Want a serious walk down Memory Lane?
The college just finished digitizing all its student newspaper archives!
As you know, the college had TWO newspapers during our years in Billsville, as the Williams Advocate existed in competition with the Williams Record from February 1970 until February 1972, when the two papers merged to form the Record Advocate
(until the paper re-emerged as the Williams Record in 1975).
You can search up and read any issue of either paper by following this link.
For fun, we're providing direct links to the first Williams Record of our time in Billsville here.
(Each page loads as a pdf onto your computer when you hit the link, and depending on your internet connection and computer, this may take some time -- so be patient if it doesn't appear instantly. It DOES work, just sometimes slowly):
September 17, 1968 -- page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4.
And for a real walk down memory lane, download the March 1969 Record, which reports Muskie coming to campus (nary a tear was shed!), plus the sports section has paragraphs on Freshman team sports, with lots of familiar '72 names.
And to the Williams Record detailing our student strike in May of 1970:
May 8, 1970 -- page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4.
With COVID-19 disrupting campus in the Spring of 2020, the Williams Record produced an article harkening back to our own mid-semester disruption in the Spring if 1970. Because the article is best read on a computer, you can link to it here.
In gearing up for the 50th Reunion, the college called attention to an issue of the Williams Record detailing some athletic feats, especially that of our own Vern Manley on the basketball court. Read the full February 8, 1972 issue here. Or just the article on Vern's full-court driving layup to beat Amherst here.
