2010 Issue 1 – Page 2 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2010 Issue 1January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Whalen ’83 Named Head Coach of Wesleyan Football

Mike Whalen ’83 has been named assistant athletic director and head coach of Wesleyan University’s football team. He assumed this post on April 1. Whalen, the 2006 NESCAC Coach of the year, comes to Wesleyan from Williams College, where he had been the head coach since 2004. During that tim…

2010 Issue 1January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Applications Hit Another Record

This year, not only did applications for admission hit a record 10,656, but Wesleyan saw also a record–setting selectivity of 20 percent, compared to 27 percent just two years ago. “Last year we reached an all–t…

2010 Issue 1January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Viggiani: Remembered as “Un Juste”

Carl Viggiani, professor of Romance languages and literatures, emeritus, died Jan. 16, 2010. He was 87 years old. He joined the Wesleyan faculty in 1954, teaching French language and literature. Active in the Center for …

2010 Issue 1January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Perkins ’09 Awarded Rhodes Scholarship

Russell Perkins ’09, a high honors graduate from Evanston, Ill., and COL major, has been awarded a 2010 Rhodes Scholarship. Perkins co–founded Wesleyan’s Center for Prison Education, which offers Wesleyan course…

2010 Issue 1January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Shapiro Receives Translation Award

The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has presented the 2009 National Translation Award to Norman Shapiro, professor of romance languages and literatures, for French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Dist…

2010 Issue 1January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Wesleyan Hosts First WSJ/Unigo Webcast

Wesleyan hosted the first Wall Street Journal/Unigo webcast on Dec. 2 in the Usdan University Center. This event, an interactive panel on admissions, featured the chief admissions officers from Wesleyan, Princeto…

2010 Issue 1January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Bergman’s ’76 Bas–Relief Adorns Massachusetts State House

The Massachusetts State House now hosts a bronze bas–relief sculpture by Meredith Gang Bergmann ’76 that honors slain labor leader Edward Cohen and the Massachusetts labor movement. The plaque, unveiled late in 2…

2010 Issue 1January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

TV Hit show How I Met Your Mother, Created by Bays ’97 and Thomas ’97, Reaches Its 100th Episode

The successful CBS sitcom, How I Met Your Mother, had its milestone 100th episode on January 11, 2009. The show was created by Carter Bays ’97 and Craig Thomas ’97, who serve as executive producers and writers for the pr…

2010 Issue 1January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

WESeminar

Tom Matlack ’86, a former rower on a Wesleyan championship team who looks the part with a tall and muscular build, came to campus in the fall on a publicity tour for a project that poses the question: What does i…

2010 Issue 1January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Recently I wrote to the Wesleyan community about our focus on building the endowment over the next decade. I indicated that our goal now is to direct no more than 25 percent of gift income toward operating expenses. This…