And yes, we were, along with John Dower, founding (foundering?) members of CCAS. Some of the first meetings were in John Fairbank’s living room. It was Fairbank who suggested the name for the organization — “scholars” was a nice touch. We were not all that happy with his reluctance to speak out earlier and louder on the war. He wanted us to finish our degrees before we shot off our mouths about Vietnam, where, he pointed out, if we came across an unfamiliar name we would not know “if it was a man or a bridge.”