Word: alumnus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolt by Negro militants that temporarily caused tuition free City College to close. To many whites of modest means, who regard the school as an indispensable social-economic ladder, the Negro demands for wholesale admission of blacks meant lowered academic standards and less room for whites. City College Alumnus Mario Procaccino brought a court suit to compel the city to reopen the institution. It put him in the favorable position of using respectable means to stand up to the radicals. He scored points across the board with this bit of alliterative class propaganda: "City College is what New York...
...repertory of playwrights Durrenmatt, Frisch and Goethe (late September) and the Oxford-Cambridge Players' Twelfth Night (December). Last season, only the latter troupe attracted a large student audience to the Loeb, and their work was enthusiastically received. This year's production is directed by Jonathan Miller, Beyond the Fringe alumnus and one of the funniest men alive...
...Dean Robert Farley was eased out of the University of Mississippi law school for insisting that James Meredith had a legal right to attend Ole Miss. As Farley's successor, the trustees appointed a safer man: Joshua M. Morse III, an Ole Miss alumnus and law professor who has opposed Farley's subversive ideas. But Dean Morse, now 46, soon showed signs of heresy himself. He strayed North for a year of graduate study at Yale law school, returned with a sense of social mission that dramatically changed Ole Miss-and has now doomed him to Farley...
Minutes after his exchange with the stewardess, three Massachusetts state police appeared in the aisle. They hand cuffed Dudley, a descendant of the founder of Cambridge, a Harvard Law School alumnus and currently a United Church of Christ official. He was hustled off the plane, taken to a police station and booked for disturbing the peace. Police took his belt, glasses, comb and watch, then jailed him for two hours. "I thought they were joking," said Dudley, but he knew that they were not when one cop told him: "You be careful of what...
James McMonagle, 28, University of Pennsylvania, also helped start a counseling service for black entrepreneurs last year. When he confronts a student protester, he likes to ask: "What are you really doing to help society?" A Villanova alumnus and Navy veteran, he turned down 24 other job offers and signed on with Philadelphia-based Comserv, which markets computer services, for $15,000 a year. "Money is not my immediate concern," he says. "With this job, I'll have a chance to get fully involved in management decisions...