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2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Governor Peter Shumlin: Small Town Worldliness

By Katherine Jamieson ’96Photography by Karen Pike IN SOME WAYS, PETER SHUMLIN ’79 hearkens back to an old-time, New England politician. Except for the stint in Connecticut for college, he’s lived and worked in his hometown of Putney, Vermont, population 2,600, for his entire life. According to his…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

MTV’s Friedman ’91: Keynote Career Advice

MTV President Stephen K. Friedman ’91 returned to campus on Feb. 25, as the keynote speaker for a day of seminars to celebrate the grand opening of the new Career Center at 41 Wyllys Ave. From the vantage point of 21 y…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

R&C Weekend 2012

This year, two Baldwin Medals, which honor the late Judge Raymond E. Baldwin ’16, were bestowed on William Wasch ’52 and Bruce Corwin ’62. The Baldwin Medal is the highest honor Wesleyan’s alumni body presents for extrao…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR MICHAEL KLINGHER ’78, P’12, P’15 As chair, I have the privilege of being an ex officio member of all Alumni Association committees and councils. When I started my term two years ago, I had no cle…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Taming Investment Risk

By Michael Santoli ’92Photography by John Van Vlack WESLEYAN HAS AT LEAST THREE ENDOWMENTS, if the word “endowment” is taken to mean any store of collected wealth that can be used to benefit the university over the long…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

LETTER HOME: Facing Reality in Afghanistan by Alexander Footman ’09

“She says you can film in her house,” Wida told me. The director of the Shor Bazaar center of the Afghanistan Women Council [sic], Wida had found a student, Nouria, willing to be interviewed in her home for my documen…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

JUST PUBLISHED | 2012 ISSUE 2 Eve Abrams ’93 and Shannon Brinkman Preservation Hall • LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2011 Since the early 1960s, Preservation Hall in New Orleans’ French Quarter has served as a sanc…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

SCHOLAR ATHLETE: Shasha Brown ’13

Shasha Brown ’13 has led men’s bas- ketball in scoring and assists for three straight seasons. He is now the high- est scoring player through his junior year in Wesleyan history with 1,333 points. He needs only 360 point…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Center for Prison Education

BY JIM SMITH Russell Perkins ’09 was a high school student in Evanston, Illinois when the Anthony Porter case changed Illinois law. It changed Perkins’ life, as well. Convicted, in the 1980s, of murdering two Chicago t…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Permaculture Takes Root in the WestCo Courtyard

TO WILD WES, ‘LANDSCAPE’ MEANS ‘NATURAL’ BY YAEL CHANOFF ’11 From the top of Foss Hill, the view of Wesleyan is a picture of New England college charm. But in the green expanses of lawn, where most see tradition and cla…