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Winter 2005

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East Meets West

TIMELINE: CLARK FAMILY HIGHLIGHTS

1867: William Clark becomes president of Massachusetts Agricultural College. Durfee Conservatory is built.

1870: Joseph Hardy Neeshima, a former student of Professor Clark’s at Amherst College, sends a gift of Japanese plants and 100 seeds to Mass Aggie.

1872-73: Levi Stockbridge has students plant a garden of Japanese plants near Durfee.

1876: Clark goes to Hokkaido, Japan, to establish a similar institution.

1877: Clark departs from Sapporo. Gives farewell speech including his “Boys, be ambitious” rally cry that has become the slogan of Hokkaido University and is still repeated in Japanese middle school textbooks throughout the country. (MAC professors Wheeler, Brooks and Penhallow stay on at Hokkaido University for several more years.)

Late 1950s: Organized faculty exchanges begin, mostly in agriculture-related fields.

1978: Summer Program exchange to Hokkaido begins. (To date, approximately 300 students involved.)

1980: The first yearlong exchanges to Japan take place. (To date, approximately 56 UMass Amherst students have studied at Hokkaido for one year; 71 Hokkaido students have come to UMass Amherst to study for one year.)

2003: Ben Sullivan (William Clark’s great-great-great-grandson) enters UMass Amherst as a freshman.

2004: Sullivan travels to Hokkaido for Summer Program.

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