Bruce was different from the rest of us. Very different. We were mostly working-class kids who, like me, lived at home and commuted to Northeastern, trying to scrape by financially during our freshman year until we got co-op jobs to pay for our next semester. I even labored as a 15- hour-a-week mail boy while...
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Playing and Singing, Tom Rozum Explores Life Through Bluegrass
Years of co-op job training in surgical research labs at Massachusetts General Hospital qualified me to easily get work in the Physiology Department at the University of Arizona Medical School in Tucson. But then, exactly a year after graduating from Northeastern in 1973, my life took a hard right turn when I was asked to...
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Audio Essays: Hear the Original 1971 Cauldron Record and Explore the New 50th Anniversary MP3 Recording
The 1971 Cauldron yearbook included this now classic 33 1/3 RPM record that offered an aural history of life for Northeastern college students between 1966 and 1971 The 1971 Cauldron yearbook was a creative break from what had gone before, befitting the times and its spirit of innovation and experimentation. Graduating seniors opened the book...
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Making a Music Revolution: Boston Keeps this Tea Party on Stage and Radio
It was 1969, or thereabouts. A guy owed me money, and I needed it back. We agreed that he’d pay me, but I had to come to his workplace to get it. And he worked at a place called the Boston Tea Party. He was a friend of a friend, and I didn’t know him...