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Despite a long illness, McPeth excelled in academics and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior...

Author: By Eric M. Turner, | Title: Martin McPeth, Harvard Senior, Dies of Cancer | 5/21/1976 | See Source »

...emphasis on his own life. Of his better-known teammates he provides biographical accounts, which are almost always ironic reversals of the Chip Hilton hero-makes-good stories. He traces the life of Willis Reed from cotton-picking in Mississippi to knee operations in the NBA; Jerry Lucas from Phi Beta Kappa and stardom to bankruptcy; Earl Monroe from street fighting in Philadelphia to racial harrassment in New York; and Walt Frazier from a defunct pimp father to a Rolls Royce and the clothes his father would envy. Like Bradley, they are all past their peaks: not necessarily their peaks...

Author: By Tom Keffer, | Title: Worse for the Wear | 5/18/1976 | See Source »

...Dudley is not only the largest, but most diverse House. It has more summas, more Phi Beta Kappas, more minority students and more preppies than any other House," he said...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: 400 Attend Dinner At Dudley House In Mayer's Honor | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

Michelle Petri '75 received all A's at Harvard except for one B plus, graduating summa cum laude and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. So it came as no surprise to her that she was admitted to Harvard Medical School's class of 1980, along with the Yale and Johns Hopkins Medical Schools...

Author: By Clark Mason, | Title: Alumna Says Ostomy Surgery Biased Some Medical Schools | 5/6/1976 | See Source »

Mark Steinberg, 25, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from U.C.L.A. with an M.A. in psychology from Berkeley, subsists on food stamps and lives on unemployment compensation in Venice, Calif. How many responses has he had to the 50 resumes he sent out? "I don't have to guess," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EMPLOYMENT: Slim Pickings for the Class of '76 | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

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