Turns out Lord Jeff gave smallpox-infested blankets to the Indians. Not exactly what the song says, is it? To the Frenchman and the Indians he didn’t do a thing Here’s an extract from the New York Times article: “Amherst College finds itself in a position where a mascot — which, when you think about it, has […]
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Winston Churchill, Williams College, and the color purple
You may or may not already know this. Here’s how Williams adopted the color purple according to the report by Eugene M. Jerome, Class of 1867. Early in the summer of 1865 the Williams baseball team were about to leave Williamstown to play the final game of the series against Harvard, and just before our […]
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Williams Art “Mafia” strikes again
Proposed Culture Corridor linking Williamstown to Mass MoCA in North Adams. Thomas Krens ’69 (shown above) at the helm. From the New York Times announcement: Thomas Krens, who once directed the Guggenheim Museum in New York and its overseas satellites, on Saturday joined with the former Massachusetts governors William Weld and Michael Dukakis to announce an […]
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Williamstown Mini-Reunion October 2015
Williams created its annual fall Mini-Reunion primarily for classes approaching their 50th, but any alum can attend the excellent presentations scattered throughout this fall football weekend. (Williams 16, Bates 14. For classmates more familiar with golf than football…Williams won.)
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Chicago Regional Gathering October 2015
Three Chicagoland Davids—Eblen, Allen, and Schulte—welcomed classmates and spouses to a whirlwindy weekend of stunning architecture and superb dining. The city literally opened it doors to the Williams ‘68 visitors, and to tens of thousands of visitors to Chicago Architecture Foundation’s (CAF) OpenHouse Chicago. Early arrivals Ned Perry and Cynthia Wood, John and Judy Oppenheimer, […]
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Maine Regional Gathering August 2015
Punctuated by meals from country cooking near Waterville to a lobster feast and Sunday brunch in Harpswell, classmates and spouses toured the new Colby College Museum of Art on August 1, and set sail with skipper Tom Nicholson for six adventurous hours on August 2. Here’s how Bob Heiss painted Saturday’s education: “After a great […]
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Charles Samuels
To Finish a Book Charles Samuels was a professor of English and of Film Studies at Williams College in the 1960s and part of the 1970s. He was, by near all accounts of former students, a terrifying presence in the classroom – not maniacally nor physically nor in volume but in intellect, in rigor and […]
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