It was July 1, 1776, and in Philadelphia’s hot, stuffy Pennsylvania statehouse, members of the Second Continental Congress—including Benjamin Franklin and John Adams—were discussing Thomas Jefferson’s draft of what would become the Declaration of Independence.
Leon Earl Kent ’35 • Feb. 12
David Herbert Beskind ’36 • Feb. 9
Daniel J. Minahan Jr. ’37 • Sept. 9, 2010
Robert E. Atkinson ’38 • March 23, 2014
Robert Sherwood Blees ’38 • Jan. 31
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Two decades ago tuition, room and board ran about $26,000. Now it’s nearly $64,000. C.J. Hughes ’92 crunches the numbers, examines the history and talks to administrators in search of an explanation.
Little-known district attorney Alexander P. Nelson, class of 1889, waged war against cross burning, mob violence and racial hatred in 1920s Los Angeles.
