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Perspective 13 MURADOV A professor teaches a class online, and learns along with his students By Mitchell Duneier Goodnight, iPad? 26 Campus Notebook 14 Though the words might be the same, reading children’s books President Tilghman to step down • Art electronically can be a different experience than reading the museum considers issues of provenance old-fashioned way. A Princeton professor weighs in on whether in new exhibition • College rankings • it matters. Conference planned for LGBT alums By William Gleason • University welcomes Class of 2016 • New faculty • IDEAS: Burgernomics • FYI: Findings • Breaking Ground: American Lucifer 32 A seamless Internet • ON THE CAMPUS: Aaron Burr Jr. 1772 is best known for killing Alexander Hamilton When cheating isn’t clear-cut • Grad- in a duel. But perhaps history has saddled him with a bum rap. student housing crunch By Mark F. Bernstein ’83 Sports 22 Field hockey has high hopes • EXTRA POINT: After a deadly riot, Bob Bradley ’80 aims for World Cup with Egypt’s What’s n ew @ PAW ONLINE national soccer team • Football opens • Sports shorts FRESH FACES A Moment With 25 View images from the Mars researcher Kevin Lewis Class of 2016’s first week on campus. IMAGES,

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Memorials 62 Lawnparties 2012. PAW on iTunes ELIZABETH Listen to Rally Princeton Exchange 69 MARTIN WHAT’S YOUR VIEW? ’Round the Cannon as a Final Scene 72 podcast on iTunes. ’14; Share your thoughts ROMAN about children’s literature ON THE COVER: Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton’s 19th president. MURADOV Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images. in the digital age. THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Opening Exercises: Occupying Princeton

On September 9, at Opening Exercises, I welcomed 1,357 new freshmen — the largest class to matriculate in Princeton’s history — together with other new and returning members

of our University community. In my address, I encouraged APPLEWHITE each member of the Class of 2016 to “occupy Princeton” by

making it uniquely his or her own, reminding them that in DENISE 2012, Princeton is not solely a location in New Jersey but a gateway to educational opportunities throughout the world. Here is part of what I said. — S.M.T.

pening Exercises is one of the truly joyous occasions at Princeton because it marks the beginning of a great adventure — your great adventure. At this moment in your Princeton Oeducation everything is possible — every door stands open, every dream has the potential to come true. You are about to Occupy Princeton. Now don’t panic — I don’t mean to suggest that you are going to live in a soggy pup tent on Cannon Green for the closet full of orange and black paraphernalia. Others of next four years. Instead, I am co-opting that phrase from you had never heard of or even considered Princeton until last year’s political season to preview what I hope will be a teacher or guidance counselor or family friend suggested the many ways in which you will seize the moment, take that you should take a look. And by the way, it has been this University by storm, make it uniquely your own, and my experience that the moment you arrive on campus, leave it better than you found it. those differences completely evaporate, and you all become Let me begin with the most literal meaning of Princetonians to the core. Some of you had something very Occupying Princeton. Here you are! Bravo for making the specific in mind when you applied to Princeton — to study wise decision to attend this University. I suspect that there with world-class mathematicians; to combine a liberal arts are almost as many reasons for why you chose Princeton education with a serious commitment to the arts; to play as there are members of the Class of 2016. Some of you on a sports team that contends for Ivy championships on knew you wanted to come to Princeton the moment you a regular basis. The great majority of you, however, are stepped on this beautiful campus — it just looked and felt completely open to what lies ahead and plan to use your like what a college campus is supposed to be. I completely first year or so to explore the tremendous smorgasbord of understand that reaction. Even after 26 years, I occasionally opportunities that Princeton has to offer. find myself dazzled when I encounter a long vista through But whatever your path to Princeton, you are now a Gothic arches, or the sky’s reflection on the glass façade member of the Class of 2016, collectively poised to Occupy of Sherrerd Hall. Geography matters, and you will find Princeton for the next four years. As I warn each freshman inspiration in living and working in a setting that can class, the next four years are going to go by in the blink continually astonish. of an eye. If you do not believe me, ask any member of the Some of you were attracted by the opportunity to work senior class. That look of panic in their eyes is not solely with faculty who are not just extraordinary scholars, brought on by the fact that they are still struggling to find a scientists, and engineers, but also are committed to sharing topic for their senior theses. It also reflects their realization their knowledge and erudition with the next generation. that there is a light looming at the end of the tunnel, and That is a great reason to choose Princeton — you will come they have just one more year to savor and extract the full to know faculty as individuals, not just as talking heads at worth of this place. the front of the class. And rather than being intimidated So Occupying Princeton means first and foremost by the prospect of writing a senior thesis, some of you carpe diem — seize the moment, take responsibility were motivated to come to Princeton by the chance to take for consciously and conscientiously carving out your responsibility for your own intellectual development, rather own vision of a Princeton education. For there is no than being a passive recipient of learning. Writing a senior quintessential Princeton experience, especially for a class thesis may seem daunting to you right now, but it will be as broadly diverse in every imaginable way as yours. Each the most exhilarating and rewarding experience of your Princeton experience is forged from a highly individual academic career, and the one you remember best. spectrum of interests, talents, initiative, focus, and, There are those of you in the Class of 2016 who yes, serendipity. Luck matters. The roommates you are had siblings who attended Princeton, or parents or randomly assigned, the conversations you happen upon in grandparents, and undoubtedly received regular doses of the dining halls, the preceptor who takes a special interest Princeton lore around the family dinner table and have a in your work, the play you decide to audition for on a

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whim — who knows what will turn out to be a revelatory for you to begin planning your strategy for becoming a moment in your Princeton experience? cosmopolitan. But as the 19th-century French scientist Louis Pasteur As you know, the Occupy movement began last fall in famously said, “Chance favors only the prepared mind.” Zuccotti Park near Wall Street in New York as a protest A prepared mind is open to courses in disciplines and fields against the growing inequality in income and opportunity you have never encountered before and to testing whether in the U.S. and in many other countries around the world. subjects that fascinated you in high school are truly your The movement’s rallying cry was “We are the 99 percent,” calling. A prepared mind will explore extra-curricular to underscore the point that the widening gap in wealth interests that bring you in contact with students who come is benefiting a very small percentage of the population. to Princeton with very different life trajectories than yours, With your matriculation at Princeton, and irrespective of and who will challenge you to grow as an individual. With your family circumstances up to this moment, you have a prepared mind, you can leave your mark on Princeton now become part of the 1 percent, not in terms of wealth, by the ways in which you choose to spend your time and but certainly in terms of future opportunity. Admission engage with your classmates and fellow students. But let to Princeton is a privilege that is bestowed on very few me be clear — Occupying Princeton well means making individuals, and with it comes a responsibility to use your real choices. The buckshot approach to Princeton does not education to make the world a better place. “Princeton work. So take your time, pace yourself, and don’t try to do in the Nation’s Service and the Service of All Nations” is everything all at once. not a hollow phrase, but a call to action that justifies the Although it may sound like I am about to contradict immense effort and resources that go into educating each myself, Occupying the Princeton of the 21st century of you. By virtue of that education, and the credential you requires that you leave Princeton from time to time to will earn that signals to the world that you have worked explore the rest of the world. This was not always the case; prodigiously hard to pass a very high educational bar, you in fact, Princeton was often criticized by its alumni for will have a dizzying array of options before you. We are discouraging their efforts to study abroad. However, that agnostic about what you choose to do, but we do insist that began to change in 1996, when we celebrated the 250th it have a purpose that is larger than you. In that sense, anniversary of the founding of Princeton and President Harold Shapiro used the occasion to modify our informal motto. “Princeton in the Nation’s Service” became “Princeton

in the Nation’s Service and the Service of APPLEWHITE All Nations” — words now carved into the walk in front of Nassau Hall. Whether you DENISE describe the world as flat, or shrinking, or massively interconnected, it has profoundly changed, and modern well-educated citizens need to be cosmopolitans — a word that Professor of Philosophy Anthony Appiah has used to describe a person who is genuinely familiar with and at ease moving between cultures, without losing sense of his or her own identity. Economists and sociologists predict that many of you will spend some fraction of your lives in different countries with different languages, religions, and political beliefs. To be successful, you will need to be cosmopolitans, and the Occupying Princeton is not an end in itself but, rather, a best way to acquire that trait is to engage the world — by means of preparing yourselves for many occupations — and getting to know students from other countries here at vocations — in a world that sorely needs the skills and Princeton and by studying the languages, cultures, religions, qualities of mind you bring to this University and will surely histories, and political philosophies of other societies. But enhance over the next four years. as meaningful as those experiences can be, they are no I am looking forward to getting to know each of you substitute for first-hand experience, and you will quickly and to cheering you on inside and outside the classroom as discover that Princeton now offers many options for you to you Occupy this great University. I hope you will leave our explore other parts of the world — semester- and year-long campus, saying, as generations of students have said before study abroad opportunities at excellent universities and you, “This place changed my life.” Welcome to Princeton! myriad summer experiences, including Global Seminars, intensive summer language training, research opportunities, and internships around the world. It is not too early

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Inbox BUZZ BOX Inbox Krugman’s views spark “Now it may be time to give priority to applicants who debate over economy will gain the most from their education at Princeton.” Each story, letter, and memorial at — Ken Phillips ’62 paw.princeton.edu offers a chance to comment The “PAW Asks” Potential-based admissions have the greatest potential to benefit article (Campus the most and grow the most from the Notebook, June 6) Over the past 50 years, there have been educational experience. This would with Professor Paul many approaches to greater diversity achieve the laudable goals of greater Krugman, about and fairness in leading American uni- educational impact and increased the U.S. and global versities — generally by admitting diversity that have been pursued over economies, prompted more applicants from public schools many years. Who benefits? Both the more than a dozen and other countries, and minorities and students admitted and society would alumni responses at Krugman women. Now it may be time to give gain more from this approach. Who PAW Online. priority to applicants who will gain the loses? Only those students who would “Professor Krugman has lots of book most from their education at Princeton. be replaced by students with greater learnin’, but doesn’t have a clue as to Does Princeton want to contribute potential to contribute to our society. how real businessmen in the real world to giving the elite ever more advan- If the motto “in the nation’s service” is think,” wrote GAETANO P. CIPRIANO ’78. tages? If so, then it just has to admit the operating, Princeton would adopt a DOUG BARTON ’65 found Krugman’s best and the brightest based on demon- potential-based admission policy and analysis “brilliant, as usual, while still strated ability and achievement. An find ways, as it could, to make this pol- accessible to those of us who got no far- achievement-based admission policy icy successful. ther than Econ 102.” largely replicates accepting students KEN PHILLIPS ’62 EDWIN L. BROWN *61 said he was in from affluent families who give their Roslindale, Mass. Athens “to implement the 1953 children advantages not available to Refugee Relief Act in Truman Doc- others. trine/Marshall Plan days. If now Krug- P Or does Princeton want to con- Appreciating the humanities man stands by as odd-man Greece goes 5 tribute the biggest differences in creat- under the bus, not seeing the domino ing the elite? If this is so, then Princeton The article “Renaissance Man” (feature, effect on Spain, we help bring the must look at potential growth — the June 6) begins with the words, “If you House of Europe down on our heads.”

potential of increased ability in the think a scientist can’t be a humanist, “Keynesian stimulus (more debt) just JON overall class. This certainly would be meet Erez Lieberman Aiden ’02.” Unfor- leads to a compound-interest catastro- ROEMER,

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Inbox FROM THE EDITOR inherent in that one statement suggest that Aiden does not appreciate language The news that Shirley Tilghman would step down change and other “nutty” subjects except as president at the end of the academic year was not a complete surprise, as those subjects feed his “science.” coming as it did shortly after Princeton’s $1.88 billion fundraising campaign. He seems to imply that it is possible College presidents often leave the post after a campaign, and Tilghman already to “dabble” in such topics and still be had outlasted most of her peers. The average tenure for a college president taken seriously because, after all, he’s these days is about eight-and-a-half years; Tilghman has been in the job for 11. first a scientist. His attitude is a slap in Tilghman told University trustees of her decision on the day that PAW was the face to researchers and scholars going to press, and so this issue includes only brief coverage. Most of what will who explore such “nutty” topics much be written about Tilghman’s tenure over the next weeks, here and elsewhere, more deeply and seriously. What would surely will focus on her many accomplishments, including the expansion of one make of a humanities scholar, for Princeton’s groundbreaking financial-aid program; the transformation of the example, who says, “Wow, I can be an campus with projects such as Whitman College, the Lewis Library, and the English professor and study scientific neuroscience institute; the steps toward the planned arts district; and the language and still be taken seriously expansion of the Center for African American Studies. and not get fired!”? As a humanist first, But I will remember other things, as well. President Tilghman has not always would he or she be taken as seriously as approved of PAW’s coverage of University news, and yet, whether the news was a Renaissance “man”? Or would s/he be good or bad, she responded to our questions with honesty and thoughtfulness. dismissed as a dilettante? She welcomed our staff into her office. She expressed great pleasure when PAW I would like to think that a true Ren- readers took note of the President’s Page in each issue. These are small things, aissance man of our time would appre- given the huge job of any university president, but I will miss them. ciate that the more he learned, the In a few days, during the weekend of the Princeton-Harvard football game, more he still had to learn. Sadly, Aiden Princeton will mark the success of the Aspire fundraising campaign. There will doesn’t seem to be that man, in spite of be great celebration. But with this coming farewell, it will be bittersweet. the breadth of his research interests. KALPANA SHANKAR ’89 — Marilyn H. Marks *86 Dublin, Ireland

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that Sagan and his supporters made an thoughts on the subject now. been an incredible experience and a appealing argument but one that was CHARLIE BELL ’76 dream come true. At least 75 of my devoid of supporting evidence. Lakeville, Conn. litigation files were sent to Princeton At the end of the evening Dyson as part of its collection of ACLU papers conceded that Sagan was the superior in Mudd Library (Campus Notebook, debater, and he came to admire Sagan’s Mudd Library’s ACLU papers July 11). In the front of each litigation work to promote the exploration of file, I wrote several paragraphs explain- space. Still, half a lifetime before I’ve been an ACLU national staff attor- ing what the case was about and its Turner and Spiegel, he reminded us ney for 35 years. During that time I’ve significance. If anyone should examine that the existence of life beyond Earth litigated more than 150 cases around them and have any questions, I’d be was merely a hypothetical based on the country on a wide range of civil- delighted to respond! hope. Although Sagan died some liberties issues, including free speech, STEPHEN L. PEVAR ’68 years ago, I’d love to hear Dyson’s prisoners’ rights, and ballot access. It’s West Hartford, Conn.

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his October, explore key issues of the 2012 presidential election with Princeton faculty, journalists, and alumni in this timely online T series. Offered as a collection of free weekly events, these !exible webinar, video, and live stream sessions provide the chance to engage with the issues, presenters, and one another during this exciting election season.

The Obama Presidency: Then and Now Webinar: Tuesday, October 9, 8:00-9:00 p.m. Evan Thomas, Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities; Ferris Professor of Journalism.

Obama or Romney: The First 100 Days Live Stream Webcast: Saturday, October 20, 10:00-11:00 a.m. Brandice Canes-Wrone '93, Princeton's Donald E. Stokes Professor in Public and International Affairs Todd S. Purdum '82, National Editor, Vanity Fair; Former White House Correspondent, The New York Times Ramesh A. Ponnuru '95, Senior Editor, National Review

Mobilizing the Vote: Race, the Ground Game, and Voter Turnout in American Elections Webinar: Tuesday, October 23, 8:00-9:00 p.m. Ali Valenzuela, Assistant Professor of Politics

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Learn more and register for the interactive sessions at http://alumni.princeton.edu/learntravel/alumnistudies/fall12/

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Perspective The world is his classroom By Mitchell Duneier

Mitchell Duneier is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton.

A few months ago, just as the Princeton campus had grown nearly silent after Commencement, 40,000 students from 113 countries arrived here via the Internet to take a free course in introductory sociology. The noncredit offering came about through a collaboration among Coursera, a new venture in online learning, and 16 universities, including Princeton. When my class was announced last spring, I was both excited and nervous. Unlike com- puter science and other subjects in which the answers are pretty much the same around the globe, sociology can be very different depend- ing on the country that you come from. As letters and email messages began arriving in anticipation of my course, I wondered how I, an American professor, could relate my subject to people Although it was impossible for me to read even a fraction I didn’t know from so many different societies. of the pages of students’ comments as they engaged with one P Would my lectures become yet another example of another, the software allowed me to take note of those that 13 American ethnocentrism and imperialism as I presented my generated the most discussion. I quickly was able to see the sociological concepts like so many measuring sticks for the issues that were most meaningful to my students. experiences of others around the world? Was it really possi- In addition to the course lectures, I arranged live ble, I asked myself, to provide quality education to tens of exchanges via a video chat room, in which six to eight stu- thousands of students in more than 100 countries at the dents from around the world — some selected from the same time? And could I do it in a way that would respond to online class, others who were volunteers at Princeton — the diversity of viewpoints represented from six continents? participated with me in a seminar-style discussion of the My concerns grew deeper as I sat before the cold eye of readings while thousands of their online classmates listened the camera to record my first lecture. With nobody to ask in to the live stream or to recordings later. During these me a question, give me bored looks, or laugh at my jokes, I weekly sessions, I found that I was able to direct the discus- had no clues as to how the students might be responding. sion to issues that had been raised in the online postings. Staring into this void, it was hard for me to imagine that Along with two Princeton students, our online seminar anyone was listening. Can we even call these “lectures” when included university students from Nepal, Siberia, Iran, and there is no audience within the speaker’s view? Aren’t those Nigeria, a travel agent from Georgia, a civil servant from interpersonal cues — those knowing nods and furrowed Singapore, and a fireman from Philadelphia. Their com- brows — that go from the audience to the professor as cru- ments often revealed precisely how American sociology’s cial to the definition of a lecture as the cues that go from the assumptions about social life need to be analyzed and recon- lecturer to the audience? structed in light of experiences elsewhere. My opening discussion of C. Wright Mills’ 1959 classic With so much volume, my audience became as visible to book, The Sociological Imagination, was a close reading of the me as the students in a traditional lecture hall. This hap- text, in which I reviewed a key chapter line by line. I asked pened as I got to know them by sampling their comments students to follow along in their own copies, as I do in the on the forums and in the live, seminar-style discussions. As I lecture hall. When I give this lecture on the Princeton cam- developed a sense for them as people, I could imagine their pus, I usually receive a few penetrating questions. In this nods and, increasingly, their critical questions. Within three JAMES case, however, within a few hours of posting the online ver- weeks I had received more feedback on my sociological ideas STEINBERG sion, the course forums came alive with hundreds of com- than I had in a career of teaching, which significantly influ- ments and questions. Several days later there were thousands. continues on page 61

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Campusnotebook Web exclusives and breaking news @ paw.princeton.edu Art museum exhibit seeks to balance provenance, scholarship issues As awareness of the murky history of art objects has grown in recent years, the museum world has struggled with whether items that lack complete documentation should be displayed, even when they have great artistic and educational value. That’s a question the Princeton University Art Museum As the catalog states, painted ceramics of has grappled with in mounting a new the kingdom represent “an extra o r d i n a r y exhibition of Maya vases. and sophisticated history of artistic The exhibition, “Dancing Into achievement, involving several features Ik’ kingdom in museums and private Dreams: Maya Vase Painting of the Ik’ otherwise unattested in the ancient collections today were not excavated P Kingdom,” runs through Feb. 17, bring- (pre-European contact) Amer ica.” There scientifically, said exhibit curator Bryan 14 ing together 18 vases — 14 of them is much to be learned from them. Just, and little is known of their origins. borrowed — from the eighth-century However, scholars generally believe The catalog notes that it is a matter Ik’ kingdom in present-day Guatemala. that nearly all the Maya vases from the of debate whether exhibiting ancient

S Conference planned A new academic year brings

W for LGBT alumni new round of college rankings

E On April 11–13, the University will hold U.S. News & World Report: TIED FOR NO. 1 QS World University Rankings: NO. 9 in

N its first conference for lesbian, gay, with Harvard in “Best National Universities”; the world, with MIT ranked No. 1. bisexual, and transgendered alumni. also TIED FOR NO. 1 with Dartmouth in “Best Academic Ranking of World Universities/ The idea “really came from alumni, Undergraduate Teaching” and NO. 3 in “Best Shanghai Jiao Tong World Rankings: NO. 7 in E that they wanted this,” said Livia Value Schools.” the world, ranking NO. 3 for number of faculty McCarthy, senior associate director for Forbes: NO. 1 OVERALL, based on post- Nobel laureates and Fields medalists and NO. 5 H regional affairs at the Alumni Council, graduate success and four-year graduation rates, for highly cited researchers in 21 research

T which is holding focus groups in seven student satisfaction, and student debt. categories. cities to help plan the event. Washington Monthly: NO. 20 among national Times Higher Education World Reputation “It feels a little overdue, but it’s nice

F universities, based on social mobility, research, Ranking: NO. 5 in the world, with Caltech No. 1. to see the University offering something and service. that is targeted at the LGBT commu- Newsweek/The Daily Beast: NO. 2 in “Most O ALIKEMALKARASU/ISTOCKPHOTO.COM nity,” said Shawn Cowls ’87, president Princeton Review: NO. 1 for financial aid, Affordable Schools” behind MIT; NO. 6 among of FFR/ Prince ton BTGALA, a group NO. 2 for “Most Beautiful Campus,” NO. 3 in “Best “Most Rigorous Colleges.” Value Private Colleges,” NO. 6 for “Students Study P for LGBT alumni and supporters. Parchment: NO. 5 among U.S. schools in this Previous University conferences have the Most,” and NO. 9 for “Best College Library.” ranking by an education-data company that O focused on black alumni, women, and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance: NO. 1 in “Best analyzes the decisions of students with multiple race and community. Values in Private Colleges.” college acceptances. By Allie Weiss ’13 T

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Maya works of art contributes to borrowing objects. Like most museums als, and courtly games — and creatures increasing the value of such objects in the United States, the museum had that suggest sickness. Ten of the vases “and by extension, to promot[ing] no stated provenance policy for incom- are signed by the painter or can be additional uncontrolled digging.” But ing loans, but generally followed the attributed to a specific artist. The Just said he does not believe that “by practice of requiring borrowed items sophisticated painting style indicates exhibiting work collected by other for exhibitions to have a documented that there was a thriving community of history of ownership back at least to artists in the Ik’ kingdom, Just said. “We should preserve these things as 1970 — matching the requirement for “We should preserve these things as best we can — whatever path brought its acquisitions policy, which was estab- best we can — whatever path brought them to our attention.” Curator Bryan Just lished in 2007. The new borrowing pol- them to our attention,” the curator said. icy allows the museum to adapt the “We would have a very narrow under- museums and private collectors we are date of required provenance on an standing of this [Maya] civilization ... increasing demand or encouraging exhibition-by-exhibition basis, depend- today if we didn’t incorporate this present-day unprofessional excavation” ing on the prevailing laws and bilateral material in study.” of Maya objects. agreements in place, while requiring He said the exhibition presents a “To outrightly ignore unprovenienced that full provenance information be “tragic, unfortunate tale” of practices SERVICE but authentic antiquities — the disclosed publicly, explained museum “that have irrevocably limited our SET FOWLER

WITH approach of some students of ancient director James Steward. a b i l i t y to study and appreciate the past,” WAHY MCCORMICK, Maya art — is to choose a moral high In the case of this exhibition, the pol- including unprofessional excavation,

FIGURES, ground that effectively contributes to icy permitted the museum to borrow damaging or misleading restoration

CLASS the obfuscation of portions of the past and display Maya items with docu- efforts, and “the censure of academic CA.

755; we seek to understand,” Just wrote in mented provenance prior to April study and public access to antiquities” OF 1921, PRINCETON the catalog. “By contrast, I consider the 1991, as long as they are not known to whose provenance is not completely FUND inclusion of all known works of have been stolen and their ownership is documented. (Y1993-17, UNIVERSITY ancient art, regardless of provenance, a not contested. (April 1991 is the date of Steward described the new borrow- basic responsibility of academic and an agreement between the United ing policy as a “middle position” that 18, ART AND curatorial discourse, but with the pro- States and Guatemala on the importa- allows the museum to advance scholar- MUSEUM; 19); viso that the recent histories of such tion of antiquities.) ship and yet do so in a “morally and PHOTO:

MUSEUM works, however contentious, be made The vases in the exhibit are drinking ethically rigorous way.” He said he

BRUCE P transparently available.” cups used by eighth-century nobility. hopes it will become “a mechanism for PURCHASE,

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WHITE In mounting the exhibition, the art They depict scenes from court activities bringing interesting objects to the light museum developed a new policy for — including dancing ceremonies, ritu- of day.” π By K.F.G.

four-year residential-college system Tilghman to step with the construction of Whitman College, leading the University through a sharp recession, increas- down as president ing financial aid, expanding stu- dents’ international experiences, President Tilghman will step down in June, after 12 years at creating the Lewis Center for the Princeton’s helm. Arts and a new neuroscience insti- Her decision was announced Sept. 22, a day after she tute, and fighting local opposition informed University trustees who were meeting on campus. to lay the groundwork for the Arts President Tilghman at Reunions 2012. The news follows the conclusion of the Aspire fundraising and Transit neighborhood. campaign, which raised $1.88 billion over five years. A professor of molecular biology, Tilghman was selected as Tilghman said she felt her major priorities had been Princeton’s 19th leader — and its first woman president — in accomplished or were well on their way to being realized. “It May 2001. KATHERINE was time for a new president to come in, to assess where we After stepping down she will begin a one-year leave, dur-

are. We’re an extraordinary institution, but we are not perfect, ing which she plans to spend time in London, and then will ELGIN

and there are a lot of ways in which we can be better. I think return to the University to teach. The search for a successor ’13 that’s going to be a more critical assessment if it’s done by will be led by Kathryn Hall ’80, chairwoman of the executive FOR THE

somebody who’s not going to feel responsible for what’s committee of the Board of Trustees. By J.A. DAILY

already happened,” she told The Daily Princetonian. The PRINCETONIAN trustees had not encouraged her to step down, she added. News of Tilghman’s decision broke as this issue of PAW was going Tilghman’s accomplishments include implementing the to press; see the Oct. 24 issue for more coverage.

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Campusnotebook 900+ Number of members Bring on the Class of 2016! on the Class of 2016’s Compiled by Jennifer Altmann and Julia Bumke ’13 Facebook page, about 825 two-thirds of Went on the classmates Outdoor Action

145 Went on Community Action !!!!!!!!! Raised their hand in McCarter Theatre when asked, “Who had contact with an alum during the admission process?”

P 16 The 1,360 members of the Class of 2016 — the largest freshman class in Princeton’s history — were welcomed to campus with a whirlwind of information sessions, barbecues, scavenger hunts, locomotive cheers, and the annual Pre-rade. At Opening Exercises Sept. 9, President Tilghman told bursts of laughter from a class gathering at McCarter Theatre the class: during an evening talk about how seemingly innocuous At this moment in your Princeton education everything online data — an online purchase or a phrase entered into a is possible — every door stands open, every dream has search engine — can be used to infer private information. the potential to come true. You are about to Occupy Said Daniel Tzou ’16: “Some very cool thinking about pri- Princeton. vacy issues.” π Now, don’t panic — I don’t mean to suggest that you are going to live in a soggy pup tent on Cannon Green for the next four years. Instead, I am co-opting that phrase from last year’s political season to preview what I hope will be the many ways in which you will seize the moment, take this University by storm, make it uniquely your own, and leave it better than you found it. ... You have now become part of the 1 percent, not in terms of wealth, but certainly in terms of future oppor- tunity. Admission to Princeton is a privilege that is bestowed on very few individuals, and with it comes a responsibility to use your education to make the world a SAMEER better place. ... A. ’66

Her comments drew good reviews: “The Occupy theme KHAN made it really personalized to our class, really genuine,” said KOHORN

VON Evan Chow ’16. VIEW: Slide show of the Class of 2016 at Opening Exercises, the

HENRY Computer science professor Edward Felten drew gasps and Pre-rade, the step sing (above), and more @ paw.princeton.edu

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WHAT STUDENTS SAY ABOUT ... THE CLASS OF 2016 Applicants: 26,664 Princeton adds What they packed for Princeton: Students admitted: 2,094 (7.9% of applicants, iPads, Kindles, sofa beds, a record low) eight senior posters, and Amazon Students enrolled: 1,360 (a record high, and gift cards (“for school 52 over the target) faculty members books!”) Yield: 64.9% Among the new members of Princeton’s Students receiving financial aid: 60% faculty are these seven who were The song many have as their ringtone: Male-to-female ratio: 51/49 appointed as full professors: AMITAVA BHATTACHARJEE *81, astrophysi- “Call Me Maybe” State sending most students: New Jersey, 246 cal sciences, from the University of (no students from North Dakota or Utah) by Carly Rae Jepsen New Hampshire’s Institute for the “Hey, I just met you, Foreign countries represented: 57 (top three: Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space. His Canada, China, and South Korea) research has broad applications to and this is crazy. Sons/daughters of alumni: 11.3% astrophysical, space, and fusion plasmas. GARNET KIN-LIC CHAN, from Cornell. His But here’s my number, U.S. minority students: 42.1% (a record high) so call me maybe.” research is in theoretical chemistry. First-generation college: 11.5% MIHALIS C. DAFERMOS *01, mathematics, Varsity athletic prospects: 16% from Cambridge University. He won The strangest Princeton tradition: the Whitehead Prize in 2009 for his “rig- International students: 11.3% The locomotive cheer orous analysis of hyperbolic partial dif- From public schools: 57.3% ferential equations in general relativity.” What they forgot From private schools: 42.2% (includes religious ATIF MIAN, economics and public to bring: and military schools) affairs, from the University of Califor- nia-Berkeley. His studies emphasize the Home-schooled: 0.5% Clothes hangers role played by political, governance, Number of U.S. military veterans: none (nearly 6,000 sold at and organizational constraints in shap- P the U-Store by the start B.S.E. students: 27.5% (a record high) ing the effectiveness and scope of 17 financial markets. of classes) Source: Office of Admission; School of SOPHIE MOREL, mathematics, from Engineering and Applied Science Harvard. She is a specialist in number theory, algebraic geometry, and repre- sentation theory. EVE OSTRIKER, astrophysical sciences, NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS from the University of Maryland. Her interests are in theoretical and compu- Doctoral-degree students: 434 tational astrophysics, including forma- Master’s-degree students: 182 tion of stars and planets, dynamics and Applicants: 12,077 (a record) thermodynamics of the interstellar medium, and structure and evolution Students admitted: 10% of applicants of spiral galaxies. Her father, Jeremiah Male-to-female ratio: 61/39 P. Ostriker, a former provost, retired International students: 39% from the Princeton faculty this year. ANDREAS WIMMER, sociology, from U.S. minority students: 15.9% UCLA. His research focuses on the Underrepresented U.S. minority students: 8% dynamics of nation-state formation, Humanities and social sciences: 34% ethnic boundary-making, and political Graduate-student orientation included talks on “suc- conflict from a comparative perspective. Sciences and engineering: 45% cess in graduate school” and “understanding your Appointed as an associate professor financial landscape.” But it wasn’t all serious: Grad Woodrow Wilson School: 16% was ERIKA MILAM, history, from the Uni- students also went on a dessert crawl to sample the Architecture: 5% versity of Maryland. Specializing in fare at some of Princeton’s ice cream and cupcake modern life sciences and in gender and shops. Said Rafi Stern GS, above at right with Jan Source: Office of the Dean of the Graduate science, she is the author of Looking for SCHAEFER Enkler GS, of his new home: “‘Princeton’ is on every- School a Few Good Males: Female Choice in

BEVERLY thing, even the water bottles.” Evolutionary Biology. π

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FYI: FINDINGS For Professor Orley Ashenfelter *70, Big Macs are a key A 10 - m i n u te economic indicator. “ah a! ” m o m e n t led to a po s s i - bl e s o l u ti o n fo r a mystery th at l o n g h as baffl e d re s e ar ch e rs w o r k i n g to H A RN E S S F U S I O N. David Gate s , a pr i n ci pal re s e ar ch ph y s i ci st at th e P r i n ce to n P l as m a P h y s i cs L abo r a- tory, an d staff re s e ar ch ph y s i ci st Luis D e l g ado -A par i ci o pro po s e d a s o l u ti o n to th e “de n s i ty l i m i t ” pro bl e m , w h i ch can prev e n t f u s i o n re acto rs f ro m o pe r ati n g at m ax i - mum e ffi ci e n cy. Th e s ci e n ti sts h ad their “ah a! ” m o m e n t w h i l e w o r k i n g on e qu ati o n s th at re l ate to th e bu bbl e - l i ke i s l an ds th at appe ar i n the h o t, ch ar ge d g as e s — o r pl as - Using burgernomics to measure wages m as — du r i n g f u s i o n e x pe r i m e n ts . Th e fi n di n g s w e re pu bl i s h e d A pr i l Since Roman times, economists have strug- that workers are paid vastly different 20 i n “P h y s i cal Rev i ew L e t te rs . ” gled with the difficulty of measuring the amounts to perform the same tasks, depend- “real-wage rate” across nations: How much ing on the country. Jesus e s po u s e d po v e rty, y e t th e product can a given period of work buy? Not only is the Big Mac standardized, but C H RI STI A N C H U RC H grew r i ch i n Such a measure could provide a valuable “workers are doing the exact same thing” l ate Ro m an ti m e s . E m e r i tu s pro - P index of the standard of living of workers when they make one, Ashenfelter says. If fessor o f h i sto ry P e te r B ro w n 18 but is plagued by pitfalls. they are paid less to make one in the Third e x pl o re s th i s par adox i n h i s pro di- Suppose one asks, “How many wagons can World, it’s not because the work is easier or gious “Th ro u g h th e E y e o f a Ne e - a wagon-maker buy with a year’s salary?” the workers less competent. Developing coun- dl e : We al th , th e Fal l o f Ro m e , an d Alas, wagons don’t look the same in Estonia, tries’ economies are less productive, which the M ak i n g o f C h r i sti an i ty i n th e Egypt, or El Salvador and require very differ- pushes down prevailing wages. McDonald’s We st, 3 5 0 –5 5 0 A . D . ” ( P r i n ce to n ent skills to construct. Wagons provide a workers may be just as productive in India as U n i v e rs i ty P re s s ) . B ro w n fo u n d flawed measure. in, say, the United States, but they are paid th at bi s h o ps re i n te r pre te d C h r i sti - To this age-old problem, economics pro- the going wage rate, which is less in India. an i ty, al l o w i n g w e al th y f am i l i e s to fessor Orley Ashenfelter *70 has found a Before the Industrial Revolution, real-wage ti th e ge n e ro u s ly, n o t re n o u n ce solution: a product that is basically the same rates were the same everywhere, barely above l u cre al to ge th e r. everywhere — the McDonald’s Big Mac. subsistence level, Ashenfelter says. Ever since, Since the late 1990s, Ashen- rates have varied, employers E l e cte d pre s i de n t 6 0 y e ars ag o , felter has compiled what he BIG MAC INDEX: How many Big being forced by competition DWI GH T D . E I S E NH OWE R h as be e n Macs a McDonald’s worker could calls the Big Mac Index, to pay workers more in devel- car i catu re d as a ge n i al du ffe r bu t buy with an hour’s salary in 2007 which cleverly gauges the oped countries. was act u al ly can n y i n de al i n g w i th real-wage rate in more than Japan The index shows huge i n te r n ati o n al cr i s e s , ar g u e s E van 60 countries. (A separate Big 3 growth in real-wage rates in Th o m as i n “I ke ’ s B l u ff : P re s i de n t Mac Index, by The Economist, United States India, Russia, and China since Eisenhower’s S e cre t B att l e to calculates the value of inter- Ashenfelter began measuring Save th e Wo r l d” ( L i t t l e , B ro w n an d national currencies.) nearly 2.5 there in the late 1990s. But C o m pan y ) . Fo r m e r New s w e e k To plug a nation into his Russia since the recession, “it’s kind e di to r- at- l ar ge an d n o w a P r i n ce - Big Mac Index, Ashenfelter of a sad story,” he says. Among ton Fe r r i s Professor o f J o u r n al i s m , requires just two pieces of just over one emerging economies, “The Th o m as s e e s E i s e n h o w e r as information: How much China least democratic countries are br i l l i an t an d r u th l e s s , w h e th e r at does a Big Mac cost locally? about half the ones doing the best — po ke r o r i n co n f ro n ti n g M o s co w. JOHNNYLEMONSEED/ISTOCKPHOTO.COM And how much does McDon- India Russia and China. India is STEVEN VEACH

WILSON; ald’s pay its crew there? The starting to backslide.” π By By W. B a r ksd a l e M a y n a rd ’88

BRIAN Big Mac Index demonstrates one-third W. Barksdale Maynard ’88 and N o ra Ta ra n to ’13

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BREAKING GROUND Easing the Internet’s growing pains

THE TECHNOLOGY Ever wish that the music you are streaming on your phone could continue seamlessly from your local coffee shop’s WiFi, to your cellular net- work while you run errands, to your home’s WiFi as you walk into your house? Computer scientists at Princeton recently have developed a new system — called Serval — that will let your device easily switch between wireless net- works without losing con- nectivity. This next-generation networking, named for an African wild cat as well as for the “service access layer” it describes, aims to increase efficiencies of Internet services by allowing companies to shift data traffic between servers. “Right now, there is no easy way for application connections to transparently switch between two networks,” says Michael Freedman, the assistant professor of P computer science who heads the Serval development team. “Users or applications 19 have to manage their connections manually.”

WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE INTERNET The architecture of the Internet goes back to its early days in the 1970s, when com- puters were few and had fixed locations, Freedman says. Thus, the addresses of computers were mapped to specific network locations. But today, people want to speak not to individual computers but to services such as Facebook or Google. Behind these services are many computers, with Freedman many physical addresses. By creating an extra layer within the Internet’s architecture, Serval would allow a user to connect to these services seam- lessly, identifying a service rather than a physical computer. New Internet applications are shoehorned into the existing architectural layers of the Internet, leading to management and performance problems, says Freed- man. The team behind Serval has figured out how to wedge its system into the cur- rent architecture while making matters more simple. “Serval sits carefully on top of the network layer, rather than replacing it,” Freedman says. “But it can hide a lot of complexity, making it easier to build and manage applications that in turn run on top of it.” WOJCIECHOWSKI The development team has created a Princeton FRANK PUTTING THE TECHNOLOGY TO USE network to show how Serval works while it moves to test the system in larger, com- PHOTO: plex networks. The Serval website (http://www.serval-arch.org/) runs on the Serval

SCHEUER; system.“Since Serval is still new, no one can be sure what the main application will

PHIL be,” says Jonathan Smith, professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania. He predicts that Serval’s key function will be better

ILLUSTRATION: access for mobile devices. π By Anna Azvolinsky *09

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quences of cheating. “It creates a certain set of values,” said Antonia Hyman ’13, chairwoman of the Honor Committee. “It’s reflective of what the student body thinks. ... The perception is that it works. But does it deter all cheating? Well, no.” The Committee on Discipline, which hears all cases regarding work com- pleted outside the classroom, reported 32 academic violations for the 2010–11 academic year, the most recent statistics available. Most of the cases involved plagiarism, and 22 resulted in suspen- sion. Seven cases ended in disciplinary probation because the committee determined that a reasonable person might not have realized that the act in question violated University policy. Such cases highlight the gray areas of Princeton’s honor system, which often revolve around the limits of appropri- In wake of cheating scandal, concern ate collaboration: Some classes, for example, allow collaboration on prob- about ‘gray areas’ of honor system lem sets but not on exams; others allow students to discuss assignments but By Abigail Greene ’13 require that all work be done individu- ally; and some prohibit collaboration On Aug. 30, Harvard officials announced Cheating can, of course, happen any- P altogether. Perhaps the greatest confu- a sweeping cheating investigation, where. But Princeton, like Harvard, is a 20 sion arises in classes that adopt combi- impli cating as many as 125 students place where students experience nations of these rules. for alleged plagiarism on a take-home tremendous pressure to achieve. It’s “The Honor Code is written in black final exam. The announcement raised also a place where the Honor Code, and white, but there is no such thing,” many questions about academic written by students in 1893 and contin- said Jennifer Kim ’14. “The punish- integrity, but one seems particularly uously adapted based on student input, ments that are dealt out are sometimes salient: Could it happen here? serves as a reminder of the conse- a little bit too harsh for these gray

as well as Internet service and shuttle Grad students cope with housing crunch service to campus. “It’s like night and day,” said real- as supply of units on campus shrinks estate agent Dianne Bleacher of the dif- ference in rent between University By Gregory Rosalsky GS housing and the private market. While one-bedroom University apartments With the closing of the Hibben and (GSG). “Improving housing options for for grad students cost $1,071 to $1,127 Magie apartment buildings this past students is one of the Graduate Student per month plus utilities, a one-bed- summer, securing housing near campus Government’s top priorities.” room apartment in town within walk- became a more difficult task for a siz- Many grad students work at odd ing distance of campus can cost $1,500

’13 able number of graduate students. hours and must juggle family and to $2,000 plus utilities, she said.

O’NEILL “Over the next several years, until the teaching responsibilities, which can Many students at Hibben-Magie

JOHN construction of the new Lakeside apart- make commuting from off-campus were able to move to the Stanworth ments is complete, graduate students especially burdensome, Maisel said. apartments, which previously had been PHOTOS: can expect fewer available on-campus Tim Brandt, a fifth-year astronomy reserved for faculty. But there still has

ZWOLAK; housing options,” said Chad Maisel, a Ph.D. student who heads the GSG’s been a net loss of 80 to 100 beds in

PAUL second-year M.P.A. student at the facilities committee, said the University University housing for grad students, Wo o drow Wilson School and president offers “excellent housing at a pretty according to the University’s Housing

ILLUSTRATION: of the Graduate Student Government substantial discount on market rates,” and Real Estate Services department.

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areas,” added Rafael Grillo ’14, who watched a classmate fight a plagiarism allegation last year that ended with a Redman retires; helped thousands one-year suspension. Victoria Jueds, the associate dean of along grad school’s academic path undergraduate students who serves as the secretary for the Committee on Dis- David N. Redman retired in Septem- cipline, said general guidelines about ber after 39 years serving as assistant, collaboration are found in Academic associate, and acting dean of the grad- Integrity at Princeton, a publication that uate school — the longest-serving all freshmen receive, but that professors administrator in the school’s history. establish individual policies on collabo- For most of that time his focus was ration in class. When in doubt, she said, academic affairs, reading the applica- students should ask their professors for tion of every student recommended for clarification. admission, every annual academic Despite these concerns, many pro - progress report and re-enrollment rec- fessors at Princeton continue to assign ommendation, and every degree appli- take-home exams and collaborative cation for the final public oral — a assignments. In January 2012, 32 per- connection from admission to gradua- cent of final assessments took the form tion with an estimated 17,500 grad of in-class exams, 17 percent were students. take-home exams, and 51 percent were He led diversity efforts for two projects, according to the Office of decades, counseled and advised stu- Communications. dents, administered academic disci- The open-note, take-home final exam pline, and coordinated professional that Professor Michael Berry gives in development programs. Dean William “Cellular and Systems Neuroscience,” Russel said Redman “set the tone in the school with impeccable integrity, quiet wisdom, an exam designed much like that in and an impressive work ethic.” Redman spoke with PAW managing editor W. Raymond question at Harvard, requires students Ollwerther ’71 shortly before his final orientation talk with newly arrived grad students. P to engage with course material through 21 relevant journal articles. Berry feels that ON HIS WORK AT THE GRADUATE SCHOOL I hope I’ve been able to contribute to a sense this allows for a more comprehensive, that graduate students are as good, though good in a different way, as undergradu- fairer — albeit longer — exam, benefits ates, that they contribute vitally to the health of the place. That the faculty are who that outweigh the risk of cheating. they are, in part, because we are able to help get good graduate students here. I “I’m going to trust the Honor Code,” think I’ve fostered the attitude that graduate students are adults with a focused Berry said. “That’s what it’s there for.” π purpose, and that the less you interfere with developing relationships that they have with faculty — who are going to be their teachers and mentors — the better. The GSG surveyed grad students and found “considerable interest” in hous- ON CHANGES HE HAS SEEN As opposed to the early and mid-’70s, the graduate school is ing in nearby municipalities, provided really recognized as an important, prominent part of the University’s educational the University offered a regular shuttle enterprise. I see that in the commitment of resources to the graduate program, service to campus, Maisel said. graduate stipends, the first-year fellowship program, the high percentage of hous- One idea, Brandt said, would be to ing [for graduate students]. ... In the last 10 to 15 years, there is a generally recog- create a “mini-Princeton” of rental units nized attitude that the graduate school has to grow as the faculty grows — that the in a nearby municipality that uses “some health of the University is tied to research and teaching faculty, who need and kind of preferred leasing or block leas- deserve good graduate students. That wasn’t always accepted; it’s a big difference. ing to bring down rates and makes it easier to find somewhere to live.” ON CHALLENGES FACING THE GRADUATE SCHOOL One: Continuing to monitor the percent- After a “challenging” year, Maisel age of international students. Some day the huge stream of really top-quality inter- said, the University “has indicated a national talent to the U.S. graduate schools will start thinning out. Two: The effect renewed commitment to improving of the economic downturn on the academic job market, and not just on the place- the process for graduate students.” ment of our students, but our preparing them for the ability to take a research James Poole, manager of graduate degree into other areas. We can’t be training you just to be a professor at Harvard. housing, said Princeton is committed Three: How can we focus technical innovation on better teaching and assessments? RICARDO to housing 70 percent of eligible grad How do grad students play a role in the new ways of teaching, lecturing, learning? students and to “an open and ongoing And finally, the whole internationalism push that the University is engaged in — BARROS dialogue.” π how does that facilitate research and joint degrees and multiple degrees?

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Princeton’s field hockey team is fortified by the return of Olympians Katie Reinprecht ’13, center, and Julia Reinprecht ’14, along with Sports Kathleen Sharkey ’13 and Michelle Cesan ’14, all of whom spent last year playing with the U.S. national team.

P 22 Reinprecht said. The international veterans bring With national stars’ return, back not just their on-field talents, but lessons learned from playing with the field hockey hopes to dominate nation’s best, such as staying poised in close games. Cesan, who was an Princeton’s field hockey team has won climbed to No. 2 in the national polls as Olympic alternate, led the team out of the Ivy League championship for the of Sept. 14, their highest ranking ever. an overtime contest Sept. 6 at eighth- last seven years, but never has earned Princeton field hockey had the ranked Penn State with a sudden-death an NCAA title. That may be about to chance to break through in 2009, when goal. Sharkey broke Princeton’s career change. a 16-3 season ended with a semifinal record of 71 goals, held by Ilvy Friebe With four star players returning to loss to top-ranked Maryland, and in ’03 and Kirsty Hale ’99, in the season the team after spending a year with the 2010, when the team fell in the quarter- opener at Duke Aug. 31. U.S. national team — including a pair finals. Last fall, led by younger players A revamped roster isn’t the only of sisters who played in the Olympics such as Sydney Kirby ’15, Allison Evans change from last year’s 10-8 season. — the deck will be stacked against ’15, and Amanda Bird ’14, the Tigers Princeton’s home games have moved Princeton’s opponents. ended up pulling off an Ivy League title. out of the multipurpose Class of 1952 “I think this team has enormous Now that Olympians Katie Rein- Stadium and onto the new Bedford potential,” said head coach Kristen precht ’13 and Julia Reinprecht ’14 are Field, a venue dedicated solely to field Holmes-Winn, who went to four Final back, along with Michelle Cesan ’14 hockey that has a smoother surface. Four tournaments as a player and assis- and Kathleen Sharkey ’13 — four of “We have a pretty tough schedule this tant coach at Iowa before joining the six college players in the nation to year, which is great to get that experi- Princeton in 2003. “We still don’t have spend last year with the U.S. national ence under our belt,” Katie Reinprecht everything in place yet, personnel-wise, team — Princeton boasts one of the said. “I really think we can compete but we’re getting closer.” deepest offenses of any team. Seven with anyone.” π By Kevin Whitaker ’13 The Tigers opened their season with Tigers have scored nine or more goals SCHAEFER a 6–0 record, including impressive vic- in a season. “We have really good READ MORE: Sports updates every

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Sports EXTRA POINT After tragedy in Egypt, shooting for a World Cup By Merrell Noden ’78 For Bob Bradley ’80, coaching Egypt’s Merrell Noden ’78 is a national soccer team means taking on the hopes of the Egyptian people, former staff writer at who long to qualify for the World Cup. Sports Illustrated and a frequent PAW contributor.

On June 1, Egypt’s national soccer team played Mozambique in a World Cup qualifying match. Bob Bradley ’80, the Pharaohs’ new coach, was on the side- lines. Fifty-six minutes in, Egypt’s Mah- moud Fathalla angled a ball off his right leg past Mozambique’s diving goalie and scored. In the stands of the 86,000- AP seat military stadium in Alexandria, IMAGES there was silence. Every seat was empty. Since February, the team has played home games in a vacant stadium. Spec- Watch a video of Bradley’s team from tators have been banned since a riot Jeffrey Plunkett ’97’s documentary following a match in Port Said that “We the Pharaohs,” and read about killed more than 70 people. the filmmaker @ paw.princeton.edu. Competing without cheering fans is P just one of the challenges facing Bradley, 23 who took the job last October. Follow- prestigious club in Europe, something to a pair of Ivy League titles. ing his dismissal as coach of the U.S. he always has dreamed of. From 1984 But during his two visits to Egypt to men’s team in July 2011, Bradley might to 1995, Bradley was the men’s soccer consider the job, Bradley was over- have waited for a coaching job with a coach at Princeton, leading the Tigers continues on page 24 FootballcomebackfallsshortatLehigh Host Lehigh led 17–0 at halftime of Princeton football’s sea- “In the past, some of the games like this snowballed — son opener Sept. 15, but the Tigers clamped down on defense there was anxiety, or whatever it was, and a 17-0 game turned and climbed back into the game, scoring two fourth-quarter into a blowout,” head coach Bob Surace ’90 said. “We came touchdowns. With a chance to tie or win in the final three out in the second half and we did a real good job getting minutes, the Princeton offense stalled, and the Mountain control of the football, field position, and everything else ... Hawks held on to win, 17–14. and the next thing you know, it’s Connor Michelsen ’15, who a three-point game.” earned the starting quarterback The Tigers were aided by some job, completed 14 of 30 passes for fortunate breaks, including two 103 yards (74 of them in the sec- fumble recoveries on Lehigh punt ond half). Running back Akil returns, and avoided miscues of Sharp ’13 was quiet in the first their own, committing just one half but eventually found his penalty and no turnovers. stride, scoring Princeton’s first Princeton will have opportuni- touchdown with an impressive ties to measure itself against two 13-yard scamper and fighting for of the Ivy League’s perennial a second score from one yard contenders when the Tigers host

SCHAEFER out. He totaled 79 yards on 22 Brown (Oct. 13) and Harvard

BEVERLY carries. (Oct. 20). π By Kevin Whitaker ’13 Akil Sharp ’13 ran for two touchdowns at Lehigh.

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Extra Point continued from page 23 He is enmeshed in Egyptian life, SPORTS SHORTS whelmed by the country’s passion for getting out to the bustling market at soccer. Though deeply divided over Ataba and visiting the Children’s Can- Facing a string of five Big East oppo- politics, Egyptians could agree on one cer Hospital of Egypt. The day after the nents to start the season, MEN’S SOCCER thing: an obsession with Egypt’s quali- riot at Port Said, he and Lindsay joined won two games and lost three. Rookie fying for the World Cup, something thousands at a rally at Sphinx Square to Thomas Sanner ’16 had a hand in all that nation has not done since 1990. honor the victims. three Princeton goals in that span, scor- Bradley’s contract takes him through Coaching a team of 30 Egyptian ing one and adding two assists — one the 2014 World Cup, and he knows Muslims is very different from coach- of which went to his brother, returning how huge a responsibility he has ing in the United States. Some players All-Ivy selection Matt Sanner ’13. assumed in what is, basically, a brand- speak English, but to communicate Jen Hoy ’13 scored three goals for new country after the fall of Hosni with the rest he often employs a trans- WOMEN’S SOCCER in a 4–4 draw with Col- Mubarak last year. lator. Whenever the team travels, a gate Sept. 2. Princeton opened the year “In a country where there’s so much player leads a prayer on the bus ride. with a 2–3–1 record. hope for the future, the dream of get- During Ramadan, when Muslims fast In its first race under new coach ting to the World Cup again is a big from dawn to sundown, the players Jason Vigilante, MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY part of it,” Bradley says. train from 10 p.m. to midnight. handily won the Spiked Shoe Invita- Unlike some of his predecessors, who “Egyptians are a proud people. tional at Penn State Sept. 8, as Alejandro lived outside Egypt and flew in to They’re proud of their history, their cul- Arroyo Yamin ’14 finished first and coach, Bradley and his wife, Lindsay, ture, and their soccer,” Bradley says. “If three other Tigers took places 3, 4, and moved to a hotel apartment in you come here and are part of those 5. The following week, Princeton moved Zamalek, an affluent section of Cairo things, they appreciate it.” up to No. 15 in the national rankings. built on an island in the Nile. Neither Egypt is 2–0 in World Cup qualify- WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY also achieved speaks much Arabic, but that does not ing games and leads its group. Its next a national ranking, No. 28, after finish- stop them from interacting with the qualifier is in March against Zimbabwe. ing second at the Spiked Shoe Invita- Egyptian people, which usually pro- If the team plays at home, the stadium tional. Emily de la Bruyere ’15 was the duces chaos — Bradley is recognized still may be empty, but the whole team’s top runner and fifth overall in everywhere he goes. nation will be watching. π the meet. π P 24 CityCity ofof GoldGold Tomb andand TempleTemple inin AncientAncient CyprusCyprusrus

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A moment with . . . RoverscientistKevinLewis,ontheredplanet We live and work the Martian day is almost exactly on that Martian time, as long as an Earth day. It’s 24 “ hours, 39 minutes. We live and so our schedule shifts work on that Martian time, so by about 40 minutes our schedule shifts by about 40 minutes each day. We have to do each day. that because we can only run the ” rover when it’s daylight on Mars. The Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars As soon as the sun goes down on in August, was aptly named. Over the Mars, the rover stops what it’s next two years, it will explore its landing doing for the night, and we start site and the surrounding area, including planning for the next day’s 18,000-foot-high Mount Sharp, providing activities. scientists with more information about the red planet than they ever have been What exactly do you do? able to obtain. Kevin Lewis, a postdoc- We spend a lot of time plan- toral associate research scholar in Prince- ning what the rover will image ton’s geosciences department, is spending or analyze or drive to on a given the first 90 days of the rover’s two-year day. There are 10 instruments mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and 17 cameras on board, but in Pasadena, Calif., helping to select there are only a limited number projects for the rover to execute. of daylight hours and 300 scien- P tists working on the project. Satisfying everyone can be a 25 The photos the rover sent back of Gale Crater [just south of the challenge. I work with the geologists, helping them reach a Martian equator] really were taken on a soundstage in Arizona, consensus and set priorities for what we want to study. I then right? help turn specific projects into a sequence of commands that (Laughs) Of course! It’s the same soundstage they used for we can send to the engineers who actually program the rover. the Apollo moon missions! Is there any project you particularly want to undertake? Kidding aside, Gale Crater does look a lot like deserts on Earth. Is Mount Sharp, which is off in the distance, is a huge moun- that because it’s made of the same material? tain of what appears to be sedimentary rock. We hope that if It likely is very similar. The most common rock type on we can figure out how it formed, it will tell us a lot about the Mars is basalt, which is what is produced in many lava flows history of Mars over billions of years. Right now, we have no on Earth. On Mars, it will be interesting to look for chemical idea when things happened on Mars or for how long they signs of alteration in that basalt. On Earth you find signs of happened. If we find evidence of water, for example, it’s sedimentary rocks that have been weathered out and turned going to be hard to tell if it was there for a day or for a bil- into soils and other mineral types. We will be looking for lion years. By exploring the accumulated layers of sediment that in Gale Crater and when the rover gets to Mount Sharp, on Mount Sharp, we hope to be able to construct a geologi- which will take many months. cal timescale, which could be a powerful tool for understand- ing Martian history and climate. Why does it take so long to get there? We have some limitations. One is safety. You only want to Do you think you will find evidence of water or life? drive where you can see that there aren’t any large rocks or I anticipate that we will find evidence of water. Finding cliffs in front of you. The other is battery power. The rover evidence of life ... would be a pretty big deal, but I am totally uses the heat from a plutonium source to charge its battery. agnostic about whether we will find it. One of the goals of Once we drain the battery, we have to wait for it to recharge. the mission will be to look for organic carbon, so by the end That limits how far you can go in a day. of this mission, we should have a much better idea of the FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI planet’s past and present habitability. π What is your schedule? We’re synched to the Martian day. Totally by coincidence, — Interview conducted and condensed by Mark F. Bernstein ’83

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iPadChildren’s literature in a digital? age By William Gleason

In February,Professor William Gleason,now the incoming chair- man of the Department of English, presentedalivelyAlumni Day talk on children’s and young-adult literature.The audience was enthralled — and perhaps a bit alarmed. We asked Gleason to adapt his talk as an article for PAW readers, parents and nonpar- ents alike.

Last October, Blue Rider Press published a timely parody of Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd’s chil- dren’s classic, Goodnight Moon. Marketed to adults, Goodnight iPad reimagines Brown and Hurd’s soothing “great green room” as a noisy hive of digital distraction: In the bright buzzing room P There was an iPad 27 And a kid playing Doom And a screensaver of — A bird launching over the moon

After cataloging a seemingly endless array of electronic devices, the book introduces a “fed-up old woman” who does more than simply whisper “hush.” Confiscating armfuls of tablets and smartphones, game consoles and Nooks, she heaves every last one out the window. “Goodnight MacBook Air,” the book purrs at its close. “Goodnight gadgets every- where.” On the final page, the room quiet at last, the old woman reads a copy of Goodnight Moon — an actual book, not a digital substitute — with an enthralled child. Pseudonymously penned by “Ann Droyd” (actually chil- dren’s author David Milgrim), Goodnight iPad playfully fore- grounds many of the central questions — and tensions — in contemporary debates over digital technology and children’s reading. How hard should parents work to untether their children from digital media? Are electronic children’s books just as “good” as traditional books? Is the digital age chang- ing the way children read, or the kinds of stories they are being told? Although Goodnight iPad appears to side with the traditionalists, it also hedges its bets. After all, the Penguin Group, Blue Rider Press’ parent company, offers digital edi- tions of Milgrim’s satire for precisely the array of devices that the fed-up old woman tosses out the window. Which is to say: You can read Goodnight iPad on your iPad.

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Little of this would matter if sales of digital books for children weren’t suddenly on the rise. Once a laggard in elec- tronic purchases — a gap often attributed to parental reluc- tance to give up the tactile intimacy of reading with their children the “old-fashioned” way — children’s books now represent one of the fastest-growing segments of the e-book market. In March, the Association of American Publishers reported that net sales revenue for children’s and young adult e-books jumped a staggering 475 percent for the month of January 2012 over the same period in 2011, presumably an effect of new e-reader and tablet sales during the year-end ASK THE holidays. And the numbers show EXPERT little sign of slowing. Over the Have questions for first quarter of 2012, the latest William Gleason? period for which data are avail- able, net sales volume of chil- Write to PAW dren’s and young-adult e-books or email remains up a robust 233 percent [email protected] over the same quarter last year. Responses will While it’s true that the raw dol- be published lars of e-book sales still make up in a future a relatively small percentage of issue and at children’s and young adults’ book paw.princeton.edu. sales overall (only $19.3 million out of $140 million in March 2012, for example), and while it’s not clear how much of the growth in this e-sector may be due to the young-adult side of P the equation — especially when massively popular young- 29 adult series like Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games have shown significant levels of crossover adult readership — the data suggest that the reluctance to purchase digital books for children may nonetheless be softening. If so, is this cause for celebration, or concern? The data suggest It depends on whom you ask. that the reluctance Critics of children’s digital books say they encourage skim- ming over deep reading, that children who use digital to p u r c h a s e digital devices are more interested in playing games than in turning pages, and that parents who read digital books with their books for children children don’t interact with young readers the same way as may none t h e l e s s when reading traditional print books. Proponents of digital books for children, on the other hand, argue not only that be softening. reading comprehension is the same for digital books as for print, but also that children prefer digital books, a preference If so, is this cause that may lead, in the long run, to more reading. The New York Times fueled the debate last November when for c e l e b r a t i o n , or it reported, with seeming approval, on the reluctance of concern? media-savvy parents to provide their children with digital books. In “For Their Children, Many E-Book Fans Insist on Paper,” Matt Richtel and Julie Bosman asked parents who are “die-hard downloaders of books onto Kindles, iPads, laptops, and phones,” but who have consciously withheld such devices from their children, to explain why. “I know I’m a Luddite on this, but there’s something very personal about a book and not one of 1,000 files on an iPad, something that’s connected and emotional, something I grew up with and

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that I want them to grow up with,” said one parent. “When parents of 3-year-olds to watch Scholastic books on video you read a book, a proper kid’s book,” said another, “it over several weeks, assigning the parents to ‘co-view’ in dif- engages all the senses. It’s teaching them to turn the page ferent ways. She finds that the children with mothers who properly. You get the smell of paper, the touch.” Yet another merely pointed to something on screen or who didn’t talk at worried that his 5-year-old son would prefer to use electronic all showed fewer reading skills than those whose mothers devices for play, not reading: “If he’s going to pick up the were trained to ask questions about what might happen next iPad, he’s not going to read, he’s going to want to play a and why. Strouse said it appeared that parents had to be game. So reading concentration goes out the window.” trained on how to ask questions and prompt their children But Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director of the website to talk about the video story, as it didn’t come naturally with Digital Book World, says it’s too soon to draw firm conclu- the electronic version.” sions about the impact of electronic reading on young read- Is the device to blame, or the parent? As adults grow more ers. “There is still no academic evidence that reading e-books accustomed to using digital books, will they read more “nat- with your children is bad for them,” Greenfield argues in urally” with children, spending less time spouting directives response to the Times article. “And the fact that we feel that and more time talking about content? it’s so, or that a few parents are of that opinion, is no substi- Or will the medium itself always make the difference? tute for rigorous study of the issue.” In the broader context of today’s digital age, that’s certainly what some believe. In his widely read 2008 essay for The So far,studies offer talking points for both sides. Atlantic, “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Where some academic research has shown e-books to Is Doing to Our Brains,” Nicholas Carr hypothesizes that improve children’s word recognition, phonological aware- spending too much time online is remapping our neural cir- ness, and story-recall ability, other studies suggest that the cuitry. “As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out interactive features of digital books can diminish compre- in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of informa- hension by distracting young readers. tion,” notes Carr. “They supply the stuff of thought, but they The rapidly changing e-book landscape introduces its own also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems complications. The digital media available when the earliest to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration of these studies were conducted — primarily CD-ROM and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in infor- story books — have been displaced by a range of devices and mation the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving formats, making direct comparison among studies difficult. stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of P Could findings based on research using Apple’s iPad, for words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.” 30 example, be generalized to all children’s digital reading For Carr, these changes are most noticeable in his reading. experiences? What matters most when we study e-books for “Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be children? easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the For Lisa Guernsey, director of the Early Education Initiative turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through at the New America Foundation, what matters most is long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now the give-and-take between parent and child. Writing for my concentration often starts to drift after two or three Time.com in December 2011 (“Why E-Reading with Your pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for some- Kid Can Impede Learning”), Guernsey publicized two stud- thing else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward ies of digital reading and parent-child interaction that sug- brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come gest e-books may unintentionally do more harm than good. naturally has become a struggle.” E-books for children may Pointing first to a 2006 study by Julia Parish-Morris at not necessarily mimic the experience of going online. But Temple University that found preschool and elementary-age Carr’s critique isn’t far from the minds of those who worry children who read e-books with their parents showed dimin- that digital reading for children may carry as many risks as it ished reading comprehension compared to children who does rewards. read traditional books, Guernsey reports: “Instead of talking To elementary-school literacy coach Julie Hume, however, with their children about the content of the books, parents those rewards matter a great deal. The subject of a June 2011 ended up spouting ‘do this, don’t do that’ directives about article Guernsey published in the School Library Journal (“Are how to use the devices. All this chatter may interfere with E-books Any Good?”), Hume used a grant to assess the useful- comprehension. When Parish-Morris tested how well chil- ness of digital picture books in improving reading fluency dren understood the stories on electronic devices, the among struggling third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade readers in e-book users did significantly worse than those who sat with her University City, Mo., school district. Dividing the roughly their parents reading print. Parents may have interrupted two dozen students into two groups — one that used com- more often because it was hard to get used to the device or puters to read and listen to animated, talking e-books too many images beckoned to be clicked. Either way, the through the Internet, and another that read the traditional kids ended up with ‘a jumbled version of the story in their way, “with Hume sitting at a table and assisting them as they brains,’ [Parish-Morris] said.” read along in their paper books” — Hume found that the Guernsey then describes research by Gabrielle Strouse of digital learners progressed much more quickly than their tra- Peabody College at Vanderbilt University: “Strouse asked ditional peers. (Hume’s computer students accessed their ani-

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mated books online through the TumbleBook Library, a sub- “This book appears to contain a number of stories that do scription service.) not necessarily occur at the same time. Then again, it may “Three months after starting the project,” reports contain only one story. In any event, careful inspection of Guernsey, “the average fluency rate for the TumbleBook both words and pictures is recommended.” group was 23 percentage points higher than that of the Whether the possible readings of Black and White are truly control group.” Within five months, all the children in the infinite, for Dresang and Kotrla the book’s sophisticated, non- e-book program were ready to return to their regular class- linear design is both integral to, and constitutive of, its spe- rooms. The control group, however, lagged behind, taking cial appeal for digital-age youth. A more recent example they two months longer to achieve the same level of fluency. It’s a offer is the Caldecott Medal winner for 2008: Brian small sample, to be sure. But for Hume’s struggling students, Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, a 533-page book reading online seems to have accelerated their learning whose “vivid visual appeal” and synergistic combination of rather than hindered it. sketch and text creates an aesthetic experience “somewhere Professors Eliza T. Dresang and Bowie Kotrla likely would between a graphic novel, a picture book, and a film” — and not be surprised by Hume’s observations. Drawing on which itself was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s 2011 motion Dresang’s influential “radical change” theory, they argue in a picture, Hugo. These books, plus many others, they argue, 2009 article for the Journal of Aesthetic Education that while exemplify the digital-age transformation of children’s litera- we may lack conclusive data to determine whether the ture. Even a book like Goodnight Moon — Goodnight Moon! — Internet age is making our brains more or less able to con- though first published in 1947, may be said to anticipate ele- duct higher-level thinking or reflective reading, we nonethe- ments of the changes to come through its invitation to child less can observe the “digital-age behaviors, interests, and pref- readers to develop their own nonlinear stories among its erences of youth in relation to media.” These preferences, visually rich, quietly busy pages, Dresang and Kotrla suggest. interests, and behaviors, they assert, show conclusively that Where will this transformation take us? To the imagined children — surprise! — are deeply attracted to digital tech- world of Goodnight iPad, where fed-up parents confiscate dig- nology. This is true for children “across all settings and ital devices and replace them with paper books? Or to an socioeconomic backgrounds,” Dresang and Kotrla report. even more immersive online experience, in which the line This makes today’s digital youth — sometimes called “the between “traditional” and “digital” books enthusiastically Net generation, digital natives, cyberkids, and Generation M blurs? Last spring, during the final lecture in my undergrad- (for Media)” — measurably different from previous genera- uate survey of children’s literature, teaching assistant Dan tions. For better or worse, children today are typically more Johnson, a Department of English graduate student interest- P comfortable receiving information visually, seeking informa- ed in media theory and storytelling, offered this hypothesis: 31 tion in nonlinear ways, and multitasking when reading. To know the future of children’s literature, look to video games. What we might not fully appreciate, Dresang and Video games not only are immensely popular with digital- Kotrla maintain, is the extent to which the digital age age youth, they embody the interactivity and connectivity already has begun to change, at times radically, some of the Dresang and Kotrla say mark the ways digital culture shapes very books children are reading. Identifying three character- children’s books. Elements of video-game logic and structure istics of digital technology whose impact has been most already are surfacing in children’s literature. Think of pronounced on contemporary children’s literature — inter- the Marauder’s Map in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, activity, connectivity, and access — Dresang and Kotrla cata- Johnson suggests, a device that displays “user” locations in a log the formal and aesthetic changes marking these texts: format strikingly similar to video-game navigation maps. Or “graphics in new forms and formats; words and pictures books that encourage readers to linger on a page, for the reaching new levels of synergy; nonlinear or nonsequential pleasure of discovering details that may or may not have a organization and format; multiple layers of meaning from a direct relation to the book’s ostensible plot. Most of Richard variety of perspectives; cognitively, emotionally, and/or physi- Scarry’s books work this way, Johnson notes, each page filled cally interactive formats; sophisticated presentations; and with the diverting exploits of “minor” as well as “major” unresolved storylines.” characters. Some of these books have been kicking around on chil- For a more contemporary example, consider Hervé Tullet’s dren’s bookshelves for more than two decades. Dresang and delightful Press Here, one of the most popular children’s pic- Kotrla focus much of their analysis on David Macaulay’s ture books of the past year. Tullet’s book invites readers to 1991 Caldecott Medal-winning picture book, Black and press, rub, and tap the small colored dots on its pages, which White. Each double-page spread of Macaulay’s book features then change color, multiply, or shift places when you turn four panels, reflecting (it would seem) four different stories. the page. It functions, in other words, almost exactly like a Navigation through these stories, Dresang and Kotrla argue, touch screen, responding to user commands. Press Here has is not preordained. Instead, readers choose how to combine been on The New York Times bestseller list for more than 14 and recombine the sequence of the tales, leading to “infinite months. Our ENG 385 students loved it. readings” with “multiple resolutions.” As they note, the Is this the future of children’s books? I’m excited to turn book’s own title page issues a warning — and an invitation: the page — or click the icon — to find out. π

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Aaron Burr Jr. 1772 may have killed Alexander Hamilton in their celebrated 1804 duel, but the shot was no less fatal to Burr’s reputation. While the duel didn’t put an end to Burr’s public life, his status as one of the most brilliant, interesting, and far-seeing of the founders has not survived that encounter beneath the cliffs at Weehawken. Making matters worse, there was the small matter of Burr’s trial for treason less than three years later, when he was accused of leading a motley group of disaffected military officers and fortune-seekers on an expedition to conquer Mexico (Burr’s story) or tear the Western states

BAXTER and territories away from the Union

DANIEL (Thomas Jefferson’s story).

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At the hands of Henry Adams and dozens of other histori- would be accused of trying to steal it from him. ans, biographers, and writers of fiction, Burr — acquitted on In those days, presidential electors were chosen by the all charges — has been portrayed as a conniver, a cynic, and state legislatures, and New York’s legislative elections were a seducer. He has become an archetype, the “bad” founder, held early, in April. By outmaneuvering Hamilton and the an American Lucifer who fell from grace. While Hamilton Federalists, and briefly uniting the bickering Republican fac- adorns the $10 bill, Burr is forgotten except when he is tions, Burr secured New York for Jefferson. He did it by scorned. employing what we would admire as a strong political Now, 200 years after his return from self-imposed exile in ground game. Rather than affecting to be above politics, as Europe, the third vice president at last is getting another Jefferson did, for example, Burr campaigned openly, made look. During the summer, the Grolier Club in New York detailed lists of likely voters and party donors, and turned hosted a large exhibition of Burr memorabilia, displayed as his house into a campaign headquarters. evidence of his progressive views. In her well-received 2007 Then an odd thing happened. Although Burr was biography, Fallen Founder, Lousiana State University historian Jefferson’s running mate, candidates did not run as a formal Nancy Isenberg makes a convincing case that Burr has been ticket, as they do today. The candidate receiving the most unfairly maligned. Sean Wilentz, Princeton’s George Henry electoral votes became president, while the runner-up Davis 1886 Professor of American History, argues in his became vice president. When Jefferson and Burr finished Bancroft Prize-winning book, The Rise of American with the same number of electoral votes, the election was Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, that Burr deserves recognition thrown, for the first of two times in American history, to the for pioneering many modern political tactics. While it may House of Representatives. Although Jefferson’s partisans later be too much to call this attention to Burr a rehabilitation, it accused Burr of maneuvering to steal the presidency for is, at least, forcing a re-examination and even something of a himself, evidence suggests that it was Jefferson who engaged reappreciation. in behind-the-scenes arm-twisting that succeeded, after 36 ballots, in giving him the presidency. In many ways, Burr is more appealing to us than he Many assumed that, as vice president, Burr eventually was to his contemporaries. The son and grandson of two min- would succeed Jefferson, but the faction of one found him- isters and Princeton presidents, Aaron Burr and Jonathan self assailed from all sides. The aristocratic Republican fami- Edwards, both of whom died when Burr junior was a boy, he lies in New York viewed him as an interloper. Jefferson grew up with the Enlightenment’s faith in human reason. feared that he might challenge his protégé and fellow P Young Burr always was a rationalist, and in later life came to Virginian, James Madison, for the presidency. Burr main- 34 embrace Jeremy Bentham’s Utilitarianism. Even his detrac- tained cordial relations on both sides of the aisle, but that tors conceded his genius. He first applied to Princeton when only deepened suspicions about him. When the Republicans he was just 11 years old, and was accepted at 13. met in early 1804 to select their candidates, Jefferson Physically, Burr was barely taller than James Madison 1771 arranged to have Burr dumped in favor of another New and already balding as a young man, but he had piercing Yo r ke r, Gov. George Clinton. dark eyes and women swooned for him. Sexually voracious MELLBY JULIE

throughout his life, Burr was also a proto-feminist who Burr’s bitterest enemy was Hamilton, who recog- BY appreciated Mary Wollstonecraft’s revolutionary book, nized Burr as a rival to his own political power in the state.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, as “a work of genius” Hamilton hated Burr, and the feeling was mutual. Where PHOTOGRAPH and gave his only child, his daughter Theodosia, the same Burr was direct, though, Hamilton dealt innuendo and char- classical education he would have given a son. acter assassination with gusto. Much of Burr’s reputation for LIBRARY; Part of Burr’s problem, from a historian’s perspective, is being unprincipled and untrustworthy, in fact, came first UNIVERSITY that for most of his life he was content to stand apart — “a from Hamilton’s poison pen. Hamilton’s recklessness fre- faction unto himself,” as Wilentz puts it in his book. He had quently got him into trouble; he had challenged or been PRINCETON a distinguished military career during the Revolution but lit- challenged to duels 11 times, though none — until the tle respect for George Washington’s generalship, and he encounter with Burr — had reached the dueling ground. declined an offer to serve on Washington’s staff. In 1788, he Indeed, to read Isenberg’s account of Hamilton, it is surpris- COLLECTIONS, ARTS allied himself with anti-Federalists in opposing the new fed- ing that no one shot him sooner.

eral constitution and declined to participate in New York’s Shortly after Burr lost the New York gubernatorial elec- GRAPHIC

ratifying convention. tion in 1804, a small item appeared in an Albany newspaper MASKS,

As a state assemblyman, Burr supported laws for the manu- in which a Dr. Charles Cooper quoted Hamilton making DEATH

mission of slaves (although he owned slaves when the prac- disparaging remarks about Burr’s character. Hamilton had AND LIFE

tice was still legal in New York). By the time he was elected been making such comments for years, but always behind OF to the U.S. Senate in 1791, many saw him as a rising national Burr’s back. This was the first time the press reported such

leader. He was promoted as a possible vice-presidential can- words as coming directly from Hamilton’s mouth, and they COLLECTION didate in 1796, and four years later, in 1800, he was Thomas required an explanation. When Hamilton gave an evasive HUTTON Jefferson’s running mate. It was Burr, in fact, more than any- and unsatisfactory answer, Burr demanded satisfaction.

one who secured the election for Jefferson, although he soon Dueling was illegal in New Jersey but rarely was prose - LAWRENCE

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This mask of Aaron Burr Jr. was among more than 60 death masks given to Princeton by literary critic Lawrence Hutton, who was a lecturer in English from 1901 until his death in 1904. An agent of the firm that created the mask said that “in Burr, destructiveness, combativeness, firmness, and self-esteem were large and amativeness excessive.”

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cuted, so many New Yorkers took their conflicts across the dence that his intentions were more malign. Anthony Merry, river. Often, duels were a kind of a theater: Both parties Great Britain’s ambassador to the United States, quoted Burr would fire into the air, honor would be satisfied, and every- in one of his dispatches as offering to help the British take one would go home in one piece. That did not happen at western territory from the United States in exchange for half Weehawken. Accounts conflict as to whether Hamilton fired a million dollars. Burr himself made some impolitic remarks first or even fired at all. It does appear that the guns — perhaps in jest, perhaps not — about wanting to invade Hamilton insisted on using had a larger bore than usual and Washington and toss Jefferson and Congress into the that his had a special hair trigger, which could have given Potomac. him an unfair advantage. Ironically, Isenberg suggests, if Burr arranged to store supplies at a place called Blenner - Hamilton had used Burr’s smaller set of dueling pistols, he hasset Island in the Ohio River, which would serve as a ren- might have survived his wound. dezvous point for the expedition. Rumors that he was up to Although he was investigated for murder in both New something led the U.S. attorney in Kentucky to indict Burr Jersey and New York, Burr managed to avoid the law simply for treason, but Burr, with the help of his lawyer, Henry by staying out of their jurisdiction. Incredible as it seems, he Clay, got the charges dismissed. Wilkinson, though, began to was hardly a pariah when he returned to Washington. The fear that his own illegal activities would come to light and Federalists shunned him, but many Republicans greeted him decided to save himself by betraying Burr in a letter to warmly, and Jefferson even dined with him at the White Jefferson. Wilkinson, in fact, painted himself as a hero who House. Indeed, that fall Burr enjoyed perhaps his greatest had uncovered the nefarious plot. moment, presiding as vice president with dignity and impar- Jefferson, who had been oddly passive about Burr’s activi- tiality over the Senate impeachment trial of Supreme Court ties, suddenly forwarded to Congress evidence he had Justice Samuel Chase. Two days before he left office in received of the alleged conspiracy and pronounced that Burr March 1805, Burr delivered a farewell address that left many was guilty “beyond question” — before Burr even had been senators, including his political enemies, in tears. charged. Burr surrendered to authorities in Mississippi and was taken to Richmond for a trial presided over by Chief As a future candidate, though, Burr was finished, Justice John Marshall. and his career took a sharp turn. The country buzzed with Marshall, a Federalist, was no more a friend of Jefferson’s rumors of war against Spain, which controlled the territory than Burr was. Treason is the only criminal offense for which adjacent to the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. As the Constitution specifies a standard of proof: an overt act of P notions of America’s Manifest Destiny began to emerge, aggression corroborated by two eyewitnesses. The alleged 36 many members of both parties hoped to “liberate” Mexico, overt act was a small gathering of Burr adherents, who may whether the Mexicans wanted liberation or not. In the event or may not have been armed, on Blennerhasset Island. But of war — but only if, Burr later insisted — he proposed to even the government had to concede that Burr had been lead a private army into Mexico City and install himself as hundreds of miles away on the day the so-called army had the head of a free republic. assembled. To surmount this obstacle, prosecutors alleged The term for this sort of freelance expedition was a “fili- that Burr was guilty of “constructive treason” — in other buster” (it did not become associated with long-winded con- words, that he was responsible because he had set the con- gressional debates until the 1850s). Throughout 1805 and spiracy in motion, whether or not he actually had participated 1806, Burr traveled around the country assembling about 80 in the overt act. supporters, including Jonathan Dayton 1776 and then-Maj. Burr was ably defended by Luther Martin 1766, another Andrew Jackson. Burr’s chief confederate was Gen. James longtime enemy of Jefferson’s known as “Old Brandy Bottle,” Wilkinson, and here was a real villain. At the same time who characterized the government’s case as “will o’ the wisp” Wilkinson was preparing American military forces for a pos- treason. “It is said to be here and there and everywhere,” sible war in New Orleans, he was taking bribes from the Martin said, “yet it is nowhere.” Wilkinson, who was involved Spanish government, and he had participated in an earlier in the plot up to his eyeballs, avoided Richmond until the plot to break Kentucky away from the United States. trial was almost over, and then was forced to concede that he What was Burr up to? That remains a question. Although had altered a key piece of government evidence. Marshall filibusters weren’t exactly legal — leading one in peacetime ruled that the government had failed to prove an overt act, was a misdemeanor — they were not as traitorous or as and so the jury found Burr not guilty. Burr later was acquit- uncommon as we might think today. During the Revolution, ted of leading a filibuster, too, when the government could for example, American Gen. Richard Montgomery had led not prove that it had been aimed at Spanish territory. one into Canada to free the Canadians from the English. Although Isenberg argues persuasively that Burr never Furthermore, anyone who could read a newspaper knew that intended to lead a secessionist movement, what he might Burr was organizing some sort of armed expedition, and this have done had the opportunity presented itself never will be certainly included President Jefferson, who met with Burr known. Former president John Adams wrote to Benjamin during one of his recruiting trips. Rush 1760 that Burr must have been “an idiot or a lunatic” But Burr also spent a lot of time in the wilderness with to have gotten involved in such a mess, adding, “I never dodgy characters, and there is at least circumstantial evi- believed him to be a fool.” Even under the most charitable

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interpretation, Wilentz argues, Burr deserves history’s cen- Burr is buried along with his father and grandfather, both Princeton presidents, in sure for sowing dissension among soldiers at a time when Princeton Cemetery. His grave, in the foreground, is the only one in the section the American tradition of civilian control over the govern- that’s out of line, as if it were an afterthought. P ment was not yet a sure thing. 37 “Burr spent a lot of time playing on the frustrations the est in Burr and will cause future historians to rethink the old-order military people had with Jefferson,” Wilentz says. obloquy that has been heaped on him over the generations. “A n d that, to me, is dangerous. It may have made sense polit- Her portrait of Burr and his dealings with the Founders frees ically, but in terms of the institutions of American govern- him “from the stranglehold of myth” by focusing on the out- ment, it was very dangerous [for Burr] to be fomenting a sized role that mudslinging newspapers, personal rivalries, major’s plot.” and the struggle between the New York and Virginia fac- Broke, shunned, and fearing for his safety, Burr spent tions of the early Republican party played in the emergence the next five years in Europe. After the British kicked him of the party system. But she does not expect an end to the out (possibly because of American pressure), he moved on debate. “Burr’s character will continue to be attacked,” she to Sweden, Germany, and France, where he tried to sell predicts, “because Americans like simple stories with heroes Napoleon on his idea of conquering Mexico. Returning to and villains.” New York in July 1812, he hung out his shingle, representing In the end, Burr outlived his enemies, although he spent many widows and orphans and operating what Isenberg calls the remainder of his life living in obscurity and intermittent one of the country’s first family-law practices. Politically and poverty. He died Sept. 14, 1836, less than five months after a socially, however, Burr remained poison, and tragedy was group of Virginia and Tennessee filibusterers defeated the never far away. His only grandson died at the age of 10, and Mexican army at the Battle of San Jacinto, securing inde- just months later his beloved Theodosia was lost in a ship- pendence for the Republic of Texas. The leader of that insur- wreck. Many of Burr’s papers are believed to have gone down rection, Sam Houston, became an American folk hero. with her, which may explain why he can be such an enigma. To day, Alexander Hamilton lies beneath a splendid obelisk in the graveyard of Trinity Wall Street in lower Manhattan. Recent additions to the scholarly literature, such as Aaron Burr is buried in the presidents’ section of Princeton Isenberg’s and Wilentz’s books, have had a positive effect on Cemetery, at his father’s foot. The surrounding gravestones Burr’s reputation, says Elaine Pascu, a senior associate editor are all in neat rows, but Burr’s is the only one in that section of the Jefferson Papers project, which is headquartered at that is out of line. It is as if he was squeezed in, an after- RICARDO Mudd Library. But as for reclaiming his place in history, thought for all eternity. π Pascu adds, “I think that will take a little while yet.” BARROS Isenberg believes that her book has revived popular inter- Mark F. Bernstein ’83 is PAW’s senior writer.

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Alumni scene In our house, math is just“ a fun thing that’s a natural part of life.” number of chips in chocolate-chip cookies — that their children, now ages 9, 7, and 4, solve in their heads. “In our house, math is just a fun thing that’s a natural part of life,” says Overdeck. “We do math problems about zip lines and electric eels and ninjas.” When her friends in Short Hills, N.J., heard that the Overdecks did this with their children, they suggested that she share the math problems with other families. So last February she emailed problems to about 20 families. The problems were so successful that at the end of the month, she Laura Overdeck ’91 launched the nonprofit Bedtime Math launched Bedtime (bedtimemath.org), which posts math Math last winter. problems for young children on its website. Users also can sign up for LAURA BILODEAU OVERDECK ’91 daily emails or find the problems on P Bedtime Math’s Facebook page. 38 Each night’s question has three ver- Making math fun for kids sions for different skill levels — “wee ones,” “little kids,” and “big kids.” Many parents read to their young footing,” says Laura Bilodeau Overdeck Since Overdeck launched Bedtime children before tucking them into bed, ’91. It does, however, in her house. Math in February, it has grown to near- but fewer add a math problem to the For the last six years, since their first ly 20,000 users. Last summer more CHRISTINA nighttime ritual. “We all know we child was 2, Overdeck and her husband than 50 libraries in New Jersey handed KEDDIE should read to our kids at night, but have made up fun nighttime math out some 8,000 calendars alongside ’03 math doesn’t have that same, equal problems — like how to calculate the their summer reading-incentive pro-

NEWSMAKERS into and out of the country and STARTING OUT: observers on “everything from the political ZACH RUCHMAN ’10 briefing them Participating situation to the weather in Cairo.” Today in the world’s Program assistant at the and also works on Morocco, Algeria, longest race Washington, D.C.-based Ruchman and regional programs in the on horseback, National Democratic Mauritania East. He writes grant proposals and GEORGE AZARIAS Institute, which helps Middle reports for donors, and tracks the ’07 was disquali- other countries build quarterly news and political trends. fied, but only strengthen civil society. political parties and RICHARD School, with because he stopped to assist another Princeton major: Woodrow Wilson that has been in What he likes: “Everything rider who had been thrown from his DUNWOODY/THE in Near Eastern studies. a half is a certificate the headlines for the last year and horse and injured. Azarias was compet- I work on,” says Ruchman. NDI’s Washington exactly what ing in August in the Mongol Derby, a

from ADVENTURISTS ’10 Working What he does: relay through Mongolia covering more Ruchman last year helped organize chal- office, Challenges: “As an institution, the most than 600 miles. A derivatives trader in RUCHMAN observation mission for NDI’s international thing we face is that we are working Sydney, Australia, he stayed with the ZACH was lenging parliamentary elections in Egypt. He the in very uncertain political environments.” the logistics of getting 55 COURTESY responsible for

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Alumni scene grams so that children could put shiny Tiger gold stars on each day that they did a ANNE FITZGIBBON *98 Bedtime Math problem. Overdeck is profile Founder of music-education program working on a book of Bedtime Math problems that is scheduled to be pub- lished next summer. Bedtime Math also partnered with the Boys & Girls Clubs’ Jersey City chapter, whose participants did prob- lems during the day last summer and were tested at the beginning and end of the program to see if it helped them stem the slide in math skills that typi- cally occurs during the summer months. Seventy-two percent of the children improved their scores. Overdeck, an astrophysics major who always has liked math — as a child she memorized perfect squares for fun — wants to change the culture around the subject. “There are a lot of parents out there Anne Fitzgibbon *98 with students at P.S.152 in Brooklyn who take music lessons with the Harmony Program. who either don’t like math or are out - right nervous about it or scared of it,” MUSIC ED FOR ALL In her role as policy adviser she says. Her goal is to “get parents who to mayors Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Résumé: Founder and executive can’t stand math to raise kids who love Giuliani, Anne Fitzgibbon *98 studied the dis- director of the Harmony Program, math.” parity in resources for New Yorkers of different which provides free instruments, One mother of three boys told socioeconomic groups. One that stuck out: the music lessons, and orchestra expe- Overdeck that she found herself saying shortage of music classes for low-income chil- riences to low-income students in P New York City. Master’s degree in to her children at bedtime: “‘If you dren. Fitzgibbon, who had studied clarinet in 39 don’t brush your teeth now, you get no the Barnard-Columbia-Juilliard Exchange pro- public affairs and urban and region- math.’” Says Overdeck, “If we can have gram while an undergraduate at Barnard, came al planning from the Woodrow that kind of culture, where math is a up with an idea for addressing the gaps in Wilson School. Bachelor’s degree prize ... then we’ve really made an music education: Recruit undergraduate music from Barnard College. impact.” π By K.F.G. students and train them to teach.

READ MORE: Sample Bedtime Math CREATING HARMONY Fitzgibbon launched a pilot for the Harmony Program in problems @ paw.princeton.edu 2003 while still at City Hall, offering instruments and weekly lessons to youth liv- ing in public-housing developments. By 2006, she’d left City Hall and was juggling her nonprofit work with a couple of jobs when she applied for a Fulbright to study El Sistema, Venezuela’s national youth-orchestra system, which transformed her ideas injured rider until medics arrived. for Harmony. On returning to New York, she partnered with the City University Azarias was driven to another check- of New York, changed instruction from weekly to daily after-school lessons for point to make up for the delay, formally elementary-school children, revamped the curriculum, and emphasized ensemble disqualifying him in the race, but he practice (which serves children through high school). The Harmony Program, crossed the finish line on horseback which today recruits music students and recent graduates to teach, serves about 80 after nine days of riding. ... DEREK students at four sites in New York City, with plans to double in size this year. KILMER ’96, a Demo cratic state senator from the state of Washington, was MUSIC AS LIFE LESSON Harmony treats music education not as an end in itself, the top finisher in an Aug. 7 primary but as a vehicle for building academic and social skills, from language and reading election for the open 6th District to discipline and cooperation. The key, Fitzgibbon says, is making it fun. At the U.S. congressional seat. He will face end of each semester, Harmony polls parents about changes they’ve noticed in Republi can Bill Driscoll, who came in their children. The top three: interest in school, self-confidence, and receptiveness second, in the November election. to new experiences. “Kids are learn- ANDRÉ Kilmer, the only Democrat in the race, ing all of these wonderful things in WATCH: Video of the Harmony Program received more than 50 percent of the spite of themselves,” Fitzgibbon from PBS NewsHour @ paw.princeton.edu BECKLES votes to Driscoll’s 18 percent. π says. π By Jessica Gross ’07

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Alumni scene READING ROOM: senger were a perfect cover — Bartali stored in his bike’s frame false docu- ANDRES McCONNON ’05 and AILI McCONNON ’02 ments that Jews used primarily to hide in Italy. He dodged military patrols to deliver the papers to monasteries, inter- Resistance on wheels mediaries, and other members of the Resistance, at one point enduring arrest and interrogation by the Italian secret Gino Bartali’s fame rests on his 1938 to Bartali’s work with the Resistance police. Bartali also hid a Jewish family and 1948 wins in the Tour de France, caught Aili’s attention. She recalls, “We in an apartment he owned and then in which covered about 3,000 miles of realized there was a big sports story of a cellar until family members were lib- sometimes-mountainous roads. Born him coming back against all odds, and erated by the Allies in August 1944. into a poor family in a town outside then his secret work in World War II.” Aili, a journalist, and Andres, a Florence, Bartali had discovered researcher, spent three years a passion for bikes as a boy and researching and writing the became a leading sports figure book, chasing down people who in Italy. knew Bartali in Europe, the While Bartali’s sports prowess United States, and Israel. They is well documented, much less is retraced Bartali’s path along the known about his wartime efforts Tour’s mountain roads, read 80- to protect Jews in Italy during year-old newspapers, and inter- World War II. And that shadowy viewed refugees, family mem- legacy sparked the sister-brother bers, race enthusiasts, and politi- writing team of Aili ’02 and cal leaders. In Tel Aviv, they met Andres ’05 McConnon to Giorgio Goldenberg, who was a investigate the hard-riding, hard- boy when Bartali hid his family. living, deeply religious cycling Bartali, who died in 2000 at superstar in a new book, Road to Valor: Bartali’s rescue work began in the the age of 85, captivated the P A True Story of World War II Italy, the fall of 1943, at the request of his friend McConnons as a man who acted on 40 Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Cardinal Elia Dalla Costa, the Arch - his beliefs, undeterred by opposing Nation (Crown Publishers). bishop of Florence. A devout Catholic, forces. “He was such a complex figure,” Andres learned about Bartali while Bartali accepted the plea. He had says Andres. He was an athlete who was in Europe in 2002, watching the Tour empathized with oppressed groups a chain-smoker and liked to drink. de France. Bartali’s athletic achieve- since he heard about the repression of Although he was religious, “he would ment — maintaining his riding skills the Italian Socialist Party, which his hit somebody who got physically too

despite the war’s disruption — imme- father supported, in the 1920s: A close to him. He wasn’t self-censoring COURTESY diately fascinated him. The decade socialist who employed his father was or a slick, packaged character. He was a between Bartali’s wins still stands as murdered because of his politics. star before the star apparatus as we RANDOM

the longest span between Tour victo- During the war, Bartali’s training know it now had been fully formed.” π HOUSE ries. An Italian newspaper’s reference rides and work as an Italian Army mes- By Van Wallach ’80

Free to move More than 500 people in Peru are newly mobile, thanks to members of the Class of 1977 who distributed wheelchairs in August to seven vil- lages and cities for a 35th-reunion class-service project. Pictured, left to right, are Daniel Finch, Christina Finch (children of Maturin Finch ’77), and Ronald Perkowski ’77 with a recipient. Bill Farrell ’77 led the effort, and David Behring ’77, president of the Wheelchair Foundation, helped

coordinate the logistics. Railroad entrepreneur Henry Posner III ’77 JOHN arranged for the transportation of 30 classmates and family members MERRILL

and the wheelchairs in one of his company’s trains — from sea level to ’77/MERRILLIMAGES.COM high in the Andes. The volunteers assembled the chairs and helped the recipients learn to use them. Farrell had seen mothers and grandmothers carrying children bigger than themselves because they had no wheel- chairs. A wheelchair, he said, “changes more than one person’s life.”

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Perspective continued from page 13 enced each of my subsequent lectures and seminars. Before the class began, I had played down this kind of teaching as inevitably a pale reflection of on-campus learning, both in terms of student-faculty interac- tion and the residential-college experience. Yet as I got to know some of my students, I came to feel that the difference was not of the sort I had imagined. For most of them, the choice was not between an on- connect line course and a traditional university. It was, as one student put it, “a choice be- tween online class versus no class.” Nor had I imagined the virtual and real- time continuous interaction among the students. There were spontaneous and I have truly continuing in-person study groups in cof- enjoyed reading fee shops in Katmandu and in pubs in thethe Facebook London. Many people developed dia- feeds and logues after following one another’s posts e-updates from on various subjects, while others got to PAW. It is know those with a common particular in- always nice to terest, such as racial differences in IQ getget thethe hard scores, the prisoner abuses that took place copy, but I love at Abu Ghraib, or ethnocentrism — all being able to topics covered in the lectures. incorporate all As one of hundreds who posted by P ofof thethehe info intintoo early September wrote, “It has been an in- 61 my day. credible experience for me, one that has not only taught me sociology, but the – Jackie Bruce ’99 ways in which other cultures think, feel, and respond. I have many new ‘friends’ via this class.” Another wrote, “It started as in- comment tellectual activity, but it’s ending in an in- describable emotional relationship with IInspiringnspiring all my classmates.” ArrogantArrogant This was my cue. As I prepared to re-enter the lecture hall at Princeton in TouchingTouchinouching September and go back online in February, Unjustj Indefensible I asked myself how I could translate the Hilariousil i benefits of online technology to enhance DisturbingDisturbing the dialogue with and among my on-cam- pus students, and between them and my online students around the globe. I had begun worrying about how I could bring SeeSeeee stories the Princeton campus experience to them; I ended by thinking about how to bring the world back to the ccomeome aalivelive classroom in Princeton. π C O U R T E S Y

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Bob contributed to the history of his birth- Bill served on many corporate boards even PAW posts a list of recent alumni deaths place by helping to create the Roseland after retirement, but he and his wife, Avis at paw.princeton.edu. Find it under “Web Historical Society, which is located in his Perkins Smart, managed to spend summers Exclusives” on PAW’s home page. The list family home, the Harrison House. In 1994 he in Gilford and winters in Charleston, S.C. He is updated with each new issue. wrote A Small House In New Jersey, which was always active in the Unitarian Church, recounts the homestead’s history. as well as in many civic activities. Bob is survived by his brother, Donald He is survived by Avis, his wife of 66 THE CLASS OF 1934 Bush, and his wife Margery; niece Lesley years; his daughter, Suzann; three sons, HENRY L. MILLER ’34 Hank Miller Bush; and nephews, David, Jeffrey, and Robert, David, and Christopher; and seven died April 5, 2012, at Gregory Bush. To them all, the class extends grandchildren. Homewood Retirement sincere sympathy for the loss of an illustri- Center in Williamsport, Md. ous member. MAYNARD E. SMITH ’41 Maynard He was 99. died April 17, 2012. Hank came to Princeton THE CLASS OF 1940 Smitty, as he was usually from Phillips Exeter Academy, and after BARCLAY T. MACON ’40 Cheryl known, came to Princeton graduating in 1934 was employed by the Morris of Princeton’s Office from Hempstead (N.Y.) High Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. in New England. of Alumni and Donor Records School. He roomed with Van In 1941, he joined the Connecticut National informed us that Barclay died Flynn during freshman year, with Flynn and Guard as a first lieutenant and accepted a May 25, 2012, in Atlanta. Phil Confer sophomore year, and with John regular Army commission after the war. After growing up in Willis and Charlie Sanders during his junior Hank was awarded a Bronze Star and the Sewickley, Pa., Barclay prepared at Woodberry and senior years. He majored in economics, Philippine Legion of Honor before his retire- Forest School. He was a captain in the Army joined Terrace Club, and graduated with hon- ment from the Army in 1962 as a full colonel. Air Corps, serving in the South Pacific dur- ors and a Phi Beta Kappa key. He had hoped He then was an account executive with ing World War II and earning a Bronze Star. to continue his high school interest in track, Merrill Lynch in Washington, D.C., until Barclay raised his family in Longmeadow, but an injury acquired during Cane Spree 1973. He moved to Hagerstown, Md., where Mass., and Atlanta. He coached Little League wiped out that idea. Instead, he managed the he volunteered with the Washington County baseball for a number of years, always find- fencing team during his last two years and Historical Society, the board of community ing time for his family. He had a long career also was able to participate as a team member. P concerts, and the Washington County with the Insurance Company of North Smitty joined the military after graduation 62 Hospital Auxiliary. He was a member of the America. as an aviation cadet in meteorology and fin- Presbyterian Church of Hagerstown, the He is survived by Irene, his wife of 66 ished as a major four and a half years later. American Legion in Williamsport, and the years; their four children, Barbara Sachs and He helped establish the first national weath- Military Officers Association. Hank served as Elizabeth, Barclay Jr., and Bryan Macon; er center in 1942 and commanded a group of our class agent from 2004 to 2011. eight grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; the 13 Ninth Air Force weather detachments Hank is survived by his wife, the former and the extended family. in France and Germany. Esther “Winnie” Winroth, whom he married After the war, he spent three years with in 1938; his son, David; daughter Susan THE CLASS OF 1941 American Airlines and then 24 years with Miller Hunt Ferguson; four grandchildren; WILLIAM R. SMART ’41 Bill died Brookhaven National Laboratory, investigat- and eight great-grandchildren. March 21, 2012, at his home ing low-level turbulence, diffusion, and air in Gilford, N.H. pollution. In 1973 he formed his own air-pol- THE CLASS OF 1938 Born in Scotland, he lution consulting company, Meteorological ROBERT B. BUSH ’38 Robert Bush, and his family moved to Evaluation Services, where he worked until longtime resident of Essex Schenectady, N.Y., when he his retirement in 1986. Fells, N.J., died Oct. 14, 2011, was 5. He prepared at Mount Pleasant High He and his late wife, Doreen Dallam, spent

LIBRARY at the age of 94. School and then majored in electrical engi- most of their 41 years together on Long Bob was born in Roseland, neering at Princeton. He was business man- Island. Since 1994, Smitty had been living in

UNIVERSITY N.J., and prepared for college ager of the Calendar and a member of Whig- Suffield and Enfield, Conn., with his com- at Montclair High School. At Princeton he Clio and Tower Club. He roomed with Ted panion, June Stern. He is survived by his

PRINCETON majored in English, receiving honorable Brandt, Jack Busch, and Cliff Jones. daughter, Kathleen Smith; two grandchil- mention for the 1870 Junior Prize in that Bill joined General Electric in its engineer- dren; and one great-grandson. subject. He was a parking-squad member ing course, but left during World War II to COLLECTIONS, and representative of the Tiger Teapot. serve with the 20th Air Force in the Pacific. THE CLASS OF 1942

SPECIAL After graduation from Princeton in 1938, Returning to GE, he began a career that CLEMENT E. GARDINER III ’42

AND Bob earned a master’s degree from Columbia spanned 43 years in corporate management Clement Gardiner died May

BOOKS and a Ph.D. from Iowa State. He first taught both there and at Honeywell. His positions 19, 2012, in Frederick, Md. English at Louisiana State University, then at included manager of GE operations in the Clem prepared for college RARE

OF The Citadel, and finally at Hunter College in U.K., director-general of Bull-GE in Paris, vice at the Millbrook School. At the CUNY system. He specialized in president of GE, and, lastly, vice president of Princeton he rowed on the

DEPARTMENT Southern American writers, notably 19th- corporate management at Honeywell, retir- freshman crew and served as manager of and 20th-century Southern women. ing in 1983. Elm Club. He majored in English and gradu- PHOTOS:

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ated with honors. of 88. gratitude to his family for Hal’s service to his After graduation, Clem attended several John was a graduate of profession and to the people of New Jersey. naval schools and ultimately found a posi- Gilman School, where he was tion as chief engineer of an LST operating in a state champion wrestler. At ALFRED T. COPELAND JR. ’47 Alfred the Pacific theater. His ship participated in Princeton he followed in the “Moose” Copeland died Oct. the Okinawa invasion and was stationed footsteps of his brothers, 10, 2011, after being struck by there when the Japanese surrendered. George ’36 and Gordon ’41. He joined Ivy a taxi while walking to the For the remainder of his working career, Club and an ROTC Field Artillery unit later train station in his hometown Clem was concerned in one form or another commissioned at Fort Sill, Okla. of Bronxville, N.Y. with communication. He taught English for Before leaving for the service John took Born in Columbus, Ohio, he attended several years at Clemson University. He his tank of tropical fish to the Princeton bar- Columbus Academy, where he and Herb served as editor of a livestock magazine, as a ber for safekeeping. Mrs. Harold Dodds Lape graduated together and then roomed at staffer on a radio station, and as director of encountered him en route and asked what he Princeton during the summer of 1943. public affairs at Potomac Edison Co. After was doing. John’s reply, without explanation, Moose joined the Navy and after the war retirement from Potomac he founded his was, “I am taking my fish to the barber!” returned to Princeton, where he roomed with own public-relations firm, Carnahan, Felton, John served in the Philippines and in the Bob Paisley, joined Dial Club, and graduated Gardiner Inc. occupation of Japan, returning on a ship with a bachelor’s degree in 1948. His skill in administration brought him from Yokosuka Naval Base to Seattle in 1946 His 30-year career in sales with Bethlehem assignments in a variety of public institu- with several of his classmates. John graduat- Steel was followed by a Wall Street partner- tions, including work for his Episcopal ed in 1947 and earned a law degree from the ship at Gilford Securities. He specialized in church as vestryman and treasurer and as a University of Virginia in 1950. After a brief Canadian stocks, his excuse for spending member of the executive council of the law practice in New York, he had a distin- more time fishing on Lake Temagami in Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. guished legal career with the family firm of northern Ontario. Clem is survived by his wife, Harriet; four Kinder, Kinder & Kinder in Martins Ferry, Between 1967 and 1972, Moose served as sons, Clement IV, Christopher, Alexander, Ohio. class vice president. He also was class agent and David; three grandchildren; and three He is survived by his wife, the former and a special-gifts solicitor. Both before and great-grandchildren. To them all, the class Harriet Whitaker (daughter of George ’13); after retiring from Gilford, his daily trips to sends condolences. sons Dyche ’76 and Duncan ’78; and his New York City included playing squash at daughter, Elizabeth, to all of whom the class the New York Athletic Club, which kept him DONALD C. MCCLURE ’42 Donald extends its sympathy. in fine physical condition until the end. McClure died June 1, 2012, in He is survived by his former wife, Nancy; his hometown of Memphis, THE CLASS OF 1947 children Joyce ’80, Dean ’83, and Tom; and Tenn. He was 91. HAROLD L. COLBURN JR. ’47 Harold four grandchildren. He is remembered by P Don graduated from the Colburn died May 1, 2012, in many of us as a generous optimist. The class 63 Pentecost-Garrison School for Moorestown, N.J. Hal was one sends these memories to his family. Boys in Memphis in 1935 and from the of the elite group of the Class Choate School in 1938. At Princeton he of 1947 perfect dues payers. JOHN DAVIES ’47 John died March 27, 2012, in majored in SPIA. He entered Princeton in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho, two years after a Following graduation, Don was assigned the summer of 1943 after graduating from major stroke. by his draft board to the weather service of Montclair (N.J.) High School. He accelerated John entered Princeton in the summer of the Army Air Corps. He was stationed at var- through Navy V-12 and left to enter Albany 1943 after having attended Wyoming ious posts in California, where he served as Medical College before graduating. He Seminary in Kingston, Pa. Shortly after arriv- technical sergeant of the 1st Air Squadron. received his medical degree from Albany in ing on campus he joined a Navy flight-train- During this time he was lucky to be able to 1949 and in the early ’50s was awarded a ing program in which he stayed throughout marry the love of his life, Virginia Mary Princeton bachelor’s degree in biology. the war. John returned to Princeton after the (“Ginger”) Knowlton. After serving in the Navy from 1950 to war and graduated in June 1951. While in After discharge from the Air Corps in 1952 in Newport, R.I., and Sasebo, Japan, Hal college he participated in Triangle Club and 1946, Don and Ginger returned to Memphis, did his residency in dermatology at the other theatrical productions. where Don found a job at the Arthur Fulmer University of Pennsylvania. His medical After working for McCann-Erickson Co. He started as a sales trainee and rose career kept him near his home in Mount Advertising and the D’Arcy Advertising ultimately to the position of executive vice Laurel, N.J. Agency in New York, John opened and president. Hal developed the Burlington County owned a ski lodge in Waterville Valley, N.H., Don and Ginger were deeply embedded in Health Department, and from 1971 until but sold it after 10 years. The next few years the community of Memphis. They were loyal 1984 was a Burlington County freeholder. entailed several moves, first to West Palm members of Idlewild Presbyterian Church, When he was elected to the state assembly Beach, Fla., where he was involved in com- where Don served on the budget and finance he helped institute the New Jersey Urban munity work, and in 1988 to Santa Fe to be committee. Both were very involved in the Hospital Reform Act and also chaired the near his daughter, Susan. While there he activities of sons Donald Jr. and Paul; four assembly’s Health and Human Services taught reading in an adult-literacy program grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Committee. This public service led him, in and enjoyed the cultural scene. In 2000 John To all the family, the class sends condolences. 1995, to the post of director of the state moved to Coeur d’ Alene to be close to his board of medical examiners. daughter, Pam. THE CLASS OF 1945 Hal was predeceased by his wife, Jane. He Throughout these years he never wavered JOHN C. KINDER ’45 The class lost a blithe spirit is survived by son Robert (Robin) and in his support of the New England Patriots, March 8, 2012, when John died at the age daughter Suzanne Bartoli. The class sends Boston Red Sox, and Boston Celtics. In addi-

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tion to Susan and Pam, John is survived by He is survived by his wife of more than 60 Shakespeare (whom he quoted frequently), his son, Jeffrey, and two grandsons. years, Lillian; three sons; two daughters; nine the life of Winston Churchill, and most grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter. importantly, the New York Giants. KARL M. LIGHT ’47 Karl, theater and television To them, the class extends deepest sympathy. The class extends deepest sympathy to his actor, former real-estate broker, champion wife of 52 years, Joanne; his son, Bruce; and defender of affordable housing, died ARTHUR JACQUES POILLON ’47 Jake died Dec. 2, daughter Cynthia Lamberti; and grandchil- May 20, 2012, in Brooklyn. He had struggled 2011, in Fairhope, Ala. His career in the dren Miles, Owen, Ryan, and Nicole. for several years with myotonic dystrophy. Marine Corps spanned 36 years, and he Karl attended Trenton schools and was retired as a major general. This was followed JOSEPH A. SILVERMAN ’52 Joe died awarded a scholarship to attend Princeton in by 32 years as a business leader and public May 7, 2012, at the Jewish 1943. After his freshman year, he enlisted in servant. Home in Rockleigh, N.J., from the Army and served with the 87th Division Jake lived much of his early life in complications of Parkinson’s in the Ardennes and the Army of Occupation Camden, Maine, where he began a lifetime of disease. He was 81. in Germany. Karl resumed his studies in sailing. Graduating from Groton Academy in Born in Clifton, N.J., April 1947 and graduated in 1950 with a bache- 1943 he enlisted in the Marine Corps, and 24, 1931, he was valedictorian of his Clifton lor’s degree in English. That same year he was a platoon sergeant at the end of World High School class. married Pat Hart and moved to New York, War II. Sent to the Princeton V-12 unit, then At Princeton, he belonged to Elm Club. where he embarked on a career as an actor. to OCS, he returned to Princeton as an Though majoring in biology, he won a prize In 1957 he and his wife opened K.M. Light NROTC instructor. After being elevated to in Italian and cited historian “Buzzer” Hall Real Estate in Princeton, and in the 1960s assistant professor, he received a bachelor’s and art historian John Rupert Martin as his Karl’s acting career was centered at McCarter degree in history in 1952, then served in the favorite professors. He earned a medical Theatre. Korean War. In Vietnam, Jake was an opera- degree at Columbia’s College of Physicians In 1975 he became the managing agent of tions officer of an Army/Marine task force and Surgeons and did a pediatric internship Princeton’s first moderate-income housing recapturing Hue. at Children’s Hospital at Harvard Medical development, and he remained in that posi- As a two-star general, Jake commanded School. During Air Force duty in Labrador, tion until his retirement. Karl also taught the Parris Island Recruit Camp while simul- he volunteered as a pediatrician with the speech at Princeton Theological Seminary. taneously commanding East Coast recruiting. Grenfell mission, flying to Indian villages to For his many contributions to the communi- He retired to Hilton Head in 1979, where his treat children without access to medical care. ty, Karl was awarded the Bud Vivian Award. first wife, Natalie, died shortly thereafter. A distinguished pediatrician and He is survived by his wife of 31 years, In 1981, Jake married Virginia Garrett and renowned international eating-disorder Lucy James; his sister, Rose Scott; children actively pursued a new career — first as expert with a clinical and academic interest Deborah, Brita, Holly, Corey, and Rip; three assistant director of Alabama’s State Docks, in the characteristics and treatment of P stepchildren; and 12 grandchildren. then as chief of staff for the governor. In anorexia nervosa, Joe maintained a private 64 1994 he rejoined the business community as practice for over four decades and held a JOHN A. PETERS ’47 John died president of Wayfarer Marine Corp. in faculty appointment at the College of June 22, 2012, at his home in Camden. Physicians and Surgeons. Scituate, Mass. The class extends fond memories of Jake Joe was predeceased by his beloved wife Before entering Princeton to Virginia and their children. of 43 years, Joy Myers Silverman, and is sur- in 1946 he served in the Army vived by his four children; his brother and Air Force from 1943 to 1945. THE CLASS OF 1952 sister; and four grandchildren. John graduated in 1950 with honors in DONALD B. SHEDDEN ’52 Don died psychology. Though he considered himself a Feb. 5, 2012, in Waverly, N.Y. THE CLASS OF 1953 “peripheral alumnus,” he said that some of Born in Sayre, Pa., he JOHN VAN BIBBER ’53 John was his happiest years were spent at Princeton. attended Sayre High School born in New York City, pre- He graduated from Harvard Medical School and graduated from pared at Taft, and majored in in 1954, and completed his residency in Mercersburg Academy before history at Princeton. He dined pathology at Boston City Hospital before attending Princeton. He served in the Army at Tower with roommates Bill joining South Shore Hospital, where he during the Korean War as a first lieutenant, Perry and Dudley Smith and spent his entire career. At South Shore teaching gunnery at Fort Sill, Okla. The was a combat Navy pilot aboard the carrier Hospital, he was director of the laboratory writer of this memorial was one of his stu- USS Shangri-La while stationed in the Pacific and also served as head of the medical staff. dents, and we later served together in Eighth during the Korean conflict. He died from the John was a member of the American Medical Army’s I Corps Artillery in Korea. effects of Alzheimer’s disease in Louisville, Association and the Massachusetts Medical Don was very much a hometown entrepre- Ky., May 18, 2011. Society. neur in the hospitality and real-estate indus- Jim Metcalfe, a Louisville native, recalls In our 40-year book, John wrote: “Unlike tries, owning many businesses along the with pleasure meeting John at Princeton in a many of my colleagues, I don’t play golf . . . Southern Tier, including the Hotel Bradford fall freshman tennis tournament and regrets am not a member of a country club. I am a in Sayre, the Colonial Plaza in Binghamton, that somehow their paths on campus rarely member of the local Rotary club. We don’t N.Y., Chappie’s Bar in Binghamton, and Dixie crossed. Coincidentally, John’s yet-to-be wife have a vacation home, a boat, and certainly Barbecue in Elmira, among many others. was a bridesmaid in Jim’s wedding, and Jim’s not an airplane. I don’t travel well and we’ve He enjoyed living in the Penn-York Valley future wife was an attendant in John’s mar- left Massachusetts no more than five times and the company of its people. A true origi- riage. When John moved to Louisville, he in 35 years.” John’s interests were mathemat- nal, Don was well-educated on many sub- became executive vice president of Liberty ics, astronomy, Shakespeare, and American jects, including economics and finance, clas- National Bank (he also was a past chair of linguistics. sical music, the works of William the American Mortgage Bankers Association)

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and bought a home in Jim’s neighborhood. with a kind spirit, a ready smile, and quick ing pitch. He loved watching his grandchil- The two became close friends. laugh. He is survived by his four children, dren grow and introducing them to golf. Jim sadly reports that John developed Hughes, Gin, Murphy, and Tom, and numer- To his children, Deborah Beach, Stephen early Alzheimer’s in 2003 and was lovingly ous nieces, nephews, and cousins. His wife, Beach, Lisa Ruse, Matthew Beach, and cared for by his companion of 28 years, Helen, died in 2009. The class extends its Michael Beach; their mother, Stephanie Susan Williams. Besides Susan, John is sur- sympathy to them on their loss. Franck; his grandchildren, Julie and Joseph vived by sons John Jr. and Chase L.; Susan’s Ruse, Jordan Pero, and Nicholas, Matthew, daughter, Elizabeth Hancock Todd; and JAMES H. WEIR III ’54 James Dominic, Gianna, and Anthony Beach; sister- Elizabeth’s two sons, who considered John as Weir died from lymphoma in-law Deborah Beach; nieces Liz and their grandfather. We celebrate John’s spirit June 6, 2012, at his home in Rebecca; and nephew Paul Maynard, the as we mourn his death. Haworth, N.J. class extends its sympathy. Hugh was prede- Born in East Orange, N.J., ceased by his brother Maynard Beach. THE CLASS OF 1954 he was class valedictorian at KEITH E. BEERY ’54 Keith Beery Bloomfield High School. At Princeton, he CHARLES W. BOURNE ’55 Loving died Oct. 6, 2010, at his home was active in sports and dramatics. He family man and physician in San Rafael, Calif. majored in politics and was a member of Charles Bourne, son of N.W. Born in Colorado Springs, Cannon Club. Bourne, was born Jan. 5, Colo., Keith majored in eco- In 1958, Jim graduated from Columbia 1933, in Milwaukee and died nomics and was a member of College of Physicians and Surgeons and then there May 31, 2012. Charter Club. He left Princeton during his became board certified in obstetrics and His wonderful, full life was devoted to junior year and entered the Army Security gynecology. He loved research and spent his family and patients. He cherished his beauti- Agency as a Russian linguist serving in career in the pharmaceutical industry, ful wife of 41 years, Brooke, and his three Japan. He later earned a bachelor’s degree in becoming senior vice president of medical children, Aynsley, Mary Whitney, and Josh, law and a master’s degree in psychology affairs and chief medical officer at Park all by his side as he peacefully passed away. from Denver University. He received a doc- Davis Group (Pfizer). In retirement, he Brooke and Charlie’s marriage was devot- torate in child development and clinical psy- became a medical consultant and taught at ed to teaching their children the values by chology from Purdue. Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. which the couple lived. Keith became chief psychologist and Jim remained committed to education At Princeton, Charlie was a Tower Club research director of the child study unit at and served on the board of education at member and graduated with honors in UC, San Francisco’s Department of Haworth Public School and also as its presi- chemistry. He chose a career in urology, in Pediatrics. His career was devoted to helping dent. He had the privilege of presenting which field he became a well-known leader. children learn and develop, particularly those graduation certificates to his three children. A Navy commander in Vietnam, Charlie with special challenges. He remained devoted to his children and saved and improved lives on the hospital P He married Mary Joan Groene while sta- grandchildren. ship USS Repose. Deeply patriotic, he was 65 tioned in Japan. After their children were Jim loved gardening and woodworking known for his blue blazer bearing a U.S. flag grown, they moved to Honolulu, where he and became fluent in French. pin. He loved pediatric urology and cared became a member of the University of He is survived by his wife of 54 years, deeply for his patients. He published exten- Hawaii faculty. They later returned to Mair- Joyce; their children, Meredith, Douglas, and sively in The Journal of Urology and taught wood, Calif., their home for 40 years. The Alison; and five grandchildren. The class at the Medical College of Wisconsin. An avid class extends its condolences to Mary Joan, expresses condolences to them on their loss. gardener, fisherman, and bird watcher, he their four children, and eight grandchildren. loved the outdoors. THE CLASS OF 1955 Charlie is survived by Brooke; his three MURPHY EVANS ’54 Murphy EDWIN HUGHSON BEACH ’55 Hugh adored children; and cherished grandchil- Evans died July 1, 2012, in Beach was born Sept. 29, dren Wolfgang and Ilse Wischki, Charlie, Raleigh, N.C. 1933, to Dorothy and Paul Oliver and Lida Bourne, and Aliza Spencer. Born in Laurinburg, N.C., Beach, and died April 22, To them all, the class sends its condolences. he graduated from the 2012, in Binghamton, N.Y. Woodberry Forest School. Hugh prepared at The Hill DONALD C. EMMONS ’55 Donald While at Princeton, he was active on many School. He wrestled for Princeton, joined Ivy, Emmons, son of Clarence L. campus committees and was a member of and roomed with W.R. James and R.D. Har- Emmons, was born June 20, Cottage Club. He graduated from Harvard din. After Army service from 1955 to 1957, 1933, in Paterson, N.J., and Business School in 1958 and started working he was the general agent for National Life died of natural causes May 4, for the State Capitol Life Insurance Co. He Insurance Co. of Vermont and later the pro- 2012, in Concord, N.H. subsequently founded his own company, spe- prietor of Bee Caps, a health-foods business. Don came to Princeton from Lyons cializing in selling businesses in a variety of A board member at Wilson Memorial Township High in La Grange, Ill., and at industries from furniture leasing to commer- Hospital in Binghamton and Susquehanna Princeton majored in basic engineering, writ- cial printing to hog raising. He moved back Valley Boys Home, Hugh started a mentoring ing his senior thesis on the industrial field. A to Laurinburg in 1977 and operated the program in Punta Gorda, Fla., and was a Big Tower Club member, Don was an IAA co- Laurinburg and Southern Railroad Co. with Brother to Evan and Danny Hopple. manager of sports. Senior year he roomed at his two brothers (’47 and ’52). They also A charmer with a ready smile, Hugh was 152 Little Hall with Robert Custer and was managed farming and agribusiness-related an accomplished drummer and piano player elected to Phi Beta Kappa. companies. who loved jazz and dancing. He was a golfer, Don earned his doctorate from the Murphy was named “Big” by his eight skier, and tennis player. He enjoyed watching University of Chicago in 1963. He then grandchildren. He remained an optimist the Yankees and New York Giants and play- taught at several colleges around the country.

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After settling in Concord, Don’s lifelong love retire in 2004 after developing aortic dissec- Cap as his home base. of classical music led him to a stint as an tion, a rare condition. Five major operations In 1955, Bill married Patricia Pendleton announcer for local station WEVO. He was ensued, including an aorta graft, but until Smith of Washington, D.C., and they had committed to the principles of peace, social this year, Mike came out ahead. His wife of three children. The marriage ended in 1975. justice, and cultural enrichment, and sup- 53 years, Wini, lighted his life through his After graduation, Bill worked for U.S. Steel ported the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law travail. and U.S. Pipe & Foundry before joining Center, PBS, and many other organizations. Mike enjoyed singing baritone, traveling, Xaloy Inc., eventually becoming president. Don is survived by his brother, Richard; visiting Princeton friends, skiing, and sailing. Spending most of his adult life in Bucks daughters Sarah and Hilary; and his grand- He was a valued adherent of PP55 (now County, Pa., he was involved in many organi- daughter, Ruby. To them, the class extends its AlumniCorps). zations, including Trinity Church in sympathy. Mike’s memorial service featured an elo- Solebury, where he was on the vestry. quent eulogy by the attending rabbi. Wini, In 1970, he bought the old telephone JOHN P. FENLON ’55 John Fenlon daughters Mia Walker ’87 and Jennifer “switching-office” house on Swan’s Island, was born Feb. 15, 1934, in Pardee ’83, and grandchildren Ben and Jake Maine, which he renovated as a vacation Bayshore, N.Y., and died of a Pardee and Sammy and Abby Walker survive home. It was his favorite place on earth. But massive heart attack April 30, to receive the condolences of the class. above that, his loyalty, enthusiasm, and love 2012, in Egg Harbor of Princeton were the touchstones of his life. Township, N.J. BROOKS J. POLEY ’55 Brooks Bill is survived by his partner of a decade, At Princeton, John played varsity basket- Poley was born Nov. 6, 1933, Diana Sargent; three children, William W. Jr., ball, joined Cannon, and roomed with Jeremy the son of Harris A. Poley, in DeForest G., and Virginia Ballou; and 11 Johnson and William Hendricks. After serv- Des Moines, Iowa. He died of grandchildren. Donations in his name may ice as an ensign on the USS Cotton, John cancer April 21, 2012, in be sent to Princeton Class of 1956 Annual began a 30-year-career with Worthington McAllen, Texas. Giving, P.O. Box 5357, Princeton, NJ 08543. Pump Corp. He was selected as a representa- Arriving in late summer 1951 on a cattle tive to the Hydraulic Institute and served as train to Newark, Brooks then hitchhiked to THE CLASS OF 1957 president in 1987. John earned an M.B.A. Princeton. He majored in biology, joined ROBERT W. CHAMBERLIN ’57 Bob from Columbia in 1962. After leaving Quad, and roomed with Mike Freund and died June 4, 2012, in Worthington, John became founder and CEO Peter Mott. Ridgewood, N.J., where he of Business Consulting Group and an adjunct After graduation, Brooks went to the was a lifelong resident. professor of marketing and management at University of Nebraska College of Medicine At Princeton, Bob majored Stockton College of New Jersey. and had an ophthalmology residency at the in politics, joined Terrace A loving husband, father, brother, and University of Pennsylvania. Over the next 30 Club, served as baseball manager, and was in P grandfather, John — while he enjoyed play- years — with Ophthalmology P.A. and later Air Force ROTC. His senior roommates were 66 ing golf and traveling — treasured above all with Brooks Poley Eye Associates — he Fred Martin, John Wells, and John Zoltewicz. his time with his wife of 19 years, Jean; and became known not only as one of the coun- Upon graduation Bob attended Cornell his children, Bradford and wife Lisa, Brian, try’s preeminent physicians but, more impor- University, earning an M.B.A. in 1963. He and Deirdre; stepson Gregory Babowal and tantly, he was recognized for his close and served two years in the Air Force as a special wife Holly; and grandchildren Jake and enduring patient relationships. investigator. Alexandra Fenlon, and Kaylie, Grace, and Brooks served aboard the SS Hope and the He spent his 34-year career in municipal Addison Babowal. John also is survived by Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, and co-chaired the research, and retired as a senior vice presi- his siblings, Ellen Nidds, Martin Fenlon, and initial fund drive to establish Minneapolis dent and director of municipal research at Ann Fenlon, and many nieces and nephews. Children’s Hospital. In retirement, Brooks Dean Witter Reynolds in 1997. In 1993 he He will be sorely missed. conceived the idea that inserting an artificial was named analyst of the year by the lens will prevent glaucoma. National Federation of Municipal Analysts. MYRON E. FREUND ’55 Mike He loved travel, bridge, politics, art, golf, Bob served as a trustee of the Fair Lawn Freund was born in tennis, and his family. A tireless worker, Board of Education and the Radburn Cincinnati (always a good incurable optimist, innovator, loving father, Association. He was an active member of start) April 22, 1934, and died and friend, Brooks is survived by Liz, his West Side Presbyterian Church and treasurer June 3, 2012, after many suc- wife of 55 years; children Susan, Brooks, of the Ridgewood Public Library. He also was cessful skirmishes with the Steven, and Kate; 10 grandchildren; and his active in the Half-Century Club and Hobbyists Man with the Scythe. brother, Jeff. To them, the class extends Unlimited. He loved cars and ice cream. At Princeton he was a biology major and thanks for a life well lived. To his wife of 49 years, Betsy; sons Bruce Cannon Club member. He roomed with and Rick; grandchildren Kevin, Lauren, and Brooks Poley and Peter Mott. Mike was a THE CLASS OF 1956 Michael; and great-grandson Liam, the class urologist and retired as an attending physi- WILLIAM W. MCCANDLESS ’56 Bill sends its condolences. cian at North Shore University Hospital, died May 23, 2012. where he was founder and editor-in-chief of He was born Sept. 6, 1934, PETER H. GOTT ’57 Peter died the Clinical Journal, served as chairman of in Beaver Falls, Pa., the son of June 13, 2012, at his home in the research and publications committee and Genevieve (Leigh) and Joy Lakeville, Conn., after a six- as president of the medical staff. He was an Young McCandless. In 1952 year battle with Parkinson’s associate clinical professor at Cornell he entered Princeton and became a proud disease. Medical College and also practiced at Long member of Cap and Gown. Bill never forgot At Princeton, he majored Island Jewish and St. Francis hospitals. his undergraduate friendships, and attended in economics and sociology, joined Colonial Mike loved being a physician, but had to many football games over the years, using Club, and participated in freshman swim-

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ming and the Nassoons. His senior room- After graduation, Art received a law graduated from that city’s Pembroke Country mates were Jeremy Morton and Stuart degree from Columbia University in 1960, Day School. At Princeton he joined Colonial Kennedy. and while at Columbia married his love, Club, majored in English, and roomed with After graduation he earned a medical Lynn, in 1958. He served six months of Jack Folts. degree from Tulane University in 1962. Then active duty in the Army, and then five and a After graduation, Lex joined the Army. He he moved to Lakeville. In the early ’80s, he half years in the Reserve. served courageously in Vietnam as an Army began writing a medical column for The He began practicing law in New York City. ranger and suffered wounds in combat, earn- Lakeville Journal. His popularity increased In 1969 he founded his own firm in New ing a Purple Heart and achieving the rank of on television, CBS covered his story, and the Brunswick, N.J., where he continued until 1st lieutenant. rest is history. He became the most famous 2011. The family moved to Highland Park. Lex had a distinguished record at the syndicated medical writer in the country, He was president of the Middlesex County University of Missouri Law School, where he receiving 2,500 letters weekly. Bar Association (MCBA) and the Bar edited the law review. Following law school, Peter was past president of the Litchfield Foundation. Art also was a visiting lecturer he earned an M.B.A. from New York Medical Association, a member of the in Princeton’s politics department. In 1996 University’s Stern School of Business. Connecticut State Medical Society, chief of he received the MCBA Lawyer Achievement He had a long career as an attorney, con- staff at Sharon Hospital, and medical direc- Award in recognition of his outstanding legal centrating in construction law and working tor at Hotchkiss and Salisbury schools. He practice. both in the United States and abroad. A man published four books, including Dr. Gott’s No Art loved the outdoors and skiing, tennis, of many interests and talents, Lex held a Flour, No Sugar Diet in 2005. and especially biking in New Jersey and pilot’s license and a tae kwon do black belt, He was a ranked tennis player, writer, jazz California. Here was a classmate who lived a studied several foreign languages, and pianist, and sports-car buff. His great loves full life, did much good, and enjoyed it. indulged a lifelong love of automobiles and were his family and his dear friend, Pat To Lynn; children Jennifer and Jonathan; motorcycles. Miller. He leaves Pat; sons Benjamin, and grandsons Gabriel and Rain, the class The class extends its sympathy to his part- Christopher, and Geoffrey; granddaughter sends sincere best wishes. He will be missed. ner, Linda Leone; his lifelong friend, Joan Morgan; stepdaughter Beth; and brothers Passman; and his family. Rodney and Alan. The class sends condo- THE CLASS OF 1962 lences to his family. We always will remem- DAVID H. BRAMHALL ’62 David THE CLASS OF 1967 ber this fine man. Bramhall, surrounded by KARL KRACKLAUER ’67 Karl friends, died peacefully at Kracklauer died unexpectedly DAVID P.F. HESS ’57 David died of home Feb. 28, 2012, after a of a heart attack Jan. 10, 2012. a stroke May 28, 2012, with struggle with lung cancer. We lost a deep person with a his family by his side. He entered Princeton from clear and questioning mind After preparing at Phillips Hotchkiss with the Class of 1961, but took a who never encountered a per- P Academy Andover, David year off after sophomore year to work his son or a topic he was unwilling to engage. 67 came to Princeton, where he way around the world on a freighter. He Coming from Conroe (Texas) High School, majored in English and graduated magna majored in English, writing his thesis on Karl majored in philosophy at Princeton. He cum laude. He loved sports and attained a Joseph Conrad, and was a member of Tiger joined Ivy and roomed with Aybars Gurpinar varsity letter in heavyweight crew. He played Inn. He had three great passions: world trav- in Cuyler. He said, “Princeton kept me hum- football, basketball, and softball. He also el, art (especially pre-Columbian), and fishing ble and proud.” Visits to Aybars 35 years joined Colonial Club. around his beloved Martha’s Vineyard. later spanned the spectrum from trips to Upon graduation David joined the Marine Beginning a career in publishing, he soon Freud’s house to discussions of nuclear Corps, serving two years in Okinawa in a gravitated to art and established a gallery. safety. recon battalion. After the Marines, David This was his introduction to pre-Columbian Karl earned a Ph.D. in phenomenological embarked on a career of 26 years with art, which became his profession. He sold psychology from Duquesne and continued Family Circle magazine, retiring in 1993 as major works to museums, and was used by learning exuberantly throughout his life. His senior vice president. auctioneers to authenticate works. He had an aim was to carry the philosophical methodol- Then he spent his time with Sally, his wife exemplary reputation for integrity and a ogy into psychotherapy. and lifelong love, traveling the world and good eye. Karl’s extensive and varied professional dividing his time between his houses in La As a youth on Martha’s Vineyard he career included practicing neuro- and clinical Quinta, Calif., and Gearhart, Ore., and with worked as a dory man on commercial fishing psychology, counseling middle-aged couples, the family. boats and made lifelong friends. Throughout writing screenplays, researching the social The class extends condolences to Sally; his life, David continued to summer and fish psychology of digital communication, serv- children Jennifer, Elizabeth, and David III; there. A close friend described him as “a true ing as a management consultant, and teach- eight grandchildren; and three dogs. keeper.” His ashes were scattered in a private ing at colleges and universities in California, ceremony during the summer. Canada, and Pennsylvania. For the last three ARTHUR H. MILLER ’57 Art died David is survived by a sister, Sandra years, after reconciling with his father, he May 26, 2012, after battling a Bramhall; his brother, Kib Bramhall; two became an enthusiastic director of Sparkler rare form of cancer. nieces; and a nephew. Filters, a family company. At Princeton he majored in Karl is survived by his brother, Aloysius; the Woodrow Wilson School THE CLASS OF 1966 sister Mary; and many nephews and nieces. and joined Elm Club. His sen- LEX A. PASSMAN ’66 Lex died April 29, 2012, at They will greatly miss his humorous repar- ior roommate was Ken Block, and his chief his home in Pottsboro, Texas. He was buried tee, his intellectual curiosity and conversa- activity was fencing, which he loved and at Arlington National Cemetery. tions, and his critical analysis of the social excelled in, earning all-Ivy honors in foil. Lex was born in Kansas City, Mo., and and political issues of the day.

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THE CLASS OF 1976 two weeks before his passing. GEORGE H. EDWARDS *67 George Edwards, the HUNTER A. NICHOLAS ’76 Hunter He was predeceased by his wife, Benita, retired Edward MacDowell Professor of Nicholas was born Sept. 12, whom he had married when he was 50. Music at Columbia University, died Oct. 23, 1953, and grew up in the 2011, after a long illness. He was 68. Roxbury neighborhood of SINCLAIRE M. SCALA *57 Sinclaire Scala, an aero- Edwards graduated from Oberlin in 1965 Boston. He attended both space engineer who had worked in the early with a bachelor’s degree in music, and Milton Academy and the space program, died Feb. 19, 2011, after a received an M.F.A. from Princeton in 1967. Palfrey Street School in Massachusetts, brief illness. He was 81. He taught music theory and composition at where he developed a love of science and an Scala received a bachelor’s degree in the New England Conservatory of Music aspiration to be a physician. mechanical engineering from the City from 1969 to 1976. From 1973 to 1975, he At Princeton, Hunter majored in psycholo- College of New York in 1950, and a master’s was a fellow at the American Academy in gy and graduated cum laude. He was good in mechanical engineering from the Rome. He won two Guggenheim fellowships. friends with Neil Powe and Herman Taylor, University of Delaware in 1953. In 1957, he He began teaching at Columbia in 1976, and they shared many premedical courses. earned a Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering and later became the MacDowell Professor of Neil recalled Hunter’s love of music and the from Princeton. He later received an M.B.A. Music. From 1987 to 1995, he directed the O’Jays: “He would play their Ship Ahoy from the Wharton School at Penn. graduate composition program, and was album over and over again on his eight-track During his lengthy aerospace career, Scala chair of the music department from 1996 to tape player.” Hunter was a member of the was employed by General Electric in 1999. In 2005, he retired due to ill health. Association of Black Princeton Alumni. Pennsylvania for more than 25 years as a Elaine R. Sisman *78, the Bender In his senior yearbook, he wrote, “May the manager and director in research and devel- Professor of Music at Columbia, said knowledge thus far forwarded and tallied opment. He worked on the development of Edwards “was a brilliant composer, who was provide for the understanding which should heat-shield technology allowing spacecraft to famous for his dry wit and wrote beautifully henceforth serve to transcend this near per- re-enter the earth’s atmosphere safely. He lec- about music.” He had written essays on fectly symmetric interpretation of reality.” tured at universities, including MIT. music originally published in literary jour- Hunter earned a medical degree from Scala also was a senior research and devel- nals, reprinted in 2008 in Collected Essays in Boston University in 1981. He moved to opment executive at Fairchild Republic and Classical and Modern Music. He was a Washington, D.C., where he completed his Grumman, both on Long Island, N.Y. After descendant of Jonathan Edwards, named the internship and residency in internal medi- relocating to Florida in the 1990s, he was a third president of Princeton in 1758. cine at Washington General Hospital. He principal corrosion engineer for Concurrent Edwards is survived by his wife, the poet moved to Bismarck, N.D., and practiced medi- Technologies Corp. Rachel Hadas; and a son, Jonathan. cine there for some years. His brother, He is survived by Enid, his wife of nearly Huntley, reported to Princeton in 2011 that 60 years; two children; and four grandchil- KEVIN M. CARLSMITH *01 Kevin Carlsmith, a high- P Hunter had died in Bismarck May 19, 2008. dren. A son predeceased him. ly regarded associate professor of psychology 68 The class officers extend deepest sympa- at Colgate University, died of cancer Nov. 19, thy to Huntley and to Hunter’s sister, Anne NIGEL M. WATSON *59 Nigel Watson, a professor 2011. He was 44. Marie Jennings. for almost three decades at Ormand College’s Carlsmith graduated from Lewis & Clark Theological Hall (Australia), died Oct. 23, College in 1989, received a master’s degree 2011. He was 83. from the University of New Hampshire in Graduate alumni Born in New Zealand, Watson graduated 1996, and earned a Ph.D. in psychology from FRANK H. BLUMENTHAL *41 Frank Blumenthal, from the University of New Zealand in 1950, Princeton in 2001. In 2003, after a postdoc- who spent almost his entire career with the went to England and received a bachelor’s toral fellowship at Virginia, he became an National Labor Relations Board in Washing- degree in classics from Cambridge in 1953 assistant professor at Colgate and rose to ton, D.C., died Dec. 29, 2011. Alert to the end, and another in theology from Westminster associate professor in 2009. He taught a vari- he was 97. College in 1955. In 1959, he earned a Ph.D. ety of psychology courses, including a fresh- Blumenthal was a 1936 graduate of in religion from Princeton. man seminar of his own design. Swarthmore and earned a Ph.D. in politics He returned home, and was ordained. In Carlsmith’s research delved into morality from Princeton in 1941. His doctoral disser- 1965, he moved to Melbourne, Australia, and and justice, especially punishment and tation was on labor injunctions in the 1930s, became professor of the New Testament at revenge. His work was published in scholarly and is now in the NLRB library. When he the Presbyterian Theological Hall. In 1969, journals, and he received three National retired in 1976, he worked in a branch of the he helped establish the United Faculty of Science Foundation grants. For 2010-2011, he Office of the General Counsel. Theology which, with the inclusion of Jesuits, was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Blumenthal was hard-of-hearing from reportedly made the UFT the world’s most Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, birth and dependent on lip-reading, but didn’t ecumenical theological faculty at the time. the university where both his parents had use sign language. He didn’t let this interfere He co-edited the Australian Biblical been faculty members. with his activities. A theater-goer, he also was Review for 20 years, and authored many At Stanford, he was able to collaborate a keen stamp collector whose main interest scholarly publications. His church debates on with other social scientists, manage his was U.S. postage stamps, specializing in air homosexuality supported change. He pub- health, introduce his wife and daughters to mail and letters that went on space ships. He licly criticized the church where he was a his native Bay Area, and care for his mother was an avid fan of the Washington Redskins pastoral leader for failing to deal with com- in her final months. Carlsmith is survived by football team and had season tickets to their plaints of sexual abuse by clergy. In support his wife, Alison, whom he married in 2001; games for almost half a century. of a women’s group, he joined a strongly their two daughters; a brother; and a sister. A loyal Princetonian, he generously con- feminist and inclusive congregation. tributed to the Graduate School’s AG cam- Watson is survived by his wife, Stella; Graduate memorials are prepared by the paigns for 51 years, with his last check dated three children; and seven grandchildren. APGA.

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