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MARCH 21, 2012 VOLUME 112 NUMBER 9 President’s Page 2 Inbox 5 From the Editor 6 Rendering of the Andlinger Center for © A Moment With 11 Energy and the Environment, page 13. DBOX Dramatist, writer Winnie Holzman ’76 Campus Notebook 12 WWS’s Paxson to lead Brown • Freddy Fox goes to war 24 Princeton developing partnerships with Fred Fox ’39, well known on campus as a fun-loving member of overseas universities • Professors win Triangle, mounted some of his most convincing theater productions National Humanities Medal • Aspire on the World War II battlefields of Europe. campaign on track • Andlinger Center By Rick Beyer • PPPL would take hit in budget pro - posal • Yavneh House celebrates a half- century • Princeton gets Moe Berg ’23 Designing in green 30 papers • PAW ASKS: Professor Stanley Sustainable architecture has evolved tremendously since the idea crept Katz, on the Cuban embargo • FROM into the curriculum in the 1970s. Some of the best green designers PRINCETON’S VAULT: Clio’s watch keys • ON have orange and black stripes. THE CAMPUS: Bicker update • Asian- American students perceive higher bar By Jessica Lander ’10 Sports 20 Adversity unites men’s lacrosse • Men’s squash wins national title • EXTRA POINT: Recruiting athletes What’s n ew @ PAW ONLINE Perspective 23 THE GHOST ARMY Gregg Lange ’70’s High heels in the ivory tower View images and video of Rally ’Round the Cannon By Hilary Levey Friedman *09 Fred Fox ’39’s World War II Exploring Alumni Scene 36 unit in action. the brilliance Alumni Day 2012 • READING ROOM: Novel of John explores complexities of Saudi life • ALUMNI TUNES Bardeen *36. Singer-songwriter Anthony D’Amato Listen to selections from ’10 • STARTING OUT: Gavin Byrnes ’11 • singer-songwriter Anthony TIGER PROFILE: Bill Carson ’50 helps low- D’Amato ’10. income schoolchildren succeed Class Notes 42 MARCH MADNESS Women’s basketball shoots Memorials 63 for its first NCAA Tournament Princeton Exchange 69 victory. NEW! For tablet users: Final Scene 72 Try our PDF version of INTERVIEW this issue — and share ON THE COVER: Army identification card of Frederic Fox ’39. Stanley Katz discusses the Courtesy Donald Fox k’39. 50th anniversary of the U.S. your feedback — at trade embargo on Cuba. paw.princeton.edu THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE “Shall We Dance?”

Under the aegis of the Lewis Center for the Arts, our to devoted but small audiences. If our first experiences with Program in Dance is flourishing—a tribute to the talents dance were more catholic and less partitioned, we might find of our students and faculty and the inspired leadership of easier access and avenues through which dance could become Director and Professor of Dance Susan Marshall. Further part of our lives. afield, Susan Marshall & Company have toured nationally To this end, here at Princeton we have begun to offer and internationally for the past 25 years, earning acclaim interdisciplinary courses centered on dance collaborations with for their original, poetic works. I am delighted to introduce theater artists, visual artists, composers, and engineers. We you to her here.—S.M.T. have increased the number and variety of introductory courses. For students whose dance interests differ from our core focus first encountered dance at Princeton in 2007, when my on modern dance, we are creating more points of entry: bal- company was invited to stage a work on students for let, improvisational techniques, somatic approaches, African the annual Spring Dance Festival. I’d been told that, dance, musical theater choreography, theory and history semi- because Princeton was a liberal arts university, there nars, and traditional techniques from diverse world cultures. Iwere no dance majors and rehearsals could take place only in We intend our courses to serve both the complete the evenings because of the students’ academic schedules. I newcomer and the pre-professional. One of those newcomers arrived prepared to find students with underdeveloped skills was Silas Riener ’06, who discovered dance as a Princeton and the half-present attitude of the partially committed. What freshman and went on to dance with Merce Cunningham a shock to discover skill- Dance Company. Silas was recently hailed by The New York ful, gifted dancers who Times as “one of the superlative performers of our day.” While were engaged, informed, it is the rare student who begins dancing at Princeton and GRIMES proactive, and brilliantly ends up with a skyrocketing professional career, many do find TOM present. How could they careers in dance and, while still in school, discover interesting possibly be anthropol- connections with their majors that lead to innovative, dance- ogy and biology majors infused theses. Still others develop a lifelong involvement with devoting only a slice dance as audience members or practitioners. of their curricular time In these hard times, financial support for dance is dry- to dance? ing up, and our program at Princeton can play an important In fall 2009, I became role by commissioning new work from guest choreographers the first director of the at the forefront of our field and by initiating modest artist- new Program in Dance, in- residence programs. Already our students are extending a position made possible their relationships with professionals they’ve worked with on through the extraor- campus by partnering with them in the field. Two examples: dinary gift of Peter B. this past year Katy Dammers ’13 was Mark Morris’s research Program in Dance Director Susan Lewis ’55 and the assistant on a new work, and Lisa Einstein ’13 performed in Marshall at work with Princeton students. creation of the Lewis Camille A. Brown’s New York season at the Joyce Theater. Center for the Arts. Our community of dancers at Princeton is growing. En- (Formerly, dance studies fell under the rubric of the Program rollment has doubled in the past four years, and countless in Theater and Dance.) Though I am now in my third year at other students dance in thesis projects, guest artist works, the University, my awe of Princeton students remains undi- co- curricular classes, and student companies. Dance gives minished. students a place on campus to solve problems physically; to Our program’s roots date back to 1969, when Ze’eva Cohen move and act consciously. Students can feel, as well as observe was invited to develop the dance classes it was assumed and understand, the rightness or wrongness of a choice. Of Prince ton’s first women students would crave. It was mostly her first experience with our program, Pallavi Mishra ’15 men who showed up to those first classes, held in a small room wrote: “I realized that if dancing through my daily life were to attached to Dillon Gymnasium. From these humble begin- be a goal of mine, it would mean something more than taking nings, Cohen steadily advocated over the years for dance to study breaks to leap and spin around my room. It would mean take its place beside the other creative arts as a legitimate area incorporating into my approach to life the things I find beauti- of study, and she intelligently and scrappily built a program ful and compelling about the approach of dance to movement grounded in contemporary dance. and expression. Choosing difficult things and doing them with Because of President Tilghman’s Arts Initiative, our dance grace, making them look effortless. Following through with program is now uniquely positioned to innovate. In our actions instead of letting their consequences fall into place by culture as a whole, dance has become isolated—a victim of its chance—landing my figurative leaps and turns. Being aware own, often self-imposed, segregation in conservatories as well of spaces and how I fill them, doing it with intention.” as its tendency toward genre snobbery. As a result, it plays In a word, our students are simply awe-inspiring.

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ARCHIVES RICHARD CUMMINGS ’59 At Alumni Day last month, I was grateful to Sag Harbor, N.Y. represent the graduate school as a reader at the Service of Remembrance. In an annual calendar filled with ceremony, Suettinger ’70 in 1968 I find the service — which honors members of the Prince- Truth-seekers on campus ton community who died during the past year — to be the most moving event. Originally, the service recognized only alumni, but the Rev. Joseph Williamson, I was so pleased and proud, 10 years dean of the Chapel from 1989 into 2001, recognized that others, too, are so much a ago, when my alma mater selected as part of campus life. Today, his wide embrace is on full display: The Chapel choir its president a brilliant woman who, it sings soaring Christian hymns; students read prayers from the Jewish, Hindu, and was noted quietly, was not religious. Muslim traditions; staff members, like alumni, add carnations to the memorial When, oh when, might our benighted wreath. This year’s memorial address was delivered by a rabbi, Cindy Enger ’87. country have the intelligence and Princeton lost some giants last year. Sue-Jean Lee Suettinger ’70 — the first maturity to do the same? woman student to appear in Triangle So I was surprised to see, in her WATCH: Triangle’s musical tribute to Sue-Jean — was such a legend that when she Jan. 18 President’s Page article on “Reli- Lee Suettinger ’70 @ paw.princeton.edu was ill with leukemia, female Triangle gious Diversity at Princeton,” President members created an original video as a Tilghman’s enthusiastic approval that personal musical tribute. Bob Rodgers ’56, chairman emeritus of the Princetoniana the campus is “humming with multi- Committee, was so loved by younger alumni that his name appears in the Remem- faith activity.” “With the help of 15 brance program three times: with his own class, and as an honorary member of the chaplains, ... students are encouraged classes of 1981 and 2006. Sixty-eight faculty and staff members also were honored: ... to deepen their religious faith.” Why teachers, mentors, people who ensured that Princeton works in every way. would someone who has no religious The renowned professor and the underappreciated dining-hall worker; the star faith herself be so pleased to see her student and the far-away alum: On Alumni Day, Princeton celebrated them all. charges delving deeper into dogma? — Marilyn H. Marks *86 It’s understandable that we should exhibit toleration to those who come to P college imbued in a religious tradition; 6 we should do all we can to make them feel welcome and comfortable. But our Where Is God? first obligation is to teach and uphold by William Jannen ’52 Calling All Enlightenment values. All religions, in some aspects of their theologies, are The monotheist God evolved in the Jewish tradition and was adopted by Princeton anti-Enlightenment and anti-science, Christianityy,, Islam, and Mormon- and no bastion of higher learning ism in turn: unknowable and inef- should be afraid to point that out. fable. Religious writers have told us Authors! President Tilghman doesn’t mention for thousands of : , / / , $ 0  - $ 1 1 ( 1 any organizations that support and give years that this 3XW\RXUERRNLQWKHKDQGV comfort to students who are not reli- God is beyond all RI65,000 readersUHDGHUVLQ human compre- W ? gious. Are there no such groups on RXUDQQXDO3ULQFHWRQ$XWKRUV hension. Pagan “MAN SHALL NOT SEE ME AND LIVE” (EXODUS 33:20) campus? I would be surprised if stu- VXPPHUUHDGLQJVSHFLDODGYHUWLV pollyytheists had dents with no religious faith didn’t no such problem. LQJVHFWLRQ-RLQIHOORZDOXPQL comprise a significant segment of the Their world was IDFXOW\DQG8QLYHUVLW\VWDII student body. Should they not also be full of Gods. They DXWKRUVLQSURPRWLQJ\RXUERRN often appeared in afforded “a climate of mutual respect”? human form and Cover dates: ROBERT R. WORTH ’52 interacted with human beings. They June 6 & July 11 New York, N.Y. could be unpredictable and had to be handled carefully. Monotheism re- Space deadlines: Re the Jan. 18 President’s Page: I should placed all that with a God that is a com- April 26 & May 22 plete mystery. If that is what religion think that any student graduating from has come to, we may as well face the Princeton would have no need for fact that we are alone in the universe. For more information handed-down superstitions not sup- contact Advertising Director http://Whereisgodwilliamjannen. ported by one iota of evidence. Colleen Finnegan wordpress.com DONALD CAREY ’51 [email protected] AAvailablevailable at Amazon.com Gilford, N.H. 609-258-4886 continues on page 9

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Luxury of solitude — could not have Firestone’s carrel replacement ‘the end of an era’ done my thesis without retreating to it The news that Firestone Library has begun replacing its 500 metal study carrels (Campus during Christmas break. It softened the Notebook, Feb. 8), installed when the building opened in 1948, drew responses from feeling of lonely work on a deserted generations of alumni who recalled long hours spent toiling over their research. More campus. comments can be found at PAW Online. JOHN LAGRUA ’52 New York, N.Y. Writing my senior thesis, the unread tion after we all turned in our theses! books piled up on the cramped floor LINDA FRANCIS KNIGHTS ’77 They were a bit dank, but one could till I could hardly wedge myself in ... Hopewell, N.J. make them cozy little work spaces — I my carrel resembled, as much as a car- did so with the requisite office sup- rel could, painter Francis Bacon’s pre- What will happen to the dedication plies, a small lamp, a bulletin board, served studio in Dublin. Further on, plaques? My father, Frederick M. postcards, and (of course) snacks! Since when the library was closed on week- Heimerdinger ’17, donated a carrel so few people used their carrel, I always end nights, a group of us English grad when Firestone was being built. had quiet study time ... a little sad to students would gather at a secret door JOHN F. HEIMERDINGER ’54 see them go. and be let into Firestone by a custo- Armonk, N.Y. JAMES MISTER ’10 dian, where we could spend several Munich, Germany hours in our carrels, alone in the It took strength of will to descend to museum. At least it was a break from the lightless bowels of Firestone and Is anyone auctioning them off? Could the Butler Tract and its explosive type away in a cold, dented metal car- be an interesting component of an kerosene heaters. rel. (But sometimes in the spring when open office. FRED WAAGE ’65 *71 the dorms had stereo wars, it was the DORA CHOMIAK ’91 s’91 Johnson City, Tenn. only place to catch some ZZZs.) And New York, N.Y. the carrel’s lack of charm did discipline Sorry to see the carrels disappear. Mine me to work hard and efficiently, so I Learning that Firestone’s metal carrels had a fan to keep it cool and was iso- could escape! will be removed brings back fond lated enough so that I had few distrac- JUNE FLETCHER ’73 memories of senior year and C-11-J2. tions (except an occasional classmate Naples, Fla. In the spring, our carrel celebrated the P who would entertain his completion of theses by 7 girlfriend in his carrel with hosting a party. We and the lights out and door various friends sneaked locked). Very likely, I would food, drinks, ice, and an not have turned in my sen- entire stereo system, piece ior thesis on time without by piece, past the lobby the solitude of my carrel. guard and down to C-floor. Paid off, too: I got an “A” on Those who remember my thesis. Could one be how big the speakers, retained as a reminder of turntables, and amplifiers that special time and place? were in those pre-iPod JACK SIGGINS ’60 days will appreciate the Annapolis, Md. accomplishment. The night guard, won over I don’t know if the four- with food, drink, and person carrels in Firestone music, indulged us well were officially metal. If not, past closing time. perhaps mine will remain. JIM MARKETOS ’76 Excellent study space Washington, D.C. (nearly offices!), though we did not have typewriters They were cramped and a there, never mind some- bit creepy, but the desk

thing called laptops — or worked very well for PRINCETON (cell) phones. Probably all impromptu naps. Whatever

Well-equipped Firestone carrel, circa 1948. UNIVERSITY for the best! However, car- would I have done without relmates rivaled room- it? Truly the end of an era. ARCHIVES mates, and I recall an onsite READ MORE COMMENTS, AND ADD YOUR OWN: Post your Firestone KATHARINE NORRIS ’86 wine and cheese celebra- carrel memory @ paw.princeton.edu Washington, D.C.

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Inbox continued from page 6 Sadly, even the benefits of a Princeton SUMMER IN education cannot detoxify an all-too- THE CITY While reading the initial paragraphs of common, knee-jerk tendency to stereo- LIVE & LEARN AATT BARNARD COLLEGE the President’s Page on “Religious type “the other.”      Diversity at Princeton,” I felt negative I myself came to the United States at A pre-college experience for high school students. vibes welling up within me once again. the age of 9 when my family fled the Unfortunately, when I read PAW, I post-Holocaust, Stalinist, and anti- Information often am humbled by the accomplish- Semitic currents in 1959 Poland. My 212.854.8866 barnard.edu/ ments of those featured, not to men- debt to Princeton — which provided ege tion the enormous difference in our me with work/study, scholarship, and paychecks. (When such feelings are par- cultivated my taste for lifelong learning ticularly acute, it’s best to avoid the and listening with “the other” — con- Class Notes.) Furthermore, the thought tinues. Mr. Teichberg, whether one of “hundreds of Princetonians ... agrees or disagrees with his political fill[ing] the Chapel’s soaring nave as position, is owed as much of an apol- 7DERU$FDGHP\6XPPHU3URJUDP77DDERU$FDGHP\6XPPHU3UURRJUUDDP musicians, dancers, and readers gath- ogy for these slurs as was Jeremy Lin     ered” for “one of the most important for the racial slurs that masqueraded as holidays in the Hindu calendar” irked headlines by some sports commenta-            me, too. tors celebrating his basketball finesse.  This visceral response soon abated, HAROLD J. BURSZTAJN ’72         however, as I was overcome with a deep Cambridge, Mass.      sense of gratitude for my own faith 6DLOLQJ0DULQH6FLHQFHDQGPXFKPRUH6DLOLQJ0DULQH6FLHQFHDQGPXFKPRUH   experience while an undergraduate. The editorial assault on Vladimir Teich-      RQDEHDXWLIXOVHDVLGHFDPSXVRQD EHDXWLIXOVHDVLGHFDPSXV      &RHGDJHV&RHGDJHV During my nine semesters on campus berg illustrates a disappointing intoler- 5HVLGHQWLDODQG'D\3URJUDP5HVLGHQWLDODQG'D\3URJUDP (the Lord blessed me with an athletic ance among some fellow alums (five       -XQH$XJXVW-XQH $XJXVW 7HO‡‡_0DULRQ0$77HHO‡‡_ 0DULRQ0$ injury to prolong my stay), I discovered attacks, all graduates from the 1970s). (VXPPHU#WDERUDFDGHP\RUJ(VXPPHU#WDERUDFDGHP\RUJ that life is about loving God and others Ad hominem attacks are so self-satisfy- 9LVLWZZZWDERUDFDGHP\RUJVXPPHU99LLLVVLWZZZZWDERUUDDFDGHP\\RUUJJJVVXPPHU — everything else is secondary. I went ing, but none of the authors seriously back and checked my Nassau Herald address the issues Teichberg raises. It P entry, and sure enough, my memory shows an embarrassing ignorance to 9 served me correctly (no longer a given insinuate that Teichberg’s idea of local at this age); I did indeed quote Jesus “people-driven assemblies” and “con- Christ, who said (my paraphrase): “If sensus based on equality” somehow has you want to be great in God’s kingdom, direct parallels to the bureaucratic you must become the servant of all.” monstrosity of the Soviet Union. The This truth has served and saved me in Soviets built a hierarchical nightmare countless situations on the homefront, (something Marx himself would have in our local community, and in my been the first to protest!). I urge the ministry over the past three decades. It five writers to re-read Teichberg’s is a profound truth that I wish for each words: “This is a revolution against

and every truth-seeker on campus. hierarchy.” Perhaps one of them can LYNN MCADAM ’79 explain to me the intimate connections

Fuessen, Germany between local town hall meetings %URZQ8QLYHUVLWW\\ based on direct democracy in Vermont ZZZEURZQHGXVXPPHU and Soviet bureaucracy. ‡‡‡ 2KDQD)DPLO\&DPS In defense of Teichberg ’96 These letters reveal something ZZZ2KDQD&DPSRUJ deeper in the American psyche: the sur- ‡‡‡ Some of the letters (Inbox, Feb. 8) in vival of a “Cold War” mentality. The 3ULQFHWRQ'D\6FKRRO response to the thought-provoking threat of the Cold War forged a world- ZZZSGVRUJJVXPPHUSURJUDPV interview of Vladimir Teichberg ’96 (A view of perceived polar opposites ‡‡‡ %DUQDUG&ROOHJH&ROXPELD8QLYHUVLWW\\ Moment With, Dec. 14) included (socialism vs. capitalism, democracy vs. ZZZEDUQDUGHGXSUHFROOHJH thoughtful analyses both criticizing dictatorship). In a polarized worldview, ‡‡‡ and supporting Teichberg’s political it is easy to label things “socialist,” gen- 7DERU$FDGHP\ perspective. Alas, among the published erating much unenlightened conversa- ZZZWDERUDFDGHP\RUJVXPPHU ‡‡‡ letters there were some soiled with tion on important issues like Obama’s 6XPPHU,QVWLWXWHIRUWKH*LIWHG Nativist bigotry and ethnic slurs refer- health-care act, reforming taxation, the ZZZJLIWHGVWXG\RUJ ring to Teichberg’s Russian childhood. “nanny state,” and “entitlements,” of

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which one letter-writer complains. Teichberg’s ideas concern controlling power inherent in hierarchy, something 5HXQLRQVLVFRPLQJ that exists in capitalism and socialism, democracy and dictatorship. The letter 5HXQLRQVLVFRPLQJ writers miss in Teichberg a powerful social trend, leading our society in unex- &ODVVHVPromote your major! pected directions — decentralization. 'HSDUWPHQWVAdvertise your event! Examples are everywhere: the decen- tralizing of knowledge and communi- cation in the Internet (a tool Teichberg himself utilizes), consumption at local Reserve space for an ad in farmers’ markets (if not growing food PAW. Special discounts offered in a garden), banking at local credit when you advertise in both unions, and yes, local, direct democ- the May 16 issue and racy. Anyone who uses these modalities the Reunions Guide. in their daily life is having an influence on hierarchy and centralization. MARK DALLAS ’96 Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

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A moment with . . . Winnie Holzman ’76, on writing for television I write things that such a galvanizing, sort of shocking experience to realize I was seeing actors“ hopefully would people that I felt represented me. want to play. When I started writing for TV, I was cognizant of that. Hollywood is known as ”a tough town for women, but Winnie Holzman ’76 has spent After so many years in the business, is the last two decades as a sought-after writing still a struggle for you? television writer, working on the critically Writing remains hard for me. It’s acclaimed shows “thirtysomething,” “My something I have fears about. This So-Called Life,” and “Once and Again.” feeling of being totally blocked — it Holzman’s strong suit is creating authentic does come all the time. But it’s just a female characters, a talent she brought to feeling, and you don’t have to Broadway when she wrote the book — nomi- believe it’s true. It always comes nated for a Tony award — for the 2003 down to: How are you going to re- musical “Wicked,” the highest-grossing inspire yourself? And that’s your job Broadway show for the last eight years. as a writer, or for any artist. Holzman spoke to Princeton students — and to PAW — on campus in February. You did a lot of acting with Theatre Intime when you were at Princeton. A recent study by the Center for the How has your acting background Study of Women in Television and Film found that only 15 per- helped you as a writer? P cent of the writers of prime-time TV shows were women, which It’s been a huge influence on my work. I write things that 11 puts you in a pretty small group. actors hopefully would want to play. Getting them excited is I don’t usually think about that. It is hard for women — I a big part of my job. don’t know a woman in television who didn’t struggle to some extent — but at the same time, if you let yourself think After thirtysomething went off the air, you were asked to write a about that too much, it’s not a good idea. [When I was start- TV show about a teenage girl, which became My So-Called Life, ing out], I didn’t know a woman who was doing what I starring Claire Danes. That show was praised for its realistic depic- wanted to do. And there were times when I made mistakes tions of teen life. How did you tap into the voice of a teenage girl? because of that, and there were times when I was very fright- I spent two or three afternoons at some high schools in ened because of that. L.A. to rekindle those memories. It didn’t take much. That was L.A. in the ’90s, and I went to school in Long Island in And now your daughter, Savannah Dooley, has become a TV the 1970s, but it didn’t matter. It brought back memories, writer. The two of you teamed up in 2010 to develop Huge, an and then I was off and running. ensemble drama set at a weight-loss camp for teens. The fact that they put Huge on the air was a modern-day Did you see Claire Danes as your doppelganger? miracle. It was disappointing that [ABC Family] took it off so In a certain way, yes. It wasn’t autobiography — it wasn’t the quickly, but honestly, the great experience of it far outweighed facts of my life on any level. It was autobiography e m o t i o n a l l y . any disappointment of it being canceled. I did a series with my daughter! I don’t know anybody else who did that. There was a teenage character named Rickie on My So-Called Life who was gay. That was groundbreaking at the time, wasn’t it? You’ve often said that TV is a very powerful medium — it affects Yes. Gay people will stop me on the street and say that it people deeply. was the first time they were able to have a conversation with I learned that even before I was writing for TV, when I first their parents about being gay. saw thirtysomething. I was a fan of the show before I was writ- ing it. I was this white Jewish girl in my 30s who had a tod- That must make you feel good. dler, and for the first time I can remember — except for Mary That’s the best. π

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FRANK I’m going, “Oh my God, that really is my life.” And it was — Interview conducted and condensed by Jennifer Altmann

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Campusnotebook Web exclusives and breaking news @ paw.princeton.edu Preparing for a new era of partnerships overseas Four years after issuing a blueprint for “a broad interna- Lilia Schwarcz, a professor of anthropology tional vision” for Princeton, the University is preparing at the University of São Paulo, is co-teaching to create strategic partnerships with educational insti- a freshman seminar on the history of racism in Brazil as a Princeton Global Scholar. tutions in other countries. Partner institutions are likely to be and Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 The 2007 approach “did not do any- selected from those that already have issued a report called “Princeton in the thing transformative to the institutions been “hot spots” of activity for Prince- World” that made the case for global- — they remain separate entities,” said ton faculty and students, according to ization and outlined a series of initia- Diana Davies, vice provost for interna- history professor Jeremy Adelman, tives, including one of faculty-driven tional initiatives. The new strategy will director of the University’s Council for “networks and flows” that would con- rely on institutional relationships, with International Teaching and Research. nect the University to centers of learn- oversight by a governing body com- Among the early candidates are the ing in other countries. prised of faculty from both institutions University of Tokyo and the University That has led to formal connections that will determine new programs, of São Paulo in Brazil, Adelman said. among faculty, grad students, and activities, and collaborations. Partnerships in China, Western Europe, undergraduates in more than 25 loca- The strategic partners would offer P and Africa — perhaps with multiple tions overseas, Adelman said. But to courses, seminars and conferences, and 12 institutions or locations — also are sustain those networks, he said, more research exchanges for faculty and stu- under consideration, he said. institutional support and a deeper dents. The University plans to provide In October 2007, President Tilghman commitment are needed. assistance to visiting faculty and stu-

S Brown chooses Paxson as next president Appiah, Darnton receive

W Economist Christina Paxson, dean of the Woodrow top humanities award Wilson School, will become the president of Brown

E Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah and professor University in July. She succeeds Ruth Simmons, who emeritus Robert Darnton received the National was an administrator at Princeton for a decade. N Humanities Medal from President Obama at the “The search committee at Brown University has White House Feb. 13. The medal, awarded to eight made a truly inspired choice for its 19th president, recipients, is the federal government’s highest honor

E although it means that Princeton will lose one of its for cultural achievement. most distinguished faculty members and effective

H Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of academic administrators,” President Tilghman said. Philosophy and the Center for Human Values, was

T Dean since 2009, Paxson has led the Wilson cited as a philosopher “seeking eternal truths in the School though a period of significant change. Selec- contemporary world” whose works “have shed moral tive admission to the school will end next year as major changes in the under- and intellectual light on the individual in an era of F graduate curriculum take effect. globalization and evolving group identities.” Paxson, a professor of economics and public affairs at the University for 26 O President Tilghman described Appiah as “one of UNIVERSITY years, said she was grateful for “incredible opportunities to develop as a teacher, Princeton’s most luminous scholars and a true citizen scholar, and administrator.” Her recent research has focused on economic status of the world.” and health outcomes, especially on the health and welfare of children. In 2000 P MULLIN/BROWN Darnton was a history professor at Princeton from she founded the Center for Health and Wellbeing, a research center in the FRANK 1968 to 2007, when he was named university librar- O

AND Wilson School. ian at Harvard. He was honored for his “commitment Paxson cited Brown’s “emphasis on intellectual independence and free COHEA T to making knowledge accessible to everyone,” with

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dents in areas such as hous- said. He cited ties to São Paulo by other countries have slowed recently. ing and arrangements for Princeton’s Program in Latin American “The shine has rubbed off” the research staff and facilities. studies and the departments of astro- branch-campus option, Adelman said, “A strategic-partner campus physics, Spanish and Portuguese lan- noting that Princeton continues to should become a home guages and cultures, and sociology. oppose the idea of a bricks-and-mortar away from home for Prince- Partnerships in other regions also campus abroad. “It’s easier to build an ton students, faculty, and would build on established connec- extension of yourself,” he said, but the staff,” Davies said. tions, but the details could look quite partnerships that are planned would Princeton hopes to create different. In sub-Sahara Africa, a major “internationalize us in a very different about six partnerships challenge is the gap between a small way — by including others into our within two years, she said, number of institutions with significant activities and commitments at home.” and the University of Tokyo resources and others struggling to get A different type of international col- has emerged as a leading by. In Europe, Princeton has a high level laboration is a planned dual-degree candidate. The East Asian of activity with a number of institu- program with Humboldt University in studies department has tions in France and Germany; Adelman Berlin — Princeton’s first dual graduate strong connections, said one solution might be to position degree in the humanities, initially in Wo o drow Wilson School the University to work with a number German and philosophy. Students faculty members share security studies of institutions in a “spoke-and-wheel” would do most pre-dissertation work at with Tokyo, and astrophysics faculty type of arrangement. their home institution, but would have and students regularly travel back and In China, University departments dissertation advisers and would spend forth, she said. have collaborated with their counter- time at each university. A completed Davies said Princeton and Tokyo are parts at several institutions in Shanghai agreement is expected this spring. “well under way” to developing a part- and Beijing, Davies said. She said Five years from now, Adelman said, nership agreement. Immediate goals Princeton hopes to develop a partner- Princeton will be “a very networked are to encourage more faculty and stu- ship that would support relationships university, with key partners around dent mobility, expand undergraduate “with all these top universities.” the world, full of global classrooms in involvement, and spell out a gover- While New York University-Abu which you’ll hear multiple languages.” nance structure. Dhabi opened in the fall of 2010 and With a wide range of international Princeton also has been working Yale is partnering with the National programs to select from, he said, “stu- P toward an agreement with the Univer- University of Singapore to create a new dents won’t have to choose between 13 SCHAEFER sity of São Paulo, Brazil’s largest institu- liberal-arts residential college, plans by being at Princeton and out in the

BEVERLY tion of higher education, Adelman universities for branch campuses in world.” π By W.R.O.

Home stretch for Aspire Construction of Andlinger Center begins With four months to go before the end of Excavation and utility work has the University’s Aspire fundraising campaign, begun on the site of the campaign leaders told guests at the Alumni Andlinger Center for Energy Day luncheon they are confident that the and the Environment, at the $1.75 billion goal will be met by June 30. corner of Olden Street and Robert Murley ’72, co-chairman of the Prospect Avenue. This new campaign, said that more than $1.65 billion rendering shows the proposed had been raised as of Feb. 25. With Annual entrance looking east from Giving on track to reach its $53 million tar- Olden Street. From left are the get, he said, the University needs to raise an bridge connector to the EQuad, additional $70 million in capital gifts to the main entry tower, the complete the campaign. entry garden courtyard, admin- Nancy Peretsman ’76, who is leading the istration offices, and a gradu- campaign along with Murley, said more ate-student area. The center than 75 percent of all undergraduate also will include engineering alumni have contributed since the launch of labs and a lecture hall. The the campaign. project is scheduled for com- For fiscal 2011, Princeton ranked 25th in pletion in the spring of 2015. charitable contributions among U.S col-

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Campusnotebook Obama budget proposal would mean big cuts for PPPL President Obama’s proposed budget which nuclear for fiscal year 2013 calls for increases to fusion will several federal agencies that provide occur. The funding to the University, but would experiment was cut the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab’s shut down in $85 million budget by 12 percent. November 2011 Stewart Prager, the lab’s director, for an upgrade said the proposed $10 million reduc- that will dra- tion would be “very severe” and could matically reduce the number of employees at the increase its lab by 100. The current staff is 454. physics capabil- “This would impede our scientific ity. The budget progress greatly,” he said. cuts would PPPL, a leading fusion-research extend the facility, is one of 10 national science upgrade work laboratories supported by the Depart- until November ment of Energy’s Office of Science. 2014, six The reductions would cut $3.2 mil- months longer lion from the budget for the lab’s pri- than originally mary fusion experiment, the National planned, Prager Spherical Torus Experiment, which said. Other studies the physics principles of spheri- experiments, such as those that explore An upgrade of the Plasma Physics Lab’s National cally shaped plasmas — hot ionized basic aspects of plasma physics, would Spherical Torus Experiment would take longer under STARKMAN/PPPL gases confined in a magnetic field in be “greatly impeded,” he said. President Obama’s budget plan. ELLE

P 14 IN BRIEF economics and international affairs, improv isa tion. He has composed for received the economics, finance, and chamber ensembles, orchestras, and Two faculty members management award; the foundation operas. will receive the called him “a pioneer in the measure- FRONTIERS OF KNOWL- ment of welfare and poverty.” Each will President Obama has appointed Eldar EDGE AWARD from the receive an award of 400,000 euros, Shafir, professor of psychology and Madrid-based BBVA more than $500,000. public affairs, to the PRESIDENT’S Foundation, which ADVISORY COUNCIL ON FINANCIAL CAPABILITY, recognizes research Music professor and whose mission is to help Americans Isaac Held *76 with broad impact. composer Steven make informed financial decisions. Geosciences professor Mackey won a Shafir specializes in behavioral eco-

COMMUNICATIONS Isaac Held *76, a GRAMMY for Best Small nomics and decision-making. OF research scientist with Ensemble Perform - the National Oceanic ance Feb. 12 for his Four seniors and a recent graduate and Atmospheric album Lonely Motel: have been awarded the GATES CAMBRIDGE

APPLEWHITE/OFFICE Administration’s Music from Slide, Steven Mackey SCHOLARSHIP to pursue master’s degrees

DENISE (NOAA) Geophysical along with collabora- at Cambridge University. The recipients Angus Deaton Fluid Dynamics Lab- tors Rinde Eckert, who provided the are Daniel Barson ’12, a molecular MACKEY; oratory in Princeton, text and vocals, and the sextet eighth biology major who will pursue a mas-

STEVEN was cited in the climate-change cate- blackbird, which commissioned the ter’s in clinical neurosciences; anthro- gory. His study of atmospheric water work. Mackey, who began his career as pology major Victoria A. Tobolsky ’12, COURTESY vapor helped to reveal the processes a rock and blues guitarist, plays electric in human evolutionary studies; chem- CASE; behind geographic climate zones and guitar on the album. istry major Daniel Strassfeld ’12, in the ANNE to predict how those zones will change The chairman of the music depart- history, philosophy, and sociology of as the atmosphere warms, the founda- ment, Mackey teaches composition, science, technology, and medicine; reli- PARKS/NOAA; tion said. Angus Deaton, professor of theory, 20th-century music, and gion major Jane Abbottsmith ’12, in DEREK TOP: FROM

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Obama’s proposal now goes to Con- gress, and changes are likely. Orthodox Jewish community marks “We will be spending a lot of time in Washington over the next few months trying to get [the PPPL cuts] reversed,” 50th anniversary of Yavneh House President Tilghman said at a town hall meeting on campus in February. When Rabbi Daniel Greer ’60 first met with the Princeton Hillel rabbi as a prospec- PPPL receives more than a third of tive student, he was warned that life at Princeton would not be easy. With no the University’s $251 million annual kosher kitchen on campus and no community of religiously observant Jews, Greer funding for sponsored research, which ate most of his meals alone in his room. makes up about 17 percent of the “The studies were great; the life was miserable,” Greer recalled. “It was a very University’s budget. lonely place.” The University fared better in Princeton’s Obama’s proposal in programs that Orthodox Jewish The values of Orthodox provide funding for faculty and stu- community has Jewish“ life are not always in dents. Obama called for a modest come far since line with the values of regular increase in Pell grants for low-income then, and on students. National Science Foundation Feb. 12 this college life. funds for graduate research fellowships progress was rec- Daniel Mark ’03 GS,” former Yavneh president would increase by 23 percent, and for ognized as more faculty early-career development by 5 than 200 students and alumni gathered at Frist Campus Center to celebrate the percent. Humanities funding would 50th anniversary of the Yavneh House of Princeton. rise by 5 percent as well. Yavneh is a community of about 50 students that meets regularly at the Center “Not across the board, but in gen- for Jewish Life (CJL) for prayer, discussion, and education. At the celebration, atten- eral, education and research have been dees participated in panel discussions and presentations that included “Yavneh preserved within the president’s from Hippies to iPhones,” shared experiences, and looked to the future. budget,” Tilghman said. π By J.A. “It is a strong community while people are in college, and this is a way for peo- ple to reconnect,” said David Schuster ’12, former treasurer of Yavneh. Yavneh found its way to Princeton in 1961, when Abe Kaufman ’62 recognized P students’ need for a kosher kitchen; the group initially met in a rented home on 15 theology and religious studies; and Olden Street. In “an age of conformity,” Kaufman said, “the idea of starting a kosher English major Rachel Bolten ’10, in eating house was unheard of. But we enjoyed getting together and discussing and English studies. arguing during our meals, and the rest is history.” Another important figure was Marilyn Berger Schlachter ’73, who successfully IN MEMORIAM petitioned the University to open its own kosher dining hall in Stevenson Hall in MALCOLM S. 1971, moving Yavneh members onto campus. STEINBERG, Despite the progress, Ben Jubas ’14, current president of Yavneh, said that obser- a molecular vant Jewish life can be isolating for members of the group. “One of the things that biologist and brings the community together is that everyone eats at the CJL,” Jubas said. “While member of it’s great food and I love it, it means that you’re constantly there.” Keeping strict the faculty kosher often limits eating-club and residential-college involvement, he said. from 1966 to 2005, died Feb. 7 in Ariel Futter ’15, Yavneh’s education chairman, noted that Orthodox Jews also Princeton of lung cancer. He was 81. face evolving practical challenges on campus, including the need for kosher food Steinberg came to Princeton after he during Outdoor Action trips and for building keys instead of Prox cards on had introduced the differential adhe- Sabbath days, when observant Jews may not use electricity. sion hypothesis that certain cells dur- Both Futter and Rabbi Julie Roth, executive director of the CJL, said the Univer- ing embryo development behave like sity has been very supportive in addressing these needs. “Princeton is a leader liquids, adhering to other embryo cells among universities in its support of observant Jewish life,” Roth said. in a way that ultimately defines the At the same time, Jubas said, the Orthodox community helps to diversify shape of the embryo at various stages thought on campus. He teaches a weekly class on philosophy and Jewish law for of development. Steinberg, who was community members of all faiths, he noted. the graduate-studies director of the Daniel Mark ’03 GS, a former Yavneh president, underlined Yavneh’s importance then-biology department from 1969 to as Orthodox students find a place for themselves at Princeton. 1972, continued to explore his hypothe- “There always will be challenges because the values of Orthodox Jewish life are sis in many of the more than 150 scien- not always in line with the values of regular college life,” Mark said. “It is very ROSS SMITH tific papers he co-wrote. important to have a community to work together to address these challenges.” By Abby Greene ’13 ’15

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Campusnotebook In Moe Berg’s papers, glimpses of a puzzling figure

Try as one might, it is difficult to take Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and Switzerland by Germany’s top nuclear the full measure of Moe Berg ’23 — the CIA, scraps of an unfinished mem- physicist, Werner Heisenberg. Berg went and one suspects that is how Berg oir, a copy of a baseball contract, travel armed with a pistol and a cyanide cap- wanted it. The pieces of his life do not receipts, photographs, and even letters sule. If Heisenberg’s lecture convinced always seem to fit: He was a linguist from a girlfriend. him that the Germans were close to who became a major-league baseball Berg spent the winter after his first developing an atomic bomb, Berg was player, a nuclear spy who spent most of season taking classes at the Sorbonne. to assassinate Heisenberg and use the the last two decades of his cyanide to kill himself. life practically homeless. Although the CIA Berg, who died in 1972, recruited Berg for at least has been the subject of one assignment after the two biographies, yet he war, the agency declined remains an enigma. his application for full- Those hoping to under- time work, partly because stand this complicated of his increasingly eccen- man might start with a tric behavior. For the rest large collection of Berg’s of his life, he had trouble papers, which were holding a job and lived donated recently to the with relatives. University. Some of those After Berg’s death, his papers, along with several papers passed through sev- items of Berg memora- eral hands before William bilia, are part of a Fire- Sear, an Atlanta baseball stone Library exhibit that collector, bought them in Moe Berg '23 in Switzerland, February 1946. P runs through Aug. 5. 2001. Sear gave them to 16 Berg straddled several Princeton last year. worlds without being MAN OF MYSTERY Several of those items completely at home in A slide show of photos and documents are part of the current any of them. The child of from the new Moe Berg ’23 papers Firestone exhibition, “A Jewish Russian immi- @ paw.princeton.edu Fine Addition: New and grants, he was a social Notable Acquisitions in PHOTOS:

outsider in the WASPy Princeton of the In 1926, he skipped two months of the Princeton’s Special Collections,” which MOE

early ’20s, but he was a true student- season to finish his first year of law also includes Hemingway and Fitzger- BERG

athlete who knew Sanskrit and a half- school. In 1934, Berg joined Babe Ruth ald letters, a 16th-century medical trea- PAPERS,

dozen other languages and was a star and Lou Gehrig on an All-Star team tise, and a rare 13th-century gold coin. MANUSCRIPTS shortstop on the baseball team. The that visited Japan, but also struck a deal Berg would have appreciated being Brooklyn Robins signed Berg less than to film the tour for a newsreel com- in such company. Nicholas Dawidoff, DIVISION, a month after graduation and put him pany and took movies of the Tokyo sky- who wrote the 1994 biography The

in their lineup the next day. line and harbor. In later years, Berg Catcher Was a Spy, believes that Berg DEPARTMENT He spent parts of 15 seasons with liked to boast that the Navy relied on was haunted by a sense that he had

five major-league teams, almost all of that footage to plan Jimmy Doolittle’s failed to live up to his early promise. OF them as a backup catcher. Berg had a 1942 bombing raid, but this seems to “To avoid exposure as a charlatan,” RARE BOOKS rifle arm but a banjo bat, hitting .243 have been a tall tale. Dawidoff writes, “Berg lived a bedouin for his career with only six home runs. The facts of his life story were inter- life, ever on the move, always avoiding AND SPECIAL Told that Berg spoke seven languages, a esting enough. During World War II, sustained relationships where people teammate once remarked, “Yeah, and Berg’s linguistic talents made him might get a clear look at him.” COLLECTIONS, he can’t hit in any of them.” attractive to the OSS, the predecessor of Journalist Lou Jacobson ’92, a long-

Casey Stengel once called him “the the CIA. The OSS dropped Berg into time Berg buff who co-produced a 2010 PRINCETON strangest man ever to play baseball,” Yugoslavia to report on local resistance podcast about him (available at http://

and Berg’s papers suggest Stengel was groups, and later asked him to inter- www.baseballphd. net/tag/louis-jacob- UNIVERSITY right. The papers include many of view Italian scientists. In his most dan- son), agrees. “He was a genius,” Jacob- Berg’s classified World War II reports, gerous assignment, Berg posed as a son says, “but a complex and sometimes LIBRARY his employment applications to the student and attended a lecture given in flawed person.” π By M.F.B.

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Campusnotebook PAW ASKS From Princeton’s vault Stanley Katz: Before Greek life, Princeton had Whig and Clio Has the trade embargo on Cuba worked?

Wilson School professor Stanley Katz visits Cuba often as chairman of the Working Group on Cuba, a national group that pro motes American-Cuban contacts in the academic and cultural sectors. He also was scheduled to lead the first Princeton Journeys alumni trip to Cuba March 18–25. Katz talked with PAW intern Allie Weiss ’13 in February to mark the 50th anniversary of the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba.

Why has the embargo continued? Given the dysfunctional character of American politics, a very small minor- ity — namely, Cuban-Americans — are able to extract this particular pound of flesh from the political system. And P we’ve tied ourselves in knots with 17 legislation. [The embargo has] proved almost impossible politically to get rid What: Between 1808 and 1833, elegant gold watch keys were given to of. All the polls show that the Ameri- student members of the Cliosophic Society who graduated with high honors. can electorate couldn’t care one way or the other about this issue. Whig and Clio, rival debating societies, were founded here before the American Revolution and thrived for years as the oldest college clubs in the United What has it meant to the people of Cuba? States, entirely student-run and a training ground for public speakers. Clio They don’t call it the embargo; they alone produced four delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. call it el bloqueo — the blockade. There’s deep resentment, and it’s real: But fun-centered Greek-letter fraternities threatened the existence of Whig We have imposed deep hardship on and Clio starting in the 1840s. Nassau Hall launched a long battle to ban them. On the other hand, it’s not clear the upstart fraternities, which were said to create “a social aristocracy” and that the Castros could have stayed in power without the blockade. It’s a uni- “foster dissipation, revelry, and idleness.” fying factor in Cuba. One could argue Starting in 1855, incoming students solemnly pledged never to join a fraternity. that we have at the same time inflicted The secret clubs burrowed underground, reappearing in the 1870s, when frater- real pain on them and made it possible for the communists to stay in power. π nity badges were flaunted and Whig and Clio were steered by frat members. President McCosh cracked down with suspensions, snuffing Greek life for a century. Whig and Clio dwindled anyway, finally merging in 1928. Fraternities and sororities crept back in 1982 and again face administrative frowns. Starting in fall 2012, freshmen will be forbidden to join. RICARDO Where: Collection AC53, Princeton University Archives BARROS WOJCIECHOWSKI

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Campusnotebook ON THE CAMPUS Bicker numbers soar as11th club reopens By Tara Thean ’13

February brought good news for Prospect Avenue’s eating clubs, with an increase in sophomore interest in the clubs and a 30 percent jump in the number of those who bickered. The reopening of Cannon Dial Elm as a bicker club may have attracted stu- dents who otherwise would not have joined a club, University vice president and secretary Robert K. Durkee ’69 said in an email. Cottage, with 95 students vying for cern about whether student interest is Outgoing Tower president Joseph membership compared to 132 in 2011. sufficient to ensure the survival of all of Barnett ’12 said Cannon’s presence Cannon president Connor Clegg ’14 the eating clubs. “pulled from a lot of clubs that tend to said he did not feel that the 87 sopho- Jake Sally ’12, chairman of the have a lot of affiliations.” He said he mores who joined the club had signifi- Interclub Council, said this year’s expe- believed that Cannon “was looking for cantly changed the bicker outcomes at rience shows that “there is room for 11 whole groups of people, so I think other eating clubs. “The equilibrium clubs on the Street. Each club tends to clubs that had strongholds for those was still maintained on the Street,” draw students from different sub- affiliations before may have been hurt.” Clegg said. groups on campus, and Cannon has P One club whose numbers declined was Durkee has expressed continued con- found a niche that hasn’t necessarily 18

tion is considered in a “holistic manner.” Questions about race, admissions “Princeton University seeks to assem- ble a class whose composition, in the linger for Asian-American students University’s judgment, would enrich By Angela Wu ’12 the educational experience for all of our students and further the Univer- sity’s mission,” Mbugua said. “We treat When the Department of Education’s the undergraduate student body — each application individually, and we Office for Civil Rights (OCR) con- that they may face a higher bar when it don’t discriminate on the basis of race firmed last month that an Asian-Ameri- comes to getting into top schools. or national origin.” can applicant had filed a complaint Some evidence suggests Asian-Amer- alleging discrimination in the admis- Avoiding the Asian ican applicants to selective universities sion processes at Princeton and Har- do appear to be at a disadvantage. vard, students on campus largely stereotype — quiet, book- According to No Longer Separate, Not shrugged. smart, focused on science Yet Equal, a 2009 book by Princeton

’12 After all, this had happened before. and math — is an sociology professor Thomas Espen-

CHUNG The rejected applicant’s complaint shade *72 and Alexandria Radford *09, against Princeton, which was withdrawn ever-present concern, an otherwise identical Asian-American HABIN in mid-February, had been folded into m a n y students said. applicant with the same test scores and PHOTOS: an ongoing official review of Univer- GPA as a white applicant is less likely ’66; sity admissions that began in 2008 after Race is one of the factors considered to gain admission to an elite college. WITTE a similar claim by another student, Jian in the admission process, University Like most studies on college admission,

MICHAEL Li. Both complaints reflected a common spokesman Martin Mbugua told The these results are based on measurable concern among many Asian-American Daily Princetonian last month. But in an data such as GPA, test scores, and

ILLUSTRATION: students, who make up 17.7 percent of email, he emphasized that each applica- legacy status, but not “softer” factors

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been tapped in the past.” are continuing among members of The Daily Princetonian reported that club graduate boards and the Eating 553 sophomores of the 853 who bick- Club Task Force, Durkee said. As of ered were accepted into one of the mid-February, no decisions had been six selective eating clubs, while 433 reached, he said. students signed into one of the five There were other signs of change on nonselective clubs during the first and the Street as well. Fifteen Tower Club second rounds. The figures did not members signed a “no-pickups pledge” include sophomores who signed into against participating in the eating-club Quadrangle Club, which declined to pickups that took place in early Febru- release membership numbers. The ary, arguing that the public nature of total would mean that at least 75 per- pickups is insensitive toward rejected cent of the Class of 2014 are members bickerees and a burden to Princeton’s of a club, compared to 68.5 percent maintenance staff, and that members of the Class of 2012 as reported in the can have fun celebrating new members University’s Eating Club Task Force in other ways. report. Barnett said that Tower members Quad announced in January that it largely were respectful of their peers’ would lower its membership fees to decision to abstain from the annual tra- match what the University charges for dition, but that other members con- an unlimited residential-college meal ducted pickups as usual for incoming plan, a move that drops dues from members. $8,000 to $5,473 per year. The Prince Cap and Gown also has moved away reported that the club’s first-round from the conventional pickups system, sign-ins had risen by nearly 40 percent, establishing one meeting place on cam- but not as much as the club had hoped. pus and having club officers welcome Discussions about reinstituting new members in a “group-style pickup some form of multiclub bicker — a process,” outgoing club president Derek common practice prior to the 1980s — Grego ’12 said. π P 19

like extracurricular activities and per- For high school seniors already anx- sonal statements. ious about standing out in a sea of “Whether or not there is a disadvan- applications, the concern that admis- tage in the admission process, the per- sion officers won’t see past an Asian ception definitely exists,” said Sungwoo surname — despite schools’ assurances Chon ’13. For some Asian-American to the contrary — adds to the anxiety. students, that has meant feeling the “It constrains you. It puts pressure on need to work harder to excel in school you to try and make yourself different,” and extracurricular activities. Others, said Charles Du ’13, who along with like Brian Chen ’13, who quit violin and Tara Ohrtman ’13 has picked up the picked up swimming in high school, baton in the Asian-American Students said that the perceived bias encouraged Association’s decades-long effort to them to pursue passions that, while establish an Asian-American studies enjoyable, were also conscious efforts certificate program. The association to break conventional stereotypes. hopes to create a forum for discussion Avoiding the Asian stereotype — of issues including discrimination, said quiet, book-smart, focused on science co-president James Chang ’14. and math — is an ever-present concern, The discussion is sure to return, and many Asian-American students said. perhaps perceptions of bias — warrant - Leo Shaw ’12, for example, suggested ed or not — will always linger in stu- that for some, “it can be a bigger issue dents’ minds. But as long as admission that causes a subtle and maybe uncon- to elite universities remains so competi- scious sense of deficiency, as if there’s tive, as Grace Pak ’13 put it with a something wrong with being Asian- shrug, “How can you really know that American.” your race was the one thing?” π

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Sports

The lacrosse team with coach Chris Bates’ son, Nicholas, whose mother died of cancer last year. Below, the coach at a recent practice.

Lacrosse team unites

P in the face of adversity 20 The last year has been a challenging continues to be a diffi- one for the men’s lacrosse team. As a cult time,” he said. “I disappointing 4–8 season was ending, think we dealt with it Ann Bates, the wife of head coach like a family does.” Chris Bates, suffered a relapse of the Ann Bates was a brain cancer with which she was diag- pediatrician who nosed in 2003. Her illness and death in graduated from

COMMUNICATIONS November 2011 brought the team mem- William & Mary and the School of Tyler Fiorito ’12 ranked second in the bers closer together, as they looked for Medicine at the University of Virginia. nation in percentage of shots saved last ATHLETIC

OF ways to help their coach and his family. She was 43 when she died. year — the team averaged only 7.1 goals

OFFICE During Ann Bates’ “She was the most a game, the lowest in the Ivy League. illness, the players courageous, inspira- Midfielder Tom Schreiber ’14, who led COURTESY began spending time tional person I ever the team in goals and assists last year, is with the couple’s 10- met,” her husband said. in charge of the offense this season. SCHAEFER; year-old son, Nicholas. As Princeton started “We have a chip on our shoulder,”

BEVERLY They took him to visit this season with a 12–6 said Wiedmaier. “There’s no way last Ann Bates an amusement park, win over Hofstra Feb. year isn’t in the back of my mind. My and cheered on the sidelines at his 25, the players were embracing lofty class is very motivated. We came in as

COMMUNICATIONS; basketball and soccer games. goals for themselves. Wiedmaier and the No. 1 recruiting class in the nation. “The way we (could) help Coach his classmates were highly touted as We don’t feel like we’ve lived up to ATHLETIC

OF Bates out and show him how much we recruits and expected to compete for a that. We want to leave with no regrets.” care about him was to help out with national title last year before a series of And the players want to continue to

PRICE/OFFICE his son,” said Chad Wiedmaier ’12, one injuries left Princeton with a losing be there for their coach and his son.

JERRY of this year’s co-captains. record. “It’s always in the back of your head

TOP: Bates is grateful to the players for the While the Tigers’ defense was formi- a little bit, wondering how he’s doing,”

FROM way they reached out to his family. “It dable — Wiedmaier is one of the top Wiedmaier said of his coach. π By

PHOTOS, was a trying fall season for us, and it defensemen in the country, and goalie David Marcus ’92

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Men’s squash defeats Trinity for national title In front of a raucous had won the match only crowd in a packed Jad- when he turned to the win Gym, the men’s crowd and saw fans and squash team ended Trin- teammates jumping onto ity’s 13-year streak as the court to celebrate. national champions Feb. Trinity’s streak of 19, winning its first 252 consecutive victories national championship — the longest such run since 1993 with a 5–4 in college sports history victory against No. 1- — had been ended by seeded Trinity. Yale Jan. 18. Trinity had Trinity had defeated defeated Princeton 7–2 Princeton in seven in the regular season. national finals over the Princeton long Kelly Shannon ’12 previous two decades — has been a national at the moment of most recently a 5–4 win power in squash, win- victory over Trinity. at Jadwin in 2009 — ning eight individual and as the Bantams swept the second set of matches this year titles over the last two decades. But with Trinity dominating to take a 4–2 overall lead, it looked as if the eighth matchup the scene for so long, many top Princeton players graduated would end the same way. But Dylan Ward ’14 and Todd Har- without a team championship. π By Kevin Whitaker ’13 MICHAEL rity ’13 quickly won to even the match, leaving Kelly Shan- T.

non ’12 on the court. Shannon placed excellent shots in all READ MORE: From the March 7 issue, Todd Harrity ’13 reigns BELLO corners to win in three exciting games. He learned that he in men’s squash with consistency and drive @ paw.princeton.edu

EXTRA POINT P Recruited athletes and other unmentionables 21 By Merrell Noden ’78

Merrell Noden ’78 is a former staff writer at Sports Illustrated and a frequent PAW contributor.

Of all the things college admission folk would rather not talk about, recruiting athletes probably tops the list. When I sent an interview request to Diana Caskey ’85, the women’s swimming coach at Columbia, the reply from a

spokeswoman said, “We do not discuss ILLUSTRATION: the intricacies of the recruiting process

with media outlets.” “There’s tremendous concern at all Princeton’s dean of admission, Janet RON Ivy League coaches are reluctant to the Ivy League schools to make sure it’s Rapelye, was more than willing to dis- BARRETT; understood in the outside world that cuss this topic. She is, it turns out, a

talk about recruiting — often ordered PHOTO: not to — as if counting athleticism in these are academically prestigious insti- sports fan. She knows that Dave Sloven- FRANK an applicant’s favor were a shameful tutions,” says Dan Roock ’81, who, after ski ’12 is not only a top pole vaulter, secret. Playing quarterback is seen as coaching at Princeton, is now a Dart- but also a strong student and a leader WOJCIECHOWSKI fundamentally different from playing mouth rowing coach. with the Colosseum Club, a sporty Hamlet or singing opera. So I was surprised to find that continues on page 22

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Extra Point continued from page 21 achievements and intangibles like lead- alternative to Prospect Ave. “Our ership qualities. Princeton coaches rank coaches are very good at recruiting the the athletes, though some other schools right students,” she says. “I’ll do what- don’t. ever I can for our coaches. But we “We do it individual by individual, reserve the right to say no.” sport by sport,” says Rapelye. Except for To guard against sacrificing academ- football, which is limited by league rule ics on the altar of athletic ambition, Ivy to 120 recruits in each four-year cycle, League recruits must have a league- there are “no set numbers,” Rapelye says. mandated minimum score on a scale But other schools’ coaches are given called the Academic Index, which is cal- specific numbers by admission offi- culated with GPA and standardized test cials. Roock says he is allotted a num- Keeping Faith scores. “It’s meant to be a moment for ber, depending on the needs of his at Princeton us all to stop and say that our teams team and other teams at Dartmouth. should reflect the quality of our stu- He can’t divulge the figure. A Brief History of Religious dent body,” says Rapelye. The year ends with coaches and Pluralism at Princeton and Other Universities While it’s possible to admit an ath- admission officers reviewing how recruited athletes fared as students and Frederick Houk Borsch lete who’s scored below the minimum A.I. standard (such as a foreign student members of the community. “Our stu- “Fred Borsch’s Keeping Faith at who didn’t understand the SATs), she dents are doing a great job,” Rapelye Princeton is an intellectual gem and says it’s rare and frowned upon by the says. She points out that it’s difficult spiritual jewel. We Princetonians should be grateful to him!” other schools. “I’m a big fan of the A.I. work to be a Division I athlete and a —Cornel West, Princeton University It’s very straightforward,” says Rapelye. Princeton student. For a dedicated fan

Cloth $35.00 978-0-691-14573-0 Meeting that threshold doesn’t mean like me, watching a Princeton sporting an athlete is admitted automatically, event will be even sweeter knowing she adds. that our athletes really are students. π Coaches tell the admission office their needs and provide write-ups on Extra Point explores the people and issues P the applicants, describing their athletic in Princeton sports. 22 SPORTS SHORTS matic 70–62 upset Feb. 11 over Har- For Rent vard, which entered the game ranked in the top 25 nationally. The Crimson Rent your second came back with a 67–64 victory Feb. 24 in a tight game in Cambridge, effec- home through the tively ending the Tigers’ hopes of a sec- Princeton Exchange! ond straight championship . WOMEN’S SQUASH fell short in its quest • have a great European villa? for a national title, losing to Yale Feb. • a classic New England cottage? 25 in the semifinals and ultimately tak- • a home at the Jersey shore? ing fourth place. Our advertisers report an Seeded seventh in the ECAC Tourna- excellent response to their ads A home victory over Dartmouth Feb. ment, WOMEN’S HOCKEY was swept by in the Princeton Exchange: 25 clinched WOMEN’S BASKETBALL’s third nationally ranked Harvard Feb. 24–25 straight Ivy League title and another in the quarterfinals, two games to none. “We’ve been thrilled by the trip to the NCAA Tournament. Earlier MEN’S HOCKEY finished 11th in the league. response rate from our ad in the month, star forward Niveen MEN’S FENCING and WOMEN’S FENCING in the PAW.” Rasheed ’13, above, picked up her each went undefeated at the Ivy “I receive many inquiries 1,000th point in an 84–56 blowout Round-Robin Feb. 11–12, sweeping the from my ad.” of the Harvard Crimson, joining team- conference championships as they did mates Lauren Edwards ’12 and Devona in 2010. Contact Colleen Finnegan, Allgood ’12 in the 1,000-point club. MEN’S TRACK & FIELD also claimed an MEN’S BASKETBALL jumped back to the Ivy League title, edging host Cornell at Advertising Director at BEVERLY cfi[email protected] top half of the league with a four-game the indoor Heptagonal Championships win streak at home, including a dra- Feb. 25–26. SCHAEFER or 609.258.4886.

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Perspective High heels beat flats: Why I left academia

By Hilary Levey Friedman *09

Hilary Levey Friedman *09 is a free- lance writer and sociologist in Boston.

“Hilary, you know you shouldn’t wear high heels.” No, I didn’t know. “Believe it or not, we’ve been known to talk about female job can- didates’ shoes in faculty meetings. Yo u should go with practical shoes.” Until that moment, I had thought that my nude Kate Spade pumps were practical. As anyone who has been through any sort of extensive job search knows, you have a go-to power suit. My power suit’s pants had been hemmed so they could be worn perfectly with the aforemen- tioned accompanying power, yet now impractical, pumps. P Stunned, I stammered, “Got it, 23 thanks,” before hanging up with my friend, a recently tenured professor in the sociology department I would be flying out to visit the next day to interview for an assistant and I had fantastic advisers and female mentors, like Viviana professorship. Zelizer, Katherine Newman, and Sara McLanahan. I tossed a pair of flat black boots into my suitcase — and And yet, something wasn’t quite right. realized that maybe this academic thing wasn’t for me. During my time in Wallace Hall, I began to realize that Of course, it wasn’t the shoes themselves that sent me over sociology wasn’t always about engagement with the wider the edge (though they were gorgeous). In a way, this had world and people’s everyday lives. Instead, particularly for been a long time coming. graduate students, it seemed to be about publishing articles Like most Ph.D. candidates, I had worked hard in school in a narrow range of journals, and those articles often tended and was good at it. School and learning truly were my to be about arcane topics. (This doesn’t apply to all tenured “thing” — and my main extracurricular activity. Some kids faculty but, well, they have tenure.) had basketball, others the flute; I had my books. A lot of my The things I like to study, however, tend to be the opposite self-identity was wrapped up in this learning “thing.” of arcane. I wrote a dissertation on why families with elemen- In college, while my friends prepared for careers in invest- tary-school-age kids enroll them in competitive after-school ment banking, management consulting, and law, I took my activities like chess, dance, and soccer. This was pre-Tiger GREs and applied for fellowships. I was on the academic Mom Amy Chua. I wrote my senior thesis in college on why track, and not a small part of the allure was that grad school mothers enroll their young daughters in child beauty pag- and academia offered a clear path to how my professional eants. This was pre-Toddlers & Tiaras. I wanted to understand life would unfold for the next few decades: a tenure-track what people care about far from the ivory tower, and what position as an assistant professor, then associate and full pro- matters in their everyday lives — and how I could help them fessor, and finally, an endowed chair. improve those daily experiences.

When I arrived at Princeton in the fall of 2003, I knew But in academia, this openness and desire to write for a CATHERINE what I had to do: Write an outstanding dissertation in soci- broader audience often is seen as suspect. And if your focus ology, get a stellar job, get tenure. And on the surface I is on getting tenure, anything other than “serious” academic MEURISSE seemed to be excelling — I received some great fellowships, continues on page 62

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P 24 Freddy Fox g How a favorite son took his t a l e n t f o r theater to

Fred Fox ’39, in uniform, thebattlefields of Europe and at Princeton in 1976. BY RICK BEYER

March 21, 2012 Princeton Alumni Weekly • paw.princeton.edu Fake tanks positioned in the German towns of Anrath and Dülken deceived the German army about where American divisions would cross the Rhine River, in what would be the Ghost Army’s grand finale.

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The convoy pulled up to a tavern run by a suspected Nazi collaborator. The general and his lanky, bespectacled aide strode inside. With the help of their bodyguards, they “liber- ated” six cases of fine wine, loading them onto the general’s jeep. The little convoy then took off, leaving the seething proprietor plenty of incentive to get word to the Germans about what he had just witnessed: that the American 6th Armored was moving in. But in fact, the whole bit was a carefully choreographed flim-flam. The 6th Armored Division was far away. The com- manding presence in the back seat was no general, but a mustachioed major playing king for a day. His dashing young aide was Fred Fox ’39, who later would become known as Princeton’s Keeper of Princetoniana and favorite son. As an undergraduate, Fox had trod the boards in college musicals and dreamed of making it to the big time. Now he found himself playing a leading role in a top-secret piece of performance art designed to help win World War II. And his flair for the dramatic would prove instrumental in its success. The unit to which Fox was assigned in January 1944 was unique in the history of the U.S. Army. Officially, it was called the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, but eventually it became known as the Ghost Army. Its mission was to stage frontline deceptions designed to dupe Hitler’s legions — and avoid getting killed by the audience while doing so. Instead of artillery and heavy weapons, it was equipped with truckloads of inflatable tanks, a world-class collection of sound-effects records, and a corps of radio operators trained P in the art of impersonation. “Its complement was more the- 26 atrical than military,” Fox wrote long afterward, in an unpub- lished manuscript now cherished by his son Donald. “It was like a traveling road show that went up and down the front lines impersonating the real fighting outfits.” Fox found himself right at home in this high-stakes off- Broadway show. After graduating from Princeton, he had set his sights on Hollywood. “He wanted to be the next Jimmy Stewart,” Donald Fox says. And why not? Like Stewart ’32, Fox had been a star of Triangle Club musicals that played in New York and other East Coast cities to great acclaim. In 1938 he portrayed King Charles II in the show Fol-De-Rol, directed by a young alum starting to make a name for him- self on Broadway: José Ferrer ’33. Upon arriving in Tinseltown, Fox signed on with NBC Radio. But the closest he came to stardom was writing com- mercials for Clapp’s Baby Foods and editing an in-house newsletter. After Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Army and was selected for Officer Candidate School. Fox thought he was leaving showbiz behind, but his stage training soon would prove invaluable on the battlefields of Europe. “Fred was a Hugh Grant personality,” says Al “Spike” Berry, who served with Fox. “He was very innovative and creative.” He was surrounded by plenty of other creative types, espe- cially the artists handling visual deception. Among the unit’s 1,100 men was a 21-year-old with a perpetual grin from Indiana named Bill Blass, who later became a fashion icon. Art Kane was the Brooklyn kid who later would take a leg- endary photograph of 57 jazz greats on a stoop in Harlem.

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Ellsworth Kelly would gain fame as a painter and sculptor. A map created by Ghost Army artist George Martin They were just a few of the many artists, recording engi- at the end of the war shows the unit’s operations. neers, and others recruited for the unusual deception mis- sion. Blessed with a sharp wit and a gentle, curious nature, Fox was quick to make friends with many of his fellow deceivers. Together they rehearsed for a dangerous world pre- miere on the European continent. Once they landed in France, the men of the 23rd would be expected to conjure up phony convoys and phantom divi- sions to mislead the enemy about the strength and location of American units. To pull this off, they were equipped with truckloads of inflatable tanks, trucks, artillery, jeeps, and even airplanes — enough to simulate two divisions. Each lightweight dummy could be set up and taken down in about 20 minutes, and from several hundred yards away looked indistinguishable from the real thing. The men also had specially outfitted halftracks, carrying speakers with a range of 15 miles, that could project the sounds of armored columns moving in the darkness. Dozens of radio trucks could create faux networks that sounded utterly like the real thing to eavesdropping enemy officers. In theory, they could impersonate a division of 15,000 soldiers holding a spot in the line, while the fighting division was moving someplace else to launch a surprise attack. But Fox and his fellow per- formers had no idea if they could put on a show that would prove convincing to their German audience.

On June 6,1944, nearly 175,000 Americans landed in France in one of the most momentous military operations in history. P D-Day found Lt. Fred Fox aboard the troopship John S. 27 Mosby under bombardment from German shore batteries, waiting to go ashore with a 24-man radio platoon. It took several weeks before the entire Ghost Army landed in Normandy and was ready to operate. In early July, the Ghost Army conducted its first full-scale deception, Operation Elephant. It pretended to be the 2nd Armored Division staying in reserve, while the real unit secretly moved up to join the frontline fighting near the Normandy town of St. Lo. Fox, with his background in the- ater, was less than impressed with what struck him as a half- hearted embrace of the role. Once the inflatable dummies were set up and the radio networks operating, no thought was given to what else the soldiers might do to make their illusion convincing. In early July, he sat down at his type- writer and pounded out an impassioned critique. “The atti- tude of the 23rd HQs towards their mission is lopsided,” he wrote in a memo to his superiors, reproduced in a 2002 book by Jonathan Gawne, Ghosts of the ETO: American Tactical Deception Units in the European Theater 1944–1945. “There is too much MILITARY ... and not enough SHOW- COURTESY

MANSHIP,” Fox wrote. He believed that the 23rd needed to GHOSTARMY.ORG/NATIONAL think of itself less as a strictly by-the-book Army outfit and more as a theater troupe ready to put on a show at a moment’s notice. Fox decried what he called “bad theater” and argued that, ARCHIVES to be truly convincing, the men had to throw themselves into their parts. “The presentations must be done with the

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greatest accuracy and attention to detail. They will include The fact that such an impersonation was a court-martial the proper scenery, props, costumes, principals, extras, dia- offense carried no sway with him. “Is not the whole idea of logue, and sound effects. We must remember that we are ‘impersonation’ contrary to (Army regulations)?” he wrote. playing to a very critical and attentive radio, ground, and “Remember we are in the theater business. Impersonation is aerial audience. They must all be convinced.” our racket. If we can’t do a complete job we might as well The Ghost Army had gone to France prepared to conduct give up. You can’t portray a woman if bosoms are forbidden.” a multimedia show using three kinds of deception: visual, Once again, the young lieutenant carried the day, and in radio, and sonic. That was not enough, argued Fox, who pro- operations to come, captains and majors in the unit fre- posed a fourth type of deception that became known as spe- quently would portray generals. Fox enjoyed playing the part cial effects. It was, in essence, playacting. If they were portray- of a general’s aide, but he later wrote that he lived in fear ing the 75th Infantry, they should wear 75th Infantry patches they would run into a real major general and be unable to on their uniforms, put 75th markings on their trucks, and explain themselves. (The unit was so secret that members drive them back and forth through towns. The men should couldn’t even tell other Americans what they were doing.) be versed in the details of From June 1944 to the 75th so they could Fox named his jeep “Hannah” March 1945, the Ghost talk about it to civilians. after his fiancée, Hannah Army ranged across There should be a phony Putnam, whom he married eight Europe, staging more than headquarters bustling days after returning home. 20 full-scale deceptions, with officers. “Road signs, each choreographed down sentry posts, bumper to the smallest detail. The markings and the host of men frequently operated small details which betray within earshot of the front the presence of a unit lines, and took casualties should be reconnoitered when they succeeded too and duplicated with spe- well in drawing enemy cial teams of the 23rd,” fire to their position. Fox wrote. Three men were killed A blistering memo and nearly two dozen P from a young officer can wounded over the course 28 make or break an Army of the war. In September career. In this case, the 1944, they helped hold a higher-ups embraced Fox’s critical part of Gen. ideas. The memo went out George Patton’s line along to the entire unit under the Moselle River. That the name of its command- December, they barely er. Although Fox escaped capture by the remained relatively low Germans in the Battle of on the totem poll, Lt. Col. the Bulge. In March 1945 Clifford Simenson, the the unit executed its most operations officer, turned dazzling deception, mis- to Fox to provide the leading the Germans stagecraft needed to make about where two Ameri - the special effects come to life. can divisions would cross the Rhine River. “Behind every operation was a touch of Fred Fox,” says This was the Ghost Army’s grand finale, and the men of Spike Berry. Fox took on the role of scriptwriter and director. the 23rd went all out, puffing themselves up to look like “Members of the decoy unit were trained to spill phony sto- 30,000. Radio operators following a minute-by-minute script ries at the local bars and brothels,” Fox recalled in his manu- set the stage, creating the illusion that a convoy was moving script, “which didn’t require much training.” Berry remem- to the point of the fake attack. Hundreds of fake tanks were bers that Fox would coach the men before each deception. inflated overnight and clustered around farmhouses in the “He’d get us in a huddle and say, ‘This is what’s going to hap- villages of Anrath and Dülken. Enclosed farmyards were pen, and this is what we want you to say, and just be natural.’ turned into phony repair depots, and a grove converted into For example, guys went to the bakery, got some rolls, and a decoy motor pool. A phony airstrip complete with dummy said, ‘We’ve got to get an extra supply because we’re moving aircraft was laid out in a farmer’s field. Sonic trucks projected DONALD FOX k’39 COURTESY out tonight,’ that kind of thing.” the sounds of bridge-building all night, as if engineering bat- Fox was adamant that the soldiers in the unit needed to talions behind the line were assembling the pontoon struc- impersonate generals. “Nothing gives away the location of an tures needed to bridge the Rhine. important unit quicker than a silver-starred jeep,” he wrote. On March 24, 1945, with Winston Churchill and Dwight

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Eisenhower among those looking on, two divisions of the “There is hope for the world if Churchmen would leave 9th Army crossed the Rhine with few casualties. The 23rd their storybooks and climb out of their jeeps. Fires have to earned a special commendation from the 9th Army com- be put out and men — even enemies — treated as human mander, Lt. Gen. William Simpson — a glowing review of beings.” the final performance of the Ghost Army. By then Fox him- Fox married Hannah Putnam in July 1945, eight days after self had been promoted to captain, and he would finish the the Ghost Army returned home. That September the unit war with a Bronze Star for meritorious service. was disbanded. “Its ashes were to be placed in a small Ming urn and eventually tossed into the China Sea,” wrote Fox As the war wound down, Fox was selected to write the offi- playfully in the closing paragraph of the unit history. cial Army history of the 23rd. He joked that he got the job By 1949, Fox was an ordained minister for the First because of the compelling citations he wrote for other men’s Congregational Church in Wauseon, Ohio. Itching to write medals, and the volumes of letters he penned to his fiancée, for a wider audience, he contacted the War Department to Hannah Putnam, back home. It is safe to say that the result- see if the top-secret story of the Ghost Army could be told. ing document is among the most entertaining unit histories The Army informed him in a memo that “much of the mate- ever written. On page after page of the once-secret but now rial is still confidential or secret.” Fox turned to other topics declassified history, which can be found at the National instead. He became a prolific contributor to The New York Archives in College Park, Md., the reader can see the twinkle Times Magazine and other publications, a “reverend reporter,” in Fox’s eye. in the words of his son. Upon the 10th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, he wrote a Times article that lightly On working with inflatable dummies: touched on his unit’s deception without divulging too many details. “It reminded me of a production by Cecil B. DeMille,” Officers who had once commanded 32-ton tanks, felt he wrote, “only we had fewer extras to carry spears.” One frustrated and helpless with a battalion of rubber M-4s, of his articles caught someone’s eye at the White House, 93 pounds fully inflated. The adjustment from man of which led to four years as an aide to President Dwight action to man of wile was most difficult. Few realized Eisenhower. But he never forgot about telling the tale of the at first that one could spend just as much energy pre- Ghost Army. tending to fight as actually fighting. In 1967, by then Princeton’s recording secretary, Fox made another attempt to get the official history declassified, enlist- On the week the unit spent bivouacked just outside a ing former Secretary of the Army Stephen Ailes ’33 to help newly liberated Paris: P in the effort. Still, he failed. Fox never got to tell the full 29 Paris was put OFF LIMITS and ON LIMITS so story, which wasn’t made public until after his death in 1981. often that everyone in confusion visited it whenever pos- It remains largely unknown today. sible. It was a great town. The girls looked like delight- Fox seemed more amused than impressed with his unit’s ful dolls, especially when they whizzed past on bicycles wartime exploits. “I think we have traveled more and done with billowing skirts. ... the Parisians were very happy less than any other unit” in the European Theater, he wrote to see us. Hannah after the war. While there certainly was a touch of the absurd to the whole venture, an Army analysis 30 years Fred’s son Donald says his father was embarrassed that he later was far more positive. “Rarely, if ever, has there been a had such a good time in the Army. But Fox’s war wasn’t just group of such a few men which had so great an influence on a lighthearted farce. In the days after the D-Day landing, he the outcome of a major military campaign,” wrote Mark found himself attached on temporary duty with the 82nd Kronman in a report available through the U.S. Army Airborne in Normandy. The disturbing things he witnessed Center of Military History. One of Fox’s fellow deceivers, put him in closer touch with his own budding pacifism. John Jarvie, who went on to work as an art director at “The company was too rough for me,” he wrote home. “I did Fairchild Publications and is now retired, put it a different get some more strong antiwar material — especially from way in 2006: “You know you saved lives. You don’t know boys who had just killed Germans or were just going out to how many you saved, but you know you saved them.” kill some more.” A significant part of the credit for that belongs to Fred On June 10, 1944, he wrote, he was reading in his jeep, Fox. “He was, in my view, maybe the most significant person waiting for the troops to move out when he smelled a pot of in the entire 23rd Headquarters Special Troops,” said Bob coffee being brewed by some paratroopers. He headed over Conrad, who served alongside him and died in 2010. Fox to see if he could get some. Then he noticed two American was, after all, the experienced thespian who gave the show soldiers working over a smoldering staff car with the bodies the few daubs of greasepaint and the showbiz spark needed of two German officers inside. The paratroopers were using to make it ready for the big time. π their commando knives to gouge gold fillings out of the corpses’ teeth. Rick Beyer is the author of The Greatest Stories Never Told That was the moment he decided to become a minister. series of history books, and is making a documentary film about Ye a r s later he wrote about the meaning it held for him: the Ghost Army. Learn more at www.ghostarmy.org.

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Green architecture has taken on increasing urgency in the Alumni architects last decade, as a means of mitigating climate change and reducing dependence on imported oil. It is estimated that buildings account for almost half of all U.S. energy con- see sustainability sumption; while studies suggest green construction can increase initial costs by about 2 percent, it can lead to sav- ings over a building’s lifetime. Not surprisingly, sustainability as part of the job has become an essential aspect of architecture curricula, explains Stan Allen *88, the dean of Princeton’s School of Architecture. “Everyone is green,” he says. “Just as you would P BY JESSICA LANDER ’10 not design a building that is structurally unsound, today you 30 would not design a building that uses natural resources irre- sponsibly.” A 7-foot-wide hemisphere protrudes from Not so long ago, green architecture was considered a fringe topic focused largely on technical engineering issues. the roof of Princeton’s architecture “There has been a shift in design culture over the past 30 laboratory. Called the heliodome, the years,” says Princeton professor Paul Lewis *92, who teaches a skylight was a scientific construction graduate-level studio course that deals with environmental questions. “Previously, architects saw energy and environ- created in 1957 by visiting professors mental concerns as contradictory to design curiosity,” he says, (and twins) Victor and Aladar Olgyay, but he believes these issues are now instrumental to design. designed to study the solar orientation Over the five decades since the Olgyays conducted their heliodome studies, Princeton has nurtured a small cadre of of buildings to maximize passive heat- faculty and students who understood that sustainability is ing. It was a pioneering experiment in central to good design and can drive tremendous creativity. “green architecture” — the movement Maryann Thompson ’83, for example, has been implement- ing passive green-design strategies — design that responds to to create sustainable buildings that climate and site conditions to minimize energy use — since minimize energy consumption and she began practicing architecture in the late 1980s. Stephen environmental impact. Cassell ’86, Adam Yarinsky *87, and Kimberly Yao *97, prin- cipals in the Architecture Research Office (ARO) in New Yo r k , have designed a plan for a future, more sustainable Manhattan. Claire Maxfield *03 chose a career in architec - tural environmental consulting, working with dozens of SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS architects to make their designs sustainable. ARCHITECTS View a slide show of designs For these five men and women, green

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environmentalism and architecture. As an undergraduate at CLAIRE MAXFIELD *03 Cornell, she took courses on environmental studies and architectural history. At the time, “green architecture was WHEN CLAIRE MAXFIELD focused on questions of materials” and “didn’t really inform *03 was asked to con- the architectural design,” she says. Her undergraduate thesis sult on the construc- explored whether her two interests — environmentalism tion of San Francisco’s and architecture design — could be integrated. She con - Transbay Transit cluded: Yes, they could. Center, a station to When she came to Princeton as a graduate student in serve the first high- architecture, she began to answer her question through speed rail line in the design. Maxfield recalls that the professors showed little United States, she drew interest in sustainability. She attributes their attitude to the inspiration from the nature of “green” architecture in the 1970s: concrete, domed vaulted central atrium desert structures and buildings constructed from recycled of New York’s Grand tires. “Pretty awful stuff ... things that weren’t really architec- Central Station. ture.” While studying for her master’s degree, Maxfield tried Looking up at on, like hats, each professor’s style and approach. She felt Grand Central’s ceiling, one sees a painter’s rendition of the that her thesis adviser — dean Stan Allen — was most influ- heavens. In the San Francisco station, slated to open in 2017, ential, with his focus on landscapes and ecosystems. travelers will see trees through expansive skylights. The roof Studio jobs were scarce when Maxfield graduated in 2003, will support an entire five-block wetland ecosystem. Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects In Claire Maxfield *03’s plan for the approached Maxfield, the director of Transbay Transit Center, the roof will support a five-block ecosystem. Atelier Ten’s San Francisco office, in 2007, with a dream of making their blue- print for the station a model of sustain- ability. Maxfield considered the lighting systems, the carbon emission, and the P materials, making suggestions for each. 31 Maxfield’s team then turned its attention to the challenge of water conservation. In a state plagued by persistent drought, water is a precious commodity. Before Maxfield’s team came to the proj- ect, the proposed station was expected to consume 19 million gallons of water a year, excluding what would be required by its retail tenants. With the help of Maxfield’s consulting team, that number is expected to be cut in half. The solu- tion? The building’s “gray water” — the wastewater generated from sinks and showers — will be recycled by passing through a rooftop public forest of red- woods and other indigenous flora, filter-

ing the water so that it can be reused in PHOTOS, the building’s toilets. FROM Maxfield, like the other consultants in TOP:

her office, considers herself a generalist. ATELIER When she walks into a meeting, she TEN;

might be asked to discuss a building’s PELLI

water system, air-conditioning and heat- CLARKE ing, or landscaping. Being a generalist PELLI helps her spot synergies and solutions ARCHITECTS that specialists might miss, she says. Maxfield long had been interested in

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and she came upon consulting while freelancing in New Yo r k . The learning curve in consulting, she says, is “so much Architecture Research Office: faster” than in a traditional practice. “I’ve just worked on 10 lab buildings, and now really understand how to design sus- STEPHEN CASSELL ’86, KIMBERLY YAO *97, tainable labs. If I were a traditional architect, I would have AND ADAM YARINSKY *87 gotten through one lab in the same amount of time and I wouldn’t really understand the issues.” At an initial meeting with an architect client, Maxfield begins with questions: What is the architect trying to express? What in the designs are fixed and what can be molded? “Then we take their sketch and start pushing and pulling with them,” she says. “There is this long list of things we need to pay attention to, if we are serious about sustainability,” she says. “Energy, carbon, water, materials, landscape, microclimate complications. Should you look at renewable energy? What energy grid are you plugged into, and what is its carbon footprint?” For each proj- ect, Maxfield runs simulations: daylight simulations, water simulations, energy simulations in both winter and summer. She considers the humidity levels of the From left, Cassell, Yao, and Yarinsky region. She questions the amount of glass clients desire: “There is a myth that more glass means more daylight IN 2010, THE PRINCIPALS OF Architecture Research Office (ARO) which means better energy performance.” That is true, she took on the challenge of reimagining New York for the lat- says, only to an extent. Often, Maxfield notices that architects ter part of the 21st century. The three Princetonians — attempt to overlay solutions from their previous projects on Stephen Cassell ’86, Adam Yarinsky *87, and Kimberly Yao current designs. But, as she explains, a lab in Boston shares *97 — added an unusual feature to the iconic waterfront of few energy considerations with a classroom in Salt Lake City. Lower Man hattan: swamps. They sketched tidal estuaries P In eight years, Maxfield has consulted on art museums, along the Hudson, lined with ferry stops. They drew fresh - 32 science museums, steel museums, Las Vegas hotels, high- water marshes, saltwater marshes, and a “sunken forest,” 18 rises, and research laboratories. In consulting on a building feet below street level, that extended to the steel struts of the for the University of Illinois’ business school, the team drew Brooklyn Bridge. They frayed the hard edge of Battery Park a U-shaped design to allow more natural lighting and venti- with islands and suggested the deployment of kayaks. lation, reducing the energy cost by 51 percent compared to a ARO’s work was part of a project to explore the effect of building that meets the minimum construction standards. rising sea levels on New York City, conceived by Museum of In another building, on Ithaca College’s campus, Maxfield Modern Art (MoMA) curator Barry Bergdoll and inspired by used atriums to push light deep into the interior and a New York City climate-change study led by Princeton pro- exposed concrete to trap and retain heat, strategies that fessor Guy Nordenson. Bergdell dissected New York City’s helped reduce energy costs by 43 percent. She works on waterfront into five puzzle pieces and assigned each to a many academic buildings because, she notes, “universities firm. Emulating a college design studio, the five firms took were the first organizations interested in sustainability.” up residence across two floors of MoMA’s PS1 museum. The Particularly exciting for Maxfield, the firm is planning to work was presented in MoMA’s show “Rising Currents: consult on the renovation of Princeton’s former Frick Projects for New York’s Waterfront,” which ran from March Chemistry Lab at 20 Washington Road. She is looking for- to October 2010. For its part, ARO got 650 acres of Lower ward to discovering what sustainable strategies work well for Manhattan and six weeks to reimagine the financial district. the classic stone building. Four hundred years ago, Manhattan was blanketed in One challenge Maxfield rarely encounters anymore is dis- forests of hickory, chestnut, and oak. Cassell, Yarinsky, and interest. When she began consulting, she found herself hav- Yao decided that the best way to preserve the city under the ing to convince clients to design sustainably. More recently, rising sea levels that would come with global warming was even during the economic recession and the slow recovery, to reintroduce the past. clients have been seeking out ways to make their projects Cassell and Yarinsky — friends from their Princeton days greener. Ultimately, is there a single definition for what — opened ARO in 1993, with Yao becoming a partner in makes a green building? Maxfield would say no. “It’s not the 2011. “We thought about architecture as a process of inquiry COURTESY same answer every time,” she says. A green lab has different rather than a representation of ideas,” Yarinsky explains.

targets than a green classroom or a green art museum. In the Whether designing a space for the experimental Flea Theater LAJOS

end, she explains, “there are as many variations as there are in New York or an addition to Princeton’s own architecture GEENEN designs of buildings themselves.” school (completed in 2007), ARO begins with a stroll

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around the neighborhood. “We research the social, technical, the existing city infrastructure of drainage and electrical political, and economic issues around each project before we systems. start designing,” Cassell explains. “We understand the world “It’s not about high technology, but more about reframing in which the building needs to exist ... then we craft ideas how you think about infrastructure in the city,” Cassell that come out of our understanding of the nature of each explains. Yarinsky adds: “We took these really basic, pragmatic project.” aspects of urban design, the curb and the street material, and ARO’s plan to reinvent Lower Manhattan took shape in found in them the real transformative potential of making its office on the edge of SoHo, in a space that once housed a the city a better place to be.” printing press. ARO’s ideas are conceived in a large, open Rising Currents was not ARO’s first big sustainable proj- room with expansive windows, freestanding desks, and walls ect. In 2009, the firm was one of three winners of a challenge covered in pinned-up sketches. “In architecture there is a posed by Syracuse University’s School of Architecture: myth of the architect as a singular genius,” Yarinsky says, Construct a prototype sustainable house at a price tag of “but one of the most exciting things about our work is the $150,000. collaboration.” Wrapped in angled aluminum, with slanted roofs and The challenge of creating a sustainable urban design was wide south-facing windows, ARO’s R-House is a testament to daunting. ARO collaborated with the landscape firm dland- the possibilities in affordable green housing. The 1,100- studio to create its marsh-filled models. The architects drew square-foot house employs strategies championed by the on expertise and opinions from NYC planning and emer- German Passivhaus movement, which developed in the gency-management officials, marine scientists, atmospheric 1990s with the goal of building homes that could be kept scientists, engineers, sustainability consultants, museum warm without conventional heating systems. Strategies used curators, and even curious museum patrons. A re-imagined in ARO’s R-House include an orientation that maximizes New York rapidly took form. solar energy in the harsh winters and super-insulated, 16- ARO’s premise is that in New York’s financial district, inch walls that are sealed to prevent heat loss. Together, the rising currents will come in the form of storm surges and “passive” strategies, ARO states, cut energy costs per square flooding. To hold back the water, ARO proposed a roadmap foot by 70 percent, compared to a typical Syracuse home. of green streets crisscrossing Wall Street. In addition to Subsidized by state funding, residents moved into the reintroducing 80 acres of marshes, the city streets would be newly constructed R-House in 2010 and say they paid about made porous. Collecting ponds to store water for dry spells $90 per month for heat and electricity last winter. With the would be embedded below the asphalt, and water conduits houses thoroughly insulated, the new inhabitants could heat P would be added as far as Broadway. In essence, ARO pro- their new home with the energy required to power a hair - 33 posed layering a natural ecological infrastructure on top of dryer, Yao says. (In actuality, the house is warmed through a

ARO’s vision for Lower Manhattan ARCHITECTURE COURTESY RESEARCH LAJOS GEENEN OFFICE

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ARO’s R-House in Syracuse, N.Y. heat exchanger powered by a water heater.) For its work across a wide range of sustainable design, ARO received the 2011 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. The citation singled out both the Syracuse and Manhattan projects. What will become of ARO’s vision for a greener Manhattan? According to Howard Slatkin, sustain- ability director in New York City’s planning department, the city’s waterfront plan for 2020 “enshrines in policy many of the principles” addressed by Rising Currents. “This project wasn’t about designing a new form,” Yarinsky says. “Using RICHARD methods that we have right now, you can actually

have this complete transformation of the city. ... BARNES We have all of the tools. That is what’s so exciting.”

ing cloth ducts that suggest the building itself breathes. The MARYANN THOMPSON ’83 exposed ceiling “allows students to see the mechanical sys- tems that are supporting them,” Thompson explains. “They THE BUILDING — realize they are not just living in a building that functions a former book magically.” The school itself serves as a tool for environmen- warehouse — tal instruction; science classes monitor daylight levels, as was nestled well as water and electricity usage. among a bio- “Adaptive reuse is the most profound form of recycling we medical can do,” Thompson says. If Thompson had torn down the P research insti- warehouse, the refuse would have filled hundreds of 34 tute, a uniform- Dumpsters and been hauled away. By adapting the old build- supply head- ing for a new purpose, she not only saved the materials but quarters, and a created a school that cost $80 per square foot rather than the food factory in $250 or so it would have cost to start from scratch. “I’ve torn an industrial a house down before,” she says. “The number of Dumpsters neighborhood makes you sick to your stomach.” in Watertown, Mass. Passersby saw only a worn-out shell of Like many of Thompson’s projects, the Atrium School has stained concrete and dirty brick — dark, dank, and dismal. won numerous sustainability awards. In 2010, for her work But when Maryann Thompson ’83 toured the space in 2005, in sustainable design, Boston magazine named Thompson she saw something else entirely: soaring spaces and lots of green architect of the year. light. “The kneejerk reaction is to tear an old building “I try for a common-sense approach to green architecture down,” Thompson says. “But it is so much better for the envi- and sustainability ... I always start with site planning, which ronment if you can figure out a way to mutate it.” doesn’t cost anything at all,” she says. Many of Thompson’s To day, the warehouse has been transformed into the solutions — a southern orientation to capitalize upon win- Atrium School, a private school for children in kindergarten ter light, the use of masonry to store heat, layered windows through sixth grade. Few would guess that the school’s to create natural cooling systems, and jutting wood over- entrance once was a loading dock. The 3,000-square-foot hangs to block out the summer blaze — are passive engi- atrium off the front entrance is lined in windows and serves neering strategies that she first learned at Princeton. alternatively as a gym, an assembly hall, and an afterschool Thompson applied to Princeton in 1978 at a time when space. If the weather is warm, a large bank of windows in the the possibility of global warming was just beginning to be center, which functions as a garage door, opens to a grassy discussed seriously (displacing an earlier view that Earth’s outdoor play space that was once an asphalt lot. surface was cooling). She wrote her admission essay on the Inside, the hallways, with classrooms on each side, snake controversial idea and planned a track in engineering that past cubby spaces made of recycled wheatboard (a concoc- would prepare her to help address the problem. tion of newsprint and soyflour), interior windows, and During her first two years on campus, Thompson divided splashes of bright lime, turquoise, and pale yellow. The her time between her two passions: engineering and art, the

ROSENTHAL school’s high ceiling displays a network of exposed air con- EQuad and 185 Nassau. Early on she met Professor of Civil

MORT duits. Rather than traditional metal pipes, they are undulat- Engineering Steve Slaby, who first suggested that architec-

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ture could bring together Thompson’s interests. Slaby chal- parks. It seems appropriate that she has focused so much lenged his students to consider the potential of the systems attention on schools because children are at the center of they studied and what effect they could have on solving her life. Ten years ago, Thompson converted the carriage development issues around the globe. “Slaby was an amazing house of her Victorian home in Cambridge, Mass., into her professor and really influential for me,” recalls Thompson. office space. Now, her five children easily can stop by after But he was not the only professor immersed in issues of school, and Thompson can pop into the house to prepare alternative energy and value-oriented design. “It was a very dinner in between working on a site plan. exciting time to be at Princeton; there were all these profes- These days, Thompson, an adjunct professor of architec- sors who were big thinkers in alternative energy,” Thompson ture at Harvard, is again at work on a space for children — says. Architecture became a way for her to solve the world’s and this one is a space for animals, too. Thompson is design- problems artistically. ing a building for meetings and classes at the Audubon When Thompson began practicing in the mid-1980s, her Society’s Drumlin Farm, set amid sugar maples and pines in clients were not interested in sustainable designs. “I would Lincoln, Mass. The space is insulated with triple-paned win- do passive solar designs secretly,” she says. “The client wouldn’t dows and extra-thick walls. Thompson hopes the building necessarily care or think it was a good idea, but would be will get LEED Platinum status; if it does, it would be only very happy that the sunlight was in the project.” the fifth in the state. When the project is completed this Then, in 2000, a couple with a passion for the Bauhaus spring, children will share the space with raptors, sheep, and movement inquired about adding a geothermal heating sys- salamanders brought in to teach them about life on a farm. tem to Thompson’s original passive design. That year, she “I enjoy designing spaces for children,” she says. “The says, she saw an acute shift in attitudes toward green design; potential is so strong for a childhood full of wonder and since then, clients have been asking for sustainable houses. meaning” — including, Thompson adds, the potential to Houses and schools are the “backbone” of Thompson’s impart to children the importance of environmental stew- practice. Her first project, designed while she was complet- ardship. “I believe that you can create that wonder with ing her master’s degree at Harvard, was a school, and over 20 architecture.” π years of practice, she has designed 15 elementary and middle schools throughout New England and New York — along Jessica Lander ’10 teaches sixth-graders in a Boston public school with synagogues, offices, restaurants, museums, camps, and through the nonprofit Citizen Schools.

P 35 ANTON The gym in the Atrium School, GRASSL/ESTO designed by Maryann Thompson ’83.

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Woodrow Wilson Award winner Robert Mueller III ’66

ALUMNI DAY 2012 Honorees Jackson *86, Mueller ’66 describe their paths to public service P 36 Each of Alumni Day’s top alumni death in Vietnam, would argue strong- number of his friends, teammates, and honorees dreamed of becoming a doc- ly against following in his footsteps. associates joined the Marine Corps tor, but FBI director Robert Mueller III But many of us saw in him the person because of him, as did I. ... He taught ’66 and Environmental Protection we wanted to be,” Mueller said. “And a us the true meaning of leadership. Agency administrator Lisa P. One teammate can change your Jackson *86 ended up on very Madison Medalist life. And David Hackett changed different paths. In campus Lisa Jackson *86 mine.” addresses Feb. 25, they talked Mueller spent three years in about how formative experiences Vietnam as the leader of an at Princeton and elsewhere infantry platoon, receiving the reshaped their career paths and Bronze Star and the Purple Heart led to leadership of government for his service. agencies. In a talk mainly focusing on For Mueller, the Woodrow Prince ton’s role in his life, Wilson Award winner, a difficult Mueller also spoke of Princeton Princeton class on organic chem- classmate W. Lee Rawls ’66, who istry derailed his plans for a had been his close adviser at the medical career, he said. He FBI before Rawls’ death in 2010. earned his bachelor’s degree in Mueller, director of the FBI since politics instead. But it was the 2001, credited Rawls with keep- death of David Hackett ’65 on a ing him grounded and giving

COMMUNICATIONS Vietnam battlefield that helped him “some confidence that I OF set Mueller on the path to pub- might actually be able to survive lic service, he explained. Hackett this job.” and Mueller played together on “Lee’s innate sense of humility APPLEWHITE/OFFICE Princeton’s lacrosse team. — the idea that the world does

DENISE “One would have thought that not revolve around you — was

PHOTOS: the life of a Marine, and David’s central to his character,” Mueller

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said. “And it’s that same sense of humil- gram when she earned a master’s ity — that constant reminder of one’s degree in 1986. Her interest in science Heard at Alumni Day place in the grand scheme of things, and math, she said, began with a calcu- that sense of being in the world and of lator that she received at an engineer- There are studies of this world — that is part of the ing summer camp, and was fueled by “digital reading that suggest Princeton tradition.” attending an all-girls’ high school. “The parents might inadvertently During a question-and-answer ses- qualities that have traditionally dis- impede reading when sion, Mueller discussed the evolution couraged young women from pursuing they read digital books of his leadership style by citing a brief- science — that we are not interested in with their kids – instead ing he gave President George W. Bush a cold and hard and disconnected dis- of talking about content, soon after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. cipline — are a misrepresentation of they direct the child to ‘click here.’ Bush cut him off about two minutes both women and science,” she said. — English professor William Gleason,” into the briefing, Mueller said. She initially wanted to be a doctor speaking on “Children’s Literature in “President Bush says, ‘Look, Bob — “because I wanted to help people by the Digital Age” stop. What you’re telling me is what treating them when they got sick. I you do after an attack. What I want to came to realize that if I studied chemi- If, as James Madison [1771] said, ‘only a know is what you’re doing to stop the cal engineering, and started working to “well-educated people can be permanently a next attack.’ It was like being a high protect our environment, I could help free people,’ then what his alma mater seeks school student coming in with the people by making sure they didn’t get to do in its programs in civic education is vital wrong assignment.” Mueller has been sick in the first place.” Studying at to the success of the grand experiment in focusing on prevention ever since. Princeton “set the trajectory for my ordered liberty that Madison and the other The morning lectures by Mueller entire life,” she said. “This university is founding fathers bequeathed to us and our and Jackson, held in Richardson where I had the opportunity to fully posterity. Auditorium, were among the events immerse myself in what became one of — Politics” professor Robert P. George, that drew about 1,150 alumni and the greatest passions of my life — the speaking on “Immigration and family members to campus. Lecture exploration of science.” American Exceptionalism” topics ranged from AIDS in Africa to Her mother, however, still wanted children’s literature in a digital age. Jackson to be a doctor. “For years she As grievous and con- Alumni recalled deceased friends and asked me why in the world I took up “tentious as our politics P environmental have been, there is no 37 protection,” reason to believe that Jackson said. “But post-partisanship offers she stopped asking an oasis. It is a mirage. me that once — History professor” President Obama Sean Wilentz, lecturing on “The called” and she Long and Tragical History of Post- became EPA Partisanship” administrator in 2009. Jackson is Impressionist subject the first African- “matter has been described American and the as an iconography of third Princeton eternal vacation. graduate to hold — Art museum” cura- the office. tor Caroline Harris, Jackson dis- speaking on late- Alumni gather for lunch in Jadwin Gym. cussed the impor- 19th-century French painting tance of attracting

teachers at the Service of Remem - more women to the field of science. What makes Princeton, in my opinion, is PHOTOS: brance, and honored volunteers at the “We have to be diligent about the sub- the people. Only on this campus could I have “ DENISE annual luncheon at Jadwin Gym. The tle but pervasive discouragement found so many ways to procrastinate. APPLEWHITE/OFFICE student winners of the Jacobus women can encounter when they — Pyne Prize co-winner Ann-Marie” Fellowships and the Pyne Honor Prize think about taking a computer science Elvin ’12 were recognized and gave brief remarks. class, or want to learn more about OF

Jackson, who won the James physics, or consider a career in robot- It’s rare that I get to wear such a hideous COMMUNICATIONS Madison Medal, spoke about being ics,” she said. “We must change the per- “tie and fit right in. one of the few women in Princeton’s ception that science is a man’s field.” π — Pyne Prize co-winner” James chemical engineering graduate pro- By J.A. Valcourt ’12

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Four graduate students received the Univer sity’s highest Honored during Alumni Day were the two winners of the honor for graduate students, the JACOBUS FELLOWSHIP, which PYNE HONOR PRIZE, the University’s top undergraduate award. supports the final year of study. Above, from left: Above, from left: RICHARD BALIBAN, chemical and biological engineering. Described by his JAMES VALCOURT ’12, a molecular biology major from Sterling, Mass., dissertation adviser, Professor Christodoulos Floudas, as a brilliant was described by Tilghman as “a stellar scientist who excels in non- researcher with “amazing computational and theoretical ability,” scientific fields.” An Outdoor Action leader trainer and an Orange Key Baliban plans a career in alternative-energy research. guide, Valcourt has helped to reinvigorate Tiger magazine as the

WILLIAM DERINGER *09, history of science. His dissertation on the eco- humor publication’s chairman. He plans to pursue molecular and sys- PHOTOS: nomic history of Britain’s “financial revolution” three centuries ago tems biology in his graduate work. DENISE was described by President Tilghman as a “scholarly tour de force.” ANN-MARIE ELVIN ’12, a sociology major from Boston. “No one has exer- He plans to teach at the college level. cised their talents with greater courage and compassion,” President APPLEWHITE/OFFICE ANDREW HUDDLESTON, philosophy, was termed by Tilghman “a world- Tilghman said. A member of the varsity women’s ice hockey team, class authority” on the 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Elvin remained the team’s “moral compass” even when injury prevent-

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His dissertation investigates the role of culture in Nietzsche’s work. ed her from playing. She is a member of Princeton Disabilities COMMUNICATIONS 38 WILLIAM CAVENDISH, mathematics (not in photo). His work focuses on Awareness and a skating instructor for Special Olympics. Her thesis questions about symmetries of low-dimensional objects; his thesis focuses on the role of artistic expression in American prisons, and adviser, David Gabai, said he “fearlessly attacks problems that stump she plans to pursue a master’s degree in criminology at Cambridge the most famous mathematicians.” University.

VOLUNTEER AWARD WINNERS: Easy rider The CLASS OF 1986 received the Class of 1926 Trophy for raising $9,001,986 — the Alumni got a taste of one of Princeton’s largest total ever — in celebration of its most unusual freshman seminars: “The Art 25th reunion • FREDERICK G. STROBEL ’74 and Science of Motorcycle Design,” in received the Harold H. Helm Award for which students overhauled a 1963 Triumph sustained service to Annual Giving • The Tiger Cub. Alumni were not able to take Jerry Horton Howard Award was presented the bike for a spin, though Michael to the ANNUAL GIVING SECTION OF THE SOUTH, Littman, the professor of mechanical and chaired by BARBARA A. MCELROY ’81, for aerospace engineering who taught the expanding dollar and participation results course, said he was “happy to report that • The PRINCETON CLUB OF AFRICA, EGYPT REGION; I talked Risk Management into letting THE PRINCETON CLUB OF ORANGE COUNTY; and students get on the motorcycle.” Elisabeth the PRINCETON CLUB OF NORTHWESTERN NEW Rodgers ’86, left, seemed to enjoy the bike JERSEY, UNION COUNTY REGION shared the nonetheless. S. Barksdale Penick Jr. ’25 Award for local Schools Committee efforts. In announcing TALKING SHOP the award for the group in Egypt, Alumni Video highlights from Michael Association President Henry Von Kohorn ’66 noted that alumni managed to interview all PHOTOS: Littman’s presentation 24 applicants to Princeton — even as a @ paw.princeton.edu BRIAN revo lution was taking place around them. π WILSON

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Alumni scene READING ROOM: KEIJA PARSSINEN ’03 NEW RELEASES BY ALUMNI

The Plazas of New Third-generation expatriate Mexico (Trinity University Press), edited by STEFANOS explores Saudi culture POLYZOIDES ’69 *72 and Chris Wilson, with contemporary An American who was born in Saudi photography by Miguel Gandert, Arabia and spent her first 12 years in explores the history and cultural her- “the Kingdom,” as she refers to it, Keija itage of New Mexico’s plazas and Parssinen ’03 has deep ties to the coun- squares in the context of urban revital- try and its people. Her mother grew up ization, sustainability, and historic there, and her father and grandfather preservation. The contributors trace worked for the Arabian American Oil three design traditions, examine recent Co. (Aramco). plaza-renovation projects and newly Although Parssinen never lived in designed plazas, and offer ideas for sus- Saudi Arabia as an adult, the Kingdom tainable public spaces. Polyzoides’ remained a part of her. When her family architecture and urban moved to Texas in 1992, she says, “I felt design firm, Moule & as if my home was being taken away Polyzoides, is based in from me.” Writing the novel The Ruins of Pasadena, Calif. ... In Us (Harper Perennial) “was a way for me Freedom Papers: An to dust off the memories of a beloved Atlantic Odyssey in the and complicated place and try to reconcile the fond memories of my childhood Age of Emancipation home with the harsher realities of a post-9/11 world.” Publishers Weekly called the (Harvard University Press), REBECCA J. book a “gripping, well-crafted debut.” SCOTT *82 and Jean M. Hébrard chroni- Set in the oil-rich country, her story centers on the relationship between the cle the story of an African woman who wealthy Abdullah al-Baylani and his wife, Rosalie, a Texan who was born in Saudi was enslaved in the late 18th century P Arabia. Twenty years after a passionate courtship and controversial engagement, and later freed, and of five generations 39 Rosalie learns that Abdullah has taken a second wife. of her family across three continents. WHAT SHE’S READING NOW: The discovery throws the family into chaos, blinding The authors set the family’s pursuit of The Yacoubian Building Abdullah and Rosalie to the fact that their teenage son, equality against the backdrop of three by Alaa Al Aswany Faisal, is growing close to a radical sheikh. Meanwhile, struggles in the 19th century: the their daughter is on the other end of the social revolu- Haitian Revolution, the French What she likes about it: tion — blogging and getting in trouble at school for Revolution of 1848, and the Civil War “The glimpse into the length and color of her abaya, the traditional dress and Reconstruction in everyday Egyptian life worn by Muslim women in Saudi Arabia. The entire the United States. Scott that the book offers Baylani family must confront difficult truths when is a professor of history — the full panoply of Faisal makes a rash decision that could put more than and law at the Univer - its diverse citizens.” Abdullah and Rosalie’s marriage at stake. sity of Michigan. ... The novel explores the controversial tradition of plu- MAGGIE BETTS ’99 wrote, ral marriage: In The Ruins of Us, Abdullah’s family balks at his taking a second directed, and produced wife, yet because it is sanctioned by the Quran, [the practice] “will probably always The Carrier, a documentary film about be acceptable,” Parssinen says. Mutinta Mweemba, a pregnant 28-year- She hopes that when people read her novel, “they realize Saudi culture is multi- old subsistence farmer in Zambia, who faceted, from the way people manifest their faith to the way they push for tries to make sure that her unborn progress.” One particular misconception is “this idea that [Saudi] women are child does not contract the HIV virus slaves. Rather, they are becoming more and more educated and increasingly capa- she carries. The film premiered in ble and ready to fight their own battles,” says Parssinen, who earned an M.F.A. April 2011 at the Tribeca Film Festival from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and today is director of a writers’ workshop in and was screened at the Woodrow Columbia, Mo. Wilson School in February. Betts is an In her book, Parssinen aimed to reveal the subtleties that exist within Saudi advocate for HIV-positive women and Arabia today. “I wanted the Baylani family to represent several different aspects of children in sub-Sahara Africa. Saudi society — the American presence, the oil wealth, the religiosity, and the pro-

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AUDIO: Listen to tracks from Anthony D’Amato ’10’s CD @ paw.princeton.edu

old, and his music-minded parents took him to concerts at the Jersey Shore’s hot spots. In high school, he performed in a band and started writ- ing and performing his own music. As a high-school student, he also became a freelance writer for a local entertain- ment monthly as a way to write about music, meet songwriters, and “learn behind-the-scenes stuff,” says D’Amato. By the time he reached Princeton, he knew he wanted to become a singer- songwriter. “If it’s just you on stage Singer-songwriter Anthony D’Amato with your guitar, you need compelling ’10 is working on his fourth album. lyrics to keep the audience quiet and engaged,” says D’Amato. An English ANTHONY D’AMATO ’10 major who earned certificates in American studies and musical per- formance, D’Amato honed his craft On stage with the Boss through independent study with poet and professor Paul Muldoon, and In January, Anthony D’Amato ’10 D’Amato, who describes his music as music professor Paul Lansky *73. played an acoustic set at a fundraiser in “folk ’n’ roll,” has a rockin’ career these Muldoon, who also writes lyrics for a Asbury Park, N.J., that featured Bruce days. Publications from The New York band, helped bring a “cohesive struc- P Springsteen. For the finale, the Boss Times to American Songwriter are notic- ture” to his lyrics, says D’Amato. invited all the performers to join him ing D’Amato as a performer with prom- “I encouraged him to pay attention 40 on stage for rousing renditions of ise. National Public Radio’s “World to the integrity of the lyrics as much as “Twist and Shout” and “Thunder Road.” Café” called him “warm and magnetic” the melodiousness of the music,” said “Bruce is one of my musical heroes. and posted two songs from his third Muldoon in an email. “One of To be on stage with him is incredible,” album, Down Wires, which he recorded Anthony’s great strengths is that he

says D’Amato, who had performed at as an undergraduate with a laptop and understands that the two have equal DIAMOND two previous benefits with Springsteen. microphone in his dorm room. A billing in a really great song.”

D At the second one, Springsteen told fourth album will debut in May. D’Amato’s creative approach starts PHOTOGRAPHY him, “You’re a good songwriter, my The Blairstown, N.J., native began with the music, which he records and man.” studying piano when he was 6 years then listens to on an iPod. “I’ll keep

NEWSMAKERS is to Challenges: “The biggest challenge STARTING OUT: understand get the management and scouts to Pianist and music GAVIN BYRNES ’11 in from that we are not numbers guys coming scholar CHARLES ROSEN Client analyst for Decision says above trying to replace the scouts,” ’48 *51, top right, and Lens, a Washington, D.C. ... Byrnes. “Old-fashioned scouting judgment historian TEOFILO RUIZ *74 company that develops is absolutely invaluable.” were awarded 2011 software to help organiza- National Humanities Princeton major: math.

make decisions. UCLA tions How he got the job: He first encountered Medals at the White the Decision Lens during an internship with House in February. he does: Byrnes works with professional out COURTESY What Green Bay Packers; the team was trying Rosen was chosen “for For hockey teams, for example, sports teams. software. That led to a Decision his rare ability to join the company’s HUNSTEIN; he designs software models that incorporate a job offer. Lens internship and eventually DON artistry to the history of culture and players’ skating and shooting as TOP: ’11 criteria such ideas.” A history professor and chair- importance of each criteri- ability; the relative “What I would love to do more FROM BYRNES produces a Down the road: man of the Spanish and Portuguese on; and scouting data. The model “is to be the else,” he says, PHOTOS, GAVIN the than anything department at the University of list of players — one factor used by ranked general manager of a sports team.” in its draft picks. COURTESY team’s management

March 21, 2012 Princeton Alumni Weekly • paw.princeton.edu Alumni scene running lyrics through my head and Tiger I’ll come up with what the song could Bill Carson ’50 be,” explains D’Amato, who works as a profile Co-founder, Santa Fe for Students music publicist at Shore Fire Media in New York. His songs often involve stories told by characters he imagines. “They’re about moments, seeing the light and figuring something out,” he explains. “My Father’s Son” — which NPR called “a modern folk gem” that begins with “an irresistible melody” — is about a son with troubled parents, with lyrics of defeat and rebirth. Other songs deal with universal themes of identity and mortality. In his early albums, D’Amato played guitar, bass, keyboards, banjo, man- Bill Carson ’50 dolin, harmonica, and pedal steel by reads from his book himself. Today he mixes his own play- “Peter Becomes a ing with contributions from other Trail Man” to third- musicians to brighten the musical graders at Salazar palette. Down Wires, for example, Elementary School. includes harmonies by vocalist Katy Pinke ’10 and instrumental work by CALL FOR HELP At Salazar Elementary School in fiddler Brittany Haas ’09. sun-scorched Santa Fe, N.M., 99 percent of the stu- Résumé: Co-founder of the D’Amato will send his new CD to dents are considered “economically disadvan- education nonprofit Santa record labels to see if they have inter- taged.” Some of the children never have visited a Fe for Students. Former executive vice president in est. If not, he will continue going the playground before starting kindergarten. Others P charge of operations of Bell “totally independent route” and pro- never have seen a doctor. In 1997 the principal 41 mote the disc online and through live lamented how many children came from broken & Howell technical schools. shows. On March 21, he was scheduled and struggling homes during a luncheon with Former owner of automotive to perform at New York’s Rockwood members of the United Church of Santa Fe. Lucky trade school Michigan Music Hall. for her, Bill Carson ’50 and his wife, Georgia, were Career Institute. Served in If he runs into Bruce Springsteen there, listening closely. the Air Force in the 1950s. at a gig, he may slip him a copy: His Geology major at Princeton. long-term goal, he says, is “to get BOOKS FOR ALL For the past 40 years, the Springsteen to play one of my songs.” π Carsons have been committed to education, from Carson’s management of Bell & By Van Wallach ’80 Howell schools to his automotive trade school for low-income, high-risk students in Detroit. “I’ve always been involved with low-income students,” Carson says. “I came to realize early on that a lot of the difficulties blamed on schools are society’s California, Los Angeles, Ruiz was problems.” So when the couple heard about the challenges faced by students at honored “for his inspired teaching Salazar Elementary, they set out to help. In the fall of 1997, the Carsons launched and writing” which has “deepened the Salazar Partnership and recruited retirees from their church to volunteer as our understanding of medieval Spain tutors and mentors. Since then, the group has registered as a nonprofit organization and Europe.” ... ADAM HUGH ’10 placed and grown to 75 volunteers who tutor children and assist teachers in class in two third in the U.S. table tennis Olympic elementary schools — Salazar and nearby Agua Fria — under the new banner trials; he will be one of eight male Sante Fe for Students. With Bill running the business end of things and Georgia players competing in April at the organizing the volunteers, they have secured funding for school nurses and on-site North American trials for the 2012 dental screenings for students, and have given out roughly 3,000 free books a year. London Olympics. ... PHILIP WEINSTEIN Santa Fe for Students has an annual budget of $175,000. ’62 won the 2011 C. Hugh Holman Award for the best book in Southern SANTA FE AND BEYOND “Schools have been given the responsibility of raising kids, literary studies for his biography, and they don’t have the resources to do it,” Carson says. His goal this year is for Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of Santa Fe for Students to become an affiliate of the national nonprofit Commun i - D O N

William Faulkner (Oxford University ties in Schools. If that happens, he says, “our hope would be to grow to more U N S E Press). schools in Santa Fe, and maybe [across] New Mexico.” By Laura Dannen Redman ’03 R

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From the Archives

Creative-arts students intently craft reclining figures under the tutelage of Princeton’s longtime sculptor-in-residence, Joseph Brown, in this undated photo. Brown came to the University as its boxing coach in 1937, began teaching a sculpting course in 1938, became a full professor in 1962, and retired in 1977. Best known for his sculptures of ath- letes, Brown, who died in 1985, was honored with a Reunions-weekend exhibit at Dillon Gym on the 30th anniversary of his retirement. Can PAW readers identify these students — or say if any of them have continued sculpting?

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Perspective continued from page 23 publications is a distraction. Six years after starting my Ph.D., I still was more interested in the broad topics and a more mainstream audience. Nonetheless, I con- tinued on the academic path, landing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. During those two years, I married a fel- low academic, and things became even murkier — and then, suddenly, much clearer. Like many couples in various pro- fessions, we were struggling to balance connectcoonnect the careers of two ambitious people. In the academic job search, whose job was going to take precedence location-wise? Or, to put it more bluntly, who was going to give? And the shoes? An analogy, of course, I havee truly but I realized that I was heading down a enjoyedenjoyeed reading path that potentially would stifle the real thethe FacebookFaacebook me — someone who loves pop culture and feeds and high heels. And so, I had my epiphany. I no e-updatesates from longer wanted to be an academic. I wanted PAW. It is to wear fabulous high-heel shoes all the alwaysalwayys nice to time, especially after wearing those bor- get thethe hard ing flat, black boots to the interview, hav- copy, butb t I llove ing two professors comment on them, being able to and still not getting the job. P incorporateincorpporate all Mostly, now, I feel relief. I’m pursuing 62 of thethe info intintoo writing for a more general audience, my day.daay. publishing articles in magazines and newspapers and appearing as a “talking – Jackie Bruce ’99 head” on local news shows when the sub- ject is childhood and competition. I have a literary agent and am completing a commentcommennt book. I love hearing stories about scien- tists who left the lab to pursue cooking, InspiringInspiringg or attorneys who left the law for literary ArrogantArrogant pursuits. The world didn’t end once I no longer TouchingTouchinng received university computing support, Unjustj IndefensibleIndefenssible lost my “.edu” email address, and stopped HilariousHil i adding to the “under review” section of DistDisturbingurbing my CV. In fact, the world opened up as I embraced the opportunity to blog and dabble in social media, and I discovered that it felt good when more than a couple SeeSeee storiess of hundred people read my writings. While my formal comecomme alivalivee school days may be over, I’m clearly not done learning. And I do hope that learn- M I C

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THE CLASS OF 1936 Academy. At Princeton he majored in histo- career as an architect there, “We designed WILLIAM G. MENNEN JR. ’36 Bill died July 22, 2011, ry, was a member of the Princeton Swimming junior colleges for the same youngsters for in Carmel, Calif. and Life-Saving Club, and carved his name whom we had first built elementary schools He was born in Newark, N.J., and prepared into the mantel of 43 Blair, where it remains and then high schools!” for Princeton at the Hotchkiss School. Bill to this day. After taking graduate courses at Princeton’s majored in economics at Princeton, was a After college, he worked as an industrial School of Architecture in 1940, Daz served in member of Dial Lodge, and roomed with engineer for General Motors. He served in World War II as a lieutenant in aerial recon- Walter Seymour Jr. for three years. He served the Navy during World War II, marrying the naissance. He worked in his father’s (later as class treasurer for a decade beginning in admiral’s daughter. The bulk of his profes- his own) architectural firm in New Jersey 1956. sional career was spent at Booz, Allen before moving to Florida. He maintained his After Princeton, Bill joined his family’s Hamilton as a management consultant, ties with his home state by spending sum- business, the Mennen Co., in New Jersey. He working primarily in Iran, Italy, and Holland. mers in Mantoloking, where his lifelong pur- spent his entire career at the company, with In retirement, Ed played recorder, sailed out suits of sailing, fishing, and golfing began. the exception of several years serving in the of his home in Maine, was a dedicated bird He shot his age well into his 80s. Army during World War II. He served on watcher, and worked for the passage of Daz and his wife, Frances, were founders hospital and bank boards in Morristown, Maine’s first bottle-deposit law. of the Upper Pinellas Association for N.J., and Phoenix, Ariz. In his spare time, Bill After two divorces, he reunited with his Retarded Children. In 1971, this association enjoyed playing golf. college sweetheart, the late Mary Rose named him its “Man of the Year.” He was Bill was predeceased by his wife, Audrey Barrows (Mount Holyoke ’36), in 1969. active in many city and county civic areas. Mennen. He is survived by three daughters, Ed is survived by two daughters, Susanna Frances died in 1999. She was the daugh- Cathe Mennen, Stephanie Mennen Barlow and Robin Johnson; two stepsons, ter of Edmund Ill ’13 and the sister of Ted Ill Harkrader, and Audrey Lien Mennen; a son, Walter Barrows ’63 and Timothy Barrows ’41. He is survived by their three children, Peter G.; and several grandchildren. ’66; nine grandchildren, including Kathryn four grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchil- Barrows ’00; and eight great-grandchildren. dren. To them all, the class extends its sym- JOHN O. RHOME JR. ’36 John Rhome, whom we pathy and admiration. knew as “Otto,” died Aug. 28, 2011, in THE CLASS OF 1937 Massachusetts. IRA D. DORIAN ’37 Ira Dorian died Dec. 31, 2011, CHARLES P. DENNISON ’39 The Princeton Chapel, John was born in Loch Arbour, N.J., and in Paramus, N.J., where he lived with his wife, where his strong tenor voice was heard for came to Princeton from Asbury Park High Lillian, after a long residence in Cranford, N.J. so many years, was the site of Charlie’s P School. John graduated from Princeton as a Born in Freehold, N.J., Ira came to Prince- memorial service Nov. 26, 2011. His family 63 member of Phi Beta Kappa. He majored in ton after graduating from Cranford High spoke words of loving tribute; former math, was on the 150-pound football team, School. He majored in economics. Associate Dean of Religious Life Sue Anne participated in many class and club sports After Princeton, he graduated from Morrow gave the eulogy, concluding with a teams, and joined Dial Lodge. Harvard Law School in 1940, was admitted prayer “for the blessing of Charlie’s long life John graduated from Harvard Law School to practice before the New Jersey Supreme — so well lived.” in 1939 and began a 45-year law career at Court in 1953, and maintained law offices We left with many images of his 95 years: Hutchins & Wheeler in Boston, for which he in Cranford from 1949 to 1982. He was a his omnipresent bicycle (often with his cane was recognized in the 1983 edition of Best member of the New Jersey Supreme Court strapped on the back); his knack for finding Lawyers in America. He also served as an Ethics Committee and its Judicial Selection four-leaf clovers; his love of his work (espe- officer in the Navy during World War II. Committee. cially for the English-Speaking Union), his John was active in local Massachusetts poli- During World War II, Ira served in the family (especially the birthday tapes he tics, serving on planning boards, as a select- Army for four years. For part of that time he would send his grandchildren), his university man, and in many other roles. He also was was in the Judge Advocate General’s office in (where he worked from 1953 to 1959 and for an active member of many nonprofit boards India and was a second lieutenant in the which he tirelessly volunteered), his country devoted to the community, the environment, Army Air Corps. He retired from the Air (which he served in the Navy during World and children, such as the Red Feather Force Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. War II and in Washington from 1960 to Campaign, a forerunner of the United Way. Among his many activities, Ira was presi- 1973), and, to use his own words, “of the In his free time, John enjoyed figure skating, dent of Cranford Historical Society, chairman assorted causes that capture any susceptible tennis, and dancing with his wife, Judy. of the mayor’s commission on crime, and a retiree in an energetic town.” John was predeceased by a son, Peter trustee of Cranford Public Library. He also Charlie’s rich and full life ended Oct. 27, Fairman Rhome, and a sister, Gwenyth was a former mayor of Cranford. 2011. He is survived by his wife, Jane; their Rhome. He is survived by his wife, three To Lillian and their several nieces and children, James, Anne, and Laura; and five children, three stepchildren, and 12 grand- nephews, we send sincerest sympathy. Their grandchildren. With them and his wide cir- children. daughter, Carol, died in 1987. Our fond cle of friends, we exclaim, “We’ll miss your remembrances of Ira will remain always. hand-drawn Christmas cards and poems, EDWARD D. WINTERS ’36 Edward (“Wint”) Charlie!” Winters died Oct. 20, 2011, in Boothbay THE CLASS OF 1939 Harbor, Maine. KENNETH W. DALZELL JR. ’39 Daz died Nov. 17, THE CLASS OF 1940 Ed was born in Watkins Glen, N.Y., and 2011, in Clearwater, Fla., his home since DEXTER BOWKER ’40 Princeton’s Alumni Records came to Princeton from the Penn Yan 1954. He was 96. He once wrote about his office provided us with an obituary report-

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ing Dex’s death Nov. 30, 2011, in Converse, EDWARD RIDLEY FINCH JR. ’41 Ridley died Sept. 4, Cheneaux Yacht Club and the Cincinnati Texas. 2011, in Westhampton Beach, N.Y. Gyro Club. He prepared at Roselle Park High School He was born in New York City and lived Survivors include his beloved wife of 37 and the Pingry School. At Princeton, he there his whole life. He prepared for years, Priscilla Garrison Haffner; daughter majored in economics and was a member of Princeton via Horace Mann School and Los Katherine Haffner; son Paul Haffner; the Band, ROTC, Triangle Club, Princeton Alamos (N.M.) School. stepchildren Oliver, Priscilla, and D’Ellen Tiger Orchestra (in which he was a leader), At Princeton he majored in politics and Bardes and LaVaughn Fujimaki; two grand- and Key and Seal Club. was involved in the skiing, bowling, tennis, children; and five step-grandchildren. For his participation in World War II’s D- and track teams. He was a member of Day invasion of Omaha Beach, he was award- Terrace Club, Whig-Clio, and the Chapel THE CLASS OF 1944 ed the Bronze Invasion Arrowhead. He took Choir. JOHN J. FLOURNOY ’44 John died Nov. 2, 2011, in part in four major Army invasions, for which During World War II, Ridley served on the Port Republic, N.J., where he had lived with he was decorated for bravery and earned a staff of Gen. Henry “Hap” Arnold. He his son for two years. Bronze Star. received many awards, including the He prepared at Andover. At Princeton he Postwar, Dex and his wife, Margaret, set- Commander of the French Legion of Honor, was active in track, gymnastics, the Glee tled in Plainfield, N.J. There, as a captain, he the Order of the British Empire, Knights of Club, and Dial Lodge. Malcolm Tweedy was a was appointed station commander of the the Order of St. John, and the U.S. Legion of roommate. After Princeton, John spent 39 National Guard armored unit. An inveterate Merit. Ridley continued in the Air Force months in the Field Artillery in Europe as a musician, he played first violin for the Plain- Reserve, separating as a colonel. liaison pilot. field Symphony Orchestra while furthering After graduating from New York While living in Chester, Conn., he was his career in corporate finance. At the time University School of Law in 1947, he joined with New York Life Insurance Co. for nine of his retirement in 1977, he was world con- the family firm of Finch & Schaefler and was years and was active locally with the Boy troller for Sylvania International of GTE. active as a partner until his death. In 1972, Scouts and his church. He became involved Retiring to San Antonio, he continued his Ridley was special ambassador to Panama, in early computers and first worked for interest in music as a composer and writer and in 1982 he was a member of the U.S. del- Raytheon, moving later to Anchorage, while crafting fine furniture as a hobby. egation to Unispace. He served on the board Alaska, with an RCA subsidiary. While there, Predeceased by his wife of 68 years, of the New York Institute for Special his wife, the former Ruth Schumacher, Margaret Adelaide Quimby, he is survived by Education and several other organizations. whom he married in 1956, became a math his daughter, Margaret Ellen Johnson; son Ridley was predeceased by his second professor at the University of Alaska. Paul; two grandsons; and three great-grand- wife, Pauline Swayze Finch, to whom he was Notwithstanding the distance, John made children. To them all, Dexter’s classmates married for 26 years. He is survived by his it back for seven major reunions. An avid extend deep sympathies. first wife, Elizabeth Johnson Finch; his bridge player and a Life Master, he also P daughter, Elizabeth Lathrop Finch; sons enjoyed golf throughout his career. 64 THE CLASS OF 1941 Edward III ’75 and Maturin Delafield Finch Ruth died after 53 years of marriage. John JAMES G. CORBETT ’41 Born and raised in Bay ’77; and seven grandchildren. also was predeceased by his son Peter. City, Texas, Jim died April 29, 2010, in He is survived by his sons John III ’79 and Houston. FREDERICK D. HAFFNER ’41 To borrow a phrase he his wife, Lisa ’79, and Thomas and his wife, He came to Princeton from Woodberry had used, Fred (“Fritz”) Haffner “died reluc- Cyndi; and six grandchildren. Forest School, majored in geological engi- tantly” Dec. 4, 2011. He was 92. neering, and joined Tower Club. A multi- A lifelong Cincinnatian, Fritz prepared at ARTHUR C. VAN HORNE JR. ’44 Art Van Horne died event track and field athlete, he competed in Walnut Hills High School before graduating Nov. 2, 2011, in Los Altos, Calif. both the pole vault and broad jump, winning from Choate. At Princeton, he majored in He graduated from New Trier High School letters all three years. He roomed with C.H. chemistry, graduating with honors. After in Winnetka, Ill. At Princeton he majored in Robinson his first two years and then with enlisting in the Army Medical Corps, he politics; participated in 150-pound crew, Rich Preyer, S.C. Williams, and Phil Shannon. attended Cornell Medical School, earning his cross-country, and orchestra; and joined Jim enlisted in the Army Air Corps and degree in 1944. He served at Fort Sam Quadrangle Club and ROTC. His roommates became a meteorologist, after first earning a Houston, and returned permanently to included Dey Watts, Bill Swartz, Don master’s degree in petroleum engineering at Cincinnati in 1951 after his residency at Thomson, and Bill Trible. Stanford. Buffalo Children’s Hospital. This began a 42- In 1943, during his Army service, he mar- After service in India, Jim had an interest- year pediatric career serving patients and ried Helen Vogl, whom he met thanks to an ing life. In his own words, he functioned many nervous parents, always with a won- introduction by someone in ’42 while they more or less as a petroleum engineer, banker, derful sense of humor, comforting demeanor, were in a Joe Brown boxing class. farmer/rancher, divorcee, and early retiree, and trademark bow tie. Postwar he worked for BorgWarner which included stints at the Bank of Fred loved to be on the golf course or International in Chicago, where he was a Commerce in Houston and Texas National enjoying time in Les Cheneaux Islands, member of the Princeton Club, and then Bank of Commerce. Mich., and Naples, Fla. A remarkably social Carry-Pak. He moved to the Bay Area of In 1965, Jim went on his own as an couple, Fred and his wife, Pris, were always California in 1956 where he began Kashmir investor and manager of the family farm, ready for a party, especially one with a band Carpet, a custom carpet firm serving the raising cattle and growing cotton and corn. — they were a great dance pair. They interior-design trade. When his health deteriorated, his daugh- enjoyed Princeton alumni functions, attend- Soon after his retirement and Helen’s ter Wendy devoted herself to his care. Jim is ing many reunions and mini-reunion across death in 1993, he began volunteering at the survived by his son, Michael ’73; his daugh- the country. Fred golfed at Royal Poinciana Community Services Agency in Mountain ters, Kitty, Wendy, and Mary; and six grand- in Naples and the Cincinnati Country Club View, Calif., which he did nearly every day children. and was a treasured elder statesman of Les for 17 years.

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His sons John ’72 and Richard ’78 both Island, S.C., and traveled extensively after his brate a life lived with joy, exuberance, and married Princeton classmates, Christine retirement as professor emeritus in 1991. For love. Kozik ’72 and Anne Demitrack ’78, respec- Syd, the most important thing in life was The class extends its deepest sympathy to tively. In addition to them, Art is survived by intellectual discipline, which he practiced his Betty, his beloved wife of 62 years; his sons Arthur and Jeffrey; a daughter, Nancy whole career. daughter, Katherine Sheridan Crocker; his Long; seven grandchildren; and one great- The class extends deepest condolences to son, Gerald “Buzz” Sheridan; three grandchil- grandchild. Shirley; daughter Ann Garrett and her hus- dren; and three great-granddaughters. band, Jeff; sons Mark and his wife, Anna, THE CLASS OF 1947 and Martin; and four grandchildren. THE CLASS OF 1948 JOSEPH KURTZMAN ’47 Joe, a very successful CHARLES L. JAFFIN ’48 Charlie Jaffin was a stal- practitioner and professor of ophthalmology, JAMES C.N. PAUL ’47 Jim died peacefully Sept. wart of our class. He was always there for us, died Feb. 1, 2005. 13, 2011, at his home. He was a law school no matter the issue or circumstances. His He enlisted in the Navy at age 17, but dean, law professor, international jurist, and lawyerly skills kept us out of trouble, and he soon joined the V-12 program at Princeton. a scholar in international human-rights law. led us as class president from 1968 to 1973. During World War II he served as a medical Jim devoted his life to legal education and He was a genial and marvelous friend. His corpsman, and in 1946 entered New York truly made a difference. He served in the death Dec. 22, 2011, has left us the poorer. University Medical School, from which he Navy in World II, then graduated from Brooklyn born, Charlie was a graduate of graduated in 1950. Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania the Bronx High School of Science. He came Joe had a private practice of ophthalmolo- Law School. He spent two years as a law to Princeton in June 1944, joined Cannon, gy in Charleston, S.C., from 1961 until 1989 clerk to the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme worked on The Daily Princetonian, and was a and had been a clinical professor emeritus Court, Frederick M. Vinson, and taught at the football manager. He graduated in February at the Medical University of South Carolina University of North Carolina School of Law, 1948, with high honors in S.P.I.A. and as a since 1990. He belonged to several profes- the University of Pennsylvania Law School, member of Phi Beta Kappa. sional and fraternal organizations and was and Rutgers School of Law. Charlie’s career was in the law. He was a past president of the Charleston Ophthal- In the 1960s, Jim, with an Eisenhower editor of the Law Review at Columbia Law mology Society. Fellowship, consulted in Africa for the Peace School. Carter, Ledyard & Millburn was his At an early age he began a noteworthy Corps. His family moved to Ethiopia in 1963, first affiliation. He then moved on to Lewis career in competitive swimming. He was a where Jim created the country’s first law & MacDonald, where he facilitated a merger member of Princeton’s swim team and the school. From 2001 to 2009, he served on a with Battle Fowler to form one of the leading International Swimming Hall of Fame. He claims commission for Eritrea and Ethiopia law firms in the country. His interests were set World Master and National Master at The Hague, Netherlands, hearing and rul- varied, and he attracted clients as varied as records in the butterfly and breaststroke ing on war claims from the Eritrea/Ethiopia Cornelius Vanderbilt III, Richard Leakey, and events, posted for his age group. war. Jackie Robinson. P Joe was a man of vision who valued educa- Jim enjoyed his retirement on the Eastern Charlie was active in Princeton civic life 65 tion, his Jewish heritage, his country, his Shore of Maryland with Peggy, his wife of 63 and served on business boards. He was a cre- community, and his family. The class extends years. He is survived by Peggy and their two ative gardener. deepest sympathy to his wife; their three daughters, Martha and Adelaide Paul; a son, Charlie is survived by his widow, Rosanna; sons, including Steven ’76; six grandchildren; Nicholas Paul ’75; seven grandchildren; and sons David and Jonathan ’77; daughters and his brother, Aaron. two great-granddaughters. The class extends Rhoda ’80, Lora ’82, and Katherine ’85; and sympathy to Peggy and the family. We will 11 grandchildren. SUYDAM OSTERHOUT ’47 Syd, who had a distin- greatly miss Jim. guished career in medicine, died Sept. 14, THE CLASS OF 1950 2011, after a long illness. GERALD SHERIDAN ’47 The class lost a good DEAN W. CHACE ’50 Dean died Oct. 20, 2011, at He matriculated at Princeton in 1943 and friend when Gerry died Oct. 15, 2011. his Princeton home after a lengthy illness. joined the V-12 program, but in 1945 he Gerry enlisted in the Navy in 1943, and Prior to Princeton, he served in the Navy. began medical studies at Duke University, during World War II served on a destroyer After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in from which he graduated in 1949. From in the North Atlantic. In July 1944, the Navy engineering, he joined RCA. While working 1951 to 1953 he was a captain in the Air sent him to become “an officer and gentle- there, he studied law at George Washington Force Medical Corps, serving as a flight sur- man” at Princeton. He played on varsity and Temple universities five evenings a week geon. He then joined the Duke Medical baseball and basketball teams and was a for four years. With a law degree from Center house staff, where he became chief member of Tiger Inn. Temple in 1955, he continued what would resident in medicine. Gerry graduated in 1947 with a degree in become a 39-year career with RCA and After earning a Ph.D. in microbiology engineering and remained an active General Electric. He served as senior vice from the Rockefeller Institute in 1959, Syd Princeton alumnus for his whole life. His president of licensing, and as president of was appointed professor of medicine and first job after college was in Cookeville, the engineering labs in Zurich. His wry sense microbiology and became a full-time profes- Tenn., but he soon found himself fully of humor was revealed when he wrote in our sor in 1972. During his career he received involved as a commercial and residential 50th-reunion directory that he only “missed many awards and honors, but being recog- builder and developer in Nashville. He was a one day of work due to illness (German nized for his excellence in teaching at Duke community activist as co-founder and first measles).” After retirement in 1990, he Medical School, where he was the first recipi- president of the Nashville City Club. became a patent and licensing consultant. ent of the Thomas Kinney Award, capped an Gerry lived his life as an exciting adven- Dean settled in Princeton in 1957, where outstanding life’s work. ture. He knew how to fly an airplane, and he was committed to local church, nonprofit, Syd and his wife, Shirley, were avid Duke traveled extensively (playing golf whenever and civic activities too numerous to list here. fans, enjoyed family vacations at Pawleys he could). Those who knew him best cele- He was an avid golfer, and served several

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terms as president of the Springdale Golf banker. Gallup International Institute. Club, home course of the University golf Harry Harwood also recalls John dating George was predeceased by his wife. He is teams. He loved the outdoors and enjoyed his future wife, Helen “Hoppy” Purvis, at St. survived by his daughters, Alison and time at his summer home in the Adirondacks. Mark’s finals. John loved the ocean, his boat, Kingsley; son George; sister Julia Laughlin; Our condolences go to his family, to and his Great Danes, but above all his family. and two grandchildren. Daughter Kingsley whom he was dedicated: Sue, his wife of 58 The Barnards summered at Kennebunkport, described her dad as “an unusual guy, the years; their children, Elizabeth, Christopher, Maine, near the George Bush residence. warmest, most approachable person you ever and Scott; and six grandchildren. Survivors include Hoppy, son Jay, daughter met,” and added, “He has left an incredible Natalie, and three grandchildren. legacy of ethics.” JON B. LOVELACE ’50 Jon, an early leader in the mutual-fund industry, died Nov. 16, 2011, at SAMUEL L. ERTEL ’53 Sam, who rowed crew in WILLIAM D. WHIPPLE ’53 William Whipple of his Santa Barbara, Calif., home. the University’s first boat for four years, co- Westport, Mass., died Nov. 1, 2011, at age 79 He was a Hotchkiss graduate and a Navy captained the heavyweight varsity as a senior at Home and Hospice Care of Rhode Island. reservist from 1945 to 1946. At Princeton, he (Princeton then belonged to the Eastern He was the husband of Helen M. (Phillips) was on The Daily Princetonian staff, wrote Association of Rowing Colleges), and later Whipple, and they were married for over 50 lyrics for the Triangle Club, and served as “pulled heavy oars” as a high-level executive years. vice president of the Intramural Athletic for IBM before taking early retirement in Born in Danvers, Mass., son of the late Association and Cannon Club. He graduated 1989, died of Parkinson’s disease Nov. 1, Guy M. and Helen (Davis) Whipple, he had with honors in economics. 2011, at his Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., home. lived in Westport for most of his life. While Jon had to be “persuaded” to go into the Born in Philadelphia, Sam played fresh- at Princeton he also served as pastor of a family business, the Capital Group, which his man basketball before making crew his prin- Methodist Church for two years. William father founded in 1931. He started as a stat- cipal sport. In 1952, rowing in the No. 7 posi- continued graduate study at Boston istician, taking a more prominent role when tion, Sam and his fellow boat members University, where he served as teaching assis- his father fell ill, and became chairman in broke the world 2,000-meter record in the tant for the renowned Dr. Howard Thurman, 1964. He guided the firm as it expanded to semifinals of that year’s Olympic trials. He and met his future wife. An avid sailor, he rival giants like Fidelity and Vanguard. was an executive committeeman of the started a charter-yacht service in the Today, it oversees more than $1 trillion and Varsity Club and a Chapel deacon, and he Caribbean. His maritime career continued offers more than 40 funds under the name took his meals at Colonial Club with his with the formation of Prelude Corp. in American Funds. He once said the key to roommate and crew co-captain, John Beck. Westport and High Seas Corp. in Fall River, success was “Don’t be greedy.” After graduating with a sociology degree, Mass., which pioneered the offshore com- His unassuming nature belied his strong he completed Naval OCS and became com- mercial trap-fishing industry. philanthropic commitment to the not-for- munications officer of the admiral’s flagship A tireless optimist, William dedicated his P profit sector. He and his wife were involved in Sasebo, Japan. In 1956, he married golden years to developing a new fishery in 66 in more than 30 entities focusing on the arts, Barbara Herren, a Columbia graduate, and South Florida for Golden Gulf crab. Along the environment, and education. He was an they became the parents of Linda Ertel and with his wife, his survivors include two sons, avid hiker. Steven and later had three grandchildren and Bradford C. and Eric B., and several nieces To Lillian, Jon’s wife of 60 years; their chil- two great-grandchildren. Beck, a Princeton and nephews. dren, Carey, Jeffrey, Jim, and Rob ’84; and six trustee emeritus, said it well: “Sam was one grandchildren, we send our sympathy. of the gentle individuals in our class.” C. KEITH WHITTAKER ’53 Keith, who had as distin- guished a career in medicine as his father, THE CLASS OF 1953 GEORGE H. GALLUP JR. ’53 One of our best-known U.S. Supreme Court Justice Charles E. JOHN R. BARNARD ’53 John, who excelled in foot- members, George, son of the Gallup Poll Whittaker, did in the judiciary, died Oct. 7, ball, hockey, and baseball at preparatory founder, who with his brother, Alec M. ’50, 2011, in his native Kansas City, Mo. He was school (and would have been “a viable force succeeded their father as principals of the 79. He had been battling Parkinson’s disease in Princeton’s varsity backfield” as Harry famous public-opinion research firm, died but never expressed self-pity. Harwood, his classmate at St. Mark’s and Nov. 21, 2011, in Princeton. He was 81 and His Princeton roommates were Walt University roommate remembers), died Oct. had liver cancer. Gamble, Bill Plauth (another prominent 21, 2011, at Southern New Hampshire At Princeton, George majored in religion, physician), Fred Russell, and Bob Taylor. Medical Center. which was an important part of his life, Keith dined at Dial Lodge and majored in Tiger freshman coaches Matt Davidson played soccer for four years and baseball for chemistry. He married the love of his life, and Eddie Donovan predicted great things three. He and his senior-year roommate, John Patricia Collins, Aug. 7, 1954. After medical for John on the gridiron until he broke bones Nachtrieb, dined at Cottage. Earlier dorm- school at Northwestern University and resi- while scrimmaging. That derailed his athletic sharers were Jim Laughlin ’52 and Tom dency in neurosurgery at the University of aspirations, says John Spencer, the Ivy Club Moore ’52. George belonged to the Right Kansas Medical Center, Keith served with the president, who remembers him as “extremely Wing Club, not a political organization but a Air Force and then returned to KU. popular” and one of our most well-liked good-fellowship group established in 1894, It was said in the medical community that classmates on campus. John majored in which consisted of 16 seniors and was head- Keith’s skill as a surgeon, his dogged pursuit English and belonged to the Right Wing ed by Mike Donohue. of proper diagnosis, and his complete intoler- Club — 16 seniors divided between Cap, After graduation, George served briefly in ance of anything short of perfection were Cottage, Colonial, Ivy, and Tiger whose sole the ministry in Texas but returned to become legendary. Jack Pierson, the stalwart at our purpose was happy times. Gallup’s editor, managing editor, and direc- noteworthy Kansas City mini-reunion, said John was a Naval officer and Harvard tor. He married Kingsley Hubby in 1959. In that Keith was one of the organizers and Business School graduate — both of which 1977 he founded the Princeton Religion arranged for the enlightening meeting at the served him well as a private investment Research Center, followed by the George H. Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

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Besides Patricia, Keith is survived by their was appointed to the Warren Circuit Court. Fulbright scholar in economics at Universität sons, Tom, John, and Martin; daughters Ann In 1991 he was elected chief judge, named Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, he Lindboe, Laura Gibson, and Mary Coit; and Kentucky’s Outstanding Trial Judge, and taught finance and investment at Fairfield 23 grandchildren. He was generous and fun- appointed to the Court of Appeals. While sit- University in Connecticut. He founded a loving with his family and friends and had ting, he taught American law in Russia at the financial-futures consulting firm and the respect and admiration of his colleagues Russian Legal Academy and earned a master authored three books on finance. Sometime and patients. of laws degree from UVA. He retired in after 1985 he began to divide his time 2007, and he and Heidi spent happy hours between Munich, Germany, and Rhode THE CLASS OF 1959 sailing their boat, Tantalus. Island/Connecticut, often homeless and GILBERT F. CURTIS ’59 Gil died Oct. 15, 2011, in Joe is survived by Heidi, three daughters, often unable to control his mental illness. Cambridge, Mass., after a determined, three- and three grandchildren. We have sent His last achievement was his self-published year battle with cancer. condolences. Assassination at Sarajevo in 2008. Born in Providence, R.I., Gil attended He is survived by a sister. Pawtucket East High School. At Princeton he N. PIKE JOHNSON JR. ’59 Born in Olean, N.Y., “on majored in English, served on the Under- a snowy Christmas Day in 1937,” Pike left us IAN B. MUELLER ’59 Ian, a scholar of ancient graduate Schools Committee, drilled with in midsummer, July 9, 2011. Greek philosophy of science, died suddenly Navy ROTC, edited for The Daily Princeton- Pike attended Olean High School before Aug. 6, 2010, at the University of Chicago ian, and took his meals at Tower Club. coming to Princeton. Once arrived, he Hospital of a hyperaggressive viral infection. Following graduation he served on a Navy majored in philosophy, joined Key and Seal, Born in Andover, Mass., Ian attended high destroyer for two years. excelled at billiards, and was a varsity fencer school in Sharon, Mass., where he captained An “intriguing” job offer in Boston led to a for three years. He received a law degree the baseball and basketball teams, presided career in computer-software development from Columbia in 1962, and, following six over his junior and senior year classes, and (“Learned to program on the Univac II with months of Army life at Fort Dix, immediately was student council vice president. At all of 2K of memory”). He pioneered some of set out for Phoenix, Ariz. Princeton he majored in philosophy, ate at the earliest software packages for IBM main- Pike plied his legal skills for nine years in Court Club, and graduated summa cum frames, started his own company private practice. In 1973 he was appointed a laude. A Woodrow Wilson fellowship took (Programart Corp.) with two people, and judge of the Phoenix City Court, a position him to Harvard, where he earned master’s retired in 1995 when it had grown to over he held and enjoyed for 27 years. He married and doctoral degrees, and met and married 200 employees. for the first time in 2001, to Connie Kolden, Janel Mulder. He taught at Harvard from Gil remarried in 1995, to Sonia Turek, and, savoring the freedom of retirement, 1963 to 1965 and the University of Illinois wine columnist and deputy managing editor they traveled extensively. from 1965 to 1967, when he and Janel joined for arts and features at the Boston Herald. Displaying the wry sense of humor for the University of Chicago faculty. He soon persuaded her to leave her job and which he was noted and loved, Pike wrote in Ian taught at Chicago for 35 years, chair- P the two enjoyed retired life together for our 25th-reunion yearbook that he had ing the philosophy department in the early 67 more than 16 years, sailing the Maine coast, acquired licenses to scuba, parachute, and fly, 1980s. With Janel, he designed and for 18 relaxing at their vacation home on Penobscot but that he used only the first, “having dis- years taught a core humanities course, “Greek Bay, traveling, biking, and bareboat sailing covered that there are an unacceptable num- Thought and Literature, Homer to Plato.” with family in the Caribbean. ber of idiots in the air.” Described by a colleague as “the preeminent Gil is survived by Sonia; his daughters, Pike is survived by Connie. We have sent philosopher and historian of ancient Greek Laura ’82 and Wendy; and two grandchil- condolences. mathematics in his generation,” Ian’s honors dren. We have sent condolences. included fellowships from the American ALLAN M. LOOSIGIAN ’59 Allan died Jan. 7, 2011, Council of Learned Societies, the Guggen- JOSEPH R. HUDDLESTON ’59 Joe, a distinguished under circumstances as tragic and bewilder- heim Foundation, the Center for Hellenic jurist, died July 11, 2011, in Hilton Head, ing as his life. According to the Connecticut Studies, and the National Endowment for the S.C., eight weeks after being diagnosed with medical examiner, Allan suffered a heart Humanities. He authored or edited numer- an aggressive form of bone cancer. attack and “his living quarters were such that ous articles and scholarly volumes. Kentucky-born, Joe came to Princeton when he collapsed he fell into the (Mystic) Ian is survived by Janel, two daughters, from Bowling Green High School, where he river,” from which his body was recovered. and two granddaughters. We have sent was president of his class. At Princeton, Joe Coming from Andover Academy, Allan left condolences. was chairman of the Freshman Council; a almost a blank paper trail at Princeton. Only member of the Undergraduate Council, the his address appears in the Freshman and THE CLASS OF 1960 honor committee, the Keycept Program, and Nassau heralds. The Bric-a-Brac shows him as WILLIAM S. DIETRICH II ’60 Bill died Oct. 6, 2011, Whig-Clio; and chairman of the Campus a member of the NROTC drill and rifle in Pittsburgh from complications of gall Fund Drive. A history major, he dined at Cap teams. Alumni Records lists him as a mem- bladder cancer. and Gown. It was at Princeton that he court- ber of Terrace Club. Randy Marlin remem- Bill was born May 13, 1938, in Conneaut ed Heidi Wood; they married in September bers him as an associate editor on The Daily Lake, Pa. At Princeton, he was a member of 1959. Princetonian. From Don Kirk we learned that Elm Club and majored in history. He enjoyed Joe received a law degree from the he graduated magna cum laude from the a lifelong friendship with his freshman-year University of Virginia and returned to Woodrow Wilson School. Larry Lewin roommates, Peter Graff, Mark Carliner, and Bowling Green, where he practiced law — remembers Allan’s aborted attempt to elect Dick Biggs. first with his father, then with his two broth- the Marine Corps option by wearing ultra- After graduation, Bill enlisted in the ers, among the 15 Huddlestons who were thick contact lenses. Marine Corps Reserve and then joined his Kentucky lawyers. Allan’s post-graduation career is one of father’s small steel warehousing and distribu- In 1987 his judicial career started when he great achievement and tragic misfortune. A tion firm. He eventually expanded the com-

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pany into the largest manufacturer of steel neer, died July 30, 2011. He was 85. studs in the country. In 1996, Bill sold PAW posts a list of recent alumni deaths Foxgrover completed his bachelor’s degree Dietrich Industries and established charities at paw.princeton.edu. Find it under “Web in 1948 at Iowa State University under the that made donations of $265 million to Exclusives” on PAW’s home page. The list Navy’s V-12 program. He attended Naval Test Carnegie Mellon University and $125 million is updated with each new issue. Pilot School and the Naval Postgraduate to the University of Pittsburgh, both among School. In 1959, he received a master’s the largest ever by an individual to higher degree in aeronautical engineering from education in the United States. (N.J.) High School. At Princeton he majored Princeton. He also graduated from the Naval In 1984, Bill earned a Ph.D. in politics in psychology, played trumpet in the Band, War College, the National War College, and from the University of Pittsburgh, and later was a member of Triangle Club, and took his George Washington University with a mas- he published two books, In the Shadow of meals at Terrace Club. ter’s degree in international relations. the Rising Sun: The Political Roots of Two weeks after graduation, Frank went While in the Navy, he qualified in innu- American Economic Decline and Eminent to work for Public Service Electric & Gas Co., merable aircraft, held important positions in Pittsburghers,based on articles he wrote for a Newark, N.J.,-based utility serving the corri- the Pacific Fleet, and commanded both the Pittsburgh Quarterly magazine. dor between New York and Philadelphia. At Naval Air Station in Miramar, Calif., and the Bill served as board chair or trustee at the PSE&G, he worked 32 years in various man- Naval Air Test Center in Patuxent River, Md. University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon, agement line and corporate positions. Foxgrover changed the Navy’s practice of and Pittsburgh’s Chamber of Commerce, Boy Music played a big part throughout his buying aircraft and then paying for safety Scouts, Carnegie Museums, Symphony life. He was an excellent trumpet player and retrofitting. He successfully required that Society, and Ballet Theatre. was lead trumpet in the Mercer County planes be built with all needed safety compo- His daughter, Anne Elizabeth Diemer, and Symphonic Band and Liberty Band. He also nents in place. For this saving of lives, time, nephew Kenneth Cascarella survive Bill. The played in local theater orchestras and sang and money, he was honored by the Naval class extends deep sympathy to them. tenor in choirs. Besides his musical skills, he Materiel Command. After 33 years of service, was a skilled home remodeler and avid read- Foxgrover retired in 1979 and raised cattle PETER H. PRUGH ’60 Pete died Oct. 10, 2011, in er, loved driving cross-country and traveling, for the next 10 years. Des Moines of a heart attack after suffering and rarely missed a P-rade. Living locally, he Foxgrover is survived by Delores, his wife cancer of the esophagus, a failed gall bladder, frequently took long walks around the cam- of 62 years; three children, including John and a broken shoulder. pus. May his spirit keep going back to the *82; eight grandchildren, including Victoria Coming to Princeton from Theodore “best old place of all.” ’10; and two great-grandchildren. Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Pete He is survived by his wife of 40 years, became managing editor of The Daily Dianne. He will long be remembered as a JEAN-CLAUDE BAJEUX *77 Jean-Claude Bajeux, a Princetonian, vice president of the man with impeccable integrity, honesty, Haitian human-rights activist and scholar, P Westminster Foundation, a Chapel deacon, ethics, and loyalty. died of lung cancer Aug. 5, 2011. He was 79. 68 co-editor of the Extracurricular Activity Bajeux received a degree from the Handbook, and a member of Campus Club’s University of Bordeux in France in 1960. bicker committee. He wrote his thesis at the Graduate alumni Having been a Jesuit priest, he fled Haiti in Woodrow Wilson School on “The French ALAN PASCH *55 Alan Pasch, a retired professor 1964 during a crackdown on clergymen dur- Intellectual’s View of the United States Since of philosophy at the University of Maryland, ing the dictatorship of François “Papa Doc” World War II.” died June 9, 2011, of heart disease. He was 85. Duvalier. Among other activities, Bajeux then After graduation, Pete served six months After Army service in World War II, Pasch taught Caribbean literature at the University in the Army and taught English at Tunghai graduated from Michigan in 1949. He then of Puerto Rico. University in Taiwan and business at Buena received a master’s from the New School for In 1977, Bajeux earned a Ph.D. in Vista College in western Iowa. He also Social Research in 1952 and a Ph.D. in phi- Romance languages and literature from earned an M.B.A. at the University of losophy from Princeton in 1955. Princeton. He later wrote an anthology of Cincinnati, wrote for The Detroit News and He was on the faculty at Maryland from Haitian literature. Papa Doc’s son and succes- The Wall Street Journal, and served as editor 1960 to 1997, where he taught logic, episte- sor, “Baby Doc,” was overthrown in 1986, and of the Berea (Ky.) Citizen and the iconoclastic mology, and metaphysics, as well as a popu- Bajeux returned to Haiti. Military rulers top- Greenwood Review. During the last several lar undergraduate course on the philosophy pled one another in the following years. years, Pete worked as a bookseller at Barnes of human sexuality. He also taught composi- Bajeux joined the pro-democracy move- & Noble. He enjoyed swimming, jogging, and tion courses to improve students’ writing ment associated with Jean-Bertrand Aristide, singing in a Drake University/Community and analytical skills. a fellow former priest who became Haiti’s Chorus, and saw every play and almost every Pasch was the executive secretary of the first democratically elected president in 1991 movie that came to Des Moines. American Philosophical Association from (only to be ousted in seven months by the Pete’s sons, Jonathan and David, and their 1969 to 1972. In 1986 he founded the military). Bajeux became minister of culture wives, Marina Peterson and Jannette; Pete’s Faculty Voice, a newspaper written by and when Aristide was reinstated (under U.S. sister Sallie; and brother Robert survive him. for the Maryland faculty, and chaired its edi- military pressure) to finish his term (1994- Another sister, Susan Seward, preceded him torial board until 1991. 1996). in death. The class extends sincere condo- Pasch was predeceased in 2006 by Eleanor, In his remaining years, Bajeux continued lences to them. his wife of 56 years. He is survived by his as head of the Ecumenical Center for Human daughter, Rachel Pasch Grossman *82, and Rights, which he founded in 1986. He is sur- THE CLASS OF 1965 two grandchildren. vived by his wife, Sylvie *79, and a stepson. FRANK M. SCHMIDT ’65 Frank died Nov. 12, 2011, of melanoma. JAMES H. FOXGROVER *59 James Foxgrover, a Graduate memorials are prepared by the Frank came to Princeton from Riverside retired rear admiral, naval aviator, and engi- APGA.

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