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...After a summer’s worth of legwork, the boys of 7 Promotions, a blocking group comprised of Jon R. Ardrey ’05, Rob J. Flynn ’05, Al A. Gore ’05, Ryan P. Lannon ’05, Derek R. Melvin ’05 and Noah P. Welch ’05, are about to drop the perfect party on fair Harvard. Perfect, meaning not crowded, not exclusive, not ending at 1 a.m. So perfect, in fact, that its founders christened it “The Party...
Preparation begins long before the boys leave for the Matrix, the downtown Boston club where the magic will happen. At 7 p.m., Flynn, Lannon, Welch and Melvin struggle to polish themselves up for the night amidst a choir of cell phone calls from friends acting as ticket-selling “foot soldiers...
...Collecting is the worst,” a freshly showered, towel-clad Melvin says. “Maybe I’d give out less tickets to sell next time, but this way, it becomes the people’s party...
...convicted Sims on a lesser charge of second-degree manslaughter (to which Farley then pleaded guilty). A white judge, Wallace Gibson, suspended the boys' sentences and gave them two years' probation--scolding them for their "lapse"--which made Lorene Ware "break down in the courtroom crying and hollering," recalls Melvin. Says James: "You could get more time back then for killing a good hunting...
Civil rights and racial reconciliation instead became a personal journey for the Wares. If not for the movement's nonviolent tenets, for example, Virgil's brothers say their rage might not have worn off. Melvin was the angriest, and although he thought for years about revenge, he eventually immersed himself in his Christian faith, encouraging whites and blacks to attend each other's church services. James too has long forgiven Farley and Sims, but he says he found real meaning in Virgil's death one night years later, in the '60s, when his car got stuck in a ditch...