In addition to his musical skills, Tom Rozum is also an able cartoonist. One of his efforts appears on the front page of this special edition. It was drawn and published in the Northeastern News 50 years ago. This year we asked Tom to fashion a new editorial cartoon that comments on America in 2021....
Our class of 1970 started at Northeastern in September 1965. On Day 1, I was almost struck by a trolley going too fast (not wanting to stop for the throng at NU looking to go downtown) and me not paying attention (small-town boy). Class years ended in June 1970 in a fanfare-free stumble to graduation...
During the course of several years, members of the NU News (and often the Cauldron yearbook) decided to join together for terms longer than the typical Northeastern cycle. A group of those connections is listed below. Marriages (Made in Ell?) Gilbert H. Peters (1969) and Marjorie G. Veaner (1970) Richard Howland (1970) and Jana Howland...
Oct. 11 was a beautiful, wonderful, maybe even perfect day in Newbury Park, Calif. To set the stage, this week will be the three-month anniversary of my wife and I living in California after spending 37 years living and raising a family in the Boston suburb of North Andover. We had two reasons for not...
A group of writers and editors of this NU News edition gathered virtually at the end of October, 2021. We decided to create a visual reference showing how we look after 50 years.
I received my acceptance letter from Northeastern University in October 1968. I was congratulated on being accepted to its five-year nursing program starting in September 1969. However, I never intended to be a nurse. My parents, who grew up during the Depression, firmly believed there were two professions for women: teaching or nursing. If I...
It was the eve of my wedding, May 11, 1979. Friends and relatives were gathering at the house in West Pawlet, Vt., for a pre-nuptial celebration. One of the guests came up to me and said, “I didn’t know you were a beekeeper.” “What are you talking about?” said I. “Well, there is a beehive...
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...
I was filled with nerves as I walked for the first time through the door of the Courier-Post newsroom in southern New Jersey. It was June 1967. I was just 18 years old and finished with my freshman year of academics at Northeastern University. This was the start of my first “co-op” experience. I would...
When I say that Northeastern University changed my life, I’m not exaggerating. And when I say that, in some ways, I changed Northeastern University, that’s not an exaggeration either. It all started the day I went to the campus radio station, then known as WNEU, and asked whether I could be a disc jockey It...