2002 Issue 2

Long before our time, Wesleyan was sometimes known as "The Singing College." This sobriquet reflected the many musical pastimes of Wesleyan students, from the Speirachordeon Band of the late 1830s, to the informal colleg…

“May we borrow your triceratops?” When Yale’s Peabody Museum mounted a dinosaur exhibit for school children during winter vacation, an official called Erik Dawe ’02 with that question.   The math and physics major…

M. Gilbert Burford ’32, E.B. Nye Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, died Feb. 7 at age 91.   He devoted virtually his entire career to Wesleyan. After obtaining his doctoral degree from Princeton in 1935, he taught …

 The cost of attending Wesleyan in ’02–’03 will rise by $1,880, to $35,930, an increase of 5.5 percent.   Student charges were set at a meeting of the Board of Trustees on March 2. Of the $35,930 cost of attending…

John H. Risley, professor of art emeritus, died Feb. 19 in Colchester, Conn. Born in 1919 in Waterville, Maine, Professor Risley modestly referred to himself as a Yankee tinker. He was, of course, much more: an artist wh…

Let the teenyboppers drool over New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his dimpled chin. At a certain point in life, you don’t dream about being his date. You look at a 24-year-old like Brady and think: What a gr…

Q: You first went to Jerusalem with the Jewish Studies Program at Wesleyan. What drew you back to live there?   Adina Hoffman: My husband, Peter Cole, and I were living in San Francisco in the early ’90s and decid…

CAROLINE LITTLE '81 BROKE THE RULES. The rules, for example, that say a woman starting a high-powered career would be crazy to get married and have children at the outset, never mind deciding to work part time. But that'…

THE PHONE STARTED RINGING…AND RINGING AND RINGING. A jury had just pronounced O.J. Simpson not guilty of murder and from penitentiaries across California, convicts were calling Ayelet Waldman '86 demanding she get them o…