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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joan began living in 1973 with Julius Rogers, a Washington pool-hall operator with an unsavory local reputation. She was arrested last June with her younger brother Jerome and charged with stealing $850 worth of property from two mobile homes. Jerome turned state's evidence and got a three-year sentence; Joan later admitted her guilt but still received a stiff seven to ten years in prison. She had spent 81 days in the Beaufort jail, awaiting transfer to a women's correctional institution, when the killing occurred...
Researchers generally agree that the disease has purely psychological origins. Some therapists believe that young girls become anoretics out of fear of sexuality; by reducing their body weight to childlike proportions, they stall the process of becoming a woman. (Menstruation almost invariably ceases, or in the case of younger girls does not begin after such severe weight loss.) Other therapists see the disease as a symbolic "oral rebellion" against overcontrolling and troubled parents...
...Anway says, although they get alumni from both extremes as well some come with their babies, she says, and Helen J. Almy '05 says she plans to attend this week's session on Soviet Russia "unless I feel too old by the time it starts." Younger alumni find it hard to leave their children and jobs and often can't afford the trip to Cambridge...
...office is considering starting week-end alumni programs at Harvard during the year, and earlier this summer it ran a Thursday-through-Sunday program on American literature at a college campus in northern California. Kimball, who attended that session, says the alumni who came were much younger, on the average, than those who come to Cambridge. Alan E. Heimert '49, Cabot Professor of American Literature, who taught the California session, says he feels it was very successful, although he adds it was "exhausting" because it was so intensive. The alumni office plans to offer a similar program next year...
...alumni office also plans to begin to explore new formats and areas. On August 6-40 alumni and two experts on Nordic culture, Janet and Ulf Rasmussen, will leave for a cruise in Scandinavia. While the cost of the cruise--between $2074 and $3471--may keep many younger alumni from joining it, Kimball says he feels it is important that the office continue to explore different possibilities for continuing education...