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and drive. She had brought up her children to be in all respects people of social conscience. I knew Coe Kelley - he was called “Coe” by his mother and all his friends - very well, had known him since his boyhood. I knew the struggle through which he had been to get an education and get going. He had a brilliant mind and had gotten a good education. He was a Quaker. I'm always well disposed towards Quakers. They're men of peace and they are on the whole men of social conscience. I don't think that's always true, but at least it's a part of their philosophy. I knew Coe Kelley to be that sort.

I had served with Coe Kelley on a number of committees. I had served with him on the Board of Trustees of Bennington College among other things. I knew that his influence on that board of trusteas was always toward the right thing, toward mediation of differences of opinion between the trustees, mediation of quite startling differences between members of the faculty and the president, between members of the faculty and the trustees. Free speech had prevailed as part of the rules of Bennington College. Any member of the faculty was allowed to say anything he wanted to to the trustees, make any representations he wanted to. It was encouraged and Coe