2011 Issue 1

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LETTER HOME

Dear All, As I packed up my home in Mali and prepared to catch a flight to Yaounde, Cameroon, I wasn’t nervous about culture shock. I imagined that having spent much of the past four years in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Cameroon, it would be easy to fit back into Cameroonian life. But I’d become…
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SCHOLAR ATHLETE

“Squash is a unique sport,” says Meherazade Sumariwalla ’12, captain of Wesleyan Women’s Varsity Squash. “It’s both a team and an individual competition—but we are always a team. We are there for each other and we put th…
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In Tokyo When the Earthquake Hit… Mary Alice Haddad saw firsthand how the Japanese people coped with a devastating earthquake

When the earthquake in Tohoku, Japan, hit, I was emerging from a subway in Tokyo about 220 miles from the epicenter. I was on my way to collect my children from school when it felt like someone grabbed the end of the es…
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Making it Easy to be Green: Susan Hunt Stevens ’92 wants to help you live green in your home

“You can measure your carbon footprint, but that’s like stepping on a scale and asking, ‘What do my bones weigh?’” says Susan Hunt Stevens ’92, founder and CEO of Practically Green. “The footprint is only one part of the…
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FIVE QUESTIONS: William Johnston, Professor of history, Science in Society, and East Asian Studies

Q: How did you become interested in the history of diseases, and more specifically, flu outbreaks? A: While in graduate school I was drawn to the history of medicine in Japan because it was in that field that the Japane…
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National Trust for Historic Preservation Honors Middletown’s Main Street as “Most Romantic”

When the National Trust for Historic Preservation went hunting for the nation’s “Most Romantic Main Streets,” Middletown topped the list. Here is what the Trust said:   “Middletown’s allure includes an artful Main…
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