Image Maker

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Image Maker

Since his childhood, Professor of Art J. Seeley has had one continuing quest: to find new and creative ways to print realistic images in ink on paper. “My mother recalled that I was working with potato prints and rubber stamps long before I started school,” he says. “She remembered that I pushed any…

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Fire Fights

THE HELICOPTER CIRCLES THE FIRE in the Sky Lakes Wilderness area of Oregon. The "spotter" on board identifies a break in the trees where firefighters can rappel down. With the side doors open, the roar of the helicopter …

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

The Art and Craft of Location

OCCASIONALLY A NIGHT'S WORTH OF RAIN will come through Los Angeles and clear away the smog. It's then possible to see Downtown from Hollywood, the mountains from Downtown. Homes in the hills are visible for the first tim…

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

A Reptile Rendition

“May we borrow your triceratops?” When Yale’s Peabody Museum mounted a dinosaur exhibit for school children during winter vacation, an official called Erik Dawe ’02 with that question. The math and physics major…

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

E.B. Nye Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, Gilbert Burford Dies at Age 91

M. Gilbert Burford ’32, E.B. Nye Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, died Feb. 7 at age 91. He devoted virtually his entire career to Wesleyan. After obtaining his doctoral degree from Princeton in 1935, he taught …

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Trustees Also Approve Film Studies Project, Tuition Will Rise by 5.5 percent

The cost of attending Wesleyan in ’02–’03 will rise by $1,880, to $35,930, an increase of 5.5 percent. Student charges were set at a meeting of the Board of Trustees on March 2. Of the $35,930 cost of attending…

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Renowned Sculptor John Risley Dies

John H. Risley, professor of art emeritus, died Feb. 19 in Colchester, Conn. Born in 1919 in Waterville, Maine, Professor Risley modestly referred to himself as a Yankee tinker. He was, of course, much more: an artist wh…

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Super Bowl Victor

Let the teenyboppers drool over New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his dimpled chin. At a certain point in life, you don’t dream about being his date. You look at a 24-year-old like Brady and think: What a gr…

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Q & A: Jerusalem Through the Windows

Q: You first went to Jerusalem with the Jewish Studies Program at Wesleyan. What drew you back to live there? Adina Hoffman: My husband, Peter Cole, and I were living in San Francisco in the early ’90s and decid…

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Motherhood Mysteries

THE PHONE STARTED RINGING…AND RINGING AND RINGING. A jury had just pronounced O.J. Simpson not guilty of murder and from penitentiaries across California, convicts were calling Ayelet Waldman '86 demanding she get them o…