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...bill, sponsored by Eric M. Nelson '99, was also passed last year in similar form but was tabled by a College administration that knew that diplomas would eventually change anyway to reflect a final Harvard-Radcliffe relationship...
College administrators and the Faculty Council must still approve the measure, but Nelson said he was confident the classics would return to undergraduate diplomas...
DIED. MARY ROCKEFELLER, 91, first wife of former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller; in New York City. In 1962 she divorced her husband, to whom she had been married for 31 years and who caused a stir the following year when he wed staff member Margaretta ("Happy") Murphy. Rockefeller, a lifelong advocate for the education of nurses, was awarded an honorary degree for her efforts from Hunter College...
DIED. BOXCAR WILLIE, 67, country singer; of leukemia; in Branson, Mo. Born Lecil Travis Martin, Boxcar was the son of a railroad man and grew up alongside a train track. In the 1960s he spotted a hobo who reminded him of Willie Nelson and was moved to write the song Boxcar Willie. After 22 years in the Air Force, where he logged 10,000 hours as a flier, he adopted the hobo persona of stubble and a crumpled...
...activist settled down and entered Harvard Law School with an eye to influencing public policy, but a fateful assignment his first semester changed his life. Required to be an intern in a government office, Hayes called Gaylord Nelson, then a liberal U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, and volunteered to organize a series of teach-ins across the country to call attention to the environment. Energized by the memories of the ravaged forests of his youth, he dropped out of Harvard and devoted his time to organizing rallies, street demonstrations and trash cleanups. It all culminated with the first Earth Day, when...