Letters to My Younger Self

SUMMER 2015 | MAKING THINGS, MAKING A DIFFERENCE | A GATHERING OF FLOWERS

Letters to My Younge r Self

cover_final.indd 1 6/29/15 3:18 PM summer 2015 RICHARD HOWARD RICHARD Dear Me, Making Things,

Eight wise alumnae—all over 50—paused at Making a Difference 18 commencement time to write a letter of advice 26 to their younger selves. Their messages are By Lisa Scanlon Mogolov ’99 poignant, inspiring, and filled with compassion. Tackling problems to create products that not only work, but also help people, is the focus of the College’s enterprising engineering lab.

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2 From the Editor

3 Letters to the Editor

4 From the President

5 Window on Wellesley

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44 Class Notes A Gathering of Flowers 74 In Memoriam—Harold E. Andrews, 34 By Catherine O’Neill Grace 1942–2015 Botanical illustrators who have completed the Friends of the Wellesley College Botanical Gardens 80 Endnote—A Lifetime on Two Wheels certificate program are painting portraits of the By Carolyn Kott Washburne ’65 College’s rare plants for a florilegium.

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VOLUME 99, ISSUE NO. 4 From the Editor

ome departments here at the College have

Editor a lovely tradition of opening the fi nal Alice M. Hummer S lecture that a retiring professor gives in his Senior Associate Editors or her teaching career to the entire Wellesley Lisa Scanlon Mogolov ’99 community. Which is why on a warm May after- Catherine O’Neill Grace noon, a large group of us gathered in Pendleton Design West 212 to hear Professor of Political Science Hecht/Horton Partners, Arlington, Mass. Rob Paarlberg address his class on international Principal Photographer economic policy one last time. Richard Howard Scanning the faces—seniors in graduation Student Assistant gowns for the last day of classes, faculty colleagues Emma Bilbrey ’18 from many departments, staff, and even an alumna Wellesley (USPS 673-900). Published fall, who had fl own in specially from Washington, winter, spring, and summer by the Wellesley D.C.—Paarlberg said, “I haven’t been this nervous College Alumnae Association. Editorial and ©2015 JING JING TSONG C/O THEISPOT.COM Business Office: Alumnae Association, since the day I was married.” Pausing, he added, Wellesley College, 106 Central St., Wellesley, “But that turned out OK.” Gesturing to the back of the room, he introduced his wife of 40-plus MA 02481-8203. Phone 781-283-2344. years, which brought smiles and applause all around. Fax 781-283-3638. Periodicals postage paid at Boston, Mass., and other mailing offices. The lecture was a sweeping survey of the evolution of international economic policy since Postmaster: Send Form 3579 to Wellesley Paarlberg began teaching at Wellesley in 1976. He started with Jimmy Carter and the energy magazine, Wellesley College, 106 Central St., crisis, then rolled decade by decade through Latin America, Africa, and Asia. He touched on Wellesley, MA 02481-8203. NAFTA and immigration, evaluated the shockwaves that emanated from Wall Street in 2008, Wellesley Policy: and fi nally landed in the present day. The depth and breadth of his knowledge, as well as his One of the objectives of Wellesley, in the best College tradition, is to present interesting, obvious rapport with his students, may have been part of what prompted a young faculty member thought-provoking material, even though it to tweet from the classroom that she was listening to “the esteemed Rob Paarlberg.” may be controversial. Publication of material Interestingly, before Paarlberg launched in, he took a moment to offer his students a bit of does not necessarily indicate endorsement of the author’s viewpoint by the magazine, the advice: “Mother’s Day is Sunday. Don’t forget to call your mothers.” Heads nodded. Mothers, Alumnae Association, or Wellesley College. like globalization and economic sanctions, are important.

Wellesley magazine reserves the right to edit For the seniors in the class, it was, perhaps, the opening salvo in a season of advice. In the and, when necessary, revise all material that weeks ahead, there would be messages of counsel from class deans, faculty, and the College it accepts for publication. Unsolicited photo- president. Anticipation would buzz over what advice Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie graphs will be published at the discretion of the editor. would dole out at Commencement (see page 8). The run-up to Commencement got us in the magazine offi ce thinking about what we know KEEP WELLESLEY UP TO DATE! The Alumnae Office has a voice-mail box to now that we wish we had known when we graduated from college. We went in search of some be used by alumnae for updating contact wise women—alumnae who have followed a variety of life paths, all over age 50—to write and other personal information. The number letters of advice to themselves at the time they received their Wellesley diplomas. is 1-800-339-5233. What resulted is a rich tapestry of letters (“Dear Me,” page 18), proffering hard-earned You can also update your information online insights. “Use every variegated gift that Wellesley showered on you to help those whom most when you visit the Alumnae Association website at www.wellesley.edu/alumnae. people do not see or pass by unmoved,” wrote one. Make mistakes, and suffer life’s interruptions and disruptions, another counseled. “You will arrive somewhere you never anticipated.” DIRECT LINE PHONE NUMBERS College Switchboard 781-283-1000 I wondered, as Rob Paarlberg fi nished his fi nal lecture to a prolonged standing ovation, whether Alumnae Office 781-283-2331 he had arrived somewhere he had foreseen in 1976. Did he know then how many thousands of Magazine Office 781-283-2344 lectures he would give, or the way world conditions would alter during his career? Could he have Admission Office 781-283-2270 Center for Work and predicted that alums, when word of the lecture went out by social media, would respond with Service 781-283-2352 statements like, “Lovely man and a great professor!” and “POLS 323 was my favorite class at Resources Office 781-283-2217 Wellesley”? Probably not—just like the rest of us. INTERNET ADDRESSES We can’t always see exactly where we’re going. So here’s hoping that along the way we have www.wellesley.edu/alumnae wise women to offer us advice—and kind, erudite professors to remind us to call our mothers. magazine.wellesley.edu —Alice M. Hummer, editor

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Letters to the Editor at goo.gl/ZtNC5E). In my own words, we long- MRS. BUSH ON CAMPUS term residents of foreign countries become hybrids. Thank you to Christine Bicknell Marden ’90 and Wellesley welcomes short letters (300 words Our children undergo cultural speciation. Our Wellesley magazine for the marvelous refl ection maximum) relating to articles or items that have binocular, or multifocal, perspectives enable us to on commencement 1990 (“When Mrs. Bush Came appeared in recent issues of the magazine. Send see new dimensions. Only in describing them to to Visit,” online exclusive, magazine.wellesley. your remarks to the Editor, Wellesley magazine, those who cannot empathize strongly with experi- edu). It is such a wonderful reminder of how grace 106 Central St., Wellesley, MA 02481-8203, ences of alienation and integration do we discover and direct connection turned what could have been email your comments to magazine@wellesley. that our vocabulary, sometimes enriched with a mean-spirited external dialogue into a rich, edu, or submit a letter via the magazine’s website, additional languages, often remains insuffi cient. important, and even humorous exchange. Thanks magazine.wellesley.edu. Heather Corbett Etchevers ’92 to Chris and Mrs. Bush for the vital roles they Bouc-Bel-Air, France played in making it so! And, who knew that such MAGAZINE LOVE amazing photos of this day existed? It’s great to Your Wellesley magazine is sensational! Thank BROAD RESONANCE see Chris and her BFF immortalized in print! you! Paula Butturini’s article, “Not All Here,” about Katherine Collins ’90 Lucy Fowler Klug ’56 her move back to the U.S. after three decades Boston Baileys Harbor, Wis. abroad was fascinating and very well written. I was so impressed with it that I passed the article FINDING HOME to the director of the Norton Center for the Special thanks to class- Common Good at the Loomis Chaffee School in mate Paula Butturini ’73 Connecticut. He found it so compelling that he has whose article “Not All recommended her as a speaker for the school’s Here” appeared in the speaker series next year. spring ’15 issue. It was so I also gave it to my neighbor, who is from New wonderfully written and Zealand, for his perspective. He has been working helped me put words to for the IMF here for the last 15 years. He was some of my own feelings very interested in her concept of “home,” and when my dad retired from referred to a New Zealand song that has the lyrics the military in 1967. We tried to put down roots “once you leave, you can’t go back again.” He in New Hampshire, after constant transferring wrote, “Despite the negative, there are a fair from base to base and school to school for all of amount of good things about America, though I my 16 years of life. I never really could label any- do share her question if America needs eight ver- where “home” and still can’t. I can never answer sions of Oreos. … A lingering memory of my the “where are you from?” question with just a arrival was my effort to buy muesli.” word or two. This is especially hard now that I This article has sparked several interesting fi nd myself in St. Louis where it’s all about “where discussions with others of my friends, as Paula’s did you go to school?”—referring to high school. book, Keeping the Feast, did with my book club More wonderful insights from Paula can be found a few years ago. I appreciate the writing that First Lady Barbara Bush at the 1990 Commencement in her book Keeping the Feast, which I relived on appears in the magazine, and it is a great sign a trip to Rome and its outdoor markets. when the articles reach and enrich a far greater Kathryn Porterfi eld ’73 audience than just people associated with University City, Mo. Wellesley College. THE WELLESLEY Kathleen Conklin ’73 LONG-TERM EXPATS Falls Church, Va. CONNECTION I greatly enjoyed the essay by Paula Butturini ’73 AT REUNION IN JUNE, an alumna from the and its appropriate title, “Not All Here.” The ON THE PERIMETER Wellesley Club of France has a number of long- As a teenage immigrant to the U.S., I adapted to 1970s said to a member of the magazine term expatriates—or migrants, depending on your living in many places, but I never felt that I put staff, “I love Wellesley women. They make semantic preference—and we are fortunate to down roots deep enough to feel “at home” any- such a difference in each other’s lives.” We’d count Paula among our members. I was not alone where. I was always a little on the perimeter love to know more about how that happens. in fi nding that Paula perfectly captured our sense looking in. Even when I go back to my country of Has a Wellesley alum—someone you knew of bewilderment in not ever being completely at origin, my life experience is so different from that in your dorm or in class or on a team, or home in the country of our birth, though one can of family and friends who have lived in the same someone from another era you connected grow to be at ease again. She examined how time town, or close by, all along that I am not “All with later on—made an important difference and geography factor into those disconcerting cul- There” either. Thank you to Paula Butturini for in your life? In your career? In your commu- tural shifts, which I feel even upon short visits to the great article. I truly identifi ed with the experi- nity? In the world? We’d love to hear about the nation I left 21 years ago and despite decades ences she describes and the feelings that are diffi - it. Please send a note with a short description of internet use. Naomi Hattaway wrote a popular cult to put into words. to [email protected]. blog post a couple of years ago, entitled “I am a Valeria Trambusti Shapiro ’73 Triangle and Other Tips for Repatriation” (found Orlando, Fla.

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The Year Ahead

WELLESLEY is an institution The resulting center will focus on developing the whole that has refused to accept the person. It will encourage students to reﬂ ect on and articu- status quo since its founding. late the relationship of their Wellesley education to their For 140 years, the College lives. The center will mobilize alumnae and collaborate with has given women a uniquely faculty and staff. It will promote Wellesley as a preferred inspiring learning environ- source of outstanding candidates for employers in every ﬁ eld. ment in which to prepare And it will allow Wellesley to model the relevance of liberal- for ambitious futures and arts education to career success by demonstrating the capac- drive change across the globe. ity of our graduates to be immediate contributors in every

NOLI NOVAK NOLI Today, students depart into a industry and enterprise. transformed world. Information travels at the speed of a We are currently searching for a new director for this keystroke, and the world seems smaller even as our knowl- center. I am excited about the potential for this more holistic edge about it expands and new fi elds of inquiry demand approach to career services; it will be important for students our attention. These changes require us to be ambitious on and alumnae for many years in the future. behalf of our students and our faculty, deliberate as we set priorities, and confi dently aspirational in how we conceive Many Students, One Wellesley of Wellesley’s future. Interacting with and learning from community members As I look ahead to the coming year, I will be focused on with diverse majors, viewpoints, ideas, backgrounds, and Wellesley and the future. experiences are critical to a liberal-arts education. We must continue to make sure that such interaction fl ourishes at Campus Renewal Wellesley and that our students are exposed to the broadest Campus renewal, while preserving what is best about our range of disciplines possible. We continue to focus on ensur- buildings and landscape, will transform our living, learning, ing that our students become the best versions of themselves and research spaces. through full participation in the Wellesley experience. We are well begun on this process. A beautifully restored For instance, our WellesleyPlus program, aimed at fi rst- Schneider Center is enhancing an already vibrant part of generation college students and those from underresourced campus. In the fi rst phase of our Founders and Green Hall high schools, is expanding in size and scope to offer paid renovation, humanities classrooms and faculty offi ces were summer internships, in addition to supporting the transition updated, and dispersed academic departments were brought to college. And a new effort in the sciences—where, nation- together. We celebrated health and wellness at Wellesley with ally, those from underrepresented groups do not persist in a spectacularly renovated fi eld house and with the refur- the fi eld at the same rate as their peers—has more than bished boathouse given by Alice Lehmann Butler ’53 and doubled the number of Summer Science Research students her husband, John. Our current Pendleton West project will from traditionally underrepresented groups. foster new connections between music and the visual arts. Additionally, recent national events have made it increas- This year, we are planning renovations in the Science ingly clear that we need a renewed dialogue about issues Center and greenhouses, and in some residence halls. These of race, ethnicity, and equity, including at Wellesley. Last projects will ensure that our spaces best serve students and semester, I formed a presidential commission to address these faculty for years to come. areas, and to improve recruitment and retention of faculty, staff, and students from underrepresented groups. We also Career Services continued a series of campus conversations on national and We all know the enormous value of a Wellesley education, international events, which provide opportunities to model but it is important to make a strong public case for it. We diffi cult dialogues on campus. do that most effectively by ensuring that our students have My announcement last spring that I will be leaving the opportunities they need to explore the full range of dis- Wellesley in July 2016 has not changed our focus or priori- ciplines, and by ensuring that our career-services model is ties—or the speed with which we are moving ahead! I look appropriate for today’s challenging landscape. Building on forward to making this coming year my best one yet. our strong network of committed alumnae, faculty, and staff, we are reimagining career services at Wellesley. H. Kim Bottomly

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Shipshape Boathouse

AS WALKERS on the Lake Waban path stroll past the Wellesley Boathouse this summer, they will fi nd a refreshed and brightened structure—and a pleasant new patio where they can stop to catch their breath. The boathouse was originally designed by Heyward Cutting, also the architect of the College Club. “This is the fi rst comprehensive rethink of the boathouse since it was built in 1963,” says Peter Zuraw, Wellesley’s assistant vice president of facilities management and planning. Thanks to the generosity of Alice Lehmann Butler ’53 and her husband, John, the boathouse has become more inviting. “We added two windows facing Lake House to let more light in, and changed the garage doors to glass, so there’s more access to the real world, and the light from the water refl ects off the inside,” says Zuraw. Where the building fronts onto the path, there’s now a lighted canopy over the door. “There’s an ‘arrival moment’ when you get inside, with a skylight feature. That’s also where we added rest- rooms and a classroom—space to learn how to tie knots and how to handle oars,” he adds. The renovation of the facility—which is used by Physical Education, Recreation, and Athletics— was conceived by Peterson Architects, based in Cambridge, Mass., which specializes in boathouse design.

—Catherine O’Neill Grace WARREN JAGGER WARREN WARREN JAGGER WARREN

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IN PERSON

Courtney and Kelsey Brown ’15 RICHARD HOWARD RICHARD

AT THIS YEAR’S Ruhlman Conference, people who experience and the way they are perceived by She hypothesized that a lack of success early heard Courtney Brown ’15 talk about introver- others. She experienced that fi rsthand as a child on might dissuade students from continuing sion in the morning session did a double-take in Sandy Springs, Ga. (part of Greater Atlanta), academic pursuits. To test that, she created a when they walked into the next session and saw where she and Kelsey had supportive teachers and computer game that asked participants to respond Kelsey Brown ’15 present on frustration and family who valued their strengths and encouraged to stimuli only when instructed. One version was motivation. Didn’t we just see that woman? their curiosity. fairly easy, while a second was designed to frus- The Brown twins have more than just their “My mother is very outspoken,” Courtney trate subjects. looks in common: Both are psychology majors, explains. “She values confi dence and truth, and To Kelsey’s surprise, none of the participants and each calls herself an “extroverted introvert,” being raised by a confi dent, single woman was defi - quit after the fi rst block of 30 mandatory trials, which startles people who don’t know them well. nitely signifi cant to my becoming who I am today.” and most completed more than 100 voluntary For Courtney, the experience of people being At Wellesley, both sisters found a supportive trials, disproving that frustration affects task surprised by her self-proclaimed introversion faculty and many new “siblings” who encouraged persistence or willingness to come back and com- helped shape her thesis, which became a “quest them to discover the many facets of who they are. plete the same tasks in the future. But as she told to validate both the narrative of happy introverts “Over the past four years, I have gone from a smiling Ruhlman audience, all of her subjects such as myself and to invalidate the claim that being a shy, quiet fi rst-year to a much less shy, still were Wellesley students who were motivated extroverts are inherently happier than introverts,” proudly introverted senior because my curiosity, by a small stipend and a deep desire to help each she says. my questions, and even my confusion were met other succeed. Media articles about introversion often advise with joyful encouragement and help,” says Kelsey. After graduation, Kelsey will be an ophthal- introverts to act like extroverts, she laments, yet “I knew it was OK to be vulnerable and to ask mology research coordinator at the Massachusetts some of the most valuable attributes of introverts for help occasionally, and because of that, I have Eye and Ear Infi rmary. Courtney will be the are their abilities to listen, observe, think, dream, changed so much, yet have retained the core of research coordinator in Wellesley’s psychology fantasize, and create. who I have always been.” department, where she will explore her thesis Courtney’s research revealed that cultural Kelsey’s thesis examined whether people who topic more deeply and work toward publica- expectations about introversion can affect people’s are frustrated by diffi cult tasks lose motivation. tion of her fi ndings. Both hope to attend medical school in several years. No matter where their career paths lead, the sisters say they’ll be guided by the most crucial lesson they have learned from their mother and ‘ I knew it was OK to be vulnerable and to ask their Wellesley family: Love yourself, and don’t for help occasionally, and because of that, I have let anyone change who you are. changed so much, yet have retained the core —Elizabeth Lund

of who I have always been.’ — KELSEY BROWN ’15

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THE NEW FACES OF DEANSHIP

FACES BOTH familiar and new Hendricks Chapel at Syracuse are appearing in the ranks of University, where she has Wellesley’s deans. The College led initiatives in diversity and has announced the following inclusion, leadership, race and appointments: ethnicity, and civic engagement, and has fostered campuswide Dean of Admission conversations about controver- and Financial Aid sial issues. Before Syracuse, Joy St. John, the new dean Steinwert was senior pastor of of admission and ﬁ nancial aid, Cambridge Welcoming Ministries. took up her position on May 25. She earned a B.A. from Williams

St. John has served as director College and M.Div. and Ph.D. HOWARD RICHARD of admission at Wellesley for degrees from Boston University the last fi ve years, during which School of Theology. She is an OBJECT OF OUR ATTENTION time the College has seen the ordained elder in the United largest applicant pools in its Methodist Church. An Almanac Fit for a Queen history, as well as measurable increases in the ability and Interim Dean of Students diversity of applicants, and of Adele Wolfson, the Nan Walsh SPECIALSPE COLLECTIONS librarian Ruth Rogers recently went admitted and enrolling students. Schow ’54 and Howard B. Schow toto thet New York Book Fair and scored big. She beams as she Before Wellesley, St. John was Professor in the Physical and hoholdsld out a small book bound in red Morocco leather. On the associate dean of admission at Natural Sciences, has been covercov is imprinted a coat of arms—which includes a crown Amherst College, and worked in named interim dean of students. andand three fl eurs-de-lis. admissions at Tufts University Wolfson is known for building “Imagine if we could do a DNA test on this. Maybe there’s and Occidental College. She meaningful relationships with somesom hair in here,” she says with a laugh. earned a B.A. in political science students as a faculty member, Rogers’Rogers’ treasuretreasur is a lady’s almanac published in Paris around 1780, the from Stanford University and a advisor, and mentor. A member of period just before the French Revolution. The coat of arms on the cover? J.D. from UCLA School of Law. the chemistry faculty since 1985, It belonged to Marie Antoinette, as did the little book. “Only the queen’s she served as associate dean of binder would have access to her stamp. So this was bound for her,” Rogers Dean of Academic Affairs the College from 2004 to 2010. says. “This almanac seems very rare, and there is no other known copy with Ann Velenchik, director of fi rst- She is chair of the President’s her coat of arms.” The purchase, one of three French almanacs now in the year academic programs and Advisory Committee on Gender collection, was funded by Lia Gelin Poorvu ’56, a longtime French professor associate professor of econom- and Wellesley. Wolfson will serve at the university level. ics, became dean of academic while the College conducts a Inside, along with a calendar, are hand-painted engravings of the latest affairs on July 1. She has chaired national search for a permanent over-the-top hairdos circa 1780, songs and poetry, and a place for a lady of the economics department, dean. Her new role begins on a certain class to record her gains and losses at the gaming table. “All the directed the summer school and August 15. excesses of the Ancien Régime are evident in books like this—the excesses of the writing program, and was the hairdos, the pearls, the feathers, the poufferie,” Rogers says. She points director of all fi rst-year programs. out the names of the towering coifs—there’s the one named after a Babylonian In her new position, she will chair queen and a coiffure à la belle saison (lots of fl owers are to be worn for that the Committee on Curriculum beautiful season). and Academic Policy, leading “An almanac like this is a real piece of material history, because we have the process for evaluating much more than text here,” says Rogers. “It was advertising how you should and developing the College’s look, what you could do to be fashionable in Paris before the revolution.” academic program. Rogers also recently purchased an almanac printed after the revolution. The month names are different, and hair and dress styles have changed. There are Dean of Religious many lessons for students to mine as they work with these books. and Spiritual Life “I’ve been collecting rare books and artists’ books for over 20 years,” The Reverend Doctor Tiffany Rogers says. “I have a feel now for what is unusual, what could be used in Steinwert joins Wellesley in teaching, what connects to the curriculum.” She looks up and smiles. “Don’t August. A multifaith teacher, I have a great job?”

scholar, and leader, she has HOWARD RICHARD served since 2010 as dean of Joy St. John —Alice Hummer

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Commencement 2015 thing that the word ‘feminist’ would be introduced to a new generation,” Adichie said. “And I was startled by how many On May 29, the yellow class of 2015 stood and waved copies people saw something troubling, even menacing, in this. It was of We Should All Be Feminists by award-winning author as though feminism was supposed to be an elite little cult, with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, their commencement speaker, as esoteric rites of membership. It shouldn’t be. Feminism should she took to the podium to deliver her address. After admonish- be an inclusive party. And so, class of 2015, please make femi- ing the students for nearly making her cry, she spoke movingly nism a big, raucous, inclusive party.” and personally about her family, her decision to drop out of medical school to become a writer, and, of course, feminism. Videos of the commencement festivities may be viewed at “I had begun to ask myself what it really means to wear goo.gl/QDNEGX. More commencement photos may be found this ‘feminist’ label so publicly. … I thought it was a very good in the Gallery section of magazine.wellesley.edu. PHOTOS RICHARD BY HOWARD

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Brilliant Brillo

SH very motivated to be the best UP OR THE BRILLO BOX, G T player she can be, and her hard like the one below from the permanent collection of the N S I T work has really paid off.” Davis Museum, became a sensation in 1964 as part of the ﬁ rst exhibition of M O 3-D objects by Andy Warhol (1928–87) at the Stable Gallery in New York. O P Havrilla explains her motiva-

The show became a hot ticket, despite the drubbing it received from critics. C tion simply. “My teammates have One of the gallery-goers at the opening happened to be Jim Harvey, the told me that they’ve never met designer of the Brillo soap-pad box. Harvey (1929–65) was a painter who anyone who loves this game as

much as I do,” she says. “I never made his living as a commercial artist. According to a friend, Harvey laughed W L off the incongruity of seeing his design in a fi ne-art gallery; he even chatted E L want it to end. I never want to L A with Warhol, who apparently had no idea who created the Brillo packaging. L B stop taking ground balls. So I ES F T Warhol had the nerve to serve up replicas of consumer product boxes right LEY SO guess my role on the team is to under the nose of the art establishment. He understood that art in the 1960s get everyone to enjoy playing as was moving away from the moody, angst-ridden paintings of the Abstract TEAMWORK. Responsibility. much as I do, and to not take Expressionists, such as de Kooning and Pollock, and toward Pop Art, which Commitment. Keri O’Meara, head one pitch for granted. It’s gone took its ideas and forms from popular culture and mass production. coach of the Wellesley College by so quickly, and I’ve tried to He didn’t intend for the boxes to be exact copies of the store versions. “If softball team, lists those as some give it my all and set an example you look closely you’ll see how much hand painting there is, how many clever of the values she tries to instill in for my teammates.” ‘mistakes,’” says Patricia Berman, the Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg her players. When she talks about This year, as a senior, she Professor of Art. Emilyrose Havrilla ’15, you can was able to check off another of Warhol showed that familiar, even banal, items could be elevated by hear O’Meara checking off those O’Meara’s values: leadership. placing them in a high-art context. “He was playing with our sense of value three values in her mind. Havrilla helped power the Blue and importance,” says Eve Straussman-Pfl anzer, who curated the Davis exhi- Havrilla has anchored the back into the NEWMAC tourna- bition Warhol @ Wellesley last spring. The show drew from 162 objects by Wellesley infi eld as shortstop for ment, highlighted by a two-run Warhol in the collection, including screen prints, printed boxes, and black- the last four years, and the team double she hit in a late-season and-white and Polaroid photographs. Visitors to the Davis can see the Brillo has fl ourished under her watch: conference game against the box, a Campbell’s Tomato Juice box, and several Polaroids on permanent In Havrilla’s junior year, the Blue U.S. Coast Guard Academy. “The display. won the NEWMAC conference team looks up to her,” O’Meara The artist wasn’t just tweaking his critics. He also believed in the virtue championship—thanks in large says. “The team respects her as of mass-produced consumer goods: As the child of struggling immigrants, part to a clutch home run by a strong leader, and as someone he found reassurance in the ubiquity of consumer products. Even after he Havrilla to catapult Wellesley over they want to be like as they con- became famous, he ate Campbell’s soup every day for lunch. Smith College in the champion- tinue their careers at Wellesley.” People ask, as they did in 1964, “What makes it art?” Berman concedes ship game—and clinched the Havrilla will apply the values that the boxes are a hard sell for some people. But she admires how they conference’s automatic bid to the she learned playing softball “transform your vision of the world, so that you see potential Warhols every- NCAA Championship Tournament. at Wellesley this fall when she where,” she says. “Without knowing it, you’re beginning to make judgments Havrilla earned 2014 NEWMAC begins graduate school: The about where the boundaries of art reside. The box provides no answers.” Player of the Year honors for her psychology major plans to study effort: She ran up a .433/.470/.758 for her doctorate and have a —April Austin line at the plate (batting average/ career researching autism and on base percentage/slugging other developmental disorders. percentage), including a team- “I’ve learned a lot about softball,” leading 41 runs, 10 home runs, she says, “but the program has and 34 RBIs. given me so much more than just “Emilyrose has become an the skill set I learned on the fi eld. Brillo Box outstanding shortstop,” O’Meara I’ve learned so much about com- Andy Warhol says, “and she’s probably one of munication, about how to speak Synthetic polymer the best players to have come to people, and about how to care paint and screenprint about and for other people. I’m ink on wood through our program. I continue 17 in. x 17 in. x 14 in. to be impressed with her every so happy, and I’m so proud to 1964 day, mostly because of her work have played my best and done everything I could.” Museum purchase ethic. She clocks additional hours and partial gift of all the time. She’ll go on her own The Andy Warhol to hit off a tee, for example. She’s —Rebecca Binder Foundation for the very driven, very determined, Visual Arts, Inc., 1993.25 PHOTO ALEX BY BERMAN ’16

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YOU’RE WORTH IT You may not have to give up latte to get yourself into a savings state of mind. It might even help if you choose to spend some money on things that bring you joy. Manisha Thakor ’92, director of wealth strategies for women at the fi nancial fi rm Buckingham, shared her wisdom with Wellesley seniors at a panel sponsored by the Center for Work and Service. She advised them to pay for “needs” fi rst— food, shelter, student loans—and save 20 percent of what’s left, right from the beginning. Some dos and don’ts: Rolling Right Along DON’T be swayed by media images. The “average” lifestyle conveyed is misleading.

DON’T drive more car than you can afford.

DO save—even $5 a week. “Every dollar you save in your 20s is ﬁ ve times more powerful than the dollar you save in your 40s,” Thakor says.

DO keep a spending journal. At the end of the month, highlight everything that didn’t give you joy and try to eliminate it. But if it gave you joy, you might want to keep buying it.

“The joy factor gives you something to use on a personal basis to make decisions,” says Thakor.

IT WAS IN THE CHILLY LOW 40S when this year’s Hooprolling race began, but it didn’t stop a crowd of devoted “littles” from saving spots for their “bigs” … and it didn’t slow down Sophia Garcia ’15 (below), this year’s winner. Garcia benefi ted from a choice spot secured by her little, Catherine Baltazar ’16, and rolled a hoop—named “The Ring of Fire”—handed down from her big, Lina Torres ’13. “To cross the fi nish line knowing that my little and big have supported me throughout my Wellesley career will always make my heart feel full,” says Garcia, an environmental studies major. After graduation, Garcia planned to return to her hometown of Bakersfi eld, Calif., where she will work for environmental consulting company Quad Knopf as part of the geographic information systems team.

—Lisa Scanlon Mogolov ’99 Faculty Farewells

THIS SPRING, nine members of the Wellesley faculty retired, after decades of service to the College and its students. Longtime colleagues gathered in the Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center for a farewell portrait. From left, they are: Charles Fiske, Phyllis Henderson Carey Professor of Music, 42 years; Tucker Crum, senior instructor in biological sciences laboratory, 14 years; Marilyn Turnbull, senior instructor in chemistry laboratory, 32 years; Nancy Genero, associate professor of psychology, 22 years; Robert Paarlberg, Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor of Political Science, 40 years; Alan Shuchat, professor of mathematics, 41 years. (Not pictured: Wendy Hagen Bauer, professor of astronomy, 36 years; Qing-Min Meng, senior

lecturer in art, 18 years; Gamil Kaliouby, head coach, fencing, 19 years.) PHOTOS RICHARD BY HOWARD RICHARD HOWARD RICHARD

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ON A COOL APRIL SATURDAY, the WCBG and adjunct assistant nut grove. “We may have edible trees prevented deer from nibbling as cheers from Hooprolling echoed professor of biology. “We got a almonds this year,” he said. Jacke on tender trunks. The topography in the distance, a group of volun- lot done.” has a deep Wellesley connection— suggested creating a “bowl of teers gathered for the annual Emma Gyorgy ’18 heard about through his grandmother Margaret fruit” as the garden’s core, using spring cleanup and planting at the the event in her horticulture class. Barlow Van Deusen 1909, mother small fruit species that will reach College’s Edible Ecosystem Garden. “My parents will be impressed that Ellen Van Deusen Jacke ’48, and for the sun without blocking views What was once a half-acre swatch I’m outside—and before 9 A.M.,” sister Karen Jacke ’74. “My mother or interfering with astronomical of sloping lawn punctuated by she said. She was planting aspara- loves that I’m here,” he said. observations. Already, the blue- a single oak tree on Observatory gus in a deep trench, a crop Beginning in 2011, WCBG berry thicket is burgeoning. Hill has been transformed into a that requires a couple of years staff collaborated with Jacke Gyorgy may also be able to complex and productive ecosystem. to establish itself. “I might be and ecological designer Keith pick some asparagus when There were Wellesley students harvesting it when I’m a senior,” Zaltzberg to lay out a dense poly- she’s back for her 25th reunion. and staff, members of Friends she laughed. culture in the experimental garden, Asparagus patches can yield for of Wellesley College Botanic Dave Jacke, an ecological which includes a nut grove, fruit decades—one of the many beau- Gardens, and College neighbors. landscape designer who worked thickets, a fruit woodland, and ties of a self-sustaining garden like “We had 40 to 50 people over with the College to envision the an edible meadow (or “eddow”). this one that’s just getting estab- the course of the day, including garden, took a break from directing Paired planting helps keep pests lished on Observatory Hill. at least a dozen students,” said volunteers to point out the buds away; the gardeners observed that Kristina Niovi Jones, director of on the hardy almond trees in the placing chives around young nut —Catherine O’Neill Grace RICHARD HOWARD RICHARD

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THE NEW PENDLETON ARTFUL WEST SPACES

he tympanum over the door into Pendleton West announces the that those that are traditionally based are actually very safely presented, and building’s past: “CHEMISTRY,” it says, complete with a sculpture allow students to make connections between old and new.” of test tubes and burner. Its present—for current students—has The renovation will also address safety and environmental concerns in T been a ramshackle collection of art studios, music salons, and the studios. Lacking a purpose-built space for more than a quarter century, lecture halls. But since June, its future has begun to come into view. studio faculty used “temporary” fi xes for issues like ventilation and removal The building that once housed the chemistry department is now in the of toxins. “I’m glad we’ve had some tabletop ventilation in the print studio, midst of a gut renovation to transform it into a cutting-edge center for but we now know that fl ex hoods are more effective for what we use,” the creative arts. It will also gain a 10,000-square-foot addition, which McGibbon says. She also points to the lack of air-conditioning, which causes will provide music rehearsal and performance space and a much-needed paper sizes to change with humidity levels, and an inability to control light accessible entrance to the Academic Quad. However, the building’s Gothic and access to equipment. All of these issues will now be remedied. facade (including “CHEMISTRY”) will not only remain intact, but will be The addition, which will be sited between Jewett and Pendleton West, celebrated in the transformation. will contain a music hall/rehearsal space for large ensembles (above, left), The renovation and addition, slated to be completed in the fall of 2016, a salon for recitals and chamber groups, and a state-of-the-art classroom. are the largest project to date of the Campus Renewal Program. “We’re going to have beautiful and acoustically fabulous spaces,” Brody “It’s been since the Jewett Art Center was built [in 1958] that we’ve really says. “They are going to be really fi ne spaces to record in, which means that thought comprehensively about our arts facilities,” says Professor of Music they’re going to be usable, not just for traditional musical performance, but Martin Brody, who has spearheaded the planning for the new building. “The also for fi lm scores that students are doing in courses that are in [cinema and Jewett Art Center is a magnifi cent building. It’s a really wonderful facility, media studies] or in studio art.” but it was set up for an idea about the arts that’s very different from the one The new and renovated spaces were designed by KieranTimberlake of that we have now at Wellesley.” Philadephia, the fi rm that designed the chapel’s Multifaith Center. The addi- Much of Pendleton West will house loft-like studio spaces for tradition will be connected to both Pendleton and Jewett by glass walkways, and tional and new media, from printmaking and metal sculpture to video and a new “arts corridor” will move traffi c between the buildings up into the digital media. The building’s central corridors will be removed, allowing Academic Quad. The addition’s lowest level, adjacent to College Road, will for open studios and maximum exposure to the light from north- and provide an accessible entrance and elevator into the Quad. The College is south-facing windows. aiming for a high sustainability rating—LEED Gold certifi cation—for both “It’s a space that’s designed for studio investigation,” says Phyllis Pendleton and the addition. McGibbon, a professor of studio art also key to the planning. “It’s highly While the building is being renovated, the studio program will move into student centered, allows for interdisciplinary studio and creative explora- temporary facilities in Jewett and the Book Arts Lab in the library. tions that integrate visual, spatial, sonic experiences. It allows us to reach beyond the specifi c disciplines that we’ve taught previously, but to ensure —Alice Hummer

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Hello, Yellow ONLINE PARTNERS ‘There’s a proof method called FOLLOWING TRADITION, the class of ’15 was up most of the Wellesley, Hamilton College, Davidson night on the eve of the last day of classes. No, they weren’t “descent to College, and Colgate University formed a writing papers or fi nishing problem sets. They were painting new consortium in May to promote educa- absurdity” and I the campus yellow—in some cases, quite literally. Pendleton tional and technological collaboration with really feel that West, which was about to be gutted for renovation, sported a focus on online teaching and learning in the brilliant golden designs in tempera up and down its halls. The liberal arts. The schools—all part of the edX just sums up math.’ Science Center was treated to yellow butterfl ies, the Magic collaborative, the online MOOC provider School Bus, balloons, streamers, and much more. started by Harvard and MIT—were among @maddiestern the fi rst liberal-arts colleges to offer MOOCs (Madeline Stern ’17) and experiment with blended learning (a combination of online and classroom learning). The new consortium members SPEAK OUT will share research and data concerning the educational value and lessons learned from THE RUHLMAN CONFERENCE—always a showcase of the creation and delivery of online courses, student research—had an added attraction this year. The modules, and open education resources. fi rst annual competition for the Jacqueline Loewe Fowler ’47 Prize in Public Speaking took place during the day, with faculty from the Maurer Public Speaking Program judging. Two seniors took the prize: Elizabeth Kapnick ’15 for her presentation “Freedom or Failure? An Arendtian Analysis of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011” and Sonali Sastry ’15 for “Cracking the Hackers: an Inside Look at the Effects of Security Leaks.”

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FOCUS ON FACULTY ‘ To be honest, [studying the development of pharmacies in Senegal] was a very difﬁ cult project, because no one had ever done anything like it before.’ —Donna Patterson, assistant professor of Africana Studies

Next Stop: Senegal

ssistant Professor of Africana Studies Donna Patterson is on sabbatical, but she can’t fi nd time to talk. She has just organized a conference at Wellesley called “Medicine, Science, and Health in Africa and the African Diaspora,” and the day after the conference A she is heading abroad. She’s traveling among three countries—“my schedule is crazy,” she apologizes over email—but we fi nally connect when she is in Senegal. Patterson seems to go nonstop, perhaps refl ecting her commitment to her work and the breadth of her interests, which include African history, anthropology, the history of medicine and the medical profes- sion, gender, and entrepreneurship. Her book, Pharmacy in Senegal: Gender, Healing, and Entrepreneurship, published in January, focuses on the development of pharmacies in Senegal in the 20th century. Pharmacies represent a major part of the health-care infrastructure in Senegal, and many pharmacists—almost 50 percent—are women. Patterson was interested in tracking the rise and expansion of this industry, and pulled together data from archives in Senegal and France and dozens of interviews. “To be honest, it was a very diffi cult project,” she says, “because no one had ever done anything like it before.” Her next book will build on this work by focusing on drug consump- tion and drug distribution in Senegal and Ethiopia—both illegal drugs and pharmaceuticals used medicinally. In addition to conducting research for that project, Patterson is writing an article on Ebola for the French journal Anthropologie et Santé. “I have a fairly strong side interest in Ebola,” she explains, having followed the epidemic for two decades. With her knowledge of the culture of West Africa and how porous the borders are, she was certain that the most recent outbreak would be bad, “though I never imagined it would be this bad,” she says. Her article will briefl y compare the epi- RICHARD HOWARD RICHARD demic of 2014 with previous outbreaks, and then explore how and why Senegal and Nigeria reacted more quickly and effi ciently than Liberia, the option of doing a creative project rather than a fi nal paper, which has Sierra Leone, and Guinea. led to a public-service announcement for glaucoma in Ghana, a ballet, Patterson began teaching at Wellesley in 2008 and offers courses on and numerous works of art. African history and the African diaspora. “One of my favorite courses In addition to her teaching, Patterson engages in as many student, to teach is Health, Medical Professionals, and the Body,” she says, a alumnae, and faculty activities as she can squeeze in, but even in her sab- seminar in which students examine issues such as mental health, epi- batical year there hasn’t been enough time for everything. “A number of demics, and women’s reproductive health in various parts of the world. alumnae groups invited me to speak this year,” she notes, “but, sadly, I Patterson brings in a variety of guest speakers for the course, from couldn’t accept all the requests.” Ophelia Dahl CE/DS ’94, cofounder and board chair of Partners In Health, to a woman who had been circumcised as a child. Students have —Liz Johnson ’01

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literary tales of medieval China. Allen fi rst became Classic Tales with interested in these stories—which are fi lled with gossip about elite members of Chinese society, and A Side of Gossip stories of animals and ghosts transforming into women who seduce men—simply because they were fun to read. But she chose them as the subject IN “THE STORY OF YINGYING,” a tale penned during of her book (and dissertation) because of the intel- the medieval period in China, a young scholar lectual problems they presented. She asked ques- named Zhang meets and becomes intrigued by Cui tions such as: Where exactly did the writer come Yingying, a maiden from a good family. Yingying from? Why did someone want to write down this initially resists Zhang’s advances, but when she particular story? Beyond the story itself, what was eventually offers herself to him, Zhang rejects the writer trying to preserve? her. He later receives a moving letter from her in Allen says these tales often bring women which she passionately declares her love. Zhang into the picture in ways that other early Chinese still decides to end the relationship, and they both HOWARD RICHARD literature doesn’t. The author of “The Story of marry other people. In the end, the narrator and Yingying” includes Yingying’s letters and poems other characters seem to agree that Zhang should literary Chinese) and modern vernacular Chinese. in the story, thus offering readers her perspective be praised for avoiding a relationship with a Classical Chinese was the main language in China and voice. “Women’s views are typically described woman as passionate as Yingying. before the early 20th century, and within China, it or presented as having a more limited range of Not exactly the stuff that makes a Wellesley served as a lingua franca. Allen fi rst studied clas- expression or feeling or purpose,” Allen says. “I woman’s heart sing. But for Sarah Allen, assistant sical and modern Chinese as a junior at Harvard think what’s remarkable about the story is that it professor of Chinese, “The Story of Yingying” (she initially thought she would major in physics), gives us a much more complex view of women—a represents what she loves about studying eighth- and she earned her Ph.D. in East Asian languages teenage girl in particular—than you fi nd in many and ninth-century stories written in classical and civilizations. other places.” Chinese. In October 2014, Allen published Shifting Allen says it’s important to understand the Stories: History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives —Katharine Reece ’08 difference between classical Chinese (also called from Tang Dynasty China, which explores the

My second project involves making precision Dark Matter, tests of gravity with lunar laser ranging. By timing the round trip of laser light from a telescope on Light Heart Earth to refl ectors on the lunar surface and back, we measure the Earth-Moon separation with a precision of one millimeter. At its heart, the exper- WE RECENTLY SAT DOWN with James Battat, iment is nothing more than a fancy laser pointer assistant professor of physics, to talk about the and a fancy clock, but the results provide incisive mysteries of the universe and the importance of probes of gravitational physics. remaining curious. What excites you most about physics? What do your children think you do The prospects for discovery. In the years since at Wellesley? my childhood, we have learned that the universe I have three kids (ages 6, 4¾, and 11 weeks). I’ve is expanding at a faster and faster rate, and that heard the elder two tell their friends, “My dad planets orbit other stars. (We know of over 1,500 does spearmints.” The baby smiles along. confi rmed extra-solar planets.) We also know that an elusive fundamental particle called the neutrino RICHARD HOWARD RICHARD You have two main “spearmints.” How has a small but nonzero mass and morphs from would you explain them to a layperson? one fl avor to another as it travels through space. lot about how to help students reclaim the passion My fi rst “spearmint” deals with dark matter, Fact, as they say, can be stranger than fi ction. And they once had for exploration and discovery. which is the vast majority of matter in the uni- I don’t believe that we’ll ever run out of mysteries! verse. Dark matter is not composed of particles What’s the most surprising book on your that we are familiar with (protons, electrons, On your faculty page, you mention using nightstand? neutrons). It’s a fundamentally new type of par- crepe batter to teach your kids algebra. I revisit The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath from time ticle, and it’s invisible to us. We can infer the Does play enhance the learning experience? to time. I once began an intro physics class with existence of dark matter through its gravitational Yes! When I visit my children’s classes in preschool a provocative quote from that book: “The day I pull on visible objects. I’m part of a team trying and kindergarten, the kids are bursting with ques- went into physics class it was death.” to detect individual dark matter particles in tions. Yet by high school, that outward expression the laboratory. of curiosity has mostly faded. As a teacher, I think a —Elizabeth Lund

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Reviews of books by Wellesley authors

All About EVOO slightly bossy voice in your ear, you fall in love Shaping the with the lore and lure of extra virgin olive oil. There is a reason that U.S. shoppers spend over $700 million a year on EVOO (behind only the Sharing Economy dollars we spend on chocolate and coffee), and Nancy Harmon Jenkins understands why. Robin Chase ’80 changed my life in 2001. Or Harmon Jenkins is the culinary world’s rather, her then early-stage startup, Zipcar, foremost authority on olive oil, but she isn’t did. Suddenly this carless Bostonian could get one of the rapturous food writers. She is more places—to the beach, to the grocery store— of an investigative, you-can’t-fool-me reporter that before had been diffi cult or impossible to who loves her topic. Author of many books, reach. Chase and her team built a platform that including her bestselling Mediterranean Diet allowed car rental by the hour, in turn creat- Cookbook, she is a frequent contributor to the ing one of the earliest examples of an internet- New York Times, Saveur, Food & Wine, and enabled “collaborative economy” company. Bon Appétit, as well as an international lecturer Since Zipcar got started, a lot has changed. and leader of food tours around the world. A Perhaps most signifi cantly, most of us now founder of Oldways Preservation Trust and a carry computers in our pockets. In her new mainstay at the Culinary Institute of America book, Peers Inc, Chase refl ects on the social

COURTESY OF HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT (the other CIA), she lives alternately in her and technological trends that have informed hometown of Camden, Maine, and on an olive the rapid development of the sharing economy. NANCY HARMON JENKINS ’59 oil farm in Tuscany. Companies build platforms to enable collabora- Virgin Territory: Exploring the World of Olive Oil She shares her love, her biases, her irritated tion (she refers to each of these companies as an Houghton Miffl in Harcourt discoveries of duplicitousness in the olive oil “Inc”) among users (she calls them “Peers”), to 352 pages, $29.99 business, and her deep friendships with olive oil facilitate the sharing of products and services. producers around the world, generously salting While the use of the Peers/Inc construct becomes THE PERFECT WAY to start luxuriating in Nancy her text with facts you won’t fi nd elsewhere. a bit repetitive after a while, Chase’s analysis of Harmon Jenkins’ new book, Virgin Territory: Who knew that the Chinese and the peanut this rapidly proliferating business model and the Exploring the World of Olive Oil, is at your farmers of Georgia are now planting olive trees? outsized impact it has had and will have on our kitchen table over a glass of wine, thinking Or how olive oil came to dominate animal fat economy and our lives is fascinating. about what to make for dinner, imagining the in Italy, displacing lardo, the salted back fat of Peers Inc takes us on a tour of how much author across from you, confi dently sharing her the pig that was the original mainstay? And why our lives have changed since we fi rst plugged no-nonsense, encyclopedic knowledge about exactly olive oil is benefi cial to your health? GPS devices into our cars’ cigarette lighters.

all things olive oil. (Hint: antioxidants and “good cholesterol.”) Continued on page 76 You could mistake Virgin Territory for a Most importantly, exactly why is really good mere lush cookbook, with its gorgeous photos of olive oil so expensive and so hard to come by? ROBIN CHASE ’80 over 100 excellent, make-it-now Mediterranean Harmon Jenkins blasts away some of the PEERS INC: How People and Platforms Are recipes (for example, “Roasted Red Peppers myths. Not all olive oil, even if it is packed in Inventing the with Anchovies and Tomatoes,” reprinted here gorgeous bottles and labeled “pure EVOO Collaborative Economy on page 76). But the real reason to buy this book from Tuscany” is pure or Tuscan, nor does it and Reinventing is that as you read it, with the author’s warm and necessarily taste good. By the way, a tip from Capitalism PublicAffairs Continued on page 76 304 pages, $26.99

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Bibliofi les Putting in A literary talent to watch, Lauren if she hadn’t given me that permis- How did you fi nd an agent? Holmes ’07 was named a 2014 New sion. I went on to take a class with I started that process at the last pos- the Hours Voice by the infl uential literary maga- P.E. pretty much every semester. She sible second. I had already been zine Granta. Her fi rst book, Barbara taught me how to write and how working on the book for fi ve years, the Slut and Other People, comes out to revise, and she’s been giving me and I waited until I had a book- in August. The short stories are wry encouragement and advice for 10 length draft to send out. And I only and perceptive and, as her former years now. So I would say her infl u- ended up sending it to one agency, Wellesley professor Alicia Erian wrote, ence on me is infi nite. Aragi Inc., where I signed with “deceptively simple.” They focus on Duvall Osteen. Did your time at the College young characters, from high-school contribute to your interest in the Any advice for Wellesley students girls to recent college graduates, as topics you write about? or recent grads who want to be they navigate sex, family, friendships, I was a SHE (Sexual Health Ed- writers? and jobs. We asked Holmes about her ucator), and I loved doing that. My advice isn’t so much mine as evolution as a writer. I think that experience made me advice that was given to me: Put Did you know you wanted to be a kind of fearless about talking (and in your 10,000 hours—reading, writer when you were at Wellesley? writing) about sex. writing, and revising. Study writing,

BEOWULF SHEEHAN You thank Alicia Erian in your formally or informally. But also, live Once you graduated, what steps book. What infl uence did she have a full, mindful, compassionate life. Lauren Holmes ’07 did you take to pursue a writing on you? It’s not enough to be a profi cient Barbara the Slut and career? I found out I wanted to be a writer writer if you don’t have anything to Other People After I graduated, I worked full time at Wellesley. Professor Erian (P.E.) say, or if you can’t feel for others, in Riverhead Books at a Planned Parenthood clinic for sat me down, asked me if I wanted real life or in your writing. 272 pages, $27.95 two years. I wanted to go straight to to be a writer, and told me I could an M.F.A. program, but I didn’t get be if I wanted to be and if I was into any of the ones I applied to. So willing to work really hard. I defi - two years later I applied again, and nitely wouldn’t be doing this today went to Hunter.

By Janet Potter ’05 | Potter is a staff writer for the online magazine The Millions and co-host of its YouTube broadcast, The Book Report.

YSHARONA HOFFMAN Y E. DIANNE HORGAN Y CYNTHIA YENKIN Y INGRID THOFT ’93— ’85—Aging with a Plan: How a JAMES ’60 and Mary Ellen LEVINSON ’66—Watch Out for Brutality, Putnam Freshink Little Thought Today Can Vastly Hoover and Elin Williams Flying Kids! How Two Circuses, Improve Your Tomorrow, Neiterman—From Your Loving Two Countries, and Nine Kids Y PATRICIA PODD WEBBER Y SUZANNE HENRY BRODY, Praeger Son: Civil War Correspondence Confront Conﬂ ict and Build ’52 and Jannett Highﬁ ll— ’98—Etz Chayim She: Modern and Diaries of Private George F. Community, Peachtree A Tempered and Humane LAUREN HOLMES Poems Grown From Ancient Y Moore and His Family, iUniverse Publishers Economy: Markets, Families, Texts, Wasteland Press ’07—Barbara the Slut and Other and Behavioral Economics, People, Riverhead Books Y SUSAN MCCARTY Lexington Books Y STEPHANIE BUDWEY ’99—Anatomies, ’02—Sing of Mary: Giving Voice Aforementioned Productions to Marian Theology and SEND US YOUR BOOKS Y JANE DILLOF MINCER ’76 Devotion, Michael Glazier If you’ve published a book and and Lynne Adair Kramer—The you’d like to have it listed in Y ROBIN CHASE ’80—Peers Brockhurst File: A Mat Ladies “Fresh Ink” and considered for Inc: How People and Platforms Novel, Wellsmith Are Inventing the Collaborative review, please send two copies Economy and Reinventing Y KATHERINE HALL PAGE to Catherine Grace, Wellesley Capitalism, PublicAffairs ’69—The Body in the Birches: A magazine, 106 Central St., Faith Fairchild Mystery, William Wellesley, MA 02481-8203. Y LISA HINRICHSEN Morrow ’99—Possessing the Past: Trauma, Imagination, and Y SUSAN DUBINKSY TERRIS Memory in Post-Plantation ’59—Memos, Omnidawn Southern Literature, LSU Press

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If we only knew then what we know now…. As the class of ’15 launched out into the world, we asked eight wise women, all Wellesley alumnae over 50, to write a letter to themselves as they graduated from the College. What advice would they share for the long road ahead? Their words — and their compassion for their younger selves — have relevance for all of us, whether we’re just starting out or are veterans of life’s journeys.

Illustrations by Michelle Thompson

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ophelia dahl ce/ds ’94 Cofounder, former executive director, and current board chair of Partners In Health, a Boston-based nonproﬁ t; chair of the Roald Dahl Literary Estate, which manages the work of her late father.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

Dear Ophelia, You will learn how much time is required to wring systemic and lasting Many of the tools you will need to make a difference in the world have been change. I saw a photograph just last week of a baby I remember weighing in in your hands since you were in your 20s, maybe even earlier. But it may take a tiny clinic in Haiti more than 25 years ago, and a recent one of him, grown you another 20 years to realize it. now, with his stethoscope on the chest of a patient in a tertiary hospital. The Let me tell you a bit about why this is so important. Both your family and quarter-century of strong partnerships and close collaboration required to country of birth have taught you to place great value on positive outcomes— yield those results—that baby’s survival and his progress through school and in other words, you’ve been socialized for success and therefore take it for medical training, and the evolution of one small clinic to a network of rural granted that a broken machine can be ﬁ xed, a sick person will be treated, an health facilities crowned by a remarkable new teaching hospital—may daunt injustice will be righted. And that is simply not an experience shared by most you now but won’t one day. of the people you will come to know in the developing world. As you commence into the world, let me whisper in your ear that the Over the next few years, you’ll understand with greater clarity the impact most satisfying accomplishments in your life will be decades in the making. of growing up in a place where education, health, economic, and judicial Balancing patience and impatience takes practice; don’t quit before you’ve systems work (albeit not perfectly), and how potent it is to be trained to properly begun. You will come to appreciate the slow build of change, the imagine—indeed, to expect—the best possible outcome. Together with the delayed gratiﬁ cation of getting things right, and the small payoffs in between. training you now have from Wellesley, this is powerful stuff. But becoming Nothing worth much will reveal itself quickly; the end result is never the end. aware of your ingrained expectations and understanding how to use them as Rely heavily on your extraordinary friendships and remember to be kind a transformative force will take much longer, even decades. to yourself along the way.

Stay in close touch, Ophelia

‘As you commence into the world, let me whisper in your ear that the most satisfying accomplishments in your life will be decades in the making.’

pg18-25_lettersfeature_final.indd 20 6/24/15 1:23 PM yolette garcia ’77 Assistant dean for external affairs and outreach, Simmons School of Education and Human Development, Southern Methodist University; veteran public-broadcasting journalist

DALLAS

Dear Yolette, As I think about you when you graduated from Wellesley, I remember how fearless you were. Everything was an adventure, and anything was possible. That spirit blissfully came from your youth, but as I look back, it also was a sign of resilience. Thank goodness for that. There are more than enough times in life when you will think you are down for the count, but with the help of others, you pick yourself up again. My biggest struggle, however, has come with letting go of things I cannot control. And no matter how much effort you think you can exert, or how deeply you can intellectualize, events and circumstances have a way of hap- pening all on their own. What reminds me of this is my health, which now is reasonably good thanks to a kidney transplant made possible by a live organ donation from Wellesley alum Elizabeth Barbieri Hopkinson ’78. When did I ever think I’d be so sick? Just as importantly, when did I think I would have to rely on my family and friends to make it through a day? I couldn’t even conceptualize that a Wellesley dorm mate would save my life. Never could I imagine I would be so broken and healed. But here I am. It’s a good thing I let go. Learning to accept is hard, but once you do, you are free. There is a loss, though, that required the deepest courage from me—losing my parents. Courage is rooted in the heart, and it is hard to summon when you see your parents slowly disappear. They gave you constancy for your own rhythm, after all. It seems like yesterday when Mom and Dad deposited me at Wellesley: I was eager to start, and Mom was reluctant to leave. Decades later, toward the end of her life, I was the one reluctant to let her go. For everything there is a season, as wiser writings say. Lastly, when you are young, you think a lot about career and work. As fulﬁ lling as work can be, it is no substitute for living life. If you solely identify wiwitht what you do at work, you are missing out on the world. So here are three pieces of advice that may serve you well because it has takentak me a lifetime to learn them: Seek the best in others. Learn to listen ﬁ rst and speak last. And be patient (keep working on it, Yolette).

Onward, Yolette

pg18-25_lettersfeature_final.indd 21 6/24/15 1:23 PM carole beebe tarantelli ’64’64

Psychoanalyst;Psychoanalyst; retired university professor; former member of the Italian Parliament

ROME

Dear Carole at 22, I don’t have much to give you—and looking back at you, I doubt you would Today, I am fortunate that you decided at 22 to get a Ph.D.—it later made have taken it anyway. But I will say that I think that the fact that when you me eligible for a position at the University of Rome—and then jumped at the felt something was right for your future, you said yes to it, means that today I chance to take a leave of absence from that doctoral program to work in the can look back without regrets about missed opportunities or wrong choices. depressed neighborhood near MIT. That gave you the opportunity to learn With what I now know, I would have advised you not to settle for less; but, from and help welfare moms and kids. But the choice to undertake training as then, of course, women didn’t have a lot of career opportunities in 1964, and a psychoanalyst and to accept a candidacy to the Italian Parliament belonged you had to feel your way. to my maturity. All this has meant that I have been really lucky, as I have loved When you met your soul mate, Ezio Tarantelli, while you were folk my work—seeing patients, teaching, writing, working with women who have dancing at MIT, you said yes and would say yes again, even though it meant survived incest, violence, and trafﬁ cking. Hard but rewarding. uprooting and moving to Italy and, ultimately, facing tragedy when he was The one thing you can’t know and certainly can’t predict is the future, assassinated by Red Brigades terrorists when he was 43. and I get pretty nostalgic when I think how hopeful and idealistic you were I don’t think there is any way to prepare for tragedy, and my only advice at 22. Until tragedy strikes, you have no idea that it divides your life into a about what to do if it strikes is to take care of yourself. Do what you can to before, when you can be hopeful, and an after, when you can still be idealis- survive, for yourself and for your children. But one piece of advice I would tic but living means trying to survive it. But I can testify that life can be rich give to any young woman starting out: Prepare for your future with the even then. knowledge that tragedy can strike anyone. In my case, it was violence, but it can be in the form of accidents, illnesses, even divorce. And if it does, always Persevere, dear, be in a position where you can provide for yourself and your family. If you Carole can’t, you will face a tragedy within the tragedy.

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shirlee taylor haizlip ’59 Author; advocate for ﬁ lm preservation; former public-television executive

LOS ANGELES

Dear Miss Shirley, I reach through and across the mists and mysteries of time to plant the seed Some people still believe that success is a matter of working hard and of social activism squarely and deeply in the center of your 1950s activist having good breaks. For black people, those are just two of many ingredients. spirit. Nourish it daily. Include in your work the good and well-being of Some continue to blind themselves to the inequities that have piled up in front your people. of countless doors, blocking them fi rmly shut. No matter how many barriers Make it your job and priority, all the days of your life, to help those have been broken, honors have been awarded, appointments have been made, black people who have not had your opportunities or experiences. Every the black cloud of racism never goes away. morning, look in the mirror and say, “I refuse to accept the expectations of Part of your job, dear graduate, is to knock down the black Berlin Wall. the entitled.” In its place build a colored museum where you house for easy access the Use every variegated gift that Wellesley showered on you to help those chains, whips, hot boxes, and other instruments of our shared dark past, whom most people do not see or pass by unmoved. Know that if each of us pun intended. helped dozens, thousands would lead far better lives. Our hair, our skin, our features, our dialects, although here for 500 years, Shower your assistance on people of color because they have fewer still mystify. resources, fewer options, fewer better angels, fewer allies who have their best Don’t pretend the barriers do not affect you. Everyone from judges to interests at heart. Remember that even 150 years beyond slavery, a too-great janitors makes assumptions about you, usually incorrect. Especially when number of souls are still relegated to slave quarters and slave jobs. they hear you went to Wellesley. One of your most important challenges is to work assiduously to help Finally, you must fi ght the continuing injustices and inequities that cause blacks and whites alike to understand the horrifi c impact of slavery on the prisons to be swollen and the schools to be forsaken. Use every single gift American blacks. Its effects still permeate the black experience in America that Wellesley bestowed on you to help those we pass by like unseen ghosts. like a funeral shroud. Its poisonous legacy continues to besmirch black That, my dear girl, is your task for life. American life. Despite the wonders of a black president, the double demons of discrimination and prejudice have not been exorcised. They travel mostly Use the double bind for the ultimate outreach, underground. Shirlee

maud hazeltine chaplin ’56 Virginia Onderdonk Professor of Philosophy, emerita, Wellesley College; former dean of the College and class dean

DOVER, MASS.

Dear Maud at 21, Nobody writes mistakes into their life plan. But at least one can make room Puzzled, I replied: “I signed up for this seminar.” for them. You were almost as prudent as an old lady. Loosen up, I now say. “I won’t have women in my seminar. If you stay, I won’t call on you and You were asking: “Will I ever get married?” Marriage was what one did in I’ll give you a B–.” 1956. In your senior year at Wellesley, you had been asked to be a bridesmaid B– in graduate school is a code for F. I stayed in my seat. He never did call fi ve times. But nobody had asked you to be his one true love. You were quite on me. But I spoke whenever I had anything to say. I got a B–. sure no one ever would—at least not anyone you would like to marry. That was when I learned that Wellesley isn’t the world. My mistake had I ended up choosing a marriage partner because he was smart, witty, and been to assume otherwise, but at least I had learned to hold my ground. good company. Never before had I dated a man who suggested that we go Getting a B– on your transcript is not a detour to doom. When I was inter- hear Eleanor Roosevelt speak at Harvard or see Racine’s Phèdre performed viewed for my fi rst job at Wellesley, no one asked me about the B–. Instead I in the original French. But I wasn’t in love. My brain told me that one does was asked how I felt about students drinking in their residence halls. not spend one’s married life in bed. So when he declared his passion for me, I I wasn’t expecting that question, but then I was not expecting to walk made the mistake of listening to my brain and not my heart. When I walked into a classroom and be rejected simply because I was a woman. I wasn’t down that aisle my legs were brave, but my heart was wobbly. That marriage expecting a sad end to my marriage. So, younger self, make the mistakes, was a big mistake. Three children and fi ve grandchildren later, I realized hap- suffer the interruptions and disruptions. You will arrive somewhere you never piness often comes disguised as disaster. anticipated. A few months after I graduated from Wellesley, I walked into my fi rst seminar as a graduate student. The room was already occupied by about Don’t forget to have fun along the way, eight or nine students and one professor—all male. After I took one of the Maud few remaining chairs, the professor barked: “What are you doing here?”

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persis drell ’77 susan mcgee bailey ’63 Dean, Stanford School of Engineering; director emerita of the Stanford Executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women, Linear Accelerator Laboratory; professor of physics and material science 1985–2010 and engineering

STANFORD, CALIF. WELLESLEY, MASS.

Dear younger self, Dear Suzy, First, congratulations! That decision you are making to travel around Italy You will fi nd this hard to believe, but more than half a century since you on a shoestring with two Wellesley friends the summer after graduation graduated, vowing never to take another class again, anywhere, ever, I am instead of working in a high-profi le physics research laboratory is exactly writing from my house only steps from the Wellesley campus. Not only have right! You have decades ahead of you to work in research laboratories, but I taken more classes, earned undreamed-of graduate degrees, and become a summer in Florence, Siena, Orvieto, and Rome with an art historian and a professor and college administrator, I’ve loved every minute of it. Life is a classics major can never be recreated! full of surprises. So here is some advice to help you navigate the years ahead: Hear me out. I remember your dreams in the spring of senior year: trav- First: You are about to launch yourself on an adventure. Your future eling around the world to teach in Taiwan, Betty Friedan’s The Feminine will be fi lled with a lot of really important decisions about how you want Mystique alive in your head. You wanted to learn fi rsthand about women’s to live your life without any information to be able to see where those deci- lives. You dreamed of being part of the movement for greater justice and sions will take you. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Because really, there equality. I think you even had glimpses of the complexities inherent in major is no such thing as a mistake if you make a choice and decide you want to societal shifts—all those classes in history and the social sciences, all those change it later. You will learn from the experience! Just be sure to make the late-night talks about what was wrong with the world and how our genera- decisions based on your own goals, not the goals others are setting for you. tion was going change things. I also recall the insecurities that plagued you, Second: In your professional life, you are never really going to fi t in, how often you doubted yourself, how frequently you felt a complete failure. so get used to it. Wellesley has given you the time and the environment to Nothing is ever certain. Control is an illusion. Doubts are part of most allow you to become comfortable and confi dent as both a physicist and days for most people. It isn’t just you. I wish you could have understood this a woman physicist. But now you need to become comfortable with your earlier. And plans? Don’t worry quite so much about exact plans; just stick conspicuousness in the real world, where most physicists are male. Age, with your dreams. Then take the step in front of you that seems in keeping experience, and growing self-confi dence will all help. Recognize that your with the dream. Then take the next one and the next. Not everyone will different background and your different point of view are an asset to any approve. You won’t always be successful. Change comes hard, and it scares group, any organization, and any project that you are part of. people. Don’t let it scare you. Third: Be open to surprises. You absolutely cannot predict what you I know you believe you want to change the world, not populate it. But are going to be doing in fi ve years, much less 30 years. Life will happen. your daughter, Amy, will be the best surprise of all. She’s faced complicated You will have times of great joy and times of sadness; times of good fortune physical and developmental challenges since her premature birth 45 years and times of tragedy. You will make your luck in life, and you will make ago. Mothering her on your own has erased all hesitations you might have your happiness. Success in life is going to be what you defi ne it to be. had about pursuing feminist solutions. And it has taught important life- Wellesley, with a lot of help from your family, has prepared you to live a affi rming lessons: No one has an exclusive patent on worry. Every parent life that will fulfi ll your dreams and aspirations. You are strong enough to wonders and worries and hurts inside sometimes. Nor is any life without make choices. You have the confi dence to go after opportunities. You have despair. Tragedy strikes with ruthless abandon. Mothering a disabled child the courage to take risks. You are going to do things that you cannot even is only one path to this awareness. Joy is also a part of every life, and it too imagine right now. can appear with awesome suddenness.

Enjoy! Your life is in front of you; grab it. Follow those dreams! Persis Susan

‘Recognize that your different background and your different point of view are an asset to any group, any organization, and any project that you are part of.’

pg18-25_lettersfeature_final.indd 24 6/24/15 1:24 PM cathy song ’77 Poet

HONOLULU

Among Flowering Fruit Trees Sentences fl utter nearby, drift like cloud wisps, slowly break apart. Unseen from the road that runs past the College and the town Swarming in a splendor of sandals and breezy dresses, in a gully neither wild nor well-tended friends descend upon the Vil. but a distance to cross to get to the other side, The chance to wear spring clothes brings exposure, plumes of blossoms arise on old branches. bare skin brushing the shock of sweet air. You sit in a map of sunlight. Soon windows will fl ing open to the trumpet blare of Jimmy Cliff The ground, cold as a damp sponge, yields a succession of blooms showering the sunbathers in every quad— that arrives without hesitation, without “You Can Get It If You Really Want”— the need for praise. the needle jump starting at the beginning, The smallest fl owers relinquish the deepest colors. the record a tireless wheel.

A thousand and one scenes can be taken around the lake, There is the future to worry about. places to perch along trails worn to roots, You wonder how the others do it. thickly shaded knolls smooth as ancient burial mounds, They seem so sure of themselves. wide-skirted lawns and a sandboxed beach. They seem to know where they are going. The golden mean of the lake is a classical You are so sure of your assumptions, template upon which the ever-changing conditions you assume everyone else is managing better than you. exhibit, moment to moment, perfect pitch. How wrong your views! Watch your mind. You prefer the humble patch of trees and shrubs. Others are struggling too. Once found, you return to it whenever the heart constricts. Despite being diligent, keeping up with your work, The map of sunlight has shifted, changed shape, a subtle anxiety persists like the sound of a radio in another room. in the time you were gone, carried off by the fabled beast of worry, There is, for instance, the future to worry about. touching the grass that grows without assistance. In a month you will be leaving Come back to this never to be repeated moment of leaves and light, the coming and going to class, to meals, to rehearsals. as it is, just so. Once grasped, the schedule has given you something to hold. Once found, you will return to it gladly, Despite striving, completing the tasks you have been given, the only true resting place, you are the child who, mastering the recital piece, waits each moment unfolding, tremblinggp as the last note dissolves to polite applause.pp and,,p because there is no other path,, Small pleasures,pleasures, these brief accomplishments.accomplishments. acceptaccept with ease the burden of uncertainty.uncertainty.

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BY LISA SCANLON MOGOLOV ’99 PHOTOGRAPHY BY AMOS CHAN

pg26-33_welab_final.indd 26 6/24/15 1:03 PM STUDENTS IN THE WE-LAB, WELLESLEY’S ENGINEERING PROGRAM, FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY AS A HUMANITARIAN ENDEAVOR, ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS

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biggest failure of that class. So it was good it College, with the help of two professors from came fi rst.” the newly founded Olin College of Engineering, The normalization of failure is one of the a few miles away in Needham. Soon after, an things that really drew Shaw to engineering. engineering course was added to the academic- “Being in a space where I was not only allowed year curriculum. A grant from Wellesley’s to but encouraged to make mistakes—and not Davis Education Foundation and support from only to make mistakes, but to make them as the administration allowed for the creation of quick as possible so that you can create the what is now the We-Lab, a dedicated engineer- craziest ideas, and maybe those will be the best ing space that includes a 3-D printer and a laser ones—that idea really spoke to me,” Shaw says. cutter. But as there was no dedicated engineer- The We-Lab, which offers three introducing faculty member, the course was taught by tory courses and an engineering seminar series, faculty from Wellesley, Olin, and other institu- encourages students to embrace the messiness tions, depending on who was available. he spring of her sopho- that comes with solving real-life problems, says But it was obvious that a full-time engineer- more year, buzzing with its director, Amy Banzaert. “One of the things ing faculty member was needed, and in 2012, that special kind of excite- students learn in my classes is that real things the College began a search. “So [Wellesley] ment that comes from have real limitations. … And in engineering posted it, and like 10 people at MIT emailed having wielded power labs, you’re expected to hit your head against me, saying, ‘This is the position for you,’” tools, Elena Shaw ’15 hurried to Shakespeare those real limitations,” she says. Banzaert says. “It matched me very well, and I House with her creation—a bottle opener. “I Another core part of the We-Lab is empha- was so thrilled to fi nd it.” was like, ‘Guys, I can open bottles. Let me show sizing the role of technology as a humanitar- Banzaert studied mechanical engineering you,’” as she used her tool to pop top after top, ian endeavor, addressing needs of underserved as an undergraduate at MIT and then worked to applause from her fellow Shakers. populations internationally and locally. For for several years at Texas Instruments before She made the opener as part of ENGR example, in ENGR 111, Product Creation for returning to MIT as its fi rst service-learning 160, Fundamentals of Engineering, one of All, the students build tools for Community coordinator. “I was getting to inject really solid, the courses offered by the new Wellesley Rowing, a nonprofi t in Brighton, Mass., that service-learning-oriented projects into core cur- Engineering Laboratory (We-Lab); the assign- helps people with physical disabilities get on ricular materials,” she says. ment required that the openers be made out the water. However, Banzaert missed participating in of one single piece of material. “I remember “It can be kind of dull to learn a beam- research, and so she started pursuing her mas- thinking, ‘Well, this is so easy. I would rather bending equation, but when that beam will ter’s and Ph.D. at MIT. Her research focused do something more interesting with it.’ So my either support or not support a person who on two areas: service learning as a pedagogy, partner and I both decided that we wanted to rides a wheelchair who’s using it to transfer and alternative cooking fuels for developing create something that was more aesthetically from their wheelchair to a scull to start rowing, countries. She did her research in collabora- pleasing,” Shaw remembers. In the end, they all of a sudden, beam bending is really inter- tion with MIT’s D-Lab, a program that fosters designed the opener to look like an owl; you esting,” Banzaert says. “It allows us to see the the creation of appropriate technologies and put two fi ngers through its eyes, and opened the application of this knowledge directly, think sustainable solutions for developing countries. bottle using a hole in its body. It was very cute. about the big picture, and do some service, (It’s not a coincidence that D-Lab and We-Lab “The problem was that we didn’t put too which really matches the Wellesley mission.” rhyme.) much thought into the actual utility of it,” But although their names and missions are Shaw says. The bottle-opening session at Bringing Engineering to Wellesley very similar, Banzaert says the We-Lab has its Shakes caused the device to chip a little bit, Until relatively recently, Wellesley students who own vibe. “The thing that still strikes me—this and when it came time to be tested in class, it wanted to study engineering would take classes is my third year here, but it’s still noticeable— failed spectacularly. “Of the entire class, ours at MIT or wait until grad school. But in 2006, is that my classes are all women. Engineering was the only one that did not succeed in the a group of Wellesley faculty created an experi- is pretty male-dominated, and I still get chills fi rst two times,” Shaw says. “That was my mental engineering Wintersession course at the some days, just being surrounded by women

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pg26-33_welab_final.indd 28 6/24/15 1:03 PM ‘ I have had conversations with many of my friends who are dabbling in engineering or the sciences, and they don’t feel as if they would have chosen this same path if they hadn’t been at Wellesley.’ —Elena Shaw ’15

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economic win, if you can make a microenter- at the end of the fi fth year. Shaw, who is major- prise selling this cooking fuel,” says Banzaert. ing in physics, is focusing on computational For her summer-research project, Shaw engineering, a relatively new fi eld that uses tried to develop a method to measure the CO2 computational models and simulations to solve emissions that come off cookstoves. Outside physical problems in engineering. Computer the Science Center, Shaw set up a little canopy programming gave her some diffi culties at fi rst. tent to simulate a house, with windows and “I was like, Elena, this is one of the things in a chimney. She would rig the “house” with life that you’re just not going to be good at, so instruments to measure CO2, fi re up a butane you have to work hard at it,” she says. But after gas stove, and run out of the tent, hoping that fi ghting her way through a 200-level course at the instruments got good data … which, unfor- Olin, she says, “Now that I’ve overcome those tunately, most of the time, they did not. “The hurdles, I feel as if I’m so much more powerful.” research that we were doing over the summer, After fi nishing the program, Shaw hopes to it was really challenging and did not lead to work in “computational engineering/statistics. clean outcomes at all,” says Banzaert. “I was It’s a growing fi eld. … It’s people who deal with impressed by her ability to roll with the punches big data, artifi cial intelligence,” she says. Shaw of real research. Sometimes you get clean says that one of the biggest advantages of study- One semester, the theme of Fundamentals of answers, and sometimes you just get a mess, ing engineering at Wellesley is that it upends Engineering was “follow the light.” Two students and we ended up with very messy data. And she the assumption that only white men belong in made this LED lamp that turns on and off and was able to cope with that.” the fi eld. moves in response to changes in light. Not only was Shaw able to cope with it, but “I have had conversations with many of my she was hungry for more. She is now pursu- friends who are dabbling in engineering or the ing the Olin-Wellesley 4+1 program, which sciences, and they don’t feel as if they would working on these amazing problems,” she enables Wellesley students who are accepted to have chosen this same path if they hadn’t been at says. She has also found that when she asks her the program to earn a B.A. from Wellesley in Wellesley,” she says. “The faculty members are students to refl ect on the needs of the end user, four years, followed by a B.S. from Olin College aware of the potential mental and psychological instead of just focusing on what they think will be a cool bit of tech, Wellesley students embrace that challenge in a way that she rarely experienced at MIT. Wellesley’s Engineering Curriculum Wellesley students also tend to bring their background in other disciplines into the We-Lab, which Banzaert enjoys. “I was asking students what they thought feedback control ENGR 111, Product Creation for All might be, when we were fi rst introducing the A hands-on seminar that explores how products are created, including an exploration of ideation and topic. And a student was like, ‘Well, it’s kind of brainstorming, reverse engineering, and the product-development process. An emphasis is placed on the like government, with the checks and balances.’ role of human-factors engineering, including usability successes and failures of specifi c products. Students And I had never even related those two things in learn about these topics through disassembly and study of existing products and creation of simple product prototypes for local nonprofi t organizations serving populations such as those with developmental or any way,” she says. “To have that happen in my physical limitations. class was so cool.”

ENGR 120, Making a Difference Through Engineering The Hard-Core Engineers For students like Elena Shaw, who take an A project-based exploration of the technical challenges facing underserved communities in developing countries and locally. Technologies are focused primarily at the household level, exploring the benefi ts and intro course and get hooked, there are options limitations of existing and proposed solutions. Students learn and apply engineering design skills—including for diving deeper into engineering. Shaw, estimation, prototyping, and creativity—to address real problems facing community partners affi liated with for example, spent a summer working with the class. Specifi c themes for the class include energy, health, and transportation. Banzaert on her cookstove research. At MIT, Banzaert had helped develop a charcoal bri- ENGR 125, Making a Difference Through Engineering—Fieldwork

quette made from agricultural waste, which Taught every other year, this course is a Wintersession trip. In January 2016, it will be taught in Nicaragua. burns far cleaner than plain wood. “We make charcoal from ag waste that’s already available, ENGR 160, Fundamentals of Engineering that’s currently rotting and making methane, This project-based course introduces the big ideas of engineering and prepares students for taking which is a problematic greenhouse gas. If we additional engineering courses at Olin College or MIT. Topics include: the design and construction of could partially burn it and turn it into charcoal mechanisms using rapid prototyping tools such as laser cutters, 3-D printers, and computer-aided design briquettes for cooking, that would be an envi- software (SolidWorks); modeling and controlling physical systems using the MATLAB and Simulink pro- ronmental win, a health win, and ideally an gramming environments; and feedback and control using digital electronics (microcontrollers).

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blocks that we have. I remember talking to one of my math professors and saying, ‘I would love to do physics research, but I don’t feel like I’m smart enough.’ And before I even said another word, he immediately stopped me and said, ‘Elena, if you want to do something, you can do it.’” For Christina Holman ’17, the We-Lab was one of the reasons she decided to come to Wellesley. She took ENGR 111, Product Creation for All, her ﬁ rst semester at Wellesley and made a device for Community Rowing that makes it easier to attach stabilizing pontoons to rigs. She remembers showing her prototype to Community Rowing and Wellesley profes-

sors at the end of the course, and being thrilled Two students in Fundamentals of when she was told her product was patentable. Engineering programmed this robot, “[I was] a fi rst-year, and I made a product that’s which they named Cerberus, to go through a maze using ultrasound. actually patentable and useable. It was this The robot was part of an exhibit that great feeling,” she remembers. taught participants about how Like Shaw, Holman is taking part in the ultrasound works. Olin-Wellesley 4+1 program, with a focus on electrical engineering. “To me, it’s like a game. It’s like [the computer game] Snake, you know? habits of mind of how engineers think, which There were a lot of dead ends and false starts You have this current that’s fl owing through they can take to their own disciplines. over the course of the semester. They were plan- it, and you have to make this path to get to “Many disciplines these days are going to ning on 3-D scanning an existing pontoon, but this point. How do you make it so that it never be interacting with engineers at some level, its shiny surface foiled the scanner. The pour- hits itself, it never runs over something, it never and I fi rmly believe that people from liberal- and-mix foam they bought only partially fi lled fuses and jumps up? … That’s what draws me arts disciplines who are willing to communi- their 3-D-printed mold, so they needed to make to it, that kind of complexity and beauty.” cate with engineers are going to have a much adjustments to the mold. They wanted to make Holman’s interest in electrical engineering deeper impact on the world,” says Banzaert. a full-scale mold for their pontoon, but they was sparked in ENGR 160, Fundamentals of “The world’s biggest problems are going to be learned that it would cost several thousand Engineering. She and her partner made the solved by very interdisciplinary teams. Those dollars to make it. So instead, they made a Wellesley Energy Bike, which a user pedals to teams are going to be better if the liberal-arts smaller-scale model. But they managed to stay power incandescent bulbs, fl uorescent bulbs, majors are able to understand a bit of engineer- afl oat, so to speak, and were excited to show or even a hair dryer, which are attached to a ing and vice versa.” their prototype to Community Rowing at the nearby display board. “Essentially, I got that For Nicole Chui ’15 and Amanda Hui ’15, end of the semester. engineering lifestyle,” says Holman. She and Product Creation for All has been a chance Banzaert loves the moment at the end of her partner worked from 3 P.M. to 3 A.M. the to take a class together (they’ve been friends the semester when the students present their day before exhibiting the bike. “I’m pretty since their fathers hit it off at Wellesley’s fi rst- projects. “Seeing students actually complete sure I shocked myself several times,” she says. year orientation for international students), a prototype and get from their vision—with “But when it was done, we looked at this red and to explore a subject outside their majors. many changes, of course—to the fi nal version board we had taped to the back of this thing, Hui, who is double-majoring in economics and see an actual working product that they and we were like, this is amazingly simple. … and psychology, says that most of her classes made with their two hands and their brain is It’s a wonderfully elaborate, functioning bike- have the traditional course work of problem fantastic,” she says. And the students whole- powered generator. … But when you look at the sets, midterms, and fi nal papers. But in the heartedly agree … no matter how many twists back of the board, it’s so simple.” We-Lab, she and Chui were working to create and turns and late nights it takes to bring that an unsinkable foam pontoon for Community prototype into the world. The Casual Engineers Rowers. “It’s cool that we didn’t know what For many students, the class they take in the to expect,” says Hui. “There were multiple Lisa Scanlon Mogolov ’99 is a senior associate We-Lab will be the one time in their lives times when we thought it wouldn’t work at editor at Wellesley magazine. they’ll get up close and personal with a laser all.” Chui, an architecture and German double cutter or a 3-D printer. And that’s just fi ne with major, enjoyed the open-ended nature of the Banzaert. She hopes that her classes help stu- project. “This is the most freedom I’ve ever had dents broaden their perspective and gain some in a class,” she says.

pg26-33_welab_final.indd 32 6/24/15 1:04 PM ‘ [I was] a ﬁ rst-year, and I made a product that’s actually patentable and useable. It was this great feeling.’ —Christina Holman ’17

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DARWIN'S ORCHID ANGRAECUM SESQUIPEDALE Kathy Folino

he room is hushed, the atmosphere were awarded in 2010; as of this June, 15 artists have focused and intense, as students in earned them. Roche illustrates each certiﬁ cate herself. a botanical illustration class at the “It is rigorous, and people get really into it,” says Margaret Ferguson Greenhouses zero Roche. “You can’t show your artwork until you’ve taken in on their project for the morning— all the coursework.” ∏ accurately rendering a narcissus bulb. Roche, who grew up in Great Britain, came to New That’s much harder than it sounds, England with her husband, who was transferred here, and

© KATHY FOLINO as Sarah Roche, education director of the Friends of their three daughters. She originally connected with the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens (WCBG Friends) WCBG through Sandy Snow Adams ’59. certifi cate in botanical art and illustra- “Sandy was looking for someone tion, will attest. These artists will come to teach her botanical illustration, to know, and illustrate, their plant in and we started a Friday morning every phase of its growth. They will ‘THIS IS NOT A class at the greenhouses. More and measure it, contemplate it, rotate it to QUIET LITTLE THING more people got involved, and we multiple angles. Their task, as Roche DONE BY VICTORIAN asked if we could have a program— puts it, is to “draw what you really see, LADIES AS AN not a Wellesley College program, but not what you think you see. When you under the Wellesley umbrella and draw it, you can’t make it up. It takes a ACCOMPLISHMENT. with a Wellesley feel to it,” she says. lot of practice.” IT’S RECOGNIZED AND The intensity of the program creates Since 2003, the WCBG Friends has COLLECTED AS AN a camaraderie and mutual support offered a range of botanical illustration ART FORM ALL OVER among its graduates that is hard to classes, from the introductory Plants leave behind, one reason a group of for the Petrifi ed to color theory. Some THE WORLD. certifi cate holders got together to students take a session or two and move YOU HAVE ONE FOOT begin an ambitious project—creating on, but a growing number have taken IN ART AND ONE a Wellesley fl orilegium to document on the demanding curriculum that leads FOOT IN SCIENCE.’ the College’s precious botanical hold- to the certifi cate in botanical art and ings. “It’s so exciting,” says Roche. illustration, established in 2006. —Sarah Roche “They want to continue to be part of The course of study, which was this place, and leave a legacy.” reviewed by the Wellesley College cur- Florilegium: The word is from riculum committee, takes three or more the Latin fl os (fl ower) and legere (to years to complete. It includes nine foundation courses gather), so the collection is literally a gathering of fl owers. such as plant biology and botanical art history; nine tech- The fi rst printed fl orilegia began to appear in the late niques courses, including drawing and watercolor paint- 16th century. Unlike medieval herbals, which could be ing; and two “accomplishments” courses, which include considered medical and culinary texts, fl orilegia usually an independent study and a portfolio review. Five core contained minimal text, or even none except an index of faculty members and visiting instructors—from outside the names of the plants in the volume. The illustrations the College faculty—lead the classes. The fi rst certifi cates aimed to accurately capture the color and characteristics

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POWDERPUFF CALLIANDRA HAEMATOCEPHALA Barbara DeGregorio

DURANT CAMELLIA CAMELLIA JAPONICA Kathy Folino

FISHTAIL PALM CARYOTA URENS Nancy Savage

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of the fl owers and trees represented. From the beginning, to go and work at Kew when I was still a student, in fl orilegia illustrations were meticulously drawn from their orchid herbarium. I began doing commissions for nature—as they are today. the Royal Horticultural Society, scientifi c illustrations of As printing techniques advanced, and new plants came plants for gardeners-with-a-capital-G to work with.” to Europe from Asia in the 16th century, wealthy patrons The WCBG Friends’ own fl orilegium is a multiyear and botanic gardens commissioned artists to record these project organized by local certifi cate holders Nancy exotics in fl orilegia. Some of them were very detailed Savage and Pamela Gordon. Every artist who receives catalogs used to sell bulbs and plants. a certifi cate is invited to participate. From a list of 44 The collections have been infl uential from the start. A iconic plants developed by WCBG’s assistant director fl orilegium by Emanuel Sweerts, a Dutch fl oral trader, was Gail Kahn, each artist will select one species per year published in 1612 and pictured some 300 bulbs and 240 to be the subject of a botanical watercolor. The artists fl owering plants. It became something retain copyright and the original of a best seller, reprinted twice, and its work, while WCBG acquires the right index of plant names translated into to print a professional giclée. Regular Latin, German, and French. Sweerts’ ‘IT’S APPEALING exhibits of the fl orilegium giclées are work is thought to have contributed to BECAUSE OF anticipated—perhaps as early as this an economic crash in Holland in 1637 THE INTIMACY fall—and an online gallery of fl o- fueled by wild speculation in tulip rilegium images will appear on the YOU DEVELOP WITH bulbs. Another signifi cant volume, Le WCBG website. Cards and bags with Jardin du roy tres chrestien Henri IV, YOUR PLANT. … the images will likely also be available. had a more benign effect. Published in IT IS THE DETAIL Working with Kahn and Kristina 1608 in Paris, it was dedicated to Marie OF THE PLANT Niovi Jones, director of WCBG, Savage, de Medici, who started the fashion for Gordon, and their group came up with AND OF THE PROCESS embroidery with fl oral designs. project guidelines and a mission—to The popularity of fl orilegia con- THAT INFORMS depict the iconic plants of the green- tinued to grow from the 17th century THE BEAUTY OF WHAT houses and the arboretum at Wellesley. onward, along with scientifi c interest YOU CREATE.’ It was decided that the people involved in natural history. Simultaneously, would only be those who had com- aristocratic taste for plant collecting —Deborah Bacon Cassady ’61 pleted the certifi cate program. led to remarkable specimen collections The artists got started in late like Britain’s Royal Botanic Garden at summer 2013, and the work is still Kew—where Sarah Roche studied. in progress. The illustrations on these “When I was quite little, and I pages represent some of the completed talked as one does with my dad about what I might want images; many more remain to be done. “We’ve come to to do, I asked him if he knew of a job where I could paint a bit of a slowdown now because of the upcoming con- apples and cabbages all day,” she laughs. She completed struction [to rebuild the greenhouses],” says Savage. “We a degree in graphic illustration. “I loved really knowing just love doing the artwork,” she adds. “It’s a great way about what I painted, and I was interested in medical for us to continue as graduates to have the camaraderie illustration—but it’s hard to fi nd dead bodies lying and purpose to go ahead.” around, and it was going to take me another two or three After learning botanical illustration, Savage says, “I years. I really just wanted to get on with it. My course couldn’t look around outside without noticing everything was very small—eight students per year—and I managed in a whole different way. I think everyone who is doing it

pg34-40_flowers_final.indd 39 6/24/15 1:29 PM has a love for it—and getting into the detail of it is part of EASTERN WHITE PINE what we love. It’s very different from doing an abstract PINUS STROBUS painting of a fl ower. I love the science of it.” Pam Gordon Another Wellesley fl orilegium artist, Deborah Bacon Cassady ’61, who lives in Ipswich, Mass., says, “I had— during a very checkered career, all legal—done art on the side all along, brush painting and a lot of ceramics. When we moved back [to Massachusetts] I wanted to learn more about watercolor. I was impressed with the fact that I could really learn technique. I took so many classes that I thought I might as well jump through the proper hoops that lead in a logical way to more compe- tence, and earn the certifi cate.” Working in scientifi c detail, she says, was a revelation. “I climbed trees as a kid, and we lived near woods, and I have been interested in plants, and I have been interested in environments. I am not a botanist to the point where I learn all the plants—but you certainly learn the plants you’re painting. It’s appealing because of the botany and the observations, the intimacy you develop with your plant. I really enjoy getting into the zone and painting in this very slow meticulous way. You put on layer after layer, and that’s what makes it so luminous. To the artist, it is the detail of the plant and of the process that informs the beauty of what you create.” Cassady adds that, despite its emphasis on scientifi c accuracy, botanical illustration is very much an art form. “In botanical art, you are expressing yourself,” she says. “If I were to do a hellebore and Sarah Roche were to do one, they would look entirely different, but both would be accurate. It’s more subtle than if we were doing more ‘expressive’ things.” Roche concurs. “This is not a quiet little thing done by Victorian ladies as an accomplishment. It’s recognized and collected as an art form all over the world. You have one foot in art and one foot in science. You pass on botanical information about plants in an artistic way, so the person who looking at it is going to see it for the fi rst time. And you, the artist, are never going to look at things the same way again.” Gail Kahn says, “There has been a new fl owering of this art form in this century.” Happily, the Wellesey fl orilegium project is part of it.

Catherine O’Neill Grace, a senior associate editor of Wellesley magazine, sat in on a drawing class with Sarah Roche. The narcissus bulb she drew eventually ﬂ owered in the window of the magazine ofﬁ ce.

Wellesley ﬂ orilegium images courtesy of the Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens www.wellesley.edu/wcbg-friends

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News and information from the worldwide network of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association

JOHNSON ’75 ASSUMES WCAA PRESIDENCY

FOR GEORGIA MURPHY JOHNSON ’75, Wellesley is a family affair. One of her Boston in 1999, when Katie was a fi rst-year, but held off on taking any leadership favorite Wellesley memories is from 2013, when she was on the Alumnae positions until after her daughter graduated. “I didn’t really have an established Association Board of Directors. Her daughter, Katherine “Katie” Johnson ’03, community [in Boston], and I fi gured the easiest one for me to start with would be was attending her 10th reunion and her mother, Katherine Barrett Murphy ’53, Wellesley,” Johnson says. She became copresident of Wellesley College Alumnae was celebrating her 60th. On Sunday, all three women cheered and of Boston with Ann Swingle Borg ’73, and the two focused on boosting marched in the Alumnae Parade, and then they went back to membership. One of her great pleasures was recruiting some of Georgia’s house in Brookline, Mass., where they had a multi- Katie’s friends from the class of ’03 to participate in the club. generational Wellesley party. You can hear the pride in her Johnson served on the Alumnae Achievement Award selec- voice when she talks about how impressed her mother was tion committee from 2007 to 2012 and on the WCAA board with Katie and her friends. from 2009 to 2013. She’s happy to be back on the board: “[My mother] said, ‘You talk to those young women, “You’re working with an amazing group of women who are and they are all incredibly successful in completely different both fun and smart … and from all over the country, and have fi elds. What really strikes me is not just that they are suc- different perspectives,” she says. cessful, but how supportive they are of each other in what Among the topics that Johnson hopes to address during they are doing, and how each thinks the others are tremen- her tenure as president are increasing the involvement of interna- dously successful, and are so proud of them,’” Johnson says. tional alumnae, and fi nding ways to encourage nominations for the Not a bad metaphor for the Alumnae Association, which strives to Alumnae Achievement Awards. She is also looking forward to seeing how connect alumnae to each other and to the College, wherever they are in the world technology like the WCAA’s new online community can engage alumnae. And, and whatever their interests. Johnson took over the WCAA presidency as Karen of course, she is excited to spend more time on campus. “It is always energizing Williamson ’69 retired from the role on June 30. to come back,” she says. Johnson fi rst became involved as a volunteer with the WCAA in 2004. A partner at Johnson & Lawrence, a management-consulting fi rm, she had moved to —Lisa Scanlon Mogolov ’99 PHOTO RICHARD BY HOWARD From the WCAA President

DEAR WELLESLEY COLLEGE ALUMNAE: I am honored to be writing you as the new presi- The mission of the Wellesley College Alumnae version of Wellesley magazine last fall, will enable dent of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association. Association is to support the institutional priorities WCAA to offer alumnae connections in ways that As the daughter of Katherine Barrett Murphy ’53 of Wellesley College by connecting alumnae to the are difﬁ cult for many of us to imagine. and the mother of Katie Johnson ’03, Wellesley has College and to each other. In other words, there are many exciting pos- been a critical part of my life. We have many opportunities. Wellesley’s sibilities before us. I look forward to working with I am embarking on this role just as Missy Siner alumnae network can be enormously valuable to the WCAA board and staff and you to capture Shea ’89 is getting settled as WCAA’s new execu- the students. We have been longstanding partners them and make the Wellesley alumnae community tive director. This is challenging given that we are with Admissions, interviewing applicants and going even stronger than it already is. new to our positions, but also exciting because it to college fairs, but both ofﬁ ces are eager to explore allows us to look at WCAA’s functions with fresh new ways to make this partnership more robust. All my best, eyes. We are blessed by the fact that our previous And, while we are thrilled to have implemented our executive director, Susan Challenger ’76, and my new alumnae online community, we are only in the predecessor, Karen Williamson ’69, have already early phases of discovering how we can fully lever- built a tremendously strong organization. age this new technology to better connect alumnae As Missy and I identify our strategic initiatives, to each other and to the College. This, coupled with we will keep WCAA’s mission at the forefront: the tremendously successful launch of the online Georgia Murphy Johnson ’75, president

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Alumnae Calendar 2015 Syrena Stackpole Award The Alumnae Association announces the following events for 2015 and 2016. Unless otherwise GIVEN ANNUALLY AT REUNION BY THE WCAA, the Syrena noted, events take place at the College. For more Stackpole Award honors dedicated service and excep- information, call the Alumnae Offi ce at tional commitment to Wellesley. The 2015 recipient was 781-283-2331. Shirley Young ’55, who served as a College trustee from 1988 to 1998 and was one of the founders of Wellesley’s Business Leadership Council. 2015 Young was recently instrumental in conceiving and implementing Women World Partners, a Wellesley initia- AUGUST tive to collaborate with leading institutions around the globe. The inaugural partnership was between Wellesley 15 and Peking University—a student academic program held Indianapolis Wellesley Club summer send-off in conjunction with the Women’s Leadership Conference for current students. For more information, email [email protected]. two years ago in Beijing. Young’s volunteer efforts in Asia and beyond have promoted Wellesley as the place OCTOBER for young women who understand the value of an out- 1–3 standing liberal-arts education. She has been a valuable Class of ’58 mini-reunion in Minneapolis/St. Paul. partner to the Alumnae Offi ce as well as the Offi ce for For more information, email Susan Packer Resources and Public Affairs in engaging alumnae from Vrotsos ’58 at [email protected]. around the globe. 15–16 WCAA fall board meeting 17–18 Alumnae Leadership Council 2016

FEBRUARY 11 Alumnae Achievement Awards 11–12 WCAA winter board meeting

APRIL Faculty-Staff Service Award 1–3 THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION was pleased to present its 2015 Faculty-Staff Service Award Class of ’68 mini-reunion in Tucson, Ariz. For more to Richard Bourque, manager of printing services, and Hahrie Han, associate professor of information, email [email protected] or political science. [email protected]. Bourque, who has run the College’s printing services for more than two decades, was commended for his customer service and his attention to detail in working with the WCAA JUNE in preparing printed materials for reunion each year. “I can honestly say that we couldn’t pull this event off without Rick’s help,” said Liz Carey, WCAA director of alumnae market- 2–3 ing and communications. “He is more than our printer; he is our partner. I’ve worked for WCAA spring board meeting years with other printers, and no one can compare.” 3–5 Han was honored for her participation in the faculty speaker program and for lectur- Reunion for classes ending in 1s and 6s, plus CE/DS ing at reunion. “The word has gotten around in our club network that Professor Han is an engaging, enthusiastic speaker, and thus, over the years, she has been one of the most requested speakers by our club leaders,” said Susan Lohin, WCAA director of alumnae connections, when she presented the award to Han. In the last eight years, Han has spoken to more than 15 clubs on the politics of social policy, civic engagement, political activism, health and environmental politics, and elections. To learn more about the activities of the WCAA, visit www.wellesley.edu/alumnae. PHOTOS RICHARD BY HOWARD

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New Alumnae Association Board Members

This magazine is published quarterly by the Wellesley College Alumnae Association, an autonomous corporate body, independent of the College. The Association is dedicated to connecting alumnae to the College and to each other.

EILEEN CONROY ’75 MAYA MELCZER JANET MCCAA ’64 CHARLAYNE PIER ROGERS ’75 GREENFIELD ’04 MURRELL-SMITH ’75 Des Moines, Iowa Portland, Maine Chicago WCAA Board of Directors San Francisco Roxbury, Mass. President George Murphy Johnson ’75

Treasurer/Secretary Ginger Horne Kent ’76 Eileen Conroy ’75 • Community volunteer work includes: director, Saco & Director, 2015–18 Biddeford Savings Institution; co-chair, Women’s Law Luisa Bonillas ’94 • Vice president of marketing at Principle Financial Group; Section, Maine State Bar Association; chair, Cape Eileen Conroy ’75 M.B.A. from Harvard Business School Elizabeth, Maine, Planning Board Yolette Garcia ’77 • Current chair of the Wellesley Friends of Art National Maya Melczer Greenfi eld ’04, chair of Alumnae Admissions Committee, previously patrons’ chair; active class of ’75 Charlayne Murrell-Smith ’75 Representatives volunteer, having served as annual-giving chair, special-gifts Director, 2015–18 Helen Hsu ’93 chair, and planned-giving chair; member of the Business • Vice president of external relations and corporate Janet McCaa ’64 Leadership Council; BLC plenary chair in 2012, co-chair of development at Boston Children’s Museum; M.Ed., Beth McKinnon ’72 communications from 2013 to the present Northeastern University Charlayne Murrell-Smith ’75 Mari Myer ’83 • • Board member of the Des Moines Art Center Print Club, Current chair of the Alumnae Achievement Award selec- Maneesha Patil ’78 serving as treasurer tion committee; member of the founding committee of Elizabeth Preis ’91, Wellesley Alumnae of African Descent and active WAAD chair of The Wellesley Fund Maya Melczer Greenfi eld ’04 participant in New England; volunteers with Ethos to Pier Rogers ’75 Rachel Salmanowitz ’12 Director/Chair of Alumnae Admissions Representatives, support students of African descent as a mentor, panelist, Jamie Scarborough ’87 2015–17 and workshop participant Desiree Urquhart CE/DS ’99 • Chief of staff for the senior vice president for strategy • Serves on board of directors of the Boston Children’s and business development in Kaiser Permanente’s Chorus, the Boston Harbor Association, the Lenny Zakim Ex offi ciis Northern California region; M.P.H. from University of Fund, Third Sector New England, and the YMCA of Missy Siner Shea ’89 Alice M. Hummer California, Berkeley Greater Boston • Alumnae admissions representative, Wellesley Club of Alumnae Trustees Northern California; active club member, WCNC Pier Rogers ’75 Sandra Polk Guthman ’65 • Volunteers for UC Berkeley School of Public Health Alumni Director, 2015–17 Kristine Holland de Juniac ’72 JudyAnn Rollins Bigby ’73 Association and the Women Health Care Executives of • Director, Axelson Center for Non-Profi t Management, Diamond Sharp ’11 Northern California. Also serves as a SF NERT volunteer North Park University; M.S.S.S., social work, Boston Lawry Jones Meister ’83 (San Francisco Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) University, Ph.D., New York University with the San Francisco Fire Department • Active in the Chicago Wellesley Club, co-vice president for Alumnae Association community service, vice president for nominations Senior Staff • Janet McCaa ’64 Active volunteer including Chicago Women in Philanthropy Executive Director Director, 2015–17 board member; Church & the Black Experience Board Missy Siner Shea ’89 • General counsel CEI Capital Management LLC, a com- of Advisors at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, munity development fi nancial fi rm in Portland; partner in Northwestern University; ARNOVA (Association for Director of Alumnae Events Janet Monahan McKeeney ’88 Johnson and McCaa LLC; J.D., Cornell, L.L.M. in taxation, Research on Nonprofi t Organizations and Voluntary New York University Action) past board member and co-chair, Diversity Director of Alumnae Groups • Western Maine Wellesley Club president and vice president, Scholars & Leaders Professional Development Program Susan Lohin Washington Wellesley Club president and vice president; class president, vice president, planned-giving chair, Director of Alumnae Marketing and Communications special-gifts chair, mini-reunion chair, record-book chair; Liz Carey winner of the 2014 Syrena Stackpole Award Financial Administrator Audrey Wood

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Mary “Rusty” Sullivan Simon ’53 passed away 1931 Alta Wiggins Stumpf March 21, 2015 1949 Avis Adikes Bond Dec. 23, 2014 on Feb. 19, 2014, after a 20- year battle with leu- Mary Bannerman Frost April 20, 2015 kemia. She was an award- winning journalist and 1935 Geraldine Davis Haase Feb. 7, 2014 Barbara Buck Hamilton Jan. 24, 2015 foreign correspondent. She also held editorships at Interiors, Look, and Life magazines and eventually 1936 Harriet Towle Gagne March 25, 2015 1950 Anita Katz Kruger Feb. 22, 2015 became the ﬁ rst female senior editor of the New Anita Vogel Sculthorpe Jan. 12, 2012 Laurene Scheideler July 28, 2014 York Times Sunday Magazine and editor in chief Joanne Wentz Stephenson Oct. 21, 2014 of Food and Wine magazine. She will be remem- 1938 Sarah Curtis Garth Jan. 4, 2015 bered for her intellectual prowess, culinary skills, Cornelia Geyer Rathbone April 10, 2015 1952 Barbara Briggs Carr Jan. 19, 2015 and love of gardening and aesthetic beauty. She is survived by her husband of 60 years, Walter, two 1939 Priscilla Davis Barnard March 22, 2015 1953 Helen Putnam Sokopp April 10, 2015 daughters, and six grandchildren. Jane Dawes McClennan March 8, 2015 Rollene Waterman Saal Forma ’53 Nancy Jackson Seiberling Jan. 12, 2015 1954 Charlotte Beebe Heartt April 24, 2015 Florence Mayer Blaustein Jan. 12, 2015 Mary Ann Cutting Mangan Feb. 6, 2015 Mary Tebbetts Wolfe ’54 was born in New Alma Shoolman Goldman Feb. 13, 2015 Shirley A. Ryan Dec. 11, 2014 Hampshire on Christmas Day, 1931. She died on Dorothea Touraine Jacobs March 15, 2015 Oct. 23, 2014, in Toledo, Ohio, surrounded by her 1940 Clarice Grosshandler husband of 60 years, her daughters, and friends. Neumann March 8, 2015 1955 Constance Coates She lived a long, productive, and beautiful life, Marjorie Jones Whitehead No date available Schroeder March 23, 2012 fueled by her passion for art and joie de vivre. Edna L. Schilling Jan. 9, 2015 Abigail Ruskin Krystall March 1, 2015 Mary attended Brooklyn’s Packer Collegiate School and then Manchester Central High School 1941 Lorraine Stanley Berlin March 15, 2015 1956 Carol Metzger Vanecek Dec. 2, 2013 in New Hampshire. At the latter, Archie Comics Susan Peet Miller Jan. 26, 2015 artist Bob Montana spotted her; she became the 1942 Frances Bates Wells April 6, 2015 model for Veronica. Katharine Coon Cole March 4, 2015 1957 Sally A. Sears April 20, 2015 At Wellesley, Mary excelled in art history Sedwyn Klar Glick Jan. 18, 2015 and was encouraged to do graduate study. She 1958 Virginia Burwell Strunk Feb. 24, 2015 remained extremely close to her college roommates 1943 Patricia Adams Harr Aug. 1, 2014 Valerie duBochet Boyes June 10, 2014 and friends. Margaret Forsythe Camp Jan. 31, 2015 Sandra W. Legler Dec. 30, 2014 Christine Wolfe Nichols Marjorie Swafﬁ eld Wilderstrom Jan. 10, 2015 1959 Nancy Scott Stampleman Feb. 25, 2015 Abigail Ruskin Krystall ’55 died peacefully in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 1, after a lengthy ill- 1944 Katherine Clancy O’Neill July 26, 2014 1960 Deborah Kramer Kitay April 27, 2015 ness. Abby exuded a tremendous life force— obvi- Jane Herbert Kirk March 29, 2015 Joan Mason Caldwell Feb. 22, 2014 ous in the intensity of her eyes and mind. That same Elaine Markley Suchman Jan. 31, 2015 Susan Silverstone Darer March 17, 2015 intensity extended to her loyalty— to her family, friends, and, of course, Wellesley. It was a “badge 1945 Jane Frank Garrabrant Dec. 24, 2014 1961 Naomi Weisstein March 26, 2015 of honor” to travel from Kenya for class reunions. Maude Garth Donnelly June 12, 2013 Jean Kennedy Blanchet Aug. 3, 2014 Abby spent her life learning and teaching, through 1964 Dale Ann Browne Compton March 22, 2015 Jane Kirsopp MacBean Feb. 10, 2014 work with the Ford and Rockefeller foundations Susan Seymour Reinhart Nov. 18, 2014 and her synagogue. Her love of family was immea- Lenore Lehn Brindis March 16, 2015 surable. It will be a challenge to the class of 1955 Elizabeth O’Brien Weisiger April 25, 2015 Marjorie Olsen Cray Jan. 18, 2015 1966 Susan Titus Goldstone Feb. 11, 2015 to imagine reunion without her. Ellen Rogers Saxl ’55 1946 Barbara Barton Lindsey Oct. 16, 2014 1969 Ann-Elizabeth Purintun Feb. 21, 2015 Nancy Wittenberg Rader ’56 died on Oct. 21, Janet Cooke Lillis April 9, 2015 Emma Hannis Stewart Nov. 10, 2014 2014, in Acton, Mass. 1971 Stephanie Casale Carlton July 15, 2012 Her name was Nancy, but we called her “Wittibug.” She possessed the true wit that 1947 Isabelle Ewing McVaugh Jan. 24, 2015 1978 Nancy Hewitt Katz Dec. 21, 2014 Margaret Johnson Emery Dec. 8, 2013 questions all assumptions and prejudices. Her favorite Wellesley course was Miss Balderston’s 1985 Beverly M. Fields May 6, 2004 Shakespeare. Nancy was “not only witty in [herself] 1948 Beverly Braverman Kislak March 13, 2015 Uma Gattegno Devidatta Feb. 10, 2014 but the cause that wit was in other[s].” Laughing Jean Emery Wommack Dec. 4, 2014 Barbara O’Neil Funsch Dec. 10, 2014 with her, we became wiser. 2000 Joohee S. Moonat June 21, 2013 Muriel Pfaelzer Bodek April 26, 2015 After Wellesley, she was a guidance counselor, and later counseled adult substance abusers, while CE/DS Virginia B. Drogue Nov. 1, 2013 raising two gifted and exceptional daughters, Elizabeth Hannah Rader and Amy Rader Ohlsson. She was a passionate lifelong advocate for educational reform and progressive politics. Margaret Dandy Gontrum ’56 Sarah Hallaran Gramentine ’56

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Naomi Weisstein ’61 died on March 26. Susan Titus Goldstone ’66 died on Feb. 11 of cancer. From boogie- playing monk singing “Song An award- winning photographer with a keen of the Effete Beat” in junior show to renowned artistic eye and the technical skills to produce beau- feminist writer, Naomi used her brilliant mind and tiful images, Susan often viewed her world through Roasted Red Peppers with multiple talents to challenge sexism wherever she the lens of her camera. Whether the photos were encountered it. Her 1968 essay, “Kinder, Küche, macros of fl owers in her garden in Rhode Island, Anchovies and Tomatoes Kirche as Scientifi c Law: Psychology Constructs landscapes of the mountains above her home Excerpted from Virgin Territory the Female,” has been reprinted in over 50 publica- in Santa Fe, or intimate portraits capturing the tions. A 1979 Guggenheim Fellow, Naomi taught essence of boyhood in her cherished grandsons, My take on the pepper-and-anchovy antipasto that at U Chicago, Loyola U in Chicago, and SUNY Susan leaves a photographic legacy of what she is so deservedly popular with Italian cooks is a little Buffalo until her 40s, when she was stricken with most valued. What her friends most valued in her different from the usual, and very easy to throw myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syn- was her quiet dignity, her constant loyalty, and her together. Serve it as an antipasto, or a contorno to drome. Though bedridden after that, she contin- gentle spirit. go with grilled meat or fi sh, or chop the fi nished ued writing on science and feminism. Jane Burington Coutts ’66 Andrea Julian ’61 peppers with all the other ingredients and use it to top a dish of pasta. I use big late summer peppers, Barbara Levy ’63 died on March 1, on her 74th HOW TO SUBMIT A MEMORIAL mostly red but throwing in a few yellow ones for a birthday. Wellesley welcomes memorials for alumnae written colorful touch. I fi gure on half a pepper per serving— I met Barb the fi rst day of freshman year; she by friends or family members. Please contact the so two peppers will serve four, but use your judg- was open and lively and chatty. After 18 years in appropriate class secretary and/or the magazine staff ment: Smaller peppers from the farmer’s market ([email protected] or 781-283-2342) before Puerto Rico, she moved to Cambridge, Mass., might come out two to each serving. letting us pick up where we’d left off. She was a writing or submitting a memorial. Memorials in Wellesley magazine are limited to 100 happy risk taker, eager for new experiences. She words. The magazine does not accept eulogies or Makes 4 Servings made friends easily, of her colleagues, neighbors, previously published obituaries for adaptation. All 2 big sweet red peppers (or 1 red and 1 yellow) or swimming buddies, even hospice caregivers. Barb submissions may be edited. leaves her daughter, Nadine; son- in- law, Alan; and 4 medium peppers much-adored grandchildren, Matthew and Emily; Olive oil along with a brother and sister, a host of cousins, 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced and all those friends. I will miss her deeply. 5 or 6 cherry or grape tomatoes, cut in half Liz Caeser Lieberman ’63 4 anchovy fi llets, each one cut in 3 or 4 bits 2 tablespoons salted capers, rinsed About ¼ cup fresh goat cheese (chèvre) 6 pitted black olives, coarsely chopped (optional) us to be empowered by the broad array of choices SHELF LIFE Freshly ground black pepper we have for sharing resources that yesterday’s SHAPING THE SHARING ECONOMY Chopped fresh basil leaves for garnish Continued from page 16 industrialized age could not deliver.

Only a decade ago, this seemed so clever. Now —C.A. Webb ’97 PREHEAT the oven to 375°F. our phones perform that function, only better and Webb is executive director of the New England CUT the peppers in half the long way and remove the cheaper. (Thanks, Waze.) The computing power Venture Capital Association in Cambridge, Mass., seeds and inner white membranes, but leave some we each carry in our pocket is extraordinary not and a passionate supporter of the startup community. of the stem to keep each half intact. Lightly oil a only because of Moore’s Law—the observation made 50 years ago by Gordon Moore, cofounder baking dish in which all the halves will fi t comfortably of Intel, that the number of transistors per square ALL ABOUT EVOO in one layer and set the peppers in the dish, skin side inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year Continued from page 16 down. Now add to the inside of each half: a few thin (revised to every two years in 1975) since the circuit slices of garlic; 2 or 3 cherry or grape tomato halves, was invented. It’s also because of what we’ve all the pro: Never buy olive oil in a clear bottle. Go for cut side down; 3 or 4 bits of anchovy fi llet; and a half helped create thanks to sharing platforms like Uber, dark bottles and tins. “Light is the enemy of olive dozen or so capers. Add a dab of the goat cheese oil,” Harmon Jenkins declares. Airbnb, YouTube, and Bitcoin. and some of the chopped olives, if using, but don’t You’ll fi nd that as you dive deeper into the book Once dormant assets—our houses, our cars, our get too carried away. Remember, simpler is always afternoons—have become powerful as we choose it will migrate from the kitchen to the armchair, better in the kitchen. Now top each pepper half with how and when to monetize them. Securing grocer- from the chair to the bedside table. As someone 1 or 2 teaspoons olive oil and several grinds of black ies, a housekeeper, or a date now only requires the who has read hundreds of cookbooks, I devoured tap of a button. More importantly, people who this one. The detailed, chatty directions seem to pepper. No salt, because the anchovies and capers need or prefer fl exible work and the opportunity come from a kitchen goddess muttering just over will take care of that. to exercise autonomy about how they spend their my shoulder, nudging me to restrain myself with SLIDE the dish into the oven and let the peppers roast days can build this kind of work life using these the salt and seasonings, be bolder with the lemon, for 40 to 50 minutes, until they are tender all the way new platforms. and above all, respect the extra virgin olive oil. This Chase shares her ideas at a critical moment in book is a classic and a keeper. through and the edges are brown. Remove and serve the evolution of the collaborative economy. Her immediately; or set aside and serve later at room tem- book concludes with a call to action: “This book is —Louisa Kasdon ’72 perature. They make a great addition to a meze or a dare,” she writes. The environmental, social, and buffet table, although they’re hard to eat standing up. Kasdon is the founder and CEO of Let’s Talk fi nancial implications of sharing resources are huge For an extra touch, sprinkle some chopped fresh basil About Food, a Boston-based nonprofit that and Chase wants us all to jump in. She wants the develops and fosters literacy, education, and public over each half just before serving. platforms to develop equitably, sharing power and engagement around our food system. value with their members. And she wants each of © 2015 by Nancy Harmon Jenkins. Reproduced by per- mission of Houghton Miffl in Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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HEADS UP The head gear at commencement this year was varied and beautiful—reﬂ ecting different cultural traditions, institutional regalia, and personal taste.

PHOTOS BY RICHARD HOWARD

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By Carolyn Kott Washburne ’65 A Lifetime on Two Wheels

I paused on the side of the bike trail to sip from my water bottle, gazing faded as I glided around the campus. But during my next three years in at Milwaukee’s awesome lakefront. I moved back on the trail, glanced Caz, the bike languished. That hill leading up to the Quad is a killer. behind, and mounted up. When I was a young married woman in Cambridge, Mass., my Suddenly, a male biker whooshed past me. You know the type: mostly husband and I put very few miles on our ’56 Ford Fairlane, thanks to our young, sometimes with a gray ponytail, always with muscular thighs and bicycles (my Schwinn, still). This helped our meager graduate-student- heads bent down. I call them the Men in Spandex. On this trail, there plus-secretary budget. are a lot of them. Several years later, as a divorced, commune-dwelling hippie in The whoosh forced me off my bike and onto the grass beside the trail. Philadelphia, I upgraded to a sleek, blue Raleigh 10-speed. I felt very I didn’t fall over, but I was shaken. cool—until it was stolen outside of my bank, its “Slow down and watch where you’re going!” heavy link chain intact but the lock snipped in I yelled. Actually, there was an expletive at the begin- two. I seethed; the police were dismissive. “Lady, ning of that sentence. I was invisible to him, an it doesn’t even look like your bike anymore. Ten experience that “women of a certain age” often have. minutes after it was stolen, it either got disman- Shortly after, my bicycling confi dence began to tled for parts or painted and tricked out.” fade. I wobbled turning a corner, felt shaky when I Then came motherhood and a sedate Schwinn stopped. Even mounting had become a challenge: fi ve-speed with a child seat. In 1983, in my late Instead of leaping on the near pedal, fl inging my 30s and inspired by the movie Flashdance, I other leg over the top, and taking off into the bought a 15-speed Centurion road bike, trying to wind, I looked for a curb to stand on. Was this the look like Jennifer Beals. I enjoyed gliding around, beginning of the end, bicycling-wise? but no one ever mistook me for her. I’m 71, and bicycling has been a big part of my Fast forward—through several bikes, each life. At age 3, I got a tricycle, then a dented two- with more gears than the last—to the Men in wheeler with balloon tires that my parents bought Spandex incident. Part of the problem, I decided, at a rummage sale. I don’t think it even had train- was my aging Giant, which had creaky gears, stiff ing wheels. I didn’t need them; I was a natural. brakes, and out-of-true alignment. For my 11th birthday, I received a shiny, red I marched into my local bike store. “Look at Schwinn three-speed, which gave me mobility in me,” I said to the young salesman. “I’m obviously my suburban hometown. I bicycled to friends’ houses, to the library, to not in training for the Tour de France. I want a bike that I can keep the Ben Franklin fi ve-and-dime, where I glanced furtively at sleazy maga- riding as I get older.” He took me over to a turquoise, 21-speed Trek zines with tantalizing headlines such as “Sex and Sin in Hollywood.” hybrid with riser handlebars, comfortable saddle seat, and suspension I also bicycled to junior high and high school. Back then, girls were seatpost. “It will feel like you’re sitting in an easy chair,” he said, “sort forbidden to wear pants to school, and skirts came in two styles: straight of a Barcalounger of bikes.” with a kick pleat in the back or circular, worn with a cinch belt and lots of Now I ride often, once or twice a week, sometimes on the bike trail, crinolines underneath. Neither was suited for cycling. The straight skirts sometimes around the streets of my community. On hills, I pride myself hiked up. And the full skirts often caught in the back wheel, forcing the on getting to the top, albeit panting. I’m in training for this year’s Bike bicycle to a sudden stop and leaving a black grease mark on the fabric. the Drive, a 30-mile ride along the Outer Drive on Chicago’s lakefront. No helmet, of course. I hope to ride into my dotage. When my kids fi nally take my car keys I brought that Schwinn to Wellesley, and it served me well my fi rst away, I’ll get one of those three-wheelers. Maybe with an orange fl ag on year in Freeman. Every time I mounted up, my spirits lifted. The pressure the back to make sure I’m visible. Those Men in Spandex will be eating of hour exams and term papers, the disappointment of bad dates—all my dust.

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RICHARD HOWARD KEEP IN TOUCH | KEEP INFORMED MAGAZINE.WELLESLEY.EDU

Sunlight ﬂ oods the newly renovated boathouse. The project was undertaken by architect Jeffrey Peterson, who specializes in boathouse design. “He really does understand crew and the boating mentality,” says Peter Zuraw, Wellesley’s assistant vice president of facilities management and planning. WARREN JAGGER WARREN

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