Gregory Nevala Calvert (April 16, 1937 – August 12, 2005)[1] was National Secretary of Students for a Democratic Society in 1966–67. Events 1178 BC - A Solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS) was historically a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations
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Biography
Early years
Gregory Calvert was born during the Great Depression, in a squatter's shack on the slopes of the Mount St. Helens volcano. Mount St Helens is an active Stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States As a boy, he lived with his Finnish grandparents on a small farm—Finnish was his first language. He was an excellent student, and eventually won a much-need Weyerhaeuser scholarship to Oregon State University. Weyerhaeuser is one of the largest pulp and paper companies in the world the world's largest private owner of Softwood Timberland Oregon State University ( OSU) is a Coeducational public Research[[ university]] located in Corvallis, Oregon, United After graduation with a degree in history, a Woodrow Wilson fellowship enabled him to begin work toward a graduate degree in European History at Cornell University. He spent a year in Paris, then returned to the US in the fall of 1963, where he was offered and he accepted a teaching position as an Instructor at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. The Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University (ISU is a public land-grant and space-grant university
SDS involvement
In the Fall of 1965, with about a dozen others, Greg started a local chapter at Iowa State University of the budding Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University (ISU is a public land-grant and space-grant university Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS) was historically a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations He left that post with Jane Addams, the National Secretary, in the Spring of 1966. Greg was himself elected National Secretary that summer at the 1966 convention at Clear Lake, Iowa. His election was part of the "prairie power" move of the organization away from the East Coast from where the organization had largely been controlled up to then. He played an important part in how the March on the Pentagon in 1967 unfolded—he prevented a suicidal charge by the demonstrators on the soldiers guarding the entrance of the Pentagon by persuading them to sit down instead. He was a pacifist who believed in non-violent methods of confrontation, and left SDS when it split into the Progressive Labor Party and Weatherman factions at the summer convention in 1969. Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was an American Radical left organization
Later years
While living in Austin, Texas in the late 1960's and early 1970's, and as Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was ending, Calvert inspired a range of ongoing new left educational projects. Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS) was historically a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations For instance, his brother Alex Calvert together with David MacBryde and others started The Armadillo Press. He then also went on to work for the Illinois State Drug Rehabilitation program in the early 1970's. Calvert encouraged people around, and occasionally wrote for, the alternative newspaper The Rag, published from 1966 to 1977. The Rag: Pioneering Underground Paper from Austin The Rag was an underground paper published in Austin Texas from 1966-1977
Calvert had a lifelong interest in Buddhism, and set up a practice as a Buddhist psychotherapist in the late 1970's. Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices Psychotherapy is an Interpersonal, relational intervention used by trained psychotherapists to aid clients in problems of living He finished his doctoral studies at UC Santa Cruz in "History of Consciousness. " Calvert and Ken Carpenter, his partner from 1977 until his death, established an intensive Spanish language school, Casa Xalteva, in Granada, Nicaragua in 1995. Granada, with an estimated population of 110326 (2003 is Nicaragua 's fourth most populous city and capital of the Granada Department. He died of complications from diabetes and lung disease in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2005. Diabetes mellitus (ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz or /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtəs/ /məˈlaɪtəs/ or /ˈmɛlətəs/ often referred to simply as diabetes ( Ancient Greek: grc Respiratory Disease is the term for Diseases of the Respiratory system.
Books by Gregory Calvert
- Democracy from the Heart: Spiritual Values, Decentralism, and Democratic Idealism in the Movement of the 1960s Comunitas Press (1991) ISBN 0-9628800-0-0
- A Disrupted History: The New Left and the New Capitalism co-author Carol Neiman. Random House (1971) ISBN 0-394-46267-X
References
- Sale, Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick Sale ( Ithaca New York 1937 is an Independent scholar and Author who has written prolifically on Environmentalism, technology and SDS: Ten Years Towards a Revolution New York: Vintage Books (1974) ISBN 0-394-71965-4. It is available online: [2]
- Calvert, Greg Democracy from the Heart: Spiritual Values, Decentralism, and Democratic Idealism in the Movement of the 1960s
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