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Among the nine speakers were professors from MIT and Dartmouth, Amherst trustees, Ward's sons, and other friends. Dale Peterson, an Amherst Professor of English and Russian, said that "the full complexity of the man came alive in the service also strongly supported equal rights for women and minorities...
...Stuart Peterson...
DIED. Jo Jones, 73, innovative jazz drummer known as "the man who plays like the wind" for his new lighter, looser rhythms, dynamic shadings, adroit accents and inventive ad libs, who buoyed the Count Basie band from 1935 to '48, toured with such greats as Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson and led his own small combos, which often included other Basie alumni; of pneumonia; in New York City. He was often confused with "Philly" Joe Jones, 62, drummer for the Miles Davis Quintet in the 1950s and an innovator in the transition from the swing era to the "cool" jazz...
...uncertain whether he wanted to stay in the admissions world, but a job quickly opened up and he became director of freshman scholarships (a position that no longer exists). When Jewett tired of than post in 1972. Chase Peterson stepped down as dean of admissions, and Jewett found a new home...
Ornithologist ROGER TORY PETERSON at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pa.: "Many people go through life as though they are wearing blinders or are sleepwalking. Their eyes are open, yet they may see nothing of their wild associates on this planet. Their ears, attuned to motor cars and traffic, seldom catch the music of nature -- the singing of birds, frogs or crickets -- or the wind. These people are biologically illiterate -- environmentally illiterate -- and yet they may fancy themselves well informed, perhaps sophisticated. They may know business trends or politics, yet haven't the faintest idea of what makes the natural world...