February 25, 2005
Alum's Plan to Attend Reunion Summons Dark Memories at Swarthmore
The most notorious member of the Swarthmore College Class of 1955 says he plans to attend its 50th reunion this June.
On a January night in 1955, Robert B. Bechtel, a member of the Swarthmore class that also includes former Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, shot and killed Holmes Strozier, a sophomore.
Mr. Bechtel was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.
A professor of environmental psychology at the University of Arizona, he has said he was
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