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Ellen Gates D’Oench

By Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Department of Classical Studies ELLEN GATES D’OENCH—known to everyone as Puffin—served as curator of the Davison Art Center from 1979 until 1998. The term ”curator“ is derived from the Latin ”to care for,“ and a museum curatorship is a complex set of responsibilities, all …
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A Different Vision

I dreaded going to grade school. Throughout childhood, I had 20/20 acuity in both eyes, but I had trouble learning to read. When I looked down at the letters on the page, they didn’t stay in one place. This problem grew …
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Focus on the Truth

BY KATHERINE JAMIESON ’96 After a Christmas shopping trip to Pottery Barn in 2003, Andrew Berends ’94 knew he had to go to Iraq. While he browsed through $4,000 leather chairs, swathed in ambient music and mood lighting…
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RELIGION

Professor of Religion Jan Willis, who has devoted part of the last seven years to helping a group of elderly Ladakhi nuns, was honored as an “Outstanding Woman in Buddhism” for the year 2009 for making an “exceptional co…
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