Word: reunion
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Since Ford took office, the entire family has been together in the White House only once-last month, when the President insisted on a reunion. On that occasion the picture was taken that appears on TIME's cover; the First Lady presented it to her husband as a birthday gift. Yet as far-flung as the Ford children are, the family's solidarity remains its chief feature, along with a freewheeling independence of mind that all the Fords-including the President -nurture and relish...
...court to file for another divorce. Then last week while Sonny was plugging his new solo act on NBC's Tonight Show, who should stroll onstage for a surprise visit? None other than the prodigal Cher herself. Friends of the couple now hint that the on-camera reunion was just a first step toward a resumption of the old partnership. Locked in a $20 million suit over their predivorce show-business commitments, the two are likely to settle their legal dispute by getting their stage act together for some concert and nightclub appearances. Explained Cher to the Tonight Show...
...Betty Ford of the elder stateswoman of modern dance, Martha Graham, 81. "She gave me the ability to stand up to all the things I have had to go through, with much more courage than I would have had without her." The First Lady, 57, was having her first reunion with her former mentor in more than three decades. Back in the late 1930s, Mrs. Ford was Betty Bloomer from Grand Rapids, a tyro member of the Graham entourage. After watching a brief rehearsal at the Graham school in Manhattan, Betty gave Martha a $125 check for a ticket...
Naturally, the AHA is always trying to find ways to involve more alumni, particularly now that economic problems have made the private gift more important. A drive is underway to attract younger alumni to counteract the long-standing tendency of alumni to "disappear until their tenth reunion," as Shultz puts it. Maurice Lazarus '37, former AHA president, already sees a "growing interest on the part of more recent alumni," and the AHA is considering forming a New Class Officers' Organization that would bring together young alumni between reunion years. Shultz imagines this group will offer six week seminars...
Stan Miller, president of the Harvard Club of Boston, says that ever since Peterson has been in office alumni relations have been "fanastic," that the alumni office has effectively communicated Cambridge developments to the alumni. Miller, also chairman of his 25th year reunion committee and a member of the A H A's committee on undergraduate relations, says that during the A H A's meetings with the Strauch Committee. "We were encouraged to question the proposals and later asked to respond in writing to the committee." He adds, "This encouragement of feedback is just one example of the strong...