2006 Issue 2

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David Skaggs '64, executive director, Center for Democracy & Citizenship, and a former congressman from Colorado, met with the Fellows during a special dinner just prior to his panel discussion, open to all students,…

Jane Maxson ’06 spent her spring break on the Gulf Coast, but not sporting a sun hat and flip–flops on the beach. Equipped with a hammer, nails, and tool belt, she volunteered for hurricane relief efforts—one of about 10…

Suzy Taraba ’77, a COL major, remembers making her way only once as an undergraduate into the Special Collections of Olin Library. Now, as University Archivist, Taraba tries to ensure that students don’t miss this opport…

Under a warm spring sky on May 4, President Douglas Bennet ’59 informed a crowd of several hundred faculty, staff, and students that the upcoming academic year will be his last in his South College office.   Benne…

IN LATE JANUARY WE CAUGHT UP WITH DAVID BRANCACCIO '82 while he was in Liberty, Maine, shooting the opening segment of Now, the PBS show he hosts. Liberty is just off Route 3 as the two-lane highway heads east out of Aug…

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 …

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…

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…