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...Robert J. Cutler '84, $1500, for his senior thesis entitled "Sam Shepard and the American Theater"--Associate Professor William Rothman...
Donald S. Shepard '69 left Harvard and entered the Harvard-Africa Volunteer Program. He wanted to teach high school in socialist Tanzania but was denied a work permit. When his work permit was denied--he believes because he came from capitalist America--Shepard says he realized that "unbridled idealism was not what the world was looking for," that reformers need to work within existing organizations that have their own rules and procedures. After the experience. "I went into less idealistic, less grassroots sort of activity," he adds...
...Shepard too does not believe he has sold out: "There is a consistency and overall purpose to my activities; although there has been a change in method," he says. Shepard explains that he still addresses the concerns for greater equity in the world through his teaching and research and points in particular to a course he teaches at the School of Pulbic Health on health issues in developing nations...
...Like Shepard, Dr. Katherine A. Daufer '69 has also found a way to incorporate concerns from her college days in her professional work, Kaufer, now a pediatrician in Chicago, says that it is no coincidence that she runs into classmates at public health-oriented meetings. Although she and her classmates have acquired a long-term perspective for themselves and families, "no one has changed their fundamental values." Kaufer says...
...Shepard, observing the slowness of change, says pressuring institutions and the government is "like leaning on an elephant." The recognition of this, he says, allowed him the opportunity to "keep my basic values and live my own life at the same time." Others in his class say the same thing: a more realistic appraisal of the chance for change allowed them to moderate the intensity of their activism and thus they had more space to pursue other goals and enjoy their own personal lives with friends and family...