Word: appleton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five hundred students from Appleton, Wise-from junior high, high school, and Lawrence University (where President Pusey formerly served as president)-walked out of their classrooms and marched to a rally in front of the county courthouse...
...Department in Washington. One of them obliged Secretary of State William Rogers to leave his office. Mysterious nighttime explosions rocked a Pittsburgh shopping mall and a Washington nightclub. Another blast hit the Michigan State University's School of Police Administration, and someone threw a Molotov cocktail in an Appleton, Wis., high school...
Before his appointment in 1953, Classical Scholar Pusey had spent nine years as the easygoing but highly principled president of Lawrence College (800 students) in Appleton, Wis. At Harvard, his persistence became a flaw. Long admired for integrity, he was eventually criticized for Olympian remoteness...
...England, Pusey remained aloof from much of the faculty, and believed that his job allowed him little time to get to know his students. With his strong sense of personal morality, Pusey stoutly defended the rights-and jobs-of Harvard professors who drew the wrath of his onetime Appleton neighbor, Joe McCarthy. But in a different situation, his steadfast independence and his instinct to protect Harvard proved costly. Faced last spring with the S.D.S. occupation of University Hall, Pusey refused to negotiate and angered a large part of the Harvard community when he summoned police without consulting faculty and student...
...Pusey has been a college president for 25 years-16 of them here. He became President-after nine years as president of Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin-when James Bryant Conant resigned in 1953 to become United States High Commissioner in Germany...