On Retirement: Reflections on 30 Years at Wesleyan

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

On Retirement: Reflections on 30 Years at Wesleyan

I have had the best job in the world since 1989, when I joined the staff at Wesleyan’s Office of Public Information (now University Communications). Editing the Class Notes section of this magazine was an immersion experience into the community: a creative, curious, fearless, generous, intellectual,…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020

President’s Letter: Building Toward a New Normal

At a faculty meeting in early March, the coronavirus was third on my list of agenda items to talk about, after facilities improvements and fundraising progress. When I mentioned a colleague’s suggestion that Wesleyan can…

2020 Issue 1April 29, 2020May 21, 2020

Three Bronze Stars: Lovett ’45 Recalls WWII Medic Service in Italy

[caption id="attachment_16069" align="alignleft" width="983"] Francis Lovett '45[/caption] Francis Lovett ’45, who graduated from Wesleyan in 1948 after serving with the elite 10th Mountain Division in Italy during Wo…

2019 Issue 3February 11, 2020

Sharing a Front Seat with Martin Luther King Jr.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Wesleyan's campus in the spring of 1964 and was awarded an honorary degree. …

2019 Issue 3December 3, 2019December 3, 2019

Editor’s Note: The Special Power of Global Experiences

On a recent trip to Greece, and at the recommendation of Wesleyan professor (and Grecian native) Tsampikos Kottos, my wife and I decided to hike Samaria Gorge in southern Crete. While travel is often noted for helping …

2019 Issue 3December 3, 2019

Letters to the Editor: Bruce Corwin ’62, Andrew Berends ’94, and Stars in Our Midst

Dear Editors, On reading the otherwise very informative set of articles celebrating Jeanine Basinger and the Wesleyan film program, I was sorry to find that the important early contributions to the program made by Bruce…

2019 Issue 3December 3, 2019

President’s Letter: “Borders Don’t Confine an Inquisitive Mind, a Compassionate Heart, and a Courageous Spirit!”

When I arrived as a student here in 1975, I had never ventured far from the United States. My mind-opening studies in European cultural history soon took me to France, where later I would live for some years. When I retu…

2019 Issue 2September 17, 2019

President’s Letter

Whatever you study in college, you should be prepared to talk about what you’ve learned with people who haven’t studied your subject. In a world in which so many are locked into small silos of understanding, it’s a great…

2019 Issue 2September 17, 2019

Letters to the Editor: Dr. Martin Luther King Hon. ’64; Quantitative Leaders; Class of ’45: 10th Mountain Division

Wesleyan’s Dr. Martin Luther King Hon. ’64 Dear Sir: An article in Issue 1, 2019, on African American Studies at Wesleyan was very interesting and informative. I was very surprised that the authors neglected to…

2019 Issue 2September 17, 2019

“I’ve Got My Gal”

I came to Wesleyan expressly to study with Jeanine Basinger. Many of us did. Film was our religion and initially we loved it with the reckless idiocy of first lust; it overwhelmed us, obsessed us. Jeanine remade lust in…