American Magazine, Nov. 2013
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1960s<br />
Jeffery King, SPA/BA ’64,<br />
published a new book,<br />
Kill-Crazy Gang:<br />
The Crimes of<br />
the Lewis-Jones<br />
Gang, about the<br />
violent Lewis-<br />
Jones gang of<br />
the 1910s.<br />
Stephen<br />
Morton, CAS/<br />
MA ’64, was inducted<br />
into the Bowling Green State<br />
University Athletic Hall of<br />
Fame as a member of the 1959<br />
National Small College Football<br />
Championship team.<br />
Connie Morella, CAS/MA ’67,<br />
president of the U.S. Association<br />
of Former Members of Congress,<br />
received the Knight Commander’s<br />
Cross of the Order of Merit from<br />
the Federal Republic of Germany.<br />
The award is Germany’s highest<br />
honor. She received the award<br />
for her commitment to fostering<br />
dialogue and better understanding<br />
between the United States and<br />
Germany.<br />
Dennis Grubb, SIS/MA ’68,<br />
former alumni board member,<br />
participated in the June 17<br />
ceremony for the transportation<br />
of the John F. Kennedy Eternal<br />
Flame to Ireland. The event<br />
commemorated the 50th<br />
anniversary of Kennedy’s visit to<br />
Ireland. Grubb attended AU after<br />
serving in the first Peace Corps<br />
contingent to Colombia in 1961.<br />
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Abraham J. Peck, SIS/BA<br />
’68, SIS/MA ’70, coauthored a<br />
historical memoir, Unwanted<br />
Legacies: Sharing the Burden<br />
of the Post-Genocide<br />
Generations.<br />
References to<br />
Peck’s time at<br />
AU during the<br />
tumultuous<br />
1960s are<br />
included in the<br />
book.<br />
Pamela Elliott,<br />
CAS/BA ’69, published<br />
a clinical text, I Got<br />
the Leftovers: Case Study of<br />
Traumatic Brain Injury.<br />
-1969-<br />
TIME<br />
CAPSULES<br />
Top Tune<br />
“Sugar Sugar,” The Archies<br />
Top Grossing Flick<br />
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<br />
In the News<br />
The United States, Soviet Union, and<br />
100 other countries sign the nuclear<br />
nonproliferation treaty; Apollo 11<br />
astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz<br />
Aldrin become the first men to walk on<br />
the moon; Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi<br />
Hendrix perform at Woodstock<br />
From the AU Archives<br />
The Kay Spiritual Life Center hosts<br />
a workshop on draft alternatives:<br />
“deferments, conscientious objection,<br />
emigration (Canada and Sweden),<br />
resistance, and jail.”<br />
1970s<br />
Demetrios Pulas, SPA/BA<br />
’70, former Federal Energy<br />
Regulatory Commission senior<br />
enforcement attorney, joined the<br />
energy regulation team of Husch<br />
Blackwell LLP.<br />
Theodore “Ted” Simon, Kogod/<br />
BS ’71, has been installed as<br />
president-elect of the National<br />
Association of Criminal Defense<br />
Lawyers.<br />
Jeffrey Citron, Kogod/BSBA ’72,<br />
comanaging partner of Davidoff<br />
Hutcher & Citron LLP, was<br />
named “best attorney” by the<br />
New York Enterprise Report.<br />
Citron was selected from more<br />
than 80 nominees.<br />
Patrick Hagan, WCL/JD ’75,<br />
was selected Philadelphia’s<br />
Patent Lawyer of the Year <strong>2013</strong><br />
in a peer-review survey by the<br />
editorial board of Best Lawyers.<br />
He specializes in pharmaceutical<br />
patent law at Dann, Dorfmann,<br />
Herrell & Skillman.<br />
Jay Lenrow, WCL/JD ’77, was<br />
elected as a member of the Johns<br />
Hopkins University Board of<br />
Trustees.<br />
Susan Ellis Wild, SPA/BA ’78,<br />
was named among the top 50<br />
female lawyers in Pennsylvania<br />
on the list of <strong>2013</strong> Pennsylvania<br />
Super Lawyers. Wild’s practice<br />
focuses on the defense of<br />
healthcare practitioners and<br />
hospitals as well as personal<br />
injury defense, civil rights claims,<br />
and employment matters.<br />
Jeff Baxt, SOC/BA ’79, was<br />
interviewed by Rep Radio, an East<br />
Coast podcast network, on his<br />
start as an actor.<br />
-1975-<br />
TIME<br />
CAPSULES<br />
Top Tune<br />
“Love Will Keep Us Together,”<br />
The Captain and Tennille<br />
Top Grossing Flick<br />
Jaws<br />
In the News<br />
Vietnam War ends after nearly 20 years<br />
of fighting; President Gerald Ford escapes<br />
two assassination attempts within 17 days;<br />
Saturday Night Live debuts on NBC<br />
From the AU Archives<br />
More than a dozen disgruntled former<br />
Student Confederation leaders—frustrated<br />
with campus politics—form the Rooster<br />
Club. The only grounds for expulsion:<br />
“reinstatement in one’s former post.”<br />
1980s<br />
Simon Carmel, CAS/MA<br />
’80, CAS/PhD ’87, published<br />
a 400-page book, Invisible<br />
Magic: Biographies of 112 Deaf<br />
Magicians from 28 Countries. In<br />
2008, he published Silent Magic:<br />
Biographies of 59 Deaf Magicians<br />
in the United States from the<br />
Nineteenth to Twenty-First<br />
Centuries.<br />
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