For thirty years, Williams has organized lectures, tours, food, and fellowship for 50th reunion classes, scheduled one year before The Big Five-O. In past years, the maximum number who could attend, including spouses, was 50 people. This year, our ’68 class leaders corralled and cajoled Williams leaders into stretching the max to at least 70 […]
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Spencer Beebe and Michael Yogman receive Purple with Purpose awards
Congratulations to both Spencer and Bob. Portland OR, April 23, 2017 Spencer Beebe receives the Purple with Purpose award from Jack Phillips ’88, president of the Portland Regional Association. Spencer is the founder and Chair of Board of Directors of Ecotrust which, since 1991, has partnered with local communities from California to Alaska to build […]
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Al Shaw
Coach Al Shaw Coach Al was a basketball legend before we arrived at Williams. He played at U. Mich. before coming to Williams in 1949, and coached until 1973. Appearances in the 1955 and 1962 NCAA tournaments punctuated his early achievements. We learned early not to challenge him to a shooting contest, as he practiced […]
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Robert Gaudino
Robert L. Gaudino My impressions of Robert Gaudino were formed when I took several of his classes and experienced the extraordinary way he taught. I later served as a Trustee on the Gaudino Memorial Fund, founded by my brother Richard ’60. A character in my novel, Not Our Fathers’ Dreams, includes a character who is […]
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Remembering Tony Bliss
Editor’s note: while the posts and articles that appear in this section of the site are more commonly about themes from our days at Williams and current events that link to them, we welcome that occasional remembrance of classmates who are no longer with us. Arthur Cambouris has composed, with permission of Tony’s family, the […]
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Flicks!
Films broke new ground in the sixties, and we were engrossed in them. Being cool and insightful young adults, we were not content to embrace the same old Hollywood fare all the time. We hungered for cinema which was new, different, controversial, and thoughtful. In our quest, some of us ventured to Expo ’67 in […]
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When Winter Carnival was King
We had no reason to know it (then), but Winter Carnival during our undergraduate years (and into the 1970’s) was in its heyday—not to be matched again in the recent past. Buying tickets to musical events, scrambling to arrange dates, constructing ice sculptures and organizing parties were all part of the most magical three-day blowout […]
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