2017 Issue 1 – Page 4 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

REMEMBERING WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER ’54

Actor William Christopher ’54, best known for his role as Father Francis Mulcahy in the popular television series M*A*S*H, died December 31, 2016, at his home in Pasadena, Calif. Christopher’s Father Mulcahy was a Roman Catholic chaplain assigned to a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Kore…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

FERNALD ’50 LEAVES FINANCIAL AID ENDOWMENT OF $25 MILLION

Peter Fernald ’50 arrived at Wesleyan in 1946 from Illinois as a recipient of financial aid. He was awarded a Thorndike Regional Scholarship to promote geographic diversity. More than once in subsequent years he told …

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

ALL-STAR, ALL-ALUMNI COMMITTEE TO CHOOSE HAMILTON PRIZE RECIPIENT

This spring, Wesleyan’s inaugural Hamilton Prize Selection Committee will choose the first recipient of the Wesleyan University Hamilton Prize for Creativity—a four-year full-tuition scholarship that will be awarded…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

President’s Letter

In March I received a carefully thought-out proposal for a resource center that would support students who feel themselves to be at risk because of their own experience on campus or who feel marginalized by long-term tre…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

Editor’s Note: Expanding Our Vision

When I was a young teenager, I devoured science fiction. I figured that by the turn of the 21st century we would have a colony on Mars, or at least the moon, so science fiction seemed like tomorrow’s news today. My re…