Making an Impact for Cape Cod Residents
For the Daniel family, civic action has meant rallying their community in support of financial stability for year-round residents during the global pandemic.
Picture a place like Chatham, M…
Year: 2020
Unprecedented, but Not Unparalleled
Photo caption: Red Cross volunteers inspect equipment for Wesleyan during the 1918 influenza pandemic. The location is t…
A Rare Find in the Military Archives: A Little-Known Poem by Dudley Randall
Photo of Dudley Randall circa 1972 courtesy Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library.
Visiting Assistant Pr…
Remembering Norm Shapiro
At our Boston-area literary translators’ group meetings, Norman Shapiro was a rare participant, but he always meant to show up, usually when he had a new book he wanted to advertise. I used to say of him that he was like…
Behind the Scenes: Wesleyan Videographer Hohne Takes Film to Sundance
Dennis Hohne (above, right), one of the three videographers in Wesleyan’s Office of Communications, took time aw…
Art is Not Convenient (video)
Associate Professor of Dance Hari Krishnan describes art's role in expressing and driving social change, and how his rec…
Editor’s Note: Before and After
My senior year of college, I was assigned to read a book titled She’s Not There. It blew my mind.
Even more than the book itself, which I tore through wide-eyed in a day or so, I remember the discussions it engendered…
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 exper…
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…
Telling the Truth
It took author Jennifer Finney Boylan ’80 a long time to find the key to her artistic success—something she held all alo…