In January Sangharakshita made his first trip to the U.S.A.

‘Excluding the two weeks of the Easter holiday, for which I flew back to England to conduct the Easter retreat, I spent three months at Yale. During this time all that was expected of me, in my official capacity as Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy, was that I should teach once a week for two hours, the way in which I organized the seminar being otherwise left entirely to my own discretion.’

Sangharakshita, Moving Against the Stream, (CW23), pp.453-4

Nagabodhi writes: ‘The enthusiasm and energy of the young people delighted and energized him. After-lecture discussions raged for twice as long as the timetable dictated. He ran extramural meditation classes and “communication exercises”, which were well attended and surprisingly fruitful thanks to the wholehearted way people took them on.’

The Boy, The Monk, The Man, p.208