Word: danae
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dana Shaler, who has won several contests, offers his services as a guide to would-be mushroom hunters. He can get $200 for a day and a half in the woods, plus a $100 bonus if the pickings are good. More and more city slickers are joining mycological societies in order to stalk their own wild mushrooms with experts...
...manager says that the owners, "two family men in three-piece suits," gave cocaine to employees who would work 18-hour shifts. Cocaine, in fact, is dangerously well suited to sales jobs. "You can do a lot of selling, a lot of talking when you're on cocaine," says Dana, 28, a South Florida man who would snort as much as seven grams (about a quarter of an ounce) a day while selling ? and to finance his habit, stealing ? building materials. "I didn't really like the job," he says. "Coke accounted for a lot of my motivation...
While at Harvard, Short was most deeply involved in writing and photography at The Crimson. He served as photo chairman and supplement editor, and in 1970, he received the Dana Reed Prize for best undergraduate writing for a gripping personal account of the 1969 Weatherman riots in Chicago. [Excepts of the prize-winning article are printed below...
Following are excerpts from "The Weathermen're Shot. They're Bleeding. They're Running, They're Wiping Stuff Out," by John G. Short '70. The article, which appeared in The Crimson Nov. 12, 1969, won the Dana Reed Prize in 1970 for the best example of undergraduate writing that year. Short died Monday of cancer...
Short received the Dana Reed Prize--awarded annually to the best piece of undergraduate writing--for a gripping personal account of the 1969 Weathermen not in Chicago...