Beavercreek High School Alumni
Beavercreek, Ohio (OH)
Harry Cleaver
Beavercreek High School
Class of 1962
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HARRY'S PROFILE
| First Name | Harry |
| Last Name | Cleaver |
| Graduation Year | Class of 1962 |
| Gender | Male |
| Current Location | Austin, Texas |
| Hometown | Beavercreek, Ohio |
| Relationship Status | Divorced |
| About Me | I, Harry (Rusty) Cleaver attended Beavercreek Schools from the 1st to 12th grade. In those years, I learned - despite the best efforts of teachers to impose their own curriculum - to do my own, independent research into subjects and issues that tweaked my curiosity. Thus in grade school I studied the theory of evolution and in high school studied closed ecological systems - which required learning all sorts of advanced laboratory techniques to study changes in the amino acid composition of unicellular algae. That research won me the scholarships that allowed me to go to college. Despite being reared, at home, on classical music and literature, and at school on football chants, band music and rock & roll, I also discovered and explored the Beats, Cool Jazz (Miles Davis et al) and the French, so-called, decadent poets, especially Baudelaire and Rimbaud. I later attended Antioch College (Biochemisty, then Economics) from 1962 to 1967. During that time, as part of the Antioch work/study program, I worked at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, assisted in research on the periodical cicada in the swamps of the Mississippi River in Southern Illinois, worked on a farm outside Paris and sold fruit from midnight until 6 am in the now destroyed Les Halles market in Paris, shuffled paper as a copy boy, then clerk on the national news desk of the New York Times in NYC, researched rural-urban migration at the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Office of the President in Washington, D.C. during the Watts uprising, studied French for two months in Besancon and spent a year studying Hegel and Corneille at L'Universite de Montpellier in Southern France (1964-65) - when not mountain climbing in the Alps, les Calangues, Le Pic St. Loup, les Dentelles de Montmirail and Le Parc Nationale du Caroux. I took my Ph.D in Economics from Stanford University (1967-1971). Along the way, I was active in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the anti-Vietnam War Movement of the 1960s and early 1970s. I then taught at L'Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec (1971-1974), The New School for Social Research in NYC (1974-1976) and The University of Texas at Austin (1976-2012). I got my job at UT Austin as the result of an invitation by students who had fought for three years to get someone hired with my skills. As a result I always felt that I worked for students, to help them learn, rather than for the university to impose grades, sorting out the hard workers from the shirkers. As one result, I supported student struggles: for Quebec autonomy, against the austerity imposed during the New York City fiscal crisis, against US intervention in Central America, for anti-apartheid divestment in firms doing business in South Africa, against the corporate displacement and exploitation of the Amungme people in West Papua, and for changes in university programs to better meet their needs. For 12 years, from 1994 to 2006, as part of a local student/community solidarity group, I created and moderated the listserv Chiapas95 in support of the indigenous Zapatista rebellion and the struggle for democracy in Mexico. During that time I also wrote the introduction to the first published collection of Zapatista communiques - ZAPATISTAS! DOCUMENTS OF THE NEW MEXICAN REVOLUTION, New York: Autonomedia, 1994, and published several articles on the role of the Internet in the international circulation of solidarity with those struggles. My book READING CAPITAL POLITICALLY - that offers a new interpretation of Karl Marx's labor theory of value, as a theory of the socio-political value of labor to capital - has been translated and published in Mexico, Brazil, South Korea, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Austria, Sweden and India. Most search engines will quickly turn up my university homepage with links to my various writings, publications and course materials. I have three grown up children: one a tenured research biologist at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas who works on the genesis of the pancreas and the cardiovascular system, one a professional translator (French/English) who lives and works in Moncton, New Brunswick and one successful entrepreneur who owns and manages two stores (Garment and Moss) in Austin, Texas. Now retired, I continue to research, write, publish and, from time to time, give talks where invited. In the fall of 2012, I traveled to Poland, Austria, Slovenia and Germany for just such talks. I am currently researching and writing up the history of the genesis and development of a short-lived journal with which I was involved - Zerowork - as a small contribution to bottom-up history. (There is a website where I am posting the results of my research. Sorry but this program won't allow us to include URL's.) When I'm hungry, I cook the various cuisines I've learned in my travels: French, North African, Thai, Indian, Baltistani, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Yucatecan, Persian and, of course, traditional local American cuisines. I carve wood and stone, work leather and craft toys for my grandchidren - with whom I also regularly play the online computer game RIFT. We are also, at this point, participating in the alpha tests of the new Kickstarter MMO Shroud of the Avatar - by Richard "Lord British" Garriott, creator of the Ultima series of stand-alone fantasy gam...(read more) |
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Recent Class of 1962 Reunions
Plan a Class of 1962 Reunion for Free
BHS Classes of the 1960's Reunion Dinner
Invited Classes: All Classes
Date: Aug 24, 2013
Description: Beavercreek 1960's Reunion Beavercreek High School classes of 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961 and ...(read more)
50th Class Reunion
Invited Classes: 1962
Date: Oct 13, 2012
Description: October 12 at 6:30, Marion’s Piazza, 1320 North Fairfield Road, Beavercreek, Pay As You Go October 14, Free to vi...(read more)
50th Class Reunion
Invited Classes: 1962
Date: Oct 13, 2012
Description: October 12 at 6:30, Marion’s Piazza, 1320 North Fairfield Road, Beavercreek, Pay As You Go October 14, Free to vi...(read more)
50th Class Reunion
Invited Classes: 1962
Date: Oct 13, 2012
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60's Band The Gnomes available for 60's class reunions
Invited Classes: All Classes
Description: The Gnomes are a 60's Rock Band comprised of Beavercreek Grads of the class of 67. For further information, please cont...(read more)