Wesleyan University Magazine

2002 Issue 2April 4, 2002May 5, 2014

NESCAC Fights the Trend

AT 4:30 P.M. ON A FEBRUARY AFTERNOON, the fitness rooms in the Freeman Athletic Center are jammed. Forget about getting on one of the two newest machines, $4,500 elliptical cross trainers that let you simulate running up hills. Just finding a free exercise bike or a set of weights can be difficult. …

2002 Issue 2March 30, 2002March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

Our roundup of noteworthy publications by Wesleyan alumni, faculty members, and parents. STEVEN ALMOND ’88 My Life in Heavy Metal (Grove/Atlantic, 2002) Most of the 12 stories in this entertaining fiction debut deal …

2002 Issue 2March 30, 2002September 30, 2014

Continuing Career Counseling

Dear Fellow Alumni, Once again Wesleyan is at the forefront of a new trend: lifelong career counseling provided to all alumni at no cost. Under President Bennet’s leadership, Wesleyan’s Career Resource Center (CRC) has…

2002 Issue 1January 30, 2002September 30, 2014

Staying Connected

Dear Alumni, September 11 followed a trustee meeting where I spent the weekend with several trustees. We’d renewed our friendship, I felt connected, and I wanted to know if they and other alumni friends from NYC and Was…

2002 Issue 1January 30, 2002March 23, 2015

AUTHOR ESSAY: Taming the Beast Within: The Power of Possessions

It’s fun to buy a new pair of shoes, and objects can make us happy, but ultimately do they really give us what we want? Jane Hammerslough ’82 reflects on the power of possessions. At my son’s back–toschool night, the sm…

2002 Issue 1January 30, 2002March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

Our roundup of noteworthy publications by Wesleyan alumni, faculty members, and parents. TYLER ANBINDER ’84 Five Points (Free Press, 2001) Tyler Anbinder’s new book is the first comprehensive history of Five Points, …

2002 Issue 1January 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Professor Emeritus of Religion, David Swift

Professor Emeritus of Religion David Swift, 87, died Oct. 14, in Kennett Square, Pa. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University in 1936, he also earned his doctoral degree in divinity from Yale in 1939. He was…

2002 Issue 1January 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Q & A: How Hollywood Adapts to War

The Office of War Information admonished WWII filmmakers not to mislead young people with propaganda. In the days immediately following September 11, the words “Like Pearl Harbor...” seemed to be on everyone’s l…

2002 Issue 1January 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Commitment to Humanity

“I was shocked when I found out,” says Kim-Marie Spence ’00. “I’m overwhelmed and overjoyed!” Her reaction is understandable. After all, being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship is the kind of honor most people only d…

2002 Issue 1January 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Oral History Project

Ron Jenkins, chair and artistic director of Wesleyan’s theater department, wrote the following story about the making of Over There, a play he directed at the CFA theater during Parents’ Weekend 2001. In the fal…