2012 Issue 1 – Page 2 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Capturing the Genius of an American Icon

James Kaplan ’73 is the author of the acclaimed new biography, Frank: The Voice (Doubleday, hardcover; Anchor, paperback), about the early life of one of America’s best known American singers and entertainers of the 20th century, Frank Sinatra, from the years 1915 through 1954. Kaplan reveals how Si…

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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012April 28, 2014

A Soldier’s Pain, A Therapist’s Story

By Eric Goldscheider Jeffrey Lucey, a reservist in the United States Marines, was 23 years old when he hanged himself with a garden hose from a low beam in the basement of his family’s home in Belchertown, Mass. The da…

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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Teen Health: Providing Help Through Schools

By Eve Abrams '93Photography by Jackson Hill One day this past winter in New Orleans, Melissa Trozzi Nass ’99 was seeing a patient at McDonogh 35 High School, in its School-Based Health Center. The center is a fully fun…

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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: WESLEYAN’S TIME MACHINE

Did you ever wonder what Wesleyan was like more than 140 years ago? Find yourself daydreaming about what students of the time thought of the brand new buildings on College Row or the fledgling sport of “base ball”? Perha…

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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

Recollections of Wesleyan in the 1930s

Nineteen-thirty was a tough year: my father’s real estate business had been an early casualty of the Depression, my parents had to adjust to a yearly income of less than $2,500, and I had given up hopes of going East to …

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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

Seeking Truth with The Innocence Project

As part of the Innocence Project team for the exoneration of Cornelius Dupree, Elizabeth Langston ’05 walked into a Texas courthouse with him in 2010. “Right before we stepped inside, he turned to me and said, ‘You’ve go…

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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

Malamut’s Astronomy Draws on Hubble Observations

In the summer of 2010 Craig Malamut traveled to the Easter Islands to study and photograph a rare solar eclipse. Soon after his eclipse observations were completed, NASA used one of his photographs in their official mate…

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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

From Mourning To Celebration: A Posthumous Book

The Voyage of the Rose City: An Adventure at Sea, the senior thesis of John Moynihan ’82, was published this fall, 29 years after his graduation and seven years after his death. Kirkus Review calls it “a sincere study o…

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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

New Paintings by David Schorr at Davison Art Center in Early 2012

The most recent work by Professor of Art David Schorr will be shown in February and March 2012 in the exhibition APOTHECARY (storehouse) at Davison Art Center. The show features more than 75 paintings of antique apotheca…

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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

Wesleyan Receives $2 Million challenge for Humanities Program

Wesleyan has received a $2-million challenge grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help endow the Center for the Humanities. The grant requires Wesleyan to raise an additional $4 million in endowment funds over t…

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