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2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 28, 2014

On Air

BY TRACEY O’SHAUGHNESSY, MALS ’02 | PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL BURKHART It started with moxie. From the time two cunning Clark Hall students slithered through Wesleyan’s maintenance tunnels and hooked a small transmitter to its water pipes, WESU (88.1 FM) has been a station of equal parts pluck, ingenuit…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Dream Argonaut

BY CHARLOTTE ALBRIGHT | PHOTOGRAPHY BY HERB SWANSON At some point in the next 24 hours, parts of your brain may shut down temporarily, while other parts may remain active. Your eyes may flutter under closed lids. You ma…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Out of the Park

There’s not much that Jim Dresser ’63 hasn’t done for Wesleyan. He headed the annual fund, led the alumni association, stepped in as a pinch–hitter for the administration when critical positions became vacant in Universi…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Hard Work in the Big Easy

BY EVE ABRAMS ’93 “Kiss your brain,” Katharine Needham ’05 tells Brian, who has just recalled the “fancy word” for people in a story. Needham turns and writes “character” on the dry erase board behind her, and meanwhile…

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009November 20, 2013

Ellen Gates D’Oench

By Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Department of Classical Studies ELLEN GATES D’OENCH—known to everyone as Puffin—served as curator of the Davison Art Center from 1979 until 1998. The term ”curator“ is derived from the Latin ”t…

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Ask the Crowd

Jonathan Spector ’78, chief executive officer of the Conference Board, has a story he likes to tell that contains a revolutionary message for American business. A mining company called Goldcorp had worked an area until …

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009April 28, 2014

A Different Vision

I dreaded going to grade school. Throughout childhood, I had 20/20 acuity in both eyes, but I had trouble learning to read. When I looked down at the letters on the page, they didn’t stay in one place. This problem grew …

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Focus on the Truth

BY KATHERINE JAMIESON ’96 After a Christmas shopping trip to Pottery Barn in 2003, Andrew Berends ’94 knew he had to go to Iraq. While he browsed through $4,000 leather chairs, swathed in ambient music and mood lighting…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Colorado SURPRISE

BY LYNDSEY LAYTON ’86 After a key Senate vote in early February on the economic stimulus package, Michael Bennet ’87 stepped into the cloakroom off the Senate floor, took out his cell phone, and dialed his father. Doug…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Ten Photos That Shook the World

The little girl in the center of the photograph is naked. From the news account, we know that she has torn off her own clothes, desperate to escape the flesh–burning napalm. She runs toward the viewer, holding her arms o…