Word: phi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caused many Thai soldiers initially to drop their rifles in fright. But there is more to the Green Beret village than shooting. The Thais learn the guerrilla's subtleties: an escape tunnel beneath the village huts, a cache of arms buried under the little shrine of a phi spirit house, which all but Thai Communists might consider sacrosanct. The Thais value their tough training all the more because each graduating company is immediately sent into the northeast to meet the real foe face to face...
Though he worked at a number of odd jobs (including chauffering President Conant) and played baseball, his marks began to inch higher. He made Phi Beta Kappa, got a magna on his Economics thesis and won a Fulbright...
...gave up before Christmas after a memorable game in which Wilson used him for fifteen-second stretches as a defensive specialist. There are others around: Alan Talesnik, Tom Perkins, and Andy Lewis have played for Winthrop; Barry Goldstein was on Kirkland's "B" team; Larry Gonick made Phi Beta Kappa; Larry O'Brien plays with Ekdahl on Leverett's squad. Gary Vechnak, who scored 20 points in the freshman squad's last game before Christmas vacation and returned to find himself dropped from a starting role to third string, still plays in the summers, but no more in Cambridge...
...took his family to live in Europe. The move stretched Richard's prep schooling from Orange, N.J., to Switzerland and Germany and gave him lifelong fluency in French and German. He returned to the U.S. to attend Williams College, class of 1935. Few students accumulated more honors: a Phi Beta Kappa key, the presidency of his class and of the senior honor society, the editorship of the student newspaper and the senior yearbook. He was also voted most likely to succeed. Journalism would be his career, his goal a newspaper...
Undergraduate Advisor 1966-7; Harvard Classical Club, vice-president, 1966-7; North House Committee 1963-7; Holmes Hall Dormitory Committee 1965-6; Byzantine-Russian Liturgical Choir 1965-6; Cantori da Chiesa, 1964-5; freshman chorus; Young Dems, 1964-5; Phi Beta Kappa...