2012 Issue 2 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Pursuing the Perfect Pig

Lucky visitors to Black Oak Holler Farm in West Virginia, Nic Heckett’s culinary laboratory, will arrive when the pig has been on the smoker for about eight hours. The hickory wood, harvested from surrounding hills, has turned the meat mahogany, its smell wafting down the valley. In the remaining ho…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Brenner ’92, MD: A Magnetic Treatment for Depression

When Grant Brenner’92, M.D., looks at the future of psychiatry, he’s more likely to see magnets than pills, equally likely to see brain imaging as transformative talk therapy. An interpersonal-relational psychoanalyst, h…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Martin ’02 Cooks Up “Stovetop Travel”

The idea came to her in the middle of the night. “I woke up my husband and told him, ‘I know what I should do: I should cook a meal from every country in the world, one per week,’” says Sasha Foppiano Martin ’02. So b…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012April 28, 2014

A Soldier’s Daughter and a Mother’s Truth

By Erica Brown ’81 WRITER KAYLIE JONES ’81 learned a few things from her father, James Jones, the prize-winning author ofFrom Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line. Like the tough, scrappy soldiers portrayed in her fat…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

41 Wyllys Avenue Ribbon Cutting

The Wesleyan community celebrated the grand opening of 41 Wyllys Avenue during a reception and ribbon-cutting ceremony on Feb. 24. The building is the new home of the College of Letters, Art History Program, and the Wesl…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Commencement 2012: Honorary Degree Recipients

U.S. Senator Michael Bennet ’87, a leading advocate for education reforms that support great teaching, delivered the Commencement address at the university’s 180th Commencement on May 27. Other honorary degree recipient…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Governor Peter Shumlin: Small Town Worldliness

By Katherine Jamieson ’96Photography by Karen Pike IN SOME WAYS, PETER SHUMLIN ’79 hearkens back to an old-time, New England politician. Except for the stint in Connecticut for college, he’s lived and worked in his home…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

MTV’s Friedman ’91: Keynote Career Advice

MTV President Stephen K. Friedman ’91 returned to campus on Feb. 25, as the keynote speaker for a day of seminars to celebrate the grand opening of the new Career Center at 41 Wyllys Ave. From the vantage point of 21 y…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

R&C Weekend 2012

This year, two Baldwin Medals, which honor the late Judge Raymond E. Baldwin ’16, were bestowed on William Wasch ’52 and Bruce Corwin ’62. The Baldwin Medal is the highest honor Wesleyan’s alumni body presents for extrao…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR MICHAEL KLINGHER ’78, P’12, P’15 As chair, I have the privilege of being an ex officio member of all Alumni Association committees and councils. When I started my term two years ago, I had no cle…