Harvard magazine profiles class of 1969 dropouts from Harvard. It's awesome! They are great! Here's one: "She moved off-campus as a sophomore and had a great time 'hanging out, smoking dope, and having sex with a lot of different guys.... It wasn't Harvard that made me leave Harvard, it was me. I wanted to be young, alive, and free. Free to hitchhike around the country, check out California, try living in a commune. And I did all that.'" Now she works in a family planning clinic in Maine! Love you, Joanne Ricca!
Friday, July 23, 2010
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I spent all four of my college years not at Harvard. So my life must be that much more awesome, right?
She looks like my high school art teacher who, also, was awesome.
Er... "[My parents] never helped me again financially in my life, until they died and I inherited their money."
"[My parents] never helped me again financially in [their lives], until they died and I inherited their money."
Fixed.
ca.1968 Joanne Ricca- *CALL ME
-ca.1996 Art Yucko
Harvard was my safety school (Averted Gaze).
Most of the people I knew that dropped out of KU ended up waiting tables in Lawrence.
Yes, and the one's who dropped out of Harvard in '69 to go on to become junkies probably didn't make the article.
The year that Carl Sagan moved from Harvard to Cornell, how telling...
I dropped out of SUNY Purchase and ended up working in Bloomingdales's lingerie department. The employee discount made it all worthwhile.
"...the environmental flagship launched by Harvard dropout Pete Seeger '40" and then I found a whole new level of amazed and depressed I never even suspected
"whole new level of amazed and depressed I never even suspected" = my reaction to just about any Pete Seeger song, really!
Yeah. Ok, well I'm going to go lie down and wait to be stuffled by a bear now.
"Ricca left Harvard and hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco during the celebrated Summer of Love in 1967. She remembers sleeping in a cornfield in Iowa, where "a bear came and snuffled me."
How was this tidbit overlooked?
I KNOW RIGHT? SO GOOD.
I just voted in a poll where the preferred construction was 'stuffled.'
Sorry Ricca, you may REMEMBER it that way, but that was no bear. And that was no snuffling.
Whatever it was, I'm sure it was wonderful experience for a future family planning counselor.
Harvard College did not have women in the 60s. Was this actually Radcliffe, or is the whole story baloney?
Read the story. She went to Radcliffe. Radcliffe is not Harvard College, nor is it in the Ivy Conference (Seven Sisters, rather...field hockey and such), but it is or was part of Harvard University, just like the School of Public Health. But I'l grant you the hed is most misleading!
"The "money part," she explains, "never had any interest for me."
So where did she get the $15,000 for the land she bought? I hate hippies.
So college is a waste of time?