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2016 Issue 3December 1, 2016December 13, 2018

WELL READ

Harmony: A Novel By Carolyn Parkhurst '92 Meet the Hammonds—Alexandra, Josh, 11-year- old Iris, and 13-year-old Tilly—a family struggling to cope with their brilliant teenage daughter’s increasingly disruptive autistic behavior. Frustrated and feeling isolated among friends in their Wash…

2016 Issue 3December 1, 2016December 13, 2018

GARDNER ’96 HEADS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

[caption id="attachment_9005" align="alignleft" width="408"] John Van Vlack[/caption] Tracey Gardner ’96 began her two-year term as chair of the Wesleyan Alumni Association on July 1st. A former alumni-elect…

2016 Issue 3December 1, 2016July 8, 2019

DONNA MOREA ’76: WESLEYAN’S NEW BOARD CHAIR TAKES A LISTENING TOUR

[caption id="attachment_8999" align="alignleft" width="297"] Risdon Photography[/caption] Donna Morea ’76, P’06, who became Wesleyan’s new chair of the board of trustees this summer, has extensive experience…

2016 Issue 3December 1, 2016December 13, 2018

WESLEYAN WELCOMES SEVEN NEW MEMBERS TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

LEO Y. AU ’71 Leo Au is a retired senior vice president and corporate treasurer of Mellon Financial Corporation, a global financial services company previously headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa. At Mellon,…

2016 Issue 2August 1, 2016December 13, 2018

A $482-MILLION FINALE

It’s likely that very few college fund-raising campaigns began at a more inauspicious time than Wesleyan’s THIS IS WHY c…

2016 ISSUE 1May 24, 2016December 13, 2018

GEOLOGIST TO GOVERNOR: LIVING THE OPPOSITE OF WOE

Irrepressibly optimistic, funny, self-deprecating, at times self-doubting but driven to tackle difficult challenges. The…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

GRATITUDE FOR THE LATE PROFESSOR FIRSHEIN

I was very sad to hear the obituary news about my mentor, adviser, and friend, Professor Bill Firshein. I worked in Bill’s lab for two years and did my senior thesis with him, and I was one of the first students to gradu…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

KUDOS TO DR. MICHAEL GREENBERG ’76

Flipping through Issue 3, 2015, I came across the Newsmaker profile of Michael Greenberg ’76, PhD, in the Class Notes. The writeup was appropriately congratulatory, but he deserves so, so much more. Among other disorders…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

COMMENT ON PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION

For a retired physician now in my second career as an instructor in biology at the undergraduate level this article was of great practical interest. I often tell my students that a good indicator of how well they underst…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

ARGUS CONTROVERSY

Black Lives Matter. It was interesting to note the differing reactions of Wesleyan students to an Argus article using those words (Wesleyan, 2015, issue 3, page 13). It is not my intention to come down on either side of …