Word: elvises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This week, David P. Illingworth '71 became the College's first Associate Dean for Extracurricular Activities--not to mention its first dean to adorn the walls of University Hall with a velvet Elvis.
"I'll definitely find a place for him here," Illingworth says of the Elvis, which hung on his Byerly Hall wall while he was associate director of financial aid last year. "I found him to be a humanizing influence in admissions."
How much deconstruction can one blond bear? Just about everyone has had a go at Marilyn Monroe. There have been more than 300 biographies, learned essays by Steinem and Kael, countless documentaries, drag queens, tattoos, Warhol silk screens and porcelain collector's dolls. Marilyn has gone from actress to icon...
Alpert said Illingworth stood out for his friendly demeanor-he happily posed with his velvet Elvis for a Crimson pho- tographer--and his ease with students.
Welcome to the one-hand-washes-the-other world of "Jim-Bob" Moffett, a former University of Texas football star, geologist and amateur Elvis-impersonator who built Freeport into a mining behemoth with annual revenues of almost $2 billion. Moffett himself is an F.O.S., or friend of Suharto, the ousted...