Alumni Life: Keepsakes

What did you save?

Statistics textbook

Research Methods in Social Relations (Revised).

It might not look like much on the outside, but Ralph E. Anderson’s (BA ’69) sociology textbook packs a punch. In 1967, the protest movement against the Vietnam War was picking up steam on college campuses, and UB was no exception. On Dec. 18, former heavyweight boxing champion and anti-war activist Muhammad Ali spoke to an overflow crowd in the Norton Union, now Squire Hall on the South Campus. “He was signing autographs, and the only thing I had available was my statistics textbook, Research Methods in Social Relations (Revised),” Anderson recalls. “I saved very few of my college textbooks. However, I felt this autographed textbook was a reflection of a very tumultuous time in American history.”

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Still holding on to a memento from your UB years? Tell us why, and attach a photo, in an email to keepsakes@buffalo.edu.