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2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Digging for Local History

ON A SUNNY SATURDAY AFTERNOON in April, about a dozen Wesleyan students and volunteers from the surrounding community kneel in the dirt behind the small, unassuming homes dotting Vine Street. Now housing Wesleyan students, they were the pride of a small but remarkable community of black families who…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Direct Action

JAN ELIASBERG ’74 is on set; as the director, she’s the calm in the center of all activity. Soon, she’ll say the word and a building will blow up, two cars will catch fire, and five people will “die.” At that point, she’…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012April 28, 2014

A Soldier’s Daughter and a Mother’s Truth

By Erica Brown ’81 WRITER KAYLIE JONES ’81 learned a few things from her father, James Jones, the prize-winning author ofFrom Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line. Like the tough, scrappy soldiers portrayed in her fat…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Governor Peter Shumlin: Small Town Worldliness

By Katherine Jamieson ’96Photography by Karen Pike IN SOME WAYS, PETER SHUMLIN ’79 hearkens back to an old-time, New England politician. Except for the stint in Connecticut for college, he’s lived and worked in his home…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Taming Investment Risk

By Michael Santoli ’92Photography by John Van Vlack WESLEYAN HAS AT LEAST THREE ENDOWMENTS, if the word “endowment” is taken to mean any store of collected wealth that can be used to benefit the university over the long…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Test Questions

By Lauren RubensteinPhotography by John Van Vlack SINCE THE ENACTMENT of the landmark No Child Left Behind Act a decade ago, “accountability” has been the buzzword in our nation’s education policy. Schools are held acco…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Digital Wesleyan’s New York Network

IN THE SPRING of 1994, during my senior year at Wesleyan, I stopped by the computer labs at the Science Center once or twice a day, sat down at a station, and faced a monitor blinking with DOS commands. I’d peck a few ch…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Capturing the Genius of an American Icon

James Kaplan ’73 is the author of the acclaimed new biography, Frank: The Voice (Doubleday, hardcover; Anchor, paperback), about the early life of one of America’s best known American singers and entertainers of the 20th…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012April 28, 2014

A Soldier’s Pain, A Therapist’s Story

By Eric Goldscheider Jeffrey Lucey, a reservist in the United States Marines, was 23 years old when he hanged himself with a garden hose from a low beam in the basement of his family’s home in Belchertown, Mass. The da…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Teen Health: Providing Help Through Schools

By Eve Abrams '93Photography by Jackson Hill One day this past winter in New Orleans, Melissa Trozzi Nass ’99 was seeing a patient at McDonogh 35 High School, in its School-Based Health Center. The center is a fully fun…