1957Kathy Boudin recently published an article in the Spring 1993 Harvard Review called "Participatory Literacy Education Behind Bars: AIDS Opens the Door." In the article, she relates how, in her role as prison educator, she has used the subject of AIDS to incorporate critical literacy teaching practices into the prison's skill-based curriculum. Kathy has also been involved in developing peer-counseling group programs.
1960
Robert Meeropol has created a foundation to benefit children whose parents have been harassed, injured, lost jobs, or have died in the course of progressive activities. He and Michael '60 are the two sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Since its inception last year, the foundation has awarded nearly $50,000 to several dozen children. Michael, Robert and the Rosenberg Foundation were recently featured in the New York Times.
1963
In our last newsletter, Peter Orris was quoted praising the "well written" EI 50th Anniversary Book. His letter also included the following: "I do not understand what 'balance' you thought you were achieving with the inclusion of the 'opinions' of Elliott Abrams.
"Most faculty and students in the school that I attended would have been embarrassed if it were revealed that the 'Albert Spear' [sic] of our age and country had spent his high school years on Charlton Street. I do not object to Mr. Abrams expressing his opinions in whatever forum. I would have hoped that it was unthinkable for EI's 50th Anniversary Album to be sullied by three paragraphs by this architect of the Reagan Administration's bloody anti-democratic campaign in Latin America.
"I guess the faculty can feel proud that they had as few spectacular failures as Elliott Abrams. This failure, of course, reveals again that learning is not merely accomplished by having excellent teachers, one must provide an open mind as well.
"This letter is meant less as a comment on Elliott Abrams than it is on the Editorial Board's decision to include this material within an otherwise excellent booklet. I am still embarrassed by this graduate's inability to learn any of the important lessons taught at EI. Why aren't you?"
[Ed.: Kathy Boudin was a member of the terrorist Weather Underground group during the 1960s and 1970s, and is currently serving a prison term for murder, armed robbery, and various weapons charges after a foiled 1981 armed robbery of an armored truck in Nyack, New York. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were convicted and executed in 1953 for espionage after supplying atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. In his memoirs, Nikita Khrushchev confirmed that "the Rosenbergs provided very significant help in accelerating the production of our atomic bomb."]
