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In this program we’ll delve into some of Beloit College’s most colorful stories, including the Eaton Chapel fire of 1953, the powerhouse baseball teams of the 1890s, the “great red scare” of 1936, Beloit’s Hotel Hilton, how women fought for the right to establish a sorority, and how the college coped during World War Two and its aftermath. We’ll learn about such intriguing personalities as donor D.K. Pearsons, famed architect Daniel Burnham, Civil Rights catalyst James Zwerg, Gunsmoke actor James Arness, and we will see work by Ray K. Metzker, a student working for the Beloit College News Service, who became a renowned art photographer. Burwell will illustrate all of these stories with a great variety of rare images from the Beloit College Archives.