2009 Issue 2 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2009 Issue 2June 29, 2009September 29, 2014

LETTER HOME: Life in Africa: Learning Humility

By Angela Larkan ’05 Dear Friends, I’m writing this on my tortoise-speed computer, eating a bag of cheese curls for dinner. But it’s okay, because I am in Africa and just by being here, I am influenced, enriched, confused, frustrated, and then humbled. Every day. I come home uncomfortable, moody, …

2009 Issue 2June 29, 2009September 29, 2014

CONVERSATIONS: A Fresh Look at Hoover and FDR

Many people think that Herbert Hoover took a hands-off approach to the Great Depression and that FDR embraced deficit spending. Not so, says Professor of Economics and CSS Tutor Richard Adelstein. By William Holder ’75 …

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: WESLEYAN IN THE DEPRESSION

The Great Depression brings a series of iconic images to mind. There’s the unemployment line, the bread line, the line to get money out of the bank before it goes bust. There’s the Dust Bowl and Dorothea Lange’s migrant …

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009May 16, 2014

COMMENCEMENT 2009

Heavy rain let up in time for Wesleyan’s 177th Commencement to proceed May 24 as usual on Andrus Field, where graduates and their families heard from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and novelist Anna Quindlen P’07. …

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009May 16, 2014

A NEW LIFE BY ACCIDENT

India was not the place Jon Sigworth ’10 expected to find a new life. He’d gone there in 2006, fresh out of high school, as part of an academic abroad program to study history and theology. But a cycling accident one aft…

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009May 16, 2014

WASHINGTON

Two Wesleyan alumni performed May 12 for President Obama, his family, and others at the White House at an event titled “An Evening of Poetry, Music and the Spoken Word.” Ayelet Waldman ’86 and her husband, Michael Chabon…

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009May 16, 2014

ENTREPRENEURS

Eric Dachs ’98 admits he doesn’t have a long attention span. In particular, he did not have much patience for all the paperwork that seems to smother the creative process in filmmaking. His frustration bubbled over when …

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009May 16, 2014

FILM

Next to the Sundance Film Festival, the annual South By Southwest (a.k.a. SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, may be the most prestigious forum for new independent films in the United States. So when Noah Hutton ’09 had his…

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009April 16, 2014

ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME

Allegra Burton has the distinction of becoming the first Wesleyan woman to earn NCAA All-America honors in two sports during the same year. In 1986–87, Burton placed eighth in the NCAA Division III Cross Country Champion…

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009April 16, 2014

ATHLETICS

The 2009 Wesleyan men’s lacrosse team did something that eluded each of the last eight Cardinals lax squads: winning a NESCAC tournament title and earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III tournament. &n…