Alumni Day 2012 Princeton Tiger architects Alumni design in green Weekly Men’s squash March 21, 2012 wins national title HowFredFox’39’sloveoftheaterhelpedwinWorldWarII Web exclusives and breaking news @ paw.princeton.edu Confirmed speakers Andrew Appel Martin Davis Shafi Goldwasser David Harel Bob Kahn Dick Karp Dick Lipton Barbara Liskov To be published by Princeton University Press in May 2012 Tom Mitchell A new printing of Turing’s thesis, with commentary by Andrew Appel and Solomon Feferman. Andrew Odlyzko Christos Papadimitriou A new American edition of Andrew Hodges’ book “Alan Turing: The Engima” with updated preface. Ron Rivest Early kickoff Dana Scott The Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture by Andrew Hodges Bob Tarjan on April 23, 2012. 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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. THE ALUMNI WEEKLY PROVIDES THESE PAGES TO THE PRESIDENT 20120321-ftu-1.2.indd 1 2/24/12 9:17 AM The Possibilities are Endless “There are so many opportunities to engage with fellow students both inside and outside of the classroom. I am constantly reminded how similar our lives are despite our diverse backgrounds.” RISA REID ’12 NEWPORT NEWS, VA A classics major who will earn a certificate in Chinese language, Risa finds time to pursue her love of dance. In addition to performing with the diSiac Dance Company, she is co-president of the Princeton Performing Arts Council, serves as a peer advisor for SHARE, and volunteers for the Princeton First Aid Drezner Squad. Risa, who plans to attend medical school in the fall, is writing Bentley her senior thesis on the role of race in ancient medicine and how it has Photo: affected contemporary medicine.