Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir. In , St. In her new memoir, Lacy Crawford names the educators who, she says, knowingly hid her rape from the police and engaged in witness tampering: Bill Matthews, John Buxton, Cliff Gillespie, and Kelly Clark, teachers and administrators at the school.
Together these men lied to silence young Ms. Notes on a Silencing is a story of the slander of a young woman. It is a story of rape and power, of predation, of masculine domination—and it is a story of shame.
With this book, she seeks, instead, to make it about the shame of these powerful men. I hope she is successful.
Crawford enrolled at St. She was from a well-to-do Chicago family, her father an executive and her mother an Episcopal priest. Morgan Jr. Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor, also attended the school. So did I, arriving shortly after Crawford graduated. Later, I went back to teach at St.
Part of making elites, as I argued in my book, is defending status and power. In her 11th-grade year, Crawford was raped by two seniors.
