For those who may not know it, Tod Hamachek’s work has been part of our experience as the Class of 1968 for a long time. His work figures prominently in the ’67 Gulielmensian (where he collaborated with editors Bram Jelin and Tad Piper) and is present throughout this web site (check the Events section especially). […]
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Never Again — commentary by Frank Reed
The late historian James MacGregor Burns, in his studies of political leadership, noted that throughout the decade of the 1960’s political leadership emanated from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. The civil rights movement, and later the anti-war movement, both started out with activism at the grass roots. He explained that it […]
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William McCormick
It was a bit of a shock and very sad to learn late last summer that Coach Bill McCormick passed away in July. He was a great influence on me during my four years at Williams, and I regret that I didn’t stay better connected after graduation. I saw him at a few reunions, most […]
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Remembrance of Bill Smith
Rev. William Smith, in memoriam Some time in 2002 I was reading the Williams class notes (thank you, Paul Neely) when I discovered that my freshman roommate, Bill Smith, had died. In the short obituary it said he had graduated from Harvard Divinity School and served as a Navy chaplain. The fact that I was […]
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Getting there… to the Brave New World
The Brave, New World of Williams College by Lloyd S. Thomas In the late fall of 1963, a high school friend, who had gotten early acceptance at Yale, handed me a faded, well-thumbed, but still elegantly purple copy of the Williams College Bulletin that I still possess and treasure after more than 50 years; somehow […]
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The Red Balloon — The Williams College Literary Magazine
Read our interview with Red Balloon editor Scott Fields below. Before you do that, and to sort of set the stage, you might like to read our deceased classmate Bill Smith’s generous and sensitive review of a poetry night at the babbel featuring some Red Balloon poets. Bill’s review appeared in the May 2, 1967 edition […]
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Winning Gold at the Little Three Skateboard Championship
Williams captured first place at the first (and only?) Little Three Skateboard Championship, held in the spring of 1965. Undoubtedly this further validated our belief as freshmen that we had matriculated at the right place. Although not a recognized intercollegiate event, the spirited competition at Wesleyan that year put Ephs in the regional forefront […]
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