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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bator said he agrees "with President Bok, that to democratize the ACSR you would have to fill a classroom...

Author: By Eric B. Fried and Alexandra D. Korry, S | Title: ACSR Statement Recommends Few Shareholder Resolutions | 1/26/1979 | See Source »

President Bok is vacationing in Florida and could not attend the meeting. He can raise the issue on his return if he wishes, Hugh Calkins '45, head of the Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, said yesterday...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Corporation Rejects Library Renaming | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

George Putnam '49. University Treasurer, said the Corporation discussed the name change issue despite Bok's absence because "Dan (Steiner) felt he owed the undergraduates an answer...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Corporation Rejects Library Renaming | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

This ecumenical approach to music -some might call it anthropological -probably came from his mother's side of the family. "They'd lost most of their Scottish-German traditions," Bok recalls. "But they'd sing anything. Scottish, South African, Jewish, anything." On his dad's side, there is the Curtis Institute of Music, founded by his grandmother. Grandfather Edward Bok was part of Curtis Publishing and longtime editor of the Ladies' Home Journal. He wrote an autobiography called The Americanization of Edward Bok, which Gordon had to read in school. His father Cary William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sea Airs and Striking Dreams | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...Bok lives with his wife Pat, a painter, in a cabin north of town. Next door is a two-story studio outfitted with recording apparatus, as well as tools for woodcarving, instrument making and boat designing. In his younger days, Bok earned his keep crewing on boats and working in the shipyards, but his voyages now are for recreation only. The long trips he reserves for his imagination. "A song is a vessel you fill with your living," Bok once wrote, a definition full of fancy homespun that suits a man who calls himself "a traditional folk singer," but whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sea Airs and Striking Dreams | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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