Author: Magazine Editor

Members of my class should all be so lucky as to have Sal Russo ’60 write about our passing in the class notes, as he did about classmate Nick Turro ’60, and so blessed as to have had the thoroughly distinguished career …

Thank you for publishing the article about the Founders of Wesleyan Rowing in the June issue. And thanks also to Alex Thomson ’82 for writing it. There was, however, an error that needs correcting. The coach for the pas…

The article in issue I, 2013, entitled “Bridging Generations,” pages 22–23, was fascinating and moving. Not only was it a good love story but it was historically and socially significant with its attachment to the Burma …

Your cover story in the last issue, “Direct Action,” fortuitously coincided with much of the post-Newtown tragedy and drama. Even more coincidental is the article’s subject, Jan Eliasberg ’74 and her laudable rise th…

It is hard to know whether the “Row” in the “Historical Row” feature in the latest Wesleyan magazine should rhyme with “owe” or “ow.” The students’ response to the 1955 concert presented by John Cage and David Tudor was …

Thank you very much for the nice paragraph about my book Great Lengths in the latest Wesleyan magazine. I thought you might be interested to know that Great Lengths has won two national awards: the Theatre Library As…

I started to read the most recent Wesleyan and was struck by the short article written by Alex Magnin ’07. There is no mention on the page of what he is currently doing, which I think is a shame, since this is a bril…

Douglas G. Morris '76, JD, PHD: In light of your decision to end need-blind admissions, I will stop making contributions to Wesleyan (which have been modest but steady). I make the decision sadly since I got a wonderful…

Sierra Livious ’14 is the Wesleyan record holder for the outdoor shot put (39- 10) and the indoor pentathlon (3,157 points). In 2011-2012, she was all-New England Division III indoors in both the shot put (6th) and the p…