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A Moment With 17 media, page 40. BARROS Fellowship adviser Deirdre Moloney Campus Notebook 18 Courting prospective freshmen • Philosophy tests 34 Humorist Josh Kornbluth ’80 on the Philosophers are considered a solitary bunch, working out thought joy of math • Poetry professor wins problems on their own. But a new breed is using surveys and brain- Pulitzer • Princeton offers free courses imaging scans to bring philosophical questions to ordinary people. online • FACULTY BOOKSHELF: Elaine By David Menconi Pagels examines the Book of Revela t i o n • Grad student — and Army officer — writes book about Iraq • Physicist Revolution from afar 40 named vice president for PPPL • Stu - Graduate student Karam Nachar works on his dissertation in the dent musical captures admission angst United States, far from the battles raging in his homeland, Syria. But • Bee Team makes buzz at White House he’s still playing a role in the uprising. • ON THE CAMPUS: In the dark about the duck • Princeton humanists • FROM By Ian Shapira ’00 PRINCETON’S VAULT: Historic frame • More Sports 31 Versatility helps baseball team • EXTRA POINT: Pole vaulter Dave Slovenski ’12 • What’s n ew @ PAW ONLINE Sports shorts A CLASS FOR LAUGHS Gregg Alumni Scene 44 Watch Princeton students Lange ’70’s Cooking for canines • STARTING OUT: hone their stand-up skills in Rally ’Round Sophie Gandler ’10 • TIGER PROFILE: a comedy master class. the Cannon Creighton W. Abrams Jr. ’62 creates In praise of off-year Army museum • Reunions preview • Reunions. READING ROOM: Charlotte Rogan ’75 earns DODGEBALL 2012 raves for debut • New releases • More Video of the annual campus tournament, which drew 3,000 Perspective 49 players. Wrestling with middle age By Bill Eville ’87 ‘REUNIONS MAKE ME CRY’ Class Notes 51 An essay from the PAW archives, by Anne Rivers Memorials 71 Siddons s’48. Try our PDF version of Princeton Exchange 77 this issue — and share your feedback — at Final Scene 80 CAMPUS ARCHITECTURE An interview with W. Barksdale paw.princeton.edu ON THE COVER: Illustration by Tomasz Walenta. Maynard ’88, author of Princeton: America’s Campus. THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Tales of Two Lampposts hroughout the academic year, Princeton’s staid the Lapidus Family Fund Lecture in American Jewish Stud- metal lampposts sprout colorful appendages that ies, to be delivered by Professor Jenna Weissman Joselit of capture, in microcosm, the vibrancy of campus George Washington University. The title of her talk, “Mr. life. Battered by wind and rain, stapled together Wyrick’s Tablets: America’s Embrace of the Ten Command- inT untidy agglomerations, and never the same from one week ments,” was underscored by the poster’s use of red, white, and to the next, these posters attest to the remarkable creativ- blue, as well as a 19th-century drawing of Moses receiving the ity and curiosity of our faculty and students, to the eclectic Tablets of the Law atop Mount Sinai. nature of their interests, and to the unique juxtaposition of Contrasting sharply with these examples of representational opportunities that defines a university like ours. It is true that art was a poster whose vivid hues and abstract design could digital advances and environmental concerns are changing the pass for an artist’s concept of the cosmos. Under the heading, way we publicize events, but whatever the future holds for “Religion and Race,” it announced a four-person panel discus- conventional posters, their graphical message will remain an sion chaired by Associate Dean of the Graduate School Karen important form of individual expression, public communica- Jackson-Weaver ’94 and sponsored by the Office of Religious tion, and institutional identity. For all these reasons, I thought Life and the Women’s Center. Attendees were promised “a I would introduce you to two lampposts as they appeared on a dynamic and thoughtful conversation about the intersections bright spring afternoon. of religion and race from feminist and womanist perspec- The posts in question were largely obscured by 12 different tives.” Race also formed the subject of another poster, this one posters, all jockeying for attention and, in places, overlap- featuring photographs of award-winning playwrights Jorge ping one another. Two Ignacio Cortiñas and Young Jean Lee, the latest speakers in were modest affairs on the Center for African American Studies and Department letter-size paper—one of English’s Critical Encounters Series. Entitled “‘Enabling posted by the Princeton Violations’: Race, Theater, and Experimentation” and co- Scandinavian Association, sponsored by the Programs in Gender and Sexuality Studies promoting its “Viking and Latin American Studies, this “open conversation” reflects Study Break 2.0” from the series’s aspiration to offer “a forum that bridges the gap 9 p.m. to midnight at between scholarship and the creative arts.” Whitman College, and The arts made an appearance on three other posters, in- one posted by Theatre cluding one promoting Theatre Intime’s production of Private Intime, announcing Lives, directed by Savannah Hankinson ’13. Nöel Coward’s auditions for 7 Stories classic comedy of manners was skillfully represented by the by Canadian playwright silhouettes of two embracing couples linked to one another by Morris Panych, with outstretched cocktail glasses. Another poster announced the show dates coinciding first in a series of movie screenings and discussions with the with Reunions. (Mark engaging title of “Hollywood Science Gone Bad,” hosted by your calendars!) But the the Princeton Undergraduate Geosciences Society. Featur- other posters were larger, ing the 2004 disaster film The Day After Tomorrow and a more elaborate, and as conversation led by Dusenbury Professor of Geological and different in appearance as Geophysical Sciences Daniel Sigman, this event was vividly their themes, which ranged from a call for Princeton Preview captured by the Statue of Liberty in mask and snorkel, about hosts (“Earn Your Stripes; Host a Future Tiger”), to a list to be enveloped by a monstrous wave. Equally eye-catching, of Holy Week services in the Princeton University Chapel, albeit in a less dramatic way, was a poster advertising “Inspi- to an open invitation to “An Evening of Vinyasa Flow Yoga ration Night” at the Princeton University Art Museum—a and North Indian Sitar,” combining practice, discussion, and “Late Thursdays” event designed to give participants an performance. opportunity to sketch, compose, or write in the presence of Emblematic of Princeton’s educational mission was a poster inspirational works of art, with drawing materials and refresh- depicting part of Raphael’s celebrated fresco, The School of ments provided. The poster was itself a creative gem, depict- Athens, with Plato and Aristotle front and center. This formed ing one of the museum’s best known paintings, Monet’s Water the visual backdrop for the fifth annual graduate conference Lilies and Japanese Bridge, spilling lilies onto a young artist’s in political theory, jointly supported by the Department of open sketchbook. Politics and the University Center for Human Values—an Remarkably, this is just a small sampling of the hundreds opportunity for our graduate students to discuss the work of of posters that adorn our campus lampposts. Next week, they visiting peers. The poster listed all eight papers to be given, as will tell an entirely different story, reminding us that life out- well as the intriguingly titled keynote presentation by Profes- side the classroom is as rich as life inside it. sor Elisabeth Ellis ’90 of Texas A&M University, “Extinc- tion and Democracy: Species Conservation and the Limits of P olitics.” Also tempting passersby was a poster announcing

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Inbox BUZZ BOX Inbox Atributetothelegacies “PAW’s story on Professor Dan Kurtzer profiles a rea- of two Princeton ‘giants’ sonable man and expert diplomat. His proposed Israel- Every story, letter, and memorial at Palestine peace plan, though, reads like more ‘deal’ paw.princeton.edu offers a chance to comment than ‘peace.’” — Ken Scudder ’63 In his April 4 Rally ’Round the Can- non column at PAW Online, “withdrawal” from the Gaza Strip, The quest for Mideast peace Gregg Lange ’70 which continues to suffer catastrophi- described the par- Griff Witte ’00’s interesting and read- cally from Israeli blockade and military allels in the stories able profile of Professor Dan Kurtzer offensives, this familiar “deal” sounds of two “giants of (cover story, April 4) refers in passing to more like a stratagem for further Princeton volun- “the ancient conflicts of the Middle colonization. teerism”: Dean East.” But there is nothing ancient More importantly, however, contin- Mathey 1912, about the Israeli military occupation of ued occupation and settlement would photo at top right, Palestinian territories, which began in be impossible without enormous U.S. and Jay Sherrerd 1967. military aid to Israel. The United States ’52, below. The col- Witte’s article recapitulates the two is a party to this conflict, and Ameri- umn struck a implicit assumptions that inform cans can stop it, not by waiting for chord with alumni mainstream U.S. discourse about the Barack Obama to “[help] the Israelis readers. Israel-Palestine “conflict”: that it is an and Palestinians cut a deal,” but by plac- “A spectacular tribute to two cham- armed struggle between two equally ing pressure on our own government pions,” POSS PARHAM ’52 wrote. “Jay powerful sides, and that the United to end its support for Israel’s belliger- received the Class of 1952 Special Serv- States is a neutral third party. But by ent actions. To find “a part of the world ice Award in 2002 that expressed our every measure, the overwhelming pre- where reason is often in short supply,” thanks for, among many other things, ponderance of force is on the side of we need look no further than our own P ‘what must be one of the greatest lega- Israeli military occupation. The occu- State Department. cies of service to Princeton of all times.’ 5 pation is a matter of consistent, long- JACOB DENZ ’10 Our gratitude will continue forever.” term Israeli policy, as are the new Brooklyn, N.Y. JEAN HENDRY *80 commented: “Thanks settlements that continue to arise in so much for bringing Sherrerd and the Palestinian territories. I really enjoyed the article on Daniel PHOTOS: Mathey to life for those of us not fortu- The magic moment of the article in Kurtzer. One issue I would have liked PRINCETON

nate enough to have known them.” COURTESY which “hundreds of thousands of him to address is the money U.S. tax- “Gregg Lange has an uncanny gift

Israelis living in West Bank settlements payers spend to keep the peace. We pay UNIVERSITY

ANNE for telling stories in an exceedingly suddenly are inside Israel proper as billions to Egypt to keep them from entertaining way,” wrote HENRY VON SHERRERD areas outside the 1967 boundaries are invading Israel, and we pay billions to ARCHIVES; KOHORN ’66. “Locomotives by the score absorbed” (ta-da!) reads especially Israel to help them deter others from *87 for Sherrerd, Mathey ... and Lange.” transparently in light of these long- attacking. What does the ambassador term policies. Like the much-vaunted think would happen if we stopped all

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Inbox FROM THE EDITOR aid, and told the parties we would consider resuming aid when they get seri- In advance of the event, he’d received a bonded leather book in which alumni provided ous about an accord? updates about their professional and personal lives, and before bed, he’d taken to reading JOHN SCHUYLER ’59 aloud from it in tones of scorn and disbelief. …We didn’t have to go to the reunion, I Dillon, Mont. pointed out once, eliciting a snappish rebuttal: Of course we had to go! What kind of chump skipped Reunions? — From American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld “Is an Israel-Palestine peace deal still possible? Dan Kurtzer says yes” includes Reunions long has had an outsized role in fiction. In This three pages of text, and the nearest it Side of Paradise, Amory Blaine gets caught up in this scene: “ ... in the tents there comes to mentioning Israel’s de facto was great reunion under the orange-and-black banners that curled and strained in control of the U.S. Congress is “the the wind ... while the classes swept by in a panorama of life.” Outsider Nathaniel political pressures [on Obama] of re- Clay attends Reunions in The Final Club, by Geoffrey Wolff ’60. More recently, 30 election.” Weird, man, weird. Rock’s Jack Donaghy laments a lost opportunity to impress his friends: “I wish I CHARLES W. MCCUTCHEN ’50 had a Princeton reunion right now.” Bethesda, Md. One of the most moving things ever written about Reunions is nonfiction, a 1976 essay by Anne Rivers Siddons s’48: “Reunions Make Me Cry” (read it at PAW’s story on Professor Dan Kurtzer paw.princeton.edu). She had expected to laugh at the silliness of the P-rade, but was profiles a reasonable man and expert touched to tears when the Old Guard passed by. “It was,” she concludes, “simply a diplomat. His proposed Israel-Palestine right and good thing to honor something you loved very much as loudly and peace plan, though, reads like more wholeheartedly as you could.” Her essay made me cry. “deal” than “peace.” A diplomat/politi- Curtis Sittenfeld graduated from Stanford. But she placed an important scene in cian’s “art of the possible” sets the bar her book at Princeton Reunions — something she experienced as the daughter and too low: It’s peace without justice; sister of three enthusiastic alumni, Paul Sittenfeld ’69, Josephine Sittenfeld ’02, and righting no wrongs, providing no equi- P.G. Sittenfeld ’07. And so the author knew to ask a crucial question: What kind of table remedy, no restitution, no restor- chump skips Reunions, indeed? ing of victims’ rights. — Marilyn H. Marks *86 Kurtzer “insists his only bias is toward U.S. foreign-policy interests,” P but these are only interests of the most 6 powerful: Realpolitik can favor only ultramilitarized Israel, the illegal land- PAWPPAAW-litics:- InsideIInsid grabber and occupier, not virtually defenseless Palestine. the PresidentialPresidenntial Palestine is to make “major conces- sions.” What to concede? Palestine Campaign sought independence from the League AlumniAl i journalistsj li t sharesharh re of Nations in 1919; almost a century insights from the campaigncampaaign trail later, it’s completely Israeli-occupied but for tiny blockaded Gaza, termed Moderated by Joel AchenbachAchenbbach ’82, “the world’s largest open-air prison.” reporter, The WashingtonWashiington PostPost What peace is possible? The U.S.- favored “two-state solution” is as dead RyanRyan T.T. Anderson ’04, editor,editoor, PublicPublic Discourse as the U.N.’s 1947 partition, both killed Nick Confessore ’98, reporter,reportter, The New YorkYork TimesTimes by Israeli intransigence and expansion. Jennifer Epstein ’08, reporter,reportter, PoliticoPolitico Division and partition haven’t worked LouisLouis Jacobson ’92, senior writer,w PolitiFactPPolitiFolitiFFactact well: The Confederacy, Britain’s Irish Richard Just ’01,’01 01, editor,editor TheThhe New RepublicRepublic “home rule,” South Africa’s “home- Kathy Kiely ’77, managing editor, Sunlight FoundationFoundation lands,” divided Germany, India, Viet- Rick Klein ’98, senior WashingtonWashhington editor, ABCABC News nam, Korea — all fueled more conflict. The most formidable issue dividing Katrina vanden Heuvel ’81,’81, editor and publisher, The NationNaation Israel from the rest of the world is the ################################# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # “Jewish state,” on its face preferential and exclusionary. Restorative justice for Saturday,Saturdayy,, JuneJune 2,2, 10:3010:30 aam,m, MMcCoshcCosh HHall,all, RRoomoom 1100 Palestinians requires equal rights, ################################# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # achievable only by a unified, bi- national Israel/Palestine with no eth- Sponsored by the Princeton Alumni WWeeklyeeklyly nic/religious basis. A democratic

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secular state can resolve competing hot dry climates. Frank Lloyd Wright ger planning, zoning, construction, and claims through political means: Liberal came to visit the laboratory, carefully manufacturing failures, overwhelmed Palestinian votes would be sought by felt all the project’s components, and infrastructures and materials suppliers, progressive Israelis, and vice versa. The explained that touch helped him com- and confused intellectual-property val- grim alternative for Israel: further prehend surfaces. ues. Corporations changed the practice isolation, virtual apartheid, boycotts, Don Lyndon ’57 and I went to Hol- of architecture so that drawings and sanctions. land after graduation in 1957. Don specifications became invitations for Peace and lasting reconciliation can returned to do his master’s; I stayed in litigation between clients, builders, follow only from negotiations aimed at Europe and apprenticed with Eugene architects, and materials suppliers. democracy for all, not nonsubstantive Beaudouin, renowned Chef d’Atelier of It is refreshing to read what Claire border-tinkering. Difficult? Certainly. the Ecole des Beaux Arts and chief Maxfield *03, ARO, and Maryann Impossible, no. planner for North Africa and the south Thompson ’83 are doing. For me, too, KEN SCUDDER ’63 of France. building green means appreciating San Francisco, Calif. In 1972 I found myself managing the local microdynamics that ecologically northwest sector of the Boston Trans- vitalize and renew watersheds and real- portation Planning Review, which estate values. Designing in green stopped construction of an “inner-belt” PETER ROUDEBUSH ’57 highway, used the funds allocated to Greensboro, Vt. I appreciate your report about progress better serve Boston and its suburbs and growing interest in green design with high-speed freight and passenger The progressive work of the sustainable (feature, March 21). rail service, and buried the Central Princeton architects profiled in your I helped build the thermal helio - Artery. I returned to Europe to work March 21 issue is impressive. Side by dome in Princeton’s architectural labo- with Frank Elliott ’57 on plans for side with the architects using green ratory as an undergraduate. Victor and Mexico and a city in Saudi Arabia for practices are landscape architects pro- Aladar Olgyay were fascinating teach- the Middle East Division of the U.S. moting these innovative practices in ers. Their heliodome showed how thick Army Corps of Engineers. every phase of their work. masonry walls transfer cool night tem- Between 1957 and 1975, fuel-con- To day my profession is at the fore- peratures to interiors during the day in sumptive ideas hatched bigger and big- continues on page 10 P 7 JOHN CONSTABLE: Princeton and the Oil Sketches from the Gothic Revival: Victoria and Albert Museum 1870 - 1930 On view through June 10 On view through June 24

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to prove your hypothesis if you don’t Who should be admitted to elite schools? go through with the experiment? In a Perspective essay in the April 4 issue, Tamara Sorell ’81 described how she had MELANIE PAPASIAN ’03 advised her daughter not to apply to Princeton and other elite schools, saying she feared Rockville, Md. that admission policies “have reached the point where students who don’t have elaborately financed résumés and top-tier academic preparation cannot compete.” Following are As an interviewer with the Alumni excerpts from alumni responses; longer versions of their comments can be found at PAW Schools Committee (who has never Online. Add your view by posting a comment at paw.princeton.edu. seen one of her interviewed students accepted) and a parent of two young Like Tamara Sorell, we both have been children, I have increasing concerns interviewing for the ASC for several about the quality of admission deci- years — but unlike her, we have been sions. Who decides the criteria for privileged to interview students from admission, and could more people, every imaginable walk of life, and one beyond the admission office, be thing is abundantly clear to us: There is involved? Could alumni have a greater no “typical” Princeton applicant. say in this process? Getting into college these days is The ASC coordinator in my state hard, no doubt about it. The odds are reminds her interviewers that the steeper than ever before, particularly at admission committee does not just the top. But Sorell is mistaken if she accept amazing individuals, it wants to thinks that any particular group has an “shape a class as a whole.” But what do advantage, and she has done her daugh- these words really mean, and what do ter a grave disservice by suggesting that they obscure? her background makes her worse NOOR O’NEILL BORBIEVA ’96 equipped to compete than any other Fort Wayne, Ind. applicant. The odds are certainly tough, but they are tough for everybody. The “I find it distressing and Tamara, you write, “I cannot suggest best thing any student can do is to be disheartening that parents how the selection process could be P true to her passions and to herself, and shifted to consider criteria beyond the 8 to keep trying. would tell their children constellation of expensive achieve- JESSICA BRONDO ’04 ‘not to bother’ applying to ments.” I think the answer here is sim- Founder and CEO, New York, N.Y. ple: Just shift it. Make a decision as an The Edge in College Preparation top schools, no matter institution to consider character as well JENNY (SCHANBACHER) MARLOWE ’04 what their circumstances.” as accomplishments. Recognize that The Edge chief admission counselor — Melanie Papasian ’03 some students won’t rise to their full Los Angeles,Calif. height by 11th grade, and accept that their parents are too busy “just responsibility for building leaders, not We also advised our daughter not to making it,” are overlooked by the elite just burnishing them. bother applying to Princeton, and I’m schools. It is such a loss for all involved. With their relentless marketing, still sad about it. She’s a top student, KATHERINE CLELAND ’83 admission departments all over have so with grades, classes, and SATs that rival Corvallis, Ore. increased the numbers of applications my own when I was admitted to they have to process that I can’t imag- Princeton. ... For this well-rounded, I find it distressing and disheartening ine they have time to give thoughtful interesting, and interested student, we that parents would tell their children consideration to each applicant, their knew she wouldn’t have a chance. How “not to bother” applying to top protestations notwithstanding. Unfor- do I know? I’ve served on the alumni schools, no matter what their circum- tunately, I don’t think any of this really committee and have interviewed stances. By the reasoning you give, the will stop until the marketing push does. dozens of applicants to Princeton, and message that is ultimately conveyed is, SUSAN KORONES GIFFORD ’79 came to the same conclusion. Only “Due to circumstances beyond your Montclair, N.J. those elite few, many of whom are control, doors are closed to you.” Seri- catered to or driven by parent “man- ously? How defeatist is that? I would I have long thought that the best path agers,” are the ones who have enough worry about any future in which chil- for Princeton admissions would be to accolades to make it in. The mature, dren are not being encouraged to at accept students by way of a lottery (this independent students who make their least try to get what they want — and has most likely been suggested by others own way and their own choices, either who consequently are learning that in the past). The main function of the by choice or by their parents’ decision rejection is always worse than never admission office would be to establish not to helicopter, or by dint of the fact having tried at all. How are you going the major pool for the lottery by simply

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weeding out the few applicants who do not seem to have the capability of making it through any significant university program. Most applicants to Princeton are already self-selecting and capable of graduating from Princeton. Perhaps the admission office could be allowed to select, say, 20 percent of the admissions. DONALD D. KASARDA *61 Thursday,Thursdayy,, May 31, throughththrhrough Sunday,Sunday, June 3, 20122 Berkeley, Calif. Once you get to campuspus for the big weekend, use 5HXQLRQV0RELOH5HXQLRQV0RE OL H on your smarsmartphonetphone or other This spring in Connecticut, Princeton 8FCFOBCMFEEFWJDFUPmOEPVUBMMZPVOFFEUPLOPXþ8FCFOBCMFEEFWJDFUPmOEPVUBMMZPVOFFEUPLOPXþ admitted 21 of 114 (18.4 percent) of private/parochial school applicants, but 3ODQ\RXUVRFLDOFDOHQGDUZLWKWKH5HXQLRQV3ODQ\RXUVRFLDOFDOHQGDUZ WL KWKH5HXQLRQV only 5 of 75 (6.7 percent) from public 6FKHGXOHRI2SHQ(YHQWV6FKHGXOHRI2SHQ(YHQWV schools. After 42 years as an educator, 6HHLQUHDOWLPHZKHUHWKHFDPSXVVKXWWOHLV6HHLQUHDO LW PHZKHUHWKHFDPSXVVKXW OW HLV I’m well aware that the variation in the /RFDWHLPSRUWDQWSODFHVKHDGTXDUWHUVEDQGV/RFDWHLPSRUWDQWSODFHVKHDGTXDUWHUVEDQGV quality of typical public-school gradu- UHVWURRPVDQGPRUHUHVWURRP VDQGPR UH ates is greater than among those who 9LHZSKRWRVSRVWHGWKURXJKRXWWKHZHHNHQG9LHZSKRWRVSRVWHGWKURXJKRXWWKHZHHNHQG attended private schools; however, I )ROORZ#SWRQUHXQLRQVIRUXSGDWHVDQGDOHUWV)R OO RZ#SWRQUHXQLRQVIRUXSGDWHVDQGDOHUWV doubt that the degree of difference )LQGWKHZRUGVWR3ULQFHWRQFKHHUVDQGVRQJV)LQGWKHZRUGVWR3ULQFHWRQFKHHUVDQGVRQJV among the best students amounts to $FFHVV:35%ҋVOLYHVWUHDPRIWKH$FFHVV:35%ҋV LO YHVWUHDPRIWKH nearly three to one. ILUHZRUNVVRXQGWUDFN LI UHZRUNVVRXQGWUDFN The message from Ms. Sorell, other alumni I’ve communicated with who http://m.princeton.edu/reunionshttp://m.princeton.edu/rn.edu/reunions have interviewed applicants for Prince- ton, and me, is that the statistics suggest that Admissions is being overly swayed by essentially superficial P achievements (the résumé arms race). 'HSDUWPHQWRI$UWDQG$UFKDHRORJ\ 9 Mainly, the result is Princeton’s loss. “A Red Sauce Trattoria with Style” MURPH SEWALL ’64 - NY Times 5(81,21/(&785( “The Best Jersey Restaurants of 2008” Windham, Conn. - The Star Ledger 3URIHVVRU5DFKDHO'H/XH I was once one of those “independent motivated young folks who were eco- nomically less privileged” (an immi- grant living in Newark, N.J.), yet I managed to apply and gain admission to Princeton and other elite schools. This opportunity still exists today for The ﬁnest Italian cuisine in a warm qualified students, regardless of their European setting, blending Old World economic status. recipes with NY Soho style. This year I interviewed five students from various schools for Princeton, and Pesce e Pasta $UWDQG6FLHQFHLQ$PHULFD Visit our Raw Seafood Bar. none of them was admitted, but 100 ,QWHUVHFWLRQVDQG&ROOLVLRQV All Seafood hand-picked by Camillo at the percent of the inner-city “less-privileged” Fulton Fish Market. All pasta housemade. youth that I mentor have been admitted )ULGD\-XQH Camillo Tortola to “elite schools” such as Princeton, Classically trained in Italy, Chef/Owner/Sommelier 0F&RUPLFN+DOO30 Stanford, and Columbia. It certainly is www.camilloscafe.net more difficult today to gain admission 301 North Harrison Street, Princeton to Princeton with the applicant pool 3URIHVVRU'H/XH¶VDUHDRI (In the Princeton Shopping Center) 609.252.0608 having increased by 95 percent in the VSHFLDOL]DWLRQLVWKHKLVWRU\RI past eight years, but the system still $PHULFDQDUWDQGYLVXDOFXOWXUH hassle-free parking ZLWKSDUWLFXODUIRFXVRQLQWHUVHFWLRQV Serving Lunch: Mon-Sat 11:30-2:30 works, despite occasional hiccups. EHWZHHQDUWDQGVFLHQFHDQGWKH Dinner Every Evening: 5pm to Close TONY RODRIGUEZ ’79 KLVWRU\RI$IULFDQ$PHULFDQDUW PRIVATE PARTY ROOM NOW AVAILABLE San Diego, Calif. Book Your Special Event with Camillo

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Inbox Inbox continued from page 7 rejoined the Princeton community in Fox and the Ghost Army front of sustainable planning and site the development office for 10 years. design; we soon will go public with a Was there hardship for Dad and his What a delight to read about Fred Fox LEED-like system, the Sustainable Sites generation? You bet. But the legacy of ’39 (cover story, March 21). I heard of Initiative, or SITES, which defines a his Princeton experience served him in him as an undergraduate and later voluntary rating system for design and ways far beyond monetary rewards, just from a member of the 1981 football construction outside the building skin. as that legacy will serve the current team — Fox was evidently an enthusi- As a project manager for one of the generation in their own altered paths. astic football supporter and attended SITES pilot projects, I am helping to JANE M. HEWSON ’77 k’33 k’57 k’73 every practice. test sustainable guidelines for water, Jamaica, Vt. The exploits of the “Ghost Army” soil, vegetation, materials, and human were fascinating — and what a shame welfare. Emphasizing regeneration (not One long and loud locomotive to to have kept the story classified for so just conservation and restoration), the Hilary Levey Friedman *09 (Perspec- long. I seem to remember that there system will provide a nationwide guide tive, March 21) for “marching to her was another ghost army in the United for design, construction, operations, own drummer” (in paraphrase of that Kingdom before the Normandy inva- and maintenance of landscapes, with consummate courtier of conscience, sion — commanded by Gen. George and without buildings. Henry David Thoreau). Ms. Friedman’s Patton, who was very much afraid that CECE TURNER HAYDOCK ’75 professed penchant to counter conven- was to be his only contribution to the Locust Valley, N.Y. tion carries on the same inspiring spirit invasion of Europe! that motivated Fred Fox ’39 to chal- There is one “infidelity” (as “Buzzer” lenge his Ghost Army command dur- Hall once commented about my senior An unexpected path’s rewards ing World War II, critiquing that “There thesis) in the discussion of the three is too much MILITARY ... and not jeeps. The major general is unlikely to I read with interest the article “Altered enough SHOWMANSHIP” in his spe- have ridden in the rear seat of the jeep. Paths” (feature, March 7). The stories cialized deception unit (cover story, The senior officer in a jeep, then and brought to mind the pathway our dad, March 21). The adopted unorthodox now, rides in the front seat, beside the Bill Hewson, took after his graduation suggestions of Mr. Fox contributed driver. from Princeton in 1933. No question directly to the damning defeat of Ger- We have a senior historian of the P times are very tough for recent Prince- many’s führer, under whose frightening Defense Department living in our 10 ton grads, but imagine matriculating to facism any such free thinking was vir- retirement community, and I will pass Princeton in 1929. His father owned a tually verboten. this PAW along to him. I am sure he specialist firm on Wall Street, which The iconoclasm of Ms. Friedman will enjoy it as much as I did. Many not surprisingly was hit hard in the and Mr. Fox is reflected also in the thanks, and keep up the good work. Depression. From our dad’s perspec- enigmatic story of Moe Berg ’23, the BROADUS BAILEY JR. ’51 tive, Wall Street was not only a high- major-league baseball-playing linguist Colonel, U.S. Army (retired) risk profession, but its future must have whose nuclear spying career led discon- Falls Church, Va. been unclear. certingly to his final two decades in So he followed his gut, and took a near homelessness (Campus Notebook, job as a trainee at the Brooklyn Union March 21). As endearingly described by Science, purpose, meaning Gas Co. after graduation — after all, journalist Lou Jacobson ’92, Mr. Berg utilities weren’t going anywhere. Dur- was a “complex and flawed person” but To continue the discussion about ing his first summer, he painted the nonetheless a genius who chose coura- “truth-seekers on campus” (letters, Elmhurst gas tanks by day, and partied geously to blaze his own special trail. March 21): Descartes launched modern with his pals in New York City at night. These curiously connected stories of philosophy and the scientific method When he retired at age 55 as the execu- March 21 distinguish the Princeton with an assertion that man could reach tive vice president of the company, he Alumni Weekly once again as a consis- the truth through his own reason and probably was as surprised as anyone to tently fascinating read. My take-away is logic. We are all aware of the tremen- look back on his choice — surely not that the road less traveled is not always dous benefits this approach has the career path he had imagined, but the easiest path, but it is one frequently yielded, but we also should recognize one that brought him great satisfac- followed by the clearest conscience. So that it has come at the expense of a tion. From his position at Brooklyn thank you for your story, Hilary Levey greatly reduced experience of ourselves Union, he served on the boards of the Friedman, and for leading the analo- — human beings now are merely the Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Sci- gous way in those fabulous high heels observers of objects, rather than experiences and the Brooklyn Academy of of yours. You go, Tiger. You are a shin- encers of existence. Science can tell us a Music, and became an active mentor ing example for us all. Sis, boom, ah! lot about our world, but it has very lit- for children in need through the Big ROCKY SEMMES ’79 tle to say about its purpose or meaning. Brothers organization. After retiring, he Alexandria, Va. If academic values are in contradiction

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to the search for purpose and meaning, then so much for academia! Finally, it is also worth pointing out that as this is written, Jewish Princeto- nians around the world — religious and secular alike — will celebrate the holiday of Passover, and will recount to Divas, Darlings, and Dames: their children the story of the Exodus from Egypt. No nation, before or after, Women in Broadway Musicals of the 1960s has ever had the audacity to claim that 3 million people all experienced a 7KHLPDJHRI WKH6LQJOH*LUO²VDVV\VH[XDODQGHPSOR\HG²ZDV revelation of Divinity together (as DVWDSOHRIVSRSXODUFXOWXUH%URDGZD\PXVLFDOVLQFOXGLQJ revelation narratives involving lone 2OLYHU 0DQ RI /D 0DQFKD 0DPH +HOOR 'ROO\ &DEDUHWDQG 6ZHHW individuals are much more difficult to refute!). The unbroken chain of tradi- &KDULW\ SUHVHQWHGVLQJLQJDQGGDQFLQJYHUVLRQVRI WKLVÀJXUH+RZ GLGWKHSHUIRUPDQFHRI IHPLQLQLW\RQ%URDGZD\FRQYHUVHZLWK86 tion passed from father to son may or FXOWXUHLQWKHPLG·V" may not persuade, but it certainly con- -RLQ 6WDF\ :ROI 3URIHVVRU RI 7KHDWHU LQ WKH /HZLV &HQWHU stitutes “evidence” and should not be IRU WKH $UWV 'LUHFWRU RI WKH 3ULQFHWRQ $WHOLHU DQG DXWKRU RI disregarded so flippantly. JAKE GREENBERG ’00 &KDQJHG IRU *RRG $ )HPLQLVW +LVWRU\ RI WKH %URDGZD\ 0XVLFDO IRU D London, U.K. PXOWLPHGLDSUHVHQWDWLRQ )ULGD\-XQHQRRQ²SP The lesson Italy provides

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Barnett to admit Meredith to the university. Ultimately, JFK sent in the National Guard. Violence ensued and two people died in the subsequent con- frontation, but Meredith was admitted. On June 11, 1963, Nicholas Katzen- 7+(%($5'('/$'<',6($6( bach, under orders from JFK, accompa- 7+(&203/(7((',7,21 nied Vivian Malone and James Hood and stood eyeball to eyeball with George ¢ȱ ǯȱȱ¢ Wallace at the entrance of the Foster Auditorium at the University of Ala- bama. Again, resistance was encoun- 0DQNLQGKDVORQJVHDUFKHGIRUWKHFDXVH tered; Kennedy federalized the Alabama DQGPHDQLQJRIPDGQHVV National Guard to enforce his order, and Malone and Hood gained admission. 7KHTXRWDWLRQVLQWKLV On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers was FRPELQHGHGLWLRQRI9ROXPHV2QHDQG7ZRRIWKLVERRN assassinated in Mississippi, and rioting erupted. John Doar returned to Missis- HDFKIROORZHGE\DQH[SODQDWRU\FRPPHQW sippi, and his intervention was critical ³LQDGGLWLRQWRRWKHUFRQÀUPDWRU\DUWLFOHVDQGPDWHULDO³ to restoring calm to the situation. SRLQWLQH[RUDEO\WRWKHIDFWRURIXQFRQVFLRXV When Doar arrived in Jackson, he shouted, “My name is John Doar, D-O- ELVH[XDOFRQÁLFWJHQGHUFRQIXVLRQDVIRUPLQJWKHEDVLF A-R, I’m from the Justice Department, HWLRORJLFDOUROHLQDOOIXQFWLRQDOPHQWDOLOOQHVV and anybody here knows I stand for what is right.” LQFOXGLQJVFKL]RSKUHQLD It has been almost 50 years since 0DGQHVVKDVEHHQWKHLQVWLJDWRURIVRPXFK these Princetonians helped desegregate VXIIHULQJDQGGHVWUXFWLRQWKURXJKRXWWKHDJHV higher education in the South. The young men and women who receive WKDWLWLVYLWDOO\LPSRUWDQWWRXQFRYHULWV P the Princeton awards in race relations PHFKDQLVPVIRUZLWKRXWGRLQJVRLWZLOOQHYHU 13 this year are the rightful heirs of this rich legacy made possible, in large EHSRVVLEOHWRHUDGLFDWHLW measure, by Princetonians. KEVIN R. LOUGHLIN ’71 7RRUGHU)URPERRNVWRUHVRUGLUHFWO\IURP Boston, Mass. WKHSXEOLVKHUDW H[W Reservation experiences $YDLODEOHLQHERRNRUVRIWFRYHU ,6%1 VF It was good to read about David Treuer ’92 and his book (Alumni Scene, April :::6&+,=23+5(1,$7+(%($5'('/$'<',6($6(&20 4). Having served Native Americans in Maine and New Mexico, it was of great interest. I also like Blood and Thunder! I’ve written a memoir including our Native American experiences, Ride the Revitalizing Barbershop Wind. It may be of interest — available through Amazon or bookstores. Among - Chapter by Chapter - our reservation experiences was our Everyone talks about the “Membership Problem.” work with Albuquerque Urban Indians 4M International Harmony Consulting Company, LLC and how important it was for returning has been formed to resolve this issue and to revitalize chapters. periodically to their reservations. The “4M” in our name stands for Music, Membership, Money HENRY L. BIRD ’50 and Morale, the four basic elements needed to have a thriving Harpswell, Maine chapter. Find out more about this novel effort and how you can participate in restoring our hobby to great health. Every story, letter, and memorial at Contact Jack Pinto, 609 339-0034 or [email protected] paw.princeton.edu offers a chance to comment.

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Liz Gough ’07 With best wishes, In 2006, when Liz Gough ’07 was a junior, she managed the crew Co-Chair, Class of 2007’s of the Class of 1966’s 40th Reunion. A fun job but still a lot of work, 5th Reunion Gough put in many hours under the guidance of that storied class. 5IFmSTUUPBDLOPXMFEHFIFSPXODPNQFUJUJWFTUSFBL (PVHIXJUI IFSDSFXQVUVQBmFSDFmHIUGPSUIFDPWFUFE$MBODZ"XBSE XIJDI recognizes the most outstanding Reunion crew. But the award went to the crew led by her classmate Mike Ott for the Class of 3FVOJPOUIFmSTUUJNFJOTFWFSBMEFDBEFTUIBUBUI3FVOJPO crew had won.

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Friday, June 1, through Saturday, June 2, 2012

A Reunions tradition for over forty years, the Alumni-Faculty Forums (AFFs) bring together alumni panelists from the major reunion classes for discussions of a broad range of timely or timeless topics. Moderated by members of the faculty or administration, the forums attract roughly 2,000 alumni and guests each year.

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A moment with . . . Deirdre Moloney, on Princeton’s fellowship success

Rhodes scholarships. Will we continue We are trying to get to do this well? Princeton“ students to I would caution you that these think about a broader things can be cyclical. While I am optimistic that we can continue to range of fellowships. do well, we don’t make the final ” decisions on who receives these This has been a banner year for Princeton awards. What we will continue to students seeking postgraduate scholarships do is create a very supportive and fellowships, according to Deirdre climate for students who want to Moloney, the director of fellowship advising. apply. Final results were not known by mid-April, but fellowship winners included three Three of this year’s Rhodes scholars are seniors and one 2011 graduate who were women. Have you made particular named Rhodes scholars (the most since efforts to encourage more women to 1990), five Marshall scholars, and five apply for these awards? Gates Cambridge scholars. Moloney, who I have made sure that women began her job in July 2010, discussed the also feel that they are excellent can- University’s recent success and her efforts didates for fellowships and scholar- to increase student interest in these ships. It was very helpful that the programs. report of the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership [released in March 2011] specifically P To what do you attribute Princeton’s recent success? recommended that we increase efforts to encourage women 17 It is hard to pinpoint specific reasons for why we are doing to apply for these awards. That created a lot of awareness, and well, but I think that a lot of the things that Princeton stu- many faculty have let me know about female students who dents are involved in make them strong candidates for fel- might be good candidates. lowships — specifically, their leadership activities, the close relationships they develop with faculty, their original Has competition for these scholarships increased? research work, and the global perspective many of them Many more universities across the country have recognized now have. that these programs provide a good experience that they should open up to their students. In some cases there are What efforts have you made to increase interest in these programs? slightly fewer fellowships available than there were a decade We have tried to build awareness by improving our elec- or more ago, but more people are applying for them. So we tronic communications, not only through our office’s website, are trying to get Princeton students to think about a broader but through Facebook and other social-media outlets. We also range of fellowships that might be great opportunities for are trying to reach out earlier, to freshmen and sophomores. them. Luce scholarships [in Asia], for example, are a great opportunity. There are many new types of Fulbright scholar- Princeton students usually aren’t shrinking violets. Does your ships as well. Students who wanted to go to medical school office have to encourage them to apply? used to go straight from college; now they are being encour- Students often need to be encouraged to think that they aged to take a few years off, and a Fulbright could offer them might be good candidates. Sometimes it’s a faculty member an excellent experience to do research or clinical work. who first raises it with them. Other times it is someone a student worked with outside of class — someone in, say, the What benefits do students get from these programs? Office of Religious Life or Outdoor Action. Many times, stu- They provide students with an excellent global experience dents I meet with say they never thought about applying for and enable them to develop their own interests. They enable a fellowship. We can point out that they have the profile of a them to delve more deeply into something they found inter- very strong candidate. esting as a junior or senior at Princeton. They also make them very attractive to graduate schools and employers. π

SCHAEFER Princeton students earned more Marshall scholarships this year

BEVERLY than any other university and had the second-highest number of — Interview conducted and condensed by Mark F. Bernstein ’83

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is very special,” said Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye. Princeton Preview events The April courtship period — accepted students had until May 1 to make their decisions — is critical. This offer final chance to recruit year the University offered admission to 2,095 students, or 7.9 percent of the When Mark Pullins ’13 attended the two-day Princeton 26,664 applicants for the Class of 2016. Preview program as a high school senior, he sat in on a “The recruitment in April is more important than it was 10 or 15 years math class. When it ended, the professor invited him ago,” Rapelye said. “These students have and a few other admitted students to the department’s excellent choices, and we want to make afternoon tea, a gathering of faculty and students that sure they understand all the resources Princeton has for them. When admit- has been held daily in Fine Hall since the 1930s. A few ted students visit campus, we have minutes later, Pullins was shaking hands with leg- found, there is a greater probability endary mathematician Andrew Wiles, who famously they will enroll.” In April, more than 1,300 students proved Fermat’s Last Theorem. (about 62 percent of those admitted) For a math lover, meeting Wiles was of experience the University hopes this arrived on campus to meet professors, “the equivalent of seeing a rock star,” year’s admitted students had during the hear a capella groups, eat college food Pullins said. “It’s all we could talk Princeton Preview programs, held — and decide whether to enroll at about for the rest of the trip.” That April 19–21 and 26 –28. the University. The percentage of stu- P interaction — and his conversations “We want students to realize that dents who accepted Princeton’s offer, 18 with other math faculty members — they can have close personal relation- known as the yield, was 57 percent contributed to Pullins’ decision to ships with faculty members, that the last spring. choose Princeton. It was just the kind academic mentoring that goes on here In 2008, Princeton Preview expanded

S Princeton joins consortium to offer free online classes

W Princeton is teaming up with Stanford, the University of ing and learning on our campus,” said Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania to make lec- Clayton Marsh ’85, deputy dean of E tures and other classroom materials available online for free. the college. The University is paying The four schools are partnering with Coursera the costs associated with developing N (www.cousera.org), a company founded last year by two the Coursera offerings to encourage Stanford computer-science professors. Coursera’s offerings innovations in teaching methods at Clayton Marsh ’85

E include video lectures with interactive quizzes and assign- Princeton, he said. ments and discussion forums. No credit or certificate will be Duneier said his six-week online summer coursework H offered to those who take the classes. “won’t be the same as my Princeton class, but will have some

T Among the 39 courses listed by Coursera in an April 18 overlap with it.” He said he looks forward to seeing how his announcement were eight by Princeton faculty members: class translates to a global audience. “In sociology, there are a “Introduction to Sociology,” taught by Professor Mitchell wide variety of ways of looking at a problem,” he said. “The F Duneier; “A History of the World Since 1300” by Professor perspectives of the people taking the class matter a great deal.” Jeremy Adelman; two courses on analytic combinatorics by His class will have two sessions per week: a 50-minute lec- BRIAN O

Professor Robert Sedgewick; two courses on algorithms by ture with embedded quizzes and videos, and a seminar-style WILSON/OFFICE Sedgewick and senior lecturer Kevin Wayne; computer archi- discussion of course readings. Essays will be evaluated

P tecture by assistant professor David Wentzlaff; and statistics through peer grading; there will be midterm and final exams. OF

by senior lecturer Andrew Conway. In the first eight days, Both Marsh and Duneier stressed that there is much more COMMUNICATIONS

O 78,000 people signed up for the Princeton offerings. to learning at Princeton than what will be offered through The University’s primary interest is to experiment with Coursera, in terms of both student/faculty interaction and T Web-based platforms to see how they might “enhance teach- the residential-college experience. By W.R.O.

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from one to two Thursday-through-Sat- Edward Champlin. “We’re also happy ents, siblings, and grandparents, Rapelye urday sessions so that students with to see anyone in person, and usually said. Parents had their own reception busy schedules — which may include some drop by or make appointments,” with President Tilghman and Rapelye, trips to other schools hosting programs he said. “I just spent a half hour on and about 300 families made appoint- — can fit in a visit. Princeton’s peers Monday with a nice guy trying to ments or dropped in to talk to finan- have similar events, some for two week- decide among Princeton, Stanford, cial-aid officers, said Robin Moscato, ends, some for one, and some over and Yale.” Princeton’s financial-aid director. weekdays. At faculty panel discussions, profes- “Many are looking to ask questions Prospective students want to know, sors described their courses and took about specific parts of the aid process,” “What is my life going to be like she said, and they get “a prompt here?” Rapelye said. To answer PRINCETON PREVIEW ATTENDANCE has been response to concerns.” that question, students were rising steadily. Numbers for 2012 were not The University offers financial whisked through a packed sched- available in mid-April, but the admission office assistance to several hundred stu- ule of panel discussions, eating- expected a slight increase over last year. dents a year to make the trip to club open houses, and meals with campus for Princeton Preview, YEAR STUDENTS FAMILY MEMBERS TOTAL their student hosts — they slept Moscato said. 2011 1,312 754 2,066 in their hosts’ rooms — before Admitted students were invited departing Saturday morning. A 2010 1,188 680 1,868 to an open house at the Lewis performing-arts event featured 2009 1,150 639 1,789 Center for the Arts, said Michael opera, dance, and improvisational 2008 1,043 587 1,630 Cadden, acting chairman of the comedy; the engineering school center. “Hearing what your peers held an ice-cream social; and campus questions. “Usually the students are have to say probably matters most in groups showcased their specialties at choosing between fantastic universi- this process,” he said. “We’re slowly the activities fair. ties, and what they really want to know changing the perception out there that Admitted students received emails or is, ‘Am I going to be happy here?’” said Princeton isn’t as ‘artsy’ as some of our phone calls from the departments and sociology professor Miguel Centeno. sister institutions.” programs in which they expressed an A common concern is Princeton’s Changing — or forming — stu- interest, inviting the students to sit in grade-deflation policy, he said, with dents’ perceptions can be a tricky busi- on classes or simply ask questions. students asking, “Isn’t it really much ness. “But we have to leave the decision P About half the students contacted by harder to get an A? Should I be worried up to them,” Rapelye said. “We’ve cho- 19 the classics department responded with about my GPA if I come to Princeton?” sen them, and now they need to choose questions, said department chairman Admitted students come with par- us.” π By J.A. and Allie Weiss ’13

A comic tale of failure, change, and math Tracy K. Smith awarded Thirty-five years after being Pulitzer Prize for poetry “traumatized” by introduc- tory calculus, the Dillon Assistant professor Tracy K. Smith got a Pool swimming test, and big surprise on her 40th birthday — the other ordeals, Josh Korn- Pulitzer Prize for poetry. After returning bluth ’80 returned to cam- from an April 16 run near her home in pus April 5 for a public Brooklyn, her husband lecture titled “The Mathe- greeted her with the news matics of Change: A Comic he had read online. Monologue About Failure at A faculty member since Princeton.” 2006, Smith won the WATCH: Josh Kornbluth ’80 performs the math trick of Kornbluth’s tale followed prize for her third poetry

casting out nines @ paw.princeton.edu the arc of his life from the FROM: collection, Life on Mars.

age of 9 — when his math- “MATHEMATICS The Pulitzer Prize citation called the book teacher father convinced him he was destined to become the greatest mathematician who ever “a collection of bold, skillful poems, taking readers into the universe and moving them lived — through his freshman year at Princeton, when Math 101 spelled the end of that dream. OF

CHANGE” During his 75-minute talk, Kornbluth, a professional monologuist, filled the blackboards at the to an authentic mix of joy and pain.” JASON DECROW/AP

front of McCosh 50 with mathematical formulas. But he addressed broader themes of his college BY The poems deal with grief, the dark years as well, describing them later to The Daily Princetonian as “How do we deal with failure? JOSH moments of human life, and the universe

KORNBLUTH How do we deal with things that are impossible to get through, and how do we get through them?” and were influenced by her late father, who IMAGES Kornbluth majored in political science, but did not graduate after failing to complete his thesis. worked on the Hubble Telescope. He hopes to receive his degree based on “Citizen Josh,” another of his performance pieces. ’80 paw.princeton.edu • May 16, 2012 Princeton Alumni Weekly 18-29paw0516_Notebook_NotebookTest4 4/27/12 10:02 PM Page 20

Campusnotebook FACULTY BOOKSHELF: ELAINE PAGELS The historical roots of an apocalyptic text

The Book of Revelation is one of the Pagels is an expert in early most popular books in history. Its vivid Christianity. She received wide rendering of the last judgment as a bat- acclaim for her book The Gnos- tle between the forces of God and tic Gospels, which introduced Satan has inspired writers as diverse as the Gospel of Thomas and other John Milton, William Blake, and James early Christian texts to the gen- Baldwin. In her new book, Revelations: eral reader. In her new book, Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book Pagels writes that many revela- of Revelation (Viking), religion profes- tion texts were composed in the sor Elaine Pagels explains the historical early years of Christianity. Yet roots of this apocalyptic text and how like the Gnostic Gospels — it became the last book in the New Tes- ancient wisdom teachings that tament. were considered heterodox by The author of Revelation, Pagels some early Christian leaders — they of Jesus’ disciples. After Jewish rebels writes, “wants to speak to the urgent were not included in the New Testa- were crushed by Roman forces in question that people have asked ment canon, often for political reasons. Judea, John fled to the island of Pat- throughout human history ... How The author of the Book of Revela- mos. Inspired by visions and still reel- JERRY

long will evil prevail, and when will tion was John of Patmos, a prophet ing from the Roman destruction of the PAGE justice be done?” who belonged to the second generation Jewish Temple, John began writing.

P 20 MORE FACULTY BOOKS analyzes the company’s transition from director of the Program in Judaic a family business to one owned by a Studies. ... Students and colleagues of Classics professor nonprofit foundation. ... JANET Y. CHEN WEN C. FONG ’51 *58, professor emeritus of ROBERT A. KASTER takes examines the lives of the urban poor in art history and art readers along the China during the early 20th century, and archaeology, con- ancient highway the when poverty became part of the tributed nearly 40 Appian Way from the national conversation, essays on Chinese, center of Rome to the in Guilty of Indigence: Japanese, and Korean heel of Italy. He tells The Urban Poor in art history to Bridges the story of the road and the people China, 1900–1953 to Heaven: Essays on who traveled it — from a footsore (Princeton University East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen Roman soldier to craftsmen and pious Press). She also C. Fong (Department of Art and pilgrims headed to Jerusalem — in The explores Chinese atti- Archaeology/Princeton University Appian Way: Ghost Road, Queen of Roads tudes toward urban poverty and the Press). The two volumes address topics (University of Chicago Press). “No road development of policies intended to ranging from early jades to photogra- in Europe has been so heavily traveled, alleviate it. Chen is an assistant profes- phy, and modern museum practice. The by so many different people, with so sor of history and East Asian studies. ... editors are JEROME SILBERGELD *69, profes- many different aims, over so many gen- In The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and sor of Chinese art history at Princeton erations,” he writes. ... In Krupp: A His- Christianity Shaped and director of Princeton’s Tang Center tory of the Legendary German Firm Each Other (Princeton for East Asian Art; DORA C.Y. CHING *11, (Princeton University Press), HAROLD University Press), PETER the Tang Center’s associate director; JAMES explores the SCHÄFER looks at the JUDITH G. SMITH, an administrator in the Krupp family and its ways Christianity and Asian art department at the Metropoli- company, which made rabbinic Judaism influ- tan Museum of Art; and ALFREDA MURCK steel and played a cen- enced each other in *95, a guest research fellow at the Cen- tral role in arming Late Antiquity by examining the texts ter for Research on Ancient Chinese Nazi Germany. A proof those traditions. Schäfer is a profes- Painting and Calligraphy at the Palace fessor of history, James sor of Jewish studies and religion and Museum in Beijing.

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Pagels emphasizes that the Book of Revelation is “wartime literature,” and part of its popularity stems from its dreamlike depiction of the forces of evil. Readers at the time, she writes, would have cast their Roman oppres- sors in the role of Satan and his minions. “John probably used such cryptic images because open hostility to Rome could be dangerous; he may have feared reprisal,” Pagels writes. Friday, June 1, 2012 U 3:00–5:30 p.m. An influential early Christian leader, Frist Campus Center Multipurpose Rooms Irenaeus, found John’s account com- Panel and networking reception included. pelling, and argued for its inclusion in Free of charge. Advance registration requested. the New Testament. He saw John’s images of the “beast” as a dramatic Your Personal Brand: metaphor for those who persecuted the Using Social Media to Empower Your Career early Christians. Irenaeus also saw “the How do you use social media to your best advantage to land that next beast” represented in “false” Christian great gig and to network effectively? Join us at Reunions for a program believers he called heretics. that will help you get up to speed on personal branding. Our panel will John’s account was one of many reve- discuss how social media is changing the career landscape, and how sites like lation texts. Yet while John’s Revelation YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn are having an impact on relayed a startling vision, other revela- your career. You will also learn how to successfully create your own tion texts recounted more modest personal brand. encounters with revealed truth. These For information and registration, visit “secret” writings often were mystical in alumni.princeton.edu/reunions/careers/ nature, and include spiritual “dialogues” between Jesus and his disciples. Unlike P John’s Revelation, they did not pit good 21 against evil in stark terms, and presented the search for truth as a process, Did you know not a matter of doctrinal assent. that Princeton alumni can “Different as they are, they all seem return to the University at to talk about a universal vision of any time to earn a teaching humanity,” Pagels said. “It’s not just the saved and the damned, the good and license at a very low cost? the evil. But it’s about all humans and For more information, contact the how they can find the divine.” Program in Teacher Preparation Over time, the cryptic imagery in (609) 258-3336 John’s Book of Revelation allowed vari- or visit our Web page at: ous groups to appropriate the text for http://www.princeton.edu/teacher their own purposes. Following the emergence of Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century, the book was used CENTER OF THE WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC as a tool against Christians who were AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS considered unorthodox. That trend, sadly, continued for centuries. Advancing research Pagels hopes her book will bring attention to other revelation texts, and teaching on which offer a different message. “These wellbeing, health and sources invite us to recognize our own health policy truths, to find our own voice,” she writes, to seek revelation not only in historical texts, but in today’s world, www.princeton.edu/chw too. π By Maurice Timothy Reidy ’97

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the recitals, all the grades!” Agony, ecstasy of admissions The scene is both heartbreaking and hilarious, but it also hits on why the Princeton undergraduates behind spark a musical by students Admissions are uniquely suited to writing about the trials and tribulations of About halfway through Admissions: The he doesn’t even want to go to that col- applying to college. “This is a process Musical, Archie, a high school senior, is lege. “I wanted to do what my parents that all of us went through and all of us stuck in the college-admission inter- did, and what their dads did, and what agonized over,” explained senior Clay- view from hell. He answers every ques- their dads did,” the Penn legacy tells his ton Raithel, who co-wrote the play tion wrong, his interviewer seems to interviewer. “And the worst part is, I did with Dan Abromowitz ’13 and Nora hate him — and at the end of the day, everything right! All the trophies, all Sullivan ’12. “The themes in this show — self-definition, moving on to new Cast members perform a experiences, leaving your friends — number from “Admissions: speak to us directly.” The Musical.” Abromowitz, Raithel, and Sullivan have helped to write multiple Triangle Club shows. In January 2011, they decided to create their own musical. They recruited fellow Triangle Club member J.T. Glaze ’13 as director, set- tled on a concept, and began work. Admissions is very much a collabora- tive effort: It was co-produced by the

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actors, musicians, producers, and designers. The subject matter made the musical ideal for the Princeton Preview weekends in April, when admitted high school students visited campus. “It gives incoming students a great sense of the creative opportunities they could have here — they could do anything from acting to writing to directing,” explained Daniel Rattner ’13, Theatre Intime’s general manager. Though Admissions depicts applying to college in the age of the Common Application and websites like College

Confidential, Raithel said the process is LAUREN a timeless one. “On some level, apply- ZUMBACH ing to college hasn’t changed — it still

forces young adults to define them- ’13 selves and to market themselves, and I remember feeling very overwhelmed.” Sharing the buzz at the White House The writers hope that Admissions might have a second life after Prince- The University’s Bee Team – students who maintain two beehives on the West Windsor fields – paid ton, but they aren’t in any rush to get it a visit to the White House April 13. They collected tips from White House beekeeper Charlie Brandts published. “We need to figure out our (above, left) and left jars of Princeton honey for first lady Michelle Obama ’85 and for White House own lives before we figure out what’s staff members. Rocky Semmes ’79 sponsored the trip after learning that Obama had included a going to happen to this play,” Raithel beehive in the White House Kitchen Garden. said. π By Julia Bumke ’13 P 23

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WartimeincidentsinIraqinspire novel, master’s study for officer

Benjamin Buchholz GS spent a year during 2005–06 in the Iraqi village of Safwan as an Army civil-affairs officer with his Wisconsin National Guard unit. On his second day on the job, a young Iraqi girl was crushed by a semi-truck as she ran after a water bottle that one of the drivers had thrown out to children along the road. Buchholz, a captain at the time, arrived on the scene soon after the accident. The horror of that event and another that Army Maj. Benjamin year — the bombing of an American Buchholz is pursuing convoy in which two soldiers died — a master’s degree in stayed with him. Near Eastern studies. Buchholz, who arrived at Prince- ton last September to begin work on a master’s degree in Near Eastern studies while he is on active duty, drew on his wartime experiences to craft the novel One Hundred and One Nights, published by Back Bay Books in December. In the book, he explores what life is like for people who have gone through three wars in the last 30 years and live with an American presence. The book asks what might P lead someone to perpetrate a bomb- 24 ing. The Washington Post called One Hundred and One Nights “a seductive, compelling first novel that depicts war as intimate and subtle.”

The narrator of the novel is Abu Saheeh, an Iraqi native who had lived in the United States but recently has arrived in Safwan. He befriends Layla, a poor girl of about 13, who likes American popular culture and regularly stops by his shop as she roams the market area. Abu Saheeh, who seems to be running from a painful past, becomes involved in a mysterious plot. Buchholz’s unit in Iraq was in charge of escorting American military-supply con- voys from the border crossing with Kuwait to American bases throughout Iraq. As a civil-affairs officer, Buchholz tried to help the people deal with issues such as acquiring more electrical power and drinking water. But it took him so long to understand the governmental system and the culture in the village that by the time he felt he had some good ideas to improve the situation, his year was up. Buchholz decided that he needed to further study Middle East culture and history and entered the Army Foreign Area Officer Program, which involves language study, cultural immersion and regional travel, and a master’s degree. Even as he’s engaged in academic work, he’s working on another novel and writes a blog called Not Quite Right: Observations on Life in the Middle East and North Africa. “Writing helps me in no small way to process and internalize the things I’m learning about in school,” Buchholz said. He aims to gain and share a better understanding of Middle East culture. “There’s a lack of understanding in America of [that] culture,” he said. “We get way too much through 20-second news blurbs and not enough that has the depth and NERINE richness that can let us see what life is like over there from somebody else’s KERFERS perspective.” π By K.F.G.

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Smith to fill new position as VP Smart Giving… for physics lab Philanthropy That Works A.J. Stewart Smith *66, who oversees Join our discussion with three experts on the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab in philanthropic planning and learn how to his role as the University’s dean for research, will get the most from your charitable giving. take on the new position of vice president for the lab Jan. 1. Victoria Baum Bjorklund ’73, partner, Princeton has Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP begun the search for a new dean for research. PPPL is one of 10 national science John A. Edie ’66, retired director, laboratories and a major center for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP fusion-energy research. It has been operated by the University since it was created in 1951. In 2009 the Depart- ment of Energy awarded Princeton a five-year, $390 million contract to con- P tinue managing and operating the lab, Juanita T. James ’74, president and CEO, 27 with a provision to extend the contract Fairfield County Community Foundation for five additional years. “That contract called for greatly increased University oversight of the lab,” Smith said. He said he expected to spend more time in Washington, D.C., and would work to “broaden the scope Saturday June 2 9:00 a.m. of activities at the lab.” Continental breakfast will be available at 8:30 a.m. The University’s announcement of the new position came two months Mestres Dining Hall of Mathey College after the White House released a formerly known as Commons budget proposal that would cut the ( ) lab’s $85 million annual budget by $10 There is no charge to attend, but reservations are requested. million. Smith said in mid-April that discussions about the level of support for PPPL were continuing in Congress, but added: “The funding situation is Please contact the Of!ce of Gift Planning at really serious.” The lab receives more than a third of the University’s $251 609.258.6397 or [email protected] million annual funding for sponsored research, which makes up about 17 per- aspire.princeton.edu/giftplanning cent of the University’s budget. COMMUNICATIONS

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Campusnotebook ON THE CAMPUS What qualifies as art? (A giant rubber duck?) By Eric Silberman ’13

As the doors to the Frist Multipurpose with the mes- Room swung open at exactly 5:30 p.m. sage, “Put me on a recent Wednesday, excitement and in the box by anticipation were palpable: After all, Frist.” the 40 to 50 waiting students had been Posters promised the solution to a campus followed, mystery. reading “Find yours” above an image of one student. Another bravely stepped “Everything will become clear,” read a rubber duck, sending students like closer to the duck, prompting others to the invitations to the event. But a stark Holt Dwyer ’15 on a campus scavenger follow, poke, and prod. hissing sound and the dark, seemingly hunt to secure a duck — and an invita- Clues started to appear, but elu- empty room didn’t explain much. tion to the culminating event. “It sively. The pump that kept the duck When the lights came on, neither did seemed like this might be some bizarre inflated was labeled “VISUAL ARTS,” the ceiling-high, inflated rubber duck. recruiting thing,” he said. Others as was a nearby plastic chair. Several It all began April 4, when a wood guessed a psych study or, as Melody students tinkered with the air pump and glass container appeared one Edwards ’15 hoped, “a rubber-duck- but played coy, refusing to offer any morning outside Frist Campus Center, themed secret society.” information. prompting students to “1. Drop Duck. But all students found that evening Then it started to become clear. A 2. Take card.” In the following days, rub- was a giant version of the ducks that man in a blazer, who circled the duck ber ducks anonymously were placed in had been scattered across campus. “Is with a discerning eye, hesitantly identi- P lecture halls, dorms, and eating clubs no one going to walk toward it?” asked fied himself as Joe Scanlan, director 28

This year was the first time PUSH Filling a campus gap, students create held events and weekly meetings, areligiousgroup‘withoutthereligion’ which attract a small group of students with a diverse set of religious histories. By Angela Wu ’12 Discussions often focus on ethics, with philosophy and politics dipping in and out of conversations about everything For many new Princetonians, freshman PUSH, which is affiliated with the from vegetarianism to war. The club year starts with the search for a new national Secular Student Alliance and also has hosted lectures by speakers spiritual home among the dozens of Foundation Beyond Belief, was created including philosophy professor Gideon religious groups on campus. For Daniel as atheist and humanist groups have Rosen and anthropology professor Schiff ’12, however, one group seemed launched on other college campuses as Alan Mann. to be missing. well. Following in the footsteps of the PUSH holds its meetings at Murray- “I came and saw all these religious Humanist Community Project at Har- Dodge Hall, which houses the Office of posters, and it made me feel a little vard and Yale’s Humanist Society, Religious Life, two prayer rooms, and alienated,” said Schiff, who was raised PUSH chose to organize around several campus ministries. Seem incon- in the Jewish tradition but no longer humanism — a secular moral philoso- gruous? PUSH’s founders made a point

’12 believes in God. phy that focuses on ethical living with- to organize under the auspices of ORL.

CHUNG Last year Schiff, along with Corinne out belief in the supernatural — rather “We’re not a religion, but we’re effec-

HABIN Stephenson-Johnson ’12, David Perel than atheism. tively meeting the same sort of com- ’12, and Kaylyn Jackson ’13, founded “Organizing around humanism munity needs,” Schiff said. PHOTOS: the Princeton University Society of allows you a lot more breadth and The society’s ambitions include

BARRETT; Humanists (PUSH) to promote discus- depth,” Schiff explained. “It allows you more interaction with religious groups

RON sion based on reason, not religion. The to cover the full scope of issues — like and the creation of a humanist chap- group now has an email list of about a religious group, just without the lain position alongside the 15 campus

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of the visual arts program at the Lewis Center. He declined to give details From about who was behind the duck, but acknowledged it was the culmination Princeton’s of a student’s project for his advanced sculpture course. “Art is all about per- vault suasion,” Scanlan said, and the project “worked well as an artwork and as a Aframefit kind of social experiment on the allure of privileged access and society.” for a king The student behind the project, Diana Li ’13, attended the event, but denied any involvement. A few days A 2010 restoration later, though, she set the record straight. What: regilded a picture frame that The ducks were “an arbitrary choice,” Li said, but the goal was “pushing bound- Princeton University Art Museum aries and eliciting reactions — having curator Karl Kusserow calls people wonder how much trust can “among the most storied in you put into this game, and reconsider American art.” what they feel qualifies as art.” For Li, the most rewarding part of As every tourist learns at the project was being able to see the Nassau Hall, the 252-year-old responses from the audience — some frame (shown here in original of them unpredictable. Even after Scan- condition and during restoration) lan’s revelation about the art project, a contained a portrait of King group of students remained on the George II until his image was floor, waiting for something to happen. decapitated by a cannonball in Said Sarah Schwartz ’15: “I came here the Battle of Princeton. Another hoping for an explosion.” π portrait was inserted: that of P George Washington (below). 29 ing Harvard and Rutgers, offer chap- The monarch was revered for laincies that support humanist, atheist, giving the college its charter, but amid Revolutionary tumult a gilded crown agnostic, and other nonreligious cam- was hacked off the top of the frame. No one knows exactly when. pus communities. One of PUSH’s primary functions is In the 1777 battle, a fusillade of cannon- to provide a welcoming community for balls drove British stragglers out of students questioning religion, said Jack- Nassau Hall, ruining the portrait in the son, the group’s president. process. The trustees commissioned “Princeton is a pretty open environment,” said Michael Pretko ’13. “No one Charles Willson Peale to paint “Washing- would put you down for your religious ton at the Battle of Princeton” at just

beliefs or lack of religious beliefs.” the right size to fit the handsome frame. PHOTOS:

Still, some students feel a stigma ELIZABETH attached to atheism, not just on cam- Twice rescued when the building caught

pus — where they say it is sometimes fire, Peale’s portrait continued to grace HARKINS Nassau Hall until it was removed in

expressed with “a weird look” — but BAUGHAN; especially in their hometowns. Some 2005, with its frame, to the art museum

describe themselves as “closet atheists.” for safekeeping. A replica picture hangs JEFFREY

“People want to talk about their in the Faculty Room today. EVANS/PRINCETON background, their history, how their beliefs are changing, and whether their Restoration has added palm leaves atop

families are accepting of them,” Schiff the famous frame – but no crown. UNIVERSITY said. “You want to make sense of an eth-

ical system and talk with other people, Where: Princeton University Art Museum ART without having to invoke religion — MUSEUM and feel safe and comfortable.” π By W. Barksdale Maynard ’88

paw.princeton.edu • May 16, 2012 Princeton Alumni Weekly On April 11th, Princeton head coaches (l to r) Chris Sailer (lacrosse), Scott Bradley (baseball), Lori Dauphiny (rowing), and Chris Bates (lacrosse) gathered at the Class of ’56 Lounge at Princeton Stadium for the PVC Spring Coaches Luncheon. The seasonal event brings Princeton alumni, friends, faculty, and administrators together to hear current season updates and reﬂections on the unique Princeton Athletics experience from Tiger coaches and student-athletes.

COMMUNITY Building a spirited collegiality among current and former Princeton varsity athletes & other supporters of Princeton Athletics as part of the long tradition of athletic excellence within Princeton University. Princeton Varsity Club Board of Directors Current Members Chanel Lattimer-Tingan ’05 Emeritus Members Richard Prentke ’67 John Berger ’74 Podie Lynch ’71 Hewes Agnew ’58 John Rogers ’80 Y.S. Chi ’83 Steve Mills ’81 Jim Blair ’61 Janet Morrison Clarke ’75 Mike Novogratz ’87 Gog Boonswang ’96 Ex Ofﬁcio Members Bill Ford ’79 Rod Shepard ’80 Ralph DeNunzio ’53 Royce Flippin ’56 Ed Glassmeyer ’63 Frank Sowinski ’78 Margie Gengler Smith ’73 Gary Walters ’67 Emily Goodfellow ’76 Terdema Ussery ’81 Paul Harris ’54 Bert Kerstetter ’66 Bill Walton ’74 Richard Kazmaier ’52 Tara Christie Kinsey ’97 Mark Wilf ’84 Michael McCaffery ’75 The PVC implements and supports programs that perpetuate and enhance the Performance, Values and Community of Princeton Athletics and the University, and thereby contribute to “Education Through Athletics.” To learn more about the PVC, visit www.PrincetonVarsityClub.org. 31-33paw0516_Sports_NotebookTest4 4/27/12 10:10 PM Page 31

Much of the Tigers’ success this season comes from its versatile roster. Players such as Matt Bowman ’13 (at center facing camera, Sports greeting Jonathan York ’14) play more than one position.

ferent positions, Bradley keeps his play- Baseball changes it up with ers fresh — and has more options when he needs to relieve players — P through those grueling weekends. 31 alineupthatshowsversatility Bradley also has a wide variety of strategies to choose from, both before Many college baseball coaches train finish in the Ivy League — the team and during games. After Princeton won their players to play a single position defied expectations in 2011 with a 15–5 the first game of the 2011 Ivy League — but not Princeton head coach Scott Ivy record and the conference title. This Championship Series — a time when Bradley. His lineup year, Princeton was many coaches would stick with what rarely looks the same 10–6 in the Ivy was working — Bradley inserted three two days in a row. League as of April 23 new starters into the lineup and moved Two of the Tigers’ — and 17–17 overall three others to different positions for starting pitchers, — but trailed Cor- the second game. Matt Bowman ’13 nell in the race for Another strength is the team’s pitch- and Mike Ford ’14, the division title. ing rotation. As of April 23, its pitchers play the infield “We had a couple were fifth in the league in the crucial when they are not of years where we measure of average earned runs given on the mound. The were a more lumber- up per nine innings pitched. Ford and Baseball head coach team’s top hitter in ing team, but now Bowman each threw a shutout this Scott Bradley nonconference play, we love versatility,” year, and Bowman was named the Ivy Alec Keller ’14, splits his time almost Bradley said. “We have players who are League player with the best chance to evenly between second base and the capable of playing in the middle of the play professionally by Baseball America. outfield. Sam Mulroy ’12, one of the diamond and the outfield.” With players like Bowman and league’s best sluggers, plays the outfield The flexibility of Princeton’s roster is Ford — who can turn in standout per- or third base when he takes a break crucial in Ivy League play. To minimize formances in two positions — the team from catching. time spent away from campus, the 20- has shown that flexibility pays off. π The team’s unconventional strategy game conference schedule is compressed By Kevin Whitaker ’13 SCHAEFER helped turn its fortunes around last sea- into five weeks, featuring back-to-back BEVERLY son. After completing the 2010 season doubleheaders every Saturday and Sun- READ MORE: The latest sports updates,

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Sports EXTRA POINT Forthispolevaulter,theworldishisjunglegym By Merrell Noden ’78 Pole vaulter Dave Slovenski ’12 likes to Merrell Noden ’78 is a invent new athletic former staff writer at challenges for himself Sports Illustrated and the Tigers’ other and a frequent PAW vaulters. contributor.

Pole vaulters are the wild men of track and field, incorrigible risk takers who have never met a rope too high to swing from, or a motel balcony too far from the pool to leap from. But what could be more dangerous than hanging upside down from a spaghetti strand of fiberglass as it bends almost double, and waiting for it to fling you up to a handstand at the top? For pole vaulter Dave Slovenski ’12, that’s not a rhetorical question. It’s a challenge. He and his brother, Steve ’09, once wrapped big metal rings in oily rags, set them on fire, and vaulted P through the flaming circle. Perhaps WATCH: Dave Slovenski ’12 and his brother Steve ’09 vault through fire, and nearly 3,000 32 you’ve seen them on YouTube, jousting on unicycles, using vaulting poles students play dodgeball in a tournament Slovenski helped organize @ paw.princeton.edu tipped with boxing gloves as lances. “Dave’s always thinking up creative record. This spring he hopes to break father and grandfather who were colle- new things for the other vaulters to do,” the Princeton outdoor record of 17 giate track coaches. The three Slovenski says track coach Fred Samara. feet, 9 inches, set 19 years ago by Kevin boys — Mike is a freshman at Harvard Dave Slovenski does 60-meter dashes McGuire ’93. Slovenski has a shot at — lived in a Tom Sawyer world of tree on his hands. He pulls himself up ropes qualifying for the Olympic trials. climbing, rope swinging, and playing while hanging upside down. To develop The Slovenski brothers grew up sur- what Dave calls “classic American spatial awareness, he practices dives off rounded by track and field, with a childhood games” such as flashlight mini trampolines into the pole-vault pit. “Jadwin is just a big jungle gym for him,” chuckles Marc Anderson, who, as This season, MEN’S TRACK & FIELD, which won the indoor Heptagonal Championships the Princeton sprints coach, has watched and was among the favorites for the outdoor conference title, set six Ivy League the brothers’ antics from a safe distance. records in the winter and spring seasons. (And a 52-year Princeton record in the As crazy and dangerous as this all 400-meter dash was erased by Tom Hopkins ’14.) might sound, it is serious training for ATHLETE EVENT MARK SET PREVIOUS IVY (NODEN) an event that demands speed, strength, RECORD SET and the superb body control of a gym- nast. “Someone once told me I was Dave Slovenski ’12 Indoor pole vault 17 feet, 7.25 inches Dec. 10 2011 WOJCIECHOWSKI flirting with danger,” says Slovenski. “I Donn Cabral ’12 Indoor 5,000 meters 13:45.92 Feb. 10 2002 FRANK told them I don’t flirt; we’re going Joe Stilin ’12 Indoor 3,000 meters 7:53.15 Feb. 11 1985 steady.” And while he made sure his dad (SLOVENSKI); wasn’t there to see that flaming vault, Conor McCullough ’15 Indoor weight throw 76 feet, 1 inch Feb. 11 1979 he allows, “I always take safety precau- Trevor Van Ackeren ’12 Indoor distance 9:31.95 March 2 2011 SCHAEFER tions appropriate for my skill.” Tom Hopkins ’14 medley relay

BEVERLY In December, Slovenski cleared 17 Michael Williams ’14

PHOTOS: feet, 7.25 inches, an Ivy League indoor Peter Callahan ’13 Conor McCullough ’15 Outdoor hammer throw 242 feet, 10 inches April 6 2010

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tag. Every summer, the family runs SPORTS SHORTS 12–5 April 21 for its third consecutive weeklong camps on the pole vault, blowout victory. Cornell’s loss on the cross country, track, and dodgeball for Men’s volleyball standout same day allowed Princeton to clinch little kids. With the brothers serving as Cody Kessel ’15 at least a share of the regular-season Ivy counselors, summers pass in a blur of League championship. high-octane games. With its postseason hopes on the When Steve arrived at Princeton, he line, WOMEN’S LACROSSE upset eighth- found there were no opportunities to ranked Dartmouth 12–9 at home April play such games. So he and Mark Ste- 21 to stay in a three-way tie for third fanski ’09 founded the Colosseum place in the Ivy League. Cassie Pyle ’12 Club, dedicated to doing what Steve scored four goals in the game, bringing calls “awesome stuff on weekends,” as her team-leading total to 36. an alternative to Prospect Street. Dave, WOMEN’S TENNIS edged Cornell 4–3 a mechanical engineering major, is April 22, earning second place in the club president. The club’s mailing list Needing to win its last two matches to Ivy League with a 5 –2 record. After a has 350 students, and about 35 show qualify for the four-team Eastern Inter- 3–0 start, MEN’S TENNIS lost its last four up regularly to play dodgeball or con- collegiate Volleyball Association play- league matches, but Matija Pecotic ’13 duct Nerf fights. offs, MEN’S VOLLEYBALL did exactly that, went 7–0 in singles play for the second The club runs Princeton’s annual overcoming early deficits to beat NJIT straight season. Glenn Michibata, who dodgeball tournament, which drew April 18 and George Mason April 21. had been head coach of men’s tennis nearly 3,000 players in April. Dave Led by several underclassmen, the for 12 years, resigned April 23. He had doesn’t worry about getting hurt play- Tigers improved from 3–19 in 2011 to a 145–121 record.

ing these frivolous games. “Nothing I 13–10 in 2012 after a loss April 26 to A last-second goal by Brittany BEVERLY do,” he says, “could be as dangerous as nationally ranked Penn State in the Zwirner ’13 gave WOMEN’S WATER POLO a SCHAEFER the pole vault.” π conference semifinals. 9–8 victory over Brown April 15 for the MEN’S LACROSSE defeated Harvard Southern Division Championship. Extra Point explores the people and issues in Princeton sports. P 33 58*%<(9(176'85,1*5(81,216

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PHILOSOPHY THESE THINKERS TAKE PHILOS0PHY TO THE STREETS TESTS BY DAVID MENCONI

P 34 one else thinks by intuition, experimental philosophers ask everyone else what they think directly. X-phi data can take the form of everything from opinion surveys to magnetic a particularly horrific wartime dilemma. You’re a doctor resonance imaging (MRI) scans. Then, applying a philosoph- tending to people in the squalid Jewish ghetto of a Nazi- ical mindset to the research data, experimental philosophers occupied town, where several of your patients have come seek to arrive at universal insights into free will, intentionality, down with typhoid fever. The expedient thing would be to the existence of objective moral truth, and other age-old report that to the authorities, even though the patients face questions. Among other things, experimental philosophers certain execution. If you don’t report it, you’re risking an have discovered that there is far less unanimity of opinion outbreak that would result in the Nazis executing everyone out there than traditional philosophy has maintained. in the ghetto (including you) and burning it to the ground. “The terrific thing about experimental philosophy is that, So what is the ethically and morally “right” thing to do? before it happened, philosophers would say, ‘This is intuitively This scenario happened in Kovno, Lithuania, during World the right answer,’” says Princeton philosophy professor War II — the doctor kept quiet and, with others, quelled the Gilbert Harman. “Then they’d try to develop a theory outbreak. It’s the sort of moral question that philosophers reg- accounting for that intuition. If you did not share that intu- ularly grapple with. For most of the past century, the time- ition, you were out of luck.” honored method for philosophical consideration of such Princeton is ground zero for experimental philosophy, and questions was to sit and ponder them alone. Those trained Harman its father — even though Harman describes his in philosophical thinking should arrive at intuitions about relationship with x-phi as “complicated” because he doesn’t right and wrong that are defensible as universal and true. do philosophy experiments himself. But some of the field’s Except that in the real world, there’s not much consensus leading figures have passed through Harman’s classrooms about anything. That especially goes for questions of morality, over the last decade, where they heard questions like those where one person’s obligation to act in a way that yields the he recently was asking 200 undergraduates in an utilitarian greater good is another’s unconscionable assump- “Introduction to Moral Philosophy” class. tion of the role of God. Enter “experimental philosophy” — “Is morality something you can get into disagreements or “x-phi” — a method that brings ordinary folks into the over?” Harman asked. “About who is right and who is wrong? process. And if so, is there a way of finding out the answer? Are there VERGUETHEN

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world? Is there observational evidence to gather?” In fact, empirical data has had a place in philosophy for Not so long ago, the vast majority of Western philosophers centuries. In Experiments in Ethics, Appiah claims that experi- would have answered that last question with a resounding mental philosophy’s engagement with the larger world no. Philosophical common wisdom dominating the field for makes it “really more traditional” than what today is consid- most of the 20th century held that ruminating in isolation ered traditional philosophy. “You can do good work without was the one true way to test moral theories. Along about the an MRI, but it’s an interesting question of philosophical turn of the 21st century, however, some philosophers began taste or method,” says Appiah. “How important is empirical venturing outside the discipline’s ivory tower to canvas pop- knowledge to philosophy? I think the answer is ‘hugely’ and ulation samples, then using that data to draw philosophical always has been.” conclusions. Twentieth-century “analytic philosophy,” concerned largely In contrast to 20th-century philosophy’s solitary bent, with scientific matters, was championed by Harvard profes- experimental philosophy lends itself to collaboration — sor Willard Van Orman Quine — who summarized his view with other disciplines as well as among philosophers. of the unity of philosophy and science with the famous quip, Princeton philosophy professor Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Philosophy of science is philosophy enough.” One of who this year won a National Humanities Medal, is not an Quine’s graduate students at Harvard was Harman, who experimental philosopher himself, but watched the disci- came to Princeton’s philosophy department in 1963 and pline’s development at Princeton from close range and wrote helped foster an atmosphere of openness to empirical data. a book about it, 2008’s Experiments in Ethics. And one of Harman’s faculty colleagues at Princeton was “Experimental philosophy is an interface between philoso- someone he’d known when both were undergraduates at phy and computer science, psychology, mathematics, eco- Swarthmore College, psychology professor John Darley. nomics, the descriptive social sciences,” Appiah explains in In the 1960s, Darley did a series of groundbreaking psy- an interview. “Previous generations of philosophers would chological studies that yielded up the “bystander effect.” Also have been delighted to have access to these tools. It never known as “Genovese syndrome,” after Kitty Genovese, who would have occurred to them to say ‘that’s not philosophy.’ ” died after her cries for help went unanswered when she was stabbed in New York City in 1964, it holds that the probabil- Most philosophers practicing ity of a bystander offering help in an emergency is inversely x-phi are relatively young. Depending on a given university’s proportional to the number of other bystanders present, emphasis or politics, you’re as likely to find them in a psy- because each person is less likely to assume responsibility for P chology department as in the philosophy department. They taking action. 36 are less given to absolute pronouncements, and more likely Still, it would take another generation for practicing to accept the notion that long-held beliefs about human philosophers to start doing research and attempting to inter- intuitions of right and wrong might not be as universal as pret the results philosophically. You can trace much of the we’ve been led to believe. current wave of experimental philosophy to a single class “When I talk to people about experimental philosophy first offered at Princeton in the spring of 2000, “Ethics: and how it got started, the answer is that it all began in New Philosophical, Psychological and Cognitive Science Jersey with a group of people moving this forward at the Perspectives,” taught jointly by Harman, Darley, and Rutgers same time,” says Joshua Knobe *06, one of the field’s leading philosophy professor Stephen Stich *68. lights. “For a decade before that, it had been a very depressing Depending on whom you ask, experimental philosophy is world out there,” says Stich. “People working in moral psy- either an exciting breakthrough or a trendy, tragic dead end. chology had little understanding of the philosophical litera- The latter opinion is popular among scholars like Oxford ture, while people working in philosophy had no acquain- philosopher Timothy Williamson, who asserted in an tance with the empirical literature.” The class brought address to the Aristotelian Society: “If anything can be pur- together people in each discipline who were committed to sued in an armchair, philosophy can.” In a 2010 essay in The understanding what people in the other discipline were New York Times, he denounced experimental philosophy as doing, Stich says, and the result was “the birth of a new and “imitation psychology” and the work of “philosophy-hating now-burgeoning interdisciplinary domain — real moral psy- philosophers.” chology, as I like to call it.” The traditional, armchair model occupies the theoretical Enrolled in the class, an updated version of which will be realm of pure abstract thought. To the traditional philoso- offered next fall, were students both of philosophy and of pher, real-world input is an unnecessary, unseemly distrac- social psychology, the science of how people’s behaviors, tion from the business at hand. Still, even a skeptic like emotions, and thoughts are influenced by the presence or Princeton philosophy professor Gideon Rosen acknowledges absence of others. The class was so successful that a form of experimental philosophy’s appeal. “The rap against philoso- it exists to this day as the Moral Psychology Research Group, phy has always been that there’s no method or cumulative or MPRG. An assemblage of 21 academics from philosophy

development of results,” Rosen says. “So it’s not surprising and psychology, the MPRG meets twice yearly, most recently PETER that something came along that looked like scientific last month at Purdue University. MURPHY method, and people paid attention.” MPRG members include Stich and Harman; Shaun

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Nichols, a student of Stich at Rutgers and author of a land- mark experimental-philosophy survey about cultural differ- ences in the intuitions of Westerners and Asians; Victoria McGeer, a philosophy professor at Princeton’s University Center For Human Values who studies crime, punishment, and “restorative justice” (a method of brokering agreements between criminals and victims); and two Princeton alumni named Josh: Knobe, at Yale; and Joshua Greene *02, who teaches at Harvard. Greene joined Harvard’s psychology department for myriad reasons, including access to lab space, subjects, research funds, and methodologically minded colleagues. But he’s a philosopher at heart, going back to when he would debate philosophical issues with his middle-school debate club. Greene had the inspiration to use MRI technology to examine the brains of people pondering questions of morality to see which regions — those tied to reason or to emotion — lit up. As a student in Harman and Darley’s ethics class, he brought scans to class to discuss with his classmates. The scans showed brain reactions of people contemplat- ing the “trolley problem,” a classic thought experiment devised by British philosopher Philippa Foot in 1967. In the Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah problem, a trolley is hurtling down a set of tracks headed straight for five people, who face certain death unless some- eral conventions of war hold that terror bombing is not OK, one takes action to divert the trolley onto another track, but collateral damage can be. So you can look at the brain’s where only one person is waiting. So the dilemma is to do processes in thinking about that, whether rational or emo- nothing and let five people die, or intervene at the cost of tional thinking is predominant.” another person’s dying. In one version of this thought exper- One conclusion is that philosophy and moral psychology’s P iment, the trolley may be stopped by a heavy weight when it widely held view of moral judgment as primarily a matter of 38 passes under a bridge — and as it happens, a very heavy man reasoning might be fatally flawed, because emotions have a happens to be standing on the bridge. lot to do with the process. Greene and other experimental In concocting variations on the trolley problem, Greene philosophers still are groping toward defining the philo- discovered that the more impersonal the method of inter- sophical intuitions behind this dynamic, and whether or not vention — flipping a switch versus throwing the heavy man what people think is morally right actually is morally right. off the bridge to stop the trolley, for example — the more In a related vein, Princeton philosophy professor Sarah- likely people were to think in terms of greater-good utility. If Jane Leslie *07 does philosophical experiments involving the one death seemed like an indirect effect, and not a direct “generics,” statements that express generalizations — “tigers effect of the intervention, it was more likely to pass ethical are striped,” for example. Where that gets tricky is with state- muster from respondents. The more direct the intervention ments that are true but misleading because they’re incom- seemed, the more emotional the response. Follow-up studies plete. “Mosquitoes carry West Nile virus” is true, even though also have been done using patients with damage to the ven- less than 1 percent of mosquitoes actually do. tromedial prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that inte- Yo u can try to correct that to, “Some mosquitoes carry grates emotional signals into decisions. “Those people were West Nile virus.” But Leslie’s research shows that people are more likely to say it was OK to push the guy off the bridge,” likely to default from the specific to the generic, so the sen-

WILSON Greene says. “They didn’t have that emotional response, so tence still tends to be laid down in memory as, “Mosquitoes

BRIAN they could think in strictly cost-benefit terms. To them, the carry West Nile virus.” And if there is outside input such as bridge looked just like the switch did to ordinary people.” people talking about the danger of West Nile virus, that can Philosophy can seem far removed from everyday reality, turn into, “All mosquitos carry West Nile virus.”

COMMUNICATIONS; but this is research with real-world applications. In terms of That has great implications for the way people generalize, OF shaping public opinion, it’s a short step from the trolley Leslie suggests. “Take prejudice. ‘Ticks carry Lyme disease,’ problem to accepting civilian deaths during a war: Those ‘tigers eat people,’ and ‘pit bulls maul children’ are all true, deaths are deemed necessary to avoid still more deaths. even though few ticks, tigers, and pit bulls do that. But peo- APPLEWHITE/OFFICE Consider a case where a munitions factory is bombed and ple are predisposed to accept those statements, especially

DENISE civilians are killed (labeled collateral damage) versus one because they’re about bad things you want to avoid.

LEFT: where civilians are bombed directly to reduce morale (con- “Now,” she adds, “think about this one: ‘Muslims are ter- FROM sidered terror bombing). rorists.’ That was a big one after 9/11, even though very few

PHOTOS, “In both cases, civilians are killed,” Greene says. “The gen- Muslims were involved. But suddenly, it was as if all Muslims

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phers before the advent of experimental philosophy, you would have seen this same contrast,” Gideon Rosen says. “Sure, you can go out and do surveys to confirm it. But those intuitions are interesting and available without doing surveys. Even if Knobe had never done an experiment in his life, he could have written a paper about this with the same significance. My hunch is that philosophers are good at channeling the judgments ordinary people would make.” Maybe, maybe not. Anthony Appiah, who was one of Knobe’s dissertation readers at Princeton, thinks that such surveys can only enhance the process of philosophy. “The question isn’t if you could come to the same conclusion without experiments,” says Appiah, “but do the experiments move us ahead in different ways or faster than sitting around reflecting? I think it would be hard to argue this hasn’t helped stimulate new questions. The test will be 10 years from now, what we’ve learned by then.” Another common attack on experimental philosophy is that because most experiments involve asking the opinions of people not trained in philosophical thinking, the results are not valid. It’s “folk philoso- Professor Sarah-Jane Leslie *07 phy,” what ordinary people think of as philosophy, rather really were terrorists. What prejudice did that spawn? How than the real thing. do we understand and combat it?” “[In] some of these surveys, it’s unclear why the results are Joshua Knobe’s best-known contribution to experimental relevant to philosophy,” Rosen says. “So why jump through philosophy also is related to issues of blame, going back to a hoops? Why not just discuss substantive questions of right survey he conducted in New York City’s Washington Square and wrong with people who have been trained to think Park. It was a question of intentionality, based on the follow- about hard cases?” Nonsense, says Stich. P ing scenario: A proposed new product will increase profits, “The whole ‘expertise defense’ [of armchair philosophy] says 39 but at the cost of harming the environment. Declaring that it doesn’t matter what the man on the street thinks about he cares about money and not the environment, the head of intuitive knowledge, moral permissibility, or intentionality, a company gives the go-ahead to make the product. As because he’s not an expert,” Stich says. “Philosophers claim to expected, profits rise, as does environmental damage. So be the only experts capable of producing philosophical intu- Knobe asked survey respondents if the executive was to itions. But are they? Do you have to have six years of graduate blame for harm to the environment, and 82 percent said yes. training at a prestige university to be philosophically savvy?” Now imagine the same scenario, with one key difference: In recent years, Stich has been doing survey experiments The new product helps rather than hurts the environment. to see if philosophers have systematically different intuitions The executive still cares just about profits, so the new prod- from ordinary people (which conceivably would render pro- uct goes forward and the money rolls in. But when asked if fessional philosophers’ judgments less universal than the the executive had helped the environment, only 23 percent discipline claims). Early indications are that they do, Stich of Knobe’s respondents gave him credit for that. says. But while those philosophers’ “right” intuitions might Thus was born the “Knobe effect,” which summarizes that win over similarly minded peers on a tenure committee, people are moralizing creatures who are far more likely to does that give them the weight of inherent truth? Experi - assign blame for bad things than credit for good things. mental philosophy amounts to a generation saying, not so Knobe has done further research delving into questions of fast. Ultimately, the debate seems to come down to who free will, determinism, and the philosophical processes that owns philosophy and even truth — a closed society of are involved in triggering emotional versus rational respons- experts, or everyone? es when it comes to passing judgment. “Truth does not belong to philosophy but to all of us,” says The Knobe effect, which he uncovered while still a gradu- Appiah. “How ordinary people use it is part of the account- ate student at Princeton, frequently is referenced in election ing, even if they’re deploying it in ways that may be slippery years to explain the effectiveness of negative political adver- and incoherent. Language and the mind are both messy, and tising. It also made Knobe a star and one of experimental so is the world. philosophy’s most visible figures. He is writing a book about “Reality,” Appiah says, “is never tidy.” π experimental philosophy that he hopes will evoke the image of an armchair going up in flames. David Menconi is a music critic and feature writer at the News Not everyone is convinced. “If you had put this to philoso- & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.

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A GRAD STUDENT FROM SYRIA PLAYS A ROLE IN HIS COUNTRY’S UPRISING – AND WORRIES ABOUT THOSE LEFT BEHIND BY IAN SHAPIRA ’00 P 40 BARROS RICARDO BY PHOTOGRAPHS

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Princeton Ph.D. student Karam Nachar on his laptop in Frist Campus Center in April.

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going to be arrested, tortured, or killed. Whereas people IN AUGUST 2011, SYRIAN SECURITY inside Syria, they are paying a huge price.” AGENTS RAIDED A PRIVATE HOME FOR MORE THAN A YEAR, Nachar, 29, has been living some- IN ALEPPO, THE COUNTRY’S LARGEST thing of a double life. He is working on a dissertation, due CITY, AND ARRESTED ACTIVISTS WHO in the spring of 2013, which investigates the extent to which Beirut from the 1920s to the 1950s served as the Middle HAD BEEN USING FACEBOOK — POST- East’s incubator of intellectualism and religious tolerance. ING WITH FAKE NAMES — TO PLAN He teaches a precept class to Princeton undergraduates on European history, and moonlights at The Cooper Union for MEETINGS AND DEMONSTRATIONS IN the Advance ment of Science and Art in New York, teaching THE ONGOING UPRISING AGAINST a class on the modern Middle East. But much of his time is focused on events that are less rar- SYRIAN PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD. ified and more dangerous than academia — the uprising THE PROTESTERS WERE DETAINED that began in March 2011 in which more than 9,000 people are believed to have died. Nachar is part of a passionate com- FOR WEEKS. munity of ex-pat Syrians who are hoping that the Arab THEY Spring that swept through Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya will bring the downfall of the Assad regime and its brutal mili- HAD BEEN tary. Syrian-Americans have been raising money for their WORKING countrymen, providing aid directly to rebels on the ground, and rallying in March at the White House to exert pressure WITH on the Obama administration to intervene militarily. PRINCETON Nachar and his circle of activists consider themselves part of the opposition umbrella group the Syrian National DOCTORAL Council. They do not align themselves with any particular CANDIDATE subgroup, though they espouse more secular and liberal AND SYRIAN views than many others who want to remove Assad from P power. They argue for a multiparty, democratic government 42 NATIVE led by representatives chosen in general elections; separation of church and state; and equal rights for women and KARAM m i n o r i t i e s . NACHAR, Nachar’s father, Samir Nachar, is a former car-parts importer now living in Turkey, where he is helping to run WHO — WHEN HE’S NOT WORKING ON the Syrian National Council — a role the son knows has HIS DISSERTATION — IS ONE OF THE placed the family on the radar of the Syrian government. The council has been praised by experts as the country’s best UPRISING’S MOST PROMINENT CYBER- chance to unify the sectarian opposition groups, but also ACTIVISTS, SPENDING HOURS ON criticized for having weak relationships with some minority groups and the Free Syrian Army, formed by exiled Syrian SKYPE TO VET PROTESTERS HOPING military members and defectors. TO JOIN SEVERAL SECRET FACEBOOK Nachar admires his father’s work, but has chosen a different role for himself — in social media. He uses the GROUPS HE MANAGES AND WEEDING secret Facebook groups to plan rallies, screen new members, OUT POTENTIAL OPERATIVES OF and determine what activists in Syria need. In March, for example, Nachar was trying to raise money for a blood- ASSAD’S REGIME. clotting medicine made in the United States to ship to A few months later, Nachar is recalling the horrible day Syrian rebels. He also acts as a kind of U.S.-based media from a far safer place: a Starbucks across from Columbia spokesman for the insurgency movement, speaking on University in Manhattan. Around him, students line up to MSNBC, Al-Jazeera, and the independent news program purchase lattes and cappuccinos; the shop has a pleasant, Democracy Now!, and to The Huffington Post and other out- peaceful air. Nachar is not thinking of pleasantries, however. lets. He helps translate and write subtitles for activists’ “One of my good friends got arrested and was savagely tor- YouTube videos for the BBC. tured. I felt awful,” he says. “This is something we activists Every Sunday, he conducts meetings via Skype with abroad think about. There’s always this guilt we have that no activists around the world from his New York apartment. He matter how much we pay in our daily life — in terms of not often wakes up before dawn to read the latest media dis- getting our jobs or studies done — ultimately, we’re not patches from the war zone. He scans Facebook and Twitter

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and blasts out links to videos or antigovernment rallies or tive society under an authoritarian regime,” Nachar says. dashes off opinions about his countrymen’s struggles. “Between 2001 and 2005, my dad got arrested three times. Two of Nachar’s tweets (@knachar) in late March — he He’d be in his office, and security agents would arrest every- has about 600 followers — show him straddling his academic one. It’s a joke what they would charge him with, like ‘secret and activist lives: “Syria hasn’t had real political life in more plotting against the state.’” than 50 years, thus the ‘opposition’ is nothing but a political In 2004, after completing a thesis on Egyptian intellectu- class in ‘formation,’” he wrote March 17. A week later, he als and earning his master’s degree, Nachar did a research tweeted: “Running late to class. I think I can write a book stint at a publishing house in Beirut, which swung him now on the clash between activism and teaching! Sigh back to the ivory tower. He wanted to write a dissertation on #syria.” He acknowledges that his dissertation adviser wishes Middle East intellectual life, and looked at schools with top he would spend more time on his academic work. history departments. In 2006, he started at Princeton. “The “People of Middle Eastern origin who have been watch- history department at Princeton was very clear that you ing all these events — it’s really going to put their academics should broaden your perspective and take classes in other on hold,” says Professor Amaney Jamal, the director of regions,” he says. “I’ve already lived in the Middle East, so I Princeton’s Workshop on Arab Political Development. When wanted to know more about Europe and Africa. It helps me Jamal was organizing a campus panel discussion about the understand how the Middle East is evolving in a bigger Syrian unrest in February, she struggled to find someone on world.” campus with deep ties to Syria, then learned about Nachar In 2009, he launched an 18-month dissertation-research from another faculty member and extended an invitation to trip to Beirut, where he interviewed members of families him to participate. that had lived there between the 1920s and 1950s. He “In the panel, he was able to get us into the heads of the returned to Princeton in early 2011, just as the Syrian opposition — things you’re not necessarily going to pick up uprising was getting under way. Work on his dissertation from CNN,” Jamal says. “One of the most interesting things slowed. he said was that, for the longest time, the opposition had not “I’ve only written two chapters,” he says. “It’s a daily strug- been looking for Western intervention because it would hurt gle. You need a lot of focus. ... Yo u have to sit and be on the legitimacy of the movement. But Karam hinted that if your own, and think about each chapter. I hardly sleep. I things got worse, the opposition was willing to work with wake up at 4 a.m. I go to bed at 9 p.m. And I wake up in the Western powers.” middle of the night to see what’s going on.” For his outspokenness, Nachar says he has received Samir Nachar feels proud of his son. P “threats from random people on Facebook saying I was a “He has to make a great sacrifice in putting his Ph.D. 43 traitor” and that he was being “brainwashed by Americans.” aside for several months, and it’s not an easy choice for him, But he sounds dismissive, and says he never has faced immi- but the Syrian revolution comes once in a lifetime,” he says nent danger. via Skype from Istanbul, where he lives with his wife, Nouran, and their eldest child, 31-year-old daughter Zein NACHAR’S PATH IN LIFE seemed almost predestined. He Nachar. (In the conversation with PAW, Zein acted as a trans- grew up in Aleppo, near the Turkish border, and was raised lator.) “Obviously we all prefer if he could stay in Syria and by parents who hosted political debates and salons in their continue his work from inside, but there’s a huge role for the home or his father’s office. After Assad took power in 2000 Syrian diaspora movement. Thanks to them, the world can from his dictatorial father, many Syrians hoped the country see what the revolution is all about.” would transform into a more democratic society. But in Deep down, though, Karam Nachar knows that operating March 2011, after some students had been tortured for put- as a social-media maven never will put him on the front ting up antigovernment graffiti, residents began protesting, lines. He still is haunted by what happened to the friend in and Assad’s security forces initiated a bloody crackdown, their Facebook group who was arrested and beaten in which ultimately triggered a national uprising. August. The police, armed with printouts of the Facebook After finishing high school in Syria, Nachar left his coun- group’s discussions, tried for two months to press Nachar’s try in 2000 to study political science at the American friend into revealing the real names of the group’s members. University of Beirut, and graduated in the spring of 2003. The friend gave up only one: Karam Nachar. Later that year, he began a one-year master’s program in After the young man was released, he called Nachar to modern Middle East studies at St. Antony’s College at apologize, telling him that he provided the name to stop the Oxford University, a place that inspired him because it had beating. Nachar doesn’t blame him — he figures that the been the academic home of the late Albert Hourani, an government knew about him already because of his family influential Middle East historian credited with training sev- connections. “I feel bad for him,” he says of his friend. “The eral prominent academics. fact that he confessed my name doesn’t bother me that “I read several of Hourani’s books in classes, and he just much. I feel he did the right thing, if confessing my real moved me, because he wrote about modernizing and intel- name would have alleviated his suffering.” π lectualizing the Arab world. I grew up in a household interested in intellectual questions, a liberal family in a conserva- Ian Shapira ’00 is a reporter at The Washington Post.

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Author Kit Feldman ’78 with Phoebe, Amos, and Sam.

KIT FELDMAN ’78 P 44 Adog’slife:Cookingforman’sbestfriend

Editor’s note: PAW senior writer Mark F. demonstration, the first thing we dis- (Bowtie Press), a gourmet cookbook Bernstein ’83 spent a day in the kitchen cussed was whether I would bring for dogs. She approached chefs from with the author of The Culinary Canine, Butter — the dog, that is, not the around the country, asking them to Kathryn Levy Feldman ’78. Higher-Priced Spread. share recipes they prepare at home for CANDACE Butter is my rambunctious 7-year- their pets. Calling it “dog food” doesn’t When I called Kathryn “Kit” Levy old Labrador retriever. Feldman is the really do these dishes justice; they all DICARLO Feldman ’78 to plan our cooking co-author of The Culinary Canine use fresh ingredients, and most can be

NEWSMAKERS after-school classes on STARTING OUT: Gandler teaches and acting for middle-school and SOPHIE GANDLER ’10 playwriting Washington-based students. lawyer H. BARTOW Intern in the literary high-school FARR III ’66 played office of Trinity Repertory I’m What she likes: “I love the fact that a key role in the Company in Providence, about getting to read and analyze and write Supreme Court case R.I. Princeton major: whose and talk about plays,” says Gandler, in March examining the 2010 health- with a certificate in theater. posi- English, internship ends in June. “In this specific care law. Farr’s charge was to argue in feel tion, there is so much variety. So I don’t favor of upholding the remaining she does: Gandler reads and reviews one thing What like I’m just sitting at my desk doing provisions of the Patient Protection scripts, looking for those that the company for all day.” and Afford able Care Act, even if the might want to produce. She writes articles for Supreme Court strikes down the dis-

’10 and the company’s quarterly magazine like to be a literary web- Her dream job: She would puted health-care mandate. ... LAUREN audience study guides posted on Trinity’s She interned in GANDLER of a theater company. ’06, SEAN ’03, DAVID AARON CARPENTER for and provides manager and site, and conducts research office at Manhattan OYEZ.ORG ’08 — who founded a nonprofit SOPHIE the general-management to playwrights and directors. creative feedback Club her first year out of college. education program, Theatre

COURTESY Through the company’s

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Alumni scene enjoyed by dogs and owners alike. My Tiger PAW assignment was to bring Butter Brig. Gen. Creighton W. Abrams Jr. ’62 to sample a few of those creations in profile Head of the Army Historical Foundation Feldman’s kitchen on Philadelphia’s Main Line. She and I reached an understanding. She would provide but- Brig. Gen. Creighton Abrams Jr. ter. I would provide Butter. ’62 and Jamie Hubans, director Actually, Eileen Watkin provided of publications/marketing serv- butter. Watkin is the executive chef at ices for the Army Historical the Inn at Penn, a block from the Foundation, look at plans for University of Pennsylvania campus, the Army’s national museum. and she was the one whose recipes we would be sampling. She whipped up salmon rice balls — excuse me, brown rice arancini with sweet potato, spinach, Parmesan cheese, and ground salmon — and also brought mini chicken meatloafs. Watkin described our repast as “Italian comfort food.” Italian comfort food is best enjoyed in a group, so Feldman included her own three dogs — two golden retriev- ers named Phoebe and Sam, and Amos, a collie. Would Butter like Italian comfort food? I was not worried. The culinary bar here, I have to PRESERVING MILITARY HISTORY As head of the Army Historical Foundation, tell you, is very low. Butter happily eats Brig. Gen. Creighton W. Abrams Jr. ’62 is charged with building support for the the two cups of kibble I feed her each National Museum of the United States Army. Expected to open in 2016 at Fort day, but she will vacuum up a greasy Belvoir, Va., the museum would fill a major gap in the Army’s historical presence: P napkin with the same enthusiasm. All other service branches have their own national museums. “As the largest and 45 Hers is not a sophisticated palate. oldest service, the Army needs the support of the American people, and this muse- Feldman credits the idea for The um will help connect and reconnect Americans with their Army,” says Abrams, the Culinary Canine to Sabina Louise son of the late Gen. Creighton Abrams, who was the U.S. commander in Vietnam Pierce, her co-author and the book’s after Gen. William Westmoreland and later Army photographer. The two were having chief of staff. The Army will operate the building, Résumé: Executive director of the lunch in 2007 shortly after a national which the foundation will fund through a $200 Army Historical Foundation since 2000. pet-food recall was announced because million capital campaign. In addition to raising Retired Army brigadier general. Served it had been discovered that some for- money — the campaign has brought in $65 mil- 31 years, including deployments to continues on page 46 lion from 95,000 donors to date — Abrams keeps Korea, Vietnam, Germany, Southwest in touch with the Army Corps of Engineers on the Asia, and Italy. Site manager for construction plans. General Dynamics in Saudi Arabia. chamber orchestra in New York City, English major at Princeton. Salomé, which helps raise money and A NEW DIRECTION “Other museums are mostly awareness for other nonprofits — are about battles,” says Abrams. The Army museum’s collaborating with LAUREN BUSH LAUREN three major galleries will explore other facets of the Army since its 1775 founding. ’06’s FEED Foundation to organize “Soldiers’ Stories” will feature personal accounts told in pictures and text, plus the Clarins Million Meals Concert, videos. “Fighting for the Nation” will tell the stories of major wars, from the May 30 in Lincoln Center’s Alice American Revolution to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the fight against Tully Hall. ... Three companies terrorism. “Army and Society” will look at interactions of the military and civilians founded by Princeton alumni made by exploring technology, the tradition of civilian control of the military, the Technolog y Review’s list of the 50 most Army’s role in public-works projects and as a societal “melting pot,” and public COURTESY

innovative companies: Bluefin Labs, support of the troops. ARMY

co-founded by FRANK MOSS ’71; HISTORICAL WiTricity, co-founded by MARIN COLLECTIVE MEMORY The museum expects to attract some 750,000 visitors a

ˇ FOUNDATION SOLJACI´C *00; and Tabula, led by year. “It will remind those who have served — and their families and friends — founder, president, and chief technol- that their collective stories and deeds will not be forgotten,” Abrams says. π ogy officer STEVE TEIG ’82. By Van Wallach ’80

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FROM “THE CULINARY CANINE”: Culinary canine continued from page 45 and other stops around the cable dial. BROWN RICE ARANCINI WITH SWEET POTATO eign-made brands were laced with Comedian Joan Rivers, a noted dog AND GROUND CHICKEN melamine. The restaurant where they lover, has hailed The Culinary Canine as Eileen Watkin, executive chef at the Inn at Penn were eating welcomed dogs in its out- “gorgeous and informative.” A freelance door seating area and provided them writer, Feldman, who has a certificate with water. Wouldn’t it be a good idea, in animal studies from Penn, is work- Pierce suggested, if restaurants offered ing on a sequel. How about a collec- food for dogs as well? tion of gourmet recipes for cats? Cats, For most of human history, domesti- she acknowledges with understate- cated dogs ate scraps from their mas- ment, “are difficult.” Not only are they ters’ plates. It wasn’t until 1860 that the notoriously finicky, they are strictly car- first processed dog food was intro- nivores and their diets are much nar- 1 sweet potato duced, although Feldman has found rower, making it harder for chefs to 1 1 ⁄2 cups short-grain brown rice dog-food recipes dating back to the experiment with new ingredients. 2 tbsp. olive oil 3 late 18th century. The 2007 recall, the 3 ⁄4 cups low-sodium chicken broth 1 largest in pet-food history, made many ⁄2 cup grated Parmesan cheese 1 whole egg people pay more attention to what was 1 cup spinach, steamed and chopped fine in their best friends’ supper dishes, 1 cup chicken, cooked accelerating a trend toward pampering Roast the sweet potato at 350 degrees for 40–50 our pets that was already well under minutes until tender. Scoop the flesh from the skin, way. “We’ve really come full circle,” then mash the flesh with a fork. Set aside. Feldman says. Matthew Levin, who is now a co- Cook the rice risotto-style: Heat the chicken broth in a saucepan to a simmer. Set aside. Heat the olive oil owner of the Square Peg restaurant but over medium heat in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Add in 2007 was the executive chef at TASTE TEST Mark Bernstein ’83 the rice and sauté for 1 minute until it becomes Lacroix (both are in Philadelphia), was and his dog, Butter, sample canine translucent and well coated with oil. Keeping the so unsettled by the recall that he began cuisine @ paw.princeton.edu. saucepan over medium heat, ladle in one-third of the to prepare all of his dogs’ meals. He chicken broth, and stir until all of the liquid is incorpo- P rated. Add another third of the broth and, again, stir was the first chef Feldman recruited for “Finicky,” however, is not a word usu- 46 until all of it is absorbed. Repeat with the final third of the book, and he helped connect her ally associated with dogs. Did Feldman the chicken broth. with others, including Cosme Aguilar, find anything during her research, I the executive chef and part owner, with asked, that her dogs wouldn’t eat? Stir half of the Parmesan into the cooked rice. Allow the rice to cool slightly — about 5 minutes. Winston Kulok ’57, of Bar Henry in “A re you kidding?” she replied. New York. Apparently there are no four-legged Whisk the egg in a bowl and temper in some hot rice. In each chapter, a chef discusses his Gael Greenes in her house, either. Incorporate the rest of the rice. Work quickly so as or her dog and then offers a favorite Feldman and her publisher did, not to scramble the egg. recipe. Dana Tommasino and Margie however, work with veterinarians to Place one-quarter of the egg/rice mixture into a food Conrad, co-owners of San Francisco’s make sure that all the recipes were safe processor and puree it until smooth. Stir the pureed Wo o dward’s Garden, for example, con- and nutritionally balanced. Some mixture back into the rest of the rice, then set aside tributed a recipe for goat shanks with human foods are toxic to dogs — and allow the rice to cool to room temperature. fennel, coriander, and honey. Tanya chocolate, of course, but also avocados, Combine the sweet potato, spinach, remaining Nunes, owner of Chef Tanya Inc. in onions, garlic, grapes, raisins, and Parmesan cheese, and chicken; this will be the filling. Daly City, Calif., included “Kosher for macadamia nuts, according to the Set aside. Passover Dog Food” consisting of ASPCA website. Although some chefs, TO FILL THE ARANCINI: ground meat, quinoa, flaxseed meal, such as Georges Perrier, who recently Have a bowl of warm water at hand to keep your fin- and carrots that will be sure to make stepped aside as owner of Philadel - gers clean and the rice from sticking to you. Dip your your setter’s seder. (“Why is this meal phia’s legendary Le Bec-Fin, claim to 1 hands into the water, then take a ⁄4-cup-sized chunk of different from all other meals?” “Well, for cook everything their dogs eat, it prob- rice into the palm of your hand. Flatten the rice out to 1 starters, it’s being served in a plastic bowl ably is too much to expect that level of a disk about 2 ⁄2 inches in diameter (or about the size 1 that says ‘Fluffy’ on the side.”) care every day. Recipes in The Culinary of your palm). Place 1 ⁄2 teaspoons of the chicken filling in the center and gently fold the rice around the Since the book’s publication last fall, Canine are meant to be “special-occa- filling. Roll into a uniform ball and set aside on a Feldman has finished a five-city pro- sion” meals, the doggy equivalent of an baking sheet. Repeat the process until all of the rice motional tour, and a few of her chefs anniversary splurge at Le Cirque. and filling is used up. have touted their creations on The It is up to each pet owner to decide Serve them cold or coat them with egg, dip them in Martha Stewart Show, Fox & Friends, how far to take these doggy delights — whole-wheat bread crumbs, and bake them at 350 degrees for 12 minutes on a lightly oiled baking sheet. WHAT’S YOUR VIEW? Share your gourmet dish for your pet. Email [email protected] or post a comment @ paw.princeton.edu

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after all, the ingredients aren’t cheap and the preparation can be time-con- Get out the orange and black suming. Does Fido really need sustainable vegan options at mealtime, or is On Reunions weekend, May 31–June 3, thousands of alumni will return to cam- that just an indulgence to make his pus wearing a distinctive memento of their time at Princeton: the beer jacket, owner feel better? On that, Feldman which turns 100 this year. The beer jacket was invented by enterprising members declines to weigh in. But she does of the Class of 1912 who decided to don full suits — denim overalls and a work- point out that dogs are members of the man’s jacket — when sipping beer, to spare their clothes from spills. family, and so it is reasonable — and Of course, the jacket — worn mainly by young alumni — is only one of many perhaps even economical — to share a Reunions traditions. As meal rather than let leftovers go to always, the weekend will waste. At least you know where every- be packed with activities thing came from, not that your dog is for alumni, family, and likely to care. friends returning to cam- In the book’s introduction, veterinar- pus. In the lecture halls, ian Patty Khuly disputes the notion alumni-faculty forums that a dog really can be happy or on Friday and Saturday healthy eating the same thing day after will call on experts to day. Rejecting what she calls the “one- discuss topics including bag-for-life” dietary philosophy, she investing in a turbulent advocates instead for a “more enlight- economy, U.S. health ened canine lifestyle.” Dogs, Khuly care, and the impact of writes, being “co-recipients of the clas- the Arab Spring. sification ‘omnivore’ ... deserve to Two class-sponsored share in the bounty that graces human panel discussions will tables.” Be that as it may, the “bounty” examine themes of war. Members of the classes of 1944 through 1950 on the steps of Clio Hall. that Butter gets from my table usually Professor Anne-Marie consists of steak gristle and pizza Slaughter ’80 will moderate a conversation about Vietnam with members of the crusts, yet she thinks I am a god. Class of 1962 (Friday at 4 p.m.), while the Class of 2007 will present a discussion P Therein, I think, lies a lesson. As the of “Princetonians in the Nation’s Service During WWII” (Friday at 3:45 p.m.). 47 old saying goes, a good pig eats every- PAW is hosting “PAW-litics,” a panel of alumni journalists who will offer an thing, meaning that people should insider’s look at the presidential campaign at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in McCosh 10. consume new experiences with the Moderated by Joel Achenbach ’82, a reporter for The Washington Post, the panel same gusto that a pig exhibits in will include Ryan T. Anderson ’04, editor of Public Discourse; Nick Confessore ’98, a devouring whatever is set before it. reporter at The New York Times; Jennifer Epstein ’08, a reporter at Politico; Louis Dogs take a similar approach to life. Jacobson ’92, a senior writer for PolitiFact; Richard Just ’01, editor of The New There is something endearing, even Republic; Kathy Kiely ’77, managing editor of the Sunlight Foundation; Rick Klein inspiring, in their tail-wagging grati- ’98, senior Washington editor at ABC News; and Katrina vanden Heuvel ’81, edi- tude and willingness to sample new tor and publisher of The Nation. things. Aren’t those qualities we all There are several exhibitions exploring Princeton’s history. should try to cultivate? The University Art Museum offers “Prince ton and the When Watkin took her treats out of Gothic Revival: 1870–1930.” At the Seeley G. Mudd Share your the oven, we gathered the dogs for the Manuscript Library, “She Flourishes: Chapters in the favorite Reunions ultimate taste test, which lasted about History of Princeton Women” showcases the strug- five and a half seconds. Our dogs went gles and accomplishments of Princeton women. photos and short through that food like a hot knife On Saturday, President Tilghman will hold her videos with PAW – through ... well, you know. All four SCHAEFER annual conversation with alumni at 10:30 a.m. in AND WIN PRIZES! pronounced Watkin’s crudités finger- Richardson Auditorium. Later that day, the Class of licking — OK, floor-licking — good. BEVERLY 1987 will lead the P-rade, beginning at 2 p.m. The Go to page 5 for There even were some extras, which I University Orchestra will perform its annual concert at more information. ARCHIVES; took home and reheated the next day. Finney and Campbell fields at 8 p.m., with fireworks at

Butter loved them just as much the sec- UNIVERSITY 9:15 p.m. ond time around. And I have to admit, Reuners can keep track of the schedule and other

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Alumni scene NEW RELEASES BY ALUMNI READING ROOM: CHARLOTTE ROGAN ’75

The Passage of Power (Knopf), the fourth Ayoungwoman volume of ROBERT A. CARO ’57’s biography The Years of Lyndon surviving at sea Johnson, follows Johnson from 1958, The idea for The Lifeboat — Charlotte Rogan ’75’s when he began campaigning unsuc- debut novel set in 1914 about a group of people cessfully for the 1960 Democratic nom- who spend three weeks at sea after an explosion on ination, to 1964. It examines his vice an ocean liner — emerged in 1999. Grace Winter, presidency and his early time as presi- who would become the novel’s main character and dent. ... EDWARD BERENSON ’71 traces the narrator, was part of another story Rogan had writ- history of the Statue of Liberty, describ- ten. On and off over the next 10 years, Rogan ing individuals involved in the project worked on Grace’s tale. and examining how Since Rogan started writing fiction 25 years ago, Ameri cans have inter- she has produced four other novels. Occasionally preted the statue’s she tried to get them published, but she wasn’t meaning, in The Statue much interested in or very good at the selling of Liberty: A Trans - process. atlantic Story (Yale Enter Sara Mosle ’86. She had heard that Rogan had triplets and contacted her University Press). in 2008 to see if she could interview Rogan’s children for a story she was writing Beren son is a history professor and for The New York Times. Rogan and Mosle became friends, and Mosle introduced director of the Institute of French Rogan to her literary agent. The Lifeboat was published by Reagan Arthur Studies at New York University. ... New Books/Little, Brown and Company in April. Yo r k City’s distinction first as a major WHAT SHE JUST READ: The novel opens after the boat’s rescue as Colonial seaport and later as the Tom McCarthy’s Remainder Grace, a 22-year-old American, and two other United States’ largest metropolis long surviving passengers are about to go on trial, P What she liked about it: has made the city a target for enemies, accused of committing a crime on the 48 “I don’t like novels that open writes STEVEN H. JAFFE lifeboat. Then the scene shifts to the lifeboat, with endless exposition and ’81 in New York at War: and Grace retells the story of those days and explanation. McCarthy just Four Centuries of nights waiting for rescue. throws the readers into his Combat, Fear, and Newly married, Grace has secured a place story midstream and trusts Intrigue in Gotham on the overcrowded boat, but her husband that they can swim.” (Basic Books). He has not. The only seaman on board, John chronicles the military Hardie, takes charge and makes tough deci- history of the city. Jaffe is a writer and sions to ensure the safety of the passengers — refusing to save a boy in the water historian. ... In Princeton: America’s and beating off three men who try to board the boat. At one point, to ride out Campus (Penn State University Press), rough seas, it is determined that two people must sacrifice themselves to lighten W. BARKSDALE MAYNARD ’88 uses text and the boat, and the men on board draw straws. At other times passengers mysteri- rare archival photographs to provide a ously disappear. Eventually an overthrow of Hardie brews. The last part of the history of Princeton’s campus interwov- novel returns to the trial. en with a social history of the Univer - Rogan “circles around society’s ideas about what it means to be human, what sity. “The complex responsibilities we have to each other, and whether we can be blamed for choices tale,” he writes, made in order to survive,” wrote Publishers Weekly, which called the novel “a com- “involves not only plex and engrossing psychological drama.” architects, but educa- An architecture major at Princeton, Rogan worked in the engineering branch of tors, administrators, Turner Construction Co. and took graduate courses in architecture, civil engineer- trustees, and alumni ing, and business. “I never found what I should be. I was never at all sure,” she says, — sometimes coop- that is, until she began taking creative-writing classes in her 30s. erating but often squabbling, because The Lifeboat was chosen as a “must-read” debut novel by The Sunday Times of the stakes are high: No one wants to London and made the British bookseller Waterstones’ list of the best debut novels spoil The Great American Campus.” of 2012. At a Waterstones party for the 11 new novelists on the list, Rogan, 58, Maynard is the author of five books. thought the other writers would be “adorable young things.” As it turns out,

another was also in her 50s and someone else 49. Says Rogan: “The message to HBGUSA READ MORE: Q&A with Barksdale other unpublished writers is to stick with it. It can happen.” π By K.F.G. Maynard ’88 @ paw.princeton.edu

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By Bill Eville ’87 muscular they appeared misshapen. He wore a crew cut and had a lean, square face. The boy looked hungry, too. He Bill Eville ’87 is the arts and features editor of the Vineyard pumped out push-ups while the other kids relaxed. There Gazette on Martha’s Vineyard. was a rope hanging from the ceiling and he climbed it hand over hand, not using his legs at all, while the other kids chat- Not too long ago, I showed up for wrestling practice at my ted mindlessly. He practiced moves in front of a mirror and old high school. I blame it on my approaching 25th then again among more hanging ropes, bobbing and weav- Princeton reunion, this desire to visit the glory of my youth. ing like some Tarzan among the vines. My wife had insisted I call the coach first to see if it was I thought back to my own time on the team. As a young OK. “There may be laws against this,” she said. Coach wrestler I had run several miles each evening while carrying informed me that it was quite common for some of the old a brick in each hand. By the end of each run my biceps guys to drift back. bulged large as summer squash. Once, a cop cruising by had The practice room had not changed at all. It was still a stopped to investigate. When I told him why I was carrying small box of a room with wall-to-wall mats and a heavy-duty two bricks while running late at night he nodded, then told heater pumping the temperature up to more than 80 me how when he was in high school he played football. degrees. I broke a sweat just standing by the door. Every morning he woke before dawn, went out to the For a moment I stared. In front of me a group of young garage, and for an hour pounded a spare tire with a sledge- boys — what else could they be called? — lounged about on hammer. The cop shook my hand and sent me on my way. the mat. I caught them eyeballing me out of the corner of “Bill,” the coach said, waking me out of my daydream. their eyes. I was no mere visitor checking out the scene. No, I “Glad you could make it.” He shook my hand so vigorously I was dressed for battle, wearing a gray T-shirt, gym shorts, even felt something give way in my shoulder. I smiled extra wide

tattered headgear and kneepads I had dug out of the closet. to hide my grimace. FRÉDÉRIC Then I saw him: a kid who could be my younger self, only “Wouldn’t have missed it for the world,” I said, looking BENAGLIA taller and tougher-looking. past the coach toward my younger self — surely, my partner The boy had shoulders wide as a clothesline and arms so continues on page 70

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Perspective continued from page 49 navigate the often-cruel labyrinth of high for the afternoon. school. Real life never comes in such neat But Coach nodded and pointed to the packages, though. Instead, I just gutted it far side of the room, where a sad-looking out. boy sat slumped against the mat. His face Practice lasted two hours. That’s two was buried in his knees. Mostly, just his hours of falling to the mat and having hair was visible. various kids squeezing my waist hard. It “That’s your partner over there,” Coach hurt like hell — but to have left practice, VKDUHVKDUH said. “His name is Stash.” to have called it quits and walked out the “You’ve got to be kidding me,” I said. door, would have hurt even more. Coach looked at me closely. “You’re here I never did get to wrestle my younger to help out, right? Well, that kid needs a self that day. He stayed on the opposite lot of help.” side of the room. During breaks, seated on When Coach blew the whistle again, we the mat, and leaning up against the wall, I squared off against our opponents. Stash watched him practice. I could take in only did not in any way resemble the fantasy of small breaths due to the pain in my ribs, my youth. Instead, he appeared more like and sweat poured so heavily down my the man I had become. I did not like what face it was as if I were melting. Stash, who I saw. by now had become talkative, sat next to Stash was weak and out of shape. He me narrating the story of his life. It wasn’t was also tentative, all backward and side- that unpleasant. ways movements. I peeked over at my true At one point I closed my eyes, changed younger self. He was in the act of lifting the channel, and saw the stretch of my his partner high in the air. It was effort- own life, including Princeton and meet- less. ing my roommates for the first time. It all I turned back to Stash, sighed, then seemed so unreal, this passage of time. went to work. Surely I still was just graduating from I started by feinting to the left; then, high school and wondering what the fu- P after Stash had taken the bait, I ducked ture would bring — but not afraid, be- 70 under his right arm. It was an old move, cause I was young and strong and the something basic but well loved because of boundaries of my life felt defined, like the its success rate. But my muscle memory circle around the wrestling mat. had developed Alzheimer’s, it seemed. My But of course this wasn’t the case. That ankles crossed, and I fell to the mat. I did was more than 25 years ago, both a blink not fall like my younger self did, though, in time and a period so full of change when the body simply went with the flow, and growth that to take it all in at once turning a potential accident into a beauti- felt impossible. I turned to Stash, wanting 6HQG\RXU6HQG\RXU ful forward roll. No, I fell like an old man: for a moment to tell him my life story. hard and fast onto my side. I broke two But where to begin, what to include, and 5HXQLRQV5HXQLRQVSKRWRVSKRWRV ribs. how much of it would just bore or frighten The pain of breaking a rib is not so in- him? After all, the journey to middle age DQGDQGYLGHRFOLSVYLGHRFOLSV WRWR tense at the moment it happens. There is a might be best summed up by the word SDZYLGHR#SULQFHWRQHGXSDZYLGHR#SULQFHWRQHGX searing sensation, along with a slight giv- “messy.” There really is no other way to ing way. But quickly the pain builds until describe the enormity of change, both it is as if a nest of very angry bees has good and bad, that happens as the years taken root inside your body. accumulate. I would not have it any other 5HDGHUSKRWRVZLOODSSHDU55HHDGHUSKRWRV ZLOO DSSHDU RQOLQHDQGDVHOHFWLRQPD\RQOLQHDQG D VHOHFWLRQ PD\ I rose to my feet, holding my side and way. EHLQFOXGHGLQWKH-XO\LVVXHEHLQFOXGHG LQ WKH -XO\ LVVXH wheezing slightly. And so I stayed quiet and instead shifted “Are you OK?” Stash asked. my glance to the “Yeah, fine,” I said. “Just give me a future, wondering minute.” what the next 25 years If this story were fiction, perhaps now might hold. The only would be the moment a lesson would be certainty I saw there 3$:2QOLQH3$:2QOLQH imparted. Some detail of self-knowledge was that my wife I V Y

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THE CLASS OF 1935 He returned to work in personnel at Sharp WALTER M. FRANKLIN III ’35 Bud died Jan. 17, PAW posts a list of recent alumni deaths & Dohme and took courses at night at 2012, in Richmond, Va. at paw.princeton.edu. Find it under “Web Temple University before transferring to Born in Rosemont, Pa., and raised in Exclusives” on PAW’s home page. The list Ohio State, where he earned a Ph.D. in psy- Plainfield, N.J., he came to Princeton from is updated with each new issue. chology in 1952. He then joined Prudential the Loomis School. At Princeton, he majored but left to teach at Case Western Reserve in mechanical engineering; was a member of University for three years before joining Triangle, the Tiger-Towners Dance Orchestra, THE CLASS OF 1941 AT&T. Subsequently, he moved to the and the band; and dined at Terrace Club. CHARLES DAVENPORT COOK ’41 Dav died Sept. 4, University of Georgia as professor and chair- After living and working in Westchester 2011, in Old Lyme, Conn. man of the applied psychology program, County, N.Y., and Louisville, Ky., he and his A graduate of the Blake School, he retiring in 1987. family moved to Richmond in 1958, where majored in chemistry at Princeton, where he Don is survived by his former wife, he served as director of electrical market was elected to Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa Scarvia Anderson Grant. sales for the Reynolds Metals Co. After retir- and graduated with highest honors. Dav was ing he was president of the Atlas Fence Co. editorial editor of The Daily Princetonian, a SIMEON HYDE JR. ’41 Sim died Dec. 26, 2011, in His hobbies and interests included music, member of the Grenfell Club, Princeton Hopewell House in Portland, Ore. painting, and photography, and he was a Summer Camp, In & Out Club, Ski Club, and A graduate of Andover, he majored in member of many clubs and historical associ- Elm Club. modern languages at Princeton, earning ations, including the Sons of the Revolution, After graduating from Harvard Medical highest honors. He was scenery designer for the Commonwealth Club, and the Virginia School, Dav served as an Army physician in Triangle Club and Theatre Intime, president Yacht Club. postwar Germany and separated as a captain. of St. Paul’s Society, and a member of Cap Bud was predeceased by his wife, Mary, He returned to Boston to continue his med- and Gown. He roomed first with Jack and two brothers. He is survived by his ical career at Boston Children’s Medical Hartman and then with Hooker Herring. daughter, Harriet Apperson, and son, Walter Center. In 1963, he was appointed professor Sim spent five years in the Navy, serving IV, and their families, including a grand- and head of the department of pediatrics at in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters during daughter. Yale. In 1974, he assumed leadership of pedi- the war and separating as a lieutenant com- atrics at Downstate Medical School and Kings mander. He then spent 23 years at Andover THE CLASS OF 1936 County Hospital in Brooklyn, followed by 10 as a teacher, administrator, and acting head- HOWARD CARL HARTMAN ’36 Carl died Feb. 5, 2012, years at Rochester (N.Y.) General Hospital. master. After retiring, he entered the P in Washington, D.C., one month after his Dav, a ninth-generation physician, was University of New Mexico in Albuquerque 71 95th birthday. He was born in Morristown, committed to medical education and ethics and earned a master’s degree in architecture N.J., and prepared at Townsend Harris High in the United States and around the world. in 1976. As an architect, he was especially School. His passion for improving medical care for proud of his designs for the Navajo Carl transferred to Princeton at the begin- those less fortunate inspired him to found Community Center and the Albuquerque ning of his sophomore year and majored in Hill Health Center in New Haven and to Senior Center. English. He was a University Scholarship work at the Jordan Health Center in Roch- In retirement, Sim moved to San Diego holder and a member of the honor roll. ester. He was the author of over 130 pub- for five years before spending 18 years in According to a 2005 PAW interview, his lished articles and two books. Portland. During all this time he maintained career aspirations were sparked by a class- Dav is survived by his wife, Carolyn C. a lovely house on Martha’s Vineyard mate in a Princeton English course. In class, Cook; five children; two stepchildren; 13 (designed by Dan Compton ’41). He was a “Students were asked what they were going grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. member of the Rose City Yacht Club, the to do after graduation. I didn’t say anything,” Watercolor Society of Oregon, and the he recalled. “But a bright fellow said he was DONALD L. GRANT ’41 Don died Oct. 31, 2009, in Multnomah Friends Meeting (Quaker). going into journalism. It got a tremendous Alpharetta, Ga. He is survived by his wife of 69 years, Ann laugh. Back then, journalism was clearly con- He prepared at White Plains (N.Y.) High Mills Hyde; his daughter, Beth; sons Simeon sidered a second-tier career.” School and Phillips Exeter Academy. At III and Cutty; and three grandchildren. Carl went on to become the longest- Princeton he majored in the SPIA. He was tenured reporter at the Associated Press, on the freshman soccer and gym squads, was LOUIS F. KENDALL JR. ’41 Lou died Feb. 2, 2012, in leading AP bureaus in several European assistant business manager of The Daily Santa Rosa, Calif. cities in the 1950s and ’60s and covering the Princetonian, roomed with Ralph Hill, and He prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy World Bank and International Monetary joined Cloister Inn. and majored in chemistry at Princeton, Fund later in his career. He continued writ- Enlisting in April 1942, Don completed where he played interclub hockey and ing book reviews even after he officially Officer Candidate School and was assigned squash and joined Charter Club. He roomed retired in 2006. to the 404th Field Artillery Battalion. The first with Bob Jackson and then with Carl was predeceased by his wife, Martha division was trained for action in the Pacific MacKinnon and Stebbins. Hartman. He is survived by one daughter, theater, but when the Battle of the Bulge In 1942, Lou joined DuPont. In 1944 he Jessica Constantino, and at least one grand- erupted, the men were rushed to Europe. was sent to work on the Manhattan Project child. Returning to the States in 1946, they were in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and then to Hanford, See the 1936 Class Notes for more about transferred to the Pacific, where Don was dis- Wash., where General Electric took control in Carl’s remarkable career. charged as a major. 1946. GE transferred Lou to Schenectady,

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N.Y., in 1956, first to its general engineering officer on ships of the Merchant Marine. He Douglas Aircraft. With his uncle, he hosted laboratory and then, in 1969, to the Knolls was discharged as a lieutenant. President Kennedy’s visit to see the develop- Atomic Power Laboratory, where he was Back in Columbus, Bill entered the insur- ing Gemini and Mercury space capsules. involved in designing and supervising the ance field and eventually formed his own An Eagle Scout, he became national presi- building of nuclear reactor plants for the agency, William H. Emig CLU. He became dent of the Boy Scouts and St. Louis Man of Navy. active in community affairs and served as the Year in 1984. A Presbyterian Church After retiring in 1981, Lou and his wife, first vice president of the Junior Chamber of elder, he lived his life by the Scout oath and Olivia, traveled extensively until they followed Commerce, division chairman of the law, created a corporate ethics program in their children west to Santa Rosa in 1986. Community Chest, and president of the the company, and after his retirement started Lou is survived by his wife of 67 years, Princeton Alumni Association. In 1996 he a character and ethics program involving Olivia Reed Kendall; his three daughters, received Columbus Academy’s Distinguished some 300,000 public-school students. Patricia, Trudy, and Mary; five grandchildren; Alumnus Award. He married Priscilla “Pris” Robb in 1946. five great-grandchildren; and one great-great- Bill never married. He focused on golf and She survives along with his son, Randall, and grandchild. gardening. He is survived by his sister, Jane daughter Robbin and their spouses; his sis- Emig Ford, a nephew, and a niece. To them, ter; and an Air Force pilot grandson. Tall THE CLASS OF 1942 the class sends condolences. (6’4”) and distinguished by his magnificent SAMUEL DOAK ’42 Sam Doak died Jan. 31, 2012, white hair, Sandy will be missed for his in Hanover, N.H., where he had lived for THE CLASS OF 1944 integrity and outreach to mankind. some time as a resident of the Kendal at KARL E. HOFAMMANN ’44 Karl died Jan.15, 2012, Hanover retirement community. at his Mountain Brook, Ala., home. THE CLASS OF 1947 He was born in Philadelphia Nov. 18, 1920, A graduate of Mercersburg, Karl roomed L. GLENN BARKALOW ’47 Glenn’s long and fulfill- and attended William Penn Charter School. with Chuck Nimick and Mac MacQuiddy at ing life ended March 9, 2011, at his home. Sam, one of 10 siblings, followed his brother Princeton, where he was on the varsity crew He left high school a semester early with Charles ’33 to Princeton. There he roomed and swimming team and joined Tower Club. the intention of joining the Air Corps, but he with Walt Smedley and Ted Denniston. Sam He majored in biology and in 1943 entered was told that doctors were more in demand majored in economics and graduated with medical school at Johns Hopkins, where he than pilots. He attended Dickinson College honors. served his internship and, after two years as and graduated from Princeton in the Navy’s Shortly after graduation he enlisted in the a first lieutenant in the Army, his residency V-12 program. Glenn attended the Long Navy and served in the South Pacific and in gynecology and female urology. Island College of Medicine, served his intern- New York City. He was discharged as a lieu- In 1946, he married Eugenia (“Cissy”) ship and residency from 1949 to 1955 at tenant at the end of the war. Dabney. They had three children: Karl III ’71, Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, and In 1946, Sam married Katherine Johnston Eugenia (“Skippy”), and Dabney. Karl’s close spent two years in the Air Force Medical P of Philadelphia and they moved to Fitchburg, friends were Andy Jones and Ferd Baruch, Corps in England (1951-1953). 72 Mass., where he entered the paper manufac- godfather of Karl III. He returned to Freehold, N.J., to set up a turing business. At various times Sam The family moved to Birmingham in practice in internal medicine that occupied worked for Crocker Burbank & Co., Weyer- 1953, and Karl became chairman of the his life for the next 41 years. Glenn was an haeuser, and James River Fitchburg, general- department of obstetrics and gynecology at early force in bringing a hospital to the ly in sales and product development. He also Baptist Medical Center. Freehold area, and the opening of the hospi- was a member of the vestry of his church in Immediately following Karl III’s Princeton tal was one of the proudest periods of his Fitchburg and president of the Visiting graduation, Karl said, “I’ve carried you this career. He was chairman of the department Nurses Association. far; now carry me,” whereupon Karl III car- of internal medicine at the hospital — now Sam was attached to and proud of his ried his father on his back in the P-rade! known as CentraState Medical Center — for family his whole life. He is survived by his Karl was an enthusiastic hunter, fisher- 18 years. He retired in 1996. brother Kenelm ’49; his daughters, Sally man, and trainer of bird dogs. His adeptness Besides his passion for medicine, Glenn Wood and Katherine Doak; his son Sam C.; in fly-tying served him well as a surgeon. had a love of sailing that he shared with his four grandchildren; and two great-grandchil- Cissy, his wife of 59 years, died in 2005. family. dren. To them all, the class sends condolences. Karl is survived by his three children, four The class extends its deepest sympathy to grandchildren, and five step-grandchildren. his beloved wife, Winifred; sons Derek, WILLIAM H. EMIG ’42 Bill Emig died Feb. 14, David, and Kurt; his daughters, Glenda and 2012, in Columbus, Ohio, where he had lived SANFORD N. MCDONNELL ’44 Sandy McDonnell Susan; and 10 grandchildren. most of his life. died March 21, 2012, in St. Louis of pancreat- Bill attended Bexley High School and ic cancer. WILLIAM A. GUTHRIE ’47 Bill, for whom logic, lan- Columbus Academy. During his senior year A native of Arkansas, Sandy roomed at guage, and literature were the pillars of life, at the academy he was captain of the basket- Princeton with John Krase, Art Munyan, and died June 4, 2011. ball team, president of his class, and presi- Van Olcott, with whom he rowed on the Bill grew up in Princeton, attended dent of the school. crew. An economics major, he went into the Princeton Country Day School, and before At Princeton, Bill was a member of the Army in April 1943 to spend two years on matriculating at Princeton graduated from freshman baseball team and active in inter- the Manhattan Project. After earning an Deerfield Academy. club basketball, baseball, and football. He engineering degree at the University of He joined the Naval V-12 program, gradu- joined Tiger Inn and graduated with honors Colorado postwar, he joined McDonnell ated in 1947, and was a serious student bent in economics. Aircraft, which was founded by his uncle on becoming a writer. Eventually he attend- As the United States entered the war, Bill James S. McDonnell. By 1980 he had become ed the Yale School of Fine Arts; then, follow- was commissioned as an officer in the Navy company president and chairman, continuing some time in Paris, returned and for and served in the Pacific as an armed guard ing that role after McDonnell merged with many years lived in New York City, self-

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employed as a struggling playwright. Princeton. He left in his senior year and played 150-pound football, and roomed with In the 1970s Bill moved to Boston and completed his bachelor’s degree at Hobart Bob Mahaffy, Ray Maxwell, and Bill Swearer. joined the publishing firm Little Brown in its College, and then earned a bachelor of science After graduation he served as a forward advertising department. In the 1980s he degree in agriculture from Cornell in 1954. observer and liaison officer in the infantry moved to Cambridge, Mass., and on occasion He and Terry Dunn were married Dec. 29, for two years in the Korean Conflict and was gave lectures on advertising at Boston uni- 1950. For 10 years he and his wife operated awarded the Silver Star for bravery. Upon versities. Bill loved his small, unheated cot- Windsong Farm, their Holstein dairy opera- separation, he returned to Birmingham to tage in Kennebunkport, Maine. He was a pri- tion in Quakertown, Pa. After the farm was enter the family business, Stockham Valves vate man and never married. taken by eminent domain, he was involved and Fittings Inc., founded by his grandfather, He is survived by the five children of his in a number of business ventures, all involv- William H. Stockham, in 1903, where he beloved sister, Anne, and her husband, ing agriculture. He and Terry traveled, going served as vice president and corporate secre- Lucien Yokana; and the four sons of his sis- to France and Greece, and on boat trips to tary. He was a member of Mountain Brook ter, Isabelle, whom he adored visiting in destinations ranging from the French canals and The Redstone Club. Martha’s Vineyard. He helped raise and men- and the Panama Canal to the Barge (formerly Dick died of a stroke Feb. 6, 2011. He is tor his nephews, W. Guthrie Sayen ’71, David the Erie) Canal. survived by his widow, Betty Aldridge C. Sayen ’73, George ’74, and Henry L. Sayen Len died June 7, 2011, at home in Essex, Stockham; sons Richard Stockham III and ’76. For them it was painful to witness his Mass. He is survived by Terry and three of Douglas Arant Stockham; daughter Adele 17-year battle with dementia, heart disease, their daughters, Barbara Hammer and her Culp; seven grandchildren; a sister, Charlotte and their manifestations, and they will husband, Peter; Mary Werner and her hus- Murdock; and numerous cousins, including always miss him as their mentor. The class band, Tom; and Holly Riehl and her hus- Allen Rushton ’51, James Rushton ’53, and wishes to pay its respects and send best band, Ken; six grandchildren; and his broth- William Rushton ’51. His brother, William wishes to his family. er, James Drorbaugh ’44. He was predeceased Henry Stockham II, predeceased him. by their daughter Terry Ellen; their son, THE CLASS OF 1951 Leonard Scott; and his brother, Wells THE CLASS OF 1953 ROBERT D. M. ACCOLA ’51 Bob was born Sept. 11, Drorbaugh Jr. ’43. BRUCE N. BAKER ’53 Bruce, no relation to our 1929, the son of Alvin J. and Katharine Mize previously deceased classmate Bruce K. Accola. BOYNTON C. EMERSON ’51 Jack was born May 9, Baker, died Dec. 8, 2011, at his Palo Alto, At Phillips Exeter he won the mathematics 1929, the son of William A. and Laura Cole Calif., home of heart failure. prize and graduated cum laude. At Princeton Emerson. Born in St. Louis, Bruce was living in New he roomed with Andy Cobb, Bill Dana, He prepared at the McCallie School in York state when he entered Princeton from Homer Franklin, and Bob MacKennan, and Chattanooga, Tenn., and matriculated with us Roosevelt High School with good, helpful belonged to Quadrangle. As a sophomore in the fall of 1947. He was active in crew and friend Jim Withey, a Campus clubmate. His with the best record on the Putnam Mathe- a member of Court Club. He left after our senior-year roommates were Clarke Slade, P matical Exam, he won the Class of 1861 sophomore year, transferring in good stand- Phil Plexico, and Bruce Rubidge. Bruce’s 73 Prize. As an SPIA major, he graduated with ing to Emory University in his hometown of undergraduate degree was in economics and high honors. Bob and Carolyn Pennybacker Atlanta, where he completed his undergradu- he received an M.B.A. from Stanford and a were married Dec. 23, 1951. ate work in history. Ph.D. from George Washington University Following two years in the Army in Korea, In November 1951 he joined the Navy, before spending 18 months in the Navy. He Bob entered Harvard Graduate School, where was stationed in Korea, Eniwetok, and then taught USC’s master’s-degree program he earned master’s and doctoral degrees in Alameda, and separated in 1955. He returned in systems management at Air Force bases mathematics. After two years as an instruc- to Emory to earn a law degree and was around the world. Later he taught in the tor at Harvard, he joined the faculty at admitted to the bar in 1958. After a year University of Wisconsin system. Brown in 1960 as assistant professor of practicing tort law (in his case, automobile He joined Stanford Research Institute, mathematics and was named a full professor accidents), Jack entered the federal civil serv- where SRI colleague Donn Parker said Bruce in 1969. He served as chairman of the math- ice, where he was with the Social Security helped create the International Information ematics department from 1992 to 1994 and Administration in the Baltimore area until Integrity Institute. Somehow he found time retired in 1996. his retirement in 1988. He and Teresa to deal in real estate. Bob specialized in Riemann surfaces; over Lamarche were married in 1961 and Surviving besides Mary Shaw Baker, his the years he published 31 papers in profes- divorced in 1984. loving wife of 48 years, are daughters Sara sional journals and two monographs. Jack died July 17, 2010, after a brief but Hope, Andrea Balloyra, Ashlee Baker-Florez, He died May 15, 2011, of Parkinson’s dis- fierce battle with lung cancer. He is survived and Melanie DeMonet; son James W.; and ease. He is survived by Carolyn; their chil- by his daughter Mary Ann (Mrs. Raymond brother Winslow. We marvel at Bruce’s many dren, Kristen, Robert, and Katharine; and Nissen). Interment was in Saters Baptist accomplishments. A celebration of his life is four grandchildren. His sister, Rosemary Church Cemetery in Timonium, Md.. His planned May 19 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Palo Hewitt, and brother, Alvin J. Accola Jr. ’44, brother, William A. Jr., and his sister, Claire Alto’s Foothills Tennis & Swim Club. predeceased him. Thornwell predeceased him. FRANCIS X. HOGARTY JR. ’53 Frank, whose father, LEONARD DRORBAUGH ’51 Len was born Nov. 6, RICHARD J. STOCKHAM JR. ’51 Dick was born Feb. Francis X., came to Princeton as a University 1929, in Bronxville, N.Y., the son of Wells 7, 1929, in Birmingham, Ala., the son of proctor in 1919 and was one of the four civil- and Katharine Colt Drorbaugh. His father Richard and Charlotte Rushton Stockham. ian-dressed security officers under head was in the Class of 1917 and was founder He came to Princeton from Phillips Exeter proctor Mike Kopliner, died Dec. 17, 2011, in and owner of Brides magazine. and majored in mechanical engineering. He Austin, Texas. He was 80. A Deerfield graduate, Len was an English belonged to the American Society of Born in Princeton, Frank graduated from major and a member of Cap and Gown at Mechanical Engineers and Quadrangle, the Peddie School and enrolled with us in

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the fall of 1949. He joined the Catholic Club Born in Hackensack, N.J., he attended and played JV basketball. As a member of but left the University during freshman year. Bogota High School. At Princeton, he Cannon Club, he served as social chairman He did not keep in touch with the class. It majored in English and the American civi- his senior year. has been learned that he joined the Air Force lization program. He was a member of Dial Weed was a successful businessman and and was a command pilot for 20 years, retir- Lodge and numerous campus organizations. entrepreneur, having successfully bought, ing as a major. He subsequently graduated from Yale Law managed, and sold businesses in the data- Efforts to communicate with his widow, School in 1957, after which he served in the processing, home improvement, and hospi- Janice, were unsuccessful, but it is known Army in an intelligence unit. tality industries. that in addition to her, Frank is survived by Turk practiced law for many years in New Weed will always be remembered as the daughters Laura Augsburger and Melissa York City. He retired to Ocean City, N.J., and chairman of the board of trustees of Cannon Daywood. Our condolences go to them. later moved to Largo. He was active in sup- Dial Elm Club, which reopened in the fully port of music organizations in both cities. He restored Cannon Club building in the GEORGE LEWIS PETRING ’53 Lew, who had schizo- is survived by his wife, Ceil; her sons, Richard autumn of 2011. Reflecting upon this phrenia, died Nov. 11, 2011, in Chesterfield, and Robert; and seven grandchildren. The achievement (25 years in the making), a Mo. He was 80, and his death was confirmed class extends sympathy to them in their loss. classmate described the ongoing saga with by his guardian, Thomas M. Tebbetts. the University as “the most extraordinary Lew entered Princeton from John THE CLASS OF 1957 game of Monopoly I’ve ever seen.” Burroughs School, where he played football, KEITH L. GRONEMAN ’57 Keith died Nov. 1, 2011. He also was a Reunions stalwart, missing soccer, and sang in the glee club with close At Princeton he majored in economics, only a few since 1963, and climbing up and friends Dave Sisler and Chuck Thies. They joined Charter Club, and was active in track. then sliding down every tent that he could. roomed together as Princeton freshmen and He did not remain in touch with Princeton, Immediately upon graduating in ’62, he were joined by Fred Tritschler for the but we know he lived for a while in Ridge- married his high school sweetheart, Beverly remaining three years. Lew’s discipline was wood, N.J. He moved to Los Angeles, where Koblin, who died in 1993. He is survived by history, and his thesis, “Economic History of he became a judge. their daughter, Saundra King ’85; son Coffee in Brazil,” was fitting because his To his wife, Alda, and other family mem- Randall Crane ’88; and four grandchildren. father owned the H.P. Coffee Co. in St. Louis, bers, the class extends its sympathy. He will be remembered for his intense and he intended to join the family business. zeal, energy, and creativity in all things. He took his meals at Cottage Club, and music NEWTON VON SANDER ’57 Newton died Feb. 6, was his principal interest. He managed the 2012, at his farm in Bowdoinham, Maine, THE CLASS OF 1964 University Glee Club his junior year and was after a battle with adenocarcinoma. He treat- JAMES P. OKIE JR. ’64 The class lost a dynamic, its president as a senior. ed his patients until two days before his stalwart, and convivial member when Jim Fred Tritschler recalls that Lew was quiet, death. Okie died Dec. 27, 2011, at an Alzheimer’s P kept his dorm room desk against the wall, Newton graduated from Princeton with a facility in Avon, Conn. His wife, Rowena, 74 and maintained a good sense of humor. Lew degree in fine art after starting as an engi- and two children, Jason and Lauren, were never married nor did his brother, William neering student. This change took place after with him when the end came. ’50, who also had schizophrenia, according to his serious auto accident in 1954. At Prince- Jim prepared at Andover Academy and fol- Tebbetts. Chuck Thies visited Lew regularly ton he joined Charter Club, was on the fenc- lowed his father, Platt ’33, to Princeton. He during his confinement to nursing homes. ing team, and participated in the choir and was an architecture major who was a mem- Lew was a big St. Louis Cardinals booster. Glee Club. Upon graduation he attended ber of three Ivy League-champion lacrosse It is hoped that he was aware of the Cards Boston University, obtaining master’s and teams. He joined Tiger Inn, where he lived winning the 2011 World Series. doctoral degrees in psychology. senior year with Jim Haws, Rich He then began varied careers. From 1959 Intersimone, and Bob Moore. THE CLASS OF 1954 to 1968 Newton was a master and teacher at Jim served as chairman of our highly suc- DAVID REED DENBY ’54 Reed Denby died July 20, Fay School in Southborough, Mass. From cessful 25th reunion. He was a natural at let- 2011, from Parkinson’s disease. 1969 to 1982 he held administrative posi- ting the good times roll. The Hustlers, the Reed left Princeton at the completion of tions in the Wellesley Public Schools, and campus rock band he organized and in his freshman year. He was employed by U.S. from 1982 to the present he practiced as a which he played drums, provided many good Steel in industrial engineering and became a licensed psychologist in Salem, Mass., and as times for others. general supervisor, working on projects to an independent contractor in Beverly, Mass. After spending several years teaching and increase plant production. He left that com- specializing in mental health. coaching at the Kingswood School in West pany in 1968 to become a management con- To the end Newton was a fighter, remain- Hartford, Conn., Jim left the classroom to sell sultant in New York. For the next 10 years, ing active while in chemotherapy in several real estate, a change that would lead to his he concentrated on real-estate projects. In physically demanding projects on his farm. career as a home builder. His continued ath- 1988, he established his own company to His beloved wife, Lucia, and son Adam letic pursuits included playing for the build houses on land acquired during that predeceased him. The class will miss this Connecticut Valley Lacrosse Club and serv- time period. ruggedly individualistic man. ing for many years as a ski coach at He married his wife, Sally, the year he left Sundown in New Hartford, Conn. college. She died in 2002. The class extends THE CLASS OF 1962 The class sends deep sympathy to Rowena; its sympathy to his daughters, Sally and WARREN R. CRANE ’62 Warren died Feb. 6, 2012, Jason and Lauren; Jim’s brother, Griffin; his Deborah, and his three grandchildren. losing an arduous battle with liposarcoma sister, Cynthia; and his seven grandchildren. and paraneoplastic diseases. HERBERT B. TURKINGTON ’54 Herbert Turkington After graduating from Nyack High School, THE CLASS OF 1968 of Largo, Fla., died Feb. 5, 2012, at Bay Pines “Weed” — as we knew him in college — HAROLD S. BERNARD ’68 Harold died of prostate VA Hospital. majored in electrical engineering at Princeton cancer Feb. 4, 2012, at his home in Westport,

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Conn. He was 65. Princeton from Seacrest High School in efforts in broadcast radio with flair, creativi- He came to Princeton from Great Neck Delray Beach, Fla. He majored in geology at ty, and a wry sense of humor, including lead- (N.Y.) North Senior High, where he was pres- Princeton, roomed senior year with James ership of the largely fictitious “Announcers’ ident of student government and captain of “Fanch” Fancher in Campbell, and ate at Collective.” the tennis team. At Princeton he majored in Tower. He participated in Triangle Club, After graduation, he managed several history and ate at Campus. After Princeton, Yacht Club, and Orange Key. Syracuse restaurants and hotels. Then, using Harold earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology He started medical school at UMDNJ and self-taught technical skills, he worked as sys- at the University of Rochester. He was a finished at Emory in Atlanta. After initial tems administrator at Hanford Manufactur- highly regarded private practitioner in both training in internal medicine, he did an ing Co. in Syracuse. He was a founding Manhattan and Westport. emergency-medicine residency at Albert board member of the Syracuse Invitational Harold was a Distinguished Life Fellow Einstein in the Bronx. His professional career Hockey Tournament. He joined Agentware and president of the American Group was in emergency medicine, including 25 Systems in Kokomo as director of engineer- Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). He led years in the Army, from which he retired as ing and quality assurance, working with AGPA’s efforts to help thousands of people a colonel. His stateside postings ranged from Chrysler on the integration of Agentware traumatized by the events of 9/11. He was a Florida to Alaska, and he served with US products. His hobbies included golf, poker, respected teacher, mentor, supervisor, and forces in Iraq in the early 1990s. and trivia. leader in the community of group psy- After retirement, he lived south of Atlanta His classmates missed his presence at chotherapists, and he edited several books on in a rural setting. He will be remembered for Reunions and formal class activities, but he group psychotherapy and clinical psycholo- living life with flair and purpose. The class never was far from their thoughts. He is sur- gy, the most recent of which, On Becoming a extends sympathy to his family and friends. vived by four brothers and two sisters. To his Psychotherapist, was published in 2010 by family and friends, the class sends sympathy. Oxford University Press. CLARK FELDMAN ’71 Clark died May 2, 2009, He is survived by his wife, Bonnie; chil- after a three-year battle with cancer. THE CLASS OF 1975 dren Nicole and Bradley; sister Cathy; and Clark grew up in Michigan and came to DANIEL J. CALACCI ’75 When Dan slipped away brother Mitchell ’73. To them all, the class Princeton from Detroit’s renowned Cass Tech May 11, 2011, surrounded by his family, the extends deepest sympathy. High School. He majored in sociology before class lost one of its most colorful, gregarious, going on to the University of Michigan and beloved members. Dan was profoundly THE CLASS OF 1970 Medical School and psychiatry residency at unlike anyone else. He brought a unique per- GORDON STOLLERY ’70 Gordon died Dec. 12, University of Southern California. He prac- spective that enlightened, confounded, and 2011, while on vacation in the British Virgin ticed psychiatry and addiction medicine at tickled everyone he encountered. Islands. Kaiser Permanente in West Los Angeles Dan commenced his gloriously improba- He came to us from Toronto, Ontario, before going into private practice. Clark also ble life in Missouri. At St. Louis University where he excelled at hockey and golf, having worked in the California penal system, treat- High School, he excelled in both academics P finished second in the 1965 Canadian Junior ing prison inmates and parolees with and sports, quarterbacking the Jr. Billikens 75 Open. He pursued both of these sports at remarkable patience and efficacy. football team to a spectacular 11–1 season Princeton. Clark was a co-founder of Crossing the and state championship. A civil engineer with a lifelong interest in Digital Divide (CDD), a nonprofit dedicated He majored in East Asian studies at geology, he led the formation of several ener- to helping addicts and law offenders learn Princeton and was fluent in Mandarin. He gy companies in the Alberta oil fields before computer skills to improve their lives. His spent a year abroad teaching English in turning his attention to his family’s Glen CDD co-founder praised Clark for his dedica- Taiwan. After college, Dan drifted with atti- Angus Farm, breeding stakes-winning thor- tion to an often-neglected population. tude across the globe. He lived in Japan, was oughbreds. His Angus Glen Golf Club was Clark was a renowned violinist who also a photographer in Seattle, a railroad worker selected as the best new course in Canada excelled at the viola and cello. He was a con- in Kansas City, and a bank clerk in and has twice hosted the Canadian Open. certmaster in high school and at Princeton, Manhattan. He then implausibly initiated a A civic leader, Gordon endowed a chair in and he fondly played chamber music financial career, structuring international basin analysis and petroleum geology at the throughout adulthood. transactions, abstruse derivatives that still University of Toronto. At the time of his Gourmet cooking and gardening gave bal- defy explanation, and starting a hedge fund. death he was working on the Stollery Atrium ance to his life. Above all, he took great pride We miss Dan with all our hearts and will in the Golding Centre for High Performance and pleasure in his three children, Tzipi, remember him with fondness, love, and Sport. Jennifer, and Michael; and his two young bewilderment. He was a true and kind Gordon was an enthusiastic supporter of grandchildren, Nava and Eloise. The class friend, generous, quick to laugh, brilliant, Princeton, serving on the board of the PAA expresses its deep condolences to his family and childlike in his fascination for the world. of Canada, the Schools Committee, and and friends. To his wife, Debra; children Daniel and Special Gifts Committee. Helen; sister Jane; and brothers Tom and We have lost a classmate of protean ener- WILLIAM P. MULLIN ’71 Bill Mullin died May 16, David, the class extends deepest sympathy. gy, wide interests, and great good humor. To 2011, in Kokomo, Ind. Gordon’s wife, Judy; and his daughters, Cailey, Bill grew up in Syracuse, N.Y., and came to THE CLASS OF 1986 Tori, Gillian, Lindsay, Claire, Sarah, and Princeton from Christian Brothers Academy. MARY KATHERINE BAIRD DARMER ’86 Mary Kathy Hannah, the class extends deepest sympathy. He majored in sociology, lived in Edwards Baird Darmer of Newport Beach, Calif., died senior year, and was most remembered for Feb. 17, 2012. THE CLASS OF 1971 his dedication to WPRB. Bill was willing and Kathy grew up in Waco, Texas, and attend- SAMUEL P. BOEHM ’71 Sam Boehm died July 17, able to take on all tasks at the radio station, ed Vanguard College Preparatory School. At 2011, from complications of prostate cancer. including news reporting, music shows, Princeton, she roomed with Susie Bargon Sam was born in Detroit and came to sports, and technical support. He infused his Thompson, Sandy Fitzpatrick Vitzthum,

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Sallie Kim, and Stephanie So. Kathy was Carolyn; their son; two daughters from his in 1974. He is survived by their daughter; his president of the Princeton Debate Panel and first marriage; and two grandchildren. His wife of 17 years, Dr. Hongying Wang *96; won numerous awards in parliamentary second wife died climbing in the Himalayas. their two children; and a granddaughter. debate. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and Quadrangle Club. SIN-I CHENG *52 Sin-I Cheng, Princeton profes- CHARLES E. HAMM *60 Charles Hamm, who A philosophy major, Kathy graduated sor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace helped found the field of American popular- magna cum laude. She earned a law degree engineering, died Dec. 6, 2011. He was 89. music history and was a professor of music from Columbia and later clerked for judges Born in China, Cheng graduated from Jiao at Dartmouth, died of pneumonia Oct. 16, on the District Court for the Southern Tong University in Shanghai in 1946 and in 2011. He was 86. District of New York and the Second Circuit 1949 received a master’s degree from After serving in the Marine Corps during Court of Appeals. In 1991, Kathy joined Michigan. In 1952, he earned a Ph.D. in aero- World War II, Hamm earned a bachelor’s Davis Polk & Wardwell as a litigation associ- nautical engineering from Princeton. After degree from Virginia in 1947. In 1950, he ate. She served as an assistant US attorney 41 years of teaching at Princeton, he retired received an M.F.A. in music from Princeton. for the Southern District of New York. In in 1992. Cheng had become an expert in the He taught at the Cincinnati Conservatory of 2000, she joined Chapman University’s stability of liquid propellant rocket engines Music before returning to Princeton and School of Law faculty and was later promot- when rockets frequently blew up in testing. earning a Ph.D. in musicology in 1960. He ed to professor. After Russia’s launch of Sputnik in 1957, then held professorships at Tulane, Illinois, Kathy was a founder and board member Cheng’s theoretical understanding, given in a and Dartmouth, where he became the Arthur of the Orange County Equality Coalition, 1956 monograph, was important in enabling R. Virgin Professor of Music in 1976. which advocates for gay, lesbian, bisexual, the United Ststes to send rockets successfully While starting as a specialist in Renais- and transgender rights. At Chapman, she into space. Subsequently, Cheng made signif- sance music, he disapproved of the disrespect wrote and spoke publicly against torture and icant advances to fluid dynamics. As an fellow musicologists had for contemporary governmental abuses. industry consultant, he helped develop early popular music. According to The New York Kathy will be remembered for her humor, designs for intercontinental ballistic missiles. Times, “Hamm was one of the first scholars energy, intellect, and eloquence. An avid Cheng wrote more than 100 articles and to study the history of American popular reader and runner, she ran the New York book chapters in his field. Sau-Hai Lam *58, music with musicological rigor and sensitivi- City Marathon several times. Princeton’s Wilsey Professor emeritus, recalls ty to complex racial and ethnic dynamics, She leaves her husband, Roman Ernest Cheng as “one who imparted not only the and both oral and written traditions.” Darmer; children Lelia Jane (11) and subject matter itself, but the beauty of the Hamm wrote two standard texts: Matthew Locke Darmer (8); her parents, subject when he taught.” Yesterdays: Popular Song in America (1979); Robert M. and Alice Baird; and mother-in- Cheng is survived by Jean, his wife of 65 and Music in the New World (1983). He was law, Marie Darmer. years; three children (including Andrew ’71); much honored in his field. P seven grandchildren (including Caroline ’06, Hamm is survived by three sons (includ- 76 Katherine ’09, and Matthew ’09); and two ing Bruce ’75 and Chris ’78); four grandchil- Graduate alumni great-grandchildren. A son, Thomas ’74, died dren; and two former wives. JOHN MCCARTHY *51 John McCarthy, the emi- in 2008. nent computer scientist, died of heart disease FREDERICK RHODEWALT *79 Frederick Rhodewalt, Oct. 24, 2011. He was 84. JAMES N. ROSENAU *57 James Rosenau, the professor of psychology at the University of McCarthy graduated from Caltech in 1948, retired University Professor of International Utah, died at home Aug. 19, 2011. He was 62. and in 1951 earned a Ph.D. in mathematics Relations at George Washington University, He graduated from Lincoln University in from Princeton. He then taught at Princeton, died Sept. 9, 2011, after suffering a stroke. 1975 and earned a Ph.D. in social psychology Stanford, Dartmouth, and MIT before return- He was 86. from Princeton in 1979. In 1980, he became ing to Stanford in 1962 as a professor of During World War II, Rosenau served in an assistant professor in the psychology computer science. He became professor the OSS. He graduated from Bard College in department at Utah, and was subsequently emeritus in 2000. 1948. While at Bard, Eleanor Roosevelt hired promoted to associate and then full professor. Regarded as the father of computer time- him to compile and edit FDR’s personal let- At Utah, he was associate dean of the sharing, McCarthy also coined the term AI ters from the White House. In 1949, he College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, (for artificial intelligence). At MIT, he co- earned a master’s degree in international chair of the sociology department, and asso- founded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, studies from Johns Hopkins and in 1957 a ciate dean of the Graduate School. He pub- where a computer language was developed Ph.D. in politics from Princeton. lished extensively and was elected a fellow of and became a standard tool for AI research Rosenau taught at Rutgers and Ohio State the Society of Personality and Social and design. In 1964, McCarthy became the before joining the University of Southern Psychology, the Society of Experimental founding director of the Stanford Artificial California in 1973. He left in 1992 as profes- Social Psychology, and a division of the Intelligence Laboratory, which has been sor emeritus, and became the university pro- American Psychological Association. prominent in the field. fessor at GWU. He retired in 2009. He received the Senior Superior Research Elliot Pinson ’56, a Caltech Ph.D. and A noted scholar of international relations Award from Utah’s College of Social and retired Bell Labs director of computer sys- and pioneer in the study of globalization, Behavioral Sciences, and the Award for tems research who took a math course Rosenau wrote and edited more than 40 Distinguished Service from the Society for taught by McCarthy at Princeton, remembers books. In 2005, he was ranked by Foreign Personality and Social Psychology. him “as just about the smartest guy I ever Policy magazine as among the 25 most influ- He is survived by Elaine, his wife of 36 met.” McCarthy received the Turing Award ential academics in foreign affairs. Well- years; two children; and his mother, Loretta. (1971), the Kyoto Prize (1988), and the known as an author and researcher, he National Medal of Science (1990). regarded himself as a teacher first. Graduate memorials are prepared by the McCarthy is survived by his third wife, Rosenau’s first wife, Norah McCarthy, died APGA.

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