Word: peckham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MARY Lou PECKHAM...
...five youths who first gathered under William G. Peckham's leadership in 1866, for example, advocated some astonishingly radical doctrines: chapel should no longer be compulsory; Harvard should become a University; and there should be closer student-faculty relationships. As any fool could plainly see, Peckham and his cohorts publishing the Advocate (then called the Collegian) were revolutionaries...
...founders recalled in later, mellower years, "The tone of the newspaper was rather saucy." At any rate, whether because of its irreverence or its subversive ideas, after the first few issues the editors were ordered to stop publishing. Peckham, however, was indefatigable and sent untainted representatives to a faculty meeting to make some agreement. After much argument on both sides, the crisis was averted, and some weeks later the biweekly newspaper appeared, in a soberer form, as the Advocate...
Across the Wheat. Blackwell (pop. 10,000) felt uneasy beforehand. "You kind of kept wondering what it was you were worried or unhappy about," explained one resident. At 9:23 p.m. Pearl Joyce Peckham was standing on her front porch while a boy friend picked up hailstones rattling down from the dark sky. "The next thing I knew," she related, "he ran and grabbed me and said, 'My God, it's a tornado.' and there it was, right on top of us. It was dark, but this thing was much darker than the night. We ran into...
...Content Peckham, Joseph Purtell, John Tibby, John...