The Reunion Playlist

The Reunion Playlist

By Jim Crane (Crown ’70) Creating the playlist for the Crown 50th Reunion was a labor of love. I like to think of myself as up-to-date in some areas, but when it comes to popular music, I am completely stuck in the ‘50s, ‘60s, and early ‘70s. I wanted to pull...
The Redlight District

The Redlight District

By Lisa Rose (Crown ’72) …with contributions from Henry Chu, Michael Broschat, Shira Tokuno, Larry Cohn, Paul Shaffer When I arrived at Crown College in October of 1968, my most precious possession was a 35mm camera. I’d been smitten by black and white...
Magic…The Gatherings

Magic…The Gatherings

By Pam Swift (Crown ’71) …with thanks to Jim Crane, Lisa Rose, and Su Nerton for setting the record straight. Our first Crown alumni gatherings were strictly homemade. In our twenties, with many of us living on ramen in graduate school, we hid from the...
The Art of Protest 1969-1971

The Art of Protest 1969-1971

Original silkscreen poster prints from social protest movements at UC Santa Cruz By G. Sharat Lin (Crown ’71) Before the era of the personal computer and the Internet, social protest movements sought a creative low-cost medium for carrying their messages to the...