he managed all human

resources programs for a 65-site, 8,000-employee, six-state region. The Gerard & Associates team includes a

number of experienced consultants in industrial development, corporate marketing, risk management, training, inter-

cultural communication, strategic planning, human resources management and clinical psychology. See

questionnaire response.

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Master educator Edward D. Ohlbaum serves as a Professor of Law and Director of Advocacy and Clinical

Legal Education at Temple University School of Law in Philadelphia. Widely recognized as an authority on the law

of evidence, Professor Ohlbaum teaches evidence, trial advocacy and professional responsibility at Temple. He was

recently awarded the Roscoe Pound Foundation's Richard S. Jacobson Award for excellence in teaching trial

advocacy. Professor Ohlbaum co-coaches the national mock trial team for Temple Law School and has been a Team

Leader for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. In addition to his teaching activities, Professor Ohlbaum chairs

the Philadelphia Bar Association's Evidence Code Task Force. He frequently serves as a consultant both locally and

nationally on evidence and trial advocacy. He is the co-author of Courtroom Evidence-A Teaching Commentary

(NITA, 1997) as well as Ohlbaum on the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence (forthcoming, Matthew Bender).

campaigning. The origin of the matter lies in the mistaken notion that the indeterminate

reorganization of a student ethic is a potential stage for heroic action rather than an almost

unconscious disavowal of schizophrenia in general and platforms in particular.” Once printed,

celebrations begin in the faculty offices of the College of Social Studies. One professor

comments, “Never has a student better understood and articulated what we are teaching over

here.” Meanwhile, the faculty begins development of a proposal for a University Senate, an

issue that would rivet the political members of the class for the next two years.

A new spring of complaint breaks ground in April. Pseudononymous Joy Patch writes as a

representative of the “oppressed and dateless sex” at Wesleyan. It seems that the admission of

women, far from causing men to turn away from their studies to pursue courting and romance,

reveals the basic social inadequacy of the male students. Jean Christensen comments, bitterly,

“Does she mention that the men left campus every weekend to go to women's colleges?” If

spring does not bring thoughts of the birds and the bees to the monastic Wesmen, it does lead

two freshmen to develop a scheme to bring the Grateful Dead to campus

for a free concert on Foss Hill on Sunday May 3, 1970. In another

demonstration of the schizo mind, Brooks Brothers runs an ad in the

Argus for a Dacron Sports Jacket for $58.50. On the first warm day, a

mini-revolution starts in the Lawn Avenue dorms. Angered at the fascist

diktat of campus security to “please turn your stereos down,” students run

amok, driving their cars into the plaza. A large fire is lit in the courtyard.

When the fire department puts it out, it is relit. My memory is that it

started with someone playing the Beatles song, “Here Comes the Sun.”

Winning candidates for the CBC were Ed Ohlbaum, Alan Yale, noted

political philosopher John Hagel, Earl Rhodes and George Barth. The

Higher Education Assistance Agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

writes to colleges asking for a list of names of disruptive students. Dean

George Creeger states, “There is not, for the time being, the remotest

possibility that Wesleyan would comply.” Over the last weekend in April,

firebombs damage three campus buildings.

April 30, 1970 President Nixon orders American combat troops to

enter Cambodia.

May 1, 1970 Tear gas is used to disperse demonstrators at the New Haven trial of

Bobby Seale and other members of the Black Panther

Party.

National politics spill over onto campus. Etherington,

Rosenbaum and Ohmann issue a joint statement

attacking Vice President Spiro Agnew for calling for

the removal of Kingman Brewster as president of Yale

University for coddling student demonstrators. Gloria

Steinem speaks at West College on April 29. Then, on

Friday, May 1, 1970, the student body votes to join the

nationwide student strike with its three demands:

1. Free Bobby Seale and all other political prisoners.

2. Get the U.S. out of Southeast Asia now.

3. End all university complicity with the war machine.

The Dead concert goes forward on Sunday, May 3, but the lengthy wait for the band's arrival,

partly filled by the group Swamp Gas, leads to a variety of pro-strike speeches. In an interview

conducted by John Manchester

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in October 1970, Jerry Garcia says the concert was short and

unsuccessful in part because of the political activists getting in the way of the music. One

student read the lengthy list of campuses already on strike.

May 4, 1970 Four students are killed by

Ohio National Guard troops on campus at Kent

State University to quell student protest over the

war in Vietnam.

At a meeting at 4:15 pm on Tuesday, May 5, in 02

Shanklin Laboratory, the faculty votes to support

the strike and to find ways to allow students not to

be punished for supporting it. In a lonely dissent,

Jay Cherner and Rob Gray

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write to oppose the

strike. Argus publication stops as alternative

political broadsheets spread news and proper

political dogma. For all practical purposes, the

educational enterprise for many was over for the

rest of the 1969-1970 school year. The year

doesn’t so much end as dissolve. Yet before

graduation, William Smith

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and George

Surgeon

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are named to the SJB, while David

Nicoll

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and Hank Shelton are named to the

Honor Board.

Jean Christensen Remembers: For the May march on Washington, I think we started with a

truck, which broke down and we stopped at somebody's house on the way (maybe in New Jersey)

and switched to a couple of cars, which, it seems to me, also broke down, and we hitchhiked the

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Maintains a post office box in Conway, Massachusetts.

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Does government relations work in Aurora, Colorado.

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Transportation planner living in North Minneapolis.

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Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Shorebank Corporation, Chicago. Daughter

graduated in 1990. Directing Shorebank, its subsidiaries and affiliates in implementing a for-profit community

development strategy in the bank's markets. Mr. Surgeon previously served as the President and Chief Executive

Office of Southern Development Bancorporation and President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Elk Horn

Bank and Trust Company.

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Associate General Counsel, National Cable Television Association, Washington, D.C.

rest of the way. You and I were together on that trip, and I don't remember who else--probably

Bruce Lederer, among others. We stayed at your cousin's house (in Georgetown?). We visited

congressional offices and lobbied for support for the three demands of the strike: Free Bobby

Seale, end U.S. complicity with the war machine and get out of Vietnam. I visited the Wyoming

congressional delegation--a major lost cause. I remember feeling as if we were doing something

constructive. I also remember taking a nap in the sun on the Mall. I don't remember how we got

back go Middletown.

The trip to Washington came after, I think, a rally in New Haven on the Yale campus. There was

a huge crowd at that one, but I have no recollection whatever of

who the speakers were.

May 8, 1970 Construction workers working on the new

World Trade Center towers leave the job to

beat up anti-war protestors.

May 8, 1970 The Beatles release “Let It Be”.

May 15, 1970 Police kill two and wound 15 on the

campus of Jackson State University in

Mississippi.

June 28, 1970 A police raid on the Stonewall, a homosexual bar on Christopher Street

in New York City, leads to the first large homosexual rights

demonstration.

Junior Year: 1970-71

Our junior year, 1970-1971, begins with an eerie, almost embarrassed silence about the political

Gotterdammerung of the previous spring. NOW founder Sheila Tobias is named Associate

Provost. Wesleyan is ranked first preseason in the New England Football Pool, yet loses its first

game against Middlebury. Jean Christensen becomes the first woman on the Argus Editorial

Board in its history. In other feminist matters, Mary Lou Grad

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, Jane Kent, Rachel Klein

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and

Betty Weiner write the Argus to complain that the facilities people have built a wall blocking off

the kitchen in their Lawn Avenue Suite. The anti-culinary forces grow self-confident and the

administration announces that forthwith hotplates will be seized. Doug Thompson, an early

precursor to Martha Stewart, writes an extensive column on hotplate cookery. Meanwhile, the

administration decides to bypass the SJB and issue its own reinterpretation of the Community

Code. The Gay Liberation Front holds its first meeting at Wesleyan in October 1970.

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Assistant U.S. Attorney, Criminal Division.

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Associate history professor, University of California at San Diego. Focuses on cultural, early national, and

nineteenth century United States history. Author, Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the

South Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1808; "Art and Authority in Antebellum New York City: The Rise and Fall of

the American Art-Union," Journal of American History 81; “Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Domestication of Free

Labor Ideology,” Legacy 18.2, 2001.

September 18, 1970 Jimi Hendrix dies of a drug overdose.

October 4, 1970 Janis Joplin dies of a drug overdose.

October 1970 The Grateful Dead release “Truckin’”

University Senate matters become profoundly muddled. Student activist John Hagel leads an

effort to have the CBC, of which he is a member, appoint student members of the University

Senate. And Hagel, who by now is speaking for all intelligent students, demands rejection of the

University Senate in the referendum unless students have full

parity. The Argus accuses the CBC in general and Hagel in

particular of trying to subvert the University Senate to preserve and

enhance its own power. Hagelian thought, however, does not

prevail, as the student body votes 414 to 69 to establish the Senate.

Hagel, along with his cohorts, George Barth, Earl Rhodes, Alan

Yale and Ed Ohlbaum, lash out at the Argus and its

support for the University Senate.

After nine months of work, the Presidential Search

Committee chooses Colin Campbell in October.

The student members dissent. The Argus endorses

the announcement. The trustees unanimously

follow the lead of the Argus rather than the

sniveling and wining of the student members on

the selection committee.

Fourteen members of the class of 1972 run for the

new University Senate: Mark Kravitz, Mitch Willey

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, Andy Feinstein, Bruce

Lederer, Jon Berk, Robert Newman, Mal Factor

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, Jean Christensen, Dave

Harfst

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, Roger Lewis, Bob Spence

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, Steve Lansing, John Lindsay

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and Paul Vidich. Showing

much more consistency than most politicians, Vidich uses exactly the same political platform

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President, APCO Associates International, Washington. Daughter in class of 2003. APCO is a public

relations and strategic consulting firm.

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President, Mallory Factor, Inc., an independent merchant bank and financial relations consultancy. Was

named to New York State Banking Board. Serves on Tony Awards Management Committee.

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Managing Partner, Covington & Burling, Brussels. David Harfst has served as Managing Partner of the

Brussels office since 1992. His practice focuses on European Union communications law, with special emphasis on

the Internet and other new media, electronic commerce, and data protection. Mr. Harfst is also active in EU

environmental law, in particular the regulation of chemicals and chemical preparations, and in international trade

law, with emphasis on WTO dispute settlement and the implementation of trade rules affecting intellectual property

and health and safety regulation. Mr. Harfst’s practice embraces both legislative advocacy and regulatory

compliance. For over twenty years, he has worked with individual companies, informal coalitions and trade

associations on a broad range of policy issues and initiatives. During this period, he has been involved in numerous

campaigns to enact legislative reform both in the United States and Europe. He co-authored "The Struggle for Auto

Safety," published by Harvard University Press in 1990, for which he received the American Bar Association’s sixth

annual award for distinguished scholarship in administrative law. Between college and law school, he served in the

U.S. Navy on the headquarters staff of Admiral H. G. Rickover.

that led to his defeat for the CBC in the spring. A coalition slate wins the Senate voting, electing

Mitch Willey, Mark Kravitz, Steve Lansing, Dave Harfst, Bob Spence and Bruce Lederer. Jean

Christensen got 112 votes, Andy Feinstein got 98, and Paul Vidich got 70

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Jerry Ryan announces plans to publish a yearbook. He promises the project will be self-

supporting; no CBC funds will be requested

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. The football team becomes more successful.

Bob Mckeel

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leads the defense to crushing Hamilton. Ed Tabor gains 185 yards and Dave

Revenaugh 164 to beat Williams 29 to 13. Tabor is named athlete of the week. The next week

Don Russell announces his retirement as head football coach. Shortly afterward, the team loses

to Trinity, ending the season with a 5-3 record. Despite the lifting of the University’s ban on

post-season play, Wesleyan does not receive any bowl bids.

On Wednesday, October 11, 1970, just five months after the student strike, a recruiter from the

United States Marine Corps visits campus. Nothing

happens: a classic case of the dog not barking. Buddy

Miles is scheduled to play on Saturday night. And a

public debate is planned on the topic, "Resolved:

Women should be treated solely as sex objects." John

Gay writes to the Argus in praise of fraternities. The

Student Judicial Board is frustrated in its attempt to

punish meal freeloaders. It seems the miscreants gave

false names. And the administration ponders what to

do with St. Clement’s, the Portland estate bequeathed to

Wesleyan.

October 11, 1970 The World Trade Center becomes the

world’s tallest building.

On December 1, David Adamany finally resigns as Dean.

George Creeger takes the slot. Assistant Dean Bob Dunn leaves

to work for Governor Pat Lucey of Wisconsin. Adamany says he

will remain at Wesleyan as a professor. The trustees appoint

student representatives, including Steve Sheffrin

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and Cy

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Lawyer in Smithfield, North Carolina. Vice President of District 11 and on the unauthorized practice

committee of the North Carolina Bar.

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Principal at the legal recruiting firm of Major, Hagen & Africa in New York City.

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There were, of course, other candidates. Still, my loss to Jean was a traumatic event, partly softened by my

defeat of Paul.

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Ryan informs us that he had no choice as the CBC voted to cut off funding for the yearbook because the

prior editor had squandered the CBC funds to publish his own photo essay.

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Attorney in Concord, New Hampshire.

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Dean of the division of social sciences and professor of economics at UC Davis. He joined the UC Davis

faculty in 1976. Sheffrin has been a visiting professor at Nuffield College (Oxford), the London School of

Economics, and Princeton University. He has also served as a financial economist with the Office of Tax Analysis

and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He is on the Board of Directors of the National Tax Association. He also

Quinn

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on the Education Committee and Andy Feinstein on Student Affairs. J. Paul Maynard is

selected as one of four Connecticut Student Poets. The State of Connecticut turns down Downey

House’s bid for a beer and wine license. Top athletes for the week of December 11 include Bob

White for wrestling, Jim Koss for basketball and Pat Bailey in squash.

November 1970 The Kinks release “Lola”.

The Social Committee becomes a maelstrom of activity. The Oso Family, whoever they may be,

attacks the Committee for failing to respond to its proposal for a three-day cosmic short-circuit

event. Committee Chairman Steve Goldschmidt

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denies the proposal was ever submitted. He

announces that the committee has scheduled a British pianist named Elton John and is

negotiating with Sly and the Family Stone, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Neil Young and Traffic.

He also reveals that the dean’s office canceled the Buddy Miles concert in October. Later he has

to defend the committee against Peter Gutman’s criticism for failing to approve a Saturday film

program he proposed.

December 1970 Derek & The Dominoes release “Layla”.

The Argus announces its staff for 1971. Andrew Feinstein is editor; Jean Christensen is

executive editor; Dave Nicoll is managing editor, Doug Thompson and Roger Jackson are

associate editors. Meanwhile, top athletes for the week of December 16 include Bruce Barit in

squash, Mike Hurd, who is undefeated in wrestling, and John Gay in hockey.

founded and currently directs the Center for State and Local Taxation at UC Davis. Sheffrin is the author of eight

books and monographs and over eighty articles in the fields of macroeconomics, public finance, and international

economics. His most important books include Rational Expectations (second edition) and Property Taxes and Tax

Revolts: The Legacy of Proposition 13, both from Cambridge University Press. See questionnaire response.

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Cy Quinn left his hotel in Madrid and disappeared seven years ago. Was Spanish professor at Mitchell

College, New London, Connecticut. Went to Spain each summer to improve his language skills. Memorial service

is planned for August 2, 2002 in Waterford, Connecticut.

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Works for the real estate brokerage firm of Ashforth Warburg in New York. Steve Goldschmidt never had

a grass-covered backyard or tall trees to provide shade from the summer's sun -- just tall buildings. He never had the

aroma f a fresh apple pie cooling on the windowsill - just a mixture of delicious smells from pizza parlors, delis,

Chinese estaurants, and coffee shops. Few people know New York City as their own back yard. Steve does. Steve's

a native New Yorker, born and raised. His half-century New York experience has included much of what City life

is about. Steve was educated in public and private schools: a graduate of PS6, Manhattan's Lycee Francais de NY

and Wesleyan University, he is fluent in French and German (thanks to his family). Steve returned from college in

1972 to join his family's importing business and, in the late '70's, he struck out on his own to master a new

profession - real estate. Working for American Invsco, he helped to convert thousands of apartments and several of

Manhattan's leading luxury buildings. He also married, raised a son, and became active in his own Upper East Side

building (first as a tenant leader, then for 12 years as Co-op Board President). In 1987, Steve began a 14-year career

as a principal in his own company, managing luxury buildings all around town. His clients included many of New

York's finer co-op and condominium buildings, and institutional landlords. Now, Steve's decided to bring his love of

New York, and his experience in New York real estate, to the sale and marketing of Manhattan residential

properties. His knowledge of New York's nuances and neighborhoods, its marketplaces, buildings and Board

operations, finances, legal issues and the idiosyncrasies of co-op and condominium ownership, give him a unique

and valuable perspective that benefits both sellers and buyers. See questionnaire response.

January 18, 1971 Senator George McGovern announces he will run for President on an

anti-war platform.

Winter 1971 saw the alumni relations office firebombed. Eclectic occupies Beta, refusing to pay

rent. Six junior faculty members are denied tenure but Chancellor Willie Kerr denies that it has

anything to do with budget concerns. And Dave Nicoll and Andy Feinstein conduct a debate in

the Argus over the future of the University. Feinstein opposes an increase in size; Nicoll

supports it. Feinstein finds reduced student aid expenditures devastating; Nicoll argues the cuts

are de minimis. Meanwhile, Don Russell publicly states

his fears about a cut in funds for athletics. Applications for

admissions are down sharply. Many student members of

the University Senate rarely attend meetings. Bob

Kirkpatrick denies the rumor that the University has a 20%

quota on the admission of non-whites. Professor Karl

Scheibe writes a parody of the Argus staff for spreading

misinformation on tenure.

Yet, the financial pressures grow. Colin Campbell delays

his inauguration until fall due to the budget crunch.

Responding to Coach Russell’s comments, the administration ends tenure in the physical

education department, meaning staff will be hired by contract. The university Senate votes to cut

administrative expenses by 25 percent. Campbell complains of an “adversarial atmosphere.”

Alumni contributions drop 20 percent between the fiscal year ending September 1970 and the

fiscal year ending September 1971. The Alumni Office thinks the New York Times article is the

prime cause of the decline. The chairmen of the Division 1 departments (the arts and

humanities) assert: “Wesleyan is perilously near to decisions that will permanently affect its

chances of survival.” In late February, President Campbell announces that he is pessimistic

about Wesleyan reaching its financial goals. A debate begins over whether the science

department should offer graduate degrees. A public session pits Earl Hanson and Charles

Stanton against Chad Dunham and Herb Arnold. Gary Humes

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writes to the Argus in support

of science graduate programs.

February 1, 1971 Survey conducted by federal government finds that 31% of college

students have tried marijuana and that 14% are regular users.

Miles Davis plays a concert in mid-February 1971. The Social Committee faces a 38 percent

loss, due partly to late equipment forcing a day’s delay. Swimmer Fred Lieberberg wins the 50-

and 100-yard freestyles against New Hampshire. Next week he beats all-American Gary Haag

of Amherst in the 200, while the rest of the team loses. Jerry Ryan puts out a plea for help with

the yearbook. And Argus food critic Doug Thompson writes a probing review of the new

Dunkin' Donuts on Washington Avenue. Students vote to retain the College Body Tax, with

most support going to WESU. The Argus and the film society are second and third. The

Wesleyan Debate Team of Mark Wallach, Karla Bell, Nancy Fuchs and Jon Meyer wins the

McGill debate Tournament. The Wesleyan wrestling team wins the Little Three. Mike Hurd

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Partner at Arnold & Porter in Washington, specializing in large-scale leasing and real estate development.

sets a new record. Then Hurd wins the New England Wrestling Tournament. And Wesleyan

basketball wins its first Little Three title since 1959.

February 16, 1971 Hot pants revealed at New York fashion show.

February 28, 1971 Jack Nichlaus wins 2nd PGA title.

March 8, 1971 Joe Frazier defeats Muhammed Ali on points.

Whatever happened to the political activism of the year before? Professors Chad Dunham, Helen

Green and Dave McAllister wonder in the Argus.

Argus Editor Feinstein writes a glowing appraisal of Campbell’s first 100 days as President,

praising him for bringing stability to campus and for his visibility. President

Campbell writes to the next edition complaining that Feinstein called him a

despot. No good deed goes unpunished.

Political Science Professor Elmer E. (E.E.) Shattschneider dies in early

March. The Youngbloods appear March 11. On the same day, a student

poetry reading, including Geoff Rips and Kit Royce, is scheduled. In a

breathless expose, former Argus editor David Barrett

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reports that graduate

students teach courses in departments that have graduate programs. Glenn

Harris puts together a team to study refuse disposal and wins an NSF grant. Also on the team are

Charles Smith

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, Seth Davis

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, Robert Kossack

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, Richard LeClair

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and Steve Soria

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Another NSF grant brings more controversy. The science department gets a grant to buy an IBM

7064 computer from Jet Propulsion Laboratories. The 7064 is the largest second-generation

computer, but the head of the computer lab complains that it is obsolete. While it was the best in

1965, it is not worth the investment in 1971, he claims. And if the white-elephant computer were

not embarrassing enough, the Argus discovers that the fully complete Science Center Auditorium

is being kept locked up because the architect forgot to put modesty panels on the fronts of the

desks. This meant, of course, that, in the extraordinarily unlikely event that a female student

wears a skirt or dress to class, some male science nerd might be distracted from the dry and

abstract study of anatomy by the opportunity to do some practical work.

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Graduated with Class of 1971. Joined Hartford Courant upon graduation and moved up to become

managing editor. Pushed out of the way in 1998 when the publisher decided to lower the newspaper’s standards.

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Science Librarian, Associate Professor, Western Kentucky University. Research involves bibliography and

bibliometrics, history and philosophy of science, the nineteenth century naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace,

biogeography, biodiversity, evolutionary theory, and general systems theory. Also interested in music, baseball, and

the paranormal, and enjoy good coffee, orange juice, and bread.

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Partner and chair of the environmental Department at the New York law firm of Huber, Lawrence & Abell.

Four time winner on Jeopardy. Class Secretary for life. See questionnaire response.

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Pediatrician, Fallon Clinic, Worcester, Mass.

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Certified public accountant in Concord, New Hampshire.

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Senior Technical Editor, Sargent & Lundy, a worldwide leader in professional services for the electric

power industry. Lives in Elmhurst, Illinois.

A miscreant headline writer seems to have kidnapped the March 17, 1971, edition of the Argus.

For there on the front page is a banner shouting, “Bad Acid Found on Campus.” And lower,

discussing the appointment of former President Edwin Deacon Etherington to a federal position

by President Richard Milhous Nixon, the paper announces, “Super Ted Named Head of

Volunteer Group by Big Dick.” Five students resign from the University Senate, including Steve

Lansing to study in Bali, Bruce Lederer to study in Seattle, and Katy Butler. And both

University psychiatrists resigned. Due to the financial situation, they are not replaced. Students

will have to maintain their mental health with the help of three university psychologists. The

results soon become apparent. The Class of 1971 decides to make caps and gowns optional at

graduation.

March 29, 1971 Charles Manson sentenced to death for the murder of Sharon Tate.

March 31, 1971 Lieutenant William Calley convicted in a court martial for his role in the

My Lai massacre.

On April 6, 1971, the Argus staff published its controversial April Fool’s edition. The edition

pictured Chancellor Rosenbaum, complete in SS uniform, pushing President Campbell to his

death off the roof of the new science center. It reported that Wesleyan had lost its entire

endowment. Some, like the scholarly and insightful Richard Hood, thought the parody was a

brilliant, biting satire of current campus events. To those, editor Feinstein says, “It was all my

idea. I am proud to have produced it.” But the majority of readers, and certainly the majority of

trustees and alums, thought it crude, tasteless, vulgar, sophomoric, etc. This was particularly true

of trustee Ezra Zilkha, who flew back from Paris to attend Campbell’s funeral. Don Russell

wrote to say the editor should resign. To those critics, Feinstein says, “it was all Doug

Thompson’s work. He came down to the Argus office with quart bottles of Budweiser, drank me

into a stupor, and produced this piece of drek. To those we insulted, I say lighten up you

pompous windbag that I am very sorry for any pain we caused. To those who found the issue

offensive, I say get a life sorry.”

The brief break in the heavy clouds of the 1970-71 school year is soon obscured as the

administration proposes the elimination of the Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program and

the Wesleyan University Press to meet revenue shortfalls. Also, the administration delays

construction of the power plant and the student center and

announces an increase in dormitory rates. Ignoring this reality,

the library planning committee proposes building a new library

for 1 million books by 1995, apparently unaware that, by 1995,

reading books would be a lost tradition. The faculty endorses a

plan approved by the University Senate to withhold paychecks

from faculty members who turn grades in late. In mid-April,

philosophy Professor Paul Reynolds announces his retirement

from teaching to devote his energies to writing letters to the

Argus. John Barth comes to campus to speak on April 14.

Angela Moser leaves campus. Seatrain, scheduled to appear on April 16, performs late and

poorly allegedly because their equipment was stolen in Philadelphia. The warm-up band,

however, rules. Angst, made up of Danny Gleich, John Manchester, Steve Schiff and Eric Von

Ammon

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, rocks the house. Keeping up the activity, the Social Committee schedules Asleep at

the Wheel and Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen for May Day. And Ed Ohlbaum,

chairman of the College Body Committee, cancels elections because of lack of candidates,

including no entries from the Class of 1972. After a new period for nominations, elections are

held and Tom Wu and Robert Kossack of the Class of ’72 win. The tennis team is undefeated in

early play. Ed Wilder

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clears 13’6” in the pole vault. The IBM 7094 arrives from Pasadena.

April 15, 1971 “Patton” wins best picture at Academy Awards.

The University Senate disagrees with the administration on closing the University Press, but not

on the MAT program. Yet by late April, the administration announced that the deficit continues

to worsen. CSS ends its Afro-Asian Track because of too few students. The problem is not

limited to the university. WESU has an on-air marathon fund-raiser, netting $61.43 in its first 15

hours. As reported by Doug Thompson, Fred’s Package Store closes so the owners can buy a

convalescent home instead. As the owner tells Thompson, “When you change from whiskey to

wine, you know you’re on drugs.”

In one of the very few instances of political activity,

400 students attend the Day of Concern on May 5.

Earl Rhodes writes to bemoan the low turnout. Only

50 turn out at the memorial service and fewer at the

Main Street Vigil.

The University Senate votes to limit honor grades,

defined as B+ or better, to one-third of all grades.

Shortly thereafter the faculty vetoes the proposal.

First-semester grades showed 33 percent A’s, 47

percent B’s, and 15 percent C’s. Dean Adamany is

gone, but his shadowed lingers.

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Has a rural delivery box in South Royalton, Vermont. 3rd Grade Teacher, Bernice A. Ray School,

Hanover, New Hampshire.

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Cardiologist, Blacksburg, Virginia. He attended New York University School of Medicine in New York

City and after obtaining the MD degree went on to post graduate work at the Tufts-New England Medical Center

Hospital, Boston, MA. Upon completion of his studies, Dr. Wilder obtained board certification from the American

Board of Internal Medicine in both Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases. Dr. Wilder has been elected a

Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a Fellow, Clinical Council of Cardiology of the American Heart

Association. As a consultant for the Cordis and Teletronics Corporations, he was one of 15 national principle

investigators for the first dual chamber pacemakers and the first pacemaker with a metabolic sensor. This family of

pacemakers are the prototype of all modern pacemakers produced today. Dr. Wilder is a consultant for many of the

major pharmaceutical corporations and is an adjunct assistant professor at Virginia Tech. An invasive cardiologist

specializing in diseases of the heart, blood vessels, and hypertension, Dr. Wilder manages to find time to pursue

hobbies of computer science, modeling and tennis. As an instrument rated private pilot, he attempts to fly his

patients to a higher quality of life. Dr. Wilder and his wife, Dr. Paula Wilder, reside in Blacksburg with their

children, Derek and Nicholas. He is affiliated with Medical Associates of Southwest Virginia.

Dave Harfst, Pat Bauer, Ed Ohlbaum, Dave Hagerty

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, and Rob Hilton

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announce their

candidacies for the College Body Committee. Hale and Yagel write the Argus from Nairobi to

announce their candidacies but fail to file the appropriate paperwork. Ohlbaum leads the

balloting with 252; Bauer is next with 189; then Hagerty with 186, Harfst with 170 and Hilton

with 167. All are elected. The new SJB includes George Surgeon as chairman, Bill Smith,

Robert Siegel and Bruce Throne. Glenn Harris is selected to head the Social Committee.

May 3, 1971 10,000 people arrested in anti-war demonstration in Washington.

May 25, 1971 Appeals Court drops charges against Bobby Seale and Erica Huggins in

New Haven due to undue publicity.

The class of 1972 fares well in the end-of-year prizes in May 1971. Winners include Ted

Mason

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, Tim Atwood, John Maynard, Bruce MacLeod

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, Connie Sutherland, Ed Ohlbaum,

Anne Raunio, Tom Donovan, Charles Eckhart

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, Larry Kenny

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, Issac Sabetai

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and John

Walkenhorst.

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Senior Associate, Blessing-White Inc., Boston, Mass. BlessingWhite helps organizations succeed by

instilling leadership and values in a Clicks and MortarTM world. Its tried and tested programs have already shaped

the personal and professional growth of the top talent of many of the world’s leading companies. Its experience in

aligning the needs and goals of the individual with the aims and objectives of the company has earned

BlessingWhite the reputation as the leader in values-driven professional growth and business performance. See

questionnaire response.

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President and CEO of McGregor, distinguished senior care. After 27 years of practicing corporate finance

switched careers to join the staff of The McGregor Community, one of Cleveland's most venerable not for profits, as

CEO. The A.M. McGregor Home and Amasa Stone House provide assisted-living and nursing home care, Medicaid-

certified nursing, respite, hospice and Alzheimer’s care. See questionnaire response.

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Professor of English, Kenyon College. Named the second John B. McCoy-Bank One Distinguished

Teaching Professor. A member of the Kenyon faculty since 1988, Mason previously taught at Trinity College in

Connecticut and the University of Virginia and held a visiting post at Mount Holyoke College. He earned his

doctorate from Stanford University. Mason, who was awarded the McCoy-Bank One Chair as the result of a

competitive process, will hold the position for four years.

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Received Ph.D. in Music from Wesleyan in 1979. Dissertation on Music for All Occasions: The Club Date

Business of Metropolitan New York City. Registered piano technician in Middletown.

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Managing Director and General Partner: Shipley Raidy Capital Partners, LP, West Conshohocken, PA

(1997-Current); Vice President: CoreStates Investment Banking/Philadelphia Capital Advisors (1986-1996);

Financial Consultant: Corporate Financing Department, Sun Company, Inc. (1980-1986); Treasury Coordinator:

Treasury Department, Conoco, Inc. (1977-1980); Senior Economic Analyst: Coordinating and Planning Department,

Conoco, Inc. (1974-1977). Shipley Raidy Capital Partners is a NASD-registered, private merchant banking firm

formed to arrange corporate financial transactions for medium, as well as, large privately-owned and publicly-traded

companies. It offers a broad range of investment banking services with primary emphasis on debt and equity

placements along with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations and recapitalizations.

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Professor of Economics, University of Florida. Professor Kenny teaches undergraduate managerial

economics, public choice and an empirical research in economics seminar. He is currently investigating the effect of

shifts in tax bases and collections costs on the bundle of taxes that countries choose, the impact of term limits on

legislative turnover, and the effects of state involvement in primary and secondary education on private school

enrollment and the efficiency of public school systems. Author: "Projecting the Consequences of Term Limits Upon

Expected Tenure, Institutional Turnover, and Membership Experience, Journal of Politics, with W.L. Francis, 1997;

The end of the school year brings Muhammed Ali to campus to speak on life. It also

brings a letter to the Argus, with numerous signatures, stating simply, “We politely request the

dissolution of the EPC [Educational Policy Committee] and the University Senate, as

unnecessary and ill-conceived figments of somebody else’s imagination.” The administration

decides to phase out the MAT program but keep Wesleyan University Press. Finally, Larry

Mark writes a lengthy good-bye, which includes his picks for the best bodies on campus.

Members of the Class of ’72 to win this signal honor were Steve Colantuono

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, Don Gavin, Ann

Ostheimer

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, Bill Scofield

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, Liz Smith, and Arthur Wein.

June 14, 1971 Frank Sinatra announces his retirement.

June 30, 1971 Supreme Court upholds New York Times in suit by government to

prevent publication of the Pentagon Papers.

July 3, 1971 Doors lead singer Jim Morrison dies.

July 6, 1971 Louis Armstrong dies.

August 5, 1971 Alabama Governor George C. Wallace announces candidacy for

President.

"The Effect of the Expansion of the Voting Franchise on the Size of Government," Journal of Political Economy,

with T.A. Husted, 1997; "Position Shifting in Pursuit of Higher Office," American Journal of Political Science, With

W.L. Francis, 1996; "Evidence on Electoral Accountability in the U.S. Senate: Are Unfaithful Agents Really

Punished?" Economic Inquiry, with A.B. Schmidt and R.B. Morton, 1996; "A Comparison of Costs in Privately-

Owned and Publicly-Owned Electric Utilities: The Role of Scale," Land Economics, with D.S. Koh and S. Berg,

1996; "Economists’ Salaries and Lifetime Productivity ," Southern Economic Journal, with R.E. Studley, 1995;

"Constituent Errors in Assessing their Senators," Public Choice, with T.A. Husted and R.B. Morton, 1995;

“Retrospective Voting and Political Mobility," American Journal of Political Science, with W.L. Francis, R.B.

Morton and A.B. Schmidt, 1994; "The Decline in the Number of School Districts in the U.S.: 1950 - 1980," Public

Choice, with A.B. Schmidt, 1994; "An Explanation for Why Senators from the Same State Vote Differently So

Frequently," Journal of Public Economics, with J.R. Lott, Jr., 1994; "Redistribution, Income, and Voting," American

Journal of Political Science, with J.E. Filer and R.B. Morton, 1993; "Cross-Country Estimates of the Demand for

Money and its Components," Economic Inquiry, 1991; "Voting Laws, Educational Policies, and Minority Turnout,"

Journal of Law and Economics, with J.E. Filer and R.B. Morton, 1991; "International Evidence on the Role of

Literacy in the Demographic Transition," Research in Population Economics, 1990; "Self-Interest and the Senate

Vote on Direct Elections," Economics and Politics, with M. Rush, 1990; "The Retention of State Governors," Public

Choice, with J.D. Adams, 1989. Honors: Teaching Improvement Award, for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching,

1990 - 93; Outstanding Teacher of the Year in Economics, 1989 - 90; Beta Gamma Sigma. See questionnaire

response.

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Lives in Athens.

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Associate, SPG Associates, Sudbury, Mass.

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Now known as Gen Helsang Choma, she is a Buddhist nun and teacher who leads the Himalaya Buddhist

Center in Brattleboro, Vermont. She has bee practicing Buddhism since 1983 and became a nun 6 years ago.

Before that, she was a professor of art at San Jose State University and a professional artist. She practices a Tibetan

approach which differs from the more common Zen school. Both use silent meditation, nonjudgmental awareness

and compassion.

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Lives in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.

August 26, 1971 New York Giants announce move

to New Jersey.

Senior Year: 1971-72

Over the summer, 34-year-old chemistry savant Professor

Peter Leermakers dies when his jeep overturns near

Yosemite. Budget cuts hit home in September 1971

when Downey House serves only pre-made burgers and

soggy fries. A boycott is called but fails to materialize.

The administration promises a bigger menu, but refuses

to return to the old format. The administration spokesman states, “We cannot afford a custom

sandwich operation.” Pancakes and hot cereal are discontinued for breakfast. Over the fall,

patronage at Downey House continues to fall. The news is bad out of the admissions office as

well. Applicants for the class of 1975 totaled 2,820, down from 3,446 for the previous class.

September 11, 1971 Nikita Khrushchev dies.

September 13, 1971 Police storm Attica prison. 28 prisoners and 6 hostages killed.

Hope in the midst of the bleak fall comes from the impending September 24 Byrds concert.

Alas, it is hope dashed. Roger McGuinn insists that the first-rate warm-up band of Wheeler’s

Egyptian Dog (Manchester, Gleisch, et. al.) only play for 30 minutes, not the one hour planned.

And then McGuinn and his sidekicks are dreadful, at least according to Argus reviewers Wynde

East and Steve Young. In better arts news, Wesleyan premieres the film “Grope” by David

Wolman

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, twin-billed with a new short by Paul Vidich and Vin Suprynowicz

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No, the news continues to be grim. Jerry Ryan has to defend himself against scathing criticism

of the 1971 Olla Pod for showing Wesleyan as a beer-guzzling preppy jock school. The

judicious, sagacious John Hagel and his steady sidekick Allen Yale write to criticize the “Thieu-

like fascism of the CBC election.” Closer to home, the Middletown Registrar of Voters ponders

whether to permit Wesleyan students to vote. Dave Revenaugh is sidelined with sprained wrists,

but Mike Carlson catches two touchdown passes for a win over Middlebury. Two seniors –

Peter Barnett and John Gay – lead the soccer team. Still, football ends the season 3-5 with a 21-

0 loss to Trinity. Doug Thompson, Charles Blaine, and Gary Humes write that the Argus has

become, by November, sad, tearful and bitchy.

The women of Wesleyan are no happier. The Argus printed an epic poem, ending with these

words:

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Writer, living in Philadelphia.

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Assistant Editorial Page Editor, Las Vegas Review-Journal. Writes a libertarian column. From

Spiritof76.com: “If you don't already know the name VIN SUPRYNOWICZ, make sure you learn it, and learn it

well. Why? Because he is the BEST, most articulate spokesman around for the FREEDOM MOVEMENT!! Vin's

timely and well written articles are syndicated in newspapers all around the country, and they circulate around the

world freely on the Internet and in Libertarian publications. He is recognized as a voice of reason and Libertarianism

(yes, with a capital 'L') and is giving hope for millions suffering under the yoke of oppression today.”

What a shame that things turn out this way

Uptight Wes guys afraid that a lay

Just might not fit into their chauvinistic play.

Wise up you guys

Chicks are here to stay

So while the sun shines

Why not make hay?

Despite these woes (or maybe because of them), Wesleyan women beat Yale in field hockey.

Fraternity participation drops to 20 percent. Only Alpha Delt, Chi Psi,

DKE, Delta Tau, Kappa Nu and Psi U remain. Still, the brothers of

Chi Psi try to keep tradition alive by staggering over to what was the

Beta house and is now a dormitory for their annual rite of urinating on

the house. The denizens of the house respond by dumping water on

their heads. The heroic Chi Psi men answer by tossing beer bottles

through the windows. It's hard to

understand why fraternities fell out of

favor. In October, only 11 percent of

freshmen pledge.

In late September 1971, a Middletown

couple files a zoning complaint

against the house at 132 High Street,

claiming it is an illegal commune. The house is run by

Psychology Department librarian Mike Millen. Regulars there

include Jim Mathison

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, Glenn Harris, Bud Spurgeon, Fred

Mellor

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, Steve Blum

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, Michael Fossel, Karen Bilardi and

Jason Hackett.

The board appoints students to its committees for the 1971-72

school year, including Tom Wu on financial planning, John Gay

on investments, Rob Calhoun

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and Lew Rumford

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Works as Northeast Regional Sales Manager. Lives in Clinton, Connecticut.

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Works in social service in Uppsala, Sweden. See questionnaire response.

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Licensed psychologist, Topeka, Kansas. Listed: National Register of Health Service Providers in

Psychology; Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Clinical Psychology: Menninger Clinic; Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from

The University of Tennessee.

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Workout Consultant, Beesley Associates. Lives in Brownsville, Vermont.

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President, JPG Properties, Washington, D.C.

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Term is used advisedly.

facilities, John Tegtmeyer

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on housing, and Doug Thompson, Dave Williams

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and Alan Yale

on student events.

A new well of controversy springs forth as Warren Johnson

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writes to complain about the dogs,

cats, possums, and goats kept as pets on campus. What starts as a stray voice becomes a muddy

pack in no time. Tom Ngenge

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chimes in with a column on the

inconvenience of dog feces on campus. Soon, the campus Puritans would

growl about canine copulation.

Vin Suprynowicz has taken over the task of writing film and theatre reviews

for the Argus. This wins him a critique from the COL Senior Colloquium for

his grammar. Suprynowicz declares that "2001" is a masterpiece, but rejects

"Midnight Cowboy" as "gimmicky." He calls it “a self-indulgent director’s

marred masterpiece.”

The ever-counting University Planning Head

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Hess Haagen releases a new

study in October on drug use on campus. He finds that 74 percent said they had tried some

drugs. Forty percent said they had tried hard drugs. And,

demonstrating how closely he had explored the subject,

Haagen reports that between 60 and 75 percent of

students they used marijuana regularly. Use of LSD had

dropped. No student reported trying marijuana but not

inhaling.

The EPC recommends to the University Senate a ban of

incompletes except in the most extreme circumstances.

The Argus is critical, particularly of the fact that the proposal was developed during the summer

without student participation. Dean Creeger comments, “The problem of acting decisively on

grading reform is maddening as an existential reality.” The Senate then votes to postpone the

incompletes policy for a semester. The faculty ratifies the decision in a 51-27 vote.

The football game against Coast Guard is marred as cans and bottles are thrown on the field.

Don Russell is furious. But Dave Revenaugh comes through, leading the team to a 35-34

victory, taking hand-offs from quarterback Bob Medwig. ShaNaNa (with Carol Hall opening for

them) is scheduled to perform on October 28, the Delfonics on November 5, Blue Oyster Cult on

November 6, Dreams with a little-known group, The Mahavishnu Orchestra with John

McLaughlin as the opening act on November 13, and the Kinks on November 19. And on

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Architect, San Marino, California.

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Director, Planned Parenthood Political Action Fund, Washington, D.C.

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Physician and family practitioner, Brighton, Colorado.

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Associate professor of English, West Virginia State College. He teaches literature, English, logic, and

cross-discipline courses. His Ph.D. is from the University of Texas at Austin. Published “Judicial Attitudes on

Feminist Ideas and Female Felons: The Impact on Female Crime Patterns” with Charles O. Ochie.

October 29, Jhan Dudley, Mike McClintock and Jeff Blandey perform at

Downey House as part of the Nocturnal Mission program. Remarkably,

the concert by John McLaughlin is declared the hit of the semester. Jerry

Ryan announces that he will try again: He will produce a class of ’72

yearbook that will not be as fraternity-oriented. David Nicoll quits the

Argus editorial Board and is replaced by Gary Humes.

Political protest appears to reappear as Moratorium Day is announced for October 13. Steve

Lansing organizes the United Front with the avowed purpose of “Collective action in support of

liberation movements of all kinds as they pertain to Wesleyan.” President Campbell announces

that, in the future, Institutional Citizenship will guide Wesleyan investment decisions. In April

1972, there is new talk about a student strike in opposition to the escalation in the war. About

300 students join the strike.

In a lead story the Argus, on October 26, 1971, charges that Bob Kirkpatrick unilaterally has

changed admissions policy. The paper reports that Kirkpatrick is looking for a cohesive student

body focused on academic pursuits. In the process, he has rejected the diversity and uniqueness

of the Wesleyan student body. Student reaction to the revelation is negative, but faculty reaction

is mixed. The Senate announces an investigation. Kirkpatrick backs off, saying he is for both

diversity and common intellectual pursuit. The Argus reports that Wesleyan is becoming a

professional feeder school. Between 80 and 100 students plan to go to law school. Similarly,

sixty-two in the class of ’73 want to go to medical school, 68 in the class of ‘74, and 114 in the

class of ’75. The Senate debates and then votes for a resolution providing

for more reporting and accountability by the director of admissions.

Shortly afterward, the Argus reports that over the past year the number of

English majors has dropped from 89 to 70 while the number of biology

majors has leapt from 31 to 47.

Catherine Royce

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is named student poet with Mike Carlson as the

alternate. The Honor Board castigates the Argus for running an ad titled,

“We Buy Term Papers.” The Argus apologizes, saying the ad slipped

through the newspaper’s exhaustive vetting process.

The fall Phi Beta Kappa appointees are Pat Bauer, Rick Berg, Bonnie Blair, Seth Davis, Howard

Dickman

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, Leonard Kalman

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, Dennis Kesden

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, Michael McKeon

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, Steve Roper

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, George

Taylor

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and Tom Templeton

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Lives in Boston. Married to Scott Nagel.

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Senior Editor, Reader’s Digest. Stepped in for author Barbara Branden at 1997 celebration of anniversary

of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Said Atlas Shrugged had turned millions of readers on to the ideas of liberty but

maintained that just as important was the book's message "that you have a profound right to be happy--that your

own happiness is a value."

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Oncologist, Hematologist, Miami, Florida. Principal investigator at Baptist Health South.

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Ophthalmologist, Amityville and Massapequa, New York. See questionnaire response.

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Lives in Madison, Connecticut.

David Aufhauser and Dave Revenaugh launch an effort to win tenure for Assistant English

Professor Michael West. Ted Goodman

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successfully sues Wesleyan for the loss of his stereo.

And, in other litigation news, Issac Sabatai confronts the administration over his damaged

bicycle. He parked it under a breezeway in East College that collapsed in a wind storm.

During our freshman year, we elected Ted Mason class president. Through oversight, no further

elections were held until we learned that we needed a class president

for graduation. Mason decides to retire after one term.

Those deciding to run for the slot are campus radical,

libertarian, anarchist, and Africa veteran John Hagel,

Alan Yale, Kevin Smyley, Mitch Willey, Steve

Melcher

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and Cy Quinn. Jerry Ryan and Leon Vinci

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run for secretary. Tom Dwyer and John Gay run for

treasurer. Quinn becomes president with 45 of 96 votes

cast, Smyley vice-president with 19 votes, and Yale

treasurer with 47 votes. How Yale, who did not run for Treasurer won is one of the

many unsolved mysteries of our college years. Jerry Ryan beats Leon Vinci by five

votes for the key post of class secretary.

Doug Thompson Remembers: Regarding Cy, you must understand that he and I had been friends

and fellow hockey players for years, well before we showed-up at Wesleyan. Although none has

been offered, I take full credit for launching his run for the Class Presidency. I cannot recall the

other dimwits and Dan Quayle types who had announced themselves as candidates, but I do

remember thinking that we needed someone more like Cy and less like the other candidates to

represent the class. And of course the enormous responsibilities of the job itself required

someone with a beard and a love for e.e.cummings.

So, to make a short story even shorter, I invited Cy to accompany me to one of the local dives

one Sunday at noon, a day or two before the deadline when candidates had to register. I bought

us some sandwiches and something to drink, and we sat down to either color the universe or try

to remember what we'd done the night before -- I can't remember which. I paid for the drinks

and the food and the desert. This is important because I knew Cy well enough -- tight wad that he

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Historic Bridge Specialist, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Stephen J. Roper of the Mass Highways

Department (MHD) is an architectural historian who has run the Commonwealth's Historic Bridge Inventory

program since the mid-'80's. The inventory produces the information required to keep the MHD in compliance with

the National Historic Preservation Act as they carry out repairs and replacements as they keep pace with the magical

mobility of the modern world.

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Did not graduate with the Class of 1972.

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Veterinarian. Lives in Blacksburg, West Virginia. President, Shenandoah Valley Angus Association.

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Psychiatrist, Sutter Center for Psychiatry, Sacramento, California. Interested in Electro-convulsive

therapy.

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Executive Vice President, Sun Life Fin'l Svc Canada. Lives in Surrey, UK.

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Master of Public Health. Health Director for Lincoln-Lancaster County (Nebraska) Health Department.

could be -- that if I made him pay for lunch then I'd get zero cooperation from him, and he would

not run for the office.

Half way into the meal I launched a carefully plotted speech regarding the people running for

President of the class were not a "Who's who" of the class but a "no Who" of the class and,

believe it or not, he agreed with me. The waiter [sic – there were no waiters in Middletown, just

people who shuffled from behind the bar over to the customers, to drop plates on the table rather

than lay them down, to sweep garbage onto the floor rather than clean the table, and to get their

25 cent tips from the lousy good for nothing Wesleyan yuckies.] brought desert, a pie and ice

cream concoction that I hoped would give Cy a sugar high. Then I launched into a humanitarian

appeal that Cy needed to run for office and the class needed him to be president.

Whether he was high on desert sugar or something else -- or perhaps he was entirely lucid -- Cy

agreed without much effort on my part that he would run for President. Lunch was over. I quietly

declared a victory, although my work wasn't done.

You'll surmise, I'm sure, that Cy was bribed to run for office. In my mind, that's half true; the

other half was that, when confronted with the idea, he actually liked it. Think about it -- this was

a job with only one responsibility, which was to show-up on graduation day and give a speech.

Who wouldn't like it -- if they could get elected? More to the point of vote-getting, Cy was a

fellow that literally everyone on campus liked and enjoyed.

The following week I wrote an article on the candidates for Senior Class President. I honestly do

not recall who the other candidates were. I honestly do know that I was a biased reporter. While

I cannot recall any details in the article, I do remember giving Cy much more space than any

other candidates, probably more than all the other candidates combined; and I included a

winning (so to speak) quote from him. Now, the question becomes one of power of the press. Did

that Argus article have any influence on the behavior of voters at the polls? My answer is a

resounding "yes!" My reasoning is simple and direct: The April Fool's issue almost got you

thrown out of school; therefore the Argus newspaper had power to influence people. Logically,

then, the Argus was responsible for Cy's election. [And I did graduate, although I didn't major in

logic.]

In early March, the officers decree that gowns will be worn at graduation ceremonies. Rick Berg

and Paul Edelberg

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immediately write in dissent. The officers, except for President Quinn,

respond in support of the policy. This draws further fire from Steve Lansing, Jay Cherner, David

Keith

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, Winsor Watson, Bruce Throne, Bruce Hearey and John Collins

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. Roy Tembi

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rails

against dictatorship in the gown decision.

The Argus itself becomes the target as Charles Kreiner, an employee of the dean’s office, files a

SJB complaint against University Senate correspondent David Garrow and

editor Andy Feinstein for libeling a member of the University Senate. The

Argus asks for an open hearing. The SJB acquits the journalists but says

that the paper came “dangerously close to breaking the bounds of what we

consider reasonable criticism.”

William Scofield sends an open letter to President Campbell in January

1972 saying he is “sorely disappointed at how the interests of its students

seem to be of secondary concern to Wesleyan.” As the new year opens,

the biology department is rocked by a take-home exam, the rules for

which are not clear. Eventually, the exam is thrown out.

Manhattan Transfer performs at Wesleyan on February 5,

followed by Doc and Merle Watson on February 18, Hot

Tuna on April 12, Livingston Taylor on April 29, and Poco

and John Hammond on May 7. Jerry Jeff Walk and David

Bromberg also appear. The concert season climaxes

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May 5 with a Canine Fuck-In starring Wheeler’s Egyptian

Dog on Foss Hill.

The hockey team upsets Amherst in overtime, with scoring

by Doug Thompson, John Gay and Steve Melcher. The relay team of Edmonson, Quigley, Wein

and Lieberberg beats Bowdoin in swimming. Art Wein and Larry Mendelowitz

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are named all-

American. And Jim Koss and Jim Akin lead the basketball team to a 65-52 victory over

Middlebury. Akin ends the season averaging 16.6 points per game and 13.7 rebounds. Koss has

13.1 points per game and seven boards. Hess Haagen reports that the percentage of high school

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Attorney. Partner in Rucci, Burnham, Carta & Edelberg, LLP, Stamford, Connecticut. He focuses his

practice on the representation of entrepreneurs, privately held businesses and banks. He has specialized in corporate,

banking and commercial law for over 25 years and has developed a diverse practice. He has carved niches

particularly in the areas of banking, commercial and private finance, mergers and acquisitions, small business

counseling, technology law, real property acquisitions and leasing, entrepreneurial representation and nonprofit

entity law.

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Lives in San Francisco.

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No information available.

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Class of 1971.

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Social Committee Chair Steven Goldschmidt takes issue with the notion that the climax occurred prior to

the Poco concert. At that time, it was possible for some of us to have more than one climax in a three day period.

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Obstetrician and gynecologist, Tarrytown, New York

graduates with an A average sharply increased at Wesleyan but the change is due entirely to

female students. Blake Allison

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proposes that student evaluations of faculty members be

published regularly. The EPC votes 5-4 that a professor cannot limit admission to a course to

political radicals. The committee claims that this ruling is consistent with its earlier rulings that

African-American Institute courses could not be limited to blacks.

February 22, 1972 President Nixon meets Mo Tse-Tung in Peking

A new Constitutional Review Committee, chaired by David Harfst, with

Steve Sheffrin, Steve Shay

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and Mitch Willey, proposes changes in the

honor system. Honor Board co-chairmen Dave Nicoll and Hank Shelton

criticize the proposal for including a faculty

member on the honor board.

March 25, 1972 UCLA wins 6th straight

NCAA basketball championship.

George Surgeon decides to try out for the

Olympic rowing team. Jim McKay forgot to

mention him during coverage of the games.

Steve Sheffrin wins a Danforth Fellowship. And Sheffrin, along with

Steve Lewis, Michael Gee, Dave Williams and Ben Baldwin

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, starts the

National Student Strike in Support of Major League Baseball Players. Pat Bauer runs for the

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Vice President, Corporate Director of Wine, The Whitehall Companies, Norwood, Massachusetts. The

Whitehall companies are distributors of fine wines, beers and spirits in the state of Massachusetts. See questionnaire

response. Blake lost his wife, Anna, on September 11. The New York Time profile reads:

Love blossomed over crushed grapes. Blake Allison was a wine appreciation instructor at the Cambridge Center

for Adult Education in Massachusetts. His future wife, Anna, was a student. "She took a couple of courses before we

went out," said Mr. Allison, a professional wine- taster. "I was slow to get the hint."

Anna S. Allison was on the plane that struck 1 World Trade Center. She was on her way to visit a client in Los

Angeles.

Mrs. Allison was an independent, spirited adventurer, who loved to travel, Mr. Allison said. Last year, she started

her own company, A2 Software Solutions in Boston, where she and her husband lived.

When they "could swing it," they would travel together, Mr. Allison said. About 18 months ago, they went to

France, visiting Paris and Alsace. They also toured Burgundy, where Beaujolais is produced, and Champagne,

where the original Champagne is made. "Every day was a new opportunity for her," Mr. Allison said. "Because

there were new opportunities, there was always hope of doing something good. That's the way she lived her life."

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Tax partner with Ropes & Gray in Boston. Specializes in transfer pricing issues. Formerly International

Tax Counsel with U.S. Treasury Department. Lecturer at Harvard Law School.

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Jazz musician living in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Ben Baldwin's "Big Note" band was founded in

1975, and since then many outstanding musicians have contributed to its success. Currently, the line-up includes

guys who have actually worked with Chuck Berry, The Drifters, Gatemouth Brown, Bo Diddly, Artie Shaw, Duke

Robillard, Willie Dizon, Mose Allison and Dizzy Gillespie. As a unit, the band has opened for: Asleep at the

Wheel, The Drifters, The Temptations, The O Jays, and Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. Band members are

involved in music full time, whether it's teaching, playing, studio recording, producing or publishing. Teaches at

Berwick Academy.

Board of Trustees. Victoria Blumenthal, Michael Arkin

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, Mike Hurd and Vin Suprynowicz star

in the ’92 Theatre’s presentation of "Twelfth Night."

Rob Hilton Remembers: When we were there, the Wesleyan Crew, of

which George Surgeon and I were co-captains as seniors, was a club

(as opposed to a varsity sport sanctioned by Don Russell and the

Phys. Ed. Dept). We were therefore responsible for our own

uniforms. Toward this end, we decided to design a Wes Crew T-

shirt. The shirt had the black capital letters "WESCREW" on a

lavender background (to express solidarity with the Gay Liberation

Front for reasons that I have since forgotten). Demand was

overwhelming across the campus and I daresay that crew was

Wesleyan's most popular team sport of any kind that spring. As for

the rest of the story, Coach Russell decided to bring the crew into his

fold as a varsity sport the following fall, but discontinued our T-shirts. And two years ago, 28

years after we graduated, at the initiative, I think, of the Alumni Office and Phil Calhoun, Coach

Russell was kind enough to award varsity letters to George and me, occasioning one of the few

times that I have cried real tears as an adult.

April 2, 1972 North Vietnam announces invasion of South.

April 13, 1972 Major league baseball strike settled.

April 15, 1972 US begins bombing of Haiphong harbor.

May 1, 1972 Government of Republic of Vietnam abandons Quangtri Province to

North.

May 2, 1972 FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover dies.

May 16, 1972 Presidential Candidate Governor George Wallace shot in Laurel,

Maryland.

June 17, 1972 Five burglars caught inside Democratic National Committee

headquarters at the Watergate.

The spring inductees to Phi Beta Kappa are Ron Ashkenas

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, Stephen Atkinson, David

Aufhauser, George Barth, James Bock

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, Edward Brundage

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, Arthur Claflin, Steven Cohen,

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Hard working professional actor. Recently toured with Kiss Me Kate. One review said, “The standouts,

however, are the two gangsters, played by Richard Poe and Michael Arkin, who predictably stop the show with

‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’.” See questionnaire response.

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Management Consultant/Partner, R. H. Schaffer & Assoc., a Stamford, Connecticut, firm that has worked

on dozens of acquisition integration projects. Ron has helped dozens of companies achieve dramatic improvements

in performance while also developing stronger leadership and management processes. He is a frequent coach to

CEOs and other senior executives and was one of the lead consultants for General Electric's "WorkOut" process. He

is coauthor of Making the Deal Real: How GE Capital Integrates Acquisitions for Harvard Business Review and of

Charles Eckhart, Mark Gelber, David Harfst, Jim Hoxie

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, Larry Kenny,

Paschalis Kitromilides

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, Richard Kolotkin

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, Robert Kossack, Mark

Kravitz, Issac Sabatai, Stephen Scheibe

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, Steve Sheffrin, Connie Sutherland, Mark Testa

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Thomas Tuthill, Larry Weinberg, and David Yager.

the book The Boundaryless Organization. (with Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick and Steve Kerr). See questionnaire

response.

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Senior News Editor, U.S. News & World Report, Washington, D.C.

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Lives in Romulus, New York.

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Director, Center for AIDS Research, University of Pennsylvania. The Penn Center for AIDS Research

(Penn-CFAR) is one of 18 NIH-funded CFARs and includes HIV and AIDS investigators at University of

Pennsylvania, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and the Wistar Institute. The Center has five main

functions: 1) to create an infrastructure to encourage HIV/AIDS research on campus; 2) to identify funding

opportunities and encourage involvement by Penn investigators in new and emerging areas of AIDS research; 3) to

coordinate efforts to develop resources on campus that would be of general use to AIDS researchers; 4) to promote

educational activities and training opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students; and 5) to identify

underrepresented research areas in order to facilitate faculty recruitment. Research in Dr. Hoxie's lab focuses on

identifying viral and cellular determinants that are relevant to the ability of HIV and SIV to infect cells and induce

cytopathic effects. Main goals are to understand the molecular basis for differences in viral tropism among CD4

positive and negative cell types as well as differences in replication kinetics and killing of various cell types.

Particular areas of interest include studies of the interactions of the viral envelope glycoprotein with cellular receptor

molecules and the cytoskeleton. Efforts are in progress to understand the structural determinants and mechanisms

involved in the binding and entry of viruses into target cells and in the expression and processing of viral

glycoproteins in infected cells. Additional research areas include studies of the humoral immune response to the

viral envelope where efforts are in progress to develop strategies to augment the immunogenicity of this protein for

vaccine studies in animal models. See questionnaire response.

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Professor of Political Science, University of Athens, Director, Institute for Neohellenic Research, National

Hellenic Research Foundation. Publications include Small States in the Modern World: The Conditions of Survival,

Nicosia: Zavallis Press, 1979 (Coauthor and coeditor with Peter Worseley); [Iossipos Moisiodax. The coordinates of

Balkan thought in the eighteenth century], Athens: Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece, 1985. The

Enlightenment as Social Criticism. Iosipos Moisiodax and Greek Culture in the Eighteenth Century, Princeton:

Princeton University Press, 1992; Enlightenment, Nationalism, Orthodoxy. Studies in the Culture and Political

Thought of Southeastern Europe, Aldershot and London: Variorum, 1994; [Modern Greek Enlightenment. Political

and Social Ideas], Athens: Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece, 1996. Second edition: Athens,

1999; [Rhigas Velestinlis. Theory and practice], Athens: Greek Parliament, 1998. Accompanied by a volume of

texts: Rhigas Velestinlis, selected by P. M. Kitromilides, Athens: Greek Parliament, 1998; [The French Revolution

and Southeastern Europe]. Second Revised Edition. Athens: Poreia,2000.

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Professor of psychologist, Moorhead State University; Clinical psychologist. He teaches personality,

abnormal, and clinical psychology. His interests include assertiveness training, psychodiagnosis, psychotherapy, and

primary prevention.

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International Sales, Kent H. Landsberg Co., Encinitas, California. The Kent H. Landsberg Company is a

one-stop source for packaging, janitorial and shipping supplies. See questionnaire response.

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Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Research interest are Childhood Social Indicators, Adolescent Parenthood, Kinship Foster Care and Public

Assistance, Child and Family Policy. Recent publications include "Professional Foster Care: A Future Worth

Pursuing?" (1999). Pp. 108-124 in Kathy Barbell and Lois Wright (Eds.) Child Welfare. Special Edition on Family

Foster Care in the 21st Century. Vol. 78, No. 1 January/February 1999. (With Nancy Rolock); "Improving Data

Collection on Adoption and Relinquishment of Children in the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)."(1998).

Report to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention,U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Chicago:

Princeton professor Carl Schorske was chosen to give the graduation address. Academic prizes

are presented to Steve Atkinson, Tim Atwood, Rick Berg, Jim Bock, Andrea Bond

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, Tim

Brown

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, Peter Clark, Steve Cohen, Charles Eckert, John Gay, Mark Gelber, Don Gratz

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, Dave

Harfst, John Hunter, Larry Kenny, Paschalis Kitromilides, Bob Kossack, Mark Kravitz, Roberta

Krueger

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, Ted Mason, Mike McKeon, Ed Ohlbaum, Charles Raffel

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, Steve Schiff, Harold

Selesky, Steve Sheffrin, Dan Simons

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, Connie Sutherland, George Taylor, Tom Templeton,

Bob White, Ed Wilder, and Mitch Willey.

School Of Social Service Administration. (With Lydia Falconnier). “Kinship Foster Care in Illinois." (1997). Pp.

101-129 in Jill Duerr Berrick, Richard Barth, and Neil Gilbert (Eds.) Child Welfare Research Review, Volume Two.

New York: Columbia University Press. "Permanency Planning Options for Children in Formal KinshipCare."

(1996). Pp. 451-470 in Dana Wilson and Sandra Chipungu (Eds.) Child Welfare. Special Issue: Kinship Care. Vol

LXXV, No. 5 September/October. (With Kristen Shook, Leslie Cohen, and Melinda Woods). "Adolescent

Pregnancy and Parenthood." (1995). Pp. 49-73 in Allen Imershein, Mary Mathis and C. Aaron McNeece (Eds.) Who

Cares for the Children? A Case Study of Policies and Practices.Dix Hills, New York: Generall Hall, Inc. (With

Dianne Harrison and Brenda Jarmon). "The Effect of Employment on Marriage Among Black Males in Inner-City

Chicago." (1995). In M. Belinda Tucker and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan (Eds.) The Decline of Marriage Among

African Americans. New York. Russell Sage Foundation. (With Marilyn Krogh). Early Parenthood and Coming of

Age in the 1990s. (1992). New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press (Ed. with Margaret Rosenheim).

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Attorney and Shareholder, Briggs & Morgan, St. Paul, Minnesota. Married to Charles Skrief, Class of

1971. Son in Class of 2003. Member of Financial Institutions and Real Estate Section. Practices in banking and

intellectual property.

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Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado. Recently, Brown and David

Charbonneau of the California Institute of Technology using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope made the first direct

detection and chemical analysis of the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system. Their unique observations

demonstrate it is possible with Hubble and other telescopes to measure the chemical makeup of extrasolar planets'

atmospheres and potentially to search for chemical markers of life beyond Earth. The planet orbits a yellow, Sun-

like star called HD 209458, a seventh-magnitude star (visible in an amateur telescope) that lies 150 light-years away

in the autumn constellation Pegasus. Its atmospheric composition was probed when the planet passed in front of its

parent star, allowing astronomers for the first time ever to see light from the star filtered through the planet's

atmosphere.

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Senior associate and the coordinator for national school reform of the Community Training & Assistance

Center in Boston. He also serves as the vice chairman of the Needham, Mass., school board. The Community

Training and Assistance Center provides technical assistance to organizations throughout the United States. In

community development and health/human services, the Center assists a range of non-profit community

organizations. In education, the Center assists superintendents, central staff, teachers, principals, board members,

health and human service providers and business leaders. The overall purpose of technical assistance is to build

institutional capacity in the district's schools and classrooms. The Center's assistance is customized to the needs of

each district and organization. The Center also conducts major research initiatives in areas of significant public

policy interest. See questionnaire response.

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A member of the Hamilton College faculty since 1980, Krueger earned a master's and Ph.D. from the

University of California at Santa Cruz. A specialist in medieval and renaissance French literature and culture, she

recently edited a collection of essays on romance, The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance, which was

published in May 2000. Krueger has also written a book on women patrons and readers of Old French romance, and

has translated a large section of the Lancelot-Grail romance, which will appear as an abridged paperback, The

Lancelot-Grail Reader. Krueger has also served as director of the Hamilton College Junior Year in France program.

See questionnaire response.

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Assistant Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Yeshiva University.

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Professor of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Simons' research program investigates neuronal

integration within identified, small networks of cerebral cortical neurons. Studies focus on the component of the

As a going-away present to John Hagel, the faculty accepted student parity on the University

Senate. Jim Akin won the highest athletic award. He was all-New England and academic all-

American in basketball. The baseball team, led by Peter Hicks with a .396 batting average, had

its best record since 1968.

Class President Cy Quinn spoke about the exceptionality of the class. “The class of 1972, he

said, “seems to me to be the last of a breed.” Quinn spoke about its political, aesthetic, and

psychedelic uniqueness. Wesleyan Magazine scribe Doug Thompson argued that, rather than be

the last of the creative, bizarre, Gonzo breed, “we were the square response to the super freaks of

Hoy’s revenge.” Thompson argued that our class never became political leaders, that “going to

school had become a primarily academic enterprise after freshman year.” Thompson argued that

“calling us a transition class between bent arrows and straight arrows is not even a worthy

approximation.” Moreover, “We were not an academically distinguished class, but we were

academically concerned.”

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On May 23, 1972, three hundred thirty of us graduated. Nearly 50 percent planned graduate

study. Thirty-two percent of the class planned to study law and another 21

percent medicine. Twenty-eight percent planned graduate study in arts or

sciences. Two planned to join the Peace Corps. Three planned to join the

military.

Conclusion

Yeah, so what’s the point? There are two levels to the answer. On one level,

we came to Wesleyan as deaf, dumb and blind kids who could sure play a

mean game of some sort. We could succeed but we had no clue who we were.

We needed someone, something, some mirror to see us, feel us, touch us, heal

us. And we found Wesleyan and we could honestly say about it:

Listening To You I Get The Music.

Gazing At You I Get The Heat

Following You I Climb The Mountain

I Get Excitement At Your Feet!

somatic sensory system in rodents that processes tactile information arising from the large facial vibrissae, or

whiskers. Each whisker is related one-to-one to an anatomically defined group of cortical cells, called a "barrel", that

represents a morphological correlate of a unctional cortical column. Computer-controlled whisker stimuli and single

cell recording techniques are used to examine how information is integrated within and among these defined

populations of cortical neurons. Recordings are obtained also in behaving animals trained to perform tactile

discriminations. Neurophysiological findings are incorporated into a model of sensory cortex that simulates known

synaptic connections among cortical and the thalamic neurons that are presynaptic to them. Each neuron is modeled

as a series of differential equations, and the model network is activated by actual pre-recorded spike trains from

thalamocortical relay cells. Other studies examine the physiological and behavioral effects of abnormal tactile

experience early in life, produced by trimming off the whiskers during critical developmental stages.

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More space is afforded to the Thompson response than to the Quinn speech because no copy can be located

of the Quinn speech, yet the Thompson response is easily available. This disparity of space should not be construed

as an endorsement of the revanchist, counter-revolutionary, pandering remarks of Thompson. He knows, and we

know, that Thompson wrote this reassuring piece to aid the ailing fund-raising efforts of the development office.

Right Behind You I See The Millions

On You I See The Glory.

From You I Get The Opinions

From You I Get The Story.

Yes, we got the music, the poetry, the human creation of sublime beauty at Wesleyan. We felt

the heat, the passion, the intensity, the emotion of civil rights and the War in Vietnam. We were

able to reach to new heights, to elevate our minds in previously unimagined ways. We found

tools to understand the mass of humanity. While understanding the needs, wants, desires of

humanity, we could transcend it to find glory. From Wesleyan, we learned to express out

opinions in ways constructive and provocative. And, we learned the basic narrative that holds

together the American experience. College permitted us to remove the inner block, if only for a

brief period. We left our protected, too easy youth, and all the baggage that came with that. At

Wesleyan, we had no responsibility. We lost the inner block of our youth and had not yet

replaced it with the inner block of graduate school and work and family and mortgages and

children and illness and tragedy and death. We were free and we truly thought that freedom

tasted of reality.

Of course, that might have happened anywhere, in any college at any time. For us there was

something more. We were, Doug Thompson notwithstanding, an exceptional class in an

exceptional university at an exceptional time. Some of us loved the political intensity, the focus

on global issues, the belief that we could end war and racism. Some of us hated the fact that our

college experience was subverted by rallies, drugs, and chaos. Some of us are confused,

conflicted, unable to make sense of the experience. All of these reactions result from the tumult,

the cataclysm we witnessed, participated in, indeed created. Love it or hate it, we survived a

time unlike any before or since. That time produced the dynamism of the modern American

experience. Our generation is riven by two fundamental issues: can white Americans live

productively side-by-side with Americans of color and what did we acquire through the Vietnam

experience. We all have our own answers to these questions. Yet, our Wesleyan experience

from 1968 to 1972 was, in many ways, about these two questions. For us, these are not abstract,

distant, political questions. No, for us, they are part of our bones. While studying Euripides or

set theory or marginal product of labor or film editing or quantum theory, we also studied race

relations and war and peace. And, we are richer for it.

Or was it all a dream? A weird acid trip? Four years of long hair and intoxicants. Four years of

mind candy and zealous pursuit of the interesting but useless. Four years to be adolescents

pretending to be adults. Four years of thinking we were making a difference. Look at what we

are doing now: the jocks run old economy companies. The preppies run finance firms. The

radicals teach college. The hippies practice law.

As with any proposition put in front of the Wesleyan Class of 1972, arguments will ensue

(without regard to whether the participants really disagree). With the certainty of being

contradicted, I proclaim that we went to a most exceptional college, at a most exceptional time,

with a most exceptional group of fellow students. It was no dream. It was the cornerstone of the

rest of our lives.