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Past tense: William Koelsch’s book illuminates Clark history

“Check the Koelsch book.” It’s the standard response to the innumerable questions that arise about Clark’s past. Why was anthropology professor Franz Boas’ research considered revolutionary for its time? Which United States president delivered Clark’s 1905 commencement address? How did Clark students respond during wartime, from the world wars through Vietnam? “Check the Koelsch book.”…
From Clark to the Moon

Edwin Aldrin ’15 helped a nation look skyward alongside Goddard, Lindbergh, and a son named Buzz
Legendary dean Hazel Hughes memorialized with plaque, stories

An old adage insists that “everyone has a story,” and never was that truer than at the May 21, 2011, gathering of Clark’s early women athletes in Room 001 of Jonas Clark Hall — the former Women’s Gym. Their stories flowed freely, delivered into a hand-held microphone and videotaped for posterity. The theme binding all…
D’Army Bailey ’65: A Radical Life

D’Army Bailey got booted from one university for leading civil rights protests. And then Clark came calling.
A league of their own: Clark’s first women athletes brought their A-game to campus

As World War II raged on, women filled the void — in the classroom and on the court