Dolph斯坦利, 伯洛伊特计划, 和 applause for the fall edition
Applause for the fall edition
这很讽刺, 拟合, 和 tender to read how the college became home to a number of international students because of Covid restrictions on travel. “In loco parentis” had its finest hour on campus.
And Roger Tulin’s story of the unanticipated benefit from his part-time job at a local gas station to launch his sociology major on his own initiative is a credit to his intellectual 和 physical integrity as well as the institution’s, if not also to the petrochemical distribution industry in its heyday.
弗兰克·米切尔61
俄亥俄州哥伦布市
The essays that appeared back-to-back in the magazine were delightful for their wit 和 insight about distinctively different forms of the college-student experience.
Amy Elliot Bragg’s account of “当灯熄灭时” — a power outage in April of 2003 caused by a chipmunk — comically illustrated how the “magic” of the power outage was the gift it provided for what every college kid wants: an excuse to party 和 skip class 和 studying for a day.
Roger Tulin’s vivid recollection of the look 和 feel of a Clark gasoline station in his essay, "新来的水泵" is exactly what I recall from my own college-kid experience pumping gas. I wasn’t nearly as enterprising as he was in conducting an informal sociological study on the job. My own sociological experiences on the overnight shift at a Clark station in suburban Minneapolis cannot be recounted in this magazine. 但我向先生致敬. Tulin’s sharp recall 和 his astute sensitivity to racial conflict 50 years ago.
Denny Caneff (贝洛伊特 parent)
威斯康星州麦迪逊.
贝洛伊特 Plan 任何thing but a disaster
I thought I should address a comment made by Thomas McGonigle’66 in his letter about 贝洛伊特 in the ’60s, asserting that the “贝洛伊特 Plan was a disaster 和 nearly broke the college.” I cannot speak to whether it nearly broke the college, but I believe that 伯洛伊特计划 was 任何thing but a disaster. In fact, it was a unique way to individually restructure a four-year college experience.
Not only was I able to get the benefit of a ninth semester, but I spent a very memorable field term in San Francisco in the fall of 1967 introducing the SF Redevelopment Agency to the value 和 utility of IBM card readers for storing 和 processing data about those displaced from the South of Market area 和 the Embarcadero.
我还参加了 the 贝洛伊特 Tutoring Center in Clevel和, Miss., in the fall of 1966 with two other 贝洛伊特ers. We picked up kids from the formerly all-white schools they had just integrated in a beat-up brown delivery van (with a .45 caliber bullet hole in the driver’s door window exactly at head level). We drove them to the tutoring center on the other side of the tracks where there were no paved roads 和 helped with their studies in English 和 math so they could successfully compete. It was a remarkably effective program, 和 their improving grades reflected their continuing progress. 在星期六, the three of us drove the van 10 miles up the road to Mound Bayou to tutor children in an old rundown church. Mound Bayou was founded in 1887 by people freed from slavery as a self-reliant 和 autonomous all-Black community on 800 acres of hardwood forest they purchased. It was famous for sheltering 和 empowering its thriving citizens in an era of Jim Crow on the Mississippi Delta. We apparently caught it on the downswing.
The point is to say that 伯洛伊特计划 offered extraordinary opportunities to 任何one who wished to take advantage, 和 I benefited from it immensely. Professors I remember with great fondness 和 enduring respect are William Jones (music), 马克斯·扬特(音乐), 丹尼尔·施罗德(物理学), 罗伯特·伊尔曼(历史), 尤多拉·谢泼德(音乐), 克劳福德门(音乐), 约瑟夫·斯托尔茨弗斯(物理学), 和 Miller Upton (President). I can still hear the Eaton Chapel organ on which I spent countless hours practicing 和 performing, an activity that continues today on the four-manual virtual organ I built in my living room. Max – I’m still working on that Hindemith Sonata, but I have some amazing gospel pieces from Concord Baptist in Brooklyn you might like.
69年史蒂文·迈尔
加州比佛利山庄.
Where were the Young Americans for Freedom?
Thomas McGonigle’66 writes that “Young Americans for Freedom was well situated on the college scene 和 of course they saw Reagan elected president.”
Since I graduated in the spring of 1980, I don’t know if a Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter was created in the fall of 1980. But between the time I came to 贝洛伊特 in the fall of 1975 和 the time I left in the spring of 1980, there was no YAF presence on campus. I was an alternate delegate to the 1979 YAF convention, but I was connected to YAF through the University of Wisconsin 和 the 獾先驱报》, not through 任何 activity at 贝洛伊特. There were very few conservatives or libertarians at 贝洛伊特 when I was there.
马丁·莫尔斯·伍斯特，80年
马里兰州银泉.
伟大的教练，更好的人
Credit: 十大菠菜台子 ArchivesDon Lane’48 mentioned Dolph斯坦利 in the fall issue. Coach Stanley was the most successful basketball coach in the Midwest Conference, but he was a bigger man than his record of wins suggested, which is why I write of him.
他还当过棒球教练. Our baseball team included a catcher who was Black. He was a fine person 和 a reasonably good ball player, but not outst和ing. 这是1956年, 和 racial problems didn’t exist in the north because most everyone knew his place 和 took it: de facto segregation. Black people abided by this unspoken rule. 相应的, it had to be difficult to plan team meals at restaurants while traveling with a Black student. This teammate would likely not want to enter the restaurants we customarily used 和 be refused service. It may have been 更多的 convenient to leave him home 和 use substitute players on the travel squad.
At one luncheon during a trip, I recall seeing Dolph through the corner of my eye cozying up to the restaurant manager, 轻声对他说. I sensed he was convincing him to accept his players, all of them. He was successful, but it wasn’t easy, I’m sure. Every player ate with the team at every meal on every trip. Dolph worked as hard to get his Black player accepted as he did to win baseball 和 basketball games. He was a great coach but a better man, in my opinion.
莱昂内尔鲦鱼的57
达拉斯,德克萨斯
祝贺所有毕业生
I was caught off guard by the “Inaugural Black Student Graduation” 篇文章中 的秋季版 伯洛伊特学院杂志. The goal in today’s world is to treat everyone as equals. I applaud theaters that practice “color-blind” casting, with roles assigned to a mix of actors—whomever portrays the character the best. 查尔斯狄更斯的 圣诞颂歌 at the Goodman Theater in Chicago casts that production in this manner, even portraying Bob Cratchit’s family with a racial mix of actors. The esteemed American Players Theatre (APT) in Spring Green, Wis., follows the same practice. Roles are assigned by ability, not color. Nobody in the audience thinks twice about it.
In everyday life, we’ve learned to be considerate in identifying people by other characteristics (任何 other characteristics) beyond the simple color of their skin. As the father of a different-比赛 child, I always hoped she would be accepted or rejected on the basis of the person she is, 除了她的种族.
While I’m aware you were identifying 贝洛伊特’s Black students for a positive reason (the achievement of college graduation from a fine institution), you’ve missed the whole point of inclusion. 包括人 因为它们的颜色 种族歧视 不包括 因为它. Did 贝洛伊特 also have separate graduations for their white, Asian, or Native American students? It’s a slippery slope you’re starting here.
With the photograph on page 7, the article also seems to insinuate it was out of the ordinary for high recognition to be achieved by Black students. Were these Black students not expected to be capable of high achievement? I’m sure we agree the best should be expected from everyone who is accepted into 十大菠菜台子. I hope my alma mater will reconsider segregating graduates by color for recognition (or for 任何 purpose) in the future.
I offer my congratulations to all the new graduates of 十大菠菜台子, 不管他们的性别, 比赛, 或宗教.
弗雷德年代. Duerkop 60
L和 O’Lakes，威斯康星州.
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