2009 Issue 1 – Page 2 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009May 16, 2014

CREATIVE WRITING

John M. Shapiro ’74 and Shonni J. Silverberg ’76, MD, of New York City, have made a gift of $3.5 million to transform the teaching of writing at Wesleyan and endow the Shapiro Creative Writing Center. “During my years at Wesleyan I aspired to be a writer,” said Shapiro. “Unfortunately, I wa…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009May 16, 2014

ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME

Leaving his mark on the world of road racing in April 1968, when he captured the title in the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:22.17, Ambrose “Amby” Burfoot ’68 became the first collegian to win the world’s oldest contin…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009May 16, 2014

ADMISSION

In November, when the first round of early decision applications concluded, the Wesleyan admission staff saw that applications were up 34 percent from the previous year. The staff maintained cautious enthusiasm. …

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009May 16, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Wesleyan alumni know our proud history of engaging with the world, but it is always nice to have one’s self–perception acknowledged by other institutions. During the break between semesters, the Carnegie Foundation for t…

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…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Almost Human

BY KAREN GUZMAN | PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL BURKHART AND STEVEN JACARUSO The era of Hollywood’s fevered imagination has finally arrived. The computers are taking over. Machines, robots, artificial intelligence agents, whateve…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Wesleyan Wit and Wisdom

Fred R. Shapiro, Editor, The Yale Book of Quotations The personality of a school can be an elusive target. Wesleyan has a strong tradition of producing scientists, yet literature and the arts may be the most dominant ar…