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2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012September 18, 2014

BETWEEN THE LINES: THE VIRAL TRIFECTA BY JOHN HLINKO ’89

In Share, Retweet, Repeat: Get Your Message Read and Spread (Prentice Hall Press, 2012), John Hlinko offers an essential guide to viral marketing for anyone who wants to spread a message, whether it be for a political movement, a small business, or any kind of entrepreneurial effort. In the world…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Ripple Effects

By Tom Christopher IT TAKES COURAGE—and chutzpah—to quote to a Wesleyan audience Ronald Reagan’s assertions about trees being the worst polluters. But James Workman is intent on upsetting the status quo. That, in a fund…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012September 23, 2014

New Trustees

Carlton B. Barnswell ’83, P’14 Barnswell is a found- ing member of Integrated Medical Professionals, a multispecialty medical organization provid- ing comprehensive urologic and oncologic care in greater New York. A n…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Ed Stein ’60 and Paula Gamache ’72 Wesleyan: Across and Down

Ed Stein ’60 began his love affair with crossword puzzles “back when a bikini meant an atoll in the Pacific, not a bathing suit.” From filling out the crossword grid of his Scholastic magazine, he progressed from Dell…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012September 23, 2014

LETTER HOME: In the World’s Newest Country – Alex Magnin ’07

"It’s a land perfect only for vultures.” That is my first thought as we descend to a clay airstrip near Bentiu town, maintained by an oil company and 35 miles from the newest border of the world’s newest country, South S…

2012 Issue 3December 12, 2012September 23, 2014

Travel with Wesleyan

SOUTH AFRICA: CAPE TOWN AND MOZAMBIQUE February 7–20, 2013 From $7,895 Discover the staggering diversity of South Africa, “a world in one country,” aboard the six-star, all-suite, small-ship M.V. Silver Wind. Cruise rou…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Pursuing the Perfect Pig

Lucky visitors to Black Oak Holler Farm in West Virginia, Nic Heckett’s culinary laboratory, will arrive when the pig has been on the smoker for about eight hours. The hickory wood, harvested from surrounding hills, has …

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012April 28, 2014

A Soldier’s Daughter and a Mother’s Truth

By Erica Brown ’81 WRITER KAYLIE JONES ’81 learned a few things from her father, James Jones, the prize-winning author ofFrom Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line. Like the tough, scrappy soldiers portrayed in her fat…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

41 Wyllys Avenue Ribbon Cutting

The Wesleyan community celebrated the grand opening of 41 Wyllys Avenue during a reception and ribbon-cutting ceremony on Feb. 24. The building is the new home of the College of Letters, Art History Program, and the Wesl…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Commencement 2012: Honorary Degree Recipients

U.S. Senator Michael Bennet ’87, a leading advocate for education reforms that support great teaching, delivered the Commencement address at the university’s 180th Commencement on May 27. Other honorary degree recipient…