Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sandburg got the idea for this project while he was in Italy on a Rotary Fellowship from 1980 to 1982, living simultaneously in the city of Padua and on a farm in a small, nearby village in the Alps. Commuting between the two, Sandburg noticed radical cultural and lifestyle differences between the highlands and the lowlands...
...recounts the difficulties he had at the beginning of his Rotary Fellowship, when in San Gregorio nelle Alpi--the village with a population of 85 in which he lived--no one would talk to him at all for the first three months of his stay. "I don't know how I stuck it out. Things were miserable--I was beside myself with frustration," Sandburg recalls...
...Third World Center at Harvard may explain why many Blacks cluster together for meals, according to BSA member Leah Johnson '87. "There are a lot of Jewish students in my house, but they don't all sit together at meals. They know they have one place to go for fellowship," says Johnson, referring to Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, which she likens to a Third World Center...
Yours in scholarly fellowship...
Several days before Mondale's defeat, Landow and two colleagues on the Democratic candidate's 24-member finance board, Lawyer William Crotty of Daytona Beach, Fla., and Real Estate Developer Thomas Rosenberg of Chicago, discussed keeping the group together. More than fellowship was involved. Michael Berman, the Mondale campaign treasurer, recalls that they wanted more influence on political strategy. For instance, they questioned Mondale's wisdom in promising a tax increase. "This was not a group of flaming liberals," Berman observes...