Word: southern
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...Ultimately we like to think that membership stems from an underlying desire to remain connected to the Harvard community,” Harvard Club of Southern California President Ken S. Williams ’78 says. In addition to camaraderie, club membership also grants reciprocal privileges at all the other Harvard Clubs, social and cultural outings, and, of course, some fierce networking potential...
...Southern California Club has opted to give members the option of pre-renewing their membership for several years at once in order to maintain their numbers. Meanwhile, the Seattle and Southern California Clubs have begun to modernize their communication techniques, contacting alumni via e-mail and Facebook...
...some ways, this was a revolutionary development; the chords of bluegrass and southern blues were foreign to the ears of many of the young Northeasterners. At the same time, though, this was a return to the traditions of America’s rich musical past. “There was certainly intellectual interest in the music, but also just a, ‘Wow, you don’t hear this kind of music around Cambridge. You don’t hear people talking about coal mining or tenant farming,’” said Millie Rahn, Folklorist...
...around Peru, moving from Arequipa to Cuzco to Puno. He talked to locals, examined old newspapers and journals, and dug through a variety of governmental and private archives. It was 1972 and he was conducting research for his dissertation on 19th and early 20th century Indian rebellions in the southern highlands that border on Lake Titicaca and Bolivia...
...agency's "catastrophic failure" and submitted his resignation nine months after the storm, long after the nation had stopped paying attention. The Corps also exposed New Orleans to storm surges by manhandling and straitjacketing the Mississippi River over the past 80 years, blocking the flow of silt to southern Louisiana, gradually sinking the Big Easy below sea level and destroying a third of the coastal wetlands and barrier islands that once provided the city's natural hurricane protection...