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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

The fall semester is already behind us, and this year’s seniors are hearing the question, “What will you be doing after graduation?” Some have an answer—graduate school, travel opportunities, a career-track position. Others will find answers in the upcoming semester or soon after graduation. …

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

LETTER HOME: Camp Counselor in Morocco by Sherry Sybertz ’10

Dear Friends and Family, “Hello from summer camp! I miss you all! The beach is my favorite part of the day...” How many letters have I written like that? And why am I still writing these words, as a college graduate? N…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

SCHOLAR ATHLETE: Laura Kurash ’13

Laura Kurash ’13, team quad-captain for the 2011 Wesleyan women’s soccer season, was named first-team all-New England Division III by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). She received NESCAC honors…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012April 28, 2014

A Soldier’s Pain, A Therapist’s Story

By Eric Goldscheider Jeffrey Lucey, a reservist in the United States Marines, was 23 years old when he hanged himself with a garden hose from a low beam in the basement of his family’s home in Belchertown, Mass. The da…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Teen Health: Providing Help Through Schools

By Eve Abrams '93Photography by Jackson Hill One day this past winter in New Orleans, Melissa Trozzi Nass ’99 was seeing a patient at McDonogh 35 High School, in its School-Based Health Center. The center is a fully fun…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

(Your) Brain on Culture

By David Coombs, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities. Will brain scans revolutionize the liberal arts? Is neurocognitive science going to become, as The New York Timesput it recently, “the n…

2011 Issue 2June 21, 2011September 23, 2014

Not About the Pearls

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN JULES OPTON-HIMMEL ‘02 and SEAN PATCH ‘02 RARELY SPOKE OF OYSTERS. THEN THEY STARTED GROWING THEM. by Eric Gershon '98 It’s an overcast June morning on Ninigret Pond, a coastal lagoon in Charlest…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011September 23, 2014

The Darkly Funny World of Bruce Kaplan ’86

CARTOONS AS A DIARY OF ANGST By Lauren Weber ’94 You won’t find many unicorns or sunflowers in Bruce Eric Kaplan’s cartoons. If you did, the unicorn might be saying wistfully that he wished more little girls loved hi…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011September 23, 2014

The Real Value of Land: Ownership, Not Auction

ATTORNEY JOHN POLLOCK ’94 UPDATES HEIRS’ RIGHTS BY JIM H. SMITH, MALS ’02 Ervin and James Jones and their seven siblings inherited 38 acres of land in the hill country of eastern Alabama. The two brothers—elderly, poor …

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011September 23, 2014

A Gift For When Experience Pays But Internships Don’t

Rebecca Friendly ’11 knows that she’s one of the fortunate 2011 graduates: She has a full-time position in the California office of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for American Progress (CAP), a policy institute and th…