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5 Discover 17 Act health, science, and technology our Humanitarians, leaders, and innovators 8 mind meld The future of human intelligence may lie outside the physical brain BY Jeff stibel, A95 18 COver the pursuit of happiness Tom Barefoot, A68, urges governments to rethink how they measure 14 Architecture with a human face house of mirth progress BY michael blanding BY ANN SUSSMAN, F86, AND JUSTIN B. HOLLANDER, A96 vets on campus 16 column kids these days When judgment trumps 22 Part 1: a few good men and women science BY W. George Scarlett Our universities need students like my Marines Quick Reads 6 health news from tufts Stem cell BY Elliot Ackerman, A03, F03 therapy for pets, your brain on coffee, antidepressants 24 Part 2: Basic training Military service | and pregnancy, fluoride for babies 7 DINOSAURS prepared Keith Wasserboehr, A16, for Tufts | 13 AND POACHED EGGS WARDING OFF LIVER CANCER BY catherine o'neill grace 15 CHARACTER SKETCH Ashley Magee, V95, and the dog that ate 43½ socks 27 fi ve secrets of the world's top innovators My radio show guests are revolutionizing the way we live by kara miller, G08

Quick Reads 25 Laurels | 26 Brilliant! Jumbo entrepreneurs and their big ideas

Photo: timothy archibald; illustrations: gaby D'alessandro (happiness), david plunkert (mind meld) Look 29 Create the culture pages

30 again i formed whole A poet’s life after traumatic brain injury BY Kara peters 38 outrageous fortune Hamlet on the E! channel BY Michelle Ray, J94 8 40 Game on Rainy-day fun from our award-winning board game designers BY matt M. casey

Quick Reads 35 Mixed Media Our books and creative milestones | 39 Character sketch 41 Connect keeping up with the Tufts community Stacy Klein, G88, connects theater to the earth 42 thirteen visionaries Thrills and spills in our presidential history BY sol gittleman 48 T he Jumbo channel Reliving the early days of TUTV BY kristin livingston, A05 54 Class Notes 60 In Memoriam 63 The Big Day Jumbo weddings and unions

Quick Reads 47 investing in students For a portfolio manager, it’s the natural thing to do 49 newswire | 50 Oh, the places they'll go The new bridge-year program | 52 a boost for tufts' 18 environmental goals | 53 building tufts A space for collaboration

In Every Issue On the Cover

2 President's page Free The pursuit of speech is good speech happiness is back 3 letters in style, thanks to 4 the Editorial We a movement to Learning to notice change how we 74 Take It From Me Perennial measure progress gardens, literary agents, (page 18). résumé-reading smarts, Illustration by Betsy Hayes sports nutrition 76 elephotos President’s Page

Free Speech Is Good Speech

Since its founding in 1852, Tufts has The seeds of social change are often sown on embraced a campus culture that college campuses. University students at Tufts and encourages the free and unfet- elsewhere have been leading voices in the civil rights, tered exchange of ideas. It is what environmental, labor, women’s, and peace movements. defines us as a university in Members of our community have challenged the pursuit of discovery and knowl- administration, and each other, on social and political edge, and it is what prepares our issues, most recently on fossil fuel divestment, sexual students to take on the complex assault, international affairs, and Tufts’ relations with challenges of our times. We can- its custodial staff and part-time faculty. I welcome and not have the benefits of education encourage these exchanges. With issues as complex as without being open to ideas that test these, we cannot broaden our insights without a full us and sometimes make us uncomfortable. airing of many viewpoints. Our own Declaration on Freedom of Expression at It is certainly not my expectation that every member Tufts University, which the Board of Trustees approved of our community will embrace every perspective and in November 2009, states: “Without freedom of expres- every point of view. My hope is that these debates and sion, community members cannot fully share their discussions are civil and respectful and that we always knowledge or test ideas on the anvil of open debate and engage in constructive dialogue, even though we may criticism. Without freedom of inquiry, community not always agree. Make no mistake, we will not tolerate members cannot search for new knowledge or chal- speech or conduct that involves threats, intimidation, lenge conventional wisdom.” or harassment or interferes with the rights of members Academic freedom has been fundamental to of our community to participate in campus life. At the American higher education since the early twentieth same time, we need to protect all points of view, no century. It is essential not only to the teaching and matter how unpopular or provocative, to advance our research of our faculty, but also to the contributions mission as an educational institution. they make to informed public debate on matters of I have been deeply troubled by calls on our own consequence to our society. and other university campuses to silence speech. At Colleges and universities are also where young people some institutions, commencement speakers have been can freely examine their own assumptions, beliefs, and denied the right to be heard. Here at Tufts, we have perceptions through a diversity of lenses and develop the been urged by members of our own community, both critical-thinking skills that will shape their personal and on and off campus, to cancel programs and speakers. intellectual growth. It is our responsibility to encourage When debate is stifled, everyone loses. opportunities for students to debate and contemplate a I strongly believe that the best response to offen- gamut of opinions, ideas, and viewpoints—in classroom sive speech is more speech. And I fervently defend the discussions and readings, in the laboratory, in our stu- principles of academic freedom and the right of all dios and performance halls, and through the speakers members of this community to express their views and conferences we host on campus. These kinds of on any issue. These principles are the foundation of exchanges, both formal and informal, will help our stu- Tufts University and all of modern American higher dents become active and engaged citizens of the world. education.

Anthony P. Monaco President, Tufts University

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THE REDESIGNED to the column by Gittleman himself TEACH FOR AMERICA replacing experienced educators MAGAZINE (“1914’s Long Tail”). I gave “Stress CAVEATS with inexpensive Teach for America The makeover is a bonanza, and the and the Gums” (Health News from Thank you for Kathy Hubbard’s personnel. Many charter schools notion of offering four magazines in Tufts) to my dentist. I’ve sent copies article spotlighting Tufts grads who in low-income neighborhoods are one is inspired. of the Philip Starks column “Busy As choose to teach (Fall 2014). But staffed primarily by such personnel. In our household, which receives a Grandma” to everyone. the title of that article—“Time Out MEG LUTHIN, A07 seven alumni/ae magazines, Tufts BOB HORNE, G60 to Teach”—is worrying and telling. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Magazine has always been read BOOTHBAY HARBOR, MAINE I hope that these alums, unlike cover to cover, more or less. Yes, eighty percent of Teach for America AN ELEPHANT TO some of the articles have been a bit Congratulations on the redesigned members, find their teaching expe- REMEMBER wordy in the past. But not so now, Tufts Magazine. What an improve- riences enriching enough to keep I read “Elephant of the Hour” (Fall and content has not been sacrificed. ment! This issue afforded me them in the classroom beyond the 2014) with great interest, because Other huge pluses are the jazzy new hours of enjoyable and informative two-year hitch. All of our children, during my four years at Tufts, I had layout and high-quality photos. reading. It will be a challenge to especially those vulnerable the job of babysitting Jumbo at the KATHERINE HALL PAGE, G74 maintain the same quality in future students in low-income schools, Barnum Museum of Natural History LINCOLN, MASSACHUSETTS issues, but I’m sure you will do it. deserve the most experienced and (now Barnum Hall) on Saturday IRVING NOVIC, A51 dedicated teachers—and the most and Sunday afternoons—preventing This truly is one of the best maga- STUDIO CITY, CALIFORNIA stable and nurturing environ- local kids and others from trying zines ever. Every piece in the rede- ments—we can provide. to sit on his trunk, pull his tail, or signed Fall 2014 issue affected me, You’ve turned an outstanding It’s also worth noting that while otherwise mistreat him. My most from the letters responding to “The magazine into an even better one. Teach for America does place memorable experience was the Sol Decades” (Summer 2014), about Write on! Photo shoot on! recruits in hard-to-staff districts, afternoon a very old, stooped-over Tufts’ beloved University Professor TOD J. KAUFMAN, A75 that’s not always the case. Districts lady came in. Tears were running and former provost Sol Gittleman, CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA with no teacher shortage are profusely down her cheeks as she viewed Jumbo. She explained that she had been a trapeze artist and had ridden around on his back during circus shows. VINCENT MAINIERO, A53 MILFORD, CONNECTICUT

CORRECTION (AND CONGRATULATIONS) Our notice about the new children’s book This Day in June, by Gayle E. Pitman, J94 (Mixed Media, Fall 2014), got the title wrong—we were a month off. Luckily, that didn’t prevent the American Library Association’s GLBT Round Table from honoring the work with a pres- tigious Stonewall Book Award. —Editor

Tufts Magazine welcomes PATS POSSE. A Tufts contingent saw the hometown favorite New England Patriots defeat the your letters. Send them to Seattle Seahawks, 28–24, in Super Bowl XLIX at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona [email protected], or Editor, on February 1. From left: Caitlin Friedensohn, A08; Peter Dolan, A78, A08P, chair of Tufts’ Tufts Magazine, Tufts Publications, Board of Trustees; Nancy Bello, J69, A13P; John Bello, A68, A13P, a Tufts trustee; and 80 George Street, Medford, MA Christopher Dolan, A08. The Kraft family, owners of the Patriots, are longtime supporters of 02155. Letters are edited for length Tufts who funded the Kraft Family Atrium in the Tisch Sports and Fitness Center and and clarity. provided support to Tufts Hillel, among other gifts.

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Piece of Cake Magazine

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One thing I’ve learned from The Great British Baking Show, aside Editor David Brittan from how much fun it would be to cook under a big tent on an [email protected] English country estate instead of in my little kitchen, is how Editorial Director hard it is to judge a cake. Before TGBBS, it was enough for the Karen Bailey cake to taste good. Now one worries about the “bake”—about [email protected]

the crumb, the moisture, and (if yeast is involved) whether the Design Director confection was adequately proofed. Are the layers even? Is the Margot Grisar glaze too thin? The tiniest flaw will be caught by the show’s stern but [email protected] reasonable judges. And from now on, I’ll notice these things, too, as will Designer betsy hayes millions of other viewers. [email protected] In that respect, cake appreciation is just like any other form of expertise. News & Notes Editor An expert learns to spot the relevant variables: which properties of a thing are Heather Stephenson available to be noticed and which ones are worth paying attention to. Whether in [email protected] aesthetics or anesthesiology, it’s not so much what you know that counts as what Contributing Editors you notice. Beth Horning Ages ago, I taught music appreciation to undergraduates. To my surprise, these Kara Peters bright students often had trouble describing what they were listening to, except in Columnists Nicholas Dodman the vaguest terms. Then they’d discover the building blocks of music—concepts Sol Gittleman like pitch, timbre, meter, rhythm, harmony, and form—and suddenly they’d have Ronald Pies Jeswald W. Salacuse a vocabulary for thinking about music and noticing differences. No longer could W. George Scarlett they claim of Baroque or blues, “It all sounds alike.” Philip Starks

Wine is the same way. Connoisseurs don’t just “like” a wine. They pay atten- Contributing Writer tion to color, aroma, taste, and finish, and parse out all those flavor components Kristin Livingston, A05 you read about on the bottle—“notes of cinnamon, cloves, pepper,” and all that. I Class Notes doubt it takes superhuman powers to detect such characteristics, but most people Faith Hruby don’t think to look for them, and consequently miss enjoying the complex package Kathryn Klem of sensations a fine wine has to offer. Tufts Magazine (USPS #619-420, ISSN #1535-5063) is published three times a Science, of course, is built upon just this sort of informed observation. The year by the Trustees of Tufts University. colors of stars, the spots on a butterfly wing, the temperature of an ocean cur- Direct magazine calls to 617.627.4287. Send correspondence to rent—to the person who is trained to notice them, these variables are important. Tufts Magazine, Tufts Publications, Often vitally so. In the hen scratching of an EKG, for example, a cardiologist 80 George Street, Medford, MA 02155, divines T waves and U waves and Q waves (whatever those may be) and homes in or email [email protected]. on irregularities, potentially saving a life. Tufts Magazine is distributed without charge to alumni, parents of current But noticing can just as easily be a curse. I once asked a discerning Hollywood undergraduates, and other members of director if he enjoyed watching movies. “When they’re good,” he replied. the Tufts community. Periodicals postage paid at Boston, MA, and additional mailing “Otherwise I fixate on everything that’s wrong.” He reminded me of my dermatol- addresses. ogist friend who can diagnose almost any skin disease in about three seconds— Postmaster: Send address changes to which puts her in the awkward position of noticing sometimes dire conditions in Development Records, Tufts University, strangers on the street. 80 George Street, Medford, MA 02155.

If I had to choose, I’d rather be a noticer. Wouldn’t you? Fewer Victoria sponge © 2015 Trustees of Tufts University cakes will meet our rising standards, but the ones that do will be sublime. http://go.tufts.edu/magazine

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Wide-Eyed

This barred owl was a recent guest at the new Shalin Liu Healing Cage at Cummings School’s Wildlife Clinic. The cage gives raptors such as eagles, hawks, and owls room to strengthen their wings as they recover from illness or injury. Then it’s back into the wild.

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health news from tufts

CATS & DOGS with a force plate to show MEDICINE Stem Cell that animals improved their Antidepressants Therapy for Pets ability to bear weight? Or and Preterm Births Even though veterinary stem did owners simply report The use of antidepres- cell science is in its infancy, that their animals seemed sants during pregnancy several companies are better? has increased dramatically already marketing therapies Another crucial question over the last two decades. based on it, most often is whether the research Meanwhile, rates of preterm for arthritis or soft-tissue behind the therapy was birth in the United States injuries. Michael Kowaleski, peer-reviewed—determined have been climbing. Adam V93, an orthopedic surgeon to be valid by unbiased Urato, a specialist in mater- who is conducting clinical experts in the field. And nal-fetal medicine and trials of stem cell treatments was there a control group Shukitt-Hale, a USDA assistant professor at Tufts at Cummings School’s Foster of animals that received a scientist at Tufts’ Human School of Medicine, doesn’t Hospital for Small Animals, placebo, such as a saline Nutrition Research Center think that’s a coincidence. He says that before agreeing injection? If so, how much on Aging, and colleagues and his colleagues combed to such an approach, pet benefit did the stem cell fed nineteen-month-old rats through relevant research owners should ask their treatment produce compared a diet enriched with what, conducted between 1993 and veterinarian several pointed with the placebo? Also, was for a human, would be the 2012, and their meta-analy- questions. the research “blind”? That is, equivalent of zero, three, sis of that data, published in They should find out, first were owners and researchers five, ten, or fifteen cups of the online journal PLOS One, of all, why the doctor is rec- unaware of which animals coffee per day. Then they supports that view. ommending stem cell ther- received the treatment and ran the subjects through Of the forty-one studies his apy, how it compares with which received the placebo, a battery of tests to evalu- group found on antidepres- other treatments, and what to ensure that expectations ate their balance, muscle sants and preterm birth, thir- the evidence of its safety did not influence the results? strength, spatial learning, ty-nine showed an increased is. They should ask how the Finally, you should know and memory. The most sig- risk, although not always a therapy’s effectiveness was who funded the research, nificant improvement was in statistically significant one. measured. In the case of and whether a commercial the rats that got the ten-cup Yet, he notes, “when you put an arthritis treatment, for concern stood to benefit from equivalent. it all together in a meta-anal- example, were tests done it. (FROM CUMMINGS VETERINARY Next, the researchers ysis, what you find is roughly MEDICINE) repeated the experiment, a doubling of the risk of giving the rats a caffeine preterm birth in women who NUTRITION supplement to mimic what are on these medications Your Brain on Coffee they had consumed from into the third trimester.” He We know coffee is good for the coffee. The rats on the adds, “Several of the studies a bracing jolt of caffeine. But supplement performed better are showing very high rates it’s also rich in polyphenols, than the control group, but of preterm birth. Ten percent compounds that have been not as well as those that had is considered a high rate. But linked to brain health. And a received coffee. Shukitt-Hale some of these studies are study published in the jour- notes that future studies showing rates as high as 25 nal Age suggests that while could look at how polyphe- percent—and one was even caffeine has a good effect nols and, most likely, other as high as 30.8 percent.” on the aging brain, other bioactive compounds in Such findings contradict compounds in coffee do, too, coffee work together with the popular wisdom. “The at least in rats. caffeine to help the brain. message that a lot of preg- For eight weeks, Barbara (FROM TUFTS NUTRITION) nant women and women of

6 tufts magazine | winter 2015 illustration: stuart bradford; photo: istockphoto child-bearing age and their doctors get is that these drugs are basically safe in pregnancy. That’s absolutely not what the science is show- ing.” (FROM TUFTS MEDICINE)

DENTAL Got Teeth? Use Fluoride It’s never too soon to start treating a baby’s teeth Dinosaurs and with fluoride, according to new guidelines issued by the American Dental Poached Eggs Association. When the first tooth erupts, parents should begin brushing it Not long ago, Irv Pitman, D41, a climb the trees to get at their eggs,” with tiny amounts of fluoride ninety-seven-year-old retired dentist, Pitman hypothesized. toothpaste. The advice, read an article about dinosaurs that The pieces all seemed to fit together, based on the ADA’s review of troubled him. His local New Jersey and Pitman was dying to know what numerous recent studies of paper reported on the theory that the scientists would think of his idea. He childhood oral health trends, creatures had been wiped out by an wrote to several science magazines but is a departure from the asteroid. But if the theory was right, never heard back. Then he had another organization’s longstanding Pitman wondered, why did the smaller good idea: Why not write to Tufts? recommendation that and weaker mammals survive? Jacob Benner, a fossil expert in children under age two should And why didn’t earlier aster- the Department of Earth and not have fluoride beyond oid impacts—of which there Did hungry Ocean Sciences, answered what’s in the water supply. must have been many— mammals Pitman in a detailed letter. Cheen Loo, DI10, asso- have a similarly devastating drive the giant “The idea triggered my reptiles to ciate professor and interim effect? The more he thought extinction? curiosity,” Benner wrote. chair of pediatric dentistry at about the asteroid theory, the “The hypothesis you propose Tufts, backs the revised ADA more it sounded like bunk. is potentially valid, but would guidelines. At Tufts’ pediatric Then a thought occurred to him: have to hold up to testing by dental clinic, she says, “we What if the mammals were to blame evidence from the fossil record.” And see a lot of kids coming in at for the dinosaurs’ demise? When there was the rub. No signs of mammals the age of one-and-a-half or mammals arrived, “they were hun- interfering with dinosaur nests or eggs two, and they have cavities. gry and low man on the food chain,” had been unearthed—no mammal Because of their young age, he wrote in a pithy summary of his footprints around nests, no bits of we end up not being able thinking. “Luckily, mammals love eggshell in mammal droppings. Alas, to help them in the clinic, eggs, and dinosaur eggs were plentiful the poached-egg hypothesis of dinosaur and have to treat them in and not well looked after.” The eggs, extinction would remain untested and the hospital operating room then, could have been the dinosaurian untestable, the inspired conjecture of an under general anesthesia. So Achilles’ heel. Perhaps not coinciden- active mind. we are really trying to prevent tally, the only dinosaur species to sur- But Pitman had what he wanted: that from happening.” (FROM vive were those that evolved into birds. an informed response. “It shows Tufts TUFTS DENTAL MEDICINE) “Our earthbound mammals could not really cares,” he said. —DAVID BRITTAN

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MindThe coming merger between human and machine intelligence Meld

By Jeff Stibel, A95 illustration by david plunkert

for most of the past two million years, the human brain has been growing steadily. But something has recently changed. In a surprising reversal, human brains have actually been shrinking for the last 20,000 years or so. We have lost nearly a baseball-sized amount of matter from a brain that isn’t any larger than a football. The descent is rapid and pronounced. The anthropol- ogist John Hawks describes it as a “major downsizing in an evolutionary eye- blink.” If this pace is maintained, scientists predict that our brains will be no larger than those of our forebears, Homo erectus, within another 2,000 years. The reason that our brains are shrinking is simple: our biology is focused on survival, not intelligence. Larger brains were necessary to allow us to learn to use language, tools, and all of the innovations that allowed our species to thrive. But now that we have become civilized—domesticated, if you will—certain aspects of intelligence are less necessary. This is actually true of all animals: domesticated animals, including dogs, cats, hamsters, and birds, have ten to fifteenpercent smaller brains than their counterparts in the wild. Because brains are so expen- sive to maintain, large brain sizes are selected out when nature sees no direct survival benefit. It is an inevitable fact of life.

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Fortunately, another influencehas professor of neurology to pursue his in Seattle, he connected the brain of a evolved over the past 20,000 years quest. rhesus monkey to an electrical meter that is making us smarter even as our At the time, psychic interest was and then watched in amazement as brains are shrinking: technology. relatively high. There were numerous the monkey learned how to control the Technology has allowed us to leapfrog academics devoted to the field, study- level of the meter with nothing but its evolution, enabling our brains and ing at prestigious institutions such thoughts. bodies to do things that were otherwise as Stanford and Duke, Oxford and While incredible, this insight didn’t impossible biologically. We weren’t Cambridge. Still, it was largely consid- have much application in 1969. But born with wings, but we’ve created ered bunk science, with most credible with the rapid development of silicon airplanes, helicopters, hot air bal- academics focused on dispelling, chips, computers, and data networks, loons, and hang gliders. We don’t have rather than proving, claims of psychic the technology now exists to connect sufficientnatural strength or speed to ability. But one of those psychic beliefs people’s brains to the Internet, and it’s bring down big game, but we’ve cre- happened to be true. giving rise to a new breed of intelli- ated spears, rifles, and livestockfarms. That belief is the now well-un- gence. Scientists in labs across the globe Now, as the Internet revolution derstood notion that our brains are busy perfecting computer chips unfolds, we are seeing not merely an communicate electrically. This was a that can be implanted in the human extension of mind but a unity of mind radical idea at the time; after all, the brain. In many ways, the results, if and machine, two networks coming electromagnetic field had only been successful, fit squarely in the realm of together as one. Our smaller brains discovered in 1865. But Berger found “psychics.” There may be no such thing are in a quest to bypass nature’s intent proof. He invented a device called the as paranormal activity, but make no and grow larger by proxy. It is not electroencephalogram (you proba- mistake that all of the following are a stretch of the imagination to bly know it as an EEG) that recorded possible and on the horizon: telepathy, believe we will one day have all of brain waves. Using his new EEG, Berger no problem; telekinesis, absolutely; the world’s information embedded was the first todemon strate that our clairvoyance, without question; ESP, in our minds via the Internet. neurons actually talk to one another, oh yeah. While not psychic, Hans and they do so with electrical pulses. Berger may have been right all along. He published his results in 1929. n the late 1800s, a As often happens with revolu- German astrono- tionary ideas, Berger’s EEG results an Scheuermann mer named Hans were either ignored or lambasted as lifted a chocolate bar Berger fell off a trickery. This was, after all, preternat- to her mouth and I horse and was nearly ural activity. But over the next decade, took a bite. A grin trampled by cavalry. enough independent scholars verified J spread across her He narrowly escaped injury but was the results that they became widely face as she declared, forever changed by the incident, owing accepted. Berger saw his findings as “One small nibble for a woman, one to the reaction of his sister. Though she evidence of the mind’s potential for giant bite for BCI.” was miles away at the time, Berger’s “psychic” activity, and he continued BCI stands for brain-computer sister was instantly overcome with a searching for more evidence until the interface, and Jan is one of only a few feeling that Hans was in trouble. day he hanged himself in frustration. people on earth using this technology, Berger took this as evidence of the The rest of the scientificcommunity through two implanted chips attached mind’s psychic ability and dedicated went back to what it had always been directly to the neurons in her brain. the rest of his life to finding certain doing, “good science,” and largely The first human brain implant was proof. forgot about the electric neuron. conceived of by John Donoghue, a Berger abandoned his study of That was the case until the biophysi- neuroscientist at Brown University, astronomy and enrolled in medical cist Eberhard Fetz came along in 1969 and implanted in a paralyzed man in school to gain an understanding of and elaborated on Berger’s discov- 2004. These dime-sized computer chips the brain that would allow him to ery. Fetz reasoned that if brains were use a technology called BrainGate that prove a “correlation between objective controlled by electricity, then perhaps directly connects the mind to comput- activity in the brain and subjective we could use our brains to control ers and the Internet. Having served as psychic phenomena.” He later joined electrical devices. In a small primate chairman of the BrainGate company, the University of Jena in Germany as lab at the University of Washington I have personally witnessed just how

10 tufts magazine | winter 2015 There may be no such thing as paranormal activity, but make no mistake that all of the following are possible and on the horizon: telepathy, no problem; telekinesis, absolutely; clairvoyance, without question; ESP, oh yeah.

profound this innovation is. BrainGate will enable bionics, restore commu- ust as human is an invention that allows people to nication abilities, and give disabled intelligence is control electrical devices with nothing people previously unimaginable access expanding in the but their thoughts. The BrainGate chip to the world. direction of the is implanted in the brain and attached But imagine the ways in which the J Internet, the Internet to connectors outside of the skull, world will change when any of us, itself promises to get which are hooked up to computers disabled or not, can connect our minds smarter and smarter. In fact, it could that, in Jan Scheuermann’s case, were to computers. prove to be the basis of the machine linked to a robotic arm. As a result, Computers have been creeping intelligence that scientists have been Scheuermann can feed herself choco- closer to our brains since their inven- racing toward since the 1950s. late by controlling the robotic arm with tion. What started as large mainframes The pursuit of artificial intelligence nothing but her thoughts. became desktops, then laptops, then has been plagued by problems. For one, A smart, vibrant woman in her early tablets and smartphones that we hold we keep changing the definition of intel- fifties, Scheuermann has been unable only inches from our faces, and now ligence. In the 1960s, we said a computer to use her arms and legs since she was Google Glass, which (albeit undergoing that could beat a backgammon cham- diagnosed with a rare genetic disease a redesign) delivers the Internet in a pion would surely be intelligent. But in at the age of forty. “I have not moved pair of eyeglasses. the 1970s, when Gammonoid beat Luigi things for about ten years . . . . This is Back in 2004, Google’s founders Villa—the world champion backgam- the ride of my life,” she said. “This is told Playboy magazine that one day mon player—by a score of 7–1, we the roller coaster. This is skydiving.” we’d have direct access to the Internet decided that backgammon was too easy, Other patients use brain-controlled through brain implants, with “the requiring only straightforward calcu- implants to communicate, control entirety of the world’s information as lations. We changed the rules to focus wheelchairs, write emails, and connect just one of our thoughts.” A decade on games of sophisticated rules and to the Internet. later, the roadmap is taking shape. strategies, like chess. Yet when IBM’s The technology is surprisingly While it may be years before implants Deep Blue computer beat the reigning simple to understand. BrainGate like BrainGate are safe enough to be chess champion, Gary Kasparov, in is merely tapping into the brain’s commonplace—they require brain 1997, we changed the rules again. No electrical signals in the same way that surgery, after all—there are a host of longer were sophisticated calculations or Berger’s EEG and Fetz’s electrical brainwave sensors in development for logical decision making acts of intelli- meter did. The BrainGate chip, once use outside of the skull that will be gence. Perhaps when computers could attached to the motor cortex, reads transformational for all of us: caps for answer human knowledge questions, the brain’s electrical signals and sends measuring driver alertness, headbands then they’d be intelligent. Of course, them to a computer, which interprets for monitoring sleep, helmets for we had to revise that theory in 2011 them and sends along instructions to controlling video games. This could when IBM’s Watson computer soundly other electrical devices like a robotic lead to wearable EEG’s, implantable beat the best humans at Jeopardy. But arm or a wheelchair. In that respect, nanochips, or even technology that can all of these computers were horribly it’s not much different from using listen to our brain signals using the bad sports: they couldn’t say hello, your television remote to change the electromagnetic waves that pervade the shake hands, or make small talk of any channel. Potentially the technology air we breathe. kind. Each time a machine defies our

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definition of intelligence we move to a a three-pound wrinkly lump of clay, performs amazing feats. The faultiness new definition. nor will it have cells or blood or fat. of the individual neuron allows for the We’ve done the same thing in Daniel Dennett, University Professor plasticity and adaptive nature of the nature. We once argued that what and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of network as a whole. Intelligence cannot set us apart from other animals was Philosophy at Tufts—whom I consider be replicated by creating a bunch of our ability to use tools. Then we saw a mentor and a guide on the quest to switches, faulty or not. Instead, we primates and crows using tools. So we solving the mysteries of the mind—was must focus on the network. changed our minds and said that what an advocate of reverse engineering at Neurons may be good analogs for makes us intelligent is our ability to one point. But he recently changed transistors and maybe even computer use language. Then biologists taught course, stating: “I’m trying to undo a chips, but they’re not good building the first chimpanzee how to use sign mistake I made some years ago, and blocks of intelligence. The neural net- language, and we decided that intel- rethink the idea that the way to under- work is fundamental. The BrainGate ligence couldn’t be about language stand the mind is to take it apart.” technology works because the chip after all. Next came self-conscious- Dennett’s mistake was to reduce the attaches not to a single neuron, but ness and awareness until experiments brain to the neuron in an attempt to to a network of neurons. Reading the unequivocally proved that dolphins are rebuild it. That is reducing the brain signals of a single neuron would tell us self-aware. With animal intelligence as one step too far, pushing us from the very little; it certainly wouldn’t allow well as machine intelligence, we keep edge of the forest to deep into the trees. BrainGate patients to move a robotic changing the goalposts. This is the danger in any kind of reverse arm or a computer cursor. Scientists There are those who believe we can engineering. Biologists reduced ant may never be able to reverse engineer the neuron, but they are increasingly able to interpret the communication of It is pretty clear the network. It is for this reason that the Internet that an intelligent is a better candidate for intelligence machine will look than are computers. Computers are nothing like a perfect calculators composed of perfect transistors; they are like neurons as three-pound wrinkly we once envisioned them. But the lump of clay. Internet has all the quirkiness of the brain: it can work in parallel, it can communicate across broad distances, transcend the moving goalposts. These colonies down to individuals, but we and it makes mistakes. Even though bold adventurers have most recently have now learned that the ant network, the Internet is at an early stage in its focused on brain science, attempting the colony, is the critical level. Reducing evolution, it can leverage the brain that to reverse engineer the brain. As the flight to the feathers of a bird would not nature has given us. The convergence theory goes, once we understand all of have worked, but reducing it to wing- of computer networks and neural net- the brain’s parts, we can recreate them span did the trick. Feathers are one step works is the key to creating real intelli- to build an intelligent system. too far, just as are ants and neurons. gence from artificial machines. It took But there are two problems with Scientists have oversimplified the millions of years for humans to gain this approach. First, the inner work- function of a neuron, treating it as a intelligence, but with the human mind ings of the brain are largely a mystery. predictable switching device that fires as a guide, it may only take a century to Neuroscience is making tremendous on and off. That would be incredibly create Internet intelligence. progress, but it is still early. convenient if it were true. But neurons The second issue with reverse engi- are only logical when they work—and a JEFF STIBEL, A95, is CEO of Dun & Bradstreet neering the brain is more fundamental. neuron misfires up to ninety percent of Credibility Corporation and was previously CEO of Just as the Wright brothers didn’t learn the time. Artificial intelligence almost Web.com, Inc. He is the New York Times bestselling to fly by dissecting birds, we will not universally ignores this fact. author of Breakpoint (Palgrave Macmillan), from learn to create intelligence by recreating Focusing on a single neuron’s which this article is adapted, and Wired for Thought a brain. It is pretty clear that an intel- on/off switch misses what is happening (Harvard). At Tufts, he sits on the Gordon Institute’s ligent machine will look nothing like with the network of neurons, which Entrepreneurial Leadership Advisory Board.

12 tufts magazine | winter 2015 Warding off Liver Cancer Could a hormone drug prevent the disease? By Michael Blanding

orldwide, liver cancer is the second leading cause When Rogers and his colleagues of cancer deaths after lung cancer, according to the tested pituitary hormones on liver World Health Organization. It’s particularly prev- cells, growth hormone showed little alent in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, effect. Prolactin, however, reduced where it is associated with hepatitis B and C viruses, inflammatory responses markedly. as well as toxins in food and water. Liver cancer is Rogers surmised that prolactin may Walso far more common in males, who get it twice to eight times as play a role in protecting women against often as females, depending on the country. This peculiarity has led liver cancer. He ran experiments with Arlin Rogers, head of pathology at Cummings School of Veterinary mice, including both females and males Medicine, to discover a promising route to staving off the disease. that could not produce prolactin. The Illnesses that are more prevalent in males, such as cardiovascular female mice without the prolactin disease, stem from chronic inflammation of body tissues. But why is gene developed cancer at dramatically inflammation more common in men than in women? The obvious higher rates than those with the gene. answer seemed to be sex hormones such as testosterone and estrogen. There was even a mild effect in the But Rogers found evidence in an obscure 1940s paper that the root male mice: those with prolactin got may instead lie in the pituitary gland, which releases growth hor- cancer at around the same rates as mone and prolactin (a hormone that helps nursing mothers those without, but exhibited only a produce milk). third of the tumors. Cummings That finding holds promise School’s Arlin Rogers sees a link for human patients. Drugs between liver cancer and that raise prolactin levels— the hormone prolactin­­—at used mostly for treating least in rats. Now he’s psychiatric or gastrointesti- studying data on nal disorders—have already humans. received FDA approval. Rogers tested one such drug in mice exposed to a chemical that induces liver cancer. Only twenty-two percent of male mice taking the drug contracted cancer, compared with a hundred percent of those not taking the drug. Rogers published his findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last summer. He’s now work- ing with statisticians at Tufts Medical Center to see if patients already taking these drugs are less prone to liver cancer. “We don’t think this is going to cure liver cancer,” Rogers says, “but it might help prevent it.”

Michael Blanding is a Boston-based freelance writer and author of The Map Thief.

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House of Mirth Did that building just smile at me? By Ann Sussman, F86, and Justin B. Hollander, A96

Symmetrical windows that look like eyes. And, he says, our brains are always Centrally placed doors that resemble a nose or on alert to subconsciously read dots mouth. Such architectural quirks never fail to and lines that align in this man- captivate us. ner with no prompting on our part It turns out the reason lies deep in our evo- whatsoever. lutionary past: faces have been so important to If you need convincing, think about our survival that we are primed to identify them emoticons, the colons and semicolons rapidly and accurately, from infancy on. In fact, and other characters we deploy to the brain arrives in the world with a specialized region prepared for represent smiles, frowns, winks, and the task. The Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel refers to a range of other expressions. Adding the brain’s built-in blueprint as a “visual primitive”—it’s an oval with such marks to an email or text message two points for the eyes, a vertical line for a nose, and a horizontal line instantly conveys our feelings about a below for the mouth, as shown above. subject. The minimalist lines appear

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NAME: Ashley Magee, V95 PROFESSION: Veterinary surgeon; one of two on the staff of DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital in Portland, Oregon UNSHAKEABLY CONVINCED OF: The importance of a positive outlook. “Patients that are willing to get up and move even when it’s extremely painful—and that come back for rechecks wagging their tails—always seem to heal faster.” FINDS ESCAPE IN: Her dog, Sonny, and her horse, Ace. “In a world ruled by the cell phone, computer, and TV, these two guys get me outside into the fresh air and away from it all.” ALWAYS UP FOR: A surgical challenge. “I never mind waking up in the middle of the night to try to save someone’s pet. The thought of a complex or unusual case thrills me no matter how tired I am.” TRUE STORY: “One night a Great Dane was brought to the hospital with intractable vomiting and ab- Architecture with a human face (from left): an impassive-looking residence in Silverton, Colorado; a historic house with a twinkle in its eye on the German dominal pain. Radiographs showed island of Sylt; a startled church in Brandenburg, Germany; Manhattan’s that his stomach was distended grinning (or grimacing) “Pumpkin House,” near the George Washington Bridge. with foreign material, and when we operated, we were able to solve the age-old mystery of the missing socks, at least for the family in question. The dog had eaten forty-three and a half of to everyone as facial features and work is almost as though the designers were the things, all different like emotional shorthand. copying the pattern they knew best, the shapes, sizes, and Some buildings seem deliberately or one preprogrammed into our brains colors. I only hope unconsciously designed to reflect the and so significant for survival: the face. that he has been figural primitive. But even if they were forbidden to enter not, we might perceive a surprised or Ann Sussman, F86, is an architect, artist, writer, and the laundry happy or scowling expression any- community organizer in Concord, Massachusetts. room from way. Because of a phenomenon called Justin B. Hollander, A96, is an associate now on.” pareidolia, we routinely discern faces professor of urban and environmental policy and in places where they are not: in clouds, planning at Tufts. The authors explore this and the moon, a tortilla chip, or the burnt similar topics in their new book, Cognitive markings on a piece of toast. In the Architecture: Designing for How We Respond buildings presented above, however, it to the Built Environment (Routledge).

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analyses that many child development specialists hold as gospel. “Evidenced-based practice” doesn’t account for the fact that our interpre- tations of “good” and “bad” behavior are highly subjective. I worry about an adolescent boy who comes from a particular culture where “stupid” means “funny” and who responds to KIDS THESE DAYS his teacher’s joke by telling the teacher, “That’s so stupid.” Unless the teacher is aware of this colloquial usage, he Judgment Still Counts or she will likely misinterpret the boy’s remark as disrespectful and Don’t let the “science” fool you BY W. GEORGE SCARLETT then impose some “evidenced-based” punishment. Often, “evidence-based practice” resident Lincoln often not so good, and may even be harm- does not account for the value judg- received visitors who told ful—at least according to the “evi- ments made when we set goals for him he should do this or dence” from scientific studies where children. I worry about the first-grade that because it was the there are reliable measures yielding girl in an inclusive classroom who “will of God.” With char- data to be analyzed. is totally blind; the law requires her acteristic wit and logic, he Authoritative parents and teachers teachers to develop an individualized Pwould respond, “If it is probable that set rules and limits, but in contrast to education program (IEP) that sets God would reveal his will to others on the authoritarian style, they explain the measurable goals. On the girl’s IEP is a point so connected with my duty, it rules, sometimes involve the children the goal “While wearing a dress, will might be supposed he would reveal it in making up the rules, help children sit at meeting time with legs crossed.” directly to me.” follow the rules, and provide guidance No mention of a less quantifiable goal Today, I think of Lincoln when I when children occasionally break the such as “By the end of the school year, read so much advice about children, rules and suffer the consequences. she will have friends.” Rather than have advice presented as “evidence-based” Often overlooked by science are us reach for the stars, “evidence-based and “best practice” and “grounded the children who respond better to practice”—with its fixation on what is in science.” Something about these a more powerful, more authoritar- easily measurable—can have us reach- hallowed terms suggests we should dis- ian approach. Those children need a ing for the M&Ms. regard our own judgment—science has “warm demander” (to use the current Sometimes, it might be our own best revealed to us what we should do. Like happy phrase for capturing this style). practice to respond to those preaching Lincoln, I don’t buy a good many of the Warm demanders say “sit down,” “be their “evidence-based” child-rear- revelations supposedly coming from quiet,” “behave yourself,” with no rea- ing advice in the same way Lincoln on high. Certainly, when it comes to sons or guidance given. They assume responded to those who purported to choosing a method for helping a child, children know what is right and know divine will. Brushing aside the it makes sense to evaluate the evidence wrong. But in their voice, their body flimsy claims, Lincoln would propose: behind one or another approach. But language, and their facial expression, “We must study the plain physical facts in the end we are left to make good they convey the message “I’m on your of the case, ascertain what is possible, judgments—judgments that may run side” (I think of the tough but caring and learn what appears to be wise and counter to what others claim to be “evi- football coach on the recent TV series right.” dence-based” or “best practice.” Friday Night Lights). When all is going Consider the matter of deciding fine, warm demanders will laugh along W. GEORGE SCARLETT is a senior lecturer in and which parenting or teaching style with a child, provide physical com- deputy chair of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child to adopt. Science has an answer: the fort, and show extraordinary warmth. Study and Human Development. He is also general “authoritative” style is best. In contrast, Unfortunately, the warm demander editor of the forthcoming SAGE Encyclopedia of authoritarian and permissive styles are goes under the radar of the statistical Classroom Management.

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Legends of Innovation

In the late 1920s, Vannevar Bush, E1913, G1913, H32, invented a mechanical computer for solving differential equations (shown). You’d need a gizmo like that to gauge his impact on science and technology: Raytheon cofounder, MIT dean of engineering and VP, science advisor to President Roosevelt, and prime mover behind the National Science Foundation, he also dreamed up a system of hypertext (in the 1940s!) that would help shape the World Wide Web. If Bush were around today, you can bet Kara Miller, G08, would have him on her radio show, Innovation Hub, the inspiration for her article “Five Secrets of the World’s Top Innovators” (page 27).

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Taking a cue from a small Buddhist kingdom, Tom Barefoot, A68, urges governments to rethink how they measure progress the Pursuit of Happiness

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uick, what makes you happy? if you said economic recently adopted a measure called growth, you are in the minority. When most of us think about Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) that uses production data similar to GDP, what gives us joy in life, it’s things like spending time with but discounts growth due to rebuilding friends and family, enjoying the outdoors, and volunteering from natural disasters and includes the for a cause. And yet none of these things are contained in value of volunteerism and housework official measures of progress such as Gross National Product and the cost of lost leisure time due to longer work hours. Q and Gross Domestic Product. Barefoot regards such steps as a sign For decades, countries around the measure progress in nine domains, of the growing importance of GNH. world have measured progress in purely including health, community vitality, “Five years ago, I attended a confer- economic terms: growth and con- and psychological well-being. ence of economists and no one knew sumption. That provides a skewed view In 2010, Bhutan expanded the con- anything about it. Now, two states have of development, says Tom Barefoot, cept, surveying the populace to create formally adopted well-being indicators.” A68, co-coordinator of Gross National a GNH Index, which found that for- In government, that pace of progress Happiness USA, an organization that ty-one percent of the population quali- is lightning fast, says Barefoot, who aims to change the focus of govern- fied as “happy,” meaning they achieved for the past thirty years has viewed ment from increasing consumption “sufficiency” in six out of the nine bureaucracy close up as president of a to increasing well-being—and in a categories. But even those that were computer networking company serv- few short years has already started to unhappy were sufficient, on average, in ing government clients. Before that, change hearts and minds in state and five domains. And more importantly, Barefoot was for twelve years a board municipal governments. the index gives the country the data to member and president of Vermont The idea really isn’t far-fetched. identify which classes of citizen are less Public Interest Research Group, an After all, the Founding Fathers in the environmental advocacy body. But Declaration of Independence extolled over the years, he’s become increasingly the right to the pursuit of happiness. disillusioned by the polarization of The focus on growth didn’t come until American politics into special interest much later. “Gross National Product groups, each pushing its own agenda. came about from a need during the “It’s grown to the point where the two Second World War to count produc- sides in politics can’t even talk to each tion,” says Barefoot. “But GNP has other,” he says. never been intended as a measure of Once he discovered GNHUSA, he progress—that’s a total misuse of the latched onto the concept as a way to figure. It does not count a number of create a third space to move beyond very important things.” unproductive political infighting. Now Hurricane Katrina, for example, he helps plan conferences on GNH, trashed the Gulf Coast, destroying mil- Tom Barefoot coordinates the activities of various lions of dollars’ worth of property, and working groups within the organi- yet it caused GNP to increase because zation, and implements happiness of all of the growth in construction happy—including women, rural dwell- surveys in his home state of Vermont. in the area. “Another good example is ers, and farmers—and what is making “In stark contrast to the government divorce,” says Barefoot. “Now you need them unhappy, in order to better focus gridlock we see all around us, happi- two refrigerators and two cars, so GNP development efforts. ness metrics looked to me like a way to goes up. But is the world better off?” Now the concept seems to be have a real discussion about what peo- Five years ago, a friend introduced catching on more broadly. In 2011, the ple want in their lives,” Barefoot says. Barefoot to the concept of Gross United Nations passed a resolution to What makes people happy? Not National Happiness, the official study the matter, and countries from wealth, according to the latest research. metric for progress in the Himalayan Canada to New Zealand have adopted A study in 2010 by two Princeton country of Bhutan. Since 1971, the some of its principles in their own researchers, including the Nobel tiny Buddhist kingdom has used the governments. In the United States, Prize–winning psychologist Daniel concept of GNH alongside GNP to both Vermont and Maryland have Kahneman, found that money does

20 tufts magazine | winter 2015 photo: George Soules increase well-being, but only up to a a “development map” (vtgpi.org) to point. “In the U.S., that’s about seven- In poll after show where health and environmental ty-five thousand a year,” says Barefoot. poll, people development is needed alongside eco- “After that point, happiness levels out, nomic development. In the future, the and you can’t keep becoming happier say their state plans to use this data in allocating by consuming more.” budget spending. One thing that does make people work is out Maryland adopted the GPI as an happy is altruism. In studies by the of balance official policy tool through executive Harvard Business School professor action by Governor Martin O’Malley in Michael Norton and the University with the rest 2013, and a number of cities and towns of British Columbia psychologist are pursuing their own efforts in GNH. Elizabeth Dunn­—authors of Happy of their life. The city of Santa Monica, California, Money: The Science of Smarter Yet the United for example, recently implemented a Spending—students were given twenty “well-being survey,” polling residents dollars and told to use it either on States is one of on their concerns, including financial themselves or on others. By the end of stress, work-life imbalance, and worries the day, those who spent it on oth- the stingiest about safety. The city plans on using ers reported more overall happiness. countries the data to create a “well-being index” Researchers at the University of Zurich that can be used to integrate city last year even found that a part of when it services. the brain called the temporoparietal In Tufts’ own back yard, Somerville junction is primed for thinking about comes to was the first city in the country to con- others’ needs. vacation time, duct a household survey of happiness. What would make people happier? The city used data from the survey to In poll after poll, people say their work maternity change government priorities—for is out of balance with the rest of their example, by allocating more money to life, and that they don’t have enough leave, and the Department of Traffic and Parking time to spend with their friends family sick in response to citizen concerns. In and family. One recent Pew poll, for 2013, the city updated its SomerStat example, found that fifty-six percent leave. project with a new mobile app that of working moms and fifty percent of uses GPS data to measure exactly how working dads found it “very” or “some- happy residents feel at different places what” difficult to balance work and with community, environment, and and times in the city. family. Yet the United States is one of government. Barefoot sees such mea- Barefoot and his fellow happiness the stingiest countries when it comes to surements as an important first step adherents take pride in the pace of vacation time and other rights such as not only in raising awareness about the these accomplishments just a few maternity leave and family sick leave— concept of well-being as opposed to years after introducing the concept of ranking dead last in paid leave time in material growth, but also in identifying GNH on a national level. As the idea a 2013 survey of developed nations by areas on which government should spreads, they aim to make happiness as the Center for Economic and Policy focus in order to increase happiness. ubiquitous a concept as, say, sustain- Research. “Everyone feels there are Those metrics “start to give us a frame- ability—cutting across both personal issues with time balance,” Barefoot work to show whether we are making awareness and government policy to says. “A lot of help could come from progress on a set of goals,” he says. create a broader way of measuring and government policy in maintaining that It was thanks to GNHUSA’s efforts determining our priorities. If they suc- balance between life and work.” that Vermont passed its 2012 law ceed, then one day soon governments Back in 2011, the Happiness Alliance including the use of the Genuine won’t have to guess at how happy their in Seattle released its own national Progress Indicator in setting priorities constituents are, or how to make them online survey (take it at happycounts. for the state. As part of the law, the happier. org) to measure what really matters— University of Vermont’s Gund Institute including mental and material well-be- for Ecological Economics is track- MICHAEL BLANDING is a Boston-based writer and a ing, work-life balance, and satisfaction ing GPI over time and constructing frequent contributor to Tufts Magazine.

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Vets on campus, part 1 A Few Good Men and Women Why universities need veterans by Elliot Ackerman, A03, F03

uring my eight years as a Marine Corps officer, there taken, the one they considered trav- was one question I must’ve been asked a thousand eling once their enlistments were times. Up late on radio watch in the turret of a gun complete. Their question would usually truck in Iraq’s barren Al-Anbar Province, or beneath lead to a bit of exposition from me— a blanket of stars on a hilltop outpost in the Hindu how to apply to university, liberal arts Kush, the privates and lance corporals I led always versus the sciences, and maybe a good wanted to know: “Hey, sir, what’s college like?” story from a frat party on College Ave. D For most of these guys, college was the path not to add some color. Among the older

22 tufts magazine | winter 2015 photo: ilker gurer Ackerman, “Great, go to college first.” the dead from the First and Second photographed in Istanbul—his home “My Dad’s got a construction World Wars, as well as the Korean base while reporting on company, sir.” War. Then, clustered in a corner of the the Syrian Civil War—hopes “Great, go to college first.” church, were other names, those few for dialogue between “Some friends of mine are mak- who died in Vietnam. As academic military and academic ing a killing in Silicon Valley, sir.” institutions removed military recruit- institutions. “Great, go to college first.” ers and ROTC from their campuses, At face value, my zeal for higher a rupture occurred in that era, one education stemmed from the doors that echoes to this day and is only now I knew it would open, and the ones I being repaired. knew would be closed without a degree. America’s military and academic But I’ve since realized this desire to see institutions may not always reflect my Marines go on with their education one another’s values, nor should they, was not born solely out of a love for but both are the cradles of this coun- them, but also a love for the univer- try’s leadership. A dialogue must exist sities they’d attend. Our universities between the two. Just as the mili- need students like my Marines. tary provides every veteran with an I came to Tufts in 1998 and left in opportunity to attend college through 2003 with degrees from the College the G.I. Bill and other programs, our of Arts and Sciences and the Fletcher universities provide the military with School of Law and Diplomacy. In those the bulk of its officer corps through five years, we went from a nation at programs such as ROTC. The two feed peace to a nation at war. Among more each other. It’s a tie that binds. than four thousand undergraduates, I The strength of Tufts has always was one of three students with any tie been its student body, attracting to the military: two of us were in Naval international and richly diverse ROTC, and one was a former Marine. classes. With the wars in Iraq and As Tufts grappled with issues of war Afghanistan concluding, an impor- and peace—whether to hold classes on tant voice is returning, one in search September 12th, 2001, the debate sur- of knowledge and, at the same time, rounding the Iraq War—this important able to dispense its own. A university conversation felt incomplete. If a uni- that attracts such perspectives, along versity is, at its most basic, a collection with many others, will thrive. of voices educating each other, then These wars have been going on one crucial voice seemed to be miss- for thirteen years. In thirteen more, ing. The veteran. That man or woman my four-year-old daughter will be who has borne the brunt of war, lost applying to colleges. When she steps friends, spent long deployments away onto the campus of her choosing, I from loved ones, felt the interminable hope she’ll be able sit in English 101, noncommissioned officers, my enthu- boredom of standing watch mix with lean over to a classmate, and ask the siasm for higher education became a the combustible terror and exhilaration reverse of the question I was asked bit of a running joke. If they knew one inherent in his or her duties. those many years ago: “Hey, what’s the of the younger Marines was thinking During my time at Tufts, I lived Marine Corps like?” of getting out of the Corps, their next off campus, near Harvard Square. question would be: “Did the lieutenant Now and again, I would wander ELLIOT ACKERMAN, A03, F03, served five tours of duty give you his college talk yet?” into Memorial Church, dedicated in Iraq and Afghanistan and is the recipient of the I practically begged the Marines in on Armistice Day in 1932. Flanking Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple my command to go to college once they The Sacrifice, a sculpture by Malvina Heart. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, finished their enlistments: Hoffman of a shrouded woman cra- The Atlantic, and The New Republic, and he is the “I’m thinking of taking a job as a dling a fallen soldier’s head in her lap, author of a new novel, Green on Blue. He will be the truck driver, sir.” long lists were etched into the walls, Fletcher School’s first writer-in-residence this spring.

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VETS ON CAMPUS, part 2 Basic Training The navy prepared him for Tufts. A new scholarship opened the door. by catherine o’neill grace

hen Keith Wasserboehr, A16, was working thir- with military experience or military teen-hour shifts as a U.S. Navy aviation mechanic ambitions: the Tufts ROTC/Veterans in Bahrain, German film studies was the last thing Scholarship. on his mind. But that class turned out to be one of Before his stint in the navy, few his favorites during his first semester as an under- would have seen Wasserboehr as graduate at Tufts. At twenty-six, he’s embarking on college material. Having endured what Wthe prerequisites for a psychology major, hoping one day to work with he calls a “really tough childhood” in adolescents as a therapist. Wasserboehr is following this Reading, Massachusetts, he strug- dream thanks to a new scholarship created for people gled in high school. “I was an Wasserboehr, awful student—seventh the first recipient of worst in my graduating the new Tufts ROTC/ class,” he says. He enlisted Veterans scholarship, takes notes in Associate Professor two months out of school. Daniel Brown’s class on After basic training in Bertolt Brecht. the Great Lakes, he was assigned to the naval air station on Whidbey Island in Washington. His five years on active duty included deployments in Qatar and Bahrain. “I was never on a ship, which is odd for being in the navy,” he says, “but I worked on a plane that was too big to fit on ships”—the P3 Orion, a four-engine reconnaissance aircraft with a hundred-foot wingspan. Keeping the planes airworthy was a huge responsibility. “The pressure on the ground crew was intense,” Wasserboehr says. “We used to say we had eight days on, zero days off.” When he left the navy, with the rank of petty officer third class, a company in Connecticut offered him an aviation mechanic position, which he seriously considered taking. “I loved being an aviation mechanic,” he says. “I like working with my hands, and I loved the camaraderie.” But he had injured his back in the service and had degen- erative disc disease. “I just couldn’t do it,” he says. His wife talked him into going back to school instead. He enrolled in Middlesex Commu-

24 tufts magazine | winter 2015 photo: matthew healy nity College, outside of Boston, where establish AMVETS Post 2008, in Wasserboehr says. “I want to thank the a counselor suggested he transfer to Belmont, Massachusetts, of which he is donors, both for supporting Tufts and Tufts. The university, he says, had commander. He has volunteered with for supporting veterans. In some places “never been on my radar screen.” But the Veterans History Project of the we are undersupported, but not here. It he applied and got in. Library of Congress. These activities means a lot to me and to other vets.” The ROTC/Veterans Scholarship that “brought me in contact with many Arabian believes veterans have supports Wasserboehr was established veterans from all walks of life—and much to offer the university. “I admire in May 2014 with contributions from brought me closer to Tufts,” he says. those who volunteer for service and go more than seventy Tufts alumni. One Arabian’s enthusiasm for Tufts had through the rigors of training,” he says. of those donors is attorney Gregory “badly waned” during the Vietnam These days Wasserboehr is more Arabian, A54, who graduated from Tufts era, when student protests caused the concerned with the rigors of academia. ROTC and rose to the rank of major in closure of ROTC units. “We had to “The kids here are so driven,” he says. the U.S. Air Force. He says Wasserboehr reverse this,” he says. “I became one “Though I have more worldly experi- is just the kind of student he had in of a handful of Tufts graduates who ence, it doesn’t give me a leg up at all. mind when he supported Tufts’ efforts formed Advocates for Tufts ROTC.” But I bring a different perspective.” to raise money for the scholarship. Without the ROTC/Veterans Arabian served in the air force Scholarship, attending Tufts full Catherine O’Neill Grace is a Boston-area magazine from 1954 into the 1980s and helped time would not have been possible, editor and book author.

Laurels

Game Changers Gaitonde, titled V.S. Gaitonde: at the University of Hong Kong; and Human Rights Four Tufts alums have been named Painting as Process, Painting as ADAM TREANOR, F02, managing di- Advocate to the Forbes magazine “30 Under Life, which travels to the Peggy rector of Falconhead Capital in New SOFIA SHIELD, A14, received the 30” roster in recognition of their Guggenheim in Venice this fall. York City, have been appointed to Characters Unite Award from USA roles as “game changers” in their the Board of Advisors to the Fletcher Network and Time Warner Cable fields:ABENA AGYEMANG, A07, nation- New Advisors School. LISA G. MANN, E84, E18P, a in recognition of her efforts to al director of school partnerships KEVIN BOYLE, A78, the general senior vice president at Mondelez combat hate and discrimination at Families for Excellent Public counsel for the International Union International in East Hanover, as a human rights advocate in the Schools; JON FREEMAN, G08, G12, of Police Associations, has been New Jersey, is a new advisor to the Los Angeles community. She is an assistant professor of psychol- named to the Board of Advisors School of Engineering, and JUAN featured on-air in a PSA and online ogy at New York University; SCOTT for Athletics. New to the Board of F. CARRIZOSA, A80, F14, regional at charactersunite.com. Inspired by TRAVERS, A07, a vice president at Advisors to the School of Medicine manager of Latin America North for her grandparents, who survived the JPMorgan Chase & Company; and and the Sackler School of Graduate the Royal Bank of Canada, is a new Holocaust, Shield was cochair of DANIELLE WEISBERG, A08, cofounder Biomedical Sciences are LAWRENCE member of the International Board Tufts Against Genocide. of theSkimm, a daily “news-you- G. CETRULO, M12P, founding partner of Advisors. DANIEL R. HEBERT, V01, need-to-know” email with more than of Cetrulo LLP in Boston; OLIVIA president of the Tufts Veterinary Making Waves one million subscribers that recently HO CHENG, vice chair and founding Alumni Association and the owner JACK WHITEHEAD, E63, J01P, a partnered with Oprah.com. partner of BE Capital Partners in of the Duxbury Animal Hospital, scientist emeritus at the Woods Taipei, Taiwan; and AJAY SONDHI, has joined the Board of Advisors Hole Oceanographic Institution, was Guggenheim Curator M18P, of Singapore. BRAD M. MESLIN, to Cummings School of Veterinary awarded the 2014 Maurice Ewing AMARA ANTILLA, A08, has been F82, F84, senior managing director Medicine. JEFFREY B. KINDLER, A77, Medal from the American Geophysical promoted to assistant curator at the of CSP Associates in Cambridge, A11P, a Tufts trustee, is also an ad- Union for his work in the ocean sci- Guggenheim Museum. She worked Massachusetts; COURTNEY visor to Tisch College; he is director ences. His research has focused on on an exhibition about the Indian RICHARDSON FUNG, F12, an assistant of Starboard Capital Partners in the complex fluid mechanics of the modern painter Vasudeo Santu professor of international relations Southport, Connecticut. oceans and planetary interiors.

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brilliant! Jumbo entrepreneurs and their big ideas by beth horning

THREADS WORLDWIDE make twelve times Angela Yost, J99, cofounder more income than they had previously done. BIG IDEA: Creating partner- threadsworldwide.com ships between women in developing countries who HACKERNEST craft beautiful jewelry and Shaharris Beh, A05, cofounder accessories—like the edgy, asymmetrical Tien bracelet BIG IDEA: A nonprofit (made in Vietnam) or the devoted to creating sup- Mandovi purse (made in portive, Silicon Valley–like India), which is fashioned communities outside of from recycled seat Silicon Valley. HackerNest belts—and women in the sponsors hardware hack- United States who can sell athons, job fairs, and other such creations by hosting events, including casual, special “threads parties” in friendly gatherings where their communities. “We the focus is on connect- focus on women because ing and having fun with LEAGUE OF KITCHENS launched in February 2014, they put ninety percent of peers, not networking. “We Lisa Gross, MFA11, founder has already garnered raves. their income back into their wanted to remove the cold Conde Nast Traveler pro- family,” Yost explained in interaction created by want- BIG IDEA: New York City claimed that its workshops the Pioneer Business ing to seem bigger than immigrants lead cooking “might just be the coolest Review. you are, and strip away workshops for groups of four foodie thing to do in the STATUS: Yost founded the the pretentiousness of or five in their homes. New city.” The business currently Denver-based Threads business-oriented events,” Yorkers enjoy culinary employs instructors from Worldwide in November of Beh told the Canadian tech adventures from all over the Argentina, Trinidad, Greece, 2011 with her friends and news website BetaKit. world, and the immigrants Bangladesh, Korea, fellow travel enthusiasts STATUS: When Beh and gain income. Gross, who Afghanistan, India, and Lindsay Herron and his entrepreneur brother grew up savoring the food Lebanon. Groups can sign up Kara Weigand. Their JJ, along with their techie her Korean grandmother for either a full workshop, artisan partners—in colleague Robin Toop, used to make, decided after with three and a half hours Cambodia, Ecuador, started HackerNest in her grandmother’s death of instruction and a full Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Toronto in 2011, it was that she wanted to cook dinner ($149 per person), or Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, “a few nerds talking over some of it herself. “I began a shorter session consisting Peru, and Vietnam—are drinks,” as their website using cookbooks and the of one and a half hours of thriving. The artisans in puts it. Since then, splinter Internet. Everything I made instruction and a small meal Ecuador, for example, cells have run more than was good but not as good as ($95 per person). And while one hundred forty events how my grandmother made carnivores will be well in twenty different cities in it,” she told ABC News. “So I served, vegetarians will be, eleven different countries. sort of had this fantasy of too, with, for example, Currently, a “coders ‘Wouldn’t it be great if there traditional Trinidadian teaching coders” project was this other Korean katchourie, fritters made is in the works to allow grandmother who I could from yellow split peas and HackerNest communities learn from?’ ” served with mango chutney. across the globe to share STATUS: League of Kitchens, leagueofkitchens.com expertise. hackernest.com

26 tufts magazine | winter 2015 photo: ingimage (food) Five Secrets of the World’s Top Innovators My radio show guests have taught me a few things about entrepreneurship by Kara Miller, G08

In 1995, the legendary venture capitalist Roger machines—rather than using his engi- McNamee watched Jeff Bezos lay out his idea for neering degree. a company. The concept was simple. Bezos would Doing something innovative almost create an online bookstore, Amazon. You’d pick out ensures that people will shake their a book, and Amazon would send it to you. “I just sat heads at your decisions. When Hewlett- there going, ‘Oh my gosh, this is great. I love books. Packard considered creating scientific I’d buy a ton of books. I’m so glad they’re here,’ ” calculators in the 1970s, focus groups Kara Miller McNamee told me. “The notion that they were going showed that the public had no inter- to be as important as Wal-Mart was very hard to conceive of.” est in buying them. But Bill Hewlett Which is often the nature of true innovation. It can seem trivial, ignored the research and gambled on marginal, even slightly nuts—until it changes the world. his own instincts that a significant slice When I launched the public radio show Innovation Hub at WGBH of consumers would pay for a handheld in 2011, I was only vaguely aware that the people behind those calculator. Turns out he was right. world-changing ideas were becoming icons—that their reputations were inspiring legions of entrepreneurs, creating what McNamee calls a “social revolution.” The former chief oper- ating officer of eBay, Maynard Webb, put it to me this way: “At Stanford, in the graduating class . . . even if you got offered great jobs like at Google, that was kind of selling out. People wanted to start their own companies.” So, if you want to be an innova- tor—by starting your own company, reinventing someone else’s, or just add- ing doses of creativity to your everyday routine—how do you do it? Here are five lessons I’ve learned:

1. Take at least one crazy chance. Jeff Bezos walked away from a lucrative career in finance. Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college and then turned down hefty offers for Facebook. And before computers were widespread, Atari’s founder, Nolan Bushnell, hacked together video games—and earned money by repairing pinball

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Sure, taking a chance means risking back and forth between Facebook and nerdy things, like science and math.” failure, but for true innovators fail- Candy Crush. This kind of labeling can easily follow ure isn’t the end of the world. Travis While an employee at Hewlett- us into the adult world. Kalanick saw multiple ventures fail Packard, Steve Wozniak sought out But I believe we’re in the middle of before cofounding Uber. Fred Smith quiet stretches of time to develop the a nerd renaissance. Techies are feeling nearly went bankrupt starting a computer that would become the Apple inspired. Cash is flowing. Investment company called FedEx. And Jeff Bezos I. He got to work early and stayed late in startups has shot up over the last few wasn’t at all sure that Amazon would into the evening, fiddling with a project years, and by some estimates there are succeed. When Bezos approached early that would change the world. now north of 15,000 such companies in investors, according to biographer Brad Silicon Valley. Stone, “he told them all that there was 4. Embrace extreme creativity. One Nerd culture is on the rise, too. a seventy percent chance they would of the most fascinating people I’ve Randall Munroe, for example, has lose their money. So I think all along he ever interviewed is a guy named Jason become a phenomenon by creating a knew that the odds were long and the Fried, who runs the web application physics-and-math-focused comic strip, risks were high, but he never allowed it company Basecamp. Fried has experi- xkcd. Monroe now lures millions of to stop him or slow him down.” mented with four-day weeks, he’s given readers a month, and his new book employees time to create independent What If? recently landed at number one 2. Forget about balance. I once asked projects, and he’s more than willing to on the New York Times bestseller list. Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, who allow colleagues to work from home, For a nerd like me, this is a cool served as a Google VP, whether she’s even if home is in another part of the time to be focused on innovation. able to maintain work-life balance. country. “It’s unlikely that every best We’re living at a moment when the “Balance is a dangerous word,” Mayer person in the world in their job hap- public sector is looking for unortho- said. “People think Google just hap- pens to be within a twenty-mile radius dox solutions to big problems, when pened. It didn’t just happen. There was of our office,” Fried said. “That’s just information is increasingly available a crew of fifty of us, and a hundred of not the way things work.” to brilliant minds, and when gaps in us, and two hundred of us doing one- By thinking creatively about his role opportunity are forcing us to rethink hundred-plus hour weeks. And you as CEO, Fried enables employees to be the economy. do it because you love it. And because imaginative and take initiative, rather I have the amazing luck to sit in you know that you’re doing something than worrying about punching a time a studio, don earphones, and talk to important.” card. the men and women who are revolu- Though building something great Creativity is also worth embracing tionizing the way we live. People who often means working incredibly hard, for another reason: rote jobs tend to be are willing to face the odds, embrace Mayer said you can protect your sanity low-paying (think fast-food workers the discomfort of standing apart from by reserving time for the things that and supermarket clerks) or disappear- the crowd, and opt for oddity over matter most—whether that’s bowling ing altogether (think bank tellers). “We assimilation. with your friends on Thursday night or need creative learning,” Joi Ito, director Change is coming. I can hear it. coaching your kids’ soccer team. of MIT’s Media Lab, noted recently. “The creativity is the thing that the KARA MILLER, G08, is the host and executive editor of 3. Get some alone time. One of the most computers can’t do. All the repetitive Innovation Hub, a nationally broadcast radio show from striking—though rarely discussed— physical and mental jobs will be taken WGBH and PRI. Before earning a Ph.D. in English at facts about the technorati is that they over by computers.” Tufts she received a B.A. from Yale. spend periods of time (a couple of hours a day, one day a week) eschew- 5. Be a nerd. Being great at something Lessons from Jumbo Innovators ing tech. And they can be tougher on inevitably leads to nerdiness—and this More than a dozen Tufts alumni innovators limiting screen time for their kids than isn’t a culture that always embraces explore the nature of entrepreneurship at bit.ly/ Jumbo_entrepreneurs. Steffan Hacker’s four-minute most other parents. nerds. Despite the success of people like video includes insights from Diane Hessan, J75, Sherry Turkle, the author of Alone Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, kids cofounder and chair of Communispace; Josh Together, has noted that we do some of still dislike the “nerd” label, according Goldman, A88, general partner at Norwest Venture our best thinking when we’re bored, to David Anderegg, author of Nerds. Partners; Jack McDermott, A14, founder of Balbus when we’re alone, when we’re singu- “They’re anxious to avoid it. And other Speech; and Faith Wallace-Gadsden, G14, founder of Archimedes Project. larly focused—not when we’re toggling kids are very down on kids who do

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Social Pyramid

Julia Csekö, MFA13, used actual Barbie clothes to create Middle Gray, a piece that appeared in the recent show One Language Is Never Enough: Latino Artists of Southern New England, at Massachusetts’ Fitchburg Art Museum. The work is part of her Hybrids series, which the museum described as “soft, calligraphic sculptures that hover between fantasy and reality.” Csekö divides her time between Boston and Rio de Janeiro.

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By Kara Peters photograph by timothy archibald Again Formed I Whole

Patrick Mahoney, A06, rebuilds his shattered life of words

hortly after midnight on october Ortlieb panniers with built-in reflective patches. 27, 2010, Patrick Mahoney was cycling He was pedaling along a flat two-lane stretch of home from the Stone Church, a bar and Route 33 in Stratham when a young woman in a live music venue in Newmarket, New Honda Accord struck him from behind as she was Hampshire. He’d been out with some sending a text. He hit the windshield, then flew Sfriends after an evening poetry workshop led by forward ninety-four feet before landing on a grassy David Rivard, a former instructor of his at Tufts patch of roadside, his head severely injured. He was and the director of the M.F.A. program in writing taken to nearby Portsmouth Regional Hospital, at the University of New Hampshire. then transported by medevac to Massachusetts The weather was brisk, and there was a light General Hospital, where surgeons performed a cra- evening mist, but the twelve-mile distance niotomy, removing and preserving part of his skull home—an hour’s ride—was nothing for a guy while the right frontal lobe of his brain healed. who’d biked across the country a few years earlier. The surgery went well, but doctors were still Mahoney was well versed in bike safety: He was grim. They told his family that given the extent sober and wearing a helmet, as well as reflector of the damage to Mahoney’s brain, his quality stripes on his legs. His bike had a rear light and of life, if he pulled through, would be extremely

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compromised. “One neurologist told and volunteered for the Berkeley-based ivard recalled visiting my parents to face reality, go home, nonprofit Small Press Distribution, the ICU at Mass. General and move on with their lives,” he said which exposed him to a wide selection of a few days after Mahoney’s in a recent interview. “They were pretty contemporary poetry. “He was sending R surgery. “It was heartbreak- offended.” me his work, and it was really strong,” ing and horrifying. It didn’t seem like The third of five siblings in a said Rivard. “It was clear he’d been read- he was going to live, and if he did, his close-knit Irish-American family— ing a lot and was serious about writing.” physical ability and entire character his mother, a nurse, emigrated from In September 2010, Mahoney would be forever changed.” Ireland in the 1970s—Mahoney was enrolled in the M.F.A. program at Sustained by a deep Catholic faith, intellectually curious and driven to UNH, where he received a teaching Mahoney’s large family rallied around achieve. At Tufts he majored in Spanish assistantship and had the opportunity him, never doubting that he would pull and in international letters and visual to work with Rivard, who had recently through. Two weeks after the accident, studies (“basically, comparative art and taken a tenured position there, and he opened his eyes for the first time literature,” he explained) and delved Charles Simic, a former poet laureate. and gave his mother a reassuring wink. into the work of writers like Jorge Luis Then came the accident, and By the time he moved to Spaulding Borges and Gabriel García Márquez. Mahoney’s promising future was put Rehabilitation Hospital, at the end of He ran cross-country, won division on hold. November, he was breathing with the titles in track, and graduated summa help of a tracheostomy tube, smiling, cum laude in 2006. and trying to write notes. His girl- To Rivard, his poetry teacher, friend, Anne, was another constant Mahoney seemed “extremely disci- Heaven presence, and one of his first jottings plined and ambitious,” yet at the same was a shakily scrawled “Dear Anne,” time “affable and super friendly.” “He Where I want to be accompanied by a wobbly heart. appeared very laid back,” Rivard said until I find out On December 1, using a speaking in a recent phone conversation. valve on his trach tube, he managed to Mahoney played the guitar I’m already there. count from one to five and back and and wrote song lyrics but was offi- This world beyond recite the middle names of each of his cially seduced by verse in Rivard’s family members. His memories of this Introduction to Poetry course at Tufts, is inside the wool period are understandably muddled, but where he distinguished himself as one sweater my mother knit, certain impressions stand out. “I was of the best in the class. “He wrote about hyperconscious of having that one-sided what a lot of undergrads write about— behind these eyes form of interaction where you’re taking family, childhood, love relationships— my fingertips touch everything in, but you don’t have any- but he had this very intense, quirky thing going out,” he remembered. sense of image,” said Rivard. “There each morning. I live outside Speech therapy and reading simple was also a kind of soulfulness to his lands long settled and embrace texts—Roald Dahl and the free Boston work, which you can’t really teach. His Metro were favorites—helped his poems had these two opposing quali- minutia—I smell the coffee language recovery, which he recalled ties—melancholy and wildness—that ground, then taste it brewed. as “simultaneously frustrating and a created an interesting tension.” huge relief.” Remastering the nuances Mahoney completed a senior I feel the dirt road with my feet of inflection, body language, and honors thesis that combined a general through my black faded Chucks. facial expressions remained difficult, analysis of American poetry with thir- and therapists worked with him to ty-three of his own poems, and after The end of the road overcome the “flat affect” common in graduation, he used poetry to help goes well beyond sight. people with brain injuries. him process his day job as a mental Mahoney’s left side was partially health counselor. “You’re listening to So I turn on tips of toes paralyzed for almost a year following people’s stories all the time,” he said. and I am breathing deeply— the accident, so regaining his mobility “Writing gave me an outlet for all the was an even bigger challenge. With experiences I was having at work.” the air, tasting of oak-moss, an athlete’s discipline and intensive In 2007, he moved to San Francisco my eyes—still closed. physical and occupational therapy,

32 tufts magazine | winter 2015 however, he was walking with minimal Flat Affect assistance by mid-January. Then, after three months of solid The room I have always carried inside of me progress, Mahoney was admitted to looks and feels the same in my mind— Mass. General’s ICU with seizures— my wool socks on the wood floor not uncommon in people who’ve had slide and spin, and I’m still traumatic brain injuries. He remained unresponsive for several days, and his the heir to this creaking stool— family was told it could take weeks for each hand rests on the opposite hip. him to recover. By mid-February, he I sit up straight and arch took a few tentative steps aided by his cat to cow at rest. physical therapist, and by the end of the month was steadily improving. I speak to myself the poems I remember— He left Spaulding in April for words with an inherent rhythm, wandering songs Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation about clay pipes, lost birds, and America. Center, in Greenfield, New Hampshire, There is tone where, at “maybe thirty percent better,” his focus turned to cognitive rehabil- to these words that echo itation. “At Crotched Mountain, they in this near empty room, in this space believe that in order to get someone in my head. I speak and hear rehabilitated, you have to embrace what some type of music. they were doing before the brain injury and use that as a guide,” said Mahoney. Perhaps we all send words, “For me, that was writing.” develop connections as the brain His first assignment was to read a touches the tongue. Like a needle to a record book and prepare a presentation for spinning, speaking away the mystery of vinyl. his therapy group. He chose Rats, by Robert Sullivan, a natural and social Candor and confidence are the album cover. history of the relationship between Even with scratches, the record inside will play on, rats and humans. “The exercise was sound the same. In a way. I see clearly my own reflection so refreshing, because it was the exact in the glass as I look straight out these windows. opposite of that one-sided taking-ev- erything-in that I’d been experiencing. I still know how I look I felt like ‘the camera’s on me now,’ and but how do I sound? it was really tempting to go on and on. I had to really work to stay relevant and communicate clearly.” Crotched Mountain also had a therapeutic writing he had done in the David Rivard and sat in on back-to- strong arts emphasis that appealed to past few months, his poetic ambitions back poetry workshops. But speaking him. He learned how to read music and had been overshadowed by the tasks of still required all his concentration, and play the piano, and was encouraged to daily living. he wasn’t writing much. “He really take up juggling. “It’s good to relearn After spending a few months in used the workshop as a way to exercise the things you did before, but learning New Jersey with his parents, he moved his speech,” said Rivard. new things is even better for rehabili- to Cambridge with Anne in January tating your brain,” he explained. “A big 2012, and the idea of writing slowly part of recovery is creating those new crept back into his life. He attended ahoney reenrolled at connections between brain cells.” Community Rehab Care in Newton UNH in the fall of 2012, By June, when Mahoney left four days a week and was eventually but his struggles were not Crotched Mountain, he was walk- asked to moderate a writing therapy M over. After the relative ing unaided, conversing, and feeling group there. When the spring semes- silence of his ordeal, he found himself much more confident. But despite the ter started, he drove up to UNH with overcompensating. “Poetry is often

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about what you don’t say, or saying inside of them, and they’re able to let gift of consciousness and gain more the most you can in the fewest words,” go and let the sounds tell them what to appreciation for seemingly little things, he said. “I kind of had the opposite put on the page,” he explained. “When like the amount of work it takes to walk approach at first because I had so much Patrick started writing again, it was like or count,” Mahoney said. I’d been wanting to say that my poems everything that was there before was Mahoney completed his master’s just sounded like ranting.” amplified. It became easier for him to degree last May. He and Anne are Rivard noticed the same thing. “His let go.” married and back in the Bay Area, and poems were filled with wonderful, The need to pay conscious attention he is embarking on a career as a writing wonderful stuff, and he was all over the to almost everything he did—not to and art therapist. He has just pub- place trying lots of different things— mention sheer gratitude for the gift of lished a book of poems, Towards Being from narrative scenes to gnarly, intense life—also sharpened Mahoney’s poetic Infinite (Piscataqua Press), under his lyrics. The struggle was to control and gifts. “You have to relearn everything Irish nom de plume, Padraig Mahou, a structure all of it, which was really you learned as a child, but you have the nod to his transformation of late. The what Patrick was having to do in book’s title shares its initials other areas of his life, too.” with “traumatic brain injury.” Mahoney waited patiently Fittingly, the proceeds from its for nature to take its course. Ar Gach Aon Taohb sale will go to a treatment facility “Gradually I went from sitting where Mahoney taught creative down with a pile of books, and So I’m after a walk in writing, the Krempels Center in sort of piecing things together, the woods— Portsmouth, New Hampshire. to being led by sound and on a path alongside Poems like “Plasticina,” in composing more slowly in fewer an icebound which he compares his brain to words,” he said. riverbed, left Play-Doh being molded anew Seizures were another major by some arborist— until “again I formed whole,” obstacle. He’d been diagnosed this past blue-green hot and “Flat Affect” (see page 33) with post-traumatic epilepsy, summer, the trees take the reader inside the frus- and suffered a grand mal epi- were felled so morning trations and epiphanies of his sode in the spring of 2013. He snow’d soften on ice caps. recovery. “Ar Gach Aon Taohb” bounced back, even despite the Sounds going soft (Irish Gaelic for “On Each Side”; heavy side effects of his anti- on step into step now, opposite) and “Heaven” (page seizure medication (“I could with sun-faded fog 32) convey Mahoney’s height- always tell when he had to go on to unearth an accent, ened sense of gratitude, while more meds,” Rivard said). to stretch this bit of sleep other poems look confidently Rivard was confident that on me still. toward a bright future. All are Mahoney would get his writing Nurtured by time bursting with sharp observa- chops back. “When he was at my words speak themselves tions, revelatory metaphors, and Crotched Mountain, he wrote tongue feels the shapes— a clear sense of what it means to this strange little piece about feel pliant, placid— be alive. chickens as part of some therapy I return to that higher plane, The idea of infinity reso- exercise,” he said. “There were having learned to speak again— nates with Patrick, because, he these quirky perceptions in it to know, to be, to get explained, “my recovery seemed that made me think, ‘Oh, yeah, awake or asleep, so unlikely, and now, even today, he’s going to be writing poetry into then or now seems limitless. Regardless of again. Whatever that thing is and how you speak what happens, your words, your that drives him to write is still says where you are: thoughts, your poems, your intact.’ ” from which bank sound may echo on.” Rivard thinks the accident of the river you stare— helped loosen Mahoney’s the river’s current KARA PETERS is a freelance writer and creativity in beneficial ways. runs the same way editor in Georgetown, Massachusetts. She “Poets start with language, with but each look downstream writes Tufts Magazine’s “Mixed Media” rhythms and sounds floating is in wholeness unique. department.

34 tufts magazine | winter 2015 Mixed Media our books and creative milestones By Kara Peters

FICTION A Sister to Honor verse that vibrates with perceptive, the corrupt manipulation of “the Berkley intimate intensity. world’s most important number” From Lucy Ferriss, G93, this riveting hurt ordinary investors. and timely novel tells the story of Selected Poems Afia Satar, the devout daughter of FutureCycle Press Round the Circle: a well-off Pakistani family. When Christopher Bursk, A65, has Experienced Doulas Share Afia travels to America to attend authored twelve books of poetry, from What They’ve Learned Smith College, her brother, Shahid, which he draws this rich collection Hale is entrusted to protect her. But when teeming with surprising observations Julie Brill, J92, gathers the wisdom a photo surfaces of Afia holding on family, the passage of time, and of twenty-three doulas, profes- hands with an American boy, Shahid the puzzles and rewards of a full life. A sionals who support women and is called to erase the shame she has recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fel- their partners through pregnancy Green On Blue: A Novel brought on the family. lowships, he writes, “I owe much of my and birth. Aspiring doulas will Scribner beginnings as a writer to my studies in glean advice on encouraging the Elliot Ackerman, A03, F03, a Devin Rhodes is Dead the English department at Tufts.” mother-baby bond, supporting spir- decorated veteran and author of Charlesbridge itual practices, marketing a doula this issue’s “A Few Good Men and Jennifer Wolf Kam, J94, captures business, and much more. Women” (page 22), is a deeply em- the turbulence of adolescence NONFICTION pathetic writer. His new novel is the through the story of best friends first to interpret our recent wars from Cass and Devin and the mysterious Aspiring Adults Adrift the perspective of a soldier in one of events leading to Devin’s death. Chicago Afghanistan’s U.S.-sponsored tribal To follow up their acclaimed armies. Afghan narrator Aziz loses his Tomorrow is Too Late study of undergraduate learning, parents in an insurgent attack, and Netherworld Academically Adrift, Richard Arum, his brother, Ali, is brutally wounded in Perrin Pring, A08, presents the A85, and Josipa Roksa present un- another. Driven by nang (honor) and second installment in her sci-fi settling data from the same cohort badal (revenge), Aziz joins the Special adventure series, The Ryo Myths— of undergraduates as they haltingly Lashkar, a U.S.-funded militia. As he the successor to Appointment at the transition into postcollegiate life. All The Truth is Out: The rises through the ranks, he begins Edge of Forever. Week Politics Went Tabloid to question his place in a tangled, Alfred A. Knopf morally complex conflict that seems All That’s Missing In 1987, Senator Gary Hart, of to have no end in sight. Candlewick Press Colorado, seemed to have the When his ailing grandfather lands Democratic presidential nomination Horton and the in the hospital, eleven-year-old Arlo in the bag until one fateful week Kwuggerbug and More Lost sets out to find his only other family when rumors of marital infideli- Stories by Dr. Seuss member—a grandmother he doesn’t ty—and the unprecedented media Random House remember meeting. Sarah Sullivan, frenzy that followed—destroyed his Charles D. Cohen, D87, is a dentist J75, ponders the meaning of “home” political hopes forever. Matt Bai, by trade and a Seuss scholar in and “family” in her touching debut. Open Secret: The Global A90, a veteran journalist, weaves spirit. He owns the most com- Banking Conspiracy that together the various technological prehensive private collection of Swindled Investors Out of and cultural threads—including the Seussiana in the world, and here he POETRY Billions advent of electronic news gathering shares four “new” stories—featuring Portfolio and mobile satellites and a new beloved characters and settings like Broom Erin Arvedlund, J92, offers a grip- generation of reporters hungry to Horton the Elephant, the Grinch, Bordighera Press ping insider account of the 2008 expose the next Watergate—that and Mulberry Street—that originally Joelle Biele, J91, chronicles the first LIBOR (London Interbank Offered turned what once would have barely appeared in Redbook. years of her two children’s lives in Rate) scandal, revealing how registered as a minor private scandal

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into a major political paradigm shift. illegally funded Nicaraguan “Contra” looks at how successful enterprises Who’s Paying For Lunch? From this point on, every corner of a guerillas—and calls into question can navigate the clash between Verve Business Books politician’s life would be fair game our system’s ability to check the entrenched ways of operating and Focusing on the challenges to a media eager to sate the public’s abuse of executive power. rapidly changing forms of work, unique to businesses in the United appetite for 24-hour “content.” The communication, and technology. Kingdom, Tamara Holm Howard, ironic result, laments Bai, is that our G81, provides a hands-on guide to leaders, barricaded behind armies The Reject: Community, setting up a sales department and of political consultants and carefully Politics, and Religion After taking it to the next level. calibrated comments, are more the Subject unknowable than ever. Fordham Mango Through close readings of University Press of Florida Iran-Contra: Reagan’s deconstructionists like Derrida, Award-winning recipes like Mango Scandal and the Unchecked Cixous, and Jean-Luc Nancy, Irving Eggs Benedict, Lamb-Mango Curry, Abuse of Presidential Goh, a fellow at the Center for the and Mango Pie earn Jen Karetnick, Power The Moment You Can’t Humanities at Tufts, traces the J90, her nickname of “Mango Mama.” University Press of Kansas Ignore role of the reject in contemporary This meticulously researched history CFAR French thought. Goh also co-edited by Malcolm Byrne, A77, revisits a Barry Dornfield, A80, and Mal Nancy Now, a collection of scholarly murky episode of American history— O’Connor point to culture as a key to writing on Nancy’s contribution to the covert sale of arms to Iran, which organizational success. Their book continental philosophy.

CREATIVE voice

Long Live the Letter Agency Change: Diplomatic Action Beyond the State Inspired by a trunk of letters from the early 1900s that Nina Rowman and Littlefield Sankovitch, J84, found in her backyard shed, Signed, Sealed, John Robert Kelley, A96, argues Delivered (Simon & Schuster) is a love letter to old-fashioned that diplomatic relationships are letter writing and its unique potential for forging tender, intimate, increasingly driven not by institu- and lasting connections. Sankovich told Tufts Magazine: tions but by individuals competing for power. Governments, he says, “When I think of the people who still write to me, they are people who are must retool their diplomatic efforts creative in all aspects of their lives. They’re people who understand the importance of to deal with nonstate actors while taking time to do something besides being on the computer. Studies are now showing leveraging state strength. how that kind of downtime opens you up to creativity. When you write a letter, you think about crafting interesting sentences; you think of metaphors that you might True Yankees: The South not have used in other settings. I think it does make you more creative. Seas and the Discovery of Writers and artists of the precomputer era wrote a ton of letters. The self-expres- American Identity sion of letter writing fed into other areas. Georgia O’Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz wrote Johns Hopkins thousands of pages of letters to each other, and they were incredibly productive. After the American Revolution, the I hear from young people in college who tell me that they get together and write United States took advantage of its letters—it has a kind of retro cool factor about it. It can be a great way to communi- flag to explore various ports of call cate with teenagers about difficult subjects, because you avoid the awkward face-to- in the Pacific and Indian oceans. face that can be so hard for them. Drawing on private journals, letters, A good letter is any letter. I think that if people are weighed down by the idea that ships’ logs, memoirs, and newspaper their letters have to be masterpieces, they won’t write them. Even a dashed-off letter accounts, Dane A. Morrison, G83, shows you took the time to make a real connection with someone. For some people demonstrates how these journeys the prompt to write letters happens when they get some really beautiful stationery. helped Americans understand what it Or you can just grab some scrap paper and see what happens.” meant to be an independent nation.

36 tufts magazine | winter 2015 War is Not a Game: The New character. From Native American Germany,” appeared in the Winter TV Antiwar Soldiers and the pemmican (a blend of dried buffalo, 2014 issue of Tufts Magazine. Movement They Built berries, and fat) and English eel pie John Greco, F88, a producer at Rutgers to the “chop suey” introduced by Critical Knowledge Rocket Media Group, wrote and Nan Levinson, lecturer in English Chinese railroad workers and the Transfer produced Thinking Money: The at Tufts, tells the story of Iraq meatloaf popularized to maxi- Harvard Business Review Psychology Behind Our Best and Veterans Against the War and their mize rations during World War II, Walter Swap, former dean of Worst Financial Decisions, which quest to educate the country about O’Connell offers insight into how the colleges at Tufts, and his premiered on PBS in October. The the real meaning of “supporting the the tastes of our shared past can wife, Dorothy Leonard, emerita documentary uses a mix of humor, troops.” nourish our future. professor at Harvard Business on-the-street interviews, and School, look at steps companies expert insights to explore the field Emerging Africa: How Donor Cultivation and the can take to preserve the expertise of behavioral economics—how our Seventeen Countries Are Donor Lifecycle Map of departing engineers, scientists, brains conspire with the market- Leading the Way Wiley and managers. place to make us spend or save. Penguin Deborah Kaplan Polivy, J69, intro- Africa is regarded by many as the duces a new framework for raising Web last frontier in the global econom- funds and building, maintaining, ic landscape. Kingsley Chiedu and growing effective relation- Hillary Frank, J97, a This Moghalu, F92, deploys philosophy, ships with donors. Her companion American Life contributor, hosts economics, and strategy to explain website features practical tools and The Longest Shortest Time, a why realizing its potential will step-by-step guidance. blog and podcast about the require the total transformation of surprising struggles of early par- the African mindset. Mr. Franchise enthood. The December episode, As the founder/CEO of some of the “Love Yurts,” recounts the quirky Intertwingled world’s most successful fran- The Bee: A Natural History romance of Perry Tancredi, Semantic Studios chises—including Mr. Donut, which Princeton A96, and Caitlin Gorman, J96, Everything is connected, from code was purchased by Dunkin’ Donuts— It’s no secret that bees are dying at Tufts sweethearts who eloped, to culture, says Peter Morville, David Slater, A56, A84P, A85P, an alarming rate, but Noah Wilson- divorced, and reunited after Perry A91, in this collage of information A91P, provides the inside scoop on Rich, G11, wants us to know just quit his job to build a yurt and architecture, systems thinking, franchise ownership. how much we’ll lose when they’re teach classes at Boulder Outdoor Buddhism, quantum entanglement, gone. This gorgeously photo- Survival School. and volleyball. Far from simply graphed volume is an ode to the designing software, information planet’s 20,000 bee species—how Oprah Winfrey’s network, OWN, architects are actually intervening they live, work, communicate, and recently announced a digital con- in ecosystems—and in the infor- reproduce; why they’re disap- tent partnership with theSkimm. mation age, we’re all information pearing; and how to get started in Started by Danielle Weisberg, architects. beekeeping. There’s even a section A08, and Carly Zakin, theSkimm is on the symbolic roles they’ve played a daily e-newsletter that delivers The American Plate: A in religion and politics. Rich is a fresh spin on top news stories. History of the United the founder and chief scientific OWN hopes to capitalize on the States in 100 Bites Out of Nazi Germany in officer of Best Bees, a beekeeping younger audience theSkimm at- Sourcebooks Time, a Gift to American service and research organization tracts. Users can access exclusive If you’ve been craving an American Science in Boston. See his TED talk at bit.ly/ video content at Youtube.com/ history lesson you can sink your American Philosophical Society bees_TED and his recent appear- own, where Weisberg and Zakin teeth into, look no further. Libby B. David Stollar, a professor emeri- ance on Ask This Old House at bit. will editorialize on topics featured H. O’Connell, J76, chief historian tus at Tufts University School of ly/bees_TOH. in their newsletter. for the History Channel and A&E, Medicine, traces the journey of the serves up a delectable assortment Jewish biochemist Gerhard Schmidt of facts about the individuals, cul- out of Hitler’s Germany to an Send news of forthcoming books, performances, art shows, and other creations to [email protected]. Review copies may be addressed to tures, and recipes that have shaped eventual position at Tufts. 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Michelle Ray will never be royal, but her book will: The Royals, starring Elizabeth Hurley and Joan Collins, Outrageous premieres March 15. Fortune My Hamlet novel, a TV series? Get thee to a nunnery! By Michelle Ray, J94

y love of Shakespeare began when I was a kid, Washington, D.C. The setting was sitting with my parents as they played a VHS modern—which was fine: Hamlet’s tape of Zephirelli’s Romeo and Juliet. It was anxieties over power and family and pretty and romantic, but most wondrous was loss would be the same whether he was that my mother, who never cried over anything, in tights or a hoody. The only thing cried at the end. I knew I was in the presence of that didn’t work for me was Ophelia. powerful storytelling. Why would a girl these days agree to M Decades later, I went to see Hamlet in betray her boyfriend? And why would

38 tufts magazine | winter 2015 illustration: john ritter she kill herself over a boy? It didn’t my daughter attended a birthday CHARACTER SKETCH make sense. At the end, as I dried party, on a three-way call with my two my tears on the way to the subway, I agents trying to figure out what my Theater in thought, “But what if Ophelia didn’t “demands” might be. The LA agent die?” And my story—the one that asked whether I wanted script approval the Straw would inspire a TV series starring if it became a TV series, and I said, Elizabeth Hurley—was born. “Once it goes to TV, it’s not really my NAME: Stacy Klein, G88 At this point, though, I still did not story anymore.” It’s true. My story is LIFE’S WORK: Serving as artistic consider myself a writer. I loved stories, finite. Murders. Massive body count. director of Double Edge, a laborato- which was what drew me to major in Curtain comes down. How could that ry theater she founded in 1982 that drama and to direct shows for Tufts’ possibly be spun out week after week? builds collaboration, community, 3Ps, Cup and Saucer, and Torn Ticket. Besides, I grew up in LA, and many of and the actor’s ability to tap pro- But I liked other people’s tales. In fact, my friends from high school and Tufts found inner resources the most traumatizing class I ever took are in “the business.” Everyone’s got SOURCE OF INSPIRATION: at Tufts was Creative Writing. Everyone a project, a proposal, a promise, so I Committed fellow artists all over else had great stories to tell and told thought there was no way my little old the world. “In Central Europe, when them so much better than I seemed to. book would become a real show. I started my career, folk culture and It was physically painful for me to have I took pleasure in the journey, theater culture were full of life. I saw to share my work aloud, a phobia that laughing at things like the line in the thirty-six performances in Poland took me until my second book signing contract that forbids my name or in 1976, and they were all different. to get over. But something about that likeness to be used for . . . personal Raw. Creative. Confrontive.” D.C. Hamlet made me want to write a hygiene products! If I’d thought a TV PIVOTAL DECISION: Buying a 105- novel. Turns out I was good at it. show would happen for real, I would acre former dairy farm in Ashfield, I wanted everyone to know from at least have asked to be granted a visit Massachusetts, in 1994 and moving the start that Ophelia went on living, to the set. But I’m not complaining. her theater there from the Boston but I wanted the story to keep the most Even though I haven’t been part of area. The new quarters enabled famous scenes and lines. Except “To be the process, I see stuff about the show Double Edge to welcome interna- or not to be.” That seemed too fraught, online, and it has been a thrill to watch tional guests and offer immersive so I left it out until my editor insisted I it roll out. acting workshops with strenuous, write it in, which I did as a throwaway Falling for Hamlet never tried to be boundary-pushing physical training. joke. What fascinated me was the idea high art, but The Royals (coming to the It could stage dreamlike “summer of modern royalty—of how hard it is to E! channel) looks like it’s shaping up to spectacles” like last summer’s be famous by birth in an era completely be high smut, and I can’t say I’m sorry. Shahrazad, which wound lacking in privacy. Hey, sex sells and I’m hoping this through fields, forests, My novel, Falling for Hamlet, was show plays for a while. and hills to evoke published by Little, Brown (I’m skip- My mother said she was the mythical land- ping years of drama and excitement going to reread my book in scapes of the here, but insert tears and celebrations anticipation of the pre- Arabian Nights. at will), and I figured that would be miere, and I said, “Why? Ensemble the end of the road for my version of It’s not the same.” I’m glad members could Shakespeare. Except that my friends to see them carrying on form bonds not kept saying, “It reads like a movie. I can with what had fascinated only with each see this on screen.” Others happened to me: the idea of modern other but with the think so, too. My agency, Erin Murphy royalty living with money and land. “Moving to the Literary, works with the Gotham fame while the world watches. farm gave me an apprecia- Group in Los Angeles to get books There’s still an Ophelia. She still likes tion of what it means to build a optioned for TV and film, and rather art. If anything else is similar, I’ll find community and care for the earth. It quickly it was purchased. out with the rest of the world on March gave my work a new meaning.” The deal wasn’t glamorous. I 15. And it makes me laugh that all this RECENT ACCOLADE: The 2013 remember sitting outside one of those came from a whim I had one evening Doris Duke Artist Award for her con- paint-your-own-pottery stores while walking to the subway. tributions to American theater

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Game On Masters of old-fashioned amusement By Matt M. Casey

inter—the perfect time to hunker down with a warm Ben Cichoski, A98, and Danny beverage and a board game created by someone you Mandel, A03, met at Tufts and have had went to school with. At least three Jumbos have made sporadic collaborations ever since. a name for themselves as board game designers. They both worked at 38 Studios— Check out some of their creations, grab a few friends, the video game company founded and while away a chilly Saturday afternoon. by the former Red Sox pitcher Curt WRob Daviau, A92, once designed games for Hasbro and now has his Schilling—until it closed. Then they own company, IronWall Games. During his career, he has created or started their own game creation helped create more than sixty titles, of which we present just a few: studio, Super Awesome Games, in Betrayal at House on the Hill (Hasbro): Players are thrust into the Cumberland, Rhode Island. midst of a horror movie. In the first half, they cooperatively explore a Legendary Encounters (Upper haunted house, picking up artifacts and equipment as they go. In the Deck Entertainment): This game puts second half, a random player becomes the villain in one of fifty horror players into the world of the first four movie scenarios. The rest of the group must defeat the villain to win. Alien movies. Players start with nearly The game won the 2004 Origins Gamers’ Choice Award. identical decks that they customize Risk: 2210 A.D. (Hasbro): Daviau’s first spin on the classic during the course of the game by world-domination game casts players as generals in an experience recruiting characters from the films. that is both quicker and more balanced than the original. It intro- Multiple players can win by staying duces special units, defensive points, tactical cards, and a map that alive and completing three challenges. looks a little different each game. Risk: 2210 A.D. won the 2001 But one player might be a traitor who Origins Award for best science fiction or fantasy board game. It also wins only if everyone else loses. led the way for other game designers to take the basic concepts of Risk Gin Mummy (Super Awesome to new settings. Games): This free game spins tradi- Risk: Legacy (Hasbro): Here’s a game that remembers players’ tional Rummy in a new direction. actions from game to game. As they found cities or scar the land, Instead of earning points by playing players permanently adhere stickers to the board. Sometimes they sets and runs, players win by holding open sealed boxes or envelopes that add new twists. A fifteen-game an ace when the game ends. But hold- campaign of Risk: Legacy lasts several weeks. The game earned five ing the ace at the wrong moment can industry honors, including three Golden Geek Award nominations. cost a player the game. Download the Viking Funeral (IronWall Games): Two players compete to attract rules at superawesomegames.net. Vikings to their mead hall by mourning the dead or winning a brawl 97 Cent Space Battle (Super at the funeral—which may result in another funeral. The game Awesome Games): Another freebie. requires only a standard card deck you don’t mind destroying and the Each player starts with twenty-two free rules posted at ironwallgames.com. coins: one quarter, three dimes, six nickels, and twelve pennies. Players take turns flipping their coins onto the table (battlefield). Then they try to flick their fighters into their opponent’s “headquarter” five times. Download the rules at superawesome- games.net.

MATT M. CASEY is a freelance writer and the founder of CleverMoveGames.com.

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SAILING TO VICTORY

Tufts forward Gus Santos, A15, scored the winning goal against Illinois’ Wheaton College, cinching the first-ever NCAA National Championship for the men’s soccer team December 6 in Kansas City, Missouri. The Jumbos prevailed 4–2 in the game, and Santos was named the tournament’s top offensive player.

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The presidents who built the Tufts we know and love By Sol Gittleman illustration by sean mccabe

by the time the universalist church got around the business of education—for which purpose a wealthy to starting its first college, in 1852, most of the other brick manufacturer, Charles Tufts, donated twenty Protestant denominations in the United States were acres spreading down from Walnut Hill in Medford, a way ahead. Hundreds of Calvinist, Methodist, Baptist, gift he later expanded to a hundred acres. Tufts College and Presbyterian colleges dotted the country, teaching enrolled its first class by 1854: seven students taught the Creation story from Genesis, assured that when the by four professors, all clergymen. And in charge of the Messiah returned, only members of their denomination proceedings was one of the most prominent Universalist would be saved; the rest would be sent to perdition. ministers in the country, Hosea Ballou II (who served The Universalists had a much cheerier proposition: 1853–1861). He was the first of thirteen Tufts presidents don’t worry, everyone would be saved! Nice folks. With (not including two short-term interim heads), each of that all-embracing religious humanism, they set about whom would play a part in the college’s transformation.

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In the story of Tufts and its presidents Pennsylvania, Yale, and finally Princeton embraced basic we see the unique journey of American research and postgraduate study, even while holding on to higher education: at the outset, the dom- their tuition-paying undergraduates. The great Harvard inance of faith; then, after the Civil War, psychologist William James called the Ph.D. an “octopus” a need to support pragmatic learning as that would “strangle teaching.” part of the Industrial Revolution, with In this changing milieu, small church-affiliated col- professional schools of medicine, dental leges like Tufts were closing all over the country, and the medicine, and engineering; before World Hosea Ballou II survivors looked for any port in this storm. Tufts gave War I, the influence of the newly created up on Universalist ministers and turned to its first Ph.D. German degree, the Ph.D.; and after World War II, a quest president, Bumpus, who had done research at the Marine for balance between research and teaching, science and Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole humanities. The singular path we discovered for ourselves and the American Museum of Natural came with the help of thirteen visionaries. History. It took him only three years The first four presidents were Universalist ministers and to realize that the Tufts faculty, with a appropriately had something named after them. President single-minded love of teaching, was not Ballou got the first big building with the pillars, Ballou Hall; interested in the new research agenda, Alonzo Ames Miner (1862–1875), a smaller building (Miner and he abruptly left for the University of

Hall). Elmer Hewitt Capen (1875–1905) gave his residence on Alonzo A. Miner Wisconsin in 1919. Professors Row to the college, and they named it after him The sixth Tufts president was an (Capen House). He deserved more, because he convinced alumnus, John Albert Cousens (1919–1937), who took over the trustee Phineas T. Barnum to build a science hall and to at a time of growing consternation over European ethnic donate his prized circus elephant, Jumbo, groups on college campuses. Dean Frank G. Wren (Wren to Tufts. Frederick W. Hamilton (1905– Hall) lamented in 1918 that “the foreign element is creeping 1912), the last clergyman-president, got in.” In 1922, Harvard conceived the unwritten law of New only a swimming pool for his efforts England higher education that limited the admission of East to solve a campus gender problem: the European Jews and Italian Catholics. Properly mannered female students who had been admitted German Jews had no difficulty, nor did the Irish Catholics, during President Capen’s term were tak- who had Notre Dame, Holy Cross, and Boston College. But ing away too many prizes from the male Elmer H. Capen the Russian Jews and Italians looked different! Quietly and students, so in 1911 Hamilton created without faculty input, President Cousens instituted ethnic Jackson College for Women. He also wanted a separate faculty, quotas the same year Harvard did. His eighteen-year term but there never was enough money for that. In fact, selling off ended when he died in office. land was the only way the little college could survive. The seventh and eighth Tufts Capen and Hamilton were Tufts alumni. William Leslie presidents were a tandem, ambitious Hooper, acting president from 1912 to 1914, was the first and beloved, determined to haul the Tufts president drawn from the faculty. He built a residence pleasant New England college with at 124 Professors Row that’s now Hooper Infirmary. consistently very good students and an By 1915, when Hermon Carey Bumpus assumed the pres- underachieving and contented faculty idency, American higher education had undergone a sea into the twentieth century. Both came change. The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 had created the F. W. Hamilton out of the University of Rochester with public state system that emphasized agriculture, mining, Ph.D.s in psychology; each served for and manufacture—the “A&M” universities that eventually more than a decade and left in his mid-fifties for another would teach the majority of American career, unable to shake up the tranquil Tufts community. college students. And philanthro- Leonard Carmichael (1938–1952) and his hand-picked suc- pist-industrialists named Hopkins, cessor, Nils Wessell (1953–1966), inspired the students to Carnegie, Rockefeller, Stanford, Mellon, commit to community service, and the Leonard Carmichael Duke, and Cornell wanted to import Society, Tufts’ large student-run volunteer organization, is the German university model, with its an enduring tribute to its namesake. Tufts undergraduates Ph.D. research degree, thereby reduc- were out in the street helping others when their counterparts ing the distraction posed by immature in Cambridge were still swallowing goldfish. H. C. Bumpus undergraduates. Harvard, Columbia, Carmichael and Wessell sought faculty with Ph.D.s,

44 tufts magazine | winter 2015 photos: courtesy of tufts digital collections and archives After a tense ten seconds, Jean Mayer, the trustees’ third-choice candidate, leaped from his chair and shouted, “I’ll do it!”—sending the university on the ride of a lifetime.

promoted research as part of the mis- little interest to mainstream medical doctors. He landed at sion, even changed the name of Tufts Harvard’s School of Public Health, worked the hallways of College to Tufts University, got as far Washington, D.C., to make nutrition policy, and wanted as they could, and left. The trustees to be president of a university in Boston that had a medical begged both to stay. Wessell ended the school, so he could inoculate the disease-oriented medical student quotas before he departed in profession with the magic of prevention. 1965 and saw to the hiring of the first Professor Mayer had no hope at Harvard, so he tried non-Protestants in History (remember John A. Cousens Boston University: no sale. They selected John Silber in 1971 George Marcopoulos? Greek Orthodox) instead. He had already tried Tufts, but they picked Burt and English. (The latter might have been an accident. Who Hallowell in 1967. Always the optimist, Mayer was a candidate would have guessed, from a name like Sylvan Barnet, that once again at Tufts after Hallowell in 1976, and again he was the department had just hired its first Jew? He had a Harvard rejected; the presidency of Tufts was Ph.D. like everyone else and even wore a bow tie!) But with- offered to Harry Woolf, provost of Johns out financial resources, Tufts could go nowhere. The Board Hopkins. Normally, when a candidate of Trustees believed it was bad manners to ask alumni for remains in a presidential process until money, and Tufts floundered. the very end, he’s committed. So when When Burton Hallowell (1967–1976), a Princeton-trained the offer was made to Woolf, all expecta- economist, took over as ninth president, he looked forward Leonard tions were that he would accept imme- to the challenge; instead, he got the 1960s. His tenure was Carmichael diately. Instead he hesitated, and nearly marred by building occupations and demonstrations against two weeks later, to the shock of the the Vietnam War, parietals, and anything else that angry search committee, he declined. Panicky trustees went quickly students could blame on the university, until he threw in to the second choice, but he had already taken another job. the towel in 1975. He left Tufts with In desperation, they turned to the distant third choice: the a precariously balanced budget, little Frenchman from Harvard, whom no one really wanted. hope for fundraising, and a self-study An emergency meeting was called at the Boston Harvard report that described the next five years Club, and three embarrassed trustees offered Mayer the as dangerous, and the five after that as Tufts presidency, not knowing what to expect and worried potentially fatal. One local historian about either possible answer. After a tense ten seconds, of higher education wrote that Tufts Mayer leaped from his chair and shouted, “I’ll do it!” Tufts

“might no longer be viable” as an aca- Nils Wessell University was about to begin the ride of a lifetime. demic institution. By the time he retired sixteen years later, he had trans- Then, at the darkest moment, the gods smiled on Walnut formed the university. Mayer had led two fundraising Hill. campaigns that brought in $400 million, an unimaginable amount for this diffident school with a history of not nothing in our history had prepared tufts for the asking alumni for money. He found arrival of Jean Mayer (1976–1992) as the tenth president. another $100 million by going to the A soldier and scholar—he fought the Nazis with the Free Massachusetts congressional delegation. French and earned doctorates in chemistry and physiology Mayer, the nutritionist with a vision, from Yale and the Sorbonne—he settled in the United States knew that the medical researchers who Burton Hallowell and became a leader in nutrition science, a field that was of ran the National Institutes of Health

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award panels were not interested in well- presidencies, Tufts had raised $1 billion in twenty-five years, ness or prevention; they were interested a figure that would have left all previous Tufts presidents, only in disease. Mayer needed money trustees, and alumni in total disbelief. for his nutrition agenda. He found When Larry Bacow (2001–2011) became the twelfth Tufts two young Beltway lobbyists named president, the university was for the first time in its history Schlossberg and Cassidy, who had access prepared for an explosion of academic achievement. Bacow, to the powerful Massachusetts congress- who hailed from MIT, possessed the best qualities of his two man Tip O’Neill. Mayer charmed him Jean Mayer predecessors: Mayer’s vision, energy, brains, and charm, and and told him that Massachusetts senior DiBiaggio’s emotional intelligence and ability to deal with citizens desperately needed nutritional evaluations. A con- people of all classes. Jean Mayer had transformed a pleasant vinced O’Neill told the Department of Agriculture to put aside New England college into a dynamic research university that $10 million for a nutrition center at Tufts. When Agriculture still cherished undergraduates; it was bureaucrats questioned these instructions, O’Neill said, “Do Larry Bacow who took that university it and don’t ask why!” Thirty years later, two MIT economists, on a supercharged elevator ride toward writing in The National Bureau of Economics Working Papers, universal excellence. Bacow was also declared this moment “the birth of academic earmarks.” Jean aware that fundraising never stops. He Mayer had invented the academic pork barrel. To the annoy- took on one enormous campaign for ance of Penn and Cornell, he secured another $10 million for $1.2 billion, then handed the university a veterinary school for New England, and Tufts was on its way. John DiBiaggio over to Anthony P. Monaco, the thir- In Mayer’s second year, Admissions unexpectedly received teenth president, in 2011. three hundred more acceptances than its model predicted, Monaco is another first for Tufts: the first M.D., the first and the university hastily rented space in the Sheraton neuroscientist, the first president who, when he assumed Commander Hotel in Harvard Square office, instantly became one of the most respected research and arranged for shuttle transportation. scientists on the faculty. He knows how to build interdis- The Mayer whirlwind was in full force. ciplinary bridges across the university—in this day, an He made enemies, he made friends, he absolute necessity. He has also discovered for himself the charmed many and infuriated others; basic DNA of Tufts: an intimate teaching university where but his presidency was never dull. In everyone does research. From the start, his heart beat to the 1991 an exhausted Board of Trustees pulse of the undergraduates. At first, the humanities faculty pushed him out because its members Larry Bacow in Arts and Sciences was nervous: everyone knows how needed more order in their corporate important scientific research is to the reputation of the mod- lives. Jean Mayer was elevated to the honorific position of ern American university, and the construction plans seemed chancellor, and died a year later. He left a Tufts that would to emphasize science. Would this Ph.D.-physician tilt Tufts have been unrecognizable fifteen years earlier. awkwardly toward biomedical science The trustees found the orderly eleventh president they and funded research to the detriment wanted, someone who, for the first time in Tufts history, of the college, disturbing the balance had already led a university. In fact, John DiBiaggio (1992– between teaching and research? 2001) had been president twice, first at the University of It didn’t happen. Our commitment Connecticut and then at Michigan State. He was a dentist to undergraduate education was a strong and career administrator, a manager, an executive accus- pull for the Tufts president, as was Anthony P. tomed to organization, delegation of authority, and consen- Monaco our well-established drive to make the sus: all the things Jean Mayer happily ignored. world a better place. We have reached John DiBiaggio enjoyed his presidency more than any an equilibrium between teaching and research, between the other incumbent in Tufts history. He found a university with sciences, the humanities, social sciences, and arts. Among resources that it previously never knew. He was a charming, the thousands of colleges and universities in this country, outgoing, enormously friendly man, perfect for another Tufts has found its own unique pulse. major fundraising campaign, and he went on the road Thirteen presidents, each with his own legacy: an extraor- immediately. He was Tufts’ first professional president. By dinary journey, with more to come. the time he stepped down in 2001, Tufts had raised another $600 million, this time, significantly, from alumni now SOL GITTLEMAN, the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor, has been a ready and willing to give. Between the Mayer and DiBiaggio professor of German, Judaic studies, and biblical literature and is a former provost.

46 tufts magazine | winter 2015 photos: brooks kraft (DiBiaggio); Alonso nichols (Bacow and monaco) Wall Street financier Doug Rachlin, managing director of Neuberger Berman and a generous mentor of summer interns from Tufts, has created the Rachlin Family Investing in Students Endowed Scholarship. To this portfolio manager, it’s “a natural thing to do” By Lindsey Collins

oug Rachlin, A85, can attest to the value of mentorship and own careers. “I’m very impressed with professional guidance. As an economics major at Tufts he the enthusiasm and level of commit- built strong relationships with professors, including Daniel ment from today’s Tufts students,” Ounjian, then chair of the Department of Economics. says Rachlin, who returned to campus “Professor Ounjian was always very generous with his time in September to speak at the Tufts and provided me with invaluable advice on navigating my Finance Career Forum. Lending his Dcareer path,” says Rachlin. The student-teacher relationship endured life experience to students, he says, is for years after Rachlin graduated, and he donated to a scholarship in “a natural thing to do.” He adds: “I Ounjian’s memory following his death in 1993. want to help today’s students get the Rachlin is as eager to help today’s students as Ounjian was to help same exceptional Tufts education and him. He served on the New York Tufts Alliance Executive Committee experience that I enjoyed.” for many years, and has hired Tufts graduates in his position as manag- ing director and portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman LLC in New York City. Each year, Rachlin also offers a Tufts student the opportu- Double Your Impact. As part of a university-wide drive to increase financial nity to work as a summer intern for his portfolio management team. aid, Tufts is offering to match qualifying gifts of Now, to support current and future students, he has created the $100,000 or more to endowed scholarships. To learn Rachlin Family Endowed Scholarship. His gift will be matched by Tufts how to endow a scholarship through the initiative, as part of a university-wide Financial Aid Initiative—doubling its impact. contact Jeff Winey, director of principal and Besides giving back financially, he enjoys sharing knowledge and leadership gifts, at 617.627.5468 or jeff.winey@ tufts.edu. passing the torch to the next generation as they prepare to launch their

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TUTV gems included (from left) a Dating Game knockoff called Blind Date, parody commercials like this one for a product called Atomic Pop, Beelzebubs footage from a PBS special, and Trivia Triangle, a game show so popular it soon aired on local cable.

Liebman scored the original, clunky gear in a deal with the administration: TUTV would tape child development classes and tennis lessons in exchange for using the equipment to produce The Jumbo shows during the off-hours. Thanks to the station founders’ doggedness and to inevitable technological leaps, the station has come a long way from the days of “if you buy it, we’ll schlep it.” Channel TUTV isn’t actually on TV any- more, for one thing. Its thriving Present at the creation of TUTV By Kristin Livingston, A05 YouTube station offers student films, music videos of Tufts bands, and seasons of original web series like My o an outsider, it’s just a room. Cracked tiled floors, Gay Roommate and Jules and Monty. black walls, and glaring overhead light. A few fake The latter program, a modern-day potted plants in a corner and large, looming tripods. Romeo and Juliet set on campus and But to Andy Liebman and Tony Bennis, back for a in Somerville apartments, depicts love tour of their old stomping grounds on the third floor among warring fraternities—featuring of Curtis Hall, the Tufts University Television studio indie rock, a mix of Shakespearean and was a long-lost haven. Bennis, A79, pointed to a booth Tuftonian dialogue, and that trendy off the main studio and said, “Remember when Dan days-gone-by filter. wired up the control room?” To a bunch of kids who were jazzed about Filters. Quick cuts. Music. Bennis Tbuilding their new venture in television from the ground up forty years contrasted these with the vaudevillian ago, their engineer, Dan Winter, A81, was an unsung hero. “The quality lengths to which he and his peers went of our news and studio production skyrocketed,” Bennis told his tour to finagle instant replay at basketball guide, Danielle Bryant, A15, the current station manager. games. He and the equipment would Quality wasn’t all that skyrocketed—the station also launched many occupy a back bench in Cousens Gym, careers over the years. For Liebman, A78, E14P, who founded the sta- while the cameraman sat down front tion in 1977, Bennis, and several of their associates, TUTV was a door with the announcer, Jimmy Young, to success in film and television. A79, the station’s sports director—who Bryant took her guests across the hall, where boxy equipment and had a rope tied to his belt. “We didn’t piles of tape and cable have given way to one slick cabinet of small have a mic to Jimmy, so whenever there cameras that made Bennis and Liebman shake their heads in envy. “We was a shot we wanted to replay, I’d tug once had to ditch a guy from the van on our way to Middlebury in the on the rope,” Bennis said. “One time dead of winter,” Bennis recounted, because the collective weight of the there was a big, game-winning shot and camera, deck, and monitor, plus the crew needed to tape a Jumbos foot- I tugged so hard he fell on the floor.” ball away game, had the fender trailing sparks on the highway. “Now On top of sports, the original you just need this,” Liebman said, taking his iPhone out of his pocket. TUTV had news and game shows, like

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New a&s Dean James M. Glaser, a noted political scientist who has been serving as dean ad interim of Tufts’ School of Arts and Sciences, is the new leader of the university’s largest and oldest school. He has been at Tufts since 1991. “One of the things that make Tufts special—and the reason I have made my career here—is our mission The current TUTV general manager, to make this education accessible to Danielle Bryant, A15, with station a broad swath of society,” he said. alumni Andy Liebman, A78, E14P (center), and Tony Bennis, A79. Albright to speak at Commencement Blind Date, Trivia Triangle, and The “TUTV was an industry launch Madeleine Albright, the first woman Roommate Game, a takeoff on The for so many people,” Bennis said. He to serve as U.S. secretary of state, Newlyweds. Triangle was hosted by himself went on to found Synergy will deliver the commencement Mark Mastromatteo, A80, who was also Media Partners, which produces address at Tufts University on May the station’s news director. Reached by everything from feature films to music 17. In the Clinton administration, she email, he said the show was so popular videos. Young (of the instant replay campaigned for human rights and by the time he graduated that it aired rope tug) is an Emmy-winning sports fought to stop the spread of nuclear on local cable in surrounding towns. anchor, producer, reporter, and show weapons. She will be among six He’s never forgotten the episode where host in New England. Mastromatteo recipients of honorary degrees. “a team of Medford High brains gave is the president of Mastromedia Inc., our fun-loving Jumbos quite a beat- a communication services company, C h i e f Di v e r s i t y ing,” he said. There was plenty of edgy and director of a leadership develop- Officer Appointed comedy, too—in Saturday Night Live– ment organization called Leadership When Mark Brimhall-Vargas arrives style sketches (like the one about the Pasadena. on campus on April 6 as the univer- cocaine-infused soap that “really wakes After making Emmy-winning docu- sity’s chief diversity officer, it will be you up in the morning”) and spoofs mentary films for twenty-two years for a natural step in a career that has such as Sederday Night Fever. Frontline and Nova, Liebman founded been devoted to diversity, inclusion, Bryant, the young tour guide, EditShare, a tech company whose data- and social justice. “I’ve been working couldn’t get enough way-back-when base houses digital material that can be on these issues my whole life,” says stories from the guys who pioneered shared and accessed around the world. Brimhall-Vargas, the deputy chief the station. “TUTV has been such a “Right out of Tufts,” he said, “I started diversity officer at the University of pivotal part of my Tufts experience,” working in TV and film, diving head- Maryland at College Park. “I feel like she said. “This is where I live, where I first into jobs like associate producer I’m walking into an institution that unwind, meet friends, get creative. This and moving up the line.” has done its homework.” The hiring is such an important space for me.” Bennis added: “Andy and the rest was a key recommendation of the And it could turn out to be her spring- of us launched TUTV with the drive Tufts Council on Diversity, chaired by board to a media career; currently and confidence that sometimes you can President Anthony P. Monaco. interning at WGBH and the production only find in a college student who can company Charles River Media, she pursue a dream, no matter how far- MORE NEWS get all the latest from hopes to break into film after Tufts. fetched it is. And it was a blast.” Tufts at now.tufts.edu.

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Farming amaranth in Mexico and rescuing sea otters in Brazil are just two of the possibilities for new undergrads who participate in Tufts’ 1+4 Program, which starts this fall.

Oh, the Places They’ll Go Now incoming students can opt for a year of public service By Helene Ragovin

tarting in the fall of 2015, first-year undergraduates admitted permanent residents the opportunity to the schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering will be able to confront such challenging issues as to spend a year engaged in full-time community service before health disparities, poverty, food inse- matriculating at Tufts. Students with the greatest financial need curity, environmental sustainability, will receive full support to participate in what is known as the and child welfare. Tufts 1+4 Bridge-Year Service Learning Program. “I think the exciting range of Tufts SThe inaugural class of Tufts 1+4 Fellows will help provide health 1+4 community service projects and care to Native Americans in the Southwest, address economic and sites will have great appeal to our educational disparities in Los Angeles, farm amaranth in Mexico, admitted students,” said Lee Coffin, rescue sea otters in Brazil, and care for at-risk children in Madrid, dean of undergraduate admissions, among other endeavors. The sites for Tufts 1+4 include four domes- upon the announcement of the sites’ tic service organizations, three programs in Latin America, and selection. “The array of options feels one in Spain. They will offer young people who are U.S. citizens or very much like Tufts, and that should

50 tufts magazine | winter 2015 illustration: otto steininger resonate with the kind of engaged, Citizen Year in Santa Catarina, Brazil; Tisch College, is confident that Tufts dynamic students we accept.” and United Planet in Madrid. Said 1+4 will appeal to students. “Young Unveiled in February 2014, the Tufts Mindy Nierenberg, senior program people today are hungry for opportu- 1+4 Bridge-Year Program will operate director at Tisch College, “We wanted nities to make a difference, and there under the auspices of the Jonathan M. to ensure that all our service sites foster is increased interest among students Tisch College of Citizenship and Public critical thinking, cross-cultural collab- in performing a year of service before Service. oration, and a deeper appreciation for entering college,” he said. “With The program has attracted signifi- civic engagement.” the generosity of supporters such as cant financial support from Santander The goals of Tufts 1+4 especially Santander, we are able to democ- Bank, N.A., through its Santander resonate with Dave Santulli, executive ratize the bridge year by providing Universities Division. The Santander director of United Planet: he is a 2003 access for students who traditionally gift expands upon initial donor sup- graduate of the Fletcher School. United would not be able to consider such an port committed when the program Planet, a Boston-based international experience.” launched. nonprofit organization, will host the Solomont went on to say that Tufts Tufts President Anthony P. Monaco 1+4 Fellows in Madrid, where they will is exploring the possibility of a partner- welcomes the partnership. “Tufts and work at a residential center for children ship with AmeriCorps, which is over- Santander share a deep commitment and teens who have no family to care seen by the bipartisan federal program to enabling young people to be a force for them. “The 1+4 Fellows will not he once chaired. If all the domestic for positive change in the world,” he only broaden their global perspectives, Tufts 1+4 sites were to become part of said. “We are very appreciative of but will gain a richer understanding of the national service network, as the Santander’s generosity.” themselves,” Santulli said. “I am also City Year and LIFT programs already For its part, the bank was only too excited by how much Tufts students are, Solomont said, Tufts 1+4 Fellows happy to support Tufts 1+4. “Tufts’ back on campus stand to gain as the could “tap into the national commu- commitment to active citizenship, 1+4 students share their real-life global nity-service movement during their access to education, and global impact experiences.” bridge year and beyond.” is manifested in this program,” said Alan D. Solomont, A70, A08P, the Santander U.S. President and CEO Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Dean of HELENE RAGOVIN is a senior writer at Tufts. Roman Blanco. “The unique oppor- tunity to apply innovative approaches to local and global challenges will allow students to marry real- world experience with a first- rate education. I am certain that Animal Care this service year will be trans- formative for the students and Transformed the communities they serve.” Tisch College selected the ser- In December 2013, the Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund issued vice sites after intensive evalua- a challenge to Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine: raise tion, including visits to each loca- $5 million by the end of 2014 to renovate and expand the Foster tion. The Tufts 1+4 Fellows will Hospital for Small Animals, and the fund will donate another $2.5 choose from among these orga- million. Animal lovers came through in spades. With the chal- nizations: LIFT in Los Angeles lenge met, the Foster Hospital will enjoy the following upgrades: and Philadelphia; City Year n Larger, more comfortable reception areas with more natural in Los Angeles and Detroit; light for companion animals the Village for the Arts and n Twenty-five percent more exam rooms, all state-of-the-art Humanities in Philadelphia; n New and larger treatment rooms for specialty care services Carpe Diem Education in ophthalmology, cardiology, neurology, and dermatology in Tucson, Arizona; n A reflection space where people can make decisions Amigos de las Americas regarding a pet’s care in Oaxaca, Mexico, and These improvements will ensure the future of compassion- León, Nicaragua; Global ate animal care in New England. —DIVYA AMLADI

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A Boost for Tufts’ Environmental Goals Coming soon: a sustainability investment fund and a high-efficiency energy plant

In moves designed to advance its ambitious environmental Ideally, income generated by the fund will support sustainabil- agenda, Tufts will create a sustainability investment fund and ity programming in both academics and operations, he said. build a new energy plant on the Medford/Somerville campus The sustainability fund will be part of the university endow- that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by twenty percent. ment and will likely be available as an option for donors this The Board of Trustees approved both actions in November. year, said Executive Vice President Patricia Campbell. The new Tufts University Sustainability Fund will give Estimated to cost $36 million, the new energy plant will donors the option of designating that their endowment gifts be meet the needs of the Medford/Somerville campus for invested in a way that acknowledges the importance of generations to come and will pay for itself in a dozen or so environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors. The fund years through anticipated energy savings, Campbell said. The will be launched with seed money from the university. plant will have the capacity to serve new buildings on campus, The energy plant will replace the sixty-year-old central including the Science and Engineering Complex, which is heating plant behind Braker Hall and the Lincoln Filene Center. scheduled to open in 2017 on a site fronting Dearborn Road The project supports the goals of the Campus Sustainability near Anderson, Bromfield-Pearson, and Robinson halls. Council, including reductions in energy consumption and The plant will take advantage of the latest high-efficiency greenhouse gases. cogeneration technologies, which use a single fuel source to “I applaud these forward-looking decisions by our trust- generate both heat and electricity. Thermal energy for heating ees,” said President Anthony P. Monaco. “Sustainability is that otherwise would be wasted will be captured to produce deeply ingrained in our campus culture,” he added, pointing electricity. Cogeneration will reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the eco-ambassadors program and other initiatives of the by an estimated twenty percent compared with the existing Office of Sustainability as well as the ongoing assessment of boiler system in the aging heating plant, Campbell said. the potential for solar power on the Medford/Somerville and The new plant, to be built next to Dowling Hall on Boston Grafton campuses. Avenue, will contain a chilled-water production system that will Exploring the establishment of a sustainability fund was a key cool campus buildings and equipment. It will also provide recommendation of a working group of students, faculty, admin- learning opportunities for students, according to Monaco. “I istrators, and trustees that Monaco appointed in April 2013 to envision the Campus Energy Plant as a living laboratory, one examine the university’s role in mitigating climate change. where our students can obtain real-world experience with ESG investing is relatively new. “The sustainability fund innovative energy-conservation technologies and systems,” he gives us an opportunity to learn more about the feasibility and said. “This facility will demonstrate in tangible ways how effectiveness of these kinds of investments,” Monaco said. appropriate technology can impact sustainability.”

Tufts University Alumni Association Executive Committee

President Vice Presidents Vikki Garth, J81 Secretary Kate Kaplan, G95 Diana Lopez, J78 Doug Moll, A85, D85, DG91 Mrinalini Jaikumar, G96 Keisha Pollack, A00 Jason Potts, A00 President-Elect Regina Rockefeller, J73 Executive Director, Treasurer David Meyers, A96 Richard Yanofsky, A76 Alumni Relations Erwin Thompson, E02 Timothy Brooks Directors Ken Fan, E01, F07 immediate past President Mark Ferri, A84, F86 Brian McCarthy, A75, A07P

52 tufts magazine | winter 2015 Support CLIC. To learn about naming opportunities and other ways you can support the Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex, contact Jo Wellins, executive director of University Advancement, at [email protected] or 617.627.5906.

The planned Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex will tie together such diverse disciplines as robotics, occupational therapy, child study, and physics and astronomy.

whiteboards, and a variety of study spaces, inviting group discussions. Building Tufts The Davenports were drawn to the building because of its role as a hub Collaboration—and all that jazz By Catherine O’Neill Grace for the practical application of science. “My dad worked for Corning in New York and other scientific glass com- eter Davenport, A59, J87P, is wild about jazz—so much panies,” Borger says. “Support for sci- so that Louis Armstrong’s performance at Cousens ence-oriented programs in education Gymnasium in 1958 was one of the high points of his Tufts has been a really important component days. Now, with his wife, Sylvia Davenport, J59, J87P, and of our philanthropic efforts.” daughter, Cynthia Davenport Borger, J87, he’s helping to The couple were also impressed with champion another form of creativity on campus. Their plans to promote cross-disciplinary Pfamily foundation has made a substantial donation to support an open learning. Borger, who trained as an gallery and adjacent classroom on the top floor of a space called the occupational therapist after attend- Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex, or CLIC. ing Tufts, hopes the open design will The gift, says Borger, honors her parents’ long marriage and even connect OT students with robotics stu- longer relationship with the university. The Davenports, who married dents, inspiring joint ventures on new not long after graduation, recently celebrated their fifty-fifth class wheelchairs or other inventions. reunion. The couple has previously supported financial aid through the The immediacy of the CLIC project, Class of 1959 Scholarship. slated to open later this year, honors a CLIC will be an anchor of the university’s planned science and second theme of the Davenport family’s technology corridor on the Medford/Somerville campus. To create philanthropy: direct investment. “We’ll it, Tufts is remodeling a 95,000-square-foot former industrial ware- be helping to create a tangible, positive house at 574 Boston Avenue in Medford. The distinctive new space for benefit for the students who will sit in teaching and research will house Physics and Astronomy, Occupational those chairs,” says Borger. She adds Therapy, Community Health, Human-Centered Engineering, that the new space could also be a great Robotics, Entrepreneurial Leadership, and a portion of Child Study gathering place for events. Who knows, and Human Development. On the top floor, natural light will pour into perhaps a latter-day Louis Armstrong a twenty-foot-wide corridor. The long gallery will hold chalkboards, will stop by to play some jazz.

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1949 1961 plays, Aesop’s Fabulous Fables, 1975 HILL Dorothy “Dottie” B. Larson ENGINEERING George Mavridis The Gifts of Obidiah Oak, and 3 HILL Karen Bradley has retired was honored at the Kennedy Center’s gave a gift to the School of Dental Cinderellas (The Oldest Story Ever as assistant dean of the graduate fiftieth annual Four Seasons Ball Medicine’s General Practice Told), are part of the Circle in the school at the University of Florida. in Washington, DC, for her work to Residency Program in honor of Square Theatre School’s 2014–15 She writes, “I’ve relocated to improve the lives of people with his cousin, Joanna, who was born season for young audiences. Beaufort, SC, and would welcome disabilities and her generosity to the with Down syndrome. Dental meeting other local Tufts alums.” Kennedy Center and the community. residents in the Tufts program Cathy (Lash) Robertson Del Nero She established the ball in 1963 to rotate through one of the eight Tufts 1971 writes that she is looking forward to raise funds for the Kennedy Center’s Dental Facilities clinics across HILL Marilyn Button had her edited the Class of 1975 fortieth anniver- residential services group homes. Massachusetts that serve patients collection Victorians and the Case sary this year. A certified financial Irma Cohen, see HILL 86. with intellectual and developmental for Charity: Essays on Responses planner, she is a wealth manage- disabilities. Learn more at bit.ly/ to English Poverty by the State, the ment advisor and first vice president mavridis. Barry B. Witham won the Church, and the Literati published of investments at Merrill Lynch in 1956 2013 John W. Frick Book Award for by McFarland Press. The essays Providence, RI, and is the founding HILL David “Sonny” Slater, A84P, the best book in American theater document Victorian activism, with partner of the Robertson-Calbi A85P, A91P, is the author of Mr. for A Sustainable Theatre: Jasper the goal of prompting parallel Group. Widowed in 2006, she has Franchise, available on Amazon. Over Deeter at Hedgerow. initiatives today. two children from her first marriage, the years, Slater and his family have Caroline and Ivan. She married Paul generously donated art and space to Del Nero, a well-known jazz bassist Tufts, including the concourse in the 1964 1972 and professor at Berklee College of Aidekman Arts Center and such im- HILL Michael Balanoff, an HILL Kenneth Isaacs was elected to Music, in 2011. They have restored portant campus artworks as the Andy attorney with Bosquet-Holstein who the board of trustees and the corpo- a 224-year-old home in Bristol, RI, Warhol portrait of Kimiko Powers that specializes in bankruptcy, business ration of the Wentworth Institute of and love to sail in their spare time. hangs in President Monaco’s home, acquisitions, and real estate, was se- Technology. FLETCHER Kirk Caldwell, the black “Humming Bowl” sculpture lected for inclusion in the twenty-first F78, A16P, has been the mayor of across from the art gallery, and the edition of Best Lawyers in America. Honolulu for the past year and a outdoor meeting space behind Tufts 1973 half. He is responsible for the city Hillel. He writes, “The seventh and HILL Florence Babb was appoint- and county of Honolulu, which en- eighth Slaters are now A16 and A18. 1968 ed the Harrington Distinguished compasses the island of Oahu and Others are/were at Stanford, Brown, HILL John Bello, A13P; John Howe, Professor of Anthropology at the its 953,000 residents. He encourag- Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and A80, A10P; Dan Joseph, A88; and University of North Carolina at es fellow Fletcher and Tufts alumni Washington University in St. Louis.” Tufts golf coach George Pendergast Chapel Hill. For more about her work, to look him up at kirkcaldwell.com. were the champion golf squad at a see bit.ly/florencebabb. Jay Lippman tournament at the Country Club in is the new director of palliative care 1957 Brookline, MA. They won a three-way at Barnabas Health/Jersey City 1976 HILL Edwin Heisler is serving a playoff with a score of net 60. Medical Center in Jersey City. HILL Deborah (Adler) Poppel three-year term on the Maine Board ENGINEERING Peter Marshall ENGINEERING Mark Sussman writes, “I have been accepted into of Tax Appeals. He continues to has been elected to the National has been elected a fellow of the the prestigious BMI-Lehman Engel practice with the Troubh Heisler law Academy of Construction for his American College of Environmental Musical Theatre Workshop as a lyri- firm in Portland. leadership in planning, building, and Lawyers. He chairs Murtha Cullina’s cist. This is a second career for me, managing military facilities. environmental practice group as I retired from John Hancock after and has been named Hartford’s more than thirty years as an actuary. 1959 Environmental Lawyer of the Year I’m splitting my time between NYC FLETCHER Ilene Shapiro Ginsberg, 1969 by Best Lawyers in America three and Chattanooga, where I was just see ENGINEERING 84. GRADUATE Three of David Eliet’s times, including 2014. blessed with my first grandchild.”

54 tufts magazine | winter 2015 1978 the Udall Center for Public Policy for the California drought that aired 1985 HILL Paul Bradford had his exhibit his work on ecosystem resilience. An on November 16. Christopher HILL Richard Arum and Josipa Roska Digital Perspectives, which combines associate professor in the School of Rallo has been promoted to senior have a new book, Aspiring Adults digital photography and painting, Natural Resources and Environment relationship manager for commercial Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College featured at the Somerville Armory in at the University of Arizona, with banking at TD Bank in Wilton, CT. A Graduates (University of Chicago September 2014. joint appointments in the Laboratory member of the Amity Club and the Press, 2014). Arum is a professor of ENGINEERING Ellen Kullman, of Tree-Ring Research and the board of directors at Bridgehouse, he sociology with a joint appointment in A12P, chair and CEO of DuPont, was Institute of the Environment, he lives in Hamden, CT. Jeffrey Tennen the Steinhardt School of Education honored by the Delaware Historical lives in Tucson with his wife, Mima, has rejoined Greenberg Traurig as a at New York University and a senior Society in October with the Delaware and two daughters. His research shareholder leading the firm’s global fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates History Makers Award, which focuses on fire history and ecology, aircraft and equipment finance and Foundation. Glenn Kurtz’s book Three recognizes individuals whose life restoration ecology, and ecological leasing practice. In September, he Minutes in Poland, about a 1938 experiences have helped them make impacts of climate change. He is participated in a panel discussion home movie shot by his grandfather lasting contributions to the quality leading the development of a new at the eighth Latin America and on a return visit to his birthplace of life in the state, the nation, or the undergraduate major in global Caribbean Air Transport Association and Kurtz’s search to identify the world. Drexel University’s College of change ecology and management. Aviation Law Americas conference. people in the film, was published by Engineering will honor Kullman as its Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. The U.S. 2015 Engineering Leader of the Year Holocaust Memorial Museum is spon- in February. She is a Tufts trustee. 1981 1984 soring a cross-country book tour; for MEDICAL Lloyd M. Harrington HILL Eileen McEvoy joined TD Bank HILL Robert Brockman writes, more, visit glennkurtz.com. Pamela is a professor of emergency medi- as a senior relationship manager in “My hope in reaching out to you is Patton was promoted to professor cine at Mercer University School of commercial lending. Peter Rome was to inspire fellow Jumbos to raise of art history at Southern Methodist Medicine. The Lloyd M. Harrington selected for inclusion in the 2015 awareness of Kids Kicking Cancer, University in Dallas. She has served as Award for the Outstanding Student edition of Best Lawyers in America. a martial arts therapy program chair of the department since 2013. in Emergency Medicine was created He is a partner at Ulmer & Berne. for children undergoing cancer in his honor last year. SACKLER Tamara Holm Howard treatment and their siblings. Since Class Year had her book Who’s Paying for the beginning of 2014, I have worked Key Abbreviations Lunch?: A Practical Manual for closely with founder Rabbi Elimelech A: Liberal Arts 1979 Maximizing Sales in Small and Goldberg in bringing Kids Kicking BSOT: Boston School of HILL Ken Bresler had two Medium Enterprises published by Cancer to the Boston medical Occupational Therapy books published in 2014: Mark Verve Business Books. Written for community in early 2015. To learn BOUVÉ: Bouvé-Boston School of Physical Education Twain vs. Lawyers, Lawmakers, the UK marketplace, it focuses more, visit kidskickingcancer.org.” CRANE: Crane Theological School and Lawbreakers: Humorous on steps businesses can take to ENGINEERING Leslie Galton D: Dental Observations and Constitutional Law increase revenue. Goldberg, internship director DG: Dental Certificate for Criminal Justice Professionals for Communications and Media DI: Dental International Program and Students. He is a state adminis- Studies at Tufts, writes, “My family E: Engineering trative law judge in Massachusetts 1982 Thanksgiving this year was full of ELIOT-PEARSON: Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and and the father of two daughters, HILL Jay Famiglietti, E16P, took a Jumbos! Out of 65-plus people (no, Human Development ages twenty and sixteen. Deborah leave from his position as professor that is not a typo!), we had a large F: Fletcher School Gerard, see ENGINEERING 84. of earth system science and of civil contingent of alums, as well as a G: Graduate School and environmental engineering at few current and former employ- H: Honorary Degree UC Irvine and moved to NASA’s Jet ees.” In attendance were Rameen J: Jackson College 1980 Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena Aryanpur, E11; Julian Chemouni, L: Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences HILL Barry Dornfeld, A09P, and as a senior scientist focusing on A09; Jillian Cohen, A07; Elizabeth M: Medical Malachi O’Connor had their book critical water issues in California and Ginsberg, former director of de- SMFA: School of the Museum The Moment You Can’t Ignore: When the West. His research group’s work velopment for the Fletcher School; of Fine Arts Big Trouble Leads to a Great Future was featured on the cover of Science Ilene Shapiro Ginsberg, F59; N: Friedman School of Nutrition published by Public Affairs. John magazine and included in a briefing Deborah Gerard, J79; Gabe Klein, Science and Policy P: Parent of student Howe, see HILL 68. to President Obama’s science advi- A11; Fletcher professor Michael V: Cummings School of GRADUATE Don Falk was sor. He worked with the producers Klein; Eloise Libre, A14; and Mark Veterinary Medicine awarded a faculty fellowship from of 60 Minutes on a segment about Simons, A11.

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1986 tinues her support of the performing 1988 worker, has opened a private HILL Julian Ferris, A87; George arts through her work on the boards HILL Russell Geller and Allyson clinical practice in Brookline, MA. Homsy; Ray Mestre; and Dan of directors for DanceBrazil and for Geller announced the birth of Jason She continues to practice and Ottenheimer, E86, celebrated their the Capoeira Center of New York. Michael on August 11, 2014. John supervise at the Boston Institute fiftieth birthdays by recreating one of She and her husband, Mark, live in Singer, partner and cofounder of for Psychotherapy. Peter Morville several trips they made to Montreal Weston, CT, and are almost empty Singer Deutsch, and his wife, Jennifer published a new book, Intertwingled: while at Tufts. Many good times were nesters, with daughter Claudia at Zeller, a vice president at Interscope Information Changes Everything, recalled and new memories created. Marist College and son Eli starting Geffen Records, announced the birth which explores how everything is A number of 1986 alumni were pres- college preparation. She’s hoping for of their son, Sebastian Julian, on connected, from code to culture. ent for Martha Morgan’s surprise another Jumbo in the family! August 18, 2014. Sebastian joins big It’s available on Amazon. Elizabeth birthday party in Gloucester, MA, sister Maya Jolie, age two. Singer, Sackett joined Hermes, Netburn, including husband Dan Ottenheimer a “Super Lawyer” for the New York O’Connor, & Spearing, focusing on and friends Judy Lindeman Brasher; 1987 City area since 2009, provides legal insurance coverage, insurance law, Irma Cohen, J49; George Homsy; Ray HILL Julian Ferris, see HILL 86. commentary, primarily about Wall and risk management. Sue Tremblay Mestre; and Laurie Schirber. In lieu Laura Saklad has been named Street employment issues, for CNBC is now vice president of insights and of gifts, donations were collected chief administrative officer at Orrick, and Bloomberg. Dan Joseph, see analytics at the culture and commu- for a local children’s charity, and Herrington & Sutcliffe. HILL 68. nications firm (add)ventures. Morgan’s favorite movie was shown DENTAL Charles Cohen saved at a community art cinema. Karen four “lost” illustrated stories by Dr. Pattani-Hason was named one of Seuss by tracking down copies of 1989 1992 Mobile Marketer’s Mobile Women to the original stories published in the HILL Lisa Tittemore, a partner HILL Erin Arvedlund’s second Watch in 2014; she heads up agency 1950s in Redbook magazine. The at Sunstein, Kann, Murphy, and book, Open Secret, was published relations for Urban Airship, which collection was published in 2014 by Timbers, writes that she was by Penguin in 2014. It examines the provides mobile software for some of Random House as Horton and the elated to hear that one of her clients, LIBOR interest rate–rigging scandal the world’s biggest brands. She con- Kwuggerbug and Other Lost Stories. Kailash Satyarthi, was a recipient that took down Wall Street execu- of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. tives. Geoff Edgers left the Boston Satyarthi founded GoodWeave, a Globe for a new position as national nonprofit dedicated to ending child arts reporter at the Washington Post. labor in the carpet industry whose Caren Mangarelli qualified for and Admissions 101 current executive director is Nina ran her first Boston Marathon in 2014 Sunday, April 12, 2015 Smith. Tittemore was also chosen as at age forty-three. She finished with a one of the year’s Women Leaders in personal best time of three hours and Law, an honor that was recognized in twenty-eight minutes. She also made 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fortune Magazine last fall. her first trip back to the Tufts campus Medford/Somerville Campus with her two children, Malini, age nine, and Rajan, seven. Tufts invites children of alumni who are high school 1990 ENGINEERING Ian Jackson juniors to participate in a new program, co-sponsored HILL Liz DeBenedictis, Steven writes that his company, Inspired by Alumni Relations and Undergraduate Admissions. DeBenedictis, Stephanie Malarkey, Professionals, will compete for a Admissions 101 will provide an opportunity for and Malarkey’s husband, Tim, $150,000 small business award parents and students to learn more about college cruised the Baltic Sea in July. sponsored by Chase and Google. admissions. Sessions will include engaging in college ENGINEERING William Meunier Former Jumbos at Inspired include interviews, preparing for campus visits, completing joined Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Gary Holness, E91; Lancelot King, your application, and writing a stellar college essay. Glovsky, and Popeo, focusing on E91; and Larry Skeete, E93. Parents can also attend a Q&A on financial aid. intellectual property litigation. FLETCHER Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu’s book Emerging Africa: How the Global Economy’s ‘Last Please register early as space is limited. 1991 Frontier’ Can Prosper and Matter Please call 888-320-4103 or email HILL Lancelot King and Gary was published by Penguin. He is [email protected]. Holness, see HILL 92. Dana deputy governor of the Central Bank (Goldberg) An, a licensed social of Nigeria.

56 tufts magazine | winter 2015 1993 THE GREAT PROFESSORS HILL Larry Skeete, see HILL 92. James Elliott, 1994 Political Science HILL Romy Block-Posner and Arielle Levitan have launched Vous Keith Hagel, A67, knew that his political Vitamin to tailor supplements to the science professor, James Vance Elliott, would unique needs of each woman. Their always find time to talk. “Nearly a half-century philosophy is based on the idea that later, I remember Dr. Elliott most for conversa- “no two people have the same diet, tions in his office, where the door was always family history, or lifestyle.” Block- James V. Elliott open,” says Hagel, a former editor of Tufts Posner, a physician, is board-certi- Weekly who went on to a career as a newspa- fied in endocrinology and metabo- per and newswire editor. “He had a lit pipe, a warm laugh, and, most important, real lism. She received her M.D. from Tel attention to whatever we might be talking about, usually life rather than academics.” Aviv University’s Sackler School of Elliott taught political science at Tufts from 1951 until his retirement in 1993 Medicine and completed residency and chaired the department from 1956 to 1983. After graduating from Boston training in internal medicine at University in 1943, Elliott became a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, arriving in North Shore Long Island Jewish Normandy just after D-Day. He was severely wounded while commanding a rifle Medical Center and a fellowship at platoon in eastern France. After the war, he earned a master’s degree in government New York University. She practices studies from Boston University and another master’s and a doctorate in political in Chicago, specializing in thyroid science from Harvard. disorders and pituitary diseases. The faculty resolution on his retirement noted: “He taught fourteen different Jennifer Wolf Kam had her debut courses in his years at Tufts but none more brilliantly than his instruction in political novel, Devin Rhodes is Dead, pub- thought—ancient, medieval, modern, and American. Here his teaching is marked by lished by Mackinac Island Press/ the scholarly virtues of thoughtfulness, thoroughness, and judiciousness.” Charlesbridge. A teen supernatural On top of that, he was popular with students. He received several honors for mystery, the book was the winner teaching, and the Class of 1964 dedicated its yearbook to him. A university award of the National Association of bears his name today. “Dr. Elliott,” says Hagel, “was not the most charismatic Elementary School Principals professor I had at Tufts, but he was solid and caring, the real thing. For me, he was a National Children’s Book of the Year mentor and a mensch.” Elliott died in 2005 at the age of eighty-six. —Phil Primack, A70 Award. Learn more about her work at jenniferwolfkam.com.

(Stockton) Lee, M01, have two boys the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in Palm 2000 1996 and live in Chestnut Hill. Beach County, FL, in January. HILL Stephanie Engelsman and MEDICAL Bernard Lee has been GRADUATE Patricia Lawrence Geoff Tichenor announced the birth named chief of the Division of voyaged through Russia’s inland of identical twin daughters, Sydney Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 1997 waterways as part of a Tufts Travel- and Calliope, on November 18, 2013, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical HILL Lindsay Smith Puteska, Learn expedition. in Portland, OR. Joshua Goldblum Center in Boston. He is an associ- husband David, and big brother was named Best Digital Visionary ate professor of surgery at Harvard Jacob welcomed Olivia Dreher, born by Philadelphia Magazine in the Medical School, serves as co-direc- in Summit, NJ, in April 2014. Jacob 1999 August 2014 issue and selected by tor of the Peter Jay Sharp Program Ratzan is president of the South HILL David Pilato welcomed son the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of for Aesthetic and Reconstructive Florida chapter of the American Jack Joseph Pilato on September Commerce as Small Business Person Breast Surgery, and was recently Immigration Lawyers Association. 5, 2014. Maral Regas, D04, writes, of the Year in 2014. He is founder awarded a $3.1 million NIH grant “My husband, Nick Regas, and I wel- and CEO of Bluecadet, which creates for his work on applying near-infra- comed our son, Christian Levon, on websites, mobile apps, interactive red imaging as a means to assess 1998 May 26, 2014. He joins big brothers installations, and immersive envi- tissue perfusion in reconstructive HILL Samantha Schosberg Feuer Nickolas (seven) and Devan (five). ronments. He serves on the board surgery. He and his wife, Britt was elected a circuit court judge to We live in Westfield, NJ.” of Philadelphia’s Children First Fund

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and on the advisory council of the 2003 They live in Manhattan. dustry.” Shaharris Beh’s nonprofit, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. He HILL Elizabeth Stark had her sec- FLETCHER Anya Zhuravel Segal HackerNest, ran DementiaHack, lives in Philadelphia with his wife and ond book, Pandora’s DNA: Tracing and Amir Segal write, “We are proud the world’s first hackathon dedicat- son, and invites fellow Jumbos to fol- the Breast Cancer Genes through to announce the birth of a baby girl, ed to developing products to help low him on Twitter @JoshGoldblum. History, Science, and One Family Dvora. She was born in Jerusalem improve the lives of people living Dave and Natalie (d’Aubermont) Tree, published by Chicago Review on October 14, 2014, during the with dementia and their caregivers, Thompson welcomed Noëlle Marie Press. Based on her experiences holiday of Sukkot. The best gift to for the British government this year. Belén Thompson on May 27, 2014, growing up in a family devastated us and our extended families!” The company was recognized by in Ann Arbor, MI. by cancer, the book discusses the Toronto’s deputy mayor for its con- inherited BRCA mutations that can tributions to the city’s tech commu- dramatically increase the risk of 2005 nity and has established a chapter 2001 developing breast and other cancers. HILL Nana Akyaa Amoah accepted in Boston. For more, see meetup. MEDICAL Britt (Stockton) Lee, see GRADUATE Jennifer Mack a position at Google UK in London com/HackerNestBOS. Matthew MEDICAL 96. Watkins was a presenter at the sec- as strategic projects lead for UK’s Pohl is now an associate director ond annual Mokuhanga Conference large publishers. She previous- of admissions at the University in Tokyo in September 2014. An ly worked for the company as of Pennsylvania. He writes, “New 2002 artist and teacher, she lives in New partnerships lead for West Africa. opportunities for advancement and HILL Smita Ramanadham, M06, was Jersey and works in New York. She writes, “The last three years professional development in the appointed an assistant professor of working for Google in Africa have field of undergraduate admissions surgery at Boston University School been phenomenal. I’m looking led me to this position at Penn. In of Medicine and attending surgeon 2004 forward to taking those experi- addition to the traditional respon- in the division of plastic and recon- HILL Florice Pressman and Joshua ences further and unraveling new sibilities of an admissions officer, structive surgery at Boston Medical Pressman welcomed their first opportunities and big wins for our I am a member of the office’s new Center. child, Marcus Shai, in July 2014. largest players in the UK digital in- digital media team, helping to set

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58 tufts magazine | winter 2015 the strategy for our web-based has joined the board of directors of NATO commander’s legal advisor Berklee) recently headlined a sold- marketing and communications.” Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, and director of the SHAPE Legal out show at the storied Troubadour GRADUATE Crystal Aragon a nonprofit dedicated to cell and Office in October 2014. Club in Los Angeles. Christina published an article on the effects gene therapies for cancer. She is Sibley is a Teach For America corps of mother-infant eye contact in the executive director of Wendy member at Achievement First the June 2014 issue of Infant Walk, a national nonprofit named 2011 Providence Mayoral Academy, a Behavior; she gave a presentation for her late mother that has raised HILL David Dormon graduated from charter school devoted to giving on the same topic at the biennial $2 million since 2010 to combat the University of Chicago Law School students from underserved com- International Conference on Infant liposarcoma. She lives in Pacific on June 14, 2014. Fellow Jumbos munities a first-tier education. To Studies in Berlin, Germany. She Palisades, CA. Perrin Pring had Jennica Allen, Alex Gresham, foster the idea of pursuing higher graduated last fall with a certifi- her second book, Tomorrow Is Too Chanel Kiett-Williams, and Montez education from a young age, each cate in applied behavioral analysis Late, published by Netherworld Paschall made the trip to celebrate classroom is named after the alma from the University of New Mexico Books in 2014. It is available on with him on his big day. Rameen mater of one of the teachers. Her and plans to start a business that Amazon. Danielle Weisberg’s site Aryanpur, Gabe Klein, and Mark second-grade classroom is named supports early-intervention agen- “theSkimm,” a daily distillation Simons, see ENGINEERING 84. after Tufts, which she hopes will cies and parents of children with of all the top news of the day, GRADUATE Joo Lee Kang had an inspire future Jumbos. developmental disabilities. has partnered with the Oprah exhibit, Unnaturally Beautiful, at Winfrey Network to develop a web the Museum of Art at the University series. She was named to Forbes of New Hampshire. Featuring 2013 2007 Magazine’s 30 under 30 list of intricate ballpoint pen drawings of HILL Alyssa Ridley participated in HILL Sarah Pollman, G14, had a game-changers earlier this year. flowers, animals, and insects, the Miami University’s earth expeditions photography exhibit at Danforth Art exhibit questions nature’s place in global field course last summer in in Framingham, MA, last fall. The the modern context. Baja California, Mexico. exhibition, Aura/Ground, highlighted 2009 FLETCHER Ana Garcia and works from two of her photographic HILL Julian Chemouni, see Nathan Kennedy announced their series about the tenuous ties that ENGINEERING 84. 2012 engagement. The wedding will take bind past and present. ENGINEERING Judith HILL The band Magic Man, featuring place this year in Boston or Spain. Rubinstein ran the NYC Marathon lead singer Alex Caplow and They write, “Although we were on November 2, 2014. She was keyboard player Justine Bowe, per- friends during the program, we never 2008 sponsored by the Foot Locker Five- formed at the Boston Calling Music dated until after graduation. We HILL Kevin Anglin completed a Borough challenge as a represen- Festival in May 2014 and opened passed from being classmates, to doctorate in physics in May 2014 tative of the Bronx. Rubinstein says for Panic! at the Disco at the Blue roommates, to friends, to couple, from UMass Lowell, where he that running helped her overcome Hills Bank Pavilion in August. and now partners for life.” conducted research with SCOWLS isolation during her time with the Caplow and Bowe met at Tufts (slab-coupled optical waveguide Peace Corps in Jordan, has kept and landed a recording contract lasers) at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. her healthy, and helps her com- with Columbia Records just before 2014 He’s now a senior process engineer plete the third goal of the Peace graduation. The band (with other HILL Eloise Libre, see ENGINEERING at Eteris in Gloucester, MA. Amara Corps: “to help promote a better members from Yale, Brandeis, and 84. Antilla was promoted to assis- understanding of other peoples on tant curator at the Guggenheim the part of Americans.” Museum. An exhibition she worked DENTAL On Tufts’ Travel- on, V.S. Gaitonde: Painting as Learn expedition to the Reykjavik Process, Painting as Life, is on view Marathon in August, Nadia Ways to share the events of at the New York museum and will Pokrovskaya joined eleven fellow your life with your classmates travel to the Peggy Guggenheim alumni and current Tufts students 4 in Venice this fall. Kara A. Loridas in running the annual race. 1. Email: [email protected] joined Hermes, Netburn, O’Connor, 2. Online Community: www.alumniconnections.com/tufts (go to“Classnotes,” then click on “Submit/Edit a Class Note”) & Spearing as an associate, 3. M ail: Class Notes, Alumni Relations, Tufts University, 80 George Street, focusing on litigation, insurance 2010 Medford, MA 02155 coverage, products liability, and FLETCHER Andres Munoz 4. Fax: 617.627.3938 insurance law. Alexandra N. Landes Mosquera was selected as the

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In Memoriam

1940s New York City, he helped inaugu- Abdullah Khambaty, E54, J90P, careers in 1989, when he joined MARGARET THATCHER MAUPIN, J40, rate free outdoor events and the of Gloucester, MA, on July 29, 2014. RCAP Solutions and helped rural of Terrace Park, OH, on October 3, Live from Lincoln Center televised He was director of sourcing for communities in New York manage 2014. She studied at the Nursery music series. Predeceased by a the Dynapert Division at Emhart/ their water resources. He retired in Training School of Boston (now the daughter, he is survived by his wife, Black and Decker. Born in Bombay, 2006. Webb had an enduring love Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Sylvia (Drulie) Mazzola, J48, a India, he became a U.S. citizen in of the outdoors, particularly the Study and Human Development at daughter, and two grandchildren. 1958, celebrating with apple pie landscape of the American West, Tufts). Predeceased by her husband, and ice cream. He served the city and enjoyed collecting geologic Addison, she is survived by four 1950s of Gloucester for more than thirty specimens and firing his own children, two siblings, and many BILL KEARNS, A50, Major League years, first as a member of the 1973 ceramic pots. A longtime Quaker, grandchildren. Baseball’s 2013 Scout of the Charter Commission and then as he demonstrated against violence Lt. Col. (Ret.) Michael L. Year and a member of the Seattle a city councilor. Predeceased by and war. He is survived by his wife, Graffeo, A44, G50, on July 5, 2014. Mariners organization since its a daughter, he is survived by his Diane, three children, two grandchil- He served in World War II and Korea inception in 1976, on January 1, wife of fifty-six years, Lynne, and a dren, a brother, and a sister. and did two tours in Vietnam. He 2015. As a player and a scout, he daughter. Karen M. Nicholls, J58, of was called a “true American hero” was part of professional baseball for Paul Anthony Scholder, A55, Madison, CT, on July 30, 2014. She by John G. Bishop in the book nearly seventy years and remained of Branford, CT, on July 20, 2014. was a registered physical thera- Cameras Over the Pacific. During his active with the Mariners franchise He earned a law degree from New pist and worked in several states, twenty-year military career, Graffeo until his death. He served in the York University and had a private most recently at the Branford Hills received more than twenty deco- navy during World War II. In 1948, practice in New Haven for more Healthcare Center in Branford, CT. rations, including the Bronze Star. Kearns was signed as a shortstop by than fifty years. He was a member An active volunteer in the Madison After retiring from the army, he was Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager of the Connecticut Bar Association, community, she was a former chair a science teacher and vice principal Branch Rickey. He played shortstop Congregation Mishkan Israel, of the Madison Zoning Board of at a high school in Birmingham, AL. for four years in the Dodgers’ minor the Branford Yacht Club, and the Appeals, past president and gov- Norbert P. Fraga, D47, of New leagues, completing his Tufts degree Quinnipiac Club. His second wife, ernor of the Madison Beach Club, Bedford, MA, on October 12, 2014. during the off-seasons. At Tufts, he Elizabeth Scholder, predeceased and past governor of the Madison He practiced general dentistry in was a three-sport star, and in 1983, him. He is survived by his son, two Winter Club. She volunteered for New Bedford for forty-five years, he received the Jumbo Club Award. daughters, two grandchildren, and the Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, Boy retiring in 1992. He served on the Kearns started scouting part-time for his first wife and friend. Scouts, PTA, and the library of medical-dental staff at St. Luke’s the Dodgers in 1953, while teaching Richard D. Doyle, E56, on the First Congregational Church Hospital, on the advisory board at mathematics and coaching basket- October 7, 2014, in Maryville, TN. in Madison. She was a lifelong Bristol Community College, and on ball at Somerset and Weymouth high He had a long career as a chemical lover of opera, classical music, and the dental advisory board of the schools in Massachusetts. He later engineer. An avid tennis player, amateur theater and an avid tennis Greater New Bedford Community was inducted into the Massachusetts marathon runner, gardener, and player. Predeceased by her husband, Health Center. He was a delegate State High School Basketball sports enthusiast, he loved the Red William, she is survived by a daugh- to the American Dental Association Coaches Hall of Fame. He also Sox and the beauty of the Smoky ter, a son, three grandchildren, and and to the Massachusetts Dental scouted part-time for the Chicago Mountains. five siblings. Society. He served in the Army White Sox and Kansas City Royals, William M. Webb, A56, of Yale J. Berry, M59, M86P, of during World War II and was a before Lou Gorman, the first general Federal Way, WA, on September 30, West Roxbury, MA, on February 22, captain in the U.S. Air Force Dental manager of the Seattle Mariners 2014. He earned a master’s in geol- 2014. A physician who specialized Corps during the Korean War. He is expansion team, hired him in 1976. ogy from the University of Michigan, in ear, nose, throat, head, and neck survived by his wife, Elsie. When he was honored as a Scout of Ann Arbor, and spent ten years surgery, he practiced for many John W. Mazzola, A49, of New the Year at the MLB Winter Meetings managing barite production plants years in the Boston area. He was an York City, on July 24, 2014. A lawyer in December 2013, Kearns said, “I in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, assistant clinical professor at Tufts and former president of the Lincoln have no regrets when I think of all the Brazil, and Mexico for Halliburton’s Medical School, a clinical instructor Center for the Performing Arts in time I’ve spent in this great game.” oil service division. He switched at Harvard Medical School, chief

60 tufts magazine | winter 2015 of otolaryngology at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Tufts’ First Woman He was president of American Red Magen David for Israel, the Temple Sinai Brotherhood, the St. Provost Elizabeth’s medical staff, and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear The physicist Kathryn McCarthy also served as Infirmary alumni. He served in the first female dean of the Graduate School the Marine Corps and was ac- tive in the VFW and the Jewish War Veterans. Predeceased by Kathryn A. McCarthy, J44, G46, a physicist who served as Tufts’ his wife, Elaine, and a daughter, first woman provost in the mid-1970s, died on December 24, he is survived by his son, MATTHEW 2014, at Brookhaven in Lexington, Massachusetts. S. BERRY, M86, two daughters, five She was associated with Tufts for more than sixty years, as grandchildren, and a sister. a student, physics professor, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, university provost, and senior vice president. She received her under- 1960s graduate degree in mathematics and an M.S. in physics, both from Tufts, and was Marian D. Bochniak, J60, on the fourth member of her family to have attended the university. August 7, 2014, in Norwalk, CT. A McCarthy began teaching at Tufts in 1946 as a lecturer in physics. At age math major at Tufts, she inter- twenty-two, she was the youngest faculty member in Tufts history. She earned her viewed prospective students for a Ph.D. in applied physics from Radcliffe College in 1957, and continued to teach number of years for the Tufts Alumni at Tufts, as an assistant professor, while she completed her doctorate. She was Admissions Program. She served promoted to full professor in 1962. on the Women’s Board at Norwalk She focused her research on the physical, optical, and thermal properties of Hospital, where she was also a mem- optical crystalline materials, and in the mid-1960s hosted the television show ber of the Board of Trustees. She was Mechanics and Heat on WGBH-TV in Boston. During the Cold War, the Soviets a past president of Treasure House, were so interested in the thermal conductivity equipment that McCarthy used in a thrift shop whose profits support her research that they quoted from American journal abstracts about her work. the growth and development of the Though most women of her time never considered a career in science, McCarthy hospital. She was a former president said she was a tinkerer from early on. “I had a sewing machine to make clothes for and volunteer for more than forty-five my dolls, but I was as likely to take the machine apart as to sew on it,” she told the years at FISH, a service organization Hartford Courant in 1974. An advocate of women in science, she told the Courant: that helps those in need, and she “Once you’re in the lab, no one asks whether you’re a man or a woman.” She was a served as a lector and Eucharistic fellow of the Optical Society of America and of the American Physical Society. minister at St. Matthew Church. In 1969, McCarthy was appointed the first woman dean of the Graduate She is survived by her husband of School, and in 1973, Tufts President Burton C. Hallowell named her provost and forty-nine years, Joseph, a son, two senior vice president, a post she held until 1979. daughters, and three grandchildren. Sol Gittleman, who served as provost from 1981 to 2002, said McCarthy, who ROBERT A. WALL, A60, in White drove a rare Avanti sports car, had a style all her own. “When I arrived at Tufts Plains, NY, on October 24, 2014. in 1964 from Mount Holyoke, I expected to find the usual all-male dominated He had a long career in banking faculty,” he said. “I was surprised to discover that there was a cadre of dynamic and finance, including working women leaders. There was Dorothea Crook, Zella Luria, and Lucille Palubinskas for Bankers Trust and Bank of in Psychology; Betty Burch in Political Science; Betty Twarog and Nancy Milburn Commerce, and as an owner-oper- in Biology. But they all looked up to one in particular: a diminutive physicist with ator of franchise restaurants in the a big brain, a quietly commanding style, and the ability to silence any windbag in Northeast. He enjoyed spending Ballou Hall. That was Kathryn McCarthy. She gave sixty years of her life to Tufts, time with family, participating in and we were an infinitely better place for her being on this Hill.” local government, and working with On her retirement in 1994, her former students and friends established the SCORE, a nonprofit that helps small Kathryn A. McCarthy Lectureship in Physics in recognition of her roles as a men- businesses. He is survived by his tor, friend, and advisor to a generation of students.

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wife of fifty-two years, Helen, a son, the American College of Construction City. She founded Frances Manzi leadership and contributions and a grandson. Lawyers, serving as president from Productions, which created print to the Department of Chemical John B. “Jack” Sebastian Jr., 1995 to 1996; a founding member advertising and catalogues. Clients and Biological Engineering. He is E65, of Groton Long Point, CT, and chairman of the construction included J. Jill, Garnet Hill, Spiegel, survived by his wife, Betty, his son, on September 27, 2014. After law section of the Atlanta Bar Talbots, and West Elm. She led SERGE D. BOTSARIS, A88, M92, three graduating from Tufts, he joined Association from 1995 to 1996; and teams on location all over the grandchildren, and a sister. the Nuclear Projects Division at president of the Atlanta Council of country and around the world, and SHEPPARD HOLT, J73P, E74P, J78P, Electric Boat, where he worked Younger Lawyers from 1980 to 1981. enjoyed traveling and supporting a professor of mathematics at Tufts in the design division, as general He wrote more than sixty articles on liberal causes and women’s rights. for thirty years, on July 19, 2014. superintendent of the steel trades, issues in construction law and was Friends will miss her “acerbic wit During World War II, he was a naval and then became manager of the frequently called upon to write chap- and anti-establishment rage.” She is lieutenant, serving in the South Virginia class submarine design/ ters for construction law reference survived by two sisters and a brother. Pacific as a radar officer on the USS build team. A lifelong resident of publications. He is survived by his Sealion II, the only Allied subma- Groton Long Point, he volunteered wife, Emily, a son, a daughter, three 1990s rine to sink an enemy battleship. for its Association Board and the grandsons, his mother, a brother, Molly Glynn, J90, of Chicago, on While at Tufts, he also worked as a Conservation Committee. He is and a sister. September 7, 2014. An accom- civilian at the Air Force Cambridge survived by his wife, Shirley, three plished theater actress, she worked Research Lab at Hanscom Field, sons, and five grandchildren. 1970s with many Chicago theater groups, where he helped design the world’s The Rev. William L. John Edwin Mroz, F74, F76, F76, on including Steppenwolf, Writer’s, largest single dish radio telescope in “Highpockets” Holden, a67, of August 15, 2014, in Manhattan. A Next, Chicago Shakespeare, and Arecibo, Puerto Rico. He was active Edina, MN, on August 22, 2014. consultant to governments in Europe, Northlight, where she appeared in the Skating Club of Boston and He was a Unitarian Universalist the Middle East, and elsewhere, he in Tom Jones last winter. Her TV the Union Boat Club, and enjoyed minister, social worker, and was a cofounder and chief executive credits include Boss on Starz and a squash, golf, billiards, and catama- corrections professional. He served of the EastWest Institute, a nonprofit recurring role as an emergency room ran sailing with his wife of sixty-five as superintendent and chaplain of research and policy group that doctor on NBC’s Chicago Fire. She is years, Emily, on the St. Lawrence the Hennepin County Home School specialized in international conflict survived by her husband, Joe Foust, River. In addition to his wife, he is for many years. His extensive resolution. From 1981 to 1982, he and two sons. survived by two daughters, CAROLINE volunteer ministry included serving conducted secret talks with Yasir H. LARSON, J73, and ALISON C. HOLT, as a chaplain for the St. Paul Police Arafat on behalf of the Reagan ad- Faculty J78, a son, CRAIG S. HOLT, E74, and Department, as a member of the ministration in an unsuccessful effort GREGORY D. BOTSARIS, A88P, M92P, five grandchildren. Minnesota Children’s Mental Health to persuade the Palestine Liberation a professor emeritus of chemical HERBERT J. LEVINE, a national Advisory Committee, as guest Organization to recognize Israel’s and biological engineering, on leader in cardiology and a doctor minister and consultant to countless right to exist. He is survived by his September 25, 2014. He joined the who established a relaxed and Unitarian Universalist congregations wife, Karen, two sons, a daughter, a Department of Chemical Engineering amiable, patient-centered approach and groups, and as cofounder of granddaughter, and two brothers. after completing his doctorate in within the cardiology department the Victims Intervention Project. Robert S. Dorian, A76, of Far 1965 and remained at Tufts until at Tufts, on July 11, 2014. He had He underwent a heart transplant in Hills, NJ, on March 19, 2014. He his retirement in 2004. He served served as chief of cardiology at his fifties and then cofounded the was chair of the Department of as department chair from 1983 New England Medical Center (now Second Chance for Life Foundation, Anesthesiology at Saint Barnabas to 1993. His research focused Tufts Medical Center) from 1961 to which supports transplant recipi- Medical Center in Livingston, NJ. on crystallization and stability of 1987, and continued on staff there ents, candidates, and their families. Friends remember him as selfless colloidal dispersions. While on leave until his retirement in 2006. Those He is survived by his wife, Sondra, with his time and dedicated to from Tufts in 1977, he served as who knew Levine saw him as the two sons, three daughters, five educating those around him, includ- the founding faculty member of the ultimate physician and teacher. He grandchildren, and a sister. ing medical students, residents, Department of Chemical Engineering was the author of more than 130 David R. Hendrick, E68, on colleagues, and administrators. He at the University of Patras in Greece papers and several books. In 2001, September 19, 2014. A leading enjoyed opera, photography, and and was instrumental in recruiting the Herbert J. Levine Foundation for attorney in construction law, he triathlons, competing in the 2013 the initial faculty members who Cardiovascular Clinical Research at practiced in Atlanta for forty years NYC Triathlon. He is survived by his made that department one of the Tufts Medical Center was estab- and was a founder of the law firm wife, Linda, and two daughters. best in Europe. In 2006, Tufts lished in his honor. He is survived by Hendrick, Phillips, Salzman & Flatt. Frances E. Manzi, J79, on established the Gregory Botsaris his wife, Sandra, a son, a daughter, He was also a founding member of September 26, 2014, in New York Lectureship in recognition of his and three grandsons.

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Hayes III, E03, on October 19, Andrew Petrone, A11, MPH12; 09. 2013, in Lenox, MA. Jumbos and Wesley Chen, E11; Jenna Dargie, friends in attendance included, A11; and Joshua Hahn, A11; front from left: Daniel Brooks, A05; row, from left: Michelle Chan, A11; Marilyn Barry-Brooks, A05, M09; Blessing Nuga, A11; Noriko Aizawa, Laurie Handwerker Braun, E05; A11; Lucy Nunn, A11; bride; groom; Lauren Margolis, A04; Paula Jason Cheng, A12; Nancy Wang, Cerqueira, A05; Melissa Graveley A12; Amanda Huang, A11; and Vilaro, A05; groom; Jay Holland; Colin Murphy, G15. bride; Michael McMahon, A03; Julie Schwarz, A05; and Roy Yang, A03. 07. Christian & McCleary Not pictured: Santiya Pradipasena, Britt Christian, A07, wed David E05; Jonathan Phillibert, A09; and McCleary, E07, on July 5, 2014, at Susan Connors, J73. the Tufts Priory in Talloires, France. Jumbos in attendance included, E07P; Chad Uy, E07; Jay Ciesluk, 08. Cooperman & Randall 06. Cheng & Yeh back row, from left: Gayathry M10; Joseph Shaw, A07; Benjamin Emily Cooperman, A08, wed Mary Cheng, A11, MPH12, wed Sooriyakumar, A09; Kate Freitas Siegel-Wallace, A07; Colin Doug Randall, A08, on May 25, Peter Yeh, A11, on September McCooey, A07; Emily Kelly, A07; Conerton, A07; and Stephen Banik, 2014, in Oxon Hill, MD. Jumbos in 6, 2014, in Houston. Jumbos in Sarah Ferguson, A07; Kristine E07; front row, from left: Gabriella attendance included, from left: attendance included, back row, Shoemaker, A07; Anna Christian, Goldstein, J84; Sean McCooey, Emily Cappetta Cooperman, A03, from left: Marcell Babai, A11; A12; Sheila Hoffstedt, A07P, A12P; E07; Aniruddha Nene, E07, E08; G08; Brian Cooperman, A05; Soshian Sarrafpour, A11; Matthew bride; groom; Charles McCleary, Samuel Caven, A07; and Ryan Alexandra Blackman, A10; Natalie Davenport, E10; Amy Baker, A11; A74, E07P; Barbara McCleary, J73, Lippell, A07. Wolchover, A08; Samuel Goldhar,

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13. Granato & Sinatra Alexandra Granato, A05, wed Jerry Sinatra on June 8, 2013, in Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard—and again, in front of family and friends, on June 8, 2014. Jumbos and friends in attendance included, back row, Richard, A80, E09P; front row, dance included, back row, from Schenkman, A10, BFA10; Nora from left: Lauren Ungerleider, from left: Juliana Granato; Jennie left: Michael Goralnik, A09; Aaron Chovanec, A10, BFA10; Elizabeth A05; Paul D’Ambrosio, M88; Frank Quaresima, A03; bride; and groom. Chaleff, A09; Asher Dratel, A12; Dewan, A09; and Emily DeArmas, A09. Granato, A80, A03P, A05P; Dolores Not pictured: Caitlin Rouse, A05. Bryan Janson, E07; and Sam Obey, Granato, J80, A03P, A05P; Francis A09; front row, from left: Kate 15. Keller & Dorian D’Ambrosio Jr., M80; Matt Dombach, 14. Kantor & Eckstat Berson, A09; Debbie Neigher, A09; Matt Keller, A04, wed Amanda E03, E05; Margo Hanlan, A05; Ashley Kantor, A09, wed Mateo Chloe Zimmerman, A10, BFA10; Kolligian Dorian on September 14, Charles DeVirgilio, E80; Franca Eckstat, A09, on June 22, 2014, Sarah Cowan, A09; groom; bride; 2013, at the Wellesley Country Richard, J81, J82, E09P; and Jack in Altoona, IA. Jumbos in atten- Mara Gittleman, A09; Valerie Club in Wellesley, MA. Jumbos in

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attendance included, back row, Christine Roncari, J01, M05; Alexis A05, N11; front row, from left: Jake 2014, in the Bronx, NY. Jumbos in from left: Nick Dorian, A16; Justin Mirvis, A07; Marianna Bender, A09; Pearson, A08; Eli Blackman, A08; attendance included, back row, Craigie, A06; Sean Mullin, A06; Jason Bauer, A06; Lindsay Firger, bride; groom; Josh Rogol, A08; and from left: Ajaya Mallapaty, E07; Anu Michael Ciacciarelli, A04; Daniel A07; groom; bride; Julia Avrutin, Andrew Lee, A09. Mallapaty, A07; Brady Messmer, Dorian IV, A75; and Adam Wylie, A07; Kelley Ferro, A07; Jessica A07; Gayathry Nene, A09; E05; middle row, from left: Mary Jan Seaman, A07; Danielle Sikov, A07; 18. Lessard & Ormand Aniruddha Nene, E07, E08; Bryan Dorian, J86; Kim Dorian, J80, G81; Nina Salpeter Herman, A07; and Laura Lessard, A04, MPH05, wed Boyce, E07; Lora Lingrey, E07; Chad Sara Rosenbaum Berg, A04; Alex Harish Perkari, A07. Daniel Ormand on August 16, Uy, E07; Mark Jagiela, A07; Karim Berg, A04; DJ Ambrozavitch, A11; 2014, in Wilmington, DE. Jumbos Bin-Humam, E05; Sam LaRussa, David Frew, A04; Meg Ingalls, J81, 17. Lee & Plitch in attendance included, from A07; Brian Leung, E07; Keith A09P; Edmund Ingalls Jr., A78, A09P; Angie Lee, A07, MPH10, wed Matt left: Laura Beals, E04, G06, G11; Collins, E07; and Megan Duane, Robert Dorian, A76; Peter Clinton, Plitch, A08, on September 8, 2013, James Stanton, A04, G14; Gillian E07; front row, from left: Erin Young, A76; Richard Oliver, A76, D81; Kelly in Hood River, OR. Jumbos in atten- Kotlen, A04; bride; groom; Molly E07; Michael Luu, A07, D11; David Hudak, A04; and Caleb Hudak, A04; dance included, back row, from left: Jackson, E04; Gabrielle Eklund Guen, E07; groom; bride; Kristin front row: groom and bride. Not Dan Resnick, A08; Maggie Clary Rowley, A05; Michelle Muhlanger, Manzolillo, A07, MPH10; Sarah pictured: Brian Flanagan, A78. Monast, A07; Kate Makai, A07; E04, E06; and Erich Muhlanger Bernstein, A07; Lillian O’Donnell, Caroline Chow, A07; Jenny Torpey, Jr., E02, E04. Not pictured: Cindy A07; Nicholas Wong, E07; and 16. Lange & Ziemer A07; Alia Hastings, A07, MPH08; Martin, A06, MPH07, and Jeff Patricia Dao-Tran, A09, MPH10. Jennifer Lange, A07, wed Brian Jeremy Arak, E08; Elizabeth Su, Martin, E05, E06, M10. Ziemer on September 6, 2014, at A10; Samantha Moland, A07, 20. Mactas & Mazzone the Hartford Golf Club in Hartford, MPH08; Sarah Crispin, A07; Megan 19. Leung & Nguyen Jessica Mactas, A07, wed Mark CT. Jumbos in attendance included, Sears Caldwell, A06; Rachael Stephanie Leung, A07, wed Mazzone on June 28, 2014, at the from left: Christopher Roncari, A99; Plitch, A11; and Tara Wommack, Nicholas Nguyen, E07, on July 19, Tappan Hill Mansion in Tarrytown,

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NY. Jumbos in attendance 22. Mitchell & Taylor Oscar Doescher III on August 30, 25. Oppenheim & Manos included, back row, from left: Eni Grace Mitchell, A03, M09, wed 2014, in Philadelphia. Jumbos in Claire Oppenheim, A10, wed Alan Cani, A07; Bryce Petruccelli, A05; Lachlan Taylor on May 25, 2014, attendance included Warren Thiry, Manos, A07, E14, on June 21, and Daniel Pateiro, A07; front in San Ramon, CA. Jumbos in D09; Ali Behnoud, D09; Anatoly 2014, in Chardon, OH. Jumbos in row, from left: Neil Padover, A07; attendance included, back row, Bartov, D09; Kara Aurbach, D10, attendance included, back row, Erica Steinitz, A08; Kate Saville, from left: Aaron Sokolow, A03; Ilina DG12; Natalie Harelick, D10; Scott from left: Brad Kreuz, A08; Chris A07; bride; groom; Ariel Hopkins, Chaudhuri, A03; Traci Lee, A03; Harelick, A05, D10; Sagar Shah, Apolzon, E08; Winston Berkman, A07; Cynthia Medina, A07; Justin Christian Probst, M10; Taylor Horst, A09, D12; Marissa Kuhnen, D09; A10; Ngozika Uzoma, A10; Ross Henneman, E07; and Saadon A04, M08; John Vorrasi, E04; Kyle Harish Gulati, D14; Alexandra Marrinson, A08; Aniruddha Nene, Davis, A07. Drullinger, M09, MPH09; Nicolas Bravoco, D12; Seth Homer, A05, E07, E08; and Benjamin Bornstein, Nguyen, A03, M07; and Jeffrey M09; Mohamad Abouzeid, M09; A07, E09; middle row, from left: 21. Misra & Devlin Wong, E02; front row, from left: and Erika Brewer, M10. Steve Manos, H08, A07P, E14P; Susruta Misra, A99, wed Catherine Diana Orenstein, A03; Diana Cohen Barbara Rubel, G75, A07P, E14P; Devlin on July 26, 2014, in New Sokolow, A03; Sohil Sud, F10, M10; 24. Ong & Su Norman Quach, E07; Daniel Carr, York City. Jumbos in attendance Kristin Sternowski, A03; groom; Dilys Ong, A12, wed Alastair Su on E07; Ryan Vinelli, A04, E06; Anna included, from left: Brian Alan bride; Kristen Scarpato, M09; January 11, 2014, in Singapore. Kaltenboeck, A04, G06; Emma Murphy, A99; bride; groom; Adam Nicole Horst, M09; Heidi Vorrasi, Jumbos in attendance includ- Mayerson, A10; and Laura Soskey, Kraemer, A96; Matt Chesler, E02, A03; Patricia Ritze, M09; Rebecca ed, from left: Weilin Mun, A13; A10; front row, from left: Maura E05; Dan Zwillenberg, A01; Carolin O’Neill, M09; and Sarah Fitch Charmaine Poh, A13; bride; Donahue, A10; Rachael Hogan, Topelson, J00; Neil Feldman, A98; Gallager, A02, M09, MPH09. groom; and Kaiying Lau, A13. Not E10; Jessie Borkan, A10; Andrea and Joe Handelman, E03. Not pictured: Sharmaine Oh, A12, and Henry, A10; Alexis Allegra, E07; pictured: Paul Resnek, A98. The 23. Mithani & Doescher Hui Lim, A11. The couple lives in groom; bride; Andrew Nguyen, A11; couple resides in New York City. Bansi Mithani, D09, wed Edward Cambridge, MA. Sam Cohen, A08; Christine Kim,

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A10; and Shahan Nercessian, E07, attendance included, back row, attendance included, back row, A07; Nicholas Foti, E07; Michael E09, E12. from left: John Brennan, A74; from left: Nicolas Gortzounian, Kinsella, A07; Emily Zimmerman, David Parenti; Robert Ratner, A74, A08; Kristen McCabe, A08; Rachel A07; Allison Javors, A07; and Tara 26. Rabinowitz & Gais A07P; Shervin Dhanani, A07; Barry O’Donnell, A08; Emily Gerngross, Espiritu, A07, G10; front row, from Amy Rabinowitz, A09, wed Jonathon Kaufman, A07; Jeff Remis, A07; A11; Elizabeth Webb, A11; Mike left: Kathryn Saville Worrall, A07; Gais, A06, on June 6, 2014, at the Neal Freed, A06, M11; Michael Niconchuk, A11; Kathryn Taylor, Clara Robinson, E07; groom; bride; Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Stone, A07; Zac Cicala, E06; Jarrett A11; Amaro Taylor, A10; and Raj and Jeremy Jo, E08. Springs, CA. Jumbos in attendance Szeftel, A07; Kacie Gaudet, A07, Reddy, A12; middle row, from left: included, back row, from left: N09; Robert Gaudet Jr., A07, M11; Will Kent, A08; Ruby Geballe, A08; 30. Silverberg & Foster David Spitzer, A08; Jeff Burke, Louise Place, A08; Samantha and Leah Staub-DeLong, A08; front Adam Silverberg, A08, G10, wed A06; Jordan Marton, E06; bride; Goldman, A08; Aaron Gest; and row, from left: Amod Rajbhandari, Raina Foster on August 17, 2014, groom; Shail Ghaey, E06; and Daniel Grayson, A06; front row, A08; Erin Pidot, A08; Mike Manno, in Englewood, NJ. Jumbos in Andrew Gordon, E06, E09; front from left: Nan Bernstein Ratner, E10; Sarah Rubin, A08; bride; attendance included, from left: row, from left: Eugene Fayerberg, J74, A07P; Sara Eisler, A07, G12; groom; Marc Marrero, A08; Hillevi Dave Lee, E08; Steven Silverberg, A06; William Heitmann, E06; Kelley Talia Quandelacy, A07; bride; Jaegerman, A12; and Alexander D75, A08P, G10P; Nick Gentilli, Vendeland, A09; and Adrienne groom; Andrew Remis, A10; Jessica Sultan-Khan, A08. E08; groom; Mark Pellegrini, E08, Frieden, A09. The couple resides in Hochstadt, A08, N10; and Becky E09; bride; Maya Jackson, E08; and New Haven, CT. Hayes, A07, G13. 29. Rudnicki & Lutynski Chris Hogan, E08. Mathilda Rudnicki, E07, wed 27. Ratner & Cohen 28. Rousseau & Pinero Andrew Lutynski on June 20, 2014, 31. Tempchin & Schliep Jamie Ratner, A07, wed Elad Cohen, Chloe Rousseau, A11, wed in Providence, RI. Jumbos in atten- Samantha Tempchin, A10, wed A07, on August 31, 2014, in San Alejandro Pinero, A08, on July dance included, back row, from left: Andrew Schliep on May 25, 2014, Francisco. Jumbos and friends in 18, 2014, in Spain. Jumbos in Nicholas Bercovici, A07; Adam Chu, at the Chesapeake Bay Beach Club

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in Stevensville, MD. Jumbos in at- 33. Trumbull & Smith dance included, back row, from Kaity Storck Potts, A08; and Jane tendance included, back row, from Rosie Trumbull, A10, wed Chris left: Nate Rosenberg, E10; Pete O’Connor, J90. left: Molly Yarn, A09; Luke Yu, A07; Smith, A12, on July 5, 2014, in Levesque, E03; Margaret Rew, Paul Richards, A10; Daniel Ferry, Boston. Jumbos in attendance A11; Tomas Hornos, E10; Will 35. Yeo & Lee A10; Joe Pikowski, A10; Judy Licht, included, back row, from left: Hutchings, A13; Andrew Shields, Isabelle Yeo, A09, wed Min-Seok J75; Mark Pollak, A75, A16P; and Tim Conrad, A10; Brendan E09; Senet Bischoff, A96; Alec Lee, A11, on December 29, 2013, Ansley Fones, A09; front row, from DiPiazza, A09; Brian Dulmovits, Jahncke, A10; Catherine Swanson, in Singapore. Jumbos and friends left: Megan Sullivan, A10; Brett A09; Charlotte Buchanan, A10; E11; and John Baker Potts III, in attendance included, back row, Fischer, A10; Katie Weiller, A10; Eric Potkin, E10; and Katherine E09; front row, from left: Caroline from left: Tom Chou, A07; groom; groom; bride; Christina Rucinski, Sadowski, A10; front row, from Levesque, E03; Lara Hwa, A09; bride; Debra Ang, A10; Timothy Li, A10; and Emily Code, A10. Not pic- left: Carly Conrad, A10; Katie Gretchen Curtis, A07; Charlotte E09; David Maltzan, A09; and Swini tured: Kelly Holz, A10. The couple Alijewicz, A10; Brittany DiPiazza, Welbourn, A13; Sally Levinson, Garimella; front row, from left: resides in Laurel, MD. A10; groom; bride; Nadine Kesten, A11; Meredith Groff, A09; bride; Jerold Ng; Rachel Tan, A10; and A10; and Eddie Mishan, A10. Not groom; Caitlin Rye Banta, E11; Yiwen Chan. 32. Toner & Raimi pictured: Asa Riley, A12; Dan Kaitlin Toner, A06, wed Daniel Raimi Rosenblum, A12; Amanda Albin, YOUR CELEBRATION PHOTOS: Visit the online Big Day Album at on June 7, 2014, at the Cotton Room A12; Joel Greenberg, A12; and Lisa http://tuftsalumni.org/thebigday. We strongly encourage couples to have in Durham, NC. Jumbos in atten- Lebovici, A12. their professional photographer take the photograph they submit to Tufts Magazine dance included, from left: Kimberly to ensure high-quality reproduction in print. Photos submitted electronically must Ionescu, A03; Sarah Arkin, A06; Nina 34. Watkins & Potts be at least 1024x680 pixels to be printed in the magazine. Email your information to Joyce, A06, MPH07; groom; bride; Jennifer Watkins, A10, wed [email protected]. Please note: Your information must be submitted within one year of your big day to be published in this section of the magazine. Submissions Elise Raimi, J99; Valerie Chin, A06; Cardwell Potts on May 10, 2014, in may be held for an issue because of space limitations. and Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, A06. New Orleans. Jumbos in atten-

70 tufts magazine | winter 2015 Annual fund gifts are to a university as raindrops are to a farmer.

“ My husband, Matthew Rosen, M92, and I believe in the potential of all Tufts students and that their education is worthy of our support. Like today’s medical students, we share a commitment to improve the world through the practice of medicine. Our annual fund gifts are one way to honor that commitment.”

—Tejas S. Mehta, M.D., M92

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Hiring a Literary Agent

PETER BEREN, A69, literary agent and publishing consultant, Point Richmond, California (peterberen.com)

Don’t pay up front. A reputable agent works on commission. The commis- sion, typically fifteen percent, is well worth it, because most of the time the agent will get you at least fifteen percent more than you could get on your own and also provide other services.

Consider connections. An How to Start a agent connects an author with the editors the agent deals with, as well as other authors and independent publishers. Perennial Garden To get a sense of what connections particular agents CATHY BREEN, J87, home gardener and state senator, Falmouth, Maine have, check their websites or directories such as the “Who Represents” feature on Take stock. Find out what climate zone you’re in by visiting planthardiness.ars.usda. publishersmarketplace.com. gov. Buy a test kit (available online or from your local agricultural extension center) to learn whether your soil is sandy or dense, acidic or basic. Note whether your site Count on coaching. An agent is damp or dry, and whether it gets full sun, half sun and half shade, or full shade. serves as a sounding board for new ideas, and then helps Make a plan. Impulse garden buying is costly, so peruse the web, local nurseries, you craft a proposal to show and catalogs and make lists of plants you like that thrive in the conditions you to publishers. Later, when a have. Sketch out your future garden on graph paper. Keep your lists and your book is about to come out, sketch with you as you shop. the agent helps you promote it through traditional social Think like a designer. Start with, say, three to five small shrubs of the same variety media. and five to seven each of two types of perennials, one that blooms early and one late. Consider how foliage and shapes look together. Use odd-numbered groupings Expect shuttle diplomacy. of plants, arranging them in clumps or triangles, not rows. After a contract has been signed, an agent may Be patient. Shrubs and perennials can take five years to reach full size. Keep them occasionally resolve conflicts watered, apply one to three inches of mulch for moisture retention and weed con- during the editing or market- trol, fertilize annually, and wait. Fill empty spaces with annuals if you must. ing of a book.

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Effective Résumé Reading

RICK LINDE, A76, CEO, Chemistry Executive Search, New York City (chemistryexecutivesearch.com)

Pace yourself. Even the strongest unacceptable. They’re like big bowls of that a candidate has “improved sales brains will wilt after too many mush—it’s impossible to make sense of by fourteen percent” in a past job, you résumés. Read just a few and then them quickly, if at all. might want to give that résumé special move on to something else. Don’t even attention. Another good sign is upward dream that you can intelligently review Remember the job description. Create a mobility, especially within a single dozens at a single sitting. form with “must have” qualities on the company. left side and blank space on the right Insist on chronology. In recent years, for notes, and fill it out as you read Keep the interview in mind. You can’t job candidates have begun to sub- each résumé. That way, you’re more evaluate a candidate from the résumé mit résumés that are “skills based” likely to judge them all by the same alone. You can only make an educated rather than chronological. Some such objective standard. judgment about whether to move to the candidates are trying to hide career next step. So jot down concerns to be gaps, while others simply possess an Look for quantifiable achievement. The discussed during the interview. There unusual career trajectory, but in either best indicator of future success is past may, for example, be sound reasons for case résumés formatted in this way are success, and if, for example, you see frequent career moves.

Sports Nutrition Savvy

JENNIFER SACHECK, associate professor, John Hancock Research Center on Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity Prevention at Tufts’ Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Get your timing down. Avoid eating for the thirty minutes Pack a snack. If before your workout. The reason is that if you do eat during exercising longer this window of time, your muscles and your gastrointestinal than an hour, bring tract will compete for blood flow. The result could be cramps, along a carbohy- nausea, or, at the very least, an inability to reach your drate source that is exercise potential. easily digestible, such as a small banana, pretzels, or a sports bar or gel, to help Stay hydrated. You need adequate fluid. Otherwise your maintain your blood sugar. A bonus is that during exercise, blood won’t deliver oxygen to your muscles as effectively, and refined carbohydrates won’t cause the blood-sugar spikes your body won’t regulate its internal temperature well, either. and falls that lead to diet-sabotaging hunger. Drink eight to twelve ounces of water one to two hours before you begin your workout. Then, after your first hour of Don’t go overboard with sports drinks. If you exercise for exercise, drink four to eight ounces every twenty minutes. less than an hour, you don’t need anything beyond water.

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Our elephant stalkers continue to search the globe for the perfect pachyderm pic. Mara Rettig, MPH15, was doing a semester in Kenya when a mud-spattered tusker (top) stared her down. At a park in Jaipur, a stylish Indian elephant (above) posed for Beth Silverman Kotis, J87, A17P, living in New Delhi with her diplomat husband, Sam. It was a Tufts Travel-Learn trip that provided Steve Penrose, F67, F69, F73, a close encounter in the Serengeti (left). Magnificent animals all!Send your best elephant shots to [email protected].

76 tufts magazine | winter 2015 “A s aCertifiedFinancial Planner,Iknowthatestate giftsmakeagreatimpact. Whenwedrewupourestate plans,weknewthatwe couldmakeadifference byincludingTufts.”

As associate director of the Tufts Career Center and director of the Tufts Finance Initiative, Chris Di Fronzo, E96, EG04, is one of Tufts’ key ambassadors to the finance world. He advises students, builds relationships with employers and alumni, and coordinates with the Tufts Financial Network to develop student programming.

Chris views his role as a natural progression of his involvement at Tufts, starting as a manager at Hillside House—the commuter house—as an undergraduate, and continuing through his participation in the Engineering Networking Night and as an admissions interviewer. After working at engineering software company MathWorks, earning a master’s degree at Tufts Gordon Institute, and spending eight years in the finance sector, he is delighted to put his expertise to work at Tufts.

When Chris and his wife, Vada Seccareccia, began discussing their financial future, naming Tufts as a beneficiary of their estate plans was an easy decision. “As recipients of financial aid, we wanted to continue the tradition of giving back to our universities,” says Chris.

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