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Thoughts Recorded Sunday, March 30, 1969,
by James S. Ferguson
On Saturday afternoon, March 29, 1969, at approximately
5:15 p.m. persons associated with yttms the Strike Coordinating
Committee, apparently in consultation withi: Mr. Ronald Willingham,
announced to students in South Dining Hall that there was to be a peaceful
march to the Chancellor's House for the purpose of making certain demands
of me in connection with the current food workers' strike against ARA-
Slater Services. Students then in the Dining Hall were exhorted to join
the march. Most of them ignored the plea.
Some forty-five to fifty persons did indeed march in a group to
my home, chanting in pep-rally fashion. After getting no response to the
ringing of the doorbell, the group withdrew to the shelter of nearby Alumnae
House and remained for some thirty minutes, engaged (I am told) in planning
when to repeat this unceremonious call on the Chancellor.
To say that I was deeply offended by this incident is to put it mildly.
Not one person in the entire crowd had made any effort to contact me with
civility to arrange a conference. This was done in spite of the fact that
there has never been a single instance in which I have not made myself
available for conversations with either individuals or groups that sought
the opportunity to talk with me. The previous day I had called a special
Faculty Council meeting and had given the President of Student Government
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! ,
Thoughts Recorded Sunday, March 30, 1969,
by James S. Ferguson
On Saturday afternoon, March 29, 1969, at approximately
5:15 p.m. persons associated with yttms the Strike Coordinating
Committee, apparently in consultation withi: Mr. Ronald Willingham,
announced to students in South Dining Hall that there was to be a peaceful
march to the Chancellor's House for the purpose of making certain demands
of me in connection with the current food workers' strike against ARA-
Slater Services. Students then in the Dining Hall were exhorted to join
the march. Most of them ignored the plea.
Some forty-five to fifty persons did indeed march in a group to
my home, chanting in pep-rally fashion. After getting no response to the
ringing of the doorbell, the group withdrew to the shelter of nearby Alumnae
House and remained for some thirty minutes, engaged (I am told) in planning
when to repeat this unceremonious call on the Chancellor.
To say that I was deeply offended by this incident is to put it mildly.
Not one person in the entire crowd had made any effort to contact me with
civility to arrange a conference. This was done in spite of the fact that
there has never been a single instance in which I have not made myself
available for conversations with either individuals or groups that sought
the opportunity to talk with me. The previous day I had called a special
Faculty Council meeting and had given the President of Student Government
