Wesleyan University Magazine

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 Augusta toward Belfast on the coast. Wesleyan photographer Bill Burkhart and I arri…

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…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 16, 2014

New England Champion

NESCAC Coach of the Year John Crooke reports: The New England Regional meet was the major highlight for both men’s and women’s teams in 2005. The women placed 7th in the toughest region in the country and the men placed…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Q & A: Talking With Actress Halley Feiffer ’07

The multi-talented artist Halley Feiffer '07 has acted for several years. She has appeared in three critically acclaimed independent films, including Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale, in which she gives a lovely a…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Unprecedented Star Cluster

A 14-year study by Wesleyan researchers has revealed a phenomenon that may indicate the forming of new planets or perhaps even the existence of young planets orbiting young sun-like stars more than 1,600 light years away…