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...Gill says one of his Leverett students had interned for President Lyndon B. Johnson, and there was a good chance LBJ would agree to speak at the House senior dinner. ("Not even [famed Eliot House Master] John [H.] Finley ['25] could've topped that," Gill laughs...
Ultimately, Johnson declined the offer--and Gill, who faced "the sharpest of criticisms" from some Faculty members for extending an invitation to the commander-in-chief during the Vietnam War, concedes that the president's arrival "would have caused a riot...
...same time protesting at Harvard had begun to take center stage, Gill found his way to the spotlight...
...heavy smoker for many years, Gill decided to quit in favor of private voice lessons, where he practiced furiously...
...Gill appeared as the Count in the Leverett House Opera's The Marriage of Figaro. The production--"the most charming I have ever been a part of," Gill beams--was organized by the student-directoral team of John Lithgow '67 and John C. Adams...