Patient Investor

2006 Issue 2June 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Patient Investor

IN THE WINTER OF 1997, with the stock market booming, Wesleyan's Board of Trustees adopted a new investment policy that recognized the need for a full-time investment professional on staff if the institution's portfolio were to achieve superior results in the highly competitive world of investment m…

2006 Issue 2June 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Fighting For Equality

IN 1918, THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TROOPS OF THE 369TH INFANTRY--also known as the Harlem Hell Fighters--staged a heroic five-day attack from Sept. 26 through Oct. 1 against the Germans in Sechault, France. Casualties among s…

2006 Issue 2June 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Front Office Player

ON A COOL OCTOBER NIGHT JUST AFTER A GAME, Jed Hoyer and a friend walked across the field in Yankee Stadium and sat down just beyond the left center field fence to have a few beers with Babe Ruth. Barely two years earli…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Museum on College Row

THE BONANG, KOTO, AXATSE, AND TABLA--musical instruments that may be unknown to many people--are crammed along with hundreds of other equally intriguing items from the World Music collection in a locked storeroom small…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Main Street’s New Buzz

ON A BRIGHT EARLY-AUTUMN SATURDAY AFTERNOON, pedestrians fill the central block of Main Street, which has been closed to vehicles for "Middletown Dances." A dance team from Middletown High School teaches "Hand Jive" on a…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Valley of Extremes

IT ALL CAME DOWN TO THE WIND ON VENTIFACT RIDGE. The wind—thousands of years' worth of sand-filled storms and sustained breezes blowing in excess of 50 miles per hour—had carved dramatic features into the solid rocks an…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Born to Fly

BY ERIC GERSHON ’98 | PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL BURKHART LET‘S SAY YOU WANT TO TRAVEL FROM CAPE COD TO CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Cod has no international airport, so you've got to get to one--most likely Boston's Logan. F…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Murder in the Cathedral

In the prologue to his novel The Go-Between, British author L. P. Hartley writes: "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." For 20 years Jeff Rider, a noted scholar of French and medieval studies…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 2, 2014

Deep Diver

ELLEN PRAGER '84 FIRST SAW HYDROLAB, an undersea research habitat, on a field trip while she was spending a semester at the West Indies Laboratory in St. Croix. Intrigued, she bicycled over the hilly roads of St. Croix t…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 2, 2014

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 l…