Wesleyan University Magazine

2006 Issue 2June 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Volunteering: Forget About Cancun

Jane Maxson ’06 spent her spring break on the Gulf Coast, but not sporting a sun hat and flip–flops on the beach. Equipped with a hammer, nails, and tool belt, she volunteered for hurricane relief efforts—one of about 100 Wesleyan students and faculty volunteering worldwide during break. Maxson and…

2006 Issue 2June 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Primary Sources

Suzy Taraba ’77, a COL major, remembers making her way only once as an undergraduate into the Special Collections of Olin Library. Now, as University Archivist, Taraba tries to ensure that students don’t miss this opport…

2006 Issue 2June 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Bennet Enters Final Year As President

Under a warm spring sky on May 4, President Douglas Bennet ’59 informed a crowd of several hundred faculty, staff, and students that the upcoming academic year will be his last in his South College office. Benne…

2006 Issue 2June 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Voice From Liberty

IN LATE JANUARY WE CAUGHT UP WITH DAVID BRANCACCIO '82 while he was in Liberty, Maine, shooting the opening segment of Now, the PBS show he hosts. Liberty is just off Route 3 as the two-lane highway heads east out of Aug…

2006 Issue 2June 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Patient Investor

IN THE WINTER OF 1997, with the stock market booming, Wesleyan's Board of Trustees adopted a new investment policy that recognized the need for a full-time investment professional on staff if the institution's portfolio …

2006 Issue 2June 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Fighting For Equality

IN 1918, THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TROOPS OF THE 369TH INFANTRY--also known as the Harlem Hell Fighters--staged a heroic five-day attack from Sept. 26 through Oct. 1 against the Germans in Sechault, France. Casualties among s…

2006 Issue 2June 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Front Office Player

ON A COOL OCTOBER NIGHT JUST AFTER A GAME, Jed Hoyer and a friend walked across the field in Yankee Stadium and sat down just beyond the left center field fence to have a few beers with Babe Ruth. Barely two years earli…

2006 Issue 1February 2, 2006March 23, 2015

AUTHOR ESSAY: A Fighter for Justice

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2006 Issue 1February 2, 2006March 23, 2015

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2006 Issue 1January 30, 2006September 30, 2014

As Good As Gold

When members of the Wesleyan Class of ’07 gives their senior gift to alma mater, it will be a donation to financial aid of more than $10,000. Mary Livingston ’04, assistant director of the Wesleyan Annual Fund for Excel…