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Carpentry taught him things he could never have learned in acting school. The first was the work ethic, which he had not grasped while growing up in the protected world of a Chicago suburb. Once so lazy that he had flunked out of Wisconsin's Ripon College in his senior year, he became accustomed to picking up his hammer and saw early in the morning and continuing until the job was finished. "Now I find it difficult to enjoy myself when I'm not working," he says. "And I am not able to distract myself when I'm waiting around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harrison Ford: Stardom Time for a Bag of Bones | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Michael E. Malamat, a second-year law student and president of the Law School's Ripon Society a moderate Republican organization was elected Vice-Chairman of Programming. Michael J. Browne '86 was elected Treasurer and Marie J. Lucca '86 and Douglas Listed, another law student, were both elected as Directors of the Union...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Levy, | Title: Mass. College Right-Wingers Hold Two-Day Harvard Meeting | 4/14/1983 | See Source »

...Beloit, Ripon and Lawrence University in Wisconsin; Grinnell, Coe and Cornell in Iowa; Carleton, St. Olaf and Macalester in Minnesota; Lake Forest, Knox and Monmouth in Illinois; and Colorado College in Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Go Southwest, Small College | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...Ripon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1982 | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...regulatory "relief" rather than regulatory "reform" (the old term' because the idea is to provide relief to business by removing government regulations. As a former head of the Ripon Society (young Republicans) and aide in the Nixon Administration, DeMuth is expected to facilitate the process of "deregulating" the economy, though his friends here say DeMuth is no ideologue and will give "reasonable" regulations a fair go-over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

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