Editor’s Letter
I’ve been lobbying the publications team since we revived this quarterly newsletter to do a feature on the Sherfield Fellows. I myself made it to England not like the bulk of you, but rather as a postdoctoral fellow. I recall my Ph.D. adviser forwarding me an email announcing the opportunity – and telling me this might be my way to get to England. I recall the poorly timed interview – over Thanksgiving weekend when I was going home with my new boyfriend Ushma Savla Neill,Neill Managing Editor to meet his parents! It was the first real interrogation I’d ever had. And then (Northwestern, B.S. 1996, M.S. 1996, Ph.D. 1999; the jubilation when I heard I’d be joining the class of 1999. In this issue, you’ll Sherfield Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial College hear from several other of the Sherfield Fellows, reflecting back on what it 1999) As a Marshall Sherfield Fellow, Ushma stud- meant to us to be Marshalls, and to be in the UK. On the cover is a photo of ied the mechanics of the vascular system at Imperial Roger Makins (Lord Sherfield), for whom the fellowship was named. College, London. She returned to the US in 2001, Lots of other excellent content fills the issue, including an extended class and after 2 years as an editor at the biomedical notes section. We hope you enjoy. As ever, send feedback to newsletter@ research journal Nature Medicine, she joined the marshallscholars.org. Journal of Clinical Investigation as Executive Edi- Ushma S. Neill, Managing Editor tor in March 2003.
AndrewAndrew Klaber,Klaber Editor-at-Large Contributors (Yale, B.A. 2004; Magdalen College, Oxford, M.Sc. 2005 & M.Sc. 2006; Harvard Law School & Harvard IenIen Cheng,Cheng Deputy Editor Business School, JD/MBA 2010) He is an invest- (MIT, B.S. 1997 and M.Eng. 1998; St. John’s Col- ment professional at Paulson & Company in New lege, Cambridge, B.A. Hons 2000) Ien, a New York- York City. Andrew is the Secretary of the Board for based entrepreneur, has most recently been Chief of the Association of Marshall Scholars and a member Staff of Bloomberg’s consumer media division. Pre- of the Executive Committee. viously he ran FT.com, the Financial Times’ web- AlyssaAlyssa WechslerWechsler site, and oversaw Google’s ad products in Europe. Co-editor for Class Notes While at Cambridge, he co-founded the weekly stu- (University of Wyoming, B.S. 2007; Linacre Col- dent newspaper The Cambridge Student. lege, Oxford, M.Phil. 2010) Alyssa is currently an BryanBryan Leach,Leach Assistant Research Scientist at the Wyoming Sur- AMS News and Events Editor vey & Analysis Center in Laramie, WY where her (Harvard, B.A. 2000; M. Phil. Magdalen College, research focus is on environment and public health Oxford 2002; Yale, J.D. 2005) Bryan practices law evaluation and policy. at Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar and Scott LLP in Denver, Colorado. Bryan is a Vice President of the JohnJohn ThomasThomas NelsonNelson Association of Marshall Scholars, member of the Co-editor for Class Notes AMS Board, and Chairman of the Communications (Princeton, AB 2010; current Marshall Scholar at Committee. the School of Slavonic and East European Studies SuzetteSuzette BrooksBrooks Masters,Masters at UCL) In London, he studies Russian and East Profiles Editor European history. Prior to taking up the Marshall (Amherst College, B.A. 1981; M.A. Kings College, Scholarship, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Ekater- Cambridge 1983; Harvard, J.D. 1986) Suzette is a inburg and St. Petersburg, Russia. grant-maker focusing on immigration issues at a foundation in New York City. Previously, Suzette TeresaTeresa LowenLowen practiced law for many years and worked with Co-editor for Class Notes immigrants’ rights advocates in the United States. (Kenyon College, B.A. 1993; School for Oriental and African Studies, M.A. 1995) Teresa combines NicholasNicholas Hartman,Hartman her love of analysis with her foreign language capa- Special Features Editor bilities while working for Science Applications (Pennsylvania State, B.S. 2003; Ph.D. Darwin International Corporation (SAIC) on government College, Cambridge) Nicholas received a Ph.D. in contracts. Biochemistry from Cambridge. He is a consultant with the New York City office of OC&C Strategy TimothyTimothy Krysiek,Krysiek Consultants and lives in Westchester. Online News Editor (Mercyhurst College, B.A. 2005; St. Andrews, M.Litt. 2006; St. Antony’s College, Oxford, M.Sc. 2007) Tim is currently living in London and work- Newsletter design: Lara McCarron ing as Senior Strategy Advisor in the International Exploration and Production division of Statoil.
News from the AMS By Bryan Leach
The AMS brass have been busy planning for the up- feature presentations by Marshall alumni from six dif- coming annual meeting, which will be held at Stanford ferent decades. These presentations will be illustrated University’s Arrillaga Alumni Center on June 22 and eight-minute talks; if you’d like to to volunteer to share 23. The annual meeting will include a Friday night your experiences, please contact Joan McCarthy at reception and Saturday morning discussions on the [email protected]. following topics: “Leadership in the 21st Century,” AMS alumni in the D.C. area had an active autumn. “Social Entrepreneurship,” and “Marshall Women December saw the second annual holiday party of mulled Leaders.” Then there will be a midday book signing by wine and minced pies at the home of Caroline and Nic various Marshall authors and a finale dinner that will Hailey of the British Embassy. On Sunday, October 23, Marshalls gathered for a special tour of “Warhol: Head- lines” at the National Gallery of Art with art historian Marden Nichols (Cambridge ’04). On October 27, there was a cocktail hour of drinks and hors d’oeuvres at Circa Foggy Bottom hosted by Michael Aktipis (LSE ’03) and Zach Kaufman (Oxford ’02). This gathering kicked off a series of monthly Marshall happy hours at select bars and restaurants inWashington, D.C. In New York City, acclaimed entrepreneur and alumnus Reid Hoffman headlined a November 10 breakfast generously hosted by British Consul-Gen- eral Danny Lopez at his residence. Before a packed audience of Marshall, Rhodes, Gates, and Fulbright alumni, Mr. Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder and part- ner at Greylock Ventures, discussed how innovative entrepreneurs are disrupting America’s outdated, in- efficient educational system. Reflecting on his own startup experiences, Mr. Hoffman advised audience members to think entrepreneurially regardless of their specific career paths – to pivot and innovate, take calculated risks, and cleverly uncover business intelligence. For pictures, videos, and a podcast of Mr. Hoffman’s speech, please visit ukinusa.fco.gov. uk/en/news/?view=News&id=690508482. The AMS now has a team of volunteers – Lee Pear- son (Edinburgh ’08), Zach Kaufman (Oxford ‘02), and Wayne Lau (Cambridge ’79) – who are reviewing and planning improvements to the social media and online strategy of the Marshall alum community.
Reid Hoffman and Danny Lopez NNishaisha AAgarwalgarwal Agent of Change By Suzette Brooks Masters
For most people, the goal of making the world a better place is a nice platitude or a virtuous aspiration. For Nisha Agarwal (Oxford ’00) it is an urgent necessity and her life’s work.
A typical day for Nisha might involve bringing Nisha’s parents had high expectations and were al- lawsuits to protect the rights of immigrants, attend- ways very supportive. The combination emboldened ing a press conference with Mayor Bloomberg to un- Nisha to tackle any challenge from an early age. At Fay- veil a new piece of legislation, attending a community etteville-Manlius High School, she participated in many meeting to conduct a know-your-rights presentation typical activities, including theater, violin, clarinet, on health access, and planning for the creation of a Model UN, environment club, and yearbook. But unlike new national advocacy organization. In fact, there’s her classmates, Nisha also raised principled objections never a dull moment for this committed – and tire- to frog dissections and advocated for equal access to less – young activist. playgrounds. These early battles whetted Nisha’s pre- Nisha was raised outside Syracuse, New York, the cocious appetite for toppling sacred cows and presaged child of first generation immigrants from India. Her her increasingly ambitious crusades. father Suresh, a nuclear engineer, came to the Unit- As a Harvard undergrad, Nisha majored in social ed States in the 1970s to attend graduate school. Her studies with a focus on international development. She mother Rita joined Suresh in America armed with a credits her studies with “providing a framework and psychology degree and found a job consulting with in- context for her emergent political consciousness.” Her dustrial companies. Suresh and Rita felt strongly about senior thesis, based on a summer of fieldwork among nurturing strong family bonds and promoting cultural low-income Muslim women squatters in Mumbai, ad- identity in their children and took the family on regu- dressed why some victims of society were able to suc- lar trips to India. On these trips young Nisha was given cessfully assert their rights and effect social change, an indelible and very palpable introduction to extreme while others could not. The Muslim women she spent poverty and inequality. This exposure and a tradition of time with fought the bulldozing of their squats, lobbied activism among her grandparents’ generation (her ma- for permanent housing solutions and conducted a grass ternal grandmother marched with Gandhi) awakened roots census to dispute inaccurate government counts. in Nisha a strong commitment to social justice, which Intrigued by what fuels social movements, particularly continues to animate her today. in an international development context, Nisha decided
In City Hall Park, NYC, 2007
to explore these topics further by studying economic vard Local Government Forum, organizing programs and social history at Oxford. on urban issues at the local government level. She tried Nisha learned a lot about herself on her Marshall to create a local government clinic to advise advocates scholarship. After some initial culture shock – Nisha and local governments on legal matters. Although the found British reserve and understatement difficult to ne- effort failed, her interest was piqued. gotiate at times – Nisha made good friends and enjoyed When she graduated from law school in 2006, Ni- extensive travel throughout Europe. She also honed her sha “walked the walk” and foreswore lucrative corpo- entertaining skills. She participated in and won an 80’s rate law jobs. Armed with a prestigious two-year Skad- music DJ competition, edging out fellow Marshall class- den public interest fellowship, she was assigned to the mate Bryan Leach (Oxford ’00), and became an expert New York Lawyers for the Public Interest’s (NYLPI) party planner, serving on her college’s ball committee health justice program, where she focused on improv- both years. One year, “we decided to do a Spies Like Us ing language access for immigrants to health services themed ball since we were St. Antony’s College, produc- in New York City. She eventually parlayed this fellow- er of the greatest number of MI5 agents!” ship into a full time position as director of the health Most importantly, Nisha’s studies at Oxford led her justice program. Nisha is proudest of her efforts to to realize that she was an activist, not an academic. hold New York City pharmacies accountable for violat- She felt growing discomfort with the notion of a West- ing the Civil Rights Act by not providing interpretation erner like herself advising developing country popula- and translation services to immigrants with limited tions about how to solve their problems without having English. At NYLPI, she brought civil rights complaints grappled with similar issues in the US. She resolved to against pharmacies, which ultimately led to a settle- become an effective activist, and hoped that three years ment agreement between Attorney General Cuomo and at Harvard Law School would provide her with the ex- seven pharmacy chains. Nisha drafted legislation that perience and credibility she craved. Her most formative the New York City Council passed and Mayor Bloom- experience at law school was her clinical legal work at berg signed in 2009 to ensure that language barriers the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, where she spent about did not prevent immigrants from understanding how forty hours per week assisting low-income clients with to take their prescription medications and has now be- their housing disputes. She was also active in the Har- gun work on statewide legislation.
Left: the Ball committee of St. An- thony’s College, Oxford 2001. Above: Agarwal in her room at St. Anthony’s on her last day in Oxford. Pictured counterclockwise from Agarwal is Chelsea Bodnar (nee Elander, Rhodes ’00), Kristi Samuels (Oxford ‘00), and Avery Willis (Oxford ‘00).
At the Felix Fishman Lunch sponsored by New York Lawyers for the Public Interest. The lunch honors leaders in com- munity service in New York City.
Nisha believes that it’s at the state and local level that Democracy. National in scope, the Center will seek to the “bread-and-butter issues that touch people’s daily advance state and local legislation to tangibly improve lives are debated and addressed like health care, police, the quality of life for low-income people and commu- schools, and housing. A multitude of decisions are made nities of color through partnerships with local groups at the local level through legislative, regulatory, adminis- across the country. Like the squatters in Mumbai, dis- trative, and even informal decision-making processes that advantaged groups in the US need help to advance their can fundamentally alter conditions on the ground.” Nisha interests. The Center will fill that void: its “legal team also feels that local government is simply more accessible will work with groups to draft legislation, respond to le- to the people it serves and therefore more susceptible to gal questions raised by elected officials and opponents, change. “I have never been more inspired as when sitting conduct policy research, and craft communications in meetings or rallying on the steps of the New York City messages and campaign materials. Meanwhile, its or- Council with the clients I represent, all of whom are low- ganizing team will help groups develop the muscle to income people of color who are directly engaging in the really move an issue through the legislature and ensure political process at the local level and holding their elected that wins are sustained and expanded.” representatives accountable.” Nisha still carries with her Nisha’s willingness to take a risk in starting the Cen- the lessons from the Muslim squatters she worked with ter is a testament both to her unwavering commitment in Mumbai who showed her that reform is possible even to social justice and to her increasing confidence. St. against long odds if conditions are right. Antony’s may be known for producing secret agents, but With some local victories under her belt, Nisha now in Nisha it has nurtured a change agent. She is certainly feels ready for the national stage. She is co-founding someone to watch as she takes on societal problems in a a new non-profit organization, the Center for Popular more systemic way and matures as a leader.
The Other Marshall
By Nicholas T. Hartman (Cambridge ’03), with Adam Giangreco (Marshall Sherfield, Cambridge ’04) Roger Makins on an official visit to the Soviet Union as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Authority
In 1998, the Marshall Aid Commemoration Com- ships. Lord Sherfield also served as British Ambassador mission (MACC) marked the 50th anniversary of the to the United States from 1953-56 and was a Chairman Marshall Plan by expanding the traditional program of the MACC. The Marshall Sherfield Foundation was of post-graduate scholarships to include the post-doc- established by Lord Sherfield’s son Christopher Makins, toral Marshall Sherfield Fellowship. With funding from who was, fittingly, a dual American-British citizen. Marshall Sherfield Foundation and an endowment set- Peter Olson (‘98 Marshall Sherfield NHM) was one of up by John Duffield, founder of New Star Asset Man- the two inaugural Marshall Sherfield fellows and recalls agement, the program typically grants 1-2 fellowships Christopher Makins’s interest in the program as it got per year to US citizens holding a doctorate in a science underway. As with all newly arrived Marshalls, ensur- or engineering discipline. ing new scholars were up to speed on the local customs Collaboration has always been a key component of was always a top priority. the scientific research process, and in today’s globalized “As an inaugural fellow, as well as being London- world all top researchers maintain an extensive network based [at the Natural History Museum], I recall being of international colleagues. The Marshall Sherfield fel- called upon to discuss the new scheme with Christo- lowships fulfill the overall mission of the Marshall post- pher Makins at the Brown Hotel where he first showed graduate program, but also provide the opportunity for me the ‘proper’ way to eat scones: pile as much clotted new career scientists and engineers to begin building cream as physically possible, then add more, and then their own international network. smash some jam on top! He wanted to know how the The fellowship’s hybrid name was established in hon- scheme could be improved, and I told him the obvious, or of Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield (Lord Sherfield) which is that 1 year is simply too short to accomplish – the chief architect of the Marshall Aid Commemora- much, particularly as it necessarily involves moving tion Act of 1953, which established the Marshall Scholar- abroad; the moment you get settled in you’re meant to The Other Marshall
Christopher Makins with Ambassador David Manning
be off again.” said Olson. The program has since been and technicians in the lab. My husband has always said expanded to allow for a second year of the fellowship. that I require a lot of attention, so it was particularly de- Christopher Makins passed away in 2006 and the lightful that I was able to command so much of his time. Marshall Sherfield Foundation is now run by Chris- The Sherfield fellowship also came in handy as Charles topher Makins’s daughter Tina Cortesi. Makins’s wife was letting all his grants expire, so I had a nice amount Wendy also maintains an active interest in both the of funding to further my research in his lab.” Foundation and Fellowship. Mitch Keller (Marshall Sherfield, LSE ’10) added, Ushma Neill (Marshall Sherfield, Imperial ’99) recalls “About 14 months into my fellowship, I’m very glad for her own time performing research as a fellow: “In 1999, the experience. The UK research community in my area I was a young postgraduate eager to get to work on the of mathematics is rather close-knit, so conferences and next scientific question. I was energized by my research, one-day meetings have allowed me to get to know many curiosity piqued by the new techniques I was to learn of them. Judging the impact on my career will take time, while doing my postdoctoral research with a brilliant but hopefully the relationships begun whilst in the UK physiologist, Professor C. Charles Michel. Charles was will translate into good things for many years to come.” nearing the end of his time in the lab and since he was Bryan Huey (Marshall Sherfield, Oxford ’99) con- bowing out of serving on further committees and curtail- firms the influence that his fellowship had on estab- ing his administrative obligations, he was able to spend lishing a successful academic science career, “The ex- more time with me and the other few graduate students periences, academic and social, were truly formative
“We’ve managed a number of formal and informal get-togethers to keep in touch. One of my best memories from my time in the UK will have to be Christmas 2010, when four scholars and I ventured to Fishguard, Wales, to spend four nights in a National Trust cottage. We took the train to Cardiff and then hired a car to drive to the coast. I was the only one over 25, so I did all the driving and settled on a manual transmission car to save money. Thankfully, I had the M4 for most of the drive so I could get used to the car before getting onto narrow country lanes in Pembrokeshire. No cars were injured during the expedition, and we had a great time featuring food, a fire in the fireplace, and friends. Oh, and one day of great weather for hiking along the coast!” said Keller. Peter Olson (‘98) with daughter Matilda’s pink eyelashes Now well into its second decade, the Mar- shall Sherfield Fellowships have developed a strong reputation within the scientific commu- and undoubtedly influenced my career. I still leverage nity for producing young professionals with an estab- academic connections and expertise I gained at that lished international network. Neill, who is currently the time, including an ongoing joint research project and Executive Editor of the Journal of Clinical Investiga- student exchange program with my original Marshall tion comments, “I’m currently not a practicing bench Sherfield host.” scientist, but certainly the broadening of my scientific Keller continues, “The Marshall Sherfield Fellow- mind while I was in England has helped me land some ship’s research allowance has been particularly crucial, extraordinary positions here in the US. I’ve gotten a lot since I did not have funding to attend many conferences of mileage in the scientific community from having re- as a graduate student. I’ve taken full advantage of that ceived this fellowship.” during my fellowship and have also leveraged it to visit Other Marshall Sherfield alumni include Cornell a collaborator at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, and to University Professor of Biological Statistics and Com- partially support a visit from a collaborator at the Uni- putational Biology Carlos Bustamante (Marshall Sher- versity of California, San Diego.” field, Oxford ’01), University of Washington Assistant Although the number of active Marshall Sherfields Professor of Neurology Laura Jansen (Marshall Sher- in the UK at any given time is very limited, cross-col- field, UCL ’03), and University of Alaska Fairbanks As- laboration on research between fellows has occurred sistant Professor of Mechanical and Chemical Engineer- occasionally. As Ushma Neill describes, “I met the 1998 ing Rorik Peterson (Marshall Sherfield, Oxford ’99). fellow, Peter Olson, at some function or another and While many Marshall Sherfield fellows return to the we coincidentally worked on neighboring campuses (he US following their tenure, some like Peter Olson con- was at the Natural History Museum while my lab was tinued on to establish a successful scientific career in in a building on the South Kensington campus of Impe- the UK and is currently a Researcher in Department of rial College). As Peter was a parasitologist, he helped Zoology at the Natural History Musem. “Much of my me once to identify some tiny creature that had infected adult life has been here, my children are dual-citizens, the intestines of all my animals. Good times.” I am now a dual-citizen, etc. I feel a bit like Bill Bryson, save the wit and global success!” said Olson. Fellows, particularly those in London, Cambridge, or Oxford, quickly integrate into the overall Marshall com- Working in London leaves Olson well positioned to munity. For Marshall scholars studying for doctorates, stay in touch with the ever-coming waves of new Mar- the Marshall Sherfield fellows can be a useful mentor shalls and he recently hosted a group of scholars to dis- or, during the crucible of thesis writing, provide appro- cuss scientific careers in the UK. “Meeting and integrat- priate commiseration. Mitch Keller is the only current ing with them is always enjoyable,” said Olson. fellow in the UK (no award was made in 2011), but he’s While the number of Marshall Sherfield alumni is found a strong sense of camaraderie with the London- small, currently totaling 20, the fellows have been quick- based Marshall post-graduate scholars. ly integrated into the overall Marshall alumni family.
10 “Every once in a while I come across a Marshall sci- of the world with him. Going back through my albums entist at a meeting. Adam Giangreco (Marshall Sherfield, to find a suitable picture to accaompany this piece made Cambridge ’04) and I met at a pulmonary biology meeting me incredibly nostalgic for that idyllic time in my life in 2011, and Dan Barouch (St. Johns ’93) and I crossed when I got to see so much of the world, got to spend all paths a few years ago in Chicago. Both recognized me my money on travel, and reveled in the constant stimu- from this newsletter, which was very gratifying. I’ve kept lation of a life abroad.” in touch with a number of other Marshalls from my year Such an experience is undeniably addictive. As Huey and happily, I get to keep up with a number of alumni commented, “My wanderlust continues as well – I am through this very publication, and have actually met more presently on sabbatical in Denmark, expanding my in- Marshalls here in New York City through alumni events tellect while enjoying another foreign culture.” than I ever did when I was in England,” said Ushma Neill, The program recently announced its latest Fellow, who is also the managing editor of the AMS Newsletter. Samar Malek (’12 Marshall Sherfield Bath) from MIT. As with all members of the Marshall alumni com- Upon completing her PhD this spring Malek will join munity, Marshall Sherfield fellows look back upon their the group of Professor Chris Williams in the Department time in the UK not only as a major career stepping stone, of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University but also as cultural adventure. of Bath. She plans to focus her research on “computer Bryan Huey, currently an Associate Professor at the methods for the geometrical definition and analysis of University of Connecticut, highlights: “I have many complex structural forms.” fond memories from my time in the UK. Favorites in- clude poetry, bagpipes, whiskey, and haggis at a Burns night celebration; racing in the London marathon; fan- tastic performances and phenomenally uncomfortable seats at the Sheldonian; cricket in the parks; hiking in Snowdonia; prawn crisps, curry, and tomaaatos; run- ning a Mountain Marathon in Scotland; and of course fantastic talks on art, science, history…” Ushma Neill has similar fond reflections: “Beyond the Marshall community, I was able to fall into a wonder- ful group of English friends during my stay in London. Happily my boyfriend Rolf, now my husband, joined me for the two years we lived there. Our English friends came with us on sailing trips, holiday weekends in Scot- land, weekends in National Trust buildings, and when we moved back to the US, two of them joined us on the QE2. We learned about how to make proper English tea and how it is requisite to stop whatever you were doing at 3pm and have a cuppa. Apparently my friendships with English people involved a lot of beverages, because we also learned about the ritualistic drink-as-much-as- you-can-after-work-in-the-pub, because at that time, pubs still closed at 10pm. Most of our English friends, along with two Marshalls from my year Orli Bahcall (Oxford ’99) and Broderick Bagert (Oxford ’99), joined us for an epic millennial eve party in our apartment that involved a Methuselah of champagne, canal diving, and a 15-person sleep over.” Neill continues, “Rolf and I made it to thirteen differ- ent countries (some visited twice) during our two years in the UK. I can’t imagine going to Athens for a long weekend from where I live now. Nor Stockholm or Lis- Ushma Neill (‘99) at a National Trust property in bon or Cairo. Going to England was the first time Rolf Scotland had been abroad, so it was fantastic to get to see more
11 Marshalls’Marshalls’ WinterWinter ofof ContentContent 12 by John Calhoun (Oxford ‘10) & Jonathan Warsh (LSE ‘11)
ne major challenge for any class of Marshall As in years past, the second opportunity of the Oscholars is to forge a meaningful connection year for both classes of Marshalls (as well as third- with Marshalls from earlier or later classes. While year hold-outs) to gather together was Thanksgiv- every Marshall has a chance to befriend their class- ing. The day started off with a game of touch foot- mates during the intense US and UK-based orienta- ball in Regents Park. The game doubled as a little tion, the same is not true for any two Marshalls from bit of nostalgic Americana as well as practice for different classes. This year, however, making friends late February’s annual Rhodes-Marshall football across the classes has proved surprisingly easy. game. Dylan Rebois (Imperial ‘11) did a convinc- First introductions between the classes began, ing Darrelle Revis impression (minus the blatant as they always do, at the September Foreign Com- fouls) to lead his team to intra-Marshall victory. monwealth Office cocktail reception. Still severely The Marshall team appeared ready to avenge last jetlagged and generally unable to utter anything year’s contentious 49-35 loss to the Rhodies. How- other than “special relationship, special relation- ever, after last year’s Rhodies engaged in egregious ship, special relationship,” the 2011s did their best rules violations, Zak Kaufman (LSHTM ‘10) vows to schmooze with the British political and academic to bring a yellow penalty flag to the game, and elite, while being sure not to spill their (perpetually Jonathan Warsh (LSE ‘11), a red one in case of a refilling) glasses of white wine. Mary Denyer, Assis- needed late fourth quarter challenge. Incidentally, tant Secretary and Head of Scholarship Administra- the 2010 and 2011 Marshalls have since encour- tion of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commis- aged the regional committees to strongly consider sion, introduced the new arrivals with other schol- granting Aaron Rodgers a Marshall scholarship. ars and guests with mutual interests. The 2011s also Thanksgiving dinner was once again held at the were given their first introduction to British cocktail beautiful grand dining hall of Goodenough College, etiquette – namely, it is really never polite to leave London. Marshall alumnus Wayne Lau graced the a conversation. Several were left stranded, but were group with his gregarious presence, as did Mar- rescued soon enough by their new 2010 friends shall administrators Mary Denyer and Lizzie Clark who whisked them off to an after-party at Andrew (nee Martin). 2011 Class Secretary Nick Wellkamp Ehrich’s (LSE ‘10). General merriment ensued. (Oxford ‘11) organized the event and sent around
Opposite page: On a trip to Bath, England (from left) Jon Warsh (LSE ‘11), Allie Speidel (Imperial ‘11), John Giam- matteo (UCL ‘11), Sasha En- gelmann (Oxford ‘11), Anna Feuer (Oxford ‘11). Right: At the 2011 Marshall Thanks- giving dinner (from left) Anna Feuer (Oxford ‘11), Liz Deutsch (Cambridge ‘11), Shivani Jain (UCL ‘11), Mari Oye (SOAS ‘11) 13 the traditional sign-up sheet for various pot luck Andrew Ehrich and his roommate hosted the dishes needed to round out the meal. This in turn after-dinner festivities, which included a spirited led to the fine Marshall tradition of a stampede of beer pong tournament won by “The John Cougar people scrambling to sign up for exotic dishes like Mellencats” (John Calhoun, Oxford ‘10 and Jes- “bread” and “soda.” Fortunately, culinary artists sica Lanney, LSE ‘10). Sunday morning brunch at Mitch Keller (Marshall Sherfield LSE ‘10), Conor Goodenough was just as much of a success, with Clarke (Birmingham ‘09) and Anna Jo Smith freshly made American pancakes, eggs and bacon. (LSHTM ‘10) rose to the occasion and made deli- The 2011 Marshalls used the brunch as an opportu- cious pie, salad and cornbread. nity to brainstorm their class service project. In the customary secretary’s address, Wellkamp A running subplot of the fall and winter of 2011 was encouraged everyone to be thankful for the op- the roaring success of a group of fourteen 2010 and portunities they have as well as the families that 2011 Marshalls in a co-ed dodgeball league in Chelsea, made their successes in life possible. The mes- London. Named the “Architects of Victory,” the team sage went down every bit as well as Mitch Keller’s forfeited the first three games of an eight game season chocolate pecan pie. Thanksgiving was also a (due to absences) before returning in full force to win great time for Marshalls from every class to meet every single remaining game of the regular season (5) whomever they hadn’t met yet, especially those and play-offs (3). The team was especially well served Marshalls attending universities outside of Lon- by the participating Marshall women: Allie Speidel don or Oxbridge. (Imperial ‘11) and Jessica Lanney (LSE ‘10).
Top left: At the Weidenfeld Ball Blenheim Palace (from left) John Giammatteo (‘11 UCL), Matt Clawson (LSE ‘10), Gabe Amo (Oxford ‘10), Matt Jones (Oxford ‘11), Aroop Mukharji (KCL ‘10), Jeremy Smith (Imperial ‘11), John Nelson (‘11 UCL), Steve Robinette (Imperial ‘10), Nick Wellkamp (Oxford ‘11), Jonathan Warsh (LSE ‘11), Nicholas Altemose (Oxford ‘11). Bottom left: Ali Hussain (Oxford ‘11) at the 2011 Marshall Thanksgiving dinner. Below: At the Weidenfeld Ball Blenheim Palace (from left) Sasha Engelmann (Oxford ‘11), Anna Feuer (Oxford ‘11).
14 Following an intense dodgeball match (from left): John Giammat- teo (London ‘11), Morgan Pecora- Saipe , Allie Speidel (Imperial ‘11), Bill Doughtery (‘10 RCM), Aroop Mukharji (KCL ‘10), John Calhoun (Oxford ‘10), Austin McKinney (LSE ‘10), Steve Robinette (Imperial ‘10), Jon Warsh (LSE ‘11), Andrew Ehrich (LSE ‘10), Rebecca Tisdale, Dylan Re- bois (Imperial ‘11), Jeremy Smith (Im- perial ‘11), Jessica Lanney (LSE ‘10).
Season highlights included one rival team’s refusal iel Zoughbie (Oxford ‘05). A group of twenty-two to believe the Marshalls were not a group of former 2010 and 2011 Marshalls dressed up in black tie for Division 1 American college athletes, post-victory pub a delicious dinner and a night of dancing in one of crawls, John Calhoun’s traveling from Oxford to Lon- England’s most historic palaces. John Giammatteo don for a championship round cameo, and Andrew (London ‘11), Sasha Engelmann (Oxford ‘11) and Ehrich’s Serena Williams’esque grunts whenever he Jeremy Smith (Imperial ‘11) earned special recog- threw a dodgeball. The name of General George C. nition for their dancing prowess. Marshall is now feared amongst the London dodge- All in all, through FCO receptions, Thanksgiv- ball community. The team plans to reunite in early ing dinners, dodgeball leagues and fancy balls, the 2012 to defend their title against all comers. 2010 and 2011 Marshall classes have grown re- Spurred on by Thanksgiving and dodgeball suc- markably close in such a short period of time. With cess, the 2010 and 2011 Marshalls got together once so much to look forward to, including the annual more to attend the annual Weidenfeld Ball at Blen- Marshall junket (this year to Northern Ireland) heim Palace outside Oxford. The event was in part a and the leavers’ dinner, there’s no doubt the 2010 fundraiser for Microclinic International, a medical and 2011 Marshalls will say goodbye as fast friends. services NGO founded by Marshall alumnus Dan- And two-time defending dodgeball champions.
Celebrating matriculation into Oxford (from left): Ali Hussain (Oxford ‘11), Andrew Mangino (Oxford ‘11), Nicholas Altemose (Oxford ‘11), Ben Umans (Ox- ford ‘11), Jacob White (Oxford ‘11), Anna Feuer (Oxford ‘11), Matt Jones (Oxford ‘11), Nick Wellkamp and, being held, GJ Melendez-Torres (Oxford ‘11) 15 Class Notes
1954 lyst and later partner in the institutional In 2004, Keith retired, and a year later brokerage firm C.J. Lawrence and Sons, moved to Oregon, where he bought a Phyllis Tilson Piotrow he wrote some 1,200 analytical articles piece of land on the side of a mountain [email protected] and for several years was voted number near Portland. Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, Ph.D. is one in the petroleum sector. Keith now spends his time walking his almost fully retired as a professor at Charles remarried in 1977 and now has English springer spaniel, mowing the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of a total of seven children, all through col- meadows, and watching the Douglas firs Public Health where she started the lege. But after retiring in 1997, he found grow. He and Dixie also do a bit of trav- Center for Communication Programs life “too calm”, so he went back to oil in- eling, finding cruising “a very satisfying to support family planning, maternal dustry analysis. “I enjoy the ebb and the way to go.” and child health, reproductive health, flow of market events,” he says, “and oil AIDS prevention and so on around the has a major role to play in both domes- 1961 world. She reports that the Center still tic and international politics.” He is still Wallace V. Kaufman functions well without her as she is now observing, analyzing, and writing, and [email protected] living happily in New Hampshire near retirement is still retreating. children and grandchildren. As a board Stuart Kauffman needs no introduc- member of her condo association, Phyl- 1955 is looking for a Class Secretary. tion to anyone who has seriously puzzled lis has been able to see parallels in com- Email your interest in serving your over the origins of life, the mechanisms munity governance with issues at the class to [email protected]. of evolution, and the nature of mind. local and national levels. She writes, “I Wallace Kaufman was reminded am pondering at a very local level the 1957 of this recently when he ordered two governance problems of a community Susan Quainton books. The first was Terrence W. Dea- where it seems that individual interests [email protected] con’s Incomplete Nature: How Mind (e.g. home values) are best served by Emerged from Matter. The second was A look ahead: More 1957 class notes in contributing to and enhancing commu- First Life: Discovering the Connections the next issue, including one on Warren nity values and improvements, but it is between Stars, Cells, and How Life Ilchman. sometimes hard to make this case when Began by David Deamer who was Wal- it costs money. This may be a national lace’s roommate for three years at Duke problem as well, I fear.” 1960 University and with whom Wallace is collaborating on what might be a work Alex Maradudin’s appointment as Patrick Henry of science fiction. Both of these new Research Professor of Physics contin- [email protected] books had enthusiastic endorsements ues nine years after his formal retire- After reading for a B.Phil. in economics from Stuart Kauffman who happened to ment from the University of California, at Oxford, Keith Griffin, with his wife be Wallace’s cabinmate as their class of Irvine. This is a title reserved for emeriti Dixie and their daughters Kimberley merry Marshalls sailed for England. who continue to be active in research. and Janice, spent three years in Chile He spends most of his time writing and Algeria. They then returned to Ox- The endorsement of Stuart Kauffman papers, working with post-docs, writ- ford, where Keith took up a fellowship bears great weight because he was there ing and editing books, participating in at Magdalen College. He remained there at the creation, so to speak, of a body conferences, and all the other things 23 years, teaching, writing, advising of research that is gradually explaining faculty members do, except teaching. governments in low-income countries, how it is that humankind became, as When not engaged in these activities, and consulting for various United Na- Alex serves on the boards of several lo- tions agencies. In l979, he was elected cal music festivals, indulges his love of president of Magdalen and spent nine theater and the opera, and, most of all very busy and happy years trying to enjoys spending time with his family. combine academic administration and Charles Maxwell is still full of energy! research in development economics. He He just could not stay retired. He left also became a British citizen. Oxford in 1957 with an English bride In l988, Keith accepted an appointment and worked for Mobil Oil, moving from at the University of California, River- New York to Manchester, England and side, and after obtaining a “green card,” finally on to Kaduna, Nigeria. Charles which he still has, he and Dixie moved returned to New York, to their Middle to southern California. The focus of his East Affairs Department where his Ara- research shifted to China and the newly bic and Persian studies at St Johns pro- independent, low-income, ex-socialist vided “a good grounding.” As an oil ana- republics of the former Soviet Union. Stuart Kauffman
16 Carol Baumann, 1954 I also wrote a booklet on Program Plan- whatever strikes me at the time). I have ning about World Affairs that detailed also been fortunate to be able to travel Since my LSE days as a Marshall scholar, the various approaches and techniques overseas extensively. My Institute ties of- I have spent most of my professional life of finding good speakers, getting them to fered several opportunities for overseas in academia (from 1957 to 1997 when I come to Wisconsin, and then attracting visits, and since both my husband and I retired as Professor Emerita of Political sizable audiences to hear them. In these like to travel, I have managed to see every Science and Director Emerita of the In- days of the Internet and the social media, continent (except for the two poles!). Of stitute of World Affairs at the University the booklet is hopelessly out of date, but course, my trips to Europe almost always of Wisconsin Milwaukee). From 1978 to at the time it did meet the needs of pro- included a visit to England and brought 1979 I served on the President’s Com- gram planners. back many wonderful memories of my mission on Foreign Language and Inter- days as a Marshall scholar at LSE. national Studies. Following that, I spent In addition to my academic career, I three years as Deputy Assistant Secretary dipped into “practical politics” in 1968 In recent years I’ve turned from aca- of State in the US State Department’s when I became the Democratic candi- demic writing to fiction. I most recently Bureau of Intelligence and Research. I date for Congress in the 9th Congres- published a book of twenty-seven short directed the research and analysis of lon- sional district of Wisconsin. Running as stories entitled Journeys of the Mind ger-range policy issues facing the United a Democrat in the primarily Republican (Trafford, 2011). It has offered an av- States. I remember with some amuse- suburban areas to the north and west of enue of imagination and adventure that ment that I hired the first full-time ana- Milwaukee, I didn’t have much chance to wasn’t that prevalent in academia, and I’ve lyst on international terrorism – I won- win, although I didn’t fully realize that at enjoyed both the creativity and satisfaction der how many there are today? the time. One of the debilitating experi- it has provided. I’ve also written two un- ences for me occurred the night before published novels that have waited far too In addition to the usual teaching and re- the election when I was campaigning long to be reworked and resubmitted for search, I devoted a good deal of my time with my two daughters (ages 6 and 8 publication. Are any of you former Mar- to the Institute, which served as a world with their coaster wagon!) outside a gro- shall scholars in the publishing busi- affairs council for Milwaukee and much cery store in Wauwatosa. As a man came ness? If so, call of southern Wisconsin. We provided the out of the store, I handed him a match me today! public with more detailed and in-depth book with my picture on it and “Vote information on international affairs for Baumann” emblazoned on its cov- than was available through the media. er. He glanced at it and then at me We offered a number of lecture series, and asked, “You running for Con- weekend seminars, luncheon and dinner gress?” I answered “Yes, sir. And I meetings, radio interviews and a weekly hope I’ll have your vote tomorrow.” television program. Some of the “no- “Hell, no!” he said as he tossed the tables” who spoke included Secretaries matches to the ground. “Things are of State Henry Kissinger and Cy Vance; screwed up enough in Washington Secretaries of Defense Les Aspin, Casper without getting a woman in there!” Weinberger, and Donald Rumsfeld; What really hurt was that he did it right then-Presidential candidate Bill Clinton; in front of my kids! Vice President Al Gore; and diplomat and Since retirement I’ve kept up my national scholar George Kennan. Among some of contacts by serving on the Board of Di- our foreign guests were the last Ambas- rectors of the Foreign Policy Association sadors to the US from the Soviet Union in New York, and I’ve kept in touch (soon to be Russia) and Iran. These visi- with the Institute as a member tors provided not only unique insights of its Board of Advisors. I also and fascinating speeches, but serious se- enjoyed my work on the Wis- curity problems and some great pictures consin Governor’s Commis- which adorn my office walls! sion on the United Nations My research efforts resulted in several off and on from 1964 to 2011 published articles, chapters, and mono- when the Commission was graphs, as well as four books (two au- terminated by the cur- thored and two edited). I’m most proud rent governor. I write a of The Diplomatic Kidnappings (Marti- monthly column for the nus-Nijhoff, The Hague, 1973), one of the local paper (a lot of fun, earliest studies of international terrorism. because I can write
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet of the bad aspects?” They He would be glad to send you a PDF. ironically declared, “how decided to try Canada for Contact him at [email protected]. noble in reason, how a couple of years. Richard From completion of her Marshall-funded infinite in faculties … in accepted a position at the doctorate at Oxford in 1968 until obliga- apprehension how like University of Alberta in tory statutory retirement as Professor of a god, … the paragon of Edmonton and has been Classical Art in October 2011, Donna animals.” Stuart’s work here ever since. He of- Kurtz has built a research center (www. in the 1980s and 90s on ficially retired in 2005 beazley.ox.ac.uk), constructed a num- complex systems led to but has been hired back ber of web sites, (most recently www. new theories of how life every year since as a Re- clarosnet.org, The World of Art on the began and evolved. In search Professor. Thus, Semantic Web), supervised more than 1995, Oxford University he can continue research Richard Stein forty successful doctoral students, and Press published his book while having no teaching published widely on art and ICT. In Oc- At Home In the Uni- and a minimum of com- tober 2011, she became Senior Research verse: The Search for the Laws of Self- mittees. “I have been very lucky,” he Fellow in the University’s e-research Organization and Complexity. This was writes, “receiving continuous research center (www.oerc.ox.ac.uk), collaborat- followed by Investigations in 2000 and funding since 1968 and publishing over ing with Engineering and Computer Sci- Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of 200 journal articles while seeing some ences to broaden access to cultural heri- Science, Reason, and Religion from Ba- of the devices we developed” – like the tage. An eight-million-euro bid (submit- sic Books in 2008. Stuart is now at work WalkAide foot-drop stimulator and the ted to the EU in November 2011) for as a Finland Distinguished Professor at C-leg for above-knee amputees, which e-infrastructures/archaeological datasets Tampere University as well as being part are now sold worldwide. Richard has would enable her to work with Ministries of the University of Vermont’s Complex received many awards, but perhaps the of Culture in India and China as well as Systems Center. most meaningful to him is the Medal across the European Union. She main- of Honour from the Canadian Medical Wallace Kaufman discerns no reason tains a residence in Cincinnati and re- Association. This is the highest award why at the beginning of 2012 he should turns to the US several times each year. find himself reconnected to fellow Mar- given to people who are not medically shall scholar and cabinmate via his qualified, but have made important 1966 Duke University roommate even if their contributions to health care. Diana Coogle family names differ by only one ‘f’. And 1963 is looking for a Class Secretary. [email protected] Wallace should mention that while in- Email your interest in serving your vestigating this phenomenon he learned class to [email protected]. Jim Tiles has yet to get to the south that David Deamer and Stuart Kauff- coast or even very far on the South 1964 is looking for a Class Secretary. man have been roommates on a few oc- Downs Trail (the western end of which Email your interest in serving your casions. He leaves it to Stuart and those lies near Winchester) because he and his class to [email protected]. who practice his science to say if some wife bought a semi-detached, thatched force of self-organization is at work. cottage in a village seven miles north 1965 of Winchester and have been investing 1962 Cathey Grant Parker time, effort, and money to keep it stand- Pamela Perrott (Sharp) [email protected] ing and habitable. The rotten plate and vertical timbers of the timber frame [email protected] Joe Harris (Cambridge) retires this gable wall had to be replaced, as did a After his Marshall scholarship (D.Phil. year after over forty years of teaching fractured and spliced interior structural in Physiology), Richard Stein became at Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard, tired oak beam. A rearrangement of the in- the Staines Medical Research Fellow at but happy to be able to continue research sides put a kitchen where there had been Exeter College, Oxford and stayed in and writing. His accomplishments are a bathroom and a bedroom and sanitary England for six years (1962-68) with three precious daughters and a vital net- facilities where there had once been a his wife Sue. Their daughter was born work of family relations in Georgia and kitchen. The cottage is almost “all-elec- in Oxford (1963), and in 1966 they ad- in the Bay Area. Oh, and some articles, tric” as it has an air-source heat-pump opted their son, a Korean orphan, with books, and students. His field is English, with a wood-burning stove (in the dis- the help of a missionary priest who was mainly Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, and covered inglenook) as back-up. the brother of one of their friends. Rich- folklore and mythology. He lives with ard and Sue liked many things about his wife Monika Totten a stone’s throw Jim Tiles spent summer term (and a few the US and the UK and wondered, from Widener Library. Some of his best days in the Fall term) as a supply teacher “Where in the world could we have the recent work deals with the philology and (maths) at a local comprehensive. His good aspects of both without too many religion of an early Swedish rune stone. wife continued to tutor for the Open Uni-
18 Diana Coogle, 1966 scholar. She wore her thick, black hair of Duessa’s red dress? I would stumble My Marshall memory below was first in one long braid down her back and had through answers, tongue-tied not be- aired as a commentary on Jefferson the Hindi’s red dot in her forehead. Her cause I hadn’t studied but because what Public Radio. This memory is included eyelids were so beautifully darkened I had to say was so inadequate next to in my book of collected commentaries, that I understood why women used eye Sita’s wisdom. Finally Sita would take An Explosion of Stars. shadow. She wore beautiful silk saris, pity on me and start talking herself, so but, like most Indians in England, she eloquently, with so much understand- “Sita Narasimhan was an Indian immi- suffered from cold, so she always wore a ing! I sat like a disciple at the feet of a grant to England and a fellow at Newn- heavy wool sweater, too, counteracting master, bathing in her wisdom. ham College, the sensuous effect of the sari. Cambridge, “By my second year at Cambridge, Sita where I was “An Elizabethan scholar, she held weekly had cut her hair in a short bob and no s t u d y i n g tutorials in her flat, where the gas space longer wore the red mark on her fore- E n g l i s h heaters were always on, whatever the head, though she still wore saris and still as a 1966 weather. Each week I would park my bi- overheated her rooms. On my last day Marshall cycle at the gate, both dreading and ex- in Cambridge before I left for the States, cited by the coming session. Sita would she treated me and my boyfriend Peter to invite me in, gesture to a comfortable dinner at an Indian restaurant that she chair in front of the gas heater, and chose and where she did the ordering. It offer me a glass of sherry. Too shy to was one of the best meals of my life. be at ease, awed by the sherry and by Sita’s grace and graciousness, I “After I left England, I wrote Sita from would mumble thanks and wait. time to time, but she wasn’t writing back, and we lost touch. I never forgot “Sita would settle comfortably her, though, and when I was pregnant, in a chair next to mine. Then I was going to call my child Sita if it the torturous part of the were a girl. tutorial would begin. In her rich, deep, rough “One day I answered the ring of the voice with its singsong telephone to hear a woman’s thick, rich, Indian accent, Sita deep voice with a singsong accent. ‘Di- would ask me what I ana,’ she said. ‘Do you know who this thought of the Red is?’ It was Sita. She was in San Francis- Cross Knight’s so- co for a conference. I held the receiver journ in the House like a butterfly’s cocoon – something of Pride in Canto precious and fragile that held great IV of Spenser’s beauty – while we talked. I was so hon- Faerie Queene. ored that she had called. I never heard Why does Prince from Sita Narasimhan again, but that Arthur show up one telephone call was confirmation in Canto VII? enough that I had not been forgotten by What is the sym- the woman I always said was the wisest bolic significance woman I had ever known.” versity and ran for city council as a Green ing but is mainly working on 40 years of old), he did mention two recent events Party candidate, making a respectable delayed projects, like organizing his files worthy of special attention. First: in showing for an otherwise unknown. and doing house renovations. He also 2010 he was one of three recipients of remains active in the gay rights move- a teaching award given by the Harvard Jesse White retired in January of last ment, in which they are trying to defeat College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. This year from UNC Chapel Hill as Director another one of these horrendous mar- was an especially gratifying award be- of the Office of Economic and Business riage amendments to the NC Constitu- cause nominations come from the stu- Development, which he created in 2004. tion in May. He says, “Wish us luck!” dent members of PBK. Second: his lat- He remains an Adjunct Professor in the est book, a commentary on Book XII School of Government and continues Though Richard Tarrant said that (the last) of Virgil’s Aeneid, is forthcom- to serve on several on-campus and off- a 40-year retrospective was too much ing as part of a series from Cambridge campus boards. He is doing some writ- to handle (he said it made him feel too University Press. It is the first commen- 19 Class Notes
Robert A. Oden, Jr., 1969 through to “direct” the orchestra, arms ern languages and literatures from Har- I retired this past year as president of flailing wildly. However, with gasps and vard University. From 1975 to 1989, I Carleton College, a position I held since wispers of disbelief from the decorative was a religion professor at Dartmouth, 2002. What I most enjoyed at Carleton audience, I came on stage dressed in a where I received Dartmouth’s first Dis- was the college’s sense of humor, which formal suite and bow tie, carrying a bag. tinguished Teaching Award. In 1989 I I often tested. Early on I had the whole Sitting in a rocking chair I proceeded was selected to be among the first of the college thinking I didn’t to change into a cardigan sweater and Teaching Company’s “Superstar Teach- “get it” during a Car- navy sneakers with white laces saying, ers,” for which I taped a three lecture leton tradition – a “It’s not the clothes you wear, it’s not series on comparative religion and the fall concert where the way you do your hair. It’s YOU I like. Old Testament. I authored five books, everyone comes in You’re special. Won’t you be my neigh- including The Bible Without Theology, costume. The pres- bor.” With laughter and sighs of relief, and scores of scholarly articles, as well ident is supposed shouts of “Mr. Rogers” rang throughout as a number of articles on fly-fishing. to appear in an the hall. With energy and enthusiasm undimin- unusual Hallow- I have always been passionate about and ished, retirement finds me still solv- een costume a firm defender of the liberal arts. Teach- ing problems and meeting challenges half way ing was the favorite part of my career. encountered while serving on multiple The moment of transition from faculty education-related boards and organiza- to administration came to me when tions. Dear to my heart at the moment is I realized that I liked all the ex- my position as a Trustee of the Ameri- tra responsibilities I was taking can University in Cairo and my work on on, solving problems and run- their committee challenged to figure out ning things. The challenge and ways to overcome their current financial “fear” of doing something new crisis caused by an unfortnuate circum- excited me, and being “on the stance related to the revolution in Egypt hook” all the time kept the ex- resulting in a loss of 350 US students a citement coming. year because no US college will transfer Before taking on the presi- credits from them. dency of Carleton, I served as I have returned to Hanover with my the president of Kenyon Col- wife Teresa to continue research in an- lege from 1995 to 2002 and cient Near East languages, history, and as headmaster of the Hotch- religion. I find every opportunity to go kiss School from 1989 to fly-fishing. Writing this reminds me that 1995. I hold a B.A. in history during my Marshall years I would fly- and literature from Harvard fish on the Test and Itchef rivers. With College, a second bachelor’s vigor I adapted to the Britsh custom of and a master’s in religious wearing very stylish clothing and ties studies from Cambridge, while fly-fishing, transforming it into and a master’s of theology a serious endevor and giving the regal and a Ph.D. in Near East- wild fish the respect they deserve. tary in English on Book XII to appear in 1970 is looking for a Class Secretary. Samothrace, the site of her first field- more than fifty years and the first fairly Email your interest in serving your work back in the summer of ’77. Ar- full commentary in any language. Rich- class to [email protected]. chaeology being a slow and painstak- ard says, “ I feel excited and privileged ing field, everyone has their “chains to have had the chance to write it.” 1976 of Marley,” and Wescoat is finally get- ting rid of a few of hers. The Temple of 1967 is looking for a Class Secretary. Carol Lee Athena at Assos is due out in February, Email your interest in serving your [email protected] with an edited volume on The Archi- class to [email protected]. Bonna Wescoat will sound (if not tecture of the Sacred shortly to follow, look!) much the same to other ’76ers. and Samothrace, vol. 9, Monuments 1969 She continues to work in the Mediterra- of the Eastern Hill in November. She William Lee nean and is now director of excavations is especially interested in 3D visualiza- [email protected] in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on tion of lost environments (check out 20 www.samothrace.emory.edu). Wescoat 1978 He echoes the call continues to commute between Atlanta for other members (Emory) and Berkeley, where husband Bert L. Wells of his class to be Bailey Green has an environmental en- [email protected] in touch and looks gineering firm, GO2Water (algae, any- The highlight of the three decades since forward to hear- one?). Son Hugh is in the B.A./M.P.H. William (Bill) Burns left Oxford re- ing further from Environmental Studies Program at mains his family. His wife Lisa Carty now you! Bert’s email is Emory, and daughter Abi a senior in heads the Washington office of UNAIDS. [email protected]. high school. Their oldest daughter Lizzy just gradu- After many years of Jeff Modisett continues to keep busy. ated from Duke and is entering the work- waffling about what He left his law firm of nine years in ing world. Her sister Sarah is a rising she wanted to do April to join the LA office of SNR Den- sophomore at Princeton. Bill has been with her life (medi- Jeff Modisett ton, an international law firm, to start in the diplomatic service since 1982 with cine? writing? med- their National State Attorney General overseas tours mostly in the Middle East icine? writing?), at practice. At the same time, he became and Russia. He was recently nominated 35 Elisabeth (Libby) Rosenthal fi- Chief Legal Officer of a high-tech start- to become Deputy Secretary of State. nally became a reporter at the New York up called LOYAL3 in San Francisco. “I try to stay connected to the Marshall Times. And, on paper at least, she has LOYAL3 will sell stock directly to con- program when I’m in the US,” he writes, had the same job ever since. sumers through Facebook with no fees “and have enjoyed speaking to outgo- She went to Harvard Medical School and through what they call a Consumer ing groups of Marshall scholars (they all did a residency at New York Hospital-Cor- Stock Ownership Plan. Nevertheless, seem a lot more impressive and worldly nell Medical Center, but kept taking on he still found time to attend his 30th than I was in the autumn of 1978).” Bill’s journalism gigs – first at Discover Maga- Yale Law School reunion on November email is [email protected]. zine and then at the New York Times. For 5 and participate in the Marshall schol- Bert Wells had four terrific years in a while she managed to juggle journalism arship selection committee in LA on Oxford, finishing his D.Phil. in math- and working the emergency department. November 8-9. ematics in 1982. After returning to But then came marriage (to Erik Eckholm, the US for an assistant professorship Kathleen Sullivan has been selected another reporter), then child number one in that field, he took a major left turn as one of two recipients of the 18th An- (Cara, born ’92), then child number two in 1984 by entering Yale Law School. nual Gould Awards for Outstanding Oral (Andrew, born ’94). And then she gave up He’s been practicing law in New York Advocacy, presented by the nonprofit medicine so that she would have time to since 1987 and is now a partner at Cov- Office of the Appellate Defender in New enjoy family and preserve her sanity. York City. Kathleen will be recognized ington & Burling, where a major focus She has now been at the Times nearly 20 for her outstanding work on behalf of has been representing commercial in- years, in an endless string of great jobs. clients at the appellate level, including surance policyholders in disputes and She has been really lucky. She covered numerous matters before the US Su- negotiations with their property and medicine for Science Times and health preme Court and the federal courts of casualty insurers. policy for the news department, spent appeals and state high courts. He is married with two children. His six years as a reporter in the Beijing wife Laura Walker leads New York 1977 is looking for a Class Secretary. Bureau (1997-2003), and came back to Public Radio; his son, a history maven Email your interest in serving your help with coverage of the 2004 presiden- and recent White House intern, is a ju- class to [email protected]. tial election. Most recently she has been nior at Yale; and his daughter, a flau- covering international environmental tist, singer and general force of nature, issues – initially based in Rome but now is entering seventh grade. They are the based in New York, but with endless fas- joys of his life. cinating travel. He remains passionately devoted to mu- Along the way there was a divorce (hard) sic, attending opera and concerts with and finding a wonderful new partner, friends and family. He continues to be Andrej, a Slovenian journalist who she fascinated by both physics and the life sci- first met in Beijing. He has managed to ences, and is thoroughly enjoying a gold- get re-assigned to New York and now en age of astute general writing about sci- has the difficult task of explaining cur- ence. He is also on the board of The New rent US politics to his “hometown” York Hall of Science, a hands-on interac- readers in Ljubljana. tive museum and teaching institution in Queens, which gives him a chance to pass She loves her work, but the greatest joy Bonna Westcoat on his enthusiasm indirectly. continues to be her kids, who have grown 21 Class Notes into interesting and fun July 1, I’ll be starting as Raj and Kara are blessed with a lovely people (though they have President of Warren Wil- and precocious 11-year old daughter, little time these days for son College in Asheville, Shera, and have taken her to 23 coun- parents!). Growing up in North Carolina. It’s been tries, most recently, India. She is be- Beijing and traveling all a pleasure and a privi- coming an accomplished pianist and over Asia, they became to- lege to spend 10 years tennis player, and has finished 6 years tal troopers at a tender age; with the Ford Founda- of Chinese language instruction. they managed to survive tion in Moscow and New Raj, Kara, and Shera heartily welcome on rice, Oreos and Cokes Delhi, but the family and any Marshall scholars to Kansas and KU! during their trips through Raj Bhala I are looking forward to Visitors will find that this part of the Mid- rural China. They have this new chapter.” west/Great Plains region is characterized kept their sense of curios- by gentle, rolling hills (through which Class Secretary’s note: Richard Cor- ity and wanderlust into their teens. Cara Raj ran to train for the Boston Mara- dray, former Attorney General of Ohio, just finished her freshman year at Prince- thon), big skies (with lovely sunsets), no was just named Director of the United ton, and Andrew is a senior at Stuyvesant traffic jams, fabulous ethnic restaurants, States Consumer Financial Protection High School here in New York. and students from 120 countries. Bureau in a January 4 recess appoint- She has lost touch with everyone in all ment by the White House. We congrat- Dawn DeWitt (M.Sc. Trinity Col- these years of travel, but would love to ulate Richard on his new position and lege, Cambridge; M.D. Harvard Medical reconnect. The New York Times cafete- wish him well. School) writes that she and her family ria has great views and good food too. (husband Alan and two teenagers) relo- She asks anyone passing through New 1984 cated to Vancouver in January. At the Uni- York, to please get in touch. Her email versity of Melbourne (2003-2011), Dawn is [email protected]. Raj Bhala (M.Sc. Economics LSE 1985, served as Foundation Chair of the Rural 1981 M.Sc. Management Oxford 1986) is the Health Academic Centre, Melbourne Rice Distinguished Professor at the Medical School, and Clinical Dean, Rural Suzette Brooks Masters University of Kansas School of Law (KU Clinical School. In eight years she built [email protected] Law), and the Associate Dean for Inter- the rural health program from a single Michael Elias reports that after leav- national and Comparative Law there. building and 10 students into four cam- ing Cambridge University he joined a At KU Law, he teaches International Trade puses and 800 health profession students venture-backed start-up in the UK and Law and Islamic Law. Raj’s textbook, In- per year. Dawn is now Associate Dean of became a venture capitalist in 1986. “I’ve ternational Trade Law: Interdisciplin- Undergraduate Medical Education and been investing in technology business- ary Theory and Practice (LexisNexis, 3rd Regional Associate Dean Vancouver-Fra- es since then, and at times have been ed. 2008), has been used at over 100 law ser. Even with these commitments, Dawn based in Silicon Valley, Paris, and since schools around the world. His new book, makes time for 1997, in London. In that year, I started Understanding Islamic Law (Shari’a), amateur theater. my own firm, called Kennet. In 1988 I was just published (LexisNexis, 2011). It She’s enjoyed mu- married Claire Carpenter, whom I met is the first textbook in the field written for sical theatre with at Cambridge while a Marshall scholar. the English-speaking classroom by a non- her family and Although we are now separated, we have Muslim American law professor. The was nominated three wonderful children – Fiona (20), book covers the law, history, and religion for several musi- Samara (17), and Anna (14). I currently of Islam, with comparisons to US law and cal theater prizes split my time between London and a Catholic Christianity. in Australia. The photo shows country house in West Berkshire. When Raj’s wife, Dr. Kara Tan Bhala, whom he her as Mame in I’m not working, I always have at least met at Trinity College, Oxford, finished the 2011 Echuca one obsessive hobby. At the moment it’s her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Univer- Musical Theatre beekeeping!” Class Secretary’s note: I sity of Kansas with a dissertation on Ar- Company’s pro- have kept in close touch with Michael istotle and Virtue Ethics. She combines duction of Mame. Dawn DeWitt since we left England in 1983. I have this training, her Masters in Manage- visited him in San Francisco, Paris, and ment from Oxford, and her 20 years of 1993 London and watched his lovely daugh- Wall Street experience as an interna- ters grow into young women. Michael’s tional fund manager by teaching at the Loren Siebert “enthusiasms” do come and go. I have KU Business School and running her [email protected] fond memories of wading in a stream own Seven Pillars Institute for Global Louise Keely is living in Evanston, Illi with him during his fly-fishing craze. Finance and Ethics, a non-profit organi- nois with her husband Richard (whom Steven Solnick reports, “Effective zation (www.sevenpillarsinstitute.org). she met in the UK while a graduate stu- 22 on technology projects with the federal Tom. She has never stopped traveling the government and with Bay Area startups. world, be it for work or pleasure. Most Laura Lafave has recently joined recently she returned to Norway, where OnCorps as CTO. OnCorps is a com- she had lived as a teenager. She said it munity of well-connected technology was – somewhat disturbingly so – just as veterans committed to bringing better, she remembered it. Although, walking in cost-disruptive technologies into the the vast mountain landscape and having mainstream. Laura is also working with her cell phone suddenly ring was a whole Wayne Lau (’79), Cindy Sughrue new – again bit disturbing – experience. (’85) and Lauren Baer, among others, She currently works as a linguist analyst to establish an AMS chapter for alumni and account manager for SAIC, a large living in Europe. Laura is currently liv- government contractor. She would love to reconnect with other ’93ers and also Jonas Peters ing in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. with other SOAS alumni from any year; Eileen Hunt Botting, an associate pro- her email is [email protected]. dent) and two sons Stuart (5) and Alastair fessor of political science at the University She wants to say a special hello to those (3). She’s the intellectual capital director of Notre Dame, published the first edition Marshall scholars she met by chance and at The Cambridge Group, a strategy con- of Hannah Mather Crocker’s Reminis- then almost lost in the thick fog on the sulting firm based in Chicago. This year, cences and Traditions of Boston (Boston: Isle of Skye in the summer of 1995. as she turned 40, Louise started practic- NEHGS, 2011), a 500-page hand-written ing yoga and driving a VW Beetle! manuscript history of the city from the Maria Weigel has been living in Zurich for the last seven years where both her D. Graham Burnett’s new book, The 1620s to the 1820s. Crocker, the grand- little girl and boy were born and where Sounding of the Whale, is just out. It’s daughter of the Puritan minister Cotton her family is enjoying all the country has a history of science and cetaceans in the Mather and niece of Massachusetts Gov- to offer – clean air, mountains (Zermatt, 20th century. At 800 pages, The Wall ernor Thomas Hutchinson, wrote this Davos, and Klosters), sometimes sun- Street Journal cannot be faulted for call- topographical and genealogical history shine, and Lake Zurich. Professionally, ing it “forbidding”; the Times, spinning, of her home city in the last decade of her Maria works as Legal preferred “sweeping.” Burnett is running life and left it unpub- Counsel at Credit Suisse the graduate program in history of sci- lished at her death AG and loves her job. ence at Princeton, and he’s an editor at in 1829. The book is Cabinet magazine, based in Brooklyn. a rich resource for 1999 early American his- Jonas Peters, his wife Dianne New- tory, especially politi- Tad Heuer man, and their now 4-year old son cal, urban, women’s, [email protected] Ronen moved back to Pasadena in 2010 and church history in from Boston. Jonas and Dianne resumed Michael Pacold is New England. their faculty positions at Caltech, hav- currently a third-year ing returned from teaching at MIT for Dan H. Barouch, resident in the Harvard a few years. Jonas currently holds the M.D., Ph.D. is Pro- Radiation Oncology position of Bren Professor of Chemistry fessor of Medicine Program in Boston with at Caltech, and amongst other things at Harvard Medi- “one more year to go.” is trying to discover chemical means cal School and Beth He writes that he has Dan H. Barouch to keep the planet running for the long Israel Deaconess been “pursuing research haul via artificial photosynthesis. Last Medical Center. He in cancer metabolism at autumn, the Peters family spent several leads a research laboratory that is study- the Whitehead Institute at MIT and the months at St. John’s College, Oxford, ing the pathogenesis and immunology of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute” and is where Jonas and Dianne were Senior HIV-1 infection and that is developing “thoroughly enjoying both.” Visiting Research Fellows. Having spent novel HIV-1 vaccine strategies. He also his Marshall year in Nottingham, Jonas serves on the Infectious Diseases clini- 2000 was pleased, and indeed shocked, to fi- cal consultation service at Brigham and Nisha Agarwal nally see how the other side lived. Women’s Hospital and Beth Israel Dea- [email protected] coness Medical Center. He and his wife Loren Siebert married Dr. Abigail Bryan Huey is presently on sabbatical Fina have two daughters, Susanna (age Pease in June, and the Marshall schol- from the University of Connecticut and 4) and Natalie (age 1). arship was almost certainly the key to spending the year in Denmark. He is winning over Abby’s 93-year-old English Teresa Lowen (Cunningham) lives in working at the Interdisciplinary Nanosci- grandmother. Loren continues to work the Dayton Ohio area with her husband, ence center (iNANO) at Aarhus Univer-
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sity, conducting experiments, setting up Ph.D. in the Centre for Environmental collaborations, and learning about center Policy at Imperial College London and administration. Bryan’s wife, Tina, who is spending the first year at Australia was in Oxford with him in 2000, and National University in Canberra inves- their eight-year-old son are doing their tigating the use of quarantine barriers best to enjoy another international cul- as protectionist instruments in trade of ture as Bryan did in the UK a decade ago agriculture products on an Australian- as a Marshall Sherfield Fellow. American Fulbright Scholarship. Bryan Leach recently resigned from Alyssa Weschler got a job. She’s his law partnership at Bartlit Beck Her- an Assistant Research Scientist at the man Palenchar & Scott LLP to become Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center the founder and CEO of a technology (WYSAC), a department of the Universi- company based in Denver. “It’s been an Marzyeh Ghassemi ty of Wyoming, where she does program exciting transition to the world of entre- planning and evaluation for a variety of preneurship,” he writes. His wife Jen is organizations. She is taking a lead role enjoying her medical practice and their 2004 integrating environmental governance daughters Sydney (6) and Skye (3) are Nick Rodriguez studies into WYSAC’s research reper- thriving, too. “Within a year, I will be [email protected] toire. Alyssa has been traveling when the slowest one down the ski slopes!” After five years in the UK and Italy, she can and is looking forward to find- 2001 Marden Nichols spent time as a post- ing future work in El Salvador. She has doctoral fellow in the US at the Metro- a wonderful puppy named Grady, and Megan Ceronsky politan Museum of Art and the Center when in Wyoming they are enjoying ex- [email protected] for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts ploring the Rocky Mountains on foot, On October 25th, Katherine Dirks at National Gallery. In November 2011, bike, and backcountry skis. and Davesh Maulik welcomed Kiran she joined the Walters Art Museum in Katie Huston works as the fundrais- Dirks Maulik. At the ripe old age of 6 Baltimore, where she is the curator of ing and institutional development offi- weeks, Kiran was sufficiently mature to ancient Greek, Roman, Near Eastern cer at an education non-profit in Cape select the family Christmas tree. Kather- and Egyptian art. She commutes from Town, South Africa. Last year she ran ine and Davesh are living in New York Washington, DC where she lives with an after-school creative writing class City where Katherine Samuel Charap (’03), a Council on for high school students, five of whom works in the litigation Foreign Relations International Affairs were chosen for a citywide mentorship practice of Wilmer- Fellow at the US Department of State. program for budding writers. She has Hale and Davesh is an also taken up ultimate frisbee and will Associate Professor of 2008 run her second Two Oceans half mar- Mathematics at Co- Ben Carmichael athon in April. Her partner Murray lumbia. Since leaving [email protected] Hunter is working hard to save South England, Katherine African democracy as the national Marzyeh Ghassemi lives in Boston earned a Masters in Po- coordinator of the Right2Know cam- with her husband Eric and their daugh- litical Science from Co- paign, and is frequently on TV, but as ter Raziyeh (17 months). Raziyeh is still lumbia and a J.D. from they don’t own a television, she says, rocking the awesome Marshall stroller NYU. She clerked for “I’ve never seen him”. from the baby shower and is a prolific Judge Douglas Wood- Kathleen Kirks & talker, a genetic trait she cannot blame A concise Brian Clark says he’s been lock before joining Davesh Maulik on Eric. Marzyeh is a year into her Ph.D. working towards a Ph.D. in physics at WilmerHale (initially at MIT’s CSAIL where Harvard University. in Boston) where she she has passed course- also worked with at-risk school children For the past year, Ben work requirements through Citizen Schools. Davesh earned Carmichael has been and is now grinding his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princ- working as a creative through research on eton in 2007 and was a post-doctoral and editorial director for clinical prediction with fellow at Columbia and MIT after being a British sustainability machine learning. awarded a Clay Research Fellowship. company. He recently One of Davesh’s papers was awarded Lee Pearson got a moved from New York the Compositio Mathematica Prize, and taste for free educa- City to Boston, where he rumor has it there is a mathematical tion and hasn’t looked plans to do more hiking, theory named after him. back: he’s started a Alyssa Weschler fishing, and skiing.
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