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Nonprofit U.S. Postage PAID Boston MA BoBostonston UniversityUniversity ArtsColleg & eSciences of Arts & Sciences Permit No. 1839 DeDevelopmentvelopment & Alumni RelationsRelations Inside: Beyond race— 595 Commonwealth Avenue examining the nature West Entrance, Suite 700 of African American arts sciences literature Boston, MA 02215 & Women investors, take note Creative Writing widens its scope around the world “Miss Conduct” advises on how we behave

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With another academic year well under Another great sign of our institutional health is that, way, I can’t help noting how much has unlike many peer institutions, we undertook an ambitious changed since this time last year, when the program of faculty recruitment. More than 30 impressive new “You hire people who are like you—and world was spiraling into a profound eco- professors joined Arts & Sciences this fall in diverse fields across 12 I wasn’t like those guys because I was nomic crisis. Although the economy is still the humanities and the social, natural, and quantitative sci- not a guy.” a long way from recovery as this issue of ences. And we didn’t just replace faculty who left or retired; we arts&sciences goes to press, I am proud that expanded into critically important teaching and research areas, we remain a healthy, vibrant institution, as the University’s strategic plan outlines for our future. Jane Williams (CAS’71) thanks to the skilled guidance of President We also have been working hard to develop stronger link- Robert Brown and his leadership team and the campus-wide col- ages with you, the Arts & Sciences alumni. One great accom- laborative efforts to meet the challenges. plishment is the creation of the more informative, interesting, What are the signs of this institutional strength and and effective new CAS website (www.bu.edu/cas). The alumni profiles features health? Most important, a terrific new undergraduate class has section features rich content, including streaming videos of 8 Computing Solutions 10 matriculated. Students and their parents have more reason than some of the fascinating and provocative lectures and discus- David House (CAS’10) is working He Speaks in your voice: American ever to consider their options carefully, and we came through sions that have taken place on campus. Take yourself back to with faculty researchers to develop Associate Professor Gene Jarrett writes about the politics of that test with flying colors. Our newest undergraduates are aca- your alma mater to refresh your education and find out what is a new computer tool that tracks racial representation in American literature from the Civil War demically strong and have a fascinating diversity of backgrounds, happening here. and models cell behavior. era to today. experiences, and interests. Their class is more international than For other web-based opportunities, we launched a new 12 Breaking into the boys’ 14 ever. Not surprisingly, they are also more financially needy than webinar series last spring with a discussion of climate change club ESPaÑol spoken here were previous classes. and global development led by Adil Najam, a CAS professor and Spurned at the start of her investing In Roxbury, many want to learn Spanish to be better able to con- Attracting great students requires that we continuously director of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range career by the male establishment, verse with their neighbors. Arts & Sciences grad students have assess our programs and determine what we should do better. Future. Forty-five alumni from 17 states and six countries partici- Jane Williams (CAS’71) ultimately stepped up to teach them. prevailed, now heading a highly suc- Last year, the faculty, staff, and students of the Task Force on pated. We have created a new annual report, summarized in this cessful West Coast investment firm. the First-Year Experience comprehensively examined the experi- magazine beginning on page 25 and available in full multimedia 18 Passionate Romanticist ences of CAS freshmen, and made recommendations for improve- form online at www.bu.edu/cas/ar. 20 Literature And culture continued on page 7 The BU community pays tribute to revered English Professor ments. We will move forward with these, aiming to equip beyond our borders David Wagenknecht (CAS’62, GRS’64) on his retirement. students to succeed and make the most of their college years. With a lifelong interest in interna- tional issues, BU Overseer Robert a&s insider Visit The College of Arts & Sciences Website Hildreth is enabling the Creative at www.bu.edu/cas. Writing Program to extend its reach 2 Islam’s Visual Kaleidoscope around the world. 4 Alums Back to Class 33 MInding your manners 6 Letters Savvy and witty, Robin Abrahams arts&sciences (GRS’02), The Boston Globe about alumni Fall 2009 | Number 22 Magazine’s “Miss Conduct,” helps 22 Thank You, Donors! readers navigate the shoals of social interactions in the 21st century. 24 Meet CAS’s Warren Professors Published by Development & Alumni Relations Editor Jean Hennelly Keith 25 Year in Review: Arts & Sciences at Boston University’s College and Graduate School Contributing Writers Annual Report Write to us of Arts & Sciences. Tricia Brick, Pamela Cooley (COM’83), Rachel 27 Live and Kicking — Bluesman James Montgomery We welcome your letters, which will be edited Dean of Arts & Sciences Johnson, Patrick Kennedy (COM’04), Natalie for clarity and length in this publication. Virginia Sapiro Jacobson McCracken, Corinne Steinbrenner (COM’06) 28 Distinguished Company: Arts & Sciences ­Letters will appear in full online on the Arts & Alumni Honored Associate Vice President Art Director Kim Cable Sciences website at www.bu.edu/cas. We also for Development C. J. Menard 29 Class Notes welcome your story ideas. Please write to the Contributing Designer Virginia Belich DIRECTOR OF Communications Editor, arts&sciences, Boston University, 985 Photography Boston University Photography, Amy J. Davis Commonwealth Avenue, Room 145, Boston, unless otherwise noted the cover: MA 02215, or e-mail [email protected]. Please Communications Specialist Produced by Boston University Creative Services Graduate students from GRS Romance Studies include your name, address, and BU school(s) Jeremy Schwab are teaching Spanish to elders and others in and class year(s). E Printed on paper containing post-consumer Roxbury to help foster a sense of community in ­recycled material. this Boston neighborhood. Here, a mural with 1009 000485 “our idea” in Spanish serves as a colorful back- drop to a Roxbury community garden. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky a&s i n s i d e r a&s i n s i d e r News from the College and Graduate School

Islam’s Visual Kaleidoscope

“There are multiplicities in on historical subjects—a genre Fetvacı has helped the process along,” she says. “I’m researched extensively—while the contem- studying the ways that we think about the Islamic world,” says Emine porary Safavid Empire in Persia preferred the past and how certain things have Fetvacı, an assistant professor luxuriously bound and crafted but unillus- come to be accepted as fact as a result of of art history who specializes trated books about mythological kings and campaigning and writing.” Books were a heroes, and epic love stories. in Islamic visual arts and archi- means of shaping identity, and the high- In 2008, Fetvacı was one of three level government officials and courtiers tecture. “Islam is not homoge- researchers at BU to be awarded a who financed their production typically neous. Persian is not the same three-year, $50,000 Peter Paul Career expected a starring role in exchange for as Arab is not the same as Turk Development professorship, designed to their patronage. “One person appears to help promising junior faculty enhance their be very important to a battle described is not the same as Indian is not research program. Fetvacı used the award in one book because it’s written by a his- the same as Pakistani—even to travel to India, Syria, Turkey, and other torian he’s paying; another book shows among themselves, these peo- countries to examine and photograph his- someone else as the hero of the same torically significant art and architecture. conflict because the author is his protégé. ple are so diverse and different Highlights of her research trip included I have to read between the lines.” from one another. I tell my stu- the tomb of the Fetvacı plans further travel to Islamic dents to remember that we’re emperor Akbar in countries, as well as to Spain and Italy, Sikandra, India, and dealing with human civilization and also hopes to visit the Institute of Delhi’s Qutb Minar, Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of and its richness.” a tower begun Sciences in St. Petersburg, which houses a In the classroom, Fetvacı draws on in 1199 AD as a valuable collection of Persian manuscripts her current research in Asian and Middle testimonial to the relating to Islamic art. The Peter Paul award Eastern countries to illustrate “the diversity strength of Islam will help her purchase digital images of and the colors of the Islamic world.” She and which, at 238 manuscripts for more detailed study in invites students to compare, for example, feet, is the tallest Boston, and she will use the photos she’s the late 14th- and early 15th-century archi- brick minaret in the world. taken of Islamic art during her travels as tecture of Timurid Iran and Central Asia, Now Fetvacı has trained her camera learning tools in the classroom. where mosques and imperial tombs were and her attentions on Turkish manuscripts “I find it really important in my decorated with geometric designs crafted dating to the 1500s, the height of the teaching to remind and to show my stu- from blue-and-white tiles, to Egyptian Ottoman Empire. During that era, she says, dents that when we talk about the Islamic architecture of the same period, whose political chicanery and public relations world, we’re talking about a lot of cultural structures were made completely of stone posturing by high-ranking members of the diversity,” says Fetvacı. “We’re talking and embellished with carved inscriptions. Ottoman court contributed to published and about good and beautiful things as well Books, like buildings, show the diver- subsequently accepted revisionist history. as the negative images that we see so gent aesthetics of Islam at any given time. In “I’m working on a monograph about often in the media today—it’s impera- the 16th century, Ottomans in what is now identity formation during this period, tive we remember that there’s a lot more Turkey had a penchant for illustrated books how books played into it and how art there.”—Pamela Cooley

Portrait of Ottoman Sultan Selim ıı (1524–1574), Getty Images

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Rediscovering the Passion to Learn

Alumni are flocking back to CAS to “So many alumni tell me, after they have Q: What motivated you to study Cuba? A: The first wave was very anti-Castro A: Barack Obama be students again—minus the term papers finished their formal education, that there were and anti-Communist. They were upper was the first presi- A: I had written my dissertation on and late-night review sessions. For those liv- learning opportunities they missed, sometimes and middle class. They’d had a marvel- dential candidate the urban poor in Mexico, and I started ing in the Boston area, or who have access in their own major fields, but often in areas fur- ous lifestyle in Cuba, with country clubs during a campaign to questioning why there was so much to YouTube or iTunes University online, ther afield,” says Arts & Sciences Dean Virginia and a lot of resources. Recent arrivals come out for loosen- poverty there, even though the country the Discoveries lecture series provides an Sapiro. “I think, ironically, that a lot of us are are more similar to other Latin American ing any aspect of the had undergone a revolution that was opportunity to learn about compelling issues smarter and braver about pursuing a immigrants. They don’t have a ton of embargo. Part of the supposed to create more equality. I money. They are starting to become U.S. reason he could do so wanted to look at what different revo- citizens, and they generously want to is that although Cuban lutions accomplished, so I decided to share some of their U.S. earnings with Americans still constitute an important compare the outcomes of revolutions in the family they left behind. voting bloc in Florida, their clout is not as Latin America. I covered Mexico first, great as it was, and there is a difference of but I did the most work on Cuba. opinion in the Cuban local community there. Q: What have you enjoyed most about Florida is a swing state, and historically the studying Cuba? Cuban American community there was sol- idly against loosening the embargo. A: It is interesting to go beneath the surface, beyond the rhetoric on both Q: You describe socialism as having mixed sides. For me, the goal was to find out results in Cuba. How has socialism affected what it is like to live under a socialist economic development in Cuba? regime, and it is a lot more complicated A: I think economic stagnation has been a and less ideological than you might think. problem for the country. Cuba hasn’t been I have been to Cuba about 10 times, and affecting today’s world from BU’s most dis- breadth of learning opportunities after we able to improve the standard of living suf- I am in contact with a lot of academics tinguished faculty members. Participants at leave school. I’m so pleased to see the ficiently for its people. there. In Miami, where I’ve gone about six the lectures, which are hosted by the Arts impressive turnout for these events, which times, I’ve kept my contacts deliberately Q: How has socialism affected social & Sciences Alumni Relations office, also get also give me an opportunity to connect broad. I interview people in business, poli- development in Cuba? to mingle with fellow alums and BU faculty with our alumni and hear about the many tics, the media, and academics. and staff during the receptions that follow. ways they continue to distinguish them- A: It is really a welfare state, one of the Recent lectures have explored such topics as selves in all walks of life.” Q: Your new book, The Immigrant Divide: only developing countries with cradle-to- the role of forgiveness in society, the impact To get a taste of this lifelong learn- How Cuban Americans Changed the U.S. grave benefits. The rationed food is really of the fall 2008 financial bailout, and the ing opportunity, read the following and Their Homeland, is about the waves cheap. The country provides free health Cuban Revolution on its arts&sciences interview with Professor of Cuban immigration to Miami. How do Q: President Obama earlier this year care and education. Cuba has the high- 50th anniversary. of Sociology and International Relations the new Cuban immigrants to the United eased restrictions on remittances and est number of teachers and doctors per Susan Eckstein, as she expands on her States differ from older immigrant fami- travel to Cuba for Cuban Americans who capita of any country in Latin America. So spring 2009 lecture about the legacy of lies who came over soon after Castro have relatives on the island. Does this sig- there have been some real social benefits the Cuban Revolution. took power in 1959? nal a shift in U.S. policy toward Cuba? of the revolution.—Jeremy Schwab

For videos of past events and a schedule of upcoming lectures, visit www.bu.edu/cas/alumni/discoveries.

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From our readers from the dean continued Classic Dean Antarctica’s Past My Spring issue of arts&sciences arrived a week or so ago, and In addition to serving as a staff attorney for the Home School We are also developing new “live and in I casually thumbed through the magazine. When I reached page Legal Defense Association (“HSLDA”), I also serve as an adjunct person” opportunities for alumni. For Boston- 12, the article about Dean Melville, I let out a very loud scream professor of constitutional law for Patrick Henry College. area alums, the Discoveries lecture series, of delight and amazement! You must have heard that scream in As someone who is a follower of Jesus Christ and believes that now in its third year, draws large crowds Westwood all the way into Boston. the Bible is God’s word and that it is true, I have found the edito- for varied topics, such as the financial crisis The picture evoked a flood of wonderful memories for me. There I rial perspective of your publication almost entirely humanistic in bailout, the 50th anniversary of the Cuban was in my 1956 “body”—feeling so very proud. I was able to go to my perspective and authorship, but maybe I’ve missed something. If Revolution (see story on page 4), the problem college scrapbook and pull out the newspaper clipping that appeared I have, I welcome your rebuttal. In particular I read in the most of forgiveness, and the creation of a diction- in The Boston Sunday Globe, January 20, 1957. Dean Melville is pin- recent edition of the magazine the article about Geomorphologist ary of sign language. See this year’s topics at ning Lester S. Dewis (then of Natick). I am directly behind the Dean, David Marchant’s trek to the South Pole where he discovered the Discoveries website, www.bu.edu/cas/ and beside me is Sadie J. Garner (then of Roxbury). Two others were boulders (among other things) that were in the same place as they alumni/discoveries/, where you can also view cropped out of the picture: Shayna A. Chasman (then of Malden, were “14 million years ago.” Dr. Marchant is entitled to his beliefs, videos of past sessions. The “Arts, Culture, stood behind Lester), and behind Sadie on the far right stood Nancy as you are to yours, and I mine. But we ought to at least mutu- and Ideas” lunchtime discussion series, E. Fowler (then of Milford, Connecticut)… ally recognize that our views regarding the origin of the world are cohosted by the BU Humanities Foundation, beliefs and that evidence (like Dr. Marchant’s) can be explained in I have a story that I would like to share with you. In 1955–1956, is a new and already popular offering. We are other ways than the idea that the earth is billions of years old. I served as president of the Harriet Richards Co-op House. In that Thank you for the wonderful feature on Dean Melville. The also increasing the number of alumni events capacity, I had to report to Dean Melville regularly. In those years, ­pictures were classic—just like she was. Michael Donnelly (CAS‘90, LAW‘97) with great substantive content in cities the Dean’s secretary was Marion Parsons, who lived in Medford. I, too, was on the Student Parietals Committee (representing West Purcelville, Virginia around the country and the world. Marion drove a young man who lived near her in Medford (and went The past season witnessed the grow- Campus) in 1968–1970, chaired by Dean Melville. It was one of the Read more at www.bu.edu/cas. to her church) back and forth to BU. Russell Downes was attending most challenging experiences of my wonderful years at BU. She would ing strength of the Arts & Sciences alumni the BU School of Education on the GI Bill. Well, Dean Melville and have been an excellent professor of debate, philosophy, forensics, or connection: More of you stepped forward to Marion Parsons conspired to fix me up with Russell. A “blind date” just about anything. Sharp, clear thinker—she was a true leader. enable CAS/GRS to serve our students better was arranged in the Dean’s office, and that is where I met Russ. and attract, retain, and nurture the careers Ed Meadows (DGE’70, CAS’72) August 29 of 2008 marked our 50th wedding anniversary!... of a terrific faculty of superb teachers and Holt, Michigan My major at BU was music (from CAS, not the School of Music). cutting-edge researchers. Despite the eco- Since college, I have always held a church music position. Beginning nomic crisis, more alumni gave to the Arts & in 1960, I have served as Director of Music at the First Baptist Church New Design Sciences Annual Fund and contributed more right here in Westwood. I direct the Chancel Choir, play the organ, dollars than in the previous year. Some of you The new design of arts&sciences made for easy (and pleasant) and direct the Westwood Ringers. The ringers have been on made very special leadership gifts. Thank you reading. I like the features and the section tabs at the top of the pages. European concert tours three times! for this critical commitment to the Boston Sasenarine Persaud (GRS’06) University of tomorrow. I have enjoyed carrying the CAS magazine around. I shared the Tampa, Florida Please enjoy this issue of arts&sciences. photo with my church choir, and we all had a good laugh over it. As always, I welcome your feedback (casdean@ Actually, the way I look in the photo is essentially the way I looked Read about his book of poems when I started at the church in 1960. There are several people in the on page 30. bu.edu) and encourage you to get involved choir who have been there longer than I have, and who remember with the Alumni Association. Stay in touch very well how I used to look! Oh dear, time marches on! with your Boston University College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Please thank Natalie Jacobson McCracken for such a nice article on Dean Melville, who was such a special person to so many of us Virginia Sapiro who knew her. Dean of Arts & Sciences Marilyn Augusta (Estabrook) Downes (CAS‘57) Westwood, Massachusetts Read more at www.bu.edu/cas.

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He likes to tackle prob- lems. When computer science major David House (CAS’10) David House arrived at BU with a order to really understand all aspects of sees a computer, he theory: the professor with “the most the program. It’s amazing what you can interesting stuff on the door” would be a accomplish with the proper team and the sees a way to find professor doing fascinating research. He right encouragement.” spent his first few days at CAS wandering After creating and setting up the solutions. Through the halls, investigating professors’ doors, algorithms with Betke, House collaborated UROP (Undergraduate looking for one crammed with flyers, pic- with Joyce Wong, associate chair of the tures, posters, and inspiration. graduate biomedical engineering program, Research Opportunities He found computer scientist Margrit to fine-tune the system to model cellular Program), he does real Betke, whom House calls “the hardest- behavior. “The algorithms can be applied working professor I have ever known.” to a variety of biological systems—cells, research to help create Through BU’s Undergraduate Research mammals, anything with heat,” he says. new tools for science. Opportunities Program, which funds “We want to make it open-source, so faculty-mentored undergraduates con- eventually any college can use it in many ducting original research, House and Betke different ways.” This image demonstrates the BU MicroSight teamed up to develop a computer program Computers and the possibilities they system’s ability to automatically record a cell’s lineage through time. that helps to track and model cell behavior offer have fascinated House since child- by using infrared thermal imaging. hood, when he watched “those ‘80s hacker ment projects like technology training movies in which an for local high school teachers. He also “That’s the job of a computer scientist: finding ways unwitting teen sticks it lives in “pika,” a coed, environmentally to The Man and wins,” friendly, MIT-affiliated cooperative in to solve problems. Each of us has the capacity to he says. Now he sees Cambridgeport “full of mathematicians change the world using the creative. We are only computer science for and engineers” who do their own cooking, limited by our imaginations.” what it can do and gardening, and composting; allow pets; how it can change and have constructed an enormous tree Unlike more conventional tools, such the world we live in. “The real computer house attached to the building. as standard infrared cameras and flash science is in the abstract,” he says. “It’s At his core, House likes helping out photography, infrared thermal imaging about taking a situation and using com- and untangling obstacles, which is why produces much higher resolution images puters to model that situation to see how he finds the field of computer science so by recognizing electromagnetic waves and something works. Right now, I help com- rewarding. “I like that people can come to converting them to electrical signals that puters understand what cells look like and us and say ‘We have a problem and we a computer can then read and understand. how they behave so they can recognize want you to fix it,’” he says. “That’s the job The program uses algorithms to gener- cells and model their behavior. But the of a computer scientist: finding ways to ate data about the pictures. Betke’s lab range of possibilities for what computer solve problems. Each of us has the capacity has already participated in studies that science can do is enormous.” to change the world using the creative. We use this program to track the nocturnal Although House doesn’t want to hack are only limited by our imaginations.” movements of bat populations by into any government supercomputers, he “After graduation, I want to go some- reading their heat. maintains a strong stance on governmen- where that lets me continue this research, Computing Solutions “I knew about computer science,” tal and environmental accountability. He to make a real, tangible difference. It’s House says, “but Professor Betke founded the BU chapter of the Association very hard work, and we may fail a bunch By rachel johnson encouraged me to increase my biol- for Computing Machinery, which helps of times trying for an answer, but when we ogy knowledge in my free time in drive local technology-based improve- come up with a solution, it’s so rewarding.”

FALL 2009 | arts&sciences 9 by Tricia Brick

The editor of such books as African The poet, novelist, and essayist Paul was ahead of his time. He wanted to be American Literature Beyond Race: An Alter- Laurence Dunbar could have considered not as a black writer but just native Reader and The New Negro: Readings been a as a writer; yet in that time after slavery, on Race, Representation, and African Ameri- model for perhaps society was not ready for some- can Culture, 1892–1938 (with Harvard’s the New one like him. Because of the expectations Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), Jarrett has spent Negro type. people had, he couldn’t be just a writer, his career studying racial representation Born to for- he had to be the ‘poet laureate of the He speaks in your voice: in American literature—in particular, how mer slaves in Negro race.’ That was the burden African Americans have been understood 1872, Dunbar he had to bear.” both as characters in and as authors of became one Books by 19th – literary works over the last two centu- of the most century author Paul ries. His Deans and Truants looks at black celebrated Laurence Dunbar, authors throughout American history black authors whose biography who have used literature to challenge of his genera- Gene Jarrett is writing beliefs about race that were accepted as tion for a series truths in their day. And in his forthcoming of poems that Today, in book Representing the Race: The Politics of were pastoral the wake of Obama’s African American Literature from Jefferson panegyrics to the Old Negro, election to the to Obama, Jarrett examines the political written in dialect and much presidency, Jarrett implications of African American litera- lauded for capturing an “authen- asks whether society ture—from the role that Phillis Wheat- tic black voice,” says Jarrett. might finally be ley’s poetry played in Thomas Jefferson’s But the dialect poems catching up with disparagement of African American that earned Dunbar a reputation Dunbar. “Some political unity to the role that Barack during his lifetime as the “poet laureate people say that we are living in a post- Obama’s Dreams from My Father has had of the Negro race”—a well-intentioned racial world,” Jarrett says. “Whether or not in shaping the bipartisan, pragmatic designation, albeit one based on a tacit that’s true, perhaps today people are will- political culture of his presidency. assumption of difference in kind and ing to entertain the notion that a person Like other authors who have spoken ability between races—represented only of African descent could be a writer rather on behalf of historically disenfranchised a small part of his oeuvre. He was also than an African American writer. If I were groups, African American writers have the author of many poems in the Ameri- writing Deans and Truants today, I might long understood that the way a group is can Romantic and Victorian styles, works begin differently. Perhaps a new question Gene Andrew Jarrett began his represented in literature can influence or in formal English on topics of nature, could be: Why do we still have African 2006 book Deans and Truants with a de- transform how the members of that group love, and other subjects popular at that American literature as a category? Maybe ceptively simple question: What is African are perceived—and, by extension, how time. Additionally, he wrote four novels we should just say ‘American literature.’” American literature? The term, after all, they are treated—in life outside of books. and more than 100 short stories, only refers not merely to the subject matter Following the Civil War, for example, a some of which focused on the African “He wanted to be considered of the works it describes but to literature new literary type began to appear in works American experience. not as a black writer but just as by African American authors. Known as that both represents the African Ameri- Jarrett, who has edited several col- a writer; yet in that time after can experience and is written by authors the “New Negro”—in contrast to the “Old lections of Dunbar’s writings, is now at who are themselves black. But what, then, Negro,” the submissive, unrefined, dialect- work on his biography. slavery, perhaps society was of black authors who have written works speaking plantation slave—this figure “Paul Laurence Dunbar was a man not ready for someone like him. without black characters? Or of those was well dressed and well educated, a of contradictions,” says Jarrett. “Whereas Because of the expectations speaker of formal English who was cultur- who are of mixed race? “You can’t take other writers of his time were working people had, he couldn’t be just a this question for granted, because it’s at ally sophisticated and politically active; with New Negro images, he was, in his the heart of so many questions of human a character, in other words, who might poetry, working with images of the Old writer, he had to be the ‘poet lau- identity and, in particular, race,” says inspire fondness and admiration in read- Negro in order to make money and to reate of the Negro race.’ That was Jarrett, an associate professor of English. ers, rather than an object of pity or scorn. achieve fame. And yet in some ways he the burden he had to bear.” Associate Professor of English Gene Jarrett

10 arts&sciences | FALL 2009 FALL 2009 | arts&sciences 11 Financial Tips for Women

Even Williams’s first seemingly “Much to the brokerage community’s Wealth manager Jane Williams offers positive experiences with financial firms surprise, and much to my satisfaction,” the same advice to all her clients: under- turned out to be lessons in gender discrim- she says, “men were very happy to deal stand your priorities, educate yourself Initially Jane ination. After failing to find suitable work with women brokers.” Williams and her about the investment vehicles available Williams was at Chicago-area brokerages, Williams female colleagues seemed to have a dif- to you, and develop a financial plan and snubbed by the was hired into a management training ferent style of doing business, she says, stick with it. For her female clients—who financial services program at Harris Trust & Savings Bank— a style that many customers preferred. often seem more squeamish about industry. Now not exactly the work she was looking for, “I think male brokers, at some level, managing their personal finances she’s managing a but a step in the right direction. She later were conquering a new frontier every than her male clients do—she adds billion dollars in learned Harris Trust had paid her a far time they finished with the last sale. these words of wisdom: assets and recently has been named lower salary than it paid her male coun- Women were building relationships and by Barron’s as one of the country’s top terparts. (Thanks to a class action lawsuit looking for their clients to help them Understand Your Priorities 100 independent investment advisors. against the bank, she eventually received a build their business.” Acknowledge who you are. check that made up the difference.) A highly personalized approach to If you’re motivated to be phil- In 1973, Williams got what she offering investment advice became the anthropic, as many women Jane Williams (CAS’71) knew exactly thought was her first big break in the bro- key to Williams’s success. In 1982, she are, recognize that as a what she wanted to do with her degree kerage community. Her husband had been and a male colleague left Merrill Lynch legitimate financial goal. in economics: become a stockbroker. So transferred to Ottawa, and she decided to to form their own company, and today, Don’t be shy about plac- after graduation she applied at broker- give the Canadian brokerages a try. She she says, Sand Hill Advisors remains ing philanthropy among ages in Boston, and when her husband’s was thrilled when the hiring manager at successful because it continues its com- your financial priorities. company transferred him to Chicago, she Merrill Lynch’s Ottawa branch agreed to mitment to forming quality relationships applied at brokerages there too. In both let her take the aptitude exam for prospec- with its clients. “Where a Merrill Lynch Educate Yourself cities, she recalls, the response was the tive stockbrokers. “I took this thing,” she broker might have two or three hundred Read, read, read. same: “They said, ‘Gee, we’d love to hire says, “and I thought, ‘Wow, I really nailed clients, our entire firm has 155 clients,” A few books to check out: you. How fast do you type?’” this. This is no problem. I’m in.’” When she she says. These customers include non- Prince Charming Isn’t Coming When Williams explained that she returned to Merrill Lynch for a follow-up profit organizations, small retirement by Barbara Stanny; This Is wasn’t interested in typing (she didn’t interview, however, she was told the accounts, and wealthy individuals— Not the Life I Ordered by even know how), that she was interested brokerage couldn’t hire her because she’d “our average individual client has about Deborah Collins Stephens, Breaking in being licensed as a stockbroker so she done poorly on the exam. She later was $6 million of assets with us”—who rely et al.; and The Informed Investor could provide investment advice, she was able to verify that she had, in fact, passed on Williams and her staff to provide by Frank Armstrong III. into the encouraged to take a typing class. “They the test handily. The gentleman at the ­in-depth financial planning and then said, ‘We can hire you as an assistant, but brokerage had lied to her about her score to execute that plan. Develop a Plan we couldn’t possibly hire you as a broker.’” because he didn’t want to hire her. Sand Hill Advisors specializes in Understand where risk fits. Speaking this summer from her helping people through financial transi- Women tend to be more protective of office in Palo Alto, California, where she is “I think male brokers, at some tions, and Williams herself specializes their money, and therefore more risk- CEO of a financial advisory firm that man- level, were conquering a new in helping women in transition—divor- averse, than men. But risk does have a proper place in your financial portfolio. ages $1 billion in assets, Williams is dip- frontier every time they fin- cées fighting for their fair share of fam- lomatic about her early struggles with the ily assets, widows managing their own Learn to understand risk and then use it ished with the last sale. Women financial services industry. “The business finances for the first time. While the to your advantage. world just didn’t have much experience were building relationships and old-school approach to such situations, Boys’ with women, and I think there was honest looking for their clients to help says Williams, is to “pat the woman on Stick with the Plan Be honest with your advisor. CLUB concern at the brokerage level that male them build their business.” the head and say, ‘Don’t worry dear, we’ll clients wouldn’t relate well to female bro- take care of you,’” her approach is more When men are dissatisfied with a kers,” she says. “And you hire people who But a year later—after seeing the empowering. She teaches women clients business relationship, they tend to be are like you—and I wasn’t like those guys excellent work she’d done on contract about risk, long-term investment returns, aggressive in steering that relationship because I was not a guy.” for the Economic Council of Canada—he estate planning—things that, even today, back on course, while women tend to During the three years she spent trying did hire her. Williams became, as far as she finds, women often know less about avoid conflict by simply ending the rela- to convince brokerages to hire her, how- she knew, the only female stockbroker than men do. Williams’s goal is to help tionship and starting over with someone ever, she wasn’t as understanding. “I was in Merrill Lynch’s Canadian system. And these women take control of their own else. Part of sticking with your plan, angry,” she says. “When you’re faced with when she and her husband moved to Palo financial lives, to prove to them—just as however, is sticking with your advisor. irrational discrimination—at least in your Alto a short time later, she transferred to a she proved to the brokerage community If you feel your advisor has lost sight of own mind it’s irrational—it doesn’t make Merrill Lynch office there and became one 30 years ago—that women and finance your priorities, don’t jump ship—con- you discouraged, it makes you angry.” of a handful of female brokers in California. can be a winning combination. front the issue so it can be resolved.

By Corinne steinbrenner Leslie McConnell is long past the age when her By Jeremy Schwab mind was a blank slate for language learning. She took her last forgettable Spanish class in college and since then had made only minor attempts to keep up with the language. But on a recent night, she dreamed of conjugat- ing verbs in Spanish. “For once,” she says, “I can honestly say that I’m acquiring a language. Always in the past, I was just learning it by rote.”

McConnell is part of an unlikely group of language learners who congregate each Wednesday in the common room of the Camfield Garden Estates housing develop- ment in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. Taught by Graduate School of Arts & Sciences student volunteers, many of the class par- ticipants are senior citizens, though there are teenagers and working professionals in the group, too. They come from a range of backgrounds: mostly African American, but also Hispanic, Irish, and Lithuanian. And all of them come to class each week not because they have to, but because they want to be able to communicate with Spanish speakers in their lives, or just out of intellectual curiosity. “I felt I needed to take the class because we live in a bilingual society, and I want to be able to communicate with more people,” says McConnell, a social worker at Whittier Street Health Center in Roxbury. “I work with Spanish-speaking people every day, and now I try out my Spanish with them.” The course, which began in March of 2008, is the brainchild of BU alumna Jewelle Anderson (CFA’84). A retired Boston Public Schools teacher, Anderson has been a community volunteer for years. Spanish language students, from left, She decided Debra Anderson and Juanita Jarrett to launch the class after senior citizens at the Women’s Service Club of Boston, where she then served as vice president and remains a member, told her they wanted an opportunity to learn Spanish. The club is a community ser- EspañolSpoken Here vice organization founded for black women.

FALL 2009 | arts&sciences 15 Spanish language learners, clockwise from left: Irene Smalls, Debra Anderson, Horace Bowden, Maria Luisa Martinez (GRS instructor), Allen Farrar

with a cane. She had a great sense of humor about learning a new lan- particularly about the Spanish-speaking countries their teachers A Good Life guage at her age. I was humbled.” have visited. They want to know how life is lived in those countries, A commitment to education The close-knit nature of the class was a revelation to and not just through secondhand instruction. Earlier this year, runs in Jewelle Anderson’s veins. Martinez. “As a foreigner in this country, I gained a new perspec- Anderson suggested they go on a trip together to Madrid, Spain, to The daughter of a doctor and a tive,” she says. “They showed me an American culture that I have experience the culture and language firsthand. schoolteacher, she was born in never experienced before—more supportive, warm, and complex. The students took up the challenge with gusto. Since May, Alexandria, Louisiana, in 1932, a That’s one of the things that I will keep the rest of my life.” they have held potluck fundraisers, offering fried fish, barbe- time when black children rarely cued ribs, peach cobbler, candied yams, and a whole array of received an equal education. Cultural Exchange other dishes to local residents in return for contributions for “My grandmother was one Sisters Lashema Rivera, 15, and Tatyanna McGuire, 21, faith- their trip. Betty Lou McGuire single-handedly provided sweet of the first blacks to teach in New fully attend every meeting of the GRS student-taught Spanish potato pies, candied yams, and peach cobbler. “They were from Orleans public schools,” she recalls. “It was embedded in class. They say they are taking the class so that they can con- heaven,” remembers Anderson. my family that the women were schoolteachers. My poor verse more easily with their Spanish-speaking relatives. The planned trip will add a new dimension to the continuing brother was a doctor. He didn’t want to be, but men in my “When I was little, I knew how to speak Spanish fluently,” classes. “The value of going to a foreign country is meeting other family were doctors, or were on the police force. That’s With only a tiny budget for the class, Anderson decided explains Rivera, whose father is Puerto Rican. “But I got out of people—not just speaking a the way it was.” she needed volunteer teachers. So she approached BU touch with it, so I want to be able to be closer to my other rela- foreign language but getting Public service was also a family tradition. Anderson Romance Studies Professor James Iffland, then head of the tives. Also, in today’s society being bilingual really helps. All of to know about other people,” recalls Sunday afternoons spent walking through the coun- Spanish section and now department chair, to see if he could my friends speak Creole or Japanese or Spanish.” The sisters’ says Anderson. tryside with her siblings, trailing their father as he made recommend any graduate students who would volunteer their grandmother, Betty Lou McGuire, is also in the class, and the To learn about Hispanic the rounds from one home to the next. “Every Sunday after time. “I knew that BU would have great teachers,” she explains. three practice their Spanish together on a regular basis. culture closer to home, church, he’d take his bag and we’d go out with him to the Iffland promised her he would send along some of his best. They exemplify the cultural fusion occurring in Roxbury. In the class takes field trips, country to treat people without much money,” she says. He saw an opportunity not just to help senior citizens and recent decades, the predominantly African American neighbor- such as a recent visit to “He would knock on doors, and ask ‘Is anybody ill?’” other local residents, but also to enrich the graduate student hood has seen an influx of immigrants from Latin America, the Casa Romero restaurant in Anderson was drawn ultimately toward working with experience in the Romance Studies Department. “It seemed Caribbean, and elsewhere. A walk through Dudley Square, a busy the Back Bay for a private children, as were her mother, grandmother, and aunts to be a perfect project for our students to provide a service to retail district and public transportation hub, is a study in diversity. lecture by chef-owner Leo before her. She worked for a time with preschoolers at the the community,” says Iffland. “It also gives graduate students A group of teenagers converse in Spanish, sprinkled with English Romero and one of the most YWCA on Clarendon Street, and taught history, social stud- a chance to teach in an environment that is very different from phrases, as they wait for a bus. A local merchant from Jamaica basic and pleasant forms ies, art, and music to Boston Public Schools elementary and the environment they’ve been teaching in at BU. I think that uni- greets customers at his fruit stand as reggae from his stereo of cultural exchange—sam- middle school students for 22 years, retiring in 2003. versities should be doing more of this type of activity.” pulses out into the square. In front of One United Bank, a branch pling food. Romero lectured Her interest in education led her back to the class- The class took off from the start. Twenty students showed of the largest African American–owned and -managed bank in the Students (in foreground) Betty Lou the class about authentic room early last year, this time organizing the Spanish class McGuire with Juanita Jarrett up the first day, drawn by flyers and newspaper advertisements country, a group of elderly men catch up on the day’s gossip. Mexican cuisine as they through the Women’s Service Club. “I wanted this to be a Anderson posted, and, over the next few While interactions among the groups joyful class,” she says. “I want to see growth, to have them months, all but three attended regularly. are usually peaceful, misperceptions and dis- “I had an 80-year-old in my class who came in with a learn about Spanish food and go to a foreign country—and As the students and teachers got to know trust can strain neighborly relations. “One of cane. She had a great sense of humor about learning see the social life of a foreign country.” one another, they developed a strong the reasons the class interested me was that a new language at her age. I was humbled.” Now Anderson’s vision has become a reality, creat- camaraderie. Last December, the students it is a small opportunity to begin to improve ing a fruitful partnership between BU and the Women’s —Megan Gibbons (GRS’11) organized a party to celebrate the end the relationship between African Americans Service Club that nurtures both students and teach- of their first year together, and to thank and Latinos,” says Iffland. “I just think that munched on mole pablano, chiles, and skirt steak. ers. Romance Studies Chair James Iffland is committed instructors Megan Gibbons, Maria Luisa if more African Americans begin to learn “There is a real misconception in this country by people to deepening that collaboration. “I would like to really Martinez, and Peter Mahoney. Spanish and learn about Latino culture, and if who talk about Tex-Mex food; they think everything is all strengthen this relationship, and recruit more students The three instructors, all 2011 class- Latinos learn more about African American meat and cheese and spices,” he said. “But the food is not as willing to take the extra time to teach in Roxbury,” he says. mates who plan to become Spanish profes- culture, some of the friction that has marked spicy in Mexico. They put chile and other condiments on the “I want to make sure this program continues and expands. sors, say the experience has broadened their the relationship may begin to disappear.” table, but chefs don’t put it in the food much.” It seems to be a perfect fit between the needs of the perspective on what learning can be. “I have The class is a prototype of how Romero’s lesson was simple—cultural misunderstanding Boston community and the capacity of BU to help.” gained a continuing appreciation that learning positive intercultural learning can work. comes in many forms, including culinary ones. The implica- is, or can be, a lifelong process,” says Gibbons. Instructor Maria Luisa Martinez, at left, with The teachers are patient. The students tion was that the best way to correct these stereotypes is for “I had an 80-year-old in my class who came in student Lashema Rivera are motivated and ask a lot of questions, people to learn about other cultures beyond the surface.

Read this article in Spanish, at www.bu.edu/cas. FALL 2009 | arts&sciences 17 P a s s i o n a t e omanticist R By Natalie Jacobson McCracken

Music of the Gods

English Professor David Wagenknecht once summed taken a course in Romantic literature.” After a year at what is literature and the arts,” says Professor Charles Rzepka, who The retirement gift presented to David Wagenknecht up a student’s final paper as “profoundly wrongheaded.” now UMass Lowell, he earned a doctorate at the University after a year under Wagenknecht’s tutelage will succeed him by his English department colleagues seems at once “That struck me immediately as true,” recalls Keith of Sussex “because I had been so happy in England, in Hull. as editor. “Part of what makes it so good is David’s own markedly imaginative and inevitable: an aeolian harp, Johnson (GRS’99, ’08), the critiqued student, now assistant I thought I’d be immigrating, but I found out how profoundly intellectual curiosity and broad-ranging openness to new the first most had ever professor of English at Augusta State University in Georgia. American I was.” He and his wife, Patricia (Terwilliger, GRS’62), approaches, and his encyclopedic knowledge not only of seen. Wooden “‘Nevertheless,’ David continued, ‘I always learn from your who met in BU’s English department, came home. what’s out there, but also what direction it’s taking.” instruments papers.’ And this, too, struck me immediately as true. Basically He taught at Northeastern Teaching has been his other intellectual passion. “David’s played on everything he ever said struck me immediately as true.” University for two years before seminars were always extremely challenging and daring,” only by the As Wagenknecht retires, students, alumni, and colleagues returning to the department writes Alex Bove (CAS’93, GRS’95, ’05), instructor in English, wind, they echo Johnson’s praise, calling him “an extraordinarily generous in 1971, this time on the fac- SUNY Buffalo. “I learned from David that learning, thinking, were a reader and listener and profoundly humane” (Emily Rohrbach, ulty. “Coming to work at BU teaching, and writing don’t require you to be on solid ground, fashionable GRS’96, ’07, assistant professor of English, Northwestern was very far from my mind and that, in fact, the best results often come when your feet feature of University); “gracious and accommodating” (Sharifah Aishah until the door miraculously leave the ground. I felt as though when I was in one of David’s genteel 19th- Osman, GRS’05, senior lecturer in English, University of opened,” Wagenknecht says. seminars I was taking part in a rare and valuable event.” century homes, Malaya); and “an absolute dream of an advisor and a tremen- “The miracle was the quality of Rohrbach characterizes the seminars as “encounters with the resting before open windows, where their strings, dously influential teacher” (Johnson). the department that welcomed irreducible difficulty and strangeness of aesthetic experience.” all tuned to the same key but of varying thick- “The first thing every student encountered was his me and made it possible for Says Jonathan Mulrooney (GRS’01), associate professor of nesses, produced random, overlapping harmonics. extreme brilliance and kindness,” says William Carroll, me to develop the intellectual English, College of the Holy Cross, “He is fundamentally con- To Romantic writers, they often represented nature Wagenknecht’s faculty colleague for 38 years and now depart- passions I have.” cerned with leading the authentic life of the intellectual, with- as muse, inspiration of artists. ment chair. “David was one of the most important intellectual out capitulation to professional trends, and to modeling that These days aeolian harps can be ordered on presences in the department for decades.” “I feel his influence daily in my own journey as a for his students. I feel his influence daily in my own journey as the Internet, but the English faculty wanted some- As a student, Wagenknecht (CAS’62, GRS’64) had teacher and scholar.” a teacher and scholar.” thing special. Their gift was custom-made by Toby no thought of teaching in the department where his father, —Jonathan Mulrooney (GRS’01) Along with the generations of literary scholars he sent Rzepka, professional craftsman of fine string instru- Edward, was a professor. Having earned a BA and MA in Those passions center on the Romantics, William out to educate and inspire younger generations were the ments and son of English Professor Charles Rzepka. English, David taught for a year at Bridgewater State College Blake particularly (Belknap Press of Harvard published his equally appreciative undergraduates on distinctly nonliterary Based, appropriately, on an early 19th-century English in Massachusetts and then at the University of Hull, England. Blake’s night: William Blake and the idea of pastoral in 1973), career paths. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve sat in his design, its body is of dramatically figured maple, with “I felt pretty inadequate when I started teaching,” he recalls and Sigmund Freud and the arcane psychoanalytic theorist office, just chatting,” says advisee Katie Hairston (CAS’11), an red cedar, blondewood, and Brazilian rosewood ele- with the modesty that charms students and colleagues. “Part Jacques Lacan. In 1978, Wagenknecht began editing Studies English major planning to be a large-animal veterinarian. “He ments and veneer trim, including a blue-and-white of the reason was that I was inadequate; I taught [in addition to in Romanticism. “Under David’s editorship it has become the has been a phenomenal professor.” rosette suggesting gusting wind. It is, as its delighted American literature] the British Romantic Period, and I’d never journal in the field of British and Continental Romantic Says Bove, “There should be a Nobel in teaching.” owner says, simply “beautiful.”—NJM

As the Twig Is Bent

Over a long career, Edward Wagenknecht (1900–2004), father of David as well as Walter (CAS’69, STH’73, MED’79) and Robert, and BU professor of English from 1947 to 1965, published essays and reviews beyond number and some 70 books. They include studies of American literature—his scholarly specialty—English literature, and a steady stream of biographies focused on character rather than chronology (remark- able in the late twenties, when they began), with subjects ranging from Poe, Henry James, and Whittier to Shakespeare and Dickens to silent movie stars. “He was passionate about early cinema,” David recalls. His The Movies in the Age of Innocence (1962) remains a classic.

FALL 2009 | arts&sciences 19 A l u m n i P rofil e by Tricia Brick BY Tricia brick

Along a lonely stretch of road that slices through an “Since everything about my career has been international, thing—that can advance you, something that you own and impoverished swath of the Argentine Pampas, a fictional cattle I was intrigued by the idea that different literary traditions, nobody else owns. But I am not a philosopher; I am a doer.” truck overturns, setting off a chain of events that will end in vio- from different countries, could learn from one another and “I’m trying to break down some barriers, and I have lence. News of the accident spreads quickly, and hungry people influence one another,” says Hildreth. “I’m trying to break from the surrounding community begin to gather in hopes of scav- down some barriers, and I have two battering rams: to send two battering rams: to send our students there, and enging meat from the wreckage to feed their families. But a stand- our students there, and to bring their best here.” to bring their best here.”

off between the locals and the police defending the ruined meat The gift was the culmination of a serendipitous match After returning to his home state of Massachusetts, soon escalates, with the officers opening fire on the hungry poor. between a philanthropic busi- Hildreth became a supporter of the Boston University/Chelsea nessman with a dual passion Partnership in the immigrant-populous Chelsea Public Schools, for education and international Literature & Culture beginning a strong relationship with his father’s alma mater and immigration issues and a that culminated in his election to the Board of Overseers. His historically distinguished writing evolving role as a member of the BU community, coinciding program with a growing global with a lifelong fascination with poetry, soon led him to Robert focus. “Because of Bob’s interests Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project (www.favoritepoem.org) and, in and his thinking, the gift will bring turn, to the Creative Writing Program. The academic home of another unique emphasis to our the historic workshops where Robert Lowell once taught Sylvia Beyond program: international aware- Plath, Anne Sexton, and George Starbuck had grown into a pro- Our Borders ness,” Pinsky says. “The very gram with a global focus, drawing writers from across the U.S. existence of these imaginative Overseer Robert Hildreth Advances and around the world to study in a community of distinguished Creative Writing Internationally and substantial new programs fiction writers, poets, and playwrights. The faculty includes should inspire all of our students Chinese-born novelist Ha Jin (GRS’93) and Irish-born playwright As Jordan Coriza (GRS’09) continued to read aloud from to enrich their work with an Ronan Noone (GRS’01), and past writer-teachers have included his short story “Skinned” in Leslie Epstein’s Creative Writing awareness of other languages, other cultures, other possibilities.” the poets Derek Walcott, born in St. Lucia, and Charles Simic, Program fiction workshop, one listener was moved by more Hildreth knows firsthand the potentially life-changing from the former Yugoslavia; British novelists Penelope Mortimer than Coriza’s considerable literary gifts. Robert Hildreth, power of immersion in a foreign culture. The seeds of his phil- and Margot Livesey; and Russian translator Victor Golyshev. the vice chair of Boston University’s Board of Overseers and anthropic and career focus on international issues were planted Hildreth’s gift will broaden the program’s reputation as an founder and president of International Bank Services (IBS), by his father, Richard (SMG’37, SED’49), a history teacher international literary force while providing student writers with a rare Inc., was sitting in on Epstein’s workshop that day. A phi- who first piqued his son’s interest in the world outside the U.S. opportunity to expand their personal and literary world views. “There lanthropist with a deep and multifaceted interest in Latin International issues were common topics of conversation in the is no other gift of this kind in any other program we are aware of,” America, Hildreth was struck by the eye-opening perspective Hildreth household, and by the time young Robert reached his says program director Epstein. “Our students can go anywhere in brought to the class by Coriza, who is himself Argentine. freshman year of college, he was eager to travel abroad. the world they like and do whatever they want when away. They “There’s a magic in Leslie’s workshops that really draws Joining a Spanish-language immersion program, he traveled don’t have to write, because we have every faith that having to be on the students out, and this story had such a unique topic and a to Zacatecas, Mexico. During the four months he spent living with their own, drawing on what they see and hear as well as their own unique sensibility,” recalls Hildreth. “And it got me daydream- a family there, he found himself powerfully drawn to the people, wits, will in the not-very-long run enhance their skills as poets and ing: What would it be like if every writer here could know what who were open and friendly and interested in hearing about life novelists and playwrights. Things that shake you up, that break the this student knows, could share that experience?” in the U.S., and to the region’s culture. After graduating from routine, that give you a new pair of eyes tend to do that.” Now the program’s students will have just such an oppor- Harvard University and earning master’s degrees from the Johns tunity. In the spring, Hildreth presented the Creative Writing Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and George Support the Leslie Epstein Professorship Program with a $2 million gift to create two new, globally focused Washington University, he returned to the region—this time to La Robert Hildreth has challenged all supporters, admirers, and friends initiatives. The Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Creative Paz, Bolivia—where he worked for several years as an economist of Professor Leslie Epstein to join him in building the endowment Writing, honoring the professor and past U.S. Poet Laureate, will specializing in Latin America for the International Monetary Fund. for the Leslie Epstein International Visiting Professorship. Hildreth send MFA students to the international locales of their choice “My interest in international issues, and in immigrant will match each gift, dollar for dollar, up to a total of $1 million. To to write, study, and experience life abroad. The Leslie Epstein issues in particular, flowed directly out of my experience in make your gift online, go to www.bu.edu/alumni/giving/online/ International Visiting Professorship, named in honor of the cel- Latin America,” he says. “Once I got back to the States, I very index.html and enter “Leslie Epstein Professorship” in the space ebrated novelist who has directed the Creative Writing Program much wanted to help the people I knew. My philosophy is provided in the “your gift designation” section. For more infor- for more than 30 years, will bring prominent writers from other that immigration is critical to our country. And of course like mation, contact Karen Weiss Jones, chief advancement officer for countries to lead workshops and other courses on campus. most Americans I believe that education is something—is the Arts & Sciences, at [email protected] or 617-358-1214.

FAll 2009 | arts&sciences 21 H o n o r R o ll supporting arts&sciences

Honor Roll of Donors College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Alumni and Friends $2,500 to $4,999 Lillian E. Chin, CAS’56* Mr. and Mrs. Kunti D. Lafontant Mark R. Sultan* Bat Conservation International, Inc. LJS Revocable Trust Anonymous (1) Russell P. Chubb, CAS’62* Peter D. Lamm, CAS’74* Jason M. Sumner, CAS’73, GRS’76* Beacon Architectural Associates Louis N. Cassett Foundation William I. Calhoun, GRS’78* Thomas Clark Richard A. LaRhette, DGE’55, CAS’57* Robert Szafranski Bennett Manufacturing Co., Inc. Lum, Drasco & Positan LLC LeiLanie Carta D’Agostino, CAS’64* George A. Clay, GRS’64, ’68* Carmela Lauto* Elaine Szujewski* Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Inc. The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Ralph B. D’Agostino, CAS’62, GRS’64 William M. Cloherty Pamela A. Lederer, CAS’83* Ellen D. Teplitz, CAS’77* The Bernard Family Foundation Macrosys Research & Technology Richard H. Donnell, CAS’63* Jennifer Lynne Close, CAS’03, GRS’03* David Steven Lederman Joanne Thier The Better Than Average Foundation Makoto Life Sciences, Inc. Alessandro Saracino Fendi* John W. Connery, CAS’69* Mary Beth Leonard, CAS’84* Richard James Towle Biodiversity Research Institute Marilyn & Mike Grossman Foundation The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences gratefully Deirdre M. Giblin, CAS’90* Mary L. Cornille, GRS’87* Jacques P. Leveille, GRS’76* Lee D. Vincent The Boston Foundation Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation acknowledges the following donors who made a gift of $1,000 or Michael W. Goldberg, SMG’82 Alvaro Corona* June K. Lewin, CFA’61 Jerry A. Viscione, GSM’67; GRS’69, ‘73 Bresky Foundation Marshall M. & Barbara J. Sloane Private Foundation Terri L. Goldberg, CAS’85* John F. Crowe, CAS’69* Stephanie Behrakis Liakos, GRS’91* Laura F. Walsh-Strandskov Bristol-Myers Squibb Company more to the College or Graduate School in Fiscal Year 2009 Martha Washington Straus & Harry H. Straus Moshe Greenberg Peter J. Cusato Anastasia Sylvester Lyman, CFA’72 Gerard Garnett Ward, CAS’75 Burroughs Wellcome Fund (July 1, 2008–June 30, 2009). * Foundation, Inc. Todd L. C. Klipp William R. Lyman, CFA’71 Hilton S. Weiner, CAS’78 Karen E. Daly, CAS’67, GRS’68, MET’72* * Chastell Foundation Mary M. B. Wakefield Charitable Trust Larry Lerner P. E. MacAllister Fred Bruce Weiss, CAS’85 * Jonathan D. Darrah* The Chickering Group, an Aetna Company Merck & Co., Inc. Cathi Ellen Luski, CAS’80 Tosui Machida Richard P. Wenzelberger, CAS’66 $500,000 to $1,000,000 Wallace Osborne Sellers * Steven Keith Davidson, CAS’82, GRS’82, ’83* * * Clementi Family Charitable Trust Merck Partnership for Giving David Luski, SMG’80 Cynthia Caldwell Martin, CAS’77 Vincent J. Wernig, DGE’48, CAS’49 Ira Leon Rennert Al Silverman, COM’49, Hon. ’86 * Linda S. Degatano, CAS’80, GRS’81* * * CMGRP, Inc. Meredith Corporation Gladys F. Marple, CAS’41 Gerald E. Mayo, CAS’53 Virginia T. Wetherill, CAS’52 Barbara J. Sloane Mark A. Degatano, CAS’80, GRS’81* * Colgate-Palmolive Company Michael Miller Trust David A. Metzler Richard O. Michaud, GRS’69, ’71 William H. Wood $100,000 to $499,999 Marshall M. Sloane, SMG’49 Thomas J. DeMarco, GRS’68, SDM’68* * Combined Jewish Philanthropies Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Philip L. Millstein, CAS’58 Anthony Miller Cathleen Ann Woods-King, CAS’86 Anonymous (1) H. Eugene Stanley* * David M. DeSimone, CAS’72* * * Connery Associates Movik Networks, Inc. Kenneth Scott Norton, CAS’93 Pamela Miller Jeffries Wyman, GRS’60 Stephen D. Bechtel Andrew M. Weiss * Sandra Marie Dethlefsen, GRS’95 * * Conservation International The Mundy Family Foundation Francis S. Ryan Andrew T. Moo, CAS’78 Howard C. Yang Zhuoer Lin Adam D. Wizon, CAS’78* * Patricia Anne Dinndorf, CAS’73* * Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. NARSAD Virginia Sapiro Alexander Woodrow Moore, CAS’84 Steven L. Yellen and Karen B. Leeds Alex H. MacDonald, CGS’70, CAS’72 Richard F. Woodward, CAS’44 * Peter B. Doeringer* * * Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd. National Academy of Sciences Kevin Edward Schmidt, CAS’86, MED’86 Nevine Nassif Linda Yellin, CAS’62 * Luke Donenfeld, CAS’94 * * Dean S. Edmonds Foundation National Council for Science & Environment Marion Appel Simon, CAS’59 David Paul Neumann, CAS’81 Robert E. Yellin, CAS’61 $50,000 to $99,999 $5,000 to $9,999 * Susan Scotto Dyckman * * DM-STAT, Inc. National Humanities Center Susan M. Spelios, CAS’80 Florence E. Perry, CAS’49 Mendal Lane Yoho Warren J. Adelson, CAS’63, GRS’64* Anonymous (1) * Richard R. Elder, GRS’91* * * DXCG Inc. National Speleological Society Richard H. Waldman, CAS’75 Gregory C. Persak, CAS’77, MED’81 Sherrie Zacharius Gerald S. J. Cassidy George R. Bernard, GRS’49, ’54 Albert Louis Elias, CAS’69* * * Eisai Research Institute Of Boston, Inc. New England Aquarium Scott A. Webster, CAS’93 Astrid O. Peterson, CAS’74, MED’77 Kathryn J. Zox, CAS’69, SED’72 Frederick Harris Chicos Chutinant Bhirombhakdi, CAS’80* * Anne and Bob Essner* * * EnVivo Pharmaceuticals Ninth Sense, Inc. Grace G. White, CAS’47 Patricia K. Phelan Richard B. DeWolfe, MET’71, ’73 Steven J. Bresky, CAS’77* * Carole S. Evans, CAS’69* * ExxonMobil Foundation Northern Trust Charitable Giving Program Graham Wilson Kathryn A. Piffat, LAW’89; GRS’92, ’01 Denotes Annual Fund Leadership Giving Bonnie T. Feld, CAS’73* Loren K. Brown* * Robert I. Evans, COM’68, SED’71* * ExxonMobil Pipeline Company Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc. R. Martin Wright Thomas G. Polefka Society Member Kenneth J. Feld, SMG’70* Maureen and Robert Brownson* John E. Evers * Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Organic Syntheses, Inc. Spiros Polemis Alfred I. Tauber Suzanne Campagna, GRS’52 Zev Z. Feigenbaum, CAS’00* * Flex Biomedical, Inc. Peter & Deborah Lamm Foundation Francesco Colangelo $1,000 to $2,499 Elizabeth Ruf Field Susan Lukacs Positan, CAS’70 Corporations, Robert Stewart Trump, DGE’68, CAS’70* * Foundations, FMC Corporation The Penates Foundation Anonymous (4) Wayne J. Positan, CAS’70 Glen and Joan Dash Mark G. Filler, CAS’67* and Other Organizations FMC Corporation Matching Gift Plan Pfizer Foundation Cathy M. Abrams, CAS’80 Marilyn M. Pratt, CAS’61 $25,000 to $49,999 W. Gordon Dobie, CAS’82* * Patricia M. Flynn, GRS’73, ’80* * Fu Sing Trading Company PhotoSecure DNA Technologies, LLC Joseph J. H. Ackerman, CAS’71 William E. Racolin, CAS’66 Anonymous (4) Anonymous (1) Ada A. Draper * Fayne L. Frey, CAS’83, MED’87* * Getty Foundation ProMetrika, LLC Arlene J. Alpert, CAS’70 Dana B. Rasmussen Abbott Laboratories Steven M. Karbank, CAS’79* Dean S. Edmonds * Penelope Goodfriend, CAS’79* * Harold Grinspoon Foundation Renaissance Charitable Foundation, Inc. Aram A. Arabian, CAS’65 Nancy E. Rasmusson, CAS’60 Advanced Chemistry Development Stephen R. Karp, CAS’63* Farouk El-Baz* * William Michael Gordon, CAS’84, SDM’88, ’90* * Harry Donenfeld Foundation, Inc. The Renco Group, Inc. Patricia Cadigan Armstrong, CAS’42 Christopher du Pont Roosevelt Alphawood Foundation David Andrew Mundy, CAS’96* Jeffrey B. Eskind * Charles L. Hall Harvard University Research Corporation Neil H. Aronson, CAS’79 Ruth W. Rosenthal Alzheimer’s Association Donna Jan Pridmore, GRS’12 Alice B. W. Godfrey, CAS’74* * Anne F. Hamilton, CAS’78* The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Robert and Maurine Rothschild Fund Andrew Joseph Bacevich Edward Rydzak, CAS’83 The American Council of Learned Societies Marcia J. Trimble, CAS’59 Andrew M. Harris, SMG’89, GSM’95 * Arnold C. Hanson, CAS’48 * Hess Companies The Rockefeller Foundation Mary Ann Barbieri, CAS’64, SED’65 Steven M. Sall, CAS’75 American Diabetes Association Shulamit Kahn * Peter H. Heerwagen, CAS’68* * Hildreth Stewart Charitable Foundation Russ & Andrea Gullotti Charitable Foundation Joanna Barnish, CAS’92 P. G. Schmanska, CAS’56 American Heart Association $10,000 to $24,999 David and Judy Katz, CAS’80* * Douglas Henderson, CAS’40, Hon’69* * Huisking Foundation, Inc. Russell Sage Foundation J. Robert Beatty Alan and Angel Schneider American Mathematical Society Anonymous (1) Laurence J. Kotlikoff * Margaret J. Hillenbrand * IBM Corporation Sand 9, Inc. Diane P. Beemer, CAS’67 Barbara M. Schreiber, GRS’81 American Psychoanalytic Association Miriam Greene Bernstein, CAS’52* Marion R. Kramer, CAS’63 * Nancy Nichols Hlavin, CAS’74, GRS’77* * iStar Financial, Inc. The San Francisco Foundation Michael G. Beemer William and Kathy Smilow, CAS’86 The American Psychological Foundation John A. Bittl* Wendy T. Kulberg, CAS’52* * Arthur B. Hodess, CAS’70* * The Jeffrey & Donna Eskind Family Foundation Schering-Plough Corporation Thomas J. Beggins, CAS’80 James W. Smith Amgen, Inc. Frederic Avery Bourke, CAS’91* Benjamin F. Lambert, CAS’55* * Andrea C. Hoffman, CAS’69* * Jewish Communal Fund Schlumberger Technology Corporation Stephen Michael Berkowitz, CAS’65 John R. Smith, GRS’92, ’99 Analytical Answers, Inc. Hwei Li Chang Shulamit Kahn and Kevin Lang David E. Hollowell, ENG’69, ’72, GSM’74* * Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Shell Oil Company Foundation Victor L. Berman, CAS’62, GSM’66 Rebecca Tseng Smith, CAS’80, STH’82 Applied Coastal Research & Engineering, Inc. Kansas City Kenneth David Chicos Elizabeth L. Leonard, SAR’69 Kathleen A. Hollowell, GRS’71, SED’77* * Silicon Valley Community Foundation Barbara C. Boger, SED’87 Ron Hosogi Leslie Sparks Arnold Arboretum Johnson & Johnson Aram V. Chobanian, Hon. ’06 Joseph P. Mercurio, MET’81 * * Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc. Kathryn Dingman Boger, GRS’09 Judith S. Hurwitz, CAS’73, COM’75 John W. Spencer, CAS’69 ArtusLabs, Inc. Karp Family Foundation Henry Cohn Alicia C. Mullen, CAS’83* * * Sprint Foundation Adele Boskey, GRS’71 Orton P. Jackson, CAS’74 Richard M. Steinschneider AstraZeneca The Key Foundation Randall P. Ellis William S. Pierce * * * Stephen Bechtel Fund Mohamed Moncef Bouderba, CAS’88 Elizabeth P. Jaeger, CAS’67 Janet R. Stradley Bank of America Leon S. Newton Foundation Bingsong Fang, GRS’96 Douglass M. Poirier, CAS’73, MED’76* * * Strem Chemicals, Inc. Richard G. Brennan, CAS’77 Ravi R. Jhaveri, CAS’92 Crawford H. Greenewalt Frank L. Politano, CAS’71* * * Susan Jaffe Tane Foundation Robert K. Brenneman, GRS’84 Royal D. Joslin Russell A. Gullotti, CAS’64 Elton Price, GRS’61* * The UPS Foundation, Inc. Nicolae Brova Chrysoula Kandylidi Joyce H. Huber, GRS’86, ’90 Sara Gore Stone, CAS’64* * * Urix, Inc. Kenneth L. Buch, CAS’74 Paul Michael Kaplan, CAS’73 Hideo H. Itabashi, CAS’49, MED’54 Susan Jaffe Tane, SED’64* * * Vance Brown, Inc. Cheryl Ann Buckingham, CAS’70 Thomas R. King, DGE’62, CAS’64 Lawrence S. Lipkind, CAS’56 Jeffrey D. Tripp* * * Viscione Living Trust Richard T. Burke, CAS’56, GRS’57 Lowell V. Kingsley, CAS’40, SED’43 Nancy Livingston, COM’69 * * Wyeth-Ayerst Research Laboratories Jennifer Carey Carolyn S. Kline, CAS’47 Thomas D. McKiernan, CAS’42* * * The Zenith Company Paul and Sandra Montrone Michael Wing Ming Chan, CAS’77* Thomas H. Kunz John R. Robinson, CAS’61, LAW’64* Yulan Chen, GRS’95* Alvin P. Lafon, CAS’51*

22 arts&sciences | Fall 2009 FALL 2009 | arts&sciences 23 Meet CAS’s Warren Professors The Difference a Year Makes

Faculty Members Recognized for Scholarly, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Civic Contributions 2008–2009 Annual Report

BU’s founding president, William Health, and James Collins, professor of We’re not just saving paper. We charted new territory this year Research and Scholarship Fairfield Warren, had a vision for an biomedical engineering in the College by publishing the Arts & Sciences annual report online for the CAS faculty were highly productive in their research and schol- institution where students would receive of Engineering, announced as Warren first time. The electronic report allows us to use interactive mul- arly accomplishments, winning record levels of grant fund- an exceptional liberal arts education Professors in May. timedia techniques and high-impact graphics to showcase the ing. The total dollar amount of new grants and contracts was without regard to sex, race, or religion. “If one is looking for great scholar/ College’s many accomplishments with a contemporary edge. $85,677,728, an increase of $8,147,497 (10.5 percent) over the His groundbreaking approach and fore- teachers, the College of Arts & Sciences Our message is clear: we are healthy and strong despite the previous year. Most notable was the Chemistry Department, thought are reflected in the professor- offers many choices across many fields,” challenges of the global financial crisis, and we have continued which increased the total number of awards from 29 to 65 and ships created in his name in 2008. The said Arts & Sciences Dean Virginia to make steady progress toward the goals laid out in Boston total dollars from $6.5 million to $11.1 million. William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Sapiro. “Professors Kopell, Kotlikoff, and University’s Strategic Plan. Professorships, established on the rec- Winn stand out for their fundamental Curriculum Changes ommendation of an ad hoc committee scholarly contributions to their fields, Topping our list of accomplishments: New degree programs put the spotlight on public health as an of the Faculty Council, recognize the the international recognition of their • We hired 32 new faculty members who are working at the interdisciplinary area of rapidly growing interest for liberal arts University’s most distinguished faculty. work, and their tireless efforts as citi- frontiers of their disciplines. Of these, 19 replaced professors undergraduates and a key compo- According to BU President Robert A. zens of Boston University.” who retired or left BU, and 13 expanded our numbers to add nent of professional engagement Professor Nancy Kopell Brown, the award is intended as the Kopell, who also is the cofounder strength in critical areas of research and teaching as we made with underserved populations in highest honor for senior faculty mem- and codirector of the Center for Bio­ progress toward adding 100 new faculty to Arts & Sciences the United States and throughout bers who continue to be involved in dynamics in the College of Engineering, over 10 years. Our impressive new faculty hail from top uni- the developing world. Our new research, scholarship, and teaching, as said, “I think BU is an extraordinary place versities, including University of California–Berkeley, Brown, BA/MPH dual degree program well as the civic life of the University. for people to work collaboratively on Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Michigan, and Princeton. makes it possible for qualified interdisciplinary questions.” “Professors Kopell, Kotlikoff, and • We have continued transforming our classrooms and labora- CAS sophomores and juniors to Kotlikoff, who has been at BU for 25 tories, enabling us to offer CAS/GRS students state-of-the- gain early admission to the School Winn stand out for their funda- years, said he was “deeply honored” by art teaching, and provide our researchers with the facilities of Public Health and, by taking the award. “It’s been a great pleasure to mental scholarly ­contributions they need to make path-breaking research contributions. foundational coursework in epide- work with my colleagues and the admin- to their fields, the international miology, biostatistics, and health istration to build a world-class econom- • A Task Force on the First-Year Experience studied principles recognition of their work, and law as electives toward the BA, to complete all requirements for ics department and university.” and best practices that should guide the curricular and the MPH within five years of entering BU as freshmen. Other new their ­tireless efforts as citizens Winn, who also is director of co-curricular offerings for freshmen from the moment they degree programs include: of Boston University.” the BU Humanities Foundation, said, arrive on campus through the end of their first year to give them a strong foundation for success in and beyond college. • MA degrees in Global Development Economics (GDE) and —Dean of Arts & Sciences Virginia Sapiro “I think of this award as a symbolic Professor Larry Kotlikoff endorsement of the broad and deep • We attracted more alumni engagement than ever before Global Development Policy (GDP) that will prepare students Named to receive the distinguished investigation of cultures that we call through their participation in events and through their finan- for a fast-growing number and variety of careers in the appointments in June were two CAS the humanities, the respect for past cial contributions, despite the difficult times. planning, implementation, and evaluation of initiatives to improve living standards, health, and quality of life. faculty members: Nancy Kopell, the wisdom that drives all historical work, Here are some noteworthy highlights from the past year in William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of and the willingness to cross disciplinary Arts & Sciences. We invite you to view the entire Annual Report • A BA in Comparative Literature, a collaborative major housed Mathematics and Science, and Larry borders that often enables fresh think- at www.bu.edu/cas/ar. With a few clicks of the mouse, you will in the Department of Modern Languages & Comparative Kotlikoff, professor of economics. Then, ing. I hope that my being singled out for quickly see how vibrant this great learning community is, even in Literature that draws on faculty and coursework in the depart- in August, James Winn, professor of this award will be encouraging to oth- a challenging economy. ments of Classical Studies, English, Romance Studies, and English, became the fifth BU professor ers who work in these vital areas.” Religion. to receive the honor. The CAS faculty —Amy J. Davis • A BA in Chinese Language & Literature serves a national joined George Annas, the Edward R. need for college graduates with linguistic proficiency and Utley Professor of Health Law, Bioethics in-depth knowledge of Chinese culture. & Human Rights and chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Enrollment Human Rights in the School of Public Professor James Winn College of Arts & Sciences’ entering 2008 enrollment topped 9,300 for the fourth consecutive year, including a freshman class of 1,953 that far exceeded our goal of 1,807, with no sig- nificant loss in standard quality measures. We made substantial

To learn more about the WARREN PROFESSORS, visit: www.bu.edu/cas. enrollment-driven additions to and subtractions from the class

24 arts&sciences | FALL 2009 FALL 2009 | arts&sciences 25 AB o u t A L U M N I Live and Kicking

James Montgomery (DGE’69, CAS’71), blues harp legend By patrick kennedy

In February, Dan Aykroyd invited James ­schedule, especially in foreign languages, in keeping with our More Good News Montgomery to help him open the new House pledge to talented and eager freshmen that they would not only of Blues in Boston. (The Harvard Square HOB be able to meet requirements, but also exercise choice and The African Studies Center further strength- closed a few years ago; the new one opened on explore any Arts & Sciences discipline in the first semester. ened the African Language Program with a new Lansdowne Street, replacing Axis and Avalon.) institutional partnership with the Université Montgomery goes back a ways with Aykroyd. In Financial Strength Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis in Senegal and the this millennium, he played the actor’s 50th birth- introduction of Ajami Arabic script in Wolof, The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences achieved day party. But he also played his 25th, back in the Pulaar, and Hausa classes. a balanced unrestricted expense budget of $88,604,641 at ’70s. Surely, that was a bacchanalian brouhaha. the close of the 2009 fiscal year. The College provided almost The aging Elwood Blues’ half-century celebration The BU Marine Program continued to expand $750,000 in one-time restricted funds to its departments and must have seemed very different, right? academic partnerships with three leading centers to support needs identified as priorities during the “Yeah,” says Montgomery, “his 50th was New England marine research institutions: the FY 2009 budget planning exercise. much wilder.” New England Aquarium, the Stellwagen Bank • Roughly $382,000 of annual giving funds were used to National Marine Sanctuary (NOAA), and the support laboratory equipment and supplies. Three-harp blow-off: from left, Jimmy Woods, Sea Education Association. • More than $202,000 in unrestricted endowment income was Dan Aykroyd, and James Montgomery at opening night of the new House of Blues in Boston used to support computing requirements and faculty travel. The BU Mock Mediation Team had the top • Approximately $163,000 of indirect cost recovery funds overall score out of 32 teams at the American were provided to support research and miscellaneous Mock Trial Association’s annual National Photo courtesy of James Montgomery operating needs. Mediation Tournament in November. Mentored The first time bluesman James high kicks on stage.) He’s toured with tive. You have to make sure you market by CAS Assistant Dean for Pre-Law Advising Montgomery split a bill with Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen and Bonnie Raitt. He’s your product correctly. Of course, the Development & Alumni Relations Edward Stern, BU team members also placed the rockers opened for him in Boston released several albums, one of which product I sell is myself,” he adds. “It’s Gift revenues to Arts & Sciences totaled $7,375,967. While this second and fourth in Final Round Advocacy and University’s Sargent Gymnasium in the cracked the Billboard Top 10. And the almost like there’s two me’s: There’s the is a decline of 16.5 percent from FY08, pledges (future gifts to third in Final Round Mediation. early 1970s. Detroit native has stayed true to his own fearless guy you see on stage, and then be paid in one to five years) increased 12 percent, indicating a “The opening band [Aerosmith] came roots, earning his title as president of the there’s me who sits at home on the patio, strong gift pipeline for the next few years. A positive trend is The Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies on and had a big, huge banner, and a wall New England Blues Society. does some gardening, and enjoys a glass that gifts to the CAS/GRS Annual Funds (unrestricted gifts) & Civilizations initiated an intensive Arabic of Marshall stacks and smoke machines What’s he been up to lately? of wine with dinner.” (He lives in Newport, increased 9 percent to a study abroad program in Morocco for under- and a couple pyrotechnics,” recalls Montgomery wrote and recorded music Rhode Island, in a restored church that total of $893,958, reflecting graduate students. Launched in the spring 2009 Montgomery (’71), laughing. “Then, peel for the new blues film, Delta Rising was once a stop on the antebellum renewed, successful out- semester, the program was an immediate suc- away all this equipment, and there’s the (www.deltarising.com), narrated by Underground Railroad.) reach to alumni, parents, and cess. Fifteen students (the target number) were headliner [The James Montgomery Band] Morgan Freeman. Filmed largely in The quondam English major hasn’t friends of the College. sent to Rabat, where students experienced using a couple amps and a drum kit.” Clarksdale, Mississippi, “It’s a docu- forgotten his liberal arts education—he Dean Sapiro traveled home stays with local Moroccan families and That up-and-coming hard-rock band’s mentary about the Delta blues—which tells interviewers how the blues exempli- extensively across the nation had the opportunity to go on guided cultural career “took off fast,” Montgomery says is arguably America’s biggest cultural fies Aristotle’s principle of catharsis. And to visit alumni, parents, and excursions, as well as take courses. of the now-legendary Aerosmith. Not only export,” Montgomery says. “The film is he frequently runs into old friends from his friends of Arts & Sciences because of their raucous live show, he really well done and thorough—and it BU days. “That’s the great thing about my and continued building a The Women’s Studies Program created notes, but because “everyone in that band features me, so it has some of the great- job,” he says. Classmates he hasn’t heard base of support. the Boston University Faculty Network for is an accomplished blues musician—they est entertainers in the world,” he jokes. from in years will find out his band’s com- Women’s Studies, Gender & Sexuality by understand the roots of the music.” Last year, Montgomery recorded ing to town, and drop him a line. “It’s not reaching out to all faculty on the Charles River Montgomery would know: The blues and gigged with Aerosmith drummer like normally when someone visits—‘Did and Medical campuses who have research and harmonica great has jammed with and Joey Kramer in the Kramer–Montgomery you see so-and-so when he was in town?’ teaching interests in women’s studies, including learned from the best—such names as Band. “It was a fun project,” Montgomery ‘No! I missed him!’ Because most people work on gender and/or sexuality. More than John Lee Hooker, James Cotton, and says. “And I really discovered, he’s one when they visit don’t run an ad in the paper 150 BU faculty members joined the network, Junior Wells. And as for succeeding in of the best drummers on the planet. He announcing that they’re gonna be there. and more than 50 attended the network’s inau- the music business—not to mention can play any groove.” So, I’ve been really fortunate.” gural “meet and greet” in December. rocking it on stage—Montgomery’s been On his career as a working—and no slouch himself these four decades. (In enterprising—musician, Montgomery To learn more about what James fact, slouch is the last word you’d associ- reflects, “Running your own business is Montgomery is up to, visit ate with a man known for his vigorous always a challenge. You have to be inven- www.jamesmontgomery.com.

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26 arts&sciences | FALL 2009 FALL 2009 | arts&sciences 27 C la s s n o t e s Distinguished Company

Arts & Sciences Alumni Receive Honors at Alumni Weekend

Class Notes As the fall foliage brightened the New England landscape, Arts & Sciences has twice awarded him the Meritorious Service Medal for his work provid- alumni from around the globe converged on Boston for Alumni Weekend, ing legal counsel during Operation Desert Storm and Operations Enduring October 23–25. The festivities included classes and symposia, campus tours, Freedom and Noble Eagle. Prior to his current work, he had an established Florence E. (Flo) Perry (CAS’49) of Sacramento, Calif., Eleanor (Kemler) Feinberg (CAS’60) of Champaign, school and college social gatherings, a community service project, and a private law practice, Henes and Donovan, in Dedham, Massachusetts. writes, “As the 60th anniversary of my graduation from Ill., graduated from the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. men’s ice hockey game vs. University of Michigan. Henes is active in his community, having served on the Westwood Finance Boston University approaches, I am reminded of the She continues in private practice in Champaign, where she Commission and the Westwood Educational Foundation; he is also a mem- wonderful difference this graduation made in my life. resides with her husband, Walter (CAS’60, GRS’62, ’66). ber of American Legion Post #320. He has maintained close ties with his In order to attend college, I worked long hours at Richard H. Cummings (CAS’71) of Dusseldorf, alma mater as an active member of the BU Army ROTC Alumni Association, St. Clair’s restaurant in Harvard Square and lived in Germany, has written Cold War Radio: The Dangerous BU Hockey Alumni, and Friends of BU Hockey. He comes from a long line of the North End Union, a settlement house, as a group History of American Broadcasting in Europe, 1950–1989, BU alums—with aunts, uncles, cousins, a sister, and mother who are fellow worker, earning my tuition and housing. I attended published by McFarland & Company. Cummings was alumni. classes full time, sang in the Chapel Choir, took part the director of security for Radio Free Europe/Radio in many college activities, and considered myself Liberty for 15 years beginning in 1980. He notes that Larry Nichter, CGS’71, CAS’73, MED’78 twice blessed. the history of the radio stations in the Cold War era Larry Nichter is the founder and president of the Plasticos Foundation, whose reveals the perils their staff faced from the Soviet mission is to train and equip medical personnel overseas to treat acquired I married Bob Perry in June 1949; he had ­graduated Union, Bulgaria, Romania, and other Communist and congenital deformities. He has been on 51 overseas medical missions, from CLA and was attending the BU School of states. Reach Richard at [email protected]. performing reconstructive surgery on thousands of children, and training hun- Theology. We served churches in the New England dreds of physicians. These life-altering medical missions to remote locations Conference for 10 years and had four children, ages Caroline Downing (CAS’76) of Potsdam, N.Y., in developing countries have brought a fresh start to children who otherwise 11 to just one year when Bob decided that California was named SUNY (State University of New York) might have lived their lives with the stigma of deformity. In addition to his was his spiritual home. So, we packed up a trailer with Distinguished Teaching Professor. She teaches art philanthropic work, Nichter is the president of the Pacific Center for Plastic sleeping bags, food, diapers, and all our belongings, and history and archaeology at SUNY Potsdam. Contact Arts & Sciences recognized four alumni at a Distinguished Alumni Surgery, where he also serves as a plastic surgeon. After his training, he joined set off in our Rambler station wagon for a monthlong Dowling at [email protected]. Awards Reception Friday evening. The awards honored alumni for accom- the University of Southern California, Division of Plastic Surgery, as clinical trip to Granada Hills, where our assignment was to Ellen Hochman (CAS’76) of Pennsylvania took plishments in their professions and dedicated service to their community faculty and head of plastic surgical research. There, he became a tenured build a new church. What a culture shock! But we did it. advantage of her unemployed status by realizing a and alma mater. professor and helped develop the division into one of the largest and most Our second assignment was at University Methodist long-held dream to ride her bicycle across the United Other Arts & Sciences alums presented the awards at the ceremony, prestigious plastic surgical residencies in the country. His mother, Beatrice Church in Redlands, where I earned my teaching cre- States. She traveled along the northern U.S. border including Han Han (CAS’96), former president of the CAS/GRS Alumni Nichter (SED’83), and sister, Susan Nichter (CFA’78, ’84), are BU alumnae. dential. Then for 30 years I taught and later became from the Pacific Northwest to Boston. The route Association, and three former Distinguished Alumni Award winners—Olive a principal, as well as continued to be a mother to our included a ferry ride across Lake Michigan to avoid Lesueur (CAS’66, MET’85), Margarita Muñiz (CAS’72), and Ajmal Qureshi Wayne J. Positan, CAS’70 brood and a rather outspoken pastor’s wife. going around Chicago. View Ellen’s online journal at (GRS’78). John Connery (CAS’69), also a former award recipient, emceed. Wayne Positan is a leader in the legal community. He chaired the American www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/dreamtrip2009. We moved to Sacramento in 1996 to be closer to our Bar Association Commission on Multijurisdictional Practice, whose recom- daughters and our six grandsons. Now we have two Patricia Loiko (CAS’78) of Chicago, Ill., was appointed Distinguished Alumni mendations on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct have been adopted great-grandsons as well. Bob passed away in 1998. executive director for museum registration at The Art Captain Shoshana S. Chatfield, CAS’88 in 42 states. An attorney and managing partner with Lum, Drasco & Positan He was a warm, caring pastor, a brilliant musician Institute of Chicago in August 2008. She was formerly Becoming one of the highest-ranking women in the United States Navy LLC, he chairs the firm’s Labor, Employment, and Government Group. He has and composer, and a talented artist. head registrar at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. at a young age is a major accomplishment and a testament to Shoshana been involved in many appellate decisions that have shaped the develop- Chatfield’s tenacity and talent. Her rise through the ranks began in 1988 ment of labor and employment law in New Jersey. Best Lawyers in America I bask in the circle of family and friends. Poetry is my David Bernz (CAS’80) of Beacon, N.Y., has been a when she received her commission as a Naval officer through Navy ROTC has recognized him every year since 1993 in labor and employment law. He passion. Through it I have helped others open their singing attorney for most of the past two decades. at BU. After earning her pilot’s wings in 1989, she was assigned to the U.S. recently received the 2009 Professional Lawyer of the Year Award from the hearts. I have shown children how to delight in their Recently, he co-produced Pete Seeger’s latest CD, Navy’s West Coast Helicopter Combat Support Squadrons. She later served New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law and the New Jersey unique rhythms. I have learned to view life as part of At 89, which was nominated for a Grammy. He also as an assistant professor of political science at the United States Air Force State Bar Association. Positan has remained connected with his alma mater an eternal mystery. Poetry is my way of making real, plays with his own group, Work O’ the Weavers, Academy, and in 2006 was assigned as the deputy executive assistant through Friends of BU Hockey. He is also a long-time financial supporter of extraordinary experiences of love, creativity, and family, which pays tribute to Seeger’s pioneering folk quar- to the chief of naval operations. Chatfield’s career took her directly into a the University. His BU family includes his wife Susan (CAS’70), daughter which prove that there is a spirit that blesses my life. tet, The Weavers. David lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife and two teenage sons. war zone when she commanded a provincial reconstruction team in Farah Brooke (COM’02), and sister Karen (COM’76). To read a poem of Flo’s, go to www.bu.edu/cas/magazine/ Province, Afghanistan, in 2008. In her next assignment, she will serve as Fall09/perry. Steven Emmanuel (CAS’81) of Virginia Beach, Va., commodore of the Helicopter Sea Combat Wing, Pacific, which is based in In addition to the Distinguished Alumni Awards given by Arts & Sciences, has produced Making Peace with Vietnam, a feature- Robert Michael (CAS’58) of Murfreesboro, Tenn., San Diego, California. the University bestows several Alumni Awards and Young Alumni Awards length documentary about the challenges of recon- has written three plays: a full-length Holocaust work each year. This year, three of the six recipients were CAS alums; Thomas Insel ciliation in the aftermath of war. Charles Griswold, titled The Presence, and two short plays titled Alexa and Colonel Christopher C. Henes, DGE’70, CAS’73 (CAS’72, MED’74) and Karen Mavrides (CAS’68) won Alumni Awards, and CAS philosophy professor, is interviewed in the film. Dan and P-Town. All three will be read this year at the As a deputy state judge advocate for the Commonwealth of Massachu- Alexi Giannoulias (CAS’98) won a Young Alumni Award. All exemplify the Making Peace was an “official selection” at the New Murfreesboro Little Theatre. Robert also has written setts, Military Division, Christopher Henes works to help solve the complex many ways in which Arts & Sciences alumni are contributing to their alma Beijing International film festival. The film also will 75 short stories, two (“Proud” and “Mr. Christian”) and unusual legal issues encountered by soldiers and their families during mater, professions, and community. be broadcast on Vietnam National Television (VTV). published in Poetica and one (“Emeritus”) in The Jewish overseas deployments. He has served in the military since 1970. The Army Contact Steven at [email protected]. Magazine. Reach Robert at [email protected].

Find out what’s going on at BU at large on Bostonia’s exciting new website at www.bu.edu/bostonia. See what’s happening for alums in your area and how to become more involved read more about these and bu’s other alumni award winners at www.bu.edu/today. in the BU community at www.bu.edu/alumni.

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Poetically Yogic Theo Gluck (CAS’81, COM’84) of Studio City, Cal., Sara Walz (CAS’94) and her partner, Cheryl is approaching his 20th year with The Walt Disney Lawrence, of Chicago, Ill., welcomed the birth of Greater Boston, and Boston University in particular, Studios and is in his fifth year as the studio’s director their daughter, Augusta Rose, on December 16, inhabit the poems of Sasenarine Persaud’s latest of library restoration and preservation. His team was 2008. Sara is a counselor at the Women’s Center responsible for the March 2009 Blu-ray release of at Northwestern University. She would love to hear book, In a Boston Night (TSAR Publications, 2008). Pinocchio and the upcoming release of Snow White. from her classmates at [email protected]. Riding the Green Line to campus, listening to Nobel Look for the digitally restored Dumbo in March 2010. Laureate and fellow West Indian Derek Walcott Jennifer (Ewen) Frank (CAS’95, MED/BUSM’99) Cameron Davis (CAS’86) is the CEO of the Alliance and husband, Ben (MED’02), of Neenah, Wis., wel- read his poetry in a BU auditorium, and musing for the Great Lakes (www.greatlakes.org). His interna- comed son Caleb Benjamin on June 23. He joins older on the banks of the Charles, Persaud (GRS’06) tional relations major is coming in handy for work on siblings Joshua, 6; Natalie, 5; and Rachel, 3. Jennifer evokes scenes from his student days in the GRS U.S.-Canadian Great Lakes issues. In his personal time, is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Creative Writing program as the backdrop for his he served as a senior advisor to the Obama presidential Medicine at the University of Wisconsin. Ben continues observations on race and culture, sexual passion campaign. Son Sage keeps him even busier. the hardest job of all as a stay-at-home dad. Contact and love, writing and nature. The Boston Night col- Jennifer at [email protected]. Matt Hickerson (CAS’86) of Northport, N.Y., pub- Shin Yu Pai (CAS’97) of Seattle, Wash., received a Supreme Court’s Diversity Pronouncements within lection confronts controversy, for example, the lished his first children’s chapter book. A Ball in the James Lavino (CGS’93, CAS’95) of London, England, fellowship from the Life of Discovery Program spon- the Computerized Jury Selection Paradigm,” was relative inattention to the deaths of 20 million Woods tells the story of two sisters and their loyal composed the score to the HBO documentary sored by the International Writers Program at the published by the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Russians and the extermination of Roma gypsies dog who venture into the woods in search of a lost film Which Way Home, which premiered on HBO University of Iowa. Constitutional Law. Reach Robert at [email protected]. in “Revision, World War II.” Persaud says, “Poets soccer ball and encounter adventure along the way. in August. James also was commissioned to write Learn more at www.matthickerson.wordpress.com. a piece for the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Nicole (Williams) Adamowicz (CAS’99, SED’99, Rebeka Fergusson-Lutz (CAS’01) of Washington, are not afraid to look at the truth . . . They have an The book is available at amazon.com. London. The new piece, “They Have Become Bright GRS’01) and her husband, Matthew, of Waltham, D.C., completed a dual master’s program at American obligation to speak for those who haven’t been heard.” Stars,” received its premiere on May 8 at St. Paul’s Mass., happily welcomed their first child, James University in Washington, D.C. She now has a Master Daniel Charles Morris (GRS’86) of West Lafayette, Of Indian ancestry, he grew up as an ethnic minority in Guyana Cathedral in the presence of Charles, Prince of Wyatt Adamowicz, on February 7, 2009. of Arts in teaching secondary English and a Master of Ind., is co-editor of The New York Public Intellectuals and Wales; Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; and Prince Arts in international peace and conflict resolution. This and later spent a decade in Toronto, where he won literary awards, Beyond: Exploring Liberal Humanism, Jewish Identity, and Suzyn-Elayne Soler (CAS’00, SED’02) of Jensen Andrew, Duke of York. Learn more about James’s fall, she’ll teach high school English at the American including the K. M. Hunter Foundation Emerging Artists Award for the American Protest Tradition (Purdue University Press, Beach, Fla., announces her engagement to Juan Pablo music at www.jameslavino.com. Contact James at School of Doha in Doha, Qatar. fiction and the Arthur Schomburg Award for his contribution to 2008). In spring 2009, he held the Walt Whitman Camargo of Bogota, Colombia, and of Fort Myers, [email protected]. Caribbean literature. He is a pioneer of “Yogic Realism,” a writing Chair in American Culture Studies at Radboud Fla. The couple plans to marry in early 2011. Suzyn- Ashley Barrington (CAS’02) and Christopher Ludlow Elayne would love to hear from old friends at suzyn- (ENG’02) welcomed John Atticus (“Jack”) Ludlow philosophy based on ancient Indian literary tradition. The author of University, Netherlands, through the Fulbright Program. Henry Hampton (CAS’96) of Fort Mill, S.C., is the regional chief pilot for Mesa Airlines (doing business as US [email protected]. into the world on September 28, 2008. Contact three books of fiction and six poetry collections, Persaud now resides Wilfred Labiosa (CAS’93) of Boston, Mass., is Airways Express). Henry has been a pilot with Mesa since Ashley at [email protected]. in Tampa, Florida, where he works as a bank analyst.—JHK ­working at Casa Esperanza, in Roxbury, as the direc- Jennifer Sullivan (CAS’00, MET’06) of Cambridge, August 2003. E-mail him at [email protected]. tor, Relapse Prevention & Outpatient Services, and Mass., and business partner James Gilbert launched Tara (Paradise) Dwyer (CAS’02) of Rhinebeck, N.Y., Plus1TV, an independent video network that deliv- married Charles Dwyer on December 1, 2007, in To read more of Persaud’s work, go to director, Women’s Residential Program. He had David Pai (CAS’96) of San Francisco, Cal., is a deputy the honor of presenting his research on clients with attorney general at the State of California’s Department ers original online content across four initial chan- Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Cristina DeCelestino (SMG’02) http://poets-and-co.blogspot.com. co-occurring disorders at an international medical of Justice. When not daydreaming, he represents state nels (music, film, food, and humor) in December attended the wedding. The Dwyers welcomed their conference in Habana, Cuba. agencies in employment and constitutional law matters. 2008. Jennifer, who works full time in BU’s Distance first child, Wilhelmina Catherine, on September 12, Reach David at [email protected]. Education Office as manager of online student ser- 2008. Contact Tara at [email protected]. David Schwalb (CAS’93) and his wife, Shawna, of vices, notes that she worked nights and weekends Susanne Matias (CAS’02, MED‘04) of Glendale, Did you know? Chicago, Ill., announce the birth of their second child, Jeff Rush (CGS’94, CAS’96) of New York, N.Y., was to start her online business venture. Reach her at married to Stephanie Elam of Saratoga, Cal., at the Ariz., graduated from Midwestern University—Arizona Boston University ranked among the top 10 research universities nationwide for Gavin Isaac Schwalb, on March 8, 2009. Schwalb [email protected]. is president of Schwalb Realty Group, Inc., which Cordevalle Club in San Martin, Cal., on Aug. 2, 2008. College of Osteopathic Medicine on June 5, 2009. She faculty productivity in five different areas of the liberal arts, according to the most specializes in the private brokerage of commercial The couple resides in New York City, where Jeff is Maegan Brooks, Esq. (CAS’01) of Springfield, Mass., will complete a one-year internship in St. Petersburg, recent Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index from The Chronicle of Higher Education real estate. The Schwalbs live on the north side of in the Investments & Wealth Management Group at has opened a law practice dedicated to furthering Fla., before pursuing a residency in obstetrics and gyne- (2007). The University ranked first for French Language & Literature, second for Chicago. E-mail David at [email protected]. Merrill Lynch and Stephanie is a broadcast journal- economic development through the cultivation of cology. Contact Susanne at [email protected]. ist at CNN. To view a slide show of the wedding, go small businesses and social enterprises. Visit her English Language & Literature, fourth for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Jo Anne (Domingo) Lemus (CAS’94) and her hus- Kristen (Marx) Russo (CAS’02) of Buffalo, N.Y., to www.lisaleigh.com/slideshows/StephanieJeff/. website at www.mbrookslawoffice.com. Contact her seventh for Mathematics, and tenth for Biostatistics. band, Abel, of Pearl City, Hawaii, announce the birth married Michael Russo on October 4, 2008, in Reach Jeff at [email protected]. at [email protected]. of their second child, Alyssa Leilani, on November 17, Buffalo. Contact Kristen at [email protected]. Robert A. Caplen (CAS’01, GRS’01) of Washington, 2008. Alyssa’s big sister, Isabel Anne, was 3½ years Margaretta (Gillis) Silva (CAS’96) and David Silva Rebecca Bartels (CAS’03) of Miami Beach, Fla., mar- D.C., recently published “The ‘Charlie Brown Rain old. Both Jo Anne and Abel are airway transporta- (MED’07) of New York City are proud to announce ried Jeremy Firth at the BU Castle on May 23, 2009. Cloud Effect’ in International Law: An Empirical tion system specialists with the FAA. Jo Anne is the birth of their son, Nicholas James. He joins Rebecca is a marketing manager for the Burger King Whatever your news, we want to hear it. Send us an e-mail at [email protected]. Case Study” with the Capital University Law Review. part of the Radar/Automation Group and Abel is in older siblings Isabella, 6; Anna, 4; and Anthony, 2. Corporation and Jeremy is an attorney at Markowitz, A recent constitutional law article, “When Batson We’ll publish your news or photo in Class Notes. the Data/Communication Group. E-mail Jo Anne at Margaretta is a stay-at-home mother and David is a Davis, Ringel, and Trusty, PA. The couple resides in Met Grutter: Exploring the Ramifications of the And we’ll make sure you’re up-to-date on what’s new at BU. ­[email protected]. senior business development analyst. Miami Beach, Fla.

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Minding Your Manners By jean hennelly keith

Matthew Glenn (CAS’03) of Bivalve, N.J., a former Monique Maria (Tamez) Marsh (CAS’03) and Rachael (Petro) Wojtovich (CAS’05) and Andrew Her stage background shows. With regal posture and a sleek, studied look all her captain of the Terrier sailing team, is now captain of Robert Marsh of La Quinta, Calif., announce the birth Wojtovich (CAS’05) of Rochester, N.Y., welcomed own, Robin Abrahams (GRS’02) is a poised presence in any setting. But in conver- the schooner AJ Meerwald. The restored Delaware of their first child, Mackenzie, on November 26, 2008. their first child, Jackson Avery, on August 26, sation, the way she works her expressive eyebrows—“Vulcan,” she calls them— Bay oyster boat provides science and maritime-based Contact them at [email protected]. 2008. Rachael graduated in May 2009 from the makes clear that despite her sophistication, she sees life’s funny side. University of Rochester School of Medicine, and will experiential education programs on the Delaware and Michelle Wassenaar (CAS’03) married Ian Menzies be a pediatric resident at Strong Children’s Hospital In describing her unlikely career path from theater gigs in Kansas City Chesapeake Bays and New York Harbor. Visit www. (ENG’03) on March 7, 2009, in Oak Lawn, Ill. in Rochester, N.Y. Andrew expects to receive his to writing a popular manners column in Boston and teaching psychology at bayshorediscovery.org. Elizabeth (Mahon) Brown (CAS’02), John G. Manna PhD in pharmacology, also from the University of Harvard, she quips, “I’m not a one-job woman.” Joyce Liang (CAS’03) of San Jose, Cal., has launched (CAS’02) and Rebecca Taylor (MET’05) were in Rochester School of Medicine, in 2010. a fashion blog, Studio Purpura Fashion (http://blogs. the wedding party; Patrick Sexton (ENG’04, ’07), Abrahams earned a BA in theater at the University of Kansas, in her studio-purpura.com). The blog covers the latest Melissa (Kent) Krueger (COM’97), Caitlin Conway Julie Ann Ackerman (CAS’07, GRS’07) of home state, then worked in the midwest for the next six years as a theater in fashion news and trends, provides style tips for (SED’06), Samuel Kurnit (CAS’06), and Alex Somerville, Mass., was awarded a Fulbright publicist, stand-up comedian, and volunteer at a battered women’s shelter. women, and offers coupon codes for sample sales. Macnow (CAS’08) attended the wedding. The cou- Postgraduate Student Scholarship to study at Figuring out that the common thread of her interests was human behavior— ple is residing in Brighton, Mass. Contact Michelle at University College London/The Anna Freud Center. what makes people tick—she packed up and headed to Beantown to earn a [email protected]. She will complete an MSc in psychoanalytic doctorate in research psychology at Boston University. Despite a Presidential developmental psychology. Contact Julie Ann at Cory Bortnicker (CAS’04) of Brooklyn, N.Y., was Scholarship at GRS, she needed a job to manage Boston’s steep living costs, [email protected]. awarded an Emmy by the National Academy of so she juggled posts as a communications manager at Harvard and a psych Television Arts & Sciences for his work writing and Jesse D. Rodgers (CAS’07) of Northfield, N.J., fin- Your Gift adjunct at BU and other local colleges, while moonlighting as a writing teacher. producing Minyanville’s World in Review, the first ished his first year at Seton Hall University School of research · conferences · lecture series · laboratory equipment · technology Today she’s still juggling, as a part-time research associate in organiza- · emergency financial aid · student life musical instruments · kilns · easels animated news show. He tells arts&sciences that he Law in Newark, N.J. He spent the summer working · printmaking presses · tables · chairs · LCD projectors · multimedia was “very surprised” to receive the honor. E-mail as a judicial extern for The Honorable Katharine S. tional behavior at the Harvard Business School, a trustee and volunteer at the learning renovations · research stipends · faculty development · television Bortnicker at [email protected]. Hayden, U.S. District Judge for the District of New Underground Railway Theater in Cambridge, and an acclaimed author and speaker. studio equipment · digital production equipment wireless networks · Jersey. E-mail Jesse at [email protected]. Nadine Champsi (CAS’04) of Pittsburgh, Pa., married She is most well-known, though, as “Miss Conduct,” The Boston Globe classroom renovations · student organizations · software · curricular Your Impact Kevin Carl on March 7, 2009. Edward Garcia (CAS’04) Jason Sanders (CAS’07) of Framingham, Mass., is Sunday Magazine columnist who advises inquiring readers on how to manage the advancement · moot court community distance education · online learning · libraries · student travel · book awards · alumni outreach · attended the wedding. Nadine and Kevin reside in an MD/PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh complexities of 21st-century social situations: how to fend off creepy come-ons; nursing archives · disability services · student scholarship · research Pittsburgh. School of Medicine, researching the ­biology of aging what to say to a sneezing atheist; how to host a dinner party for fruitarian, Kosher- and emergency care. · conferences · lecture series · laboratory equipment technology · Nicholas Kassotis (CAS’04) of Virginia Beach, keeping, allergic, and carnivorous guests. She’s pleased to note that her readership emergency financial aid · student life · musical instruments · kilns · easels · Va., was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the spans a wide age range from teens to seniors—and even includes a fourth-grader. printmaking presses · tables · chairs · LCD projectors · multimedia learning U.S. Navy JAG Corps. After graduating from BU, he Her new book, Miss Conduct’s Mind Over Manners: Master the Slippery Rules received a JD from Northeastern School of Law in of Modern Ethics and Etiquette (Henry Holt/Times Books), published in May, 2007, then was commissioned in the U.S. Navy. He delves into the evolution of behavior, including the tribal “fear of differences” Now is the time is stationed in Norfolk, Va. Contact Nicholas at Global Day of Service that underlies our customs and quirks. Although Abrahams stresses that she to make your impact. [email protected]. Make a difference has no disagreement with Emily and Peggy Post or other etiquette experts, Lindsey Lariviere (CAS’04) received a master’s around the world. she is more interested in the rationale behind the rules of conduct than strict Make a gift to the CAS degree in French language and literature and returned to the Boston area in December 2008. She adherence to them, preferring to offer “options and interpretations.” In Mind or GRS Annual Fund. April 17, 2010. In a city near you. completed her last semester of graduate school at Over Manners, she tackles life’s essential topics: food, health, money, romance, California State University, Fullerton, after spending www.bu.edu/dayofservice and religion. The fond owner of mixed-breed terrier Milo, who twirls for com- Your gift will have a direct impact on four weeks in Armenia in the summer of 2008 to pany, Abrahams also devotes a chapter to human and pet relationships. today’s students. study the Persian language. She now resides in Fall She is married to Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel prizes—“for achieve- River, Mass. Contact her at [email protected]. ments that first make people laugh, then make them think”—and also a comedian. The Annual Funds at Arts & Sciences Jennifer Wallace (CAS’04) of Athens, Ohio, and As a convert to Judaism who passionately embraces her adopted religion, support everything from Daniel Turek of McLean, Va., were married on Robin gives talks she calls “Jew by Choice, Yenta by Birth.” April 11, 2009, in Cuzco, Peru. Rebecca Manzolini scholarships and emergency Although she acknowledges that “new technology has complicated (CAS’02) attended the wedding and hiked to Machu communications immensely,” Abrahams is an unabashed fan and user of financial aid to classroom equipment—the Picchu, along with 20 other daring friends and fam- ily, with the soon-to-be bride and groom for four social media. Her readers can chat with her on Twitter, link to some of her kinds of things that make student life, days prior to the wedding. Jennifer and Daniel are recent guest author appearances on the Today Show and Fox News, and hear well, student life. living in Mar Vista, Cal., and teach at a private high her bimonthly WCRN Radio segments on her blog and website—and, as a school in Los Angeles. They look forward to a life- bonus, see a video of mannerly Milo. time of adventures together. www.bu.edu/alumni/annualfund/makeagift

learn how to keep your social life cool at www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/conduct/ and www.robinabrahams.com.

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