Author: Bill Holder

William L. Holder ’75 served as editor of Wesleyan from 1994 until he retired in 2018.
Category 2005 Issue 4Posted on

Here by Choice

ON A BREEZY SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN OCTOBER about three dozen high school students and parents attended a workshop, sponsored by Wesleyan's Office of Admission, at Marymount School in Manhattan, a Catholic school for girls located on Fifth Avenue, right across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The w…
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Category 2005 Issue 3Posted on

A Secret Sacrifice

TUESDAY, NOV. 3, 1981 CIA HEADQUARTERS, LANGLEY, VIRGINIA As David Forden '52 displayed his ID badge to the guards at the entrance gate to CIA headquarters, he was preoccupied by the growing unrest in Poland. Over brea…
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Category 2005 Issue 3Posted on

Calculated Risks

ALAN DACHS '70, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE SAN FRANCISO-BASED INVESTMENT COMPANY FREMONT GROUP, recently concluded 14 years of service on Wesleyan's Board of Trustees, eight of those as chair. He played…
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Category 2005 Issue 2Posted on

The Comeback Drug

VISITORS LOOKING FOR THE HEADQUARTERS OF IMCLONE would do well to keep the address in hand because the exterior of an aging building in lower Manhattan's SoHo area does not reveal its corporate resident. This low profile…
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Category 2005 Issue 1Posted on

School of Dreams

WESLEYAN‘S CENTER FOR THE ARTS DIRECTOR PAMELA TATGE ’84 and I are sitting in the Tibetan restaurant on Main Street near O'Rourke's, sharing a late lunch—bowls of steaming noodles—and a conversation about the new Green S…
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