Wesleyan University Magazine

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014

GRATEFUL DEAD ON FOSS HILL: UNTOLD STORIES

Just read your mention and University Archivist Leith Johnson’s account of the Dead concert. What neither of you mentioned and what kept it from being an even more memorable moment and what also contributed to the smaller-than-expected crowd was that the concert’s start time was publicized for early…

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014January 8, 2015

“WHATEVER NEEDS TO BE DONE” IN TANZANIA

[caption id="attachment_5428" align="alignleft" width="537"] Cynthia Rockwell and Esta.[/caption] One of my favorite departments in Wesleyan is “Letter Home,” the first-person essay from a graduate abroad, telling abo…

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014December 11, 2014

AFFINITY GROUPS: LIFELONG COMMUNITY DAPHNE KWOK ’84

[caption id="attachment_5355" align="alignleft" width="288"] Daphne Kwok ’84Chair, Wesleyan Alumni Association[/caption]…

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014

JEFFREY BURNS ’80 M.D.: STUDENTS, ALUMNI FORM CREATIVE TEAM FOR OPENPEDIATRICS.ORG

[caption id="attachment_5356" align="alignleft" width="2278"] The Wesleyan related-team working on OPENPediatrics.org, the program that Dr. Jeffrey Burns developed to aid in pediatric healthcare worldwide: Ariana Samalot…

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014December 16, 2014

FROM SOUL BAND TO TELEVISION GOLD

The immensely talented and inspiring Carter Bays ’97 and Craig Thomas ’97, creators, writers and producers for the CBS h…

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014December 16, 2014

IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES

Tula Telfair’s epic and massive landscape paintings fill the walls of Wesleyan’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. They ca…

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014January 8, 2015

OPENING DOORS TO HIGHER EDUCATION

[caption id="attachment_5246" align="alignleft" width="2265"] Born in Ethiopia, Nebiyu Daniel dreamed of going to colleg…

2014 Issue 3December 10, 2014March 3, 2015

WE GOT THE BEATS: LUKE WOOD ’91 AND BOZOMA SAINT JOHN ‘99

[caption id="attachment_5253" align="alignleft" width="2131"] Company president Luke Wood ’91 joins Beats Electronics co…

2014 Issue 2July 16, 2014

SEEKING A PHOTO OF AUNT CORA

With interest, I read the story, “Stone Family Women: A Continuum” (2013, issue 2). I am the son of Robert Stone Judge and the great-grandnephew of Cornelia Haddon Stone, Wesleyan class of 1897. I remember “Aunt Cora,” …

2014 Issue 2July 16, 2014

FOSS HILL TRADITIONS

I came to Wesleyan’s campus as a first-year student in the fall of 1971, when memories of 1970’s big event were still fresh. Alumni who recall that time will quickly catch the ambiguity in those words. As Wesleyan Arc…