As I wrote earlier, Williams College for me was a place of eerie coincidence. What has been described as "the occult milieu" permeated the atmosphere daily, and I implied that these cosmic accidents or coincidences which originate at Williams College continue to unfold to this very moment in time. Dr. John W. Hopkins, deemed by nearly all who met him as "eccentric", was fascinated with the notions of flying saucers and space brothers, concepts which by definition imply some sort of contact or space travel but his interest was generated long before the advent of what has become known as the Space Race. Additionally, Dr. Hopkins maintained a genuine interest in what can only be described as metaphysical communication, from whence messages arrived and were delivered from the ether to recipients who always hoped to understand the meanings of such communiques.
As a small proof to show that the people attracted to Williams College under the administration of Dr. John W. Hopkins were (and likely still are) forward thinking individuals, here is a photograph I just found on Flicker, of none other than a young 13-yr old Esther Dyson and her brother photographed at Farley Hall on the grounds of Williams College in 1963. I am kindly allowed to use this photo under the guidelines of the Creative Commons, even on my humble blog entry.
This is the link to the original Flicker page proving this photo of Esther Dyson was snapped at Williams College in 1963 and with accompanying comments.
Who is Esther Dyson, you might not need to ask if you peruse the Wikipedia entry linked above.
Not only a member of the Cyber Elite, Esther Dyson is a space adventurer.
"Space Adventures Announces Esther Dyson as Back-Up Crew Member for Spring 2009 Spaceflight Mission". Space Adventures. 2008-10-07. http://www.spaceadventures.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.viewnews&newsid=639. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
"Esther Dyson, an investor in Space Adventures [..] will train as the back-up crew member alongside orbital spaceflight candidate Charles Simonyi, Ph.D., who is currently planning a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in spring 2009. [..] The price of the back-up crew member program is $3,000,000 (USD), which includes the required spaceflight training costs, along with accommodations in Star City"
Truthfully, if I were to gather more names of those who visited Williams College in the Sixties, I could easily develop a much longer post on people whose later careers touched upon space travel (real or imagined) and even space brothers. Esther Dyson certainly epitomizes the feckless spirit required for space adventure and more than qualifies to be honored and recognized as an Early Williams College Space Cadet and Outer Space Pioneer.
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