TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER

2003 SUMMER VOLUME 90, NUMBER 2

IN THIS ISSUE

The Endowment and the Market

A Gathering in New York City

Branch Grads

A Visit to the Past IN MEMORIAM—LINCOLN COLLEGE

2003 Summer EXCHANGE Programs By Matthew Bradby, CB93 TA94 L#L# Nunn’s Lincoln Scholar, 1993-95 Sesquicentennial Telluride’s long-standing exchange with Lincoln College at Oxford appears to have drawn to a close Former participants, your writer included, have devoted much time (and too little Your Stuff in money) to their efforts to keep the exchange alive, but without success Sadness, frustration Our Attic and disappointment have all been felt keenly by those involved But one may become more philosophical if one can put the exchange into its historical Associate Notes context Over the past fifty years, the landscape of higher education has changed beyond recognition on both sides of the Atlantic The political landscape has also changed, and factors which made an exchange desirable and relatively easy to facilitate in 1950 no longer Memorials obtain today, and may even seem anachronistic This is not to say that exchanges are no longer valuable or needed; surely the opposite is true, just as the other scholarships that the Association now offers are as valuable and sought after today as in 1911 However, over the past 50 years “education” has Photos: itself become more nakedly a commodity, with its own market and, as more wealthy foreign students have chosen to take advan- (above) 1976’s “Oxford tage of this market, universities these days have tended to see Branch of Telluride foreign students as a source of extra revenue, rather than as a class Association” included (from left) David of persons deserving of educational munificence Oxford Univer- Goldey, Mark sity and leading American colleges now play host to educational Campisano, Joseph (and social) elites from all over the world in large numbers, whereas Schwartz, Harold Levy (Lincoln Scholar in ‘76), a generation or so ago such people were a relatively small and Carol Lee, John exotic minority But this belies the obvious problem that there Kristenson, Kathleen remain vast, and growing, inequalities in educational opportunity both internationally and Sullivan, and David at home Scobey3 The Lincoln College exchange was born of personal contacts Keith Murray of Lincoln, (right) Lord (Keith) a Cornell Branch guest in 1928–29, was largely responsible for the scholarship When he Murray of New Haven, became Rector of Lincoln he sought out students who, in his view, would benefit from the outside Cornell Branch in 19763 very broad and practical education available at Cornell, and encouraged them to apply Thus a number of Lincolnites had been to Telluride as early as the 1930s, and a number of Telluriders had also been to Lincoln A second personal contact was made in the person of Dr Nevil Sidgwick, CBG31, the celebrated chemist who came to Cornell from Lincoln in 1931 as the CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 SUMMER 2003 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER 1 BRIEFLY NOTED

NYC GATHERING

On Thursday, March 13, approximately sixty-five New York City area Telluride associates gathered for a reception at 2003 CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS Art in General, a nonprofit Chinatown art gallery featuring “Time Capsule,” a group exhibition exploring archeology as a political and social force We ranged in age from a 1948 From June 13 to June 16, the members of Telluride Association Cornell branchmember to a group of 2002 TASSers and held their annual Convention at the Cornell Branch Among TASPers Old friendships were rekindled over drinks and other business, the body: Chinese and Vietnamese food, and it was a pleasure to see so many new faces, especially recent summer program • Elected new members to the Association: Jessica alumni Bauman, SP98 CB99; Karola Kirsanow, CB00; Jason For next year we are planning more New York events, Morton, SP93 MB02; Emily Schusterbauer, MB01; Joshua perhaps to include another reception, happy hour gather- Smith, MB02; Sarah Weiger, MB02 ings at a downtown bar, lectures by Telluride associates, and a picnic in Central Park Please join us! If you live in or • Created a “spending cap” mechanism to begin sav- near New York but did not receive an invitation to the “Art ing for a future capital-intensive project in General” event, please update your contact information with the Ithaca Office or at the Current Associates section of • Held a Purpose and Plan discussion surrounding the our website, at wwwtellurideassociationorg If you can future of both summer programs help plan future events, please email Jessica Cattelino at jc251@nyuedu • Welcomed Neil Foley and Jeff Tulis, our institutional partners from the University of Texas at Austin

• Approved the creation of an ad hoc committee on the 2003 READING DAYS 50th anniversary of TASP in 2004 [If you are interested in participating, please contact the TA Office]

• Appointed Lou Crandall, SP75 CB76 TA79, as Trea- surer of the Association and commemorated the end of the term of Martynas Ycas, SP65 BB66 TA68, as Treasurer of the Association (1998-2003)

• Graduated Denis Clark, DS69 CB72 TA73, and Henry Muller, SP74 CB75 TA79

The next Convention will be held in Ithaca, June 11-14, 2004

TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER This spring, associates living outside the Branches were re- This publication is produced two times a year in Ithaca, New York Submit news, cruited to help read summer program applications Pictured: letters, or comments to: Editor, Telluride Association, 217 West Avenue, Ithaca, New York 14850—or—telluride@cornelledu Associates living in New York City and the Bay area (inset) gather to read applications EDITOR - John Briggs MANAGING EDITOR - Ellen Baer PRODUCTION - Cynthia Estes-Smith, Mary Cowan, Paul Benecki CONTRIBUTORS - Adam Arenson, Matthew Bradby, Jessica Cattelino, Brad AND FINALLY, YOUR STUFF Edmondson, Max Montesino, Aoife Naughton By mandate of Convention, and also on the general PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS - Daniel Acsadi, Lauren Boehm, John Cattley, Jessica Cattelino, Rich Cooluris, Steve Kuzma Photography, UT Austin Office of agreement of Cornell Branch, the long-suffering attic will Public Affairs, Todd Price, Noah Zatz, TA Archives soon receive a thorough cleaning( Please remove your A publication of Telluride Association ~ ISSN 1529-613X belongings, or contact the House, by October 15(

2 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2003 OUR SPENDING POLICY: 13 YEARS LATER

By Brad Edmondson, DS76 CB80 TA90

In 1991, Telluride Association changed its Constitution to re- quire that 90 percent of its assets be held in equities This deci- sion placed us among the most risk-loving institutional inves- tors, as most foundations of our size keep at least 30 percent of their assets in bonds But historic data show that long-term increases in value have been greater for stock markets than for any other sector, and our choice is based on the belief that this trend will continue To live with the short-term risk inherent in our decision, we also adopted a policy in 1991 that limits our annual spending to a percentage of endowment based on the Investment policy in the making, 2003 rolling average of the endowment’s return over the last 31 years Custodians meeting in Las Vegas' This is also an unusual choice, as most foundations of our size use a rolling average of returns over the last three to five years Our 31-year rule is based on the belief that an unusu- combined with wild fluctuations in stock prices, has given ally long averaging period will smooth out the large swings our portfolio a very bumpy ride The value of Telluride in value that will inevitably result from our stock-heavy port- Association’s endowment increased from $473 million on May folio 31, 2000 to a peak of $505 million in September 2000, but then After the 1991 rule was passed, the Association’s endow- it dropped to $425 million on May 31, 2001 and $366 million ment management committee, the Custodians, invested our en- on May 31, 2002 It declined again to $313 million in January dowment in the stocks of about twenty large US companies 2003, then rebounded to a preliminary estimate of $341 mil- They took this step just as the value of large US companies lion on May 31, 2003 That is an overall decline of 28 percent began growing as never before We looked like genuises for over the last three years, and the distance from our peak value the next nine years, as the value of our endowment tripled to our lowest value during that time is more like 38 percent Yet our endowment’s performance in the 1990s actually lagged Our portfolio is now slightly smaller than it was on May 31, behind the average gain for large US companies Between 1997 1991 and 2000, the Standard & Poor’s average stock price of the One significant piece of good news hides within these 500 largest US companies more than quadrupled In other dreary numbers Despite the declines and volatility, the Cus- words, the Custodians of 1991 were inspired in their long-term todians of 2003 use strategies that yield far better results than sector choice, but their shorter-term individual stock picks did the strategies used by their counterparts a decade ago yielded significantly poorer performance than the average for The reason is that in 1998, we began moving money away that sector Still, the numbers were rising so quickly that few from individual stocks picked directly by Custodians and into of us noticed professionally managed funds that cover different asset classes Now our faith in the path we took a decade ago is finally In addition, we began re-balancing our allocations into differ- being tested A severe downturn in the market starting in 2000, ent funds so that the percentages held in different sectors re- mained fairly constant Five years ago, Telluride Association owned about Ups and Downs twenty stocks and was exclusively in- vested in large American companies Today, we still pick a basket of stocks— but we also own about 1,100 US com- panies managed within six funds, as well as two funds that manage international stocks, one stock-based hedge fund, a limited partnership in timber, and a bond fund This diversification is the most likely reason why the 28 percent decline in our portfolio’s value over the last three years is slightly better than the 30 percent decline in a broad mea- sure of stock market performance (the Russell 3000 Index) during the same pe- riod In other words, we’re finally beat- ing the stock market’s benchmark Telluride Association remains committed to this unique investing strat- Since the 90-percent stock rule was adopted in 1991, our endowment has doubled in egy for two reasons First, thanks to the value—but it’s been a wild ride3

CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 SUMMER 2003 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER 3 LINCOLN continued from page 1 Telluride House was chosen by Cornell as the home not only for its incoming Lincoln Scholar but also for its second Baker Lecturer and who would revisit the US several times foreign student scholarship That Telluride was selected as between then and his death in 1952 the home of both of the university’s foreign student scholar- Telluride’s Chancellor Johnson originally wrote to ships tells us much about the prestige of the Association at the Murray in 1948 with a suggested framework for a formal ex- time The second foreign scholarship had functioned since the change, and it was agreed by letter between the two men 1920s and was still functioning in 1981, when it is referred to Johnson also discussed it “at length” with Cornell’s Dean, Chan- as the War Memorial Scholarship It seems however that by cellor and Acting President of the time When the agreement this time only those foreign students already studying at was concluded there was already a Tellurider at Lincoln and a Cornell were eligible to apply for the scholarship, which was Lincolnite at Telluride In 1950, graduate tuition fees at Cornell room and board only1 were $450 a year, with other charges of $100 Until 1979 when Lincoln College became co-educational, The deeper thinking behind the exchange went beyond all of the participants in the exchange were male There is a the educational advantages it could bring to a few individu- letter to the Association dated 1 November 1977 from Tellurider als After World War II and at the beginning of the Cold War, and current Lincoln don Dr David Goldey, CB54 TA55 SPF66, there were numerous efforts to consolidate ties between coun- in which the last paragraph starts, “One more piece of exciting tries based on their political alliances and common culture news The College is going co-ed in 1979!” The sense of revo- Johnson mentions the role that the exchange could play in lution and renewal is almost palpable Lincoln was in fact the promoting “international understanding” as well as the edu- penultimate Oxford College to admit women, Oriel holding cational benefits it could bring He also noted that, as with the out for a couple more years It is a curious experience nowa- Rhodes, the Lincoln scholars might come from anywhere days reading the old correspondence which refers repeatedly within the British Empire After the Cold War, such ideals are to “men” and “chaps” and “fellows” and “lads” In that way no longer routinely encountered as the political agenda and the history of the ex- imperative no longer obtain But beyond that, education seems change reflects one aspect less of a shared project of mankind and more of a means of of the widening of edu- obtaining individual advancement, a trend for which students cational opportunity in themselves must take at least some responsibility the twentieth century

Professor Nevil Sidgwick (1873 – 1952)

When Nevil Sidgwick died aged 78 in 1952 his obituary was efforts were hampered carried by the Times of New York and London, and he was by the War, and sub- possibly the most well known English scientist in America at sequently Sidgwick’s that time He was elected a fellow of Lincoln College in publishing schedule and 1901 and lived there most of the rest of his life, but it was finally his ill health not until the 1930s that he wrote his most important works SIDGWICK Nevertheless, this concerning atomic chemistry He first came to Cornell for a “Seraphim in the semester in 1931, and it was during that semester that world’s hierarchy of students invited him to live at Telluride House chemists,” as Johnson described him, did finally make it The 1958 Proceedings of the Chemical Society published a back to Ithaca in 1950 and 1951, in the twilight of his life, memoir of Sidgwick describing his relationship with the “very anxious to see the Fall colours” He wrote home in United States From that memoir: “He formed a deep and 1951, “Meantime I am staying very comfortably in the steady affection for the country and its people The liking Telluride House, with 25 nice young men all ready to help was mutual At Cornell University he was invited to live in me up and down the stairs, and cars to take me about the the House of the Telluride Association; and although he was country, where the autumn colours are really beginning and then 58, he greatly enjoyed the experience and always spoke the weather is most beautiful with brilliant warm days of it most enthusiastically He charmed his young hosts mixed with frosty nights” with ‘his modesty, his wit and his friendliness toward During his several trips to the US he saw 46 of the 48 young people,’ as one of them wrote later He was even contiguous States, did a 10,000 mile lecture trip of the West, paid the compliment of being invited to take up permanent became “desiccated and decorsicated” camping in the Grand residence in the House whenever he could    ‘I did not Canyon, marvelled at the beauty of Old Faithful in think at my age I had the capacity for making so many new Yellowstone and the prodigious log-built hotel, visited friends both young and old,’ he wrote” Telluride’s outpost at Pasadena, was warmly welcomed at Sidgwick took Telluride home, writing from Lincoln to Deep Springs, and was also at Chicago and Ann Arbor, long Chancellor Johnson in 1933, “We have started an unofficial before our modern involvement there local branch here, consisting of three members—C Hinman, There is a web page about Sidgwick on Lincoln Keith Murray, and myself Its activities have so far been College’s website, and he is also more concretely remem- limited to one lunch We hope that the number will increase bered in Sidgwick Close, a road in Oxford’s science area in future” Johnson tried repeatedly to arrange an extended With the demise of the Lincoln Exchange, the Association visit for Sidgwick to the House starting in the late 30s, but his should consider its own lasting memorial for Nevil Sidgwick

4 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2003 LINCOLN continued from page 4 The Association carried out a survey in 1983 of former participants, who at that time numbered 28 men from Lincoln and 20 from Telluride In the potted autobiographies that came back, former participants repeatedly attributed their later personal and intellectual development to the formative expe- rience of the exchange All the English scholars were obvi- ously intrigued and fascinated by the “American way of life,” and that has certainly been no less the case with the most recent generation The late Peter Parker, CB50, (later, as head of British Rail, Sir Peter), the first English participant, said that the exchange made him realise, “in the nicest possible way, that he was a European” Trawling the archives, a number of letters survive writ- ten from Lincoln College by Gregory Votaw, DS45 TA47, the first American participant in the exchange, addressed to Chan- FUKUYAMA VISITS CORNELL cellor Johnson His letters from Oxford conjure up, through minutiae, the spirit of the day Those perennially amused by the whole subject of tea will find it interesting that he was Francis Fukuyama, SP69 CB70 TA71, visited Cornell Branch advised by the Rector of Lincoln himself that he would re- in spring 2003 and was entertained by housemembers( quire, “a small tea service, including milk jug, and, while ra- He was at Cornell to give a series of lectures on “The tioning lasts, small dishes for butter, sugar, tea etc” In listing State After September 11(” He posed for a photograph expenses, Votaw lists “tea cups, bicycle, gown, hot water bottle with Lauren Boehm CB02, Aoife Naughton CB00, Nathan Nagy SP01 CB02, ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball SP00 CB01, etc” He mentions “innumerable two-bit plays” and the fact Max Eisenburger SP00 CB02, Reza Mahmoodshahi CB02, that he was limiting himself to half a dozen cigarettes and a Dan Galindo SP99 CB00 TA01 and John Wynne CB01( pint of beer a day now that he had “been taking service with While visiting campus, Fukuyama told the Cornell Daily the boatmen” Sun (2/24/03) that Telluride House was “extremely In a May 27, 1951, letter to Fred Balderston, DS40 CB42 important to my intellectual development(” TA42, the TA President of the day, Votaw writes, “If I am not the most important American in Oxford it is mostly because I couldn’t be, partly because I don’t care for the bmoc [Big ENDOWMENT continued from page 3 Man on Campus] virtues as I once may have If I have not lived up intellectually to the expectations of my tutors, it is at stock market run-up of the 1990s, the Association’s current least partly because I have found more important things to learn need for income is small, relative to the size of its endow- about than what is found in books” ment Second, the 31-year rule does indeed mitigate market Votaw also recommended that the exchange be named volatility, just as its creators intended it would Yet within for Nevil Sidgwick whom he knew at Lincoln Sidgwick died this overall agreement, the Custodians have continued to edu- soon after Votaw left Lincoln, and in his will the chemist left cate themselves In the last two years, Telluride has been one-tenth of his estate to Telluride Association, some £4000, moving its money into alternative investment vehicles that which in today’s money would make him one of the most have become available to us since the 1991 rules were adopted generous of our benefactors The Lincoln Scholar has always Several alternatives to traditional stock-and-bond invest- been designated the Sidgwick Scholar since then ing have long track records of providing good returns with The exchange’s demise leaves us to ponder the significantly less volatility than one must accept in traditional Association’s role in promoting education internationally, our equities funds Last year, we committed 5 percent of the en- relations with Cornell and with other institutions We have to dowment to a limited partnership that holds timber; that money ask ourselves, Where is the value in foreign exchanges? What is now fully invested in naturally-regenerating forest lots in resources do they deserve? The exchange with Oxford was eight states, and Convention 2003 allowed the Custodians to Telluridean in the traditional sense, in that it was an elite project put an additional 5 percent of the endowment into this sector Its impact can be measured at the very least in the number of We have also invested 10 percent of the endowment in hedge former participants who have taken up influential positions in funds—5 percent with a manager who holds several “absolute academia and service Telluride’s exchange with Lincoln Col- return” funds, and an additional 5 percent to be determined in lege ought, I believe, to provide a model for any future exchange, 2003-04 with any institution or country We should seek out merit, aca- Telluride has not been moving its money into these alter- demic potential and commitment to service but also seek to natives because of boredom, or because hedge funds and trees identify and redress the inequality of opportunity that exists are fashionable We have done it because data over the last This surely is a Nunnian project Recent Conventions of the twenty years show that adding hedge funds and real estate to Association have asserted their commitment to the principle our investment mix will allow us to maintain equity-like re- and value of international education and will, in this spirit, em- turns that don’t vary as much from year to year as stocks do brace new partners and new opportunities wherever they may We are now chasing a goal investment managers call “the effi- be found cient frontier”—this means searching for the mix of investments that yields the highest possible return with the lowest possible 1 Any further information about the fate of this scholarship would risk It is a quest that should keep the Custodians busy for be received with interest many years to come

SUMMER 2003 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER 5 LIFE AFTER TELLURIDE?

THE FOLLOWING HOUSEMEMBERS HAVE GRADUATED FROM MICHIGAN AND CORNELL: Jason Morton, SP93 MB02 TA03, and Sarah and has entered a sociology graduate program at the Univer- MBTA Uhler, MB00 TA01, have moved to San Fran- sity of Wisconsin, Madison cisco where Jason is working on a PhD in math Jennifer DeMichele, CB02, has graduated and moved at Berkeley and Sarah is in the MD/PhD program at UCSF to North Carolina to attend Duke Law School She is interested They live in a nifty apartment nestled in a eucalyptus grove in the impact of environmental policies on health above UCSF’s campus and are planning a July 2004 wedding Ryan Ismert, CB98, defended a master’s thesis in image- Olga Lemberg, MB02, has been accepted to the based 3D computer graphics in January He has begun a “dream Dartmouth-Brown MD program, so she’s off to begin her job” in Silicon Valley with SportVision, a firm which does new life in Hanover, New Hampshire She’s a little nervous augmented reality (ie, computer graphics) for broadcast about completely sports starting over Stanka Fitneva, CB98 TA01, com- (making new pleted her PhD in psychology She has friends, getting moved to Kingston, Ontario, to join the fac- acquainted with a ulty of Queen’s University new school, etc), Somjen Frazer, CB00, graduated in so she’s quite January from the College of Arts and Sci- happy that Seth ences with a College Scholar degree She Yalcin, MB99, is will be attending Nuffield College at Ox- now only two ford University on a Rhodes Scholarship driving hours to take an MPhil in sociology away and Sruthi Aoife Naughton, CB00, completed Pinnamaneni, her PhD in comparative literature with a MB01 TA02, only primary focus on eighteenth century Ger- six It comes as no man literature She will be joining the fac- surprise to her fellow Michigan MBTA branchmembers CBTA that she’s consid- ering pursuing obstetrics/gynecology in the future, but she has some other ideas as well Whichever medicine she pur- sues, it will deal largely with women’s health and/or interna- tional health Sarah Weiger, MB02 TA03, is in Japan right now, where she’s working for a year as an English language teacher in Tsu City She hopes to attend graduate school to study English literature when she returns, though she’s not yet certain where Theron Tingstad, MB01, is working in Croatia for a fam- ily-reconciliation program over the summer He’d like to re- turn to his hush-hush State Department job, but he’d be per- fectly happy just bumming around Emily Schusterbauer, MB01 TA03, graduated with a de- gree in women’s studies She’s back home in Ferndale, MI, with the intent to attend graduate school eventually by Max Montesino, MB00 ulty in the Department of German and Slavic Studies at Tulane University Kerim Odekon, CB02, received a master’s degree in city Daniel Acsadi, CB00, graduated from the Col- and regional planning and is now studying economics at the CBTA lege of Arts and Sciences majoring in music University of Wisconsin, Madison and economics and is pursuing an MA at the Matthew Salganik, CB01, finished his master’s work in New England Conservatory in Boston sociology and has moved on to Columbia University, where Jessica Bauman, SP98 CB99 TA03, graduated in Ger- he will complete a PhD man area studies in addition to completing the linguistics Becky Scott, CB01, our Atkinson-Tetreault scholar, re- major and the College Scholar Program Approaching plans ceived a master’s degree in planning and is now working with include a year in Berlin on a Fulbright fellowship followed by a community organization in Brooklyn, New York two years teaching middle school English with “Teach for by Aoife Naughton, CB00 America” in southern Texas Katrina Becker, CB00, graduated from the College of Photos: (above) MBTA Group Photo, taken by Steve Kuzma Photography, 2002; (below) James May, SP99 CB00 TA02, and Daniel Galindo, SP99 CB00 TA01, CBTA Agriculture and Life Sciences with a degree in rural sociology housemembers, taken by Lauren Boehm, CB026

6 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2003 A VISIT TO OUR PAST By Adam Arenson, SP95 TA01

Last July, I spent a few weeks in the national parks of the Mountain West Driving back from Arches National Park to Salt Lake City, Utah, I was inspired to stop by Olmsted and Nunns Park, the Nunnian sites in Orem, at the mouth of Provo Canyon, just north of the main campus of Brigham Young University For those who haven’t reviewed their copy of Telluride Power recently, Olmsted is the site where, 92 years ago, the constitutional convention that established the Telluride Association was held The three- story Quarters Building, with a long, wide porch, is now used for meetings and training by Utah Power & Light, but it and the surrounding cottages once housed Telluride Power workers and officers Though the paint is cracked and the brick work is worn, the building is still quite reminiscent of its namesake design, Ithaca’s Telluride House Despite the neglect, the generator on the hilltop above, with its water Olmsted quarters building, 1914 pipes and power lines, still speaks of the history once seen there

Up the river less than a half-mile, a plaque erected in Nunns Park, in spring 2002, informs Happy Birthday, Mr Nunn! the picnickers that the area was the site of the first 44,000 volt hydroelectric plant in America, “I want the students to know the eternal moral truths of the 1 built in 1897 by L L Nunn It marks one of only universe But I want them to do more than know those two sites on the National Register of Historic truths; I want them to live them” (1924) Places with connections to Nunn or the Telluride 2 Association The 150th anniversary of the birth of Lucien L( Nunn was While I was on the property, Wayne March 16, 2003( Nunn founded Barnes, a Utah Power & Light employee, Telluride Association as well as explained that the most use the house gets is as Deep Springs College and the backdrop to the Timpanogos Storytelling Telluride Power Company( Festival (wwwtimpfestorg), an annual event Copies of two pertinent books are available for a hosted by the Orem Public Library “to preserve nominal donation: Stephen and promote the art of storytelling throughout Bailey’s 1933 Memoir of Nunn the west” Nationally recognized professional ($8), reprinted in 1993 with an storytellers meet to perform, to workshop, and introduction by Scott to hear locals McDermott, SP84 CB85 TA88, and the recent Telluride Power: A Brief Illustrated History of the 1 The plaque can be viewed at Early Days ($5(50) by Denis Clark, wwwutahcounty onlineorg/apps/WebLink/ DS69 CB72 TA73 (with an Dept/PUBWRKS/nunnsplaquebmp; general afterword by L( Jackson Newell, Aged 26 information about the park is available at DS56, President of Deep Springs College)( Please inquire through wwwutahcountyonlineorg/Dept/PubWrks/ the Telluride Office at 217 West Parks/ ParkDetailsasp?IDNO=1 The motion Avenue, Ithaca, NY 14850, telluride@cornell(edu( that authorized the plaque (apparently arranged in fall 2001 by the county and the concrete “To dismiss Bailey’s book would be as foolish as company) is at wwwutahcountyonlineorg/ underestimating Nunn himself”—McDermott Dept/COMMISH/Data/Minutes/CM/2001/ 080701htm “Clark provides a springboard from which we can plunge into    shaping the future of Deep Springs and Telluride 2 The other is the “Upper Beaver Hydro- Association”—Newell electric Power Plant Historic District,” on State Route 153, in Beaver County, Utah

SUMMER 2003 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER 7 SUMMER PROGRAMS 2003 TASS 2003 Interviewers Michigan TASS, Steve Kuzma Photography

Telluride thanks all associates who helped interview candidates for summer program scholarships this spring

Ted Alexander Dynishal Gross Amy Nestor Shanice Anderson Joshua Gruenspecht Don Noel Joseph Arias Rachel Gurvich Jessica Nordell Martyn Atkins Tom Hawks Amina Omari Miriam Aukerman Meghan Haynes Charles Pazdernik Ellen Baer Monica Henestroza Maggie Perkins Daniel Barnard Mai-Linh Hong Govind Persad Jessica Bauman Aaron Johnson N( Braxton Pope Fred Baumann Philip Kaplan David Porter Joseph Beck Stan Karas Jose Portuondo Jonathan Beere Andrea Kavaler Kenneth Pursley Eliza Bettinger Brandt Kehoe Warren Rosenblum Nicole Blumner Robert King Reihan Salam Rebecca Boggs Deborah Kobes Emily Schusterbauer Indiana University—Constructing “Race”: Michigan TASS—Social Identities and Megan Bott Erna Kostuch Michael Shae Society and Law Matthew Bradby Keith Kostuch Rebecca Sherouse the Mass Media Martina Brendel George Kroup Puneet Singh John Briggs Holly LaDue Harry Stahl Ralph Bouquet, Florida City, FL Kenneth Baker, Naperville, IL Brianne Brown Paul Levesque Henrique Suguri V8 Chisara Ezie, Buffalo, NY Sade Banks, Rochester, NY Afua Bruce Crystal Long Julie Suk Laura Floyd, Brooklyn, NY Rachel Boykins, Farmington Hills, MI Cathy Carlson ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball Andrew Sullivan Theodore Foster, Vestavia Hills, AL Ryan Donaldson, Urbana, IL Lynn Carlson Rebecca Luzadis Kate Taylor Whitney Frazier, Grand Blanc, MI Sheynor Hall, Bronx, NY John Chen Michael Marder Matthew Trail Jessica Greene, Texas City, TX Marttise Hill, St8 Louis, MO Anakarina Corcoran Jamie May Elizabeth Tulis Emanuel Harper IV, Indianapolis, IN Justin Holtzman, Irvine, CA Cynthia Cupples Pegeen McGhan Justin Turner Jeremy Hudson, East Palo Alto, CA J’Aime Jennings, Savannah, GA Selina Davis Colin McNary Will Ulrich Mondaire Jones, Spring Valley, NY Candace Jones, Richmond, CA Laura Dixon Ingram Bernadette Meyler Vinay Varughese Bryon Maxey, Holly, MI DeVonna Jones, East Palo Alto, CA S( Max Edelson Ani Mukherji Gabriel Velez Alicia McKean, Menlo Park, CA Kallan Louis, Ft8 Lauderdale, FL Eldon Eisenach Nathan Nagy Joshua Wallaert Theresa Miller, Hazel Crest, IL Valerie Eisenach Ernie Narcisse Dara Weinberg Ieshaah Murphy, Buffalo, NY Nathan Floyd Aoife Naughton Michael Wilson Ta’Vonna Robertson, Gary, IN Michelle-Marie Polanco, Carmel, IN Carl Fraley James Stepney, Bronx, NY Angela Redfield, Gilbert, AZ Kathleen Frankovic Thierry Uwilingiyimana, Buffalo, NY Jenee Robins, Baton Rouge, LA Dan Galindo Katrice Williams, Durham, NC David Smart, Los Angeles, CA David Gingold Jarvis Smith, Columbus, OH Nancy Glazener Tutors: Rebecca Monarrez & La’Toya Jonathan Stokes, Battle Creek, MI Garrett Tutors: Joseph Sosa & Erica Sowell

2003 TASP TASP, UT Austin Office of Public Affairs Michigan—Islam in Practice: Religion, UT Austin—The Mystery of Creativity: Cornell I—”Know Thyself”: Cornell II—Fourth World, First Peoples: Culture, and Politics On Literature and the Creative Process Pride and Prejudice in Philosophy and Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected Literature World Andrea Bjorkman, Emmett, ID Alexander Borinsky, Baltimore, MD Tristan Call, Huntsville, AL Tara Buentello, Needville, TX Oloruntosin Adeyanju, Rabat, MOROCCO Blaen Abraham, Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA Philip Cheng, West Windsor, NJ Aimee Clark, Kailua-Kona, HI Janice Ahn, Kyonggi-Do, KOREA Siddhartha Bajracharya, Robert DeBroeck, APO, AE Jacob Eigen, Brooklyn, NY Ashley Allen, Arlington, TX Hastings-on-Hudson, NY Sandra Denney, Tulsa, OK Jared Fryer, Santa Rosa, CA David Barnett, South Orange, NJ Seyram Butame, Tema, GHANA James Digges La Touche, Rosemont, NJ Adam Giang, West Springfield, MA Dustin Cho, Lake Forest Park, WA Haruko Castro, Kew Gardens, NY Lauren Hallett, Cheney, WA Kelsey Innis, San Francisco, CA Jordan Greenwald, Elizabeth, PA Isaias Chaves, Montezuma, NM Nicholas Hayes, Hillsdale, MI Olga Kamensky, Riverdale, NY Alina Iarve, Dayton, OH Miriam Goldberg, San Antonio, TX Kimberley Hoff, West Point, NY Tae-Yeoun Keum, Manila, PHILIPPINES Rachel Klein, Sierra Vista, AZ Rafael Gonzalez, Milwaukee, WI Bennett Lane, Chattanooga, TN Adrian LeCesne, Oak Park, IL Gregory Korb, Short Hills, NJ Alex Haber, Croton-on-Hudson, NY Thomas Ledbetter, Arlington, VA Bryan Lee, Westminster, CO David Lavender, Kamuela, HI Hannah Lee, Seoul, KOREA Morgain MacDonald, Elk Rapids, MI Susan Lee, Ellicott City, MD Alexis Maule, Chicago, IL Adam Lesnikowski, Pawtucket, RI Habiba Musah, Bronx, NY R8 John Owens-Ream, Omaha, NE Brandon Moss, Jackson, MI Linda Louie, Tucson, AZ Elizabeth O’Neill, Grand Haven, MI Natashia Piazza, Springdale, AR Christopher Rodriguez, Miami, FL Dara Weinberg, SP99 Elise Novitski, Mt8 Pleasant, MI Rebecca Poole, Youngsville, NC Matthew Schmitz, Washington, DC Krishanu Sengupta, Cypress, TX Matthew Porter, FPO, AE Amir Touray, Scarsdale, NY Brian Schultis, Bay Village, OH Tina Tang, Jacksonville, FL Edward Ramos, Philadelphia, PA Carolyn Wright, Arlington, VA Alexander Yablon, Maplewood, NJ Rima Turner, Los Alamos, NM Whitney Nicole Shaffer, Shelby, NC Tyler Zoanni, Sidney, MT Eunice Yang, Mendota Heights, MN Nancy Xu, Naperville, IL Factotum: Dara Weinberg Factota: Max Montesino & Hannah Factota: James May & Monica Factotum: Christian Stayner Nolan-Spohn Henestroza

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1940s advisor for the (G W) Bush Administra- DAVID PATTERSON, CBG83, was men- tion Jeet Heer also labels as a tioned in the Queen’s Birthday Honours In an op-ed to The New York Times in “Straussian Democrat” CLIFFORD in June He writes, “I    find myself a April, WILLIAM J' VANDEN HEUVEL, DS46 ORWIN, SP63 CB64 TA66, a professor at CBE (Commander of the British Empire) CB48 TA48, former ambassador to the the University of Toronto although the title is honorific The Or- United Nations, writes that the UN/ der of the British Empire was founded in UNESCO is the best organization to re- 1970s 1917 and my citation reads: “For Services store and protect the historic sites and to Jewish Studies” which is the first time museums in Iraq He urges the U S to MARINA HSIEH, SP77, and Henry Shaw an honour has been awarded for that rea- request involvement and notes this have been reveling in parenthood with son” “would be a major first step in repairing Harrison Kai Shaw, born on February 7, our relationship with old allies, in rec- 2002 “He is a joy!” An ad hoc Telluride-Deep Springs liaison ognizing our responsibility as an occu- committee met in St Louis this past Oc- pying power under the Geneva Conven- ELIZABETH PULLIAM WESTON, SP79, tober to oversee the establishment of tions and in showing the Iraqis that we writes, “My husband (Will Weston) and connubial relations between WARREN respect their heritage as well as their con- I are delighted to announce the birth of ROSENBLUM, DS83 CB85 TA87, and temporary aspirations for a democratic Elizabeth Beyette (‘Bey’) Weston on De- NICOLE BLUMNER, CB97 TA98 The com- country respectful of law and order” cember 1, 2002 I left my job as a full- mittee included Springers, Telluriders, time personal finance writer for the Los and numerous individuals of mixed heri- 1950s Angeles Times last April and am now tage The union was agreed to with more writing a twice-weekly column for MSN, or less unanimous consent and was fol- lowed by discussion, at which point the STEVEN WEINBERG, CB51, gave a well Microsoft’s Web site, as well as a weekly former Ithacans and the desertmongers received, and vigorously debated, talk question-and-answer column that ap- alike engaged in the ritual shaking of at the 2003 Austin TASP entitled “Craft pears in the Times and other papers na- booty and the snarfing of good eats And and Creativity” Weinberg, winner of tionwide” (lpweston@aolcom) there was great comity and much rejoic- the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics, is on the ing The couple now resides in St Louis faculty of the University of Texas 1980s and grapples daily with the traumatic effects of no longer being the center of WILLIAM SIMPSON, CB55, continues to CATHERINE FRANCIS, SP80, married attention Please visit! write history books and enjoy music in Wayne Rambo on August 16, 2003 She his retirement He moved to Scotland in lives in Redmond, Washington, and JEFF CLARKE, SP84 DS85, writes, “I just April to be nearer to relatives He en- works for Microsoft completed a master’s program in Cen- joyed marvelous visits to Ecuador and tral and Eastern European Studies at La Russia in 2002 and hopes to re-visit A book by WENDY KATZ HIMMELSBACH, Salle University If you’re interested in Cornell in 2004, where he “had a great SP83, Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class hydrocarbons or pipelines between the year” in 1955-56 Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati, was Baltic and the Pacific, drop me a line published by Ohio State University Press (clarke144@hotmailcom) I’m not sure in 2002 She writes, “Perhaps only 1960s what’s next, but since my wife and our TASPers have enough interest in the ob- two children (Anita, 4, and Martin, 1) are scure for this sort of thing If so, they In a May 11, 2003, Boston Globe article Lithuanian citizens, I would guess a re- should feel free to drop by Lincoln [NE], about the late Leo Strauss and the effect turn to Lithuania, or somewhere in Cen- which is practically on the road to Ithaca of his thinking on current public policy, tral/Eastern Europe, is in my future” Jeet Heer includes the following Tellu- anyway” ride alumni in a group he calls “The RICHARD BAUM, SP86 CB87 TA88, and REBEKAH NUTTER (née Becky Pinnick), Washington Straussians”: CARNES LORD, Terri Gerstein are happy to announce the SP83 CB84 TA88, writes, “My husband SP61 CB68, National Security Council birth of a Eli Caleb Baum (5 lbs, 9 oz) Brian and I welcomed Sarah Elena Nutter advisor during the Reagan Administra- on May 19, 2003, at Columbia-Presbyte- to this world on April 1, 2003, right on tion; WILLIAM GALSTON, SP62 CB63 rian Hospital in New York TA64, deputy domestic policy advisor time Yes, we have our own little April Fool now! Before and after pictures can during the first two years of the Clinton NOAH FELDMAN, SP87, assistant profes- be seen at wwwphotoislandcom, login Administration; PAUL WOLFOWITZ, SP60 sor of law at NYU, was selected by the is noboru and password is Elena We CB61 TA62, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Bush Administration’s Office for Recon- live in Glen Burnie, MD and welcome ABRAM SHULSKY, SP58 CB59 TA61, di- struction and Humanitarian Assistance visits from old friends” rector of the Pentagon’s Office of Special to advise Iraq’s coalition government on Plans; and LEON KASS, SPF86, bioethics (nutter@starpowernet) CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE SUMMER 2003 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER 9 ASSOCIATE NOTES the writing of their new constitution Medicine in 2002 She spent the spring sider checking it out—for more info see Feldman holds a DPhil in Islamic of 2002 at Kenyatta Hosptial in Nairobi wwwgrownwithout schoolingcom/— Thought from Oxford and a JD from In 2003, she graduated from the UNC on the site is a link to send email to me if Yale In a May 11, 2003, New York Times School of Medicine in Chapel Hill She anyone wants to get in touch” profile, JENNIFER LEE, SP93, writes: married Brian Rulifson on June 21st in “Some contend that the Unites States’ ef- Chapel Hill and moved to California to Dr DAISY BASSEN, SP93, is married and fort to build a democracy in Iraq is over- begin an internal medicine residency at doing her first year of residency at whelming, if not naïve But those who Stanford She continues to work on HIV Brown University in Providence, RI know of Professor Feldman’s back- issues in developing countries ground say he may be able to build a The June 16th-23rd fiction issue of the New bridge between American notions of de- Since 1998, CARA REICHEL, SP91, has Yorker ran a short story “City of Clowns” mocracy and Islamic traditions” worked to establish the Prospect Theater by DANIEL ALARCÓN, SP94 Daniel is a Company (wwwprospecttheaterorg) in student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop VIRGINIA SCHATTMAN, SP87 CB88 NYC and recently directed the play “The and a Fulbright scholarship recipient TA90, writes, “I am married to a won- Alchemists” Following TASP, Cara (2001) Following TASP, he attended derful guy, named ‘Guy!’ Guy is English, studied anthropology and theater at Columbia University His first collec- so now I live in England” She writes Princeton and studied directing in the tion of stories will be published in 2004 that MARTYN ATKINS, CB90 TA91, has masters program at Brooklyn College by HarperCollins been helpful in navigating the “many bewildering bureaucratic hurdles the UK ALLISON TARTALIA (née Tartaglia), SP91, DEVMUKH GANDHI, SP95, writes that he places before immigrants” is a performing songwriter living in would love to hear from any ‘95 St John’s New York City In November 2002, she TASPers at devmuk73 @hotmailcom He Leo David Edelson was born on June 3, released an independent album entitled is an associate with an investment bank- 2003 in Champaign, Illinois to parents Ready Her music has received media ing firm in Seattle Jen and MAX EDELSON, DS88 CB90 TA91, attention from The Village Voice and The and two-year-old brother Will Max is New York Times She would love to hear Following graduation from Cornell in an assistant professor at the University from fellow TASPers at allison@ 1996, SMITHA VISHESHWARA, CB95, fin- of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where allisontartaliacom ished a PhD in physics at the Univer- he is busy completing his first book, a sity of Santa Barbara and is currently in history of colonial South Carolina’s plan- DAWN STAR BORCHELT (née Shuman), a postdoctoral program in physics at the tation economy SP93, writes, “I’m featured in a new docu- University of Illinois at Urbana- mentary titled Grown Without Schooling Champaign URSULA ANGELL (née McClelland), SP89 It’s a feature-length film profiling and CB90 TA92, married Jamie Angell on May interviewing 10 young adults who were JOHN J' HORTON, SP96, graduated from 31, 2003 in Los Angeles, California She home schooled as children and teenag- the U S Military Academy at West Point writes that her “father, Don McClelland, ers It was fascinating to be followed with a BS in mathematics in 2001 and who was the reason I got mixed up with around by the filmmaker for several married Roberta Yerkes Horton on June Telluride in the first place (bless ‘im), days a few years ago—it’s even cooler to 9th of that summer He had been sta- died of a brain tumor a month later A see the final result I hope anyone who’s tioned in Friedberg, Germany as a tank week after that my latest piece of physi- interested in home education will con- platoon leader in the 1st Armored Divi- cal theater opened, and two weeks later I tore ligaments in my knee, ankle, and thumb while back-flipping off my cast Notables members’ shoulders Today I’m hiding on the couch, convinced that the universe Three Telluriders are included among The 100 Most Notable Cornellians, as really is out to get me Those brave and selected by Cornell professors Glenn Altschuler, Isaac Kramnick and Larry foolhardy enough are heartily encour- Moore They are JULIAN HAYNES STEWARD, DS18 TA20 CB22, the anthro- aged to visit me in LA All comers wel- pologist; STEVEN WEINBERG, CB51, the physicist; and FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, come Bring your tin-foil hats” SP69 CB70 TA71, the political scientist Steward’s entry notes that “the watershed in his young life came in 1918 when he entered the newly estab- 1990s lished Deep Springs Preparatory School;” he later transferred from Berkeley to Cornell “to live in the intense intellectual environment of Telluride ALISON ROXBY, SP90, got a MSc in pub- House” A biography of Steward, Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward’s lic health while on a Fulbright at Lon- Life and Theory, by Virginia Kerns, has recently been published by the Univer- don School of Hygiene and Tropical sity of Illinois Press

10 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2003 ASSOCIATE NOTES sion since January 2002 He is currently IN MEMORIAM ROBERT SHERIDAN, DS28 CB31 TA31, deployed to the CENTCOM Area of Re- died on April 11, 2003, in Seaford, Dela- sponsibility for Operation Iraqi Free- CHRIS AMROSE, SP96, died on February ware, at the age of 92 He was an engi- dom 25, 2003, in Chicago at the age of 23 A neering supervisor for Eastman Kodak, Kenyon TASPer, Amrose moved from mainly in Rochester, for 37 years In 1976, LYNN REDDING CARLSON, SP97, gradu- Syracuse to study at the University of Sheridan retired to a house that he and ated from Michigan State in May 2002 Chicago in 1997 He remained in contact his wife had built in Vermont; they later with a dual degree in philosophy and with Telluriders, visiting several last moved to Virginia and then Delaware astrophysics and is in the graduate pro- winter Wrote one, “Chris will be re- Marguerite Sheridan, his wife, wrote: “He gram for astrophysics at Johns Hopkins membered by his fellow TASPers for his was very grateful for all Telluride had University cleverness, his intense geniality and his done for him, and very proud of having ambition in the face of incredible odds” been a member” He is survived by Mrs WILL CREELEY, SP98, writes, “I graduated Sheridan, three children, seven grand- magna cum laude from New York FREDERICK BIRD, JR', CB38, died on Sep- children and 12 great-grandchildren University’s Gallatin School of Individu- tember 5, 2002, in Walnut Creek, Cali- alized Study in December This spring, I fornia, at the age of 81 Bird quit Cornell GEORGE HENRIK von WRIGHT, CBG54, have traveled to New Zealand to visit in 1940 to become a journalist in Chi- Finnish philosopher and logician, died my family and to exercise my rights as a cago, which career was interrupted by a on June 16 at the age of 87 His career New Zealand citizen I also had the plea- wartime stint in the Army Air Corps spanned the University of Helsinki, sure of traveling extensively in Peru I From 1960, he held several positions in Cambridge University and Cornell, returned home to the United States to politics and government, including press where he was visiting professor from deliver the student address at NYU’s secretary to the governor of Illinois and 1965 to 1977 In a 1954 visit to Ithaca, he Commencement ceremonies in Wash- a speechwriter for President Ford In re- stayed at Telluride, where he gave a talk ington Square Park, sharing the stage sponse to a 1991 alumni survey, Bird on Wittgenstein He was awarded an with Mayor Mike Bloomberg I was the wrote that “the house experience was a honorary British knighthood (GCVO) in only student to speak, addressing the heady one, and I look back with great 1976 According to his obituary in The more than 15,000 people in attendance! fondness on my TA associates I quit Daily Telegraph of London, von Wright’s My speech is archived online at Cornell to be a reporter, and on the “public pleas for peace, human rights and wwwnyuedu/commencement I also whole, don’t regret my decision” tolerance made him one of the most re- had the honor of being the student spected intellectuals in Scandinavia” speaker at the Gallatin School of Indi- JAMES GODFREY, DS39 CB42 TA43, died vidualized Study’s graduation exercises on February 25, 2002, in Allentown, Penn- JUDITH RUTH GINSBERG, SPF99, died on I will attend NYU’s School of Law in the sylvania, at the age of 78 Before he re- December 28, 2002 A Cornell classicist, fall, where I will study public interest tired, he was the longtime director of Ginsberg taught the 1999 Cornell TASP and constitutional law I remain a pro- semiconductor development for Bell on “Poets, Historians, and Other Liars” fessional DJ and all my fellow TASPers Labs in Reading After Cornell, he served with Dean Lynne Abel are encouraged to check out my music in the Navy at the tail-end of the Second online at wwwthewillyestcom!” World War and then took a PhD in THOMAS M' GREENE, SPF64, professor physical chemistry at the University of of literature at Yale University, died on 2000s Cincinnati He is survived by his wife, June 23, in New Haven He taught three Marjorie, and three daughters TASPs at Cornell: “Literary and Philo- JAWUAN MEEKS, SS01 SP02, received a sophical Aspects of Greek Civilization” Gates Millennium Scholarship, funded JEFFREY GU, SP95, died on June 6, 2003, (1964), “Drama: Ancient and Modern” by the foundation of Bill and Melinda in Venezuela of a fall sustained while on (1966), and “Shakespeare and Modern Gates He is entering the University of a mountain climbing expedition Gu, 24, Drama” (1970) Michigan, Ann Arbor was a student in the first Kenyon TASP After TASP, he studied environmental The Newsletter also received notice of the IRENE SUN, SP02 (Michigan), made the science and public policy at Harvard He death of these friends and associates: USA Today ‘s 2003 All-USA High School worked for Merrill Lynch and was inter- DAHLIA A'N' HOWARTH, SP68, on Academic First Team As a member of ested in concentrating on East Asian January 1, 1995 the First Team, Irene received a trophy economies Gu spent many vacations MRS' M'L' RAILEY, widow of ISHAM and a $2,500 cash award She is one of engaged in missionary work His me- RAILEY, DS22 TA24 CB25 twenty high school students selected on morial website, rememberjeffcom, in- PHILLIP H' WELLS, friend of the Pasa- the basis of their “outstanding scholar- cludes information about the Jeff Gu dena Branch ship, intellectual achievement and lead- Memorial Fund ership”

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