“What I’ll miss about Williams is the people. Bricks and mortar are great, but the real value of this place is the folks who work here. I’ll also miss Cole Field on a beautiful fall morning well before either soccer team kicks off. Weston Field late fall afternoon after the football game is over and stragglers are making their way out … the whole spirit of the place.”

Harry Sheehy ’75, departing athletic director, on his appointment as director of athletics and recreation at Dartmouth College


“Like his idol, George S. Patton, he wanted to be the general who never cried. So I count myself among the fortunate few who knew the other George, the loyal and giving one, as well as the one who seemed regularly to be in hot water.”

Fay Vincent ’60, Commissioner of Baseball, 1989-92, writing of the late George Steinbrenner ’52, in the New York Times, July 13, 2010