Former Oberlin students received national recognition this year.
George Walker OC `41 was awarded the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in music for his composition "Lilacs". Walker holds the distinction of being the first African-American to win the Pulitzer.
Billy "Upski" Wimsatt, a former Oberlin student, was named an Utne Visionary by the Utne Reader. The Utne Reader selected twenty men and women who "have the ability to permeate the present with little laser beams".
Wimsatt , who published Bomb the Suburbs in 1994, was cited for his work as a "graffiti writer, inner-city journalist, hitchhiker, chronicler and critic of hip-hop culture."
He was a student first semester.
Some look at how things are and ask why: Upski looks at how things could be and asks why not. Oberlin's resident visionary was so dubbed by the Utne Reader. (photo by Tanner Mullen)
Copyright © 1996, The Oberlin Review.
Volume 124, Number 25; May 24, 1996
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