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...Someone has to bear in mind that there's anobligation to raise money for scholarship forstudents who go here," Malkin says. "[Overseersshould be] watching over finances of theUniversity and fundraising for the University...
...named him after Ralph Waldo Emerson and died when the child was three. Ralph's mother worked as a domestic and recruited blacks for the Socialist Party. There was no shortage of role models for Ralph; he attended a grammar school named for Frederick Douglass and won a scholarship to Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. While in the Merchant Marines during World War II, he published several short stories. One day, just after the war, he found himself typing, "I am an invisible man." He spent seven years developing that sentence into the work that brought him instant fame...
Shuttling boldly between fable and philosophy, Invisible Man is the story of a Candide of color. Down home, our unnamed hero is given a scholarship by the white gentry, then forced by these same burghers to fight other blacks blindfolded. Up North, he works in a paint factory; its metaphorical function is to whitewash the American experience into the American dream. He is the guinea pig of medical sadists and firebrand communists. He is the wary friend of "Ras the Destroyer," a prototype of black militancy...
...lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Deane W. Lord Scholarship Fund at the Extension School...
Most curious of all is that, to this day, neither Green, nor Rudenstine, nor anyone else has said why the Provost decided to return to active scholarship. Indeed, the outgoing Provost's odd silence on the issue marks a sharp--and, we must admit--somewhat suspicious contrast to the Jerry Green we know and like...