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This play traces the relationships between a Southern belle mother, Amanda Wingfield (Jacqueline Jourdain Hayes); her son Tom (Peter Mitchell), a poet starved for adventure; and her daughter Laura (Jeanne Simpson), a painfully shy cripple. Throughout the play, Ms. Wingfield battles Laura's shyness and conspires to introduce her daughter to a "gentleman caller...
...agree with Spencer Jourdain (letter, April 3) that Black students should understand the importance of respecting Harvard and especially the progressive elements in Harvard's tradition. But my old friend Jourdain is mistaken in advising Blacks at Harvard to "nurture" ethnocentric alumni linkages. And he is equally off the mark characterizing such linkages as signs of "bold creativeness." They are nothing of the sort...
...professorships in African Studies or American Studies, like Armenian-American alumni endow in Armenian studies and for study of genocide in modern states, or Jewish American alumni endow in Middle Eastern Studies, or Irish-American alumni in Celtic Studies. It takes more rigorous reflection on these matters than Spencer Jourdain offered if we are to stimulate more cosmopolitan and mature behavior by Black Harvard alumni than that represented in the Black Harvard Alumni-Weekend. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
...experience, the current Black students have tapped into a rich wellspring from which they can draw great resource in arranging perspective; for the history of Harvard Black him is replete with examples of positive inspiration: Richard I. Greener, William Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. DuBois, Ned Gourd in, Leo Hansberry, Edwin Jourdain, William Hastic, Bob Moses, Barry Williams, Theodore K. Lawless, Ralph Bunch, Robert Weaver, Whitney Young, Arthur Mitchell, Mondedcia Johnson, John Hope Franklin, Countee Cullen, Eve B. Douglass (Radcliffe)--the list goes on and on. It would be a rewarding experience for students to become even more aware of the phenomenally...
...along with the other alumni who made it back, honor you for your self-evident achievements and your bold creativeness to take the initiative to create these new linkages between past and present Harvard. Don't let that fade away. Nurture it. It has great potential. Spencer C.D. Jourdain...