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Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr. grew up in Buffalo in a world bounded by "the Saturn Club, the Nichols School, Friday-night dancing class, run by an immortal martinet of a man who had also taught my parents and my grandmother, and Trinity Episcopal Church, where my family had sat in the same pew for a hundred years-except on winter Sundays when the snow was good for skiing." From childhood, recalls Gurney, 52, "I was the guy who rebelled, not in action, but by what I said at the dinner table. I had a constant quarrel with that world...
...player of charades and spinner of tales, young "Peter" (as he was called by everyone in the family for reasons even he has forgotten) turned instinctively to using home life as the basis for satire. At prep school, he won a prize for a story about his family, called Buffalo Meat. After graduating from Williams College and touring South America and Asia in "a stint as a wild man in the Navy," Gurney went to the Yale School of Drama. "My whole family came there in trepidation to see my play Love in Buffalo, and left in relief that...
...funniest scenes in Gurney's The Dining Room depicts a pathetically senile matriarch who interrupts Thanksgiving dinner at her own table to announce that it is time for her to get up and go home. Says Gurney's uncle, Buffalo Physician Ramsdell Gurney: "My mother did exactly what Peter had her do in that play. To see her portrayed that way saddened me, but the audience thought it was terribly amusing." The most striking parallel in Gurney's plays to his life is the marriage between the young lovers' parents in The Middle Ages: four years...
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Service on the Major Gifts Committee involves soliciting large gifts from other alumni and thus represents the key to fulfilling the Campaign's top-heavy budgeting. Thomas Cabot, who also serves as the 1919 class chairman, has been actively involved in this effort. He recounts trips to California, Buffalo, and New York City for face-to-face meetings, which he says are vital to snaring the truly large gift...