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.
Splash Landing: During Winter Carnival’s annual polar bear plunge back in February, 466 people—most of them students—voluntarily jumped in frigid Occom Pond.
George Harold Payne ’38 • May 27, 2014
Nathan Straus III ’38 • Dec. 16, 2014
Harry F. Hopper Jr. ’43 • June 17, 2013
William MacFarlane Jones ’43 • Jan. 16
William T. Carlson ’46 • Jan. 2…
You might want to pay attention next time credits roll: A number of alums work in the trenches of the television/movie business, and that’s where they get their due. There would be no Hollywood…
A look back at the singular, turbulent life of twice-expelled Walter Wanger (rhymes with “danger”), class of 1915, who became one of Hollywood’s most prolific, if not law-abiding, producers.
