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MORE THAN most students involved in Loeb or House drama productions, Martha Hackett '83 straddles the two very opposite and sometimes conflicting worlds of professional actress and full-time student. An American Literature and Languages major, she spends the day at classes and her job at the Adams House Library. But at night she joins the world of the professional actors in Harvard's American Repertory Theater (ART), where The Boys From Syracuse is running until March...
...produces five shows a year, drawing its cast from the Boston area and, once in a while, from the Harvard community. The occasional students who get roles don't exactly star; like Hackett and Alison Taylor '84, also in Syracuse, they take minor roles. Hackett plays a prostitute with a few lines...
...Harvard got a lot more in the newly arrived Canaday Hall resident. Ford is one of the premier distance swimmers around, ranked as high as fourth in the world in 1500 meter freestyle. Simply put, Ford's credentials are almost as impressive as Bobby Hackett's were when he arrived in 1977 with Coach Joe Bernal to resurrect Harvard men's swimming...
Father Mark Hackett, 46, a Catholic priest from Britain, recalls that black guerrillas
...opposed the missions as relics of the colonial past. On the other hand, government troops threatened to kill Hackett for harboring rebels. The suspicions were correct. Black guerrillas appeared almost nightly at Hackett's mission hospital in Makumbi, and, he says, "we never turned anyone away who needed help." One guerrilla was saved when hospital workers disguised him as a pregnant woman. Unlike many of their Latin American colleagues, foreign missionaries in Africa today generally steer clear of politics. The reason: even vague criticism of sensitive black regimes can result in deportation within 24 hours...