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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 who received national prizes and more than two dozen regional prizes for sculptura…

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…

2002 Issue 2March 30, 2002March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

Our roundup of noteworthy publications by Wesleyan alumni, faculty members, and parents. STEVEN ALMOND ’88 My Life in Heavy Metal (Grove/Atlantic, 2002) Most of the 12 stories in this entertaining fiction debut deal …

2002 Issue 2March 30, 2002September 30, 2014

Continuing Career Counseling

Dear Fellow Alumni, Once again Wesleyan is at the forefront of a new trend: lifelong career counseling provided to all alumni at no cost. Under President Bennet’s leadership, Wesleyan’s Career Resource Center (CRC) has…

2002 Issue 1January 30, 2002September 30, 2014

Staying Connected

Dear Alumni, September 11 followed a trustee meeting where I spent the weekend with several trustees. We’d renewed our friendship, I felt connected, and I wanted to know if they and other alumni friends from NYC and Was…

2002 Issue 1January 30, 2002March 23, 2015

AUTHOR ESSAY: Taming the Beast Within: The Power of Possessions

It’s fun to buy a new pair of shoes, and objects can make us happy, but ultimately do they really give us what we want? Jane Hammerslough ’82 reflects on the power of possessions. At my son’s back–toschool night, the sm…

2002 Issue 1January 30, 2002March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

Our roundup of noteworthy publications by Wesleyan alumni, faculty members, and parents. TYLER ANBINDER ’84 Five Points (Free Press, 2001) Tyler Anbinder’s new book is the first comprehensive history of Five Points, …

2002 Issue 1January 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Professor Emeritus of Religion, David Swift

Professor Emeritus of Religion David Swift, 87, died Oct. 14, in Kennett Square, Pa. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University in 1936, he also earned his doctoral degree in divinity from Yale in 1939. He was…