For my second Project Only a Retiree Could Love (the first being cleaning out and digitizing alumni records and transcripts, last year), I got the OK to attack Hellie Swartwood’s closet in the Alumni Development House. I figured that Hellie, who works with LA’s parents, would like to have the space back, and I … Continue reading Shep’s Place # 48: Say Cheese!
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Shep’s Place #47: Lunch at Bruce’s
Back in the fall of 2013 we made a video Shep’s Place, a tour of downtown Groton. Those few minutes weren’t enough to delve into the recent history of the town, so in this column I’m following up on an idea from Curt Leroy ’72, who suggested a piece about “all the stores we used … Continue reading Shep’s Place #47: Lunch at Bruce’s
Shep’s Place No. 45 – Elite Syncopations
Near the end of the shelf, I pulled out an old friend: “Elite Syncopations,” the LP album made by the LA Glee Club (as the chorus was then called) and a cappella groups in the spring of 1977...