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...were within commuting distance of the college, we had to live at home to accommodate the WAVES, the women's branch of the Navy, which was being trained at Harvard. I never regretted not living in the dormitory. At home, I was not subject to parietal rules that required me to be in by 10 p.m. on weeknights, with a few late-night privileges on the weekend each month. I did, however, have to face an irate mother and father if I came home much after midnight...
...Long Branch, N.J. native was a product of the Depression, the youngest of three children...
...letter G for the Grand Architect himself. There was a time when America was dying to know and no one was telling. Freemasonry, which claims to be the world's oldest fraternal society, has been called the civil religion of the American Revolution. As recently as 1959, its U.S. branch constituted an earnest and convivial army of 4.1 million. Yet today those ranks are decimated. True, the group is still a philanthropic presence, donating some $750 million a year to charities. But its 2.1 million national membership, notes Richard Fletcher of the Masonic Information Center in Silver Spring...
Abigail R. Branch '98, a social studies concentrator, and Andrea E. Johnson '98-'99, an environmental science and public policy concentrator, live in Quincy House. This is their last column...
...private pain of the Dahmer (pronounced DAY-mer) family was also a national tragedy. Vernon, a prosperous businessman, headed the Hattiesburg branch of the N.A.A.C.P., so the Klan targeted him with a "No. 3" and a "No. 4": shorthand for arson and murder. At his funeral, thousands of admirers poured into Shady Grove Baptist Church. President Johnson sent Ellie Dahmer a telegram mourning her husband and calling for a federal investigation...