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Fifty-two years ago, on the night of April 8, 1969, a group of antiwar students…
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Listen to the Music
- Ephlats reunite to send a soothing message
- From Ian and Sylvia to Cream to Mountain starting in Lasell Gymnasium
- In the early morning rain: Ian & Sylvia Fall 1965
- Rock of Ages
- the babbel
- The sixties: the war in Vietnam and its music
- Uranus and the Five Moons
- We gotta get out of this place
Places
- Brooks House on Fraternity Row: Mystery Solved?
- Going Greek: remembering Charlie Nikita's A&W
- Please, Mister Postman, Look and See.....
- Snack Bar anyone?
- That's Park Street, not the Freshman Quad, not Park Avenue
- The Brothers of Brooks (Arthur Cambouris)
- The Green River
- The Satire Room (or Rahar's) -- Where the Booze Was
Pranks & Hijinks
- Bombs away!
- Fall 1964 and dateless in Williamstown: a Tom Bell story
- Getting there... to the Brave New World
- Performance art? Street theater? Library Theater? Happening?
- Scot and James December 2016
- Shame and Scandal in the Lower Reading Room (in 2 parts)
- Winning Gold at the Little Three Skateboard Championship
Sports
- David Rikert '67
- Demakis v Sawyer, Round 1
- Ephs dominate on Pratt Field, cap perfect season
- I dreamt of Pancho Demakis last night
- November 18, 1967: Williams 14, Amherst 10
- Remembering the College Ski Area (and a bike)
- Spiking the Stevens-donated ball at Wood House
- Williams 74, Harvard 59 (Dec 12, 1967, Lasell Gymnasium [audio broadcast])
- Winning Gold at the Little Three Skateboard Championship
There's something happening here
- Crossing the Border: The Williams-Bennington Experience in late 60s
- Father Knows Best
- Muhammad Ali memories
- Our War and Welcome to It
- Remembering our connection with Martin Luther King
- Rock of Ages
- Tales from the 60s (Part 1) -- The Last Roadtrip
- Tales from the 60s (Part 2) — Lincoln Park Chicago, August 1968
- Tales from the 60s (Part 3) - The Group W bench (Alice's Restaurant in memory and in practice)
- Tales from the 60s, part 4, approximately?
- the babbel
- The Bittersweet History of Black Students in the Purple Valley
- The Fraternity Debate -- 1868 to 1968!
- The sixties: the war in Vietnam and its music
- There's something happening here: a critical review of recent studies of the 60s
- We gotta get out of this place
- Williams in transition in the 60s: almost a frat boy
Winter Study - the very first
- David Rikert '67
- January 1968 and the Winter Study Program
- Lights out: snow surfing at Brodie Mountain
- More snow, please
- Remembering the College Ski Area (and a bike)
- Roatan January 1968
- When Winter Carnival was King
- Winter Carnival redux
Minutiae, Collectibles, and Eph-emera
- "Snuggled in the Warm Cleavage of the Peaceful Purple Valley…"
- A Night to Forget
- Bon Appétit!
- Check It Out!
- Commencement 1968—“God Save the Commonwealth of Masschusetts!”
- Communications
- Demakis v Sawyer, Round 1
- Did We Attend College on the Mohawk Trail?
- Flicks!
- Freshman Week 1964
- Freshman Week 1964
- Jack Sawyer, the Visionary President We Hardly Knew
- Operation Match
- Portraits fuming at poor hanging
- Silk Road Incident (Willie Williams)
- The Man behind “The Village Beautiful”
- The Red Balloon -- The Williams College Literary Magazine
- What? No Ephraim?
- You did WHAT? A survey of career choices we made
Browse away
Ephs dominate on Pratt Field, cap perfect season
Final score: 24-19
ESCAC Offensive Player of the Year Bobby Maimaron (first featured in these pages in 2017 as we celebrated the 50th anniversary of our win over Amherst, returning in 2019 to provide another victory, with more comfortable 31-9 margin) again led the attack with some stellar support from receiver Frank Stola.
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Tales from the 60s (Part 3) – The Group W bench (Alice’s Restaurant in memory and in practice)
It was the summer of ’72. Vietnam was raging and the draft was foremost on everyone’s mind. After I passed my pre-induction physical at the Seattle Armory I followed the example set by Arlo Guthrie, the protagonist in the movie Alice’s Restaurant. I went and sat down on the Group W bench, reserved for those […]
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The Quizmasters Return
All who attended our 50th reunion remember the exquisite torture that Dr. Howard Steinberg and his accomplice our class president Bob Heiss put us through at our final dinner. Trivia at its finest, followed by music from the era. They are back now with a new batch of headscratchers, perfect fare for an evening, take […]
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Tales from the 60s (Part 2) — Lincoln Park Chicago, August 1968
Sunday, August 24 1968 is one of the landmark dates in the history of the 60s. Not a date like 9/11 or November 23 1963; most people don’t remember this date precisely, but they do remember this event. And even more what happened later that evening outside the Democratic National Headquarters at the Conrad Hilton. […]
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John Frankenheimer ’51 – An Appreciation
We are at the top of the generational cohort of the Baby Boom. We have lived lives that were coexistent with the Cold War. Our political outlook during our adolescence—before we matriculated at Williams—was shaped by the tumultuous Kennedy administration years
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Ephlats reunite to send a soothing message
What a wonderful gesture. We’re happy to share the sound of the Ephlats and it’s amazing to hear the quality of the voices, the tenors still hitting those high notes some fifty years later…
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