Word: classing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether or not football induced the glow, the Class of '54 saw Harvard, then as now, as idyllic home. The distinguished lecturers and guests--Bertrand Russell, T.S. Eliot, Konrad Adenauer, Archibald MacLeish's audiences spilled out into the Yard--came and went...
...Class members who live in the Cambridge area now say the University and the community were much more separate. "You could just look at some one from a distance of 50 yards and say town or gown, except in the Wursthaus, where they seemed to come together," Shapiro says. By the time of their graduation, the threat of fighting in a war had disappeared and they left from Cambridge confident that their past was merely a prologue of better times ahead...
...class full of success stories, one stands out particularly but not surprisingly. Edward M. Kennedy left Harvard for good in 1956 and at the age of 30 in 1962, filled his brother John's seat in the Senate. He has remained there since. His classmates are acutely aware of his membership in their ranks. In their Class Report statements some urge him to bring even greater renown to the class, while other write things like "President Carter has been a disaster for this country and I don't think our classmate's performance would be much better...
...four blacks in the class was Thomas B. Wilson Jr., a recording executive who founded Transition Records with colleagues from WHRB and went on to produce three Bob Dylan albums and discover several groups, including the Mothers of Invention. He died in Studio City, Calif., on September 6, 1978. Another black member of the class, Frederick L. Brown, is a judge on the Massachusetts Court of Appeals...
...course, success has not followed every member of the class. One died in 1965 while fighting in South Vietnam. Another had a heart seizure in 1974 and went into a coma until mid-1976. When he awoke, his wife had divorced him, and his business had collapsed. A member of the DuPont family in the Class of '54 filed the largest personal bankruptcy claim in United States history in 1971 and is now in the joke-writing business...