Our class had the good fortune of attending Williams while a number of “gentleman” coaches were still in residence. They came of age between the wars when the ideal of the amateur athlete was still dominant, and they brought the values of hard work, fair play, and building character to Williams.
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Clay Hunt
I thought of Clay Hunt today when I took a look at Ezra Pound’s Spirit of Romance, Pound’s first prose book, a set of lectures on medieval romance language poetry. Of course, I might not have become an English major and so might not be looking at a minor work of Pound except for Clay […]
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Ralph Townsend, Jr.
Editor’s note: we’re lucky to have two tributes to Coach Ralph Townsend from two different perspectives. Bob Cricenti was a mainstay of the Williams Outing Club and held responsibility for running the ski events of our Winter Carnival. Ted Ragsdale competed on the Williams Ski Team and provides his recollections of that experience. Ted has […]
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Robert Barrow
My first impression of Mr. Barrow was when I went to audition for the Glee Club in the fall of 1964. As a small town kid from New Hampshire I’d never had to audition for anything. With a high school population (grades 9-12) of about 150, students were constantly being drafted into organizations rather than […]
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Don Gifford
Williams English majors during our years were obliged to follow a sequence of courses that largely followed the history of English literature. Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Congreve, etc. Course numbering followed class year (201-202 for sophomores, 301-302 for juniors, etc). So imagine my surprise, as a junior, to learn that numerous seniors, […]
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