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...someone had asked me which Brandeis student was involved with guns, the last person I would have guessed was Susan," says a friend who has known her since Susan transferred from the University of Syracuse in 1968. It was only within the past year that Susan, a magna cum laude graduate last spring, became involved in such activities as Women's Liberation, the New Haven Panther rally and the Brandeis Strike Information Center...
Kate entered the University of Minnesota at 17, finished in eleven quarters instead of the usual twelve. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude and "went to Oxford to be a scholar." She was scholar enough to earn a coveted first in English literature, specializing in the Victorians...
...first time in Harvard's history, the graduates of its distaff campus, Radcliffe, received their diplomas along with the men. And also for the first time, the traditional commencement address in Latin was delivered by a classical scholar in a skirt. Radcliffe's Kirsten Mishkin, 21, a magna cum laude graduate, borrowed a quote from Horace to take this signal honor in stride: "non humilis mulier triumpho" (a woman not humble in triumph...
...Hugh D. Calkins, Calkins is the youngest member of the Harvard Corporation a prominent Cleveland lawyer, former member of the Cleveland school board, trustee of his alma mater Phillips Exeter, and frequently mentioned candidate for higher office in Harvard and the nation. At Harvard Calkins graduated Magna and was president of the CRIMSON. Naturally, he is chief marshal of the 25th reunion. Calkins has lots of friends. Bob Storer recalls. "From my point of view he was a little liberal-not really in with the Brahmins, even though he did go to Exeter...
Kathy Boudin was destined to be a crusader. Her father Leonard is a prominent lawyer for leftist causes. She was a magna cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr. Her mother recalls: "Kathy did everything cum laude." Kathy's parents have refused to cooperate with police in their search for her, and her mother says only: "We know she is safe...