Wesleyan University Magazine

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

ALEXANDER LEVI ’90

Alexander Levi ’90 has fond memories of rowing on the Connecticut River with the Wesleyan crew, and now, as an architect, he has returned to a river with an ambitious outreach project. Since January, Levi and his wife, architect Amanda Schachter, have worked with more than 100 Bronx high school stud…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

An Introspective Setting

For the past several years Jewish students on campus have put up a modest Sukkah to celebrate the festival of Sukkot, but this year the project took on new life with award–winning results. Rabbi David Leipziger …

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

RAY MATSUMIYA ’96

In a small and decidedly unpretentious dining area at Somerville High School outside Boston, about 40 teachers raise a din of conversation so loud that it’s hard to be heard. Teachers have a lot to say to each other, but…

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. …

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 20, 2009April 28, 2014

On Air

BY TRACEY O’SHAUGHNESSY, MALS ’02 | PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL BURKHART It started with moxie. From the time two cunning Clark Hall students slithered through Wesleyan’s maintenance tunnels and hooked a small transmitter to i…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Dream Argonaut

BY CHARLOTTE ALBRIGHT | PHOTOGRAPHY BY HERB SWANSON At some point in the next 24 hours, parts of your brain may shut down temporarily, while other parts may remain active. Your eyes may flutter under closed lids. You ma…