David J. Hanson was recently the keynote speaker at the four-day MADD Power Camp at the University of Connecticut. He is professor emeritus of sociology and has been interviewed for one hour on VoiceAmerica radio on the subject of college student drinking. He has also been quoted recently in the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Sacramento Bee, the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Weekly and several other newspapers.
Louis J. Wells passed away in November 2005. He was a stationary engineer in the heating plant from Jan. 16, 1978, until he retired on Sept. 26, 2001.
Dr. Walter L. Wakefield passed away on June 30, 2006. He was professor emeritus of history and retired in 1976. Walter’s scholarly interest was in religious conflicts of the Middle Ages. In 1964, he published “Heresy, Crusades and Inquisition in Southern France, 1100-1250.” He was a combat veteran of World War II and would serve as a guest speaker in history classes telling the tales of his adventures with the 508th Parachute Infantry, part of the famed 82nd Airborne Division. Wakefield lectured for the last time to a class about World War II in 2004 at the age of 92. He had a ready smile and a sense of humor that never left him even in his last days.
 Richard Londraville, professor emeritus of the Department of English and Communication, and Janis Swan Londraville, a fellow at the Center for Independent Scholars operated by the Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley, have written “The Most Beautiful Man in the World: Paul Swan, From Wilde to Warhol.” The work, published by University of Nebraska Press, has been nominated for a Pulitzer.
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