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Manchester
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Manchester is a twice-yearly publication of
Manchester University, mailed free of charge
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Editor: Melinda Lantz
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This is who we are
I
was just a kid in the 1960s when the civil rights movement reached its crescendo. The
upheaval ignited our national consciousness about racial and economic injustice and
triggered seismic shifts, achingly overdue. On the other side of the world, an unpopular war
escalated and ripped open fresh wounds at home.
So much tumult played out in America’s streets and on the evening news as I ate my TV dinner
waiting for F Troop and The Beverly Hillbillies. Walter Cronkite unraveled my confusion as best he
could.
I did not know, in that ’60s childhood, that I would graduate from a college with strong ties to
those watershed events of history. I did not know that Manchester people of conviction and
courage were striving to bend the arc of the moral universe.
This special issue of Manchester magazine pays tribute to their legacy.
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It’s about Jean Childs ’54 Young, child of the segregated South for whom the new Intercultural
Center is named; Ted Studebaker ’67 who embraced pacifism and died among the Vietnamese
people he loved; Irma Gall ’55 who co-founded a mission in one of the poorest pockets of
Appalachia; and Frances Smith ’39 Thomas, who enlisted in the civil rights movement even
before it began.
It’s also about Sue Wells ’70 Livers, whose journey took her from a segregated school to lunch
with Martin Luther King Jr., and Jim Colon ’74, who personifies ability and conviction as he
improves the human condition.
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And, of course, it’s about the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s visit to Manchester on Feb. 1, 1968,
the impact it had on us, and the vision of President A. Blair Helman who risked his life to
make it happen. Find MU on LinkedIn at
Manchester University Alumni and
Student Network
These are no ordinary people and this is no ordinary place. “Manchester is about living out our
values,” Helman once said. “That is who we are.” Follow us on Twitter
@ManchesterUAlum or @ManchesterUniv
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Melinda Lantz, editor
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