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...BRIARCLIFF COLLEGE...
Josiah Bunting III New York City Bunting served as an officer in the U.S. Army in Viet Nam, is the author of a novel that drew from that experience and is now president of Briarcliff College...
...white tie and tails, but a number of enthusiasts did their bit to kick off the Harvard weekend by wearing tiger-striped suits and fake tiger-fur jackets. Their "dates" ("This is my date Sally," was the standard introduction), imported by the bus-and train-load full from Briarcliff, Wheaton, Manhat-tanville, and even as far away as North Carolina, wore outfits that had never known the rack at Filene's basement--or anywhere else, for that matter...
...Army and last year became president of Briarcliff, a women's college (300 students) north of New York City. While arresting the school's academic and financial slide, the protean Bunting produced a second novel, The Advent of Frederick Giles...
Josiah Bunting, a former Rhodes scholar, taught history at West Point until he resigned a major's commission to become president of Briarcliff, a small college for women on New York's Hudson River. He plots Mark Adams' unsentimental education with the synchronized precision of a military operation. In addition to this main objective, he also assaults a number of targets of opportunity. There are flash backs about upper-class courtship and wedding rituals, a peek into office politics at U.S. Army training bases, and a particularly biting set piece about affluent Connecticut Episcopalians singing We Shall...