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<p>Akol Aguek ’05 G’11 was one of��Sudan’s “Lost Boys,” a generation of young men displaced by brutality and civil war in their homeland. Profiled as a student in��<em>Vermont Quarterly</em>��in 2004, Aguek described the experience of being one of thousands fleeing across forest, desert, and river. Raising his voice and enunciating each syllable with care, he said: “You are running for your life!”</p>

<p>In 1946, a year after the end of World War II, Alpha Xi Delta sorority pledged Crystal Malone ’47, a black student from Washington, D.C. Then, the national sorority president traveled to Burlington to try to dissuade 18-year-old Malone from joining.</p>