Wesleyan University Magazine

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Out of the Park

There’s not much that Jim Dresser ’63 hasn’t done for Wesleyan. He headed the annual fund, led the alumni association, stepped in as a pinch–hitter for the administration when critical positions became vacant in University Relations and Finance, served on the Board of Trustees for 15 years, and conc…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Hard Work in the Big Easy

BY EVE ABRAMS ’93 “Kiss your brain,” Katharine Needham ’05 tells Brian, who has just recalled the “fancy word” for people in a story. Needham turns and writes “character” on the dry erase board behind her, and meanwhile…

2009 Issue 3December 2, 2009March 23, 2015

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2009 Issue 2June 29, 2009September 29, 2014

LETTER HOME: Life in Africa: Learning Humility

By Angela Larkan ’05 Dear Friends, I’m writing this on my tortoise-speed computer, eating a bag of cheese curls for dinner. But it’s okay, because I am in Africa and just by being here, I am influenced, enriched, confu…

2009 Issue 2June 29, 2009September 29, 2014

CONVERSATIONS: A Fresh Look at Hoover and FDR

Many people think that Herbert Hoover took a hands-off approach to the Great Depression and that FDR embraced deficit spending. Not so, says Professor of Economics and CSS Tutor Richard Adelstein. By William Holder ’75 …

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…

2009 Issue 2June 20, 2009May 16, 2014

ENTREPRENEURS

Eric Dachs ’98 admits he doesn’t have a long attention span. In particular, he did not have much patience for all the paperwork that seems to smother the creative process in filmmaking. His frustration bubbled over when …