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2020 Issue 1

A Rare Find in the Military Archives: A Little-Known Poem by Dudley Randall
Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on August 26, 2020September 6, 2020

A Rare Find in the Military Archives: A Little-Known Poem by Dudley Randall

Photo of Dudley Randall circa 1972 courtesy Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library. Visiting Assistant Professor of Science in Society Natalie Shibley was combing through the digital ar…
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Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on June 30, 2020

Remembering Norm Shapiro

At our Boston-area literary translators’ group meetings, Norman Shapiro was a rare participant, but he always meant to show up, usually when he had a new book he wanted to advertise. I used to say of him that he was like…
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Behind the Scenes: Wesleyan Videographer Hohne Takes Film to Sundance
Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on May 28, 2020July 23, 2020

Behind the Scenes: Wesleyan Videographer Hohne Takes Film to Sundance

  Dennis Hohne (above, right), one of the three videographers in Wesleyan’s Office of Communications, took time aw…
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Art is Not Convenient (video)
Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on May 3, 2020

Art is Not Convenient (video)

Associate Professor of Dance Hari Krishnan describes art's role in expressing and driving social change, and how his rec…
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Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on May 1, 2020May 7, 2020

Editor’s Note: Before and After

My senior year of college, I was assigned to read a book titled She’s Not There. It blew my mind. Even more than the book itself, which I tore through wide-eyed in a day or so, I remember the discussions it engendered…
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Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

On Retirement: Reflections on 30 Years at Wesleyan

I have had the best job in the world since 1989, when I joined the staff at Wesleyan’s Office of Public Information (now University Communications). Editing the Class Notes section of this magazine was an immersion exper…
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Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on May 1, 2020

President’s Letter: Building Toward a New Normal

At a faculty meeting in early March, the coronavirus was third on my list of agenda items to talk about, after facilities improvements and fundraising progress. When I mentioned a colleague’s suggestion that Wesleyan can…
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Telling the Truth
Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on May 1, 2020July 13, 2022

Telling the Truth

It took author Jennifer Finney Boylan ’80 a long time to find the key to her artistic success—something she held all alo…
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Jenny Boylan ’80: In Her Own Words
Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on May 1, 2020May 3, 2020

Jenny Boylan ’80: In Her Own Words

Nobody says it better than author Jenny Boylan, herself. Below, she elaborates on great authors, the role of literature,…
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Good Boy: My Life In Seven Dogs
Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on May 1, 2020May 3, 2020

Good Boy: My Life In Seven Dogs

Above all, author Jennifer Finney Boylan '80 is interested in storytelling and its capacity (and limitations) in express…
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