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Bennington Banner

Location

Bennington, Vermont, United States of America

Date

May 18, 1974

Page

5

UVM Graduation Reflections Stirring but Fractured Voices

Steven C. Rice recalls his student years at the University of Vermont from 1970 in a reflective piece. He describes idealism fading to mellowed uncertainty amid antiwar protests, debates on public education, and a sense that a college diploma may mean more than a credential.

University of Vermont Thomas L. Hayes UVM Rutland Mr. Hayes Bennington Chittenden Hall Washington, D.C Pennsylvania Avenue Capitol Hill Washington College of Education Alexander S. Rippa Steven C. Rice Mt. Anthony Union High School Rice Burlington Vietnam George McGovern South Dakota McGovern Richard Nixon Abraham Maslow B.F. Skinner Maslow Skinner The White House Sam Ervin Nixon Colchester Junior High Zachary Clemens Willie Loman Loman New Mexico Sangre de Cristo Mountains Rockies America

Graduation Reflections On Ideals Lost In Turbulent Years

A UVM graduate recalls the late 1960s to early 1970s shift from idealism to pragmatism amid Vietnam War, Watergate, and shifting education aims. He notes disillusion with schooling, calls for humanistic reform, and urges self actualization through community, cautioning against materialism and social decay.

The form and content of American life in classrooms

The speaker argues academia overemphasizes formal degrees and conformity, turning education into packaging of centuries of knowledge. They contrast urban industrial life with the loss of virgin soil beauty, noting practicality, optimism, and a gnawing doubt as central tensions in modern meaning and change.

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By Steven C. Rice Dad Educational Assembly Jonathan Kozol Houghton- Miffin Co Arthur Miller Harold Clurman Viking Press New York Melvin L. Silberman Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc John H. Brennecke Robert G. Amick Glencoe Press Beverly Hills Calif John Holt Dell Publishing Co Alvin C. Eurich UVM Public Relations Office William Birenbaum
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