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Visit paw. princeton.edu for details or submit images and clips at facebook.com/pawprinceton Publisher / Advertising Director PAW Board Princeton Alumni Weekly (I.S.S.N. 0149-9270) is an editorially Colleen Finnegan Sandra Sobieraj Westfall ’89, Chair independent, nonprot magazine supported by class Carmen Drahl *07, Vice Chair subscriptions, paid advertising, and a University subsidy. Its Editor Joel Achenbach ’82 purpose is to report with impartiality news of the alumni, the Fran Hulette James Blue ’91 administration, the faculty, and the student body of Princeton *Robert K. Durkee ’69 Contributors University. The views expressed in the Princeton Alumni Weekly Daniel R. Fuchs ’91 Jennifer Altmann do not necessarily represent ocial positions of the University. Michael Graziano ’89 *96 Ricardo Barros The magazine is published twice monthly in October, March, *Sara M. Judge ’82 T. Kevin Birch and April; monthly in September, November, December, *Maria Carreras Kourepenos ’85 Landon Y. Jones ’66 January, February, May, June, and July; plus a supplemental *Margaret Moore Miller ’80 Lisa M. Nicolaison Reunions Guide in May. Charles Swift ’88 Nina U. Sheridan ’19 Princeton Alumni Weekly, 194 Nassau Street, Suite 38, *ex officio Jennifer Shyue ’17 Princeton, NJ 08542. Tel 609-258-4885; fax 609-258-2247; Allie Weiss ’13 email [email protected]; website paw.princeton.edu. Layout by Young-alumni representative Printed by Fry Communications Inc. in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Maria Kauzmann Advertising Contact Colleen Finnegan Phone 609-258-4886, cfi[email protected] On the cover: Illustration by Sean Rubin ’09 Reunion Guide 2016.indd 3 5/9/2016 11:59:42 AM Kane Andrea Photography: PLAN FOR THE LONG RUN Looking for perspective on the market’s ups and downs? Eager for tips on how to sustain and grow your assets? JOIN US AT REUNIONS to hear experts discuss “Longevity Planning: Navigating Market Volatility Over a Lifetime,” Saturday, May 28, in the Oxman Family Room, 300 Wallace Hall. 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A bronze tricorn hat atop a granite bench in the space commemorates the class’s Spirit of ’76 reunion as well as classmates who have passed on. Photograph by Ricardo Barros paw.princeton.edu May 2016 5 Reunion Guide 2016.indd 5 5/9/2016 12:01:27 PM C On the Campus hen Rob Dyer ’93 was a sophomore, actor Jimmy WStewart ’32 was honored with the Woodrow Wilson Award. At the reception, Dyer walked in uninvited, went up to Stewart, and threw an arm around him. Nobody stopped him; in fact, people took photos. Dyer was, after all, in his tiger suit — the one that turned him into the Princeton Tiger at athletic events. “[Stewart] got up and turned around and said, ‘Oh, Tiger, how you doing there?’” Dyer recalled. “And I said, ‘Just ne, Jimmy! How are you?’ And he goes, ‘Well, I’m doing all right.’ And he gave me a hug, and I thought, ‘Oh my goodness — I have to call my mother! I just hugged Jimmy Stewart!’” Dyer called that moment “a highlight of my career in the suit.” Leea Driskell ’17 also had a brush with notable alumni while playing the Tiger. She donned the suit for a day during the Life in ‘The Suit’ NCAA Women’s Division I Basketball Championship last year — and at one Former mascots dish on their grrrrreat point almost knocked over Supreme experiences as Princeton’s Tiger Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor ’76 and Elena Kagan ’81 as they passed behind the Princeton Band. The suit “is intended for someone much taller than 5 feet 3 inches [Driskell’s height], so I didn’t see them walking behind me,” she explained. Dyer ’93 d Rob “It was also absurdly hot ’81 an hann elljo inside the an T f Je y o tes cour os ot Ph 6 May 2016 Reunion Guide 2016.indd 6 5/9/2016 11:26:13 AM C On the Campus “Oh my goodness — That same playful spirit characterized Tigering: Memoir of an Ivy League Mascot, I have to call my mother! Jean Telljohann ’81’s experiences in the which chronicles her four years as suit. She remembers mock-sparring with mascot. Telljohann has moved on to I just hugged the Columbia Lion. On one occasion, another role with a long tradition — Jimmy Stewart!” a young couple handed her their baby for years, she has served as a — Rob Dyer ’93 for a picture. “It did strike me odd that P-rade marshal at Reunions. And they would hand their baby to a total though Dyer, now a pastor, hasn’t costume,” Driskell added, an observation stranger!” she said. been in the tiger suit since his days shared by the four other Tigers At the same time, people sometimes at Princeton, he sometimes sees interviewed. Max Schwegman ’18, a forgot there was a real person in the suit, connections between the work he did sprinter on the Varsity Track Team, leading to di¡cult situations. At one in it and the work he does now. put on the suit for the first time to basketball game, Dyer had to sternly “When I got to be the Tiger, I just participate in the mascots race at the remind a boy who repeatedly punched felt like I was part of a really awesome, Armory Track Invitational in January him that there was a full-grown college incredible tradition,” Dyer said. “A lot of 2015. He won the race by 20 meters. kid in the suit. Telljohann remembers my [current] job is encouraging people, Nevertheless, conditions inside the being hit by a member of the opposing getting them excited about what’s going suit meant that was “probably the only band as the latter ran across the ¢eld. on. Every once in a while, I think to time I ever appreciated the team having Rainwater had a more serious run-in myself, I’m kind of still a mascot. Except shaved my head the previous week.” with an opposing college’s band: During instead of a big furry suit, I have a He later reprised his mascot role for an one football game, she was attacked by big black robe I wear. In some Athletics Department web series called several musicians and had to go to the ways it keeps going. “Who’s the Tiger?” hospital afterward to be treated for her It’s kind of neat.” When Blanche Rainwater ’95 served injuries. By Jennifer as the Tiger, she also participated in a “That was embarrassing,” Rainwater Shyue ’17 mascot race — but she lost, on purpose.