UpFront – Page 14 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 22, 2013

Fat Studies and Thin Privledge

[caption id="attachment_794" align="alignleft" width="300"] Abigail C. Saguy ’92. Photo: Dotan Saguy.[/caption] In her new book, What’s Wrong with Fat?, (Oxford University Press) Abigail C. Saguy ’92 provides a corrective to America’s misplaced obsession with weight. When I tell people about…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

Paul Dickson’61 Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick • WALKER AND COMPANY, 2012 In writing this first major biography of one of the most influential and smartest figures in baseball history, Dickson used primary so…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012September 18, 2014

SCHOLAR ATHLETE: SIERRA LIVIOUS ’14

Sierra Livious ’14 is the Wesleyan record holder for the outdoor shot put (39- 10) and the indoor pentathlon (3,157 points). In 2011-2012, she was all-New England Division III indoors in both the shot put (6th) and the p…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012September 18, 2014

BETWEEN THE LINES: THE VIRAL TRIFECTA BY JOHN HLINKO ’89

In Share, Retweet, Repeat: Get Your Message Read and Spread (Prentice Hall Press, 2012), John Hlinko offers an essential guide to viral marketing for anyone who wants to spread a message, whether it be for a political mo…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Ed Stein ’60 and Paula Gamache ’72 Wesleyan: Across and Down

Ed Stein ’60 began his love affair with crossword puzzles “back when a bikini meant an atoll in the Pacific, not a bathing suit.” From filling out the crossword grid of his Scholastic magazine, he progressed from Dell…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012September 23, 2014

LETTER HOME: In the World’s Newest Country – Alex Magnin ’07

"It’s a land perfect only for vultures.” That is my first thought as we descend to a clay airstrip near Bentiu town, maintained by an oil company and 35 miles from the newest border of the world’s newest country, South S…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012March 7, 2014

From the Vault: Highlight From Special Collections & Archives: Paula’s Album

By Suzy Taraba '77, MALS ’10, Director of Special Collections & Archives Paula Beer-Hofmann, the wife of the Austrian dramatist and poet Richard Beer-Hofmann, died in Switzerland on October 30, 1939, as she and her …

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012March 7, 2014

Rosenthals Present Folk Musician Pete Seeger In His Own Words

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Rob Rosenthal recently had the unique opportunity to travel back over much of the 20th century through the eyes of a living legend: folk musician and activist Pete Seeger. …

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012March 7, 2014

Wesleyan Mourns Sysco Founder, CEO Woodhouse

John Frederick Woodhouse ’53, of Houston, died October 29, 2012. He was 81. A member of Sigma Chi, he received his bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan with high distinction in economics and earned his master’s degree from Ha…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012March 7, 2014

French Diplomat and Honored Alumnus Dies

Jean François-Poncet ’47, Hon. ’80, French diplomat, businessman, senator, and Secretary General, died July 18, 2012. Wesleyan celebrated his achievements at the Commencement ceremonies in 1980, when François-Poncet del…