Reginald Chesterfield

Off the Court

George Washington alumni, as Reginald Chesterfield tells it on the shows. Each story was checked against its source.

• Peggy Cooper Cafritzcivil rights activist, arts-school founder

  Hear this! Peggy Cooper Cafritz worked to integrate the fraternities and sororities at this very university, took her law degree in nineteen seventy-one, and helped open the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in nineteen seventy-four. A revolutionary indeed!

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• Ellen Malcolmfounder of EMILYs List

  I give you Ellen Malcolm, alumna of this university, who founded EMILYs List in 1985 and served as its president until 2010. Some raise armies, my friends. She raised a movement.

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• Mildred Harnackresistance fighter in Nazi Germany

  Let the record show the name Mildred Harnack, who studied at this university. A resistance fighter in Nazi Germany, arrested by the Gestapo and beheaded in 1943 on the direct orders of Hitler. Courage, my friends, of the highest order.

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• Aldrich AmesCIA officer turned Soviet spy

  And, with some reluctance, Aldrich Ames, bachelor's in history. He took four point six million dollars from the Soviets, pleaded guilty to espionage in nineteen ninety-four, and received life without parole. Benedict Arnold sends his regards.

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• Kevin Peter Hallactor in Predator

  On a lighter note, citizens, the actor Kevin Peter Hall, of Predator fame, was an alumnus of this institution. Even our monsters are well educated.

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