UpFront – Page 26 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

NEELY BRUCE

When the organizers of Make Music New York went looking for someone to conduct the East Coast premiere of Henry Brant’s Orbits in the Guggenheim Museum, they were led naturally to Professor of Music Neely Bruce. Bruce, a longtime friend of the late composer and co–executor of Brant’s musica…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

DR. JOSEPH WRIGHT ’79

Dr. Joseph Wright ’79 had an opportunity in July to deliver a message personally to President Barack Obama: Just because children are covered by health insurance doesn’t mean they have access to a physician. Wri…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME

Coming to Wesleyan from her hometown of Rowayton, Conn., in the fall of 1977, Barbara Martin Herzlich ’81 starred in three sports for the Cardinals. Beginning with field hockey, she earned four varsity letters while beco…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

ANGUS MCCULLOUGH

Angus McCullough ’10, a studio art major concentrating in architecture, is one of seven finalists among nearly 400 competitors worldwide in an architectural design contest seeking new visions for the Grand Concourse in t…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

I am writing this column after meeting new and returning students full of infectious energy and optimism. I feel less like a rookie at the outset of my third year, which means less time playing catch–up, and have spent t…

2009 Issue 3December 2, 2009March 23, 2015

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2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: WESLEYAN IN THE DEPRESSION

The Great Depression brings a series of iconic images to mind. There’s the unemployment line, the bread line, the line to get money out of the bank before it goes bust. There’s the Dust Bowl and Dorothea Lange’s migrant …

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009May 16, 2014

COMMENCEMENT 2009

Heavy rain let up in time for Wesleyan’s 177th Commencement to proceed May 24 as usual on Andrus Field, where graduates and their families heard from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and novelist Anna Quindlen P’07. …

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009May 16, 2014

A NEW LIFE BY ACCIDENT

India was not the place Jon Sigworth ’10 expected to find a new life. He’d gone there in 2006, fresh out of high school, as part of an academic abroad program to study history and theology. But a cycling accident one aft…

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009May 16, 2014

WASHINGTON

Two Wesleyan alumni performed May 12 for President Obama, his family, and others at the White House at an event titled “An Evening of Poetry, Music and the Spoken Word.” Ayelet Waldman ’86 and her husband, Michael Chabon…