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Is it true that you're named after your father's favorite actor, John Wayne? Terry Ramsdell, Ann Arbor, Mich. He was interested in finding a word that sounded like Wayne. He found a word, ying, which means the bud of a tree. But that word, as a name, is...
At a time when his former teammate, Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05, has emerged as arguably the National Football League’s biggest story, junior running back Clifton Dawson has begun to assess the prospects of joining his former quarterback on the sport’s biggest stage.Harvard...
Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr. grew up in Buffalo in a world bounded by "the Saturn Club, the Nichols School, Friday-night dancing class, run by an immortal martinet of a man who had also taught my parents and my grandmother, and Trinity Episcopal Church, where my family had sat in...
One of the funniest scenes in Gurney's The Dining Room depicts a pathetically senile matriarch who interrupts Thanksgiving dinner at her own table to announce that it is time for her to get up and go home. Says Gurney's uncle, Buffalo Physician Ramsdell Gurney: "My mother...
When their last morsel of food was gone and finding all must die, and for the sake that their friends should know their fate, Charles Ramsdell made the first proposition to cast lots. Captain Pollard would not listen to it, saying to the others "No, but if I die first...