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...WARREN R. WHITEHEAD Menlo Park, Calif...
Wild Hairs. Guard ("our acknowledged leader") actually was educated at Stanford ('56), Reynolds ("the runt of the litter") and Shane ("our sex symbol") at nearby Menlo College of Business Administration ('57 and '56). Until they came together as a trio in 1957 at San Francisco's Purple Onion, they were, says Guard. "a bunch of wild hairs pointing in all directions." At Stanford, Guard-belying his present Groton look-had earned a reputation as a sort of stubble-bearded prebeatnik who was heading nowhere except way out. Reynolds, after graduation from Menlo College, had dedicated...
...Relations Society has elected a new slate to take office Jan. 5. Nicholas S. Hopkins '60, of Lowell House and Washington, D.C., was chosen president. David H. Cohen '60, of Kirkland House and Cleveland, Ohio, is vice-president of the society; Lee F. Donaghey '61, of Kirkland House and Menlo Park, Calif., secretary; and Walter Y. K. Goo '61, of Dudley House and Washington, D.C., treasurer...
Furious about the demand from Toledo, Menlo Park voted 30 to 1 to give up its charter. Stockton, which voted 31 to 2 to defy the order, was suspended. The members of both chapters were invited to join the Lions, Rotary and other service clubs. Last week San Francisco's Golden Gate Exchange Club, the largest in California, which has only white members, decided to quit the national organization and to plan a regional revolt at a meeting this week of delegates from other California chapters. Said Golden Gate's President Mark Nusbaum: "Racial discrimination is un-American...
...Toledo, Exchange's national secretary-broad, greying Herold Harter, who organized it almost single-handed nearly 40 years ago and runs it much the same way-roared angrily: "What in hell is all this fuss about a Chinaman in Menlo Park?" Harter, who is proud of Exchange's sponsorship of citizenship programs and Constitution Week, insisted: "We haven't got anything against Chinese or Negroes or any other race. They're just not eligible . . . Why in hell haven't you got the right to choose with whom you and your wife can associate...