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2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

The fall semester is already behind us, and this year’s seniors are hearing the question, “What will you be doing after graduation?” Some have an answer—graduate school, travel opportunities, a career-track position. Others will find answers in the upcoming semester or soon after graduation. …

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

LETTER HOME: Camp Counselor in Morocco by Sherry Sybertz ’10

Dear Friends and Family, “Hello from summer camp! I miss you all! The beach is my favorite part of the day...” How many letters have I written like that? And why am I still writing these words, as a college graduate? N…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

JUST PUBLISHED | 2012 ISSUE 1 Stacy Carlson '96 Among the Wonderful • STEERFORTH PRESS, 2011 In her first novel, Carlson brings to life 1840s New York City, a time when Phineas T. Barnum as a young man transforms a du…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

CONVERSATIONS: Peter Rutland

Peter Rutland has mentioned in the past that many Americans know little about the European Union (E.U.), and what they know may be based more on myth than fact. With a major debt crisis threatening the E.U. ́s very exist…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

SCHOLAR ATHLETE: Laura Kurash ’13

Laura Kurash ’13, team quad-captain for the 2011 Wesleyan women’s soccer season, was named first-team all-New England Division III by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). She received NESCAC honors…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Digital Wesleyan’s New York Network

IN THE SPRING of 1994, during my senior year at Wesleyan, I stopped by the computer labs at the Science Center once or twice a day, sat down at a station, and faced a monitor blinking with DOS commands. I’d peck a few ch…

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…

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…

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…

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…