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Rural Health
Alumni are working to improve health care in some of the country's most vulnerable communities.
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Sixth Extinction
In the spirit of Confronting Climate Change, this year’s campus-wide theme of inquiry, faculty explore whether we can avert a crisis.
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The Un-Making of a Racist
In his new memoir, Professor Charles Dew ’58 shares the story of his childhood growing up white in the Jim Crow South and how his consciousness-and conscience-were raised at Williams.
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Colorful Collections
A new special collections coloring book gives viewer a chance to color the college's collection.
Departments
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« Report »
President Adam Falk on why we're here.
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« Comment »
Readers respond to our coverage of the Log mural, A Marvelous Order, and more...
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« Notice »
A look at Convocation, First Days, and more...
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« Study »
Using math to solve ecological problems, considering the art of Henri Regnault, and more...
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« Muse »
An essay by Chaédria LaBouvier ’07.
I read with great interest your coverage of the watch drop from the chapel tower (inside front cover, summer 2016).
I was Class of 1955, and my father, Edward L. Reed, Class of 1916, told me while I was there that he initiated that tradition by tossing an Ingersoll pocket watch, which men then carried on a chain across their chest. It was apparently hard to break them. I have two granddaughters who recently graduated from Williams—Kelsey Leonard ’15 and Molly Leonard ’16, on the 100th anniversary of her great-grandfather’s graduation. Incidentally, my daughter Story Reed Leonard is Class of 1984. That is a nice line of the Reed family at Williams.
—Alan L. Reed ’55, Villanova, PA.