by Lisa Rose | Jun 5, 2022 | Crown History, Personal History |
Read by Peter Gordon (Crown ’71) at his graduation from Crown College in June 1971. How joyous it is to be a member of Crown College’s first four-year class, to be assembled here together, with our parents, our College Faculty, our relatives, and friends.... 
by admin | May 2, 2022 | Crown History, Personal History |
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... 
by admin | Apr 21, 2022 | Crown History, Personal History |
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... 
by admin | Apr 28, 2021 | Crown History, Personal History |
By Marc Alexander (Crown ‘72) I arrived at Crown College in 1968, having been shown, by a high school guidance counselor, a picture of a new college with dormitories nestled in the woods. More than 50 years later, much of what I learned in my classes has... 
by admin | Sep 1, 2020 | Core Course, Crown History, Personal History |
By Jim Lapsley (Crown ’71) The Magnificent Ambersons. Was there ever a more boring novel? It was our assigned summer reading in 1967 and, I must confess, it was the only time that I questioned my decision to attend Santa Cruz. As an American historian, I... 
by admin | Jun 22, 2020 | Crown History, Personal History |
By Jim Lapsley (Crown ’71) When we created this website, it was clear that Alan Chadwick’s Garden had to be included. Although I enjoyed and was influenced by it, being averse to hard physical work, I was never an apprentice. If anyone would like to pen a...
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