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Magazine 2 tufts magazine fall 2012 to dye for. When Diren Pamuk, G11, introduced her Biochemistry II students to the “art of the hydrophobic effect,” they not only learned about fatty acids, chromophores, cellulose, and gels, they created a gallery of visual delights as well. Using materials and equipment available in the lab, Pamuk, an adjunct lecturer, taught the students traditional paper marbling (called ebru in her native Turkey). “Our medium was nothing but a water-gelatin mixture, completely fluid,” she says. “Dyes we used were either oil paints diluted with various organic solvents to reach a low density, or pigments dissolved in natural oils.” Students used implements to drag the oily liquids across the aqueous surfaces, generating patterns. Then they blotted the surfaces with desiccated paper and washed the paper to remove excess liquid. The results—some of which you can see here and at the back of the magazine—were marbled endpapers worthy of the finest leather-bound volume.

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Downton Abbeys

By Hugh Howard, A74 Upstairs, downstairs, and all around the great country houses of England, a historian immerses himself in an ordered world now faded.

FALL 2012 34 L.A. Makeover MAGAZINE By david menconi “A gash through the city” is how Mia Guttfreund Lehrer, J75, describes the concrete-lined river that bisects Los RIDING THE DRAGON. The Angeles. Her architectural master hair-raising journey that left the cofounders of Dragon Systems— plan would turn it into an Eden of the pioneering speech recognition firm—“Speechless” (page 16). parks and greenways that bring Illustration by Amanda Duffy people together. 28 departments 4 The Editorial We Put in one’s place—by a puppet

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By bruce morgan 6 Planet Tufts Filmmakers play hardball 6 The doctor is on his way, but his Crosswords and the brain 9 Brilliant! (Jumbo startups) 10 patients appear not to notice. They Racing across continents 11 are too busy grunting, clucking, Poetry by Isa Milman, BSOT71 12 Eureka (sci/tech) 13 slithering, lolling on their sides, Laurels 14 hopping from perch to perch, or 42 creations stamping their huge feet. German cuisine meets Italian 45 news & Notes 64 advancement 16 S peechless 68 Take It from Me b cy Mi hael blanding Your tips on private schools, learning to draw, editing multi- Dragon Systems, the firm started by Janet MacIver author books, and more Baker, J69, and her husband, Jim, cracked one of the 70 afterimage most intractable problems in computing—speech Imaginary Travel #7 recognition. Then, just as the business was poised to grow worldwide, the Bakers watched as its new parent company went bust, taking all of their technology, employees, and money with it. think tank

38 the human animal Beauty’s archetypes BY philip starks

39 guest thinker Balancing sports and academics BY william gehling, a74, g79

40 scholar at large The false tranquility of 1912 BY sol gittleman

41 negotiating life 16 Making the deal come true By Jeswald W. Salacuse the editorial we

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Magazine when i was four, my favorite tv show featured a hand puppet named Sooty, a mischievous bear Volume XX, Number 1 who performed magic by waving a wand or sprin- Editor kling “oofle dust.” I could scarcely believe my eyes David Brittan on Christmas morning when I looked inside my [email protected] stocking. There, gripping his apparently real magic Editorial Director Karen Bailey wand, was Sooty. After some minor disappointment [email protected]

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SCIENCE DENIALISM been consistently wrong. Our models will no A STITCH IN TIME I n each controversial case mentioned in doubt improve, but climate is an incredibly Kudos to Patty Elwin Davis, J51, for “Fabric “Science Denied,” by Phil Primack, A70 complex system, and we must remind our- of Time” (Summer 2012). I myself have long (Summer 2012), what is bemoaned is a lack selves that computer models should not be been fascinated by the history of women in of complete genuflection to a proposed public mistaken for reality. textiles. In fact, I have published a book on policy, not science. Scientists are welcome to T ERRY FRANKLIN, A75 it: The Threads of Time, the Fabric of History: believe that global warming will result from AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS Profiles of African American Dressmakers and combustion of carbon-based fuels. What the Designers from 1850 to the Present (now public is dubious about is the practicality of A PROFESSOR TO CHERISH available on Kindle from Amazon). In it, I pro- stopping said practice and whether it would I t was with great sadness that I read of the file women in millinery, quilts, and clothing make a difference, were it even possible. death of Professor George Marcopoulos in design. I was so excited to see that Davis has Regarding fluoridated water and vaccines, the “In Memoriam” section (Summer 2012). joined me in touting women’s textile skills. individuals are perfectly Professor Marcopoulos RSM O E ARY E. REED MILLER summer 2012 free to receive both for taught European history WASHINGTON, D.C. themselves and their fami- with such enthusiasm and lies. And regarding evolu- animation that I declared DANGEROUS DELUSIONS Magazine tion, you have much more myself a history major as a I understand the sentiment expressed in the to fear from your neighbors sophomore. He showed his editorial “Spare Me My Illusions” (Summer if, through public indoctrina- students how to enter a dy- 2012), but I profoundly disagree. I would tion, you convince them that namic world of people and have nothing against people cherishing their they are soulless omnivores events that connected the delusions if the effects of this were limited in an amoral world than you past to our present world. to themselves. However, delusions can influ- would if they spent their Over the course of six se- ence people’s votes, and votes have an ef- lives seeking to conform to mesters, I took courses in fect on public policy. In our troubled times, the Ten Commandments. European and Byzantine we need a clear view of the challenges that Stick to data, ye scientist. history with him and always we are facing. M ARK BOURCIER, D93 found him engaging. I was especially en- ALN EXA DER VILENKIN WILBRAHAM, MASSACHUSETTS grossed by his explanations of how the history DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE OF COSMOLOGY of each nation is reflected in the genealogy of L. AND J. BERNSTEIN PROFESSOR OF Primack suggests that the Sierra Club’s op- its monarchical dynasty. Although I went on to EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE position to fluoridation is based on “eco-ac- pursue a career in my second major, psychol- TUFTS UNIVERSITY tivist” ideology rather than facts. But when I ogy, history has remained my recreational pas- checked the Sierra Club’s website, I found that sion. I will always cherish the love of history Tufts Magazine welcomes your letters. Send them to Editor, Tufts Magazine, Tufts its position is backed up by a 2006 report by that Professor Marcopoulos inspired in me. Publications, 80 George Street, Medford, MA the National Research Council. With science JETAY B A MAN, A88 02155, or [email protected]. denialism, it’s simply not true that we lefties WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT Letters are edited for length and clarity. are the problem. For example, consider the right wing’s organized and well-financed effort to discredit climate science, which is detailed by the historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. elephoto 15 Merchants of Doubt Conway in . IN THE BUSH. J OHN G. WILLIAMS Bernard S. PETROLIA, CALIFORNIA Schwartz, D58, DG62, A84P, spotted O f the issues mentioned in the article on sci- this topiary in ence denialism, global warming is the one Mumbai while most worthy of rational skepticism. Granted, on a Tufts carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and it Travel-Learn trip. is increasing in the atmosphere. Still, a thor- ough reading of the leaked “climategate” Send your best elephant emails should give pause to anyone who shots to respects science. In addition, predictions tuftsmagazine@ based on climate computer models have tufts.edu.

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David Ortiz, the Red Sox’ “Big Papi,” signed with the Seattle Mariners at age sixteen.

Foul Ball The price Dominicans pay a for a shot at the majors by Julie Flaherty

n an early scene in the doc- That is how the business of baseball of professional players in the United States umentary Ballplayer: Pelotero, works on this island nation, where an are Dominican. “It’s like a classical co- an amiable baseball trainer estimated 100,000 young men train full lonialism approach,” says Martin, who explains the purpose of the time for the chance to become profes- majored in international relations at Dominican Republic training sional ball players in the United States. Tufts. “It’s like these kids are raw materi- camps. He likens nurturing a Trevor Martin, A08, who co-directed the als to be exported en masse, refined in the Iyoung player to planting a seed, watering film, spent a year there documenting the Major League system, and then sold to the it, and clearing away the weeds. “And then lives of two young prospects. He says the American public.” when it grows,” he says, “you sell it.” system helps explain why twenty percent All the players dream of making it

6 tufts magazine fall 2012 photo: jim rogash, getty images big; most never will. The same could be sixteen, the youngest age they can sign has been courting Sano, of creating sus- said of kids in most American inner cit- a contract. MLB reasons that it needs to picion to keep other teams from making ies. Yet the Dominican players typically sign Dominican players younger, to allow an offer. Each day the investigation drags come from the poorest neighborhoods, time for training them and teaching them on, the player’s market value drops, until, and often drop out of school at twelve or English. “It provides a rationale behind Sano says, an MLB investigator offers to thirteen and leave their families to train at devaluing older players in the market,” stop the investigation if Sano admits he is the baseball camps. “They dangle this big Martin says. Teams may offer millions to nineteen and signs with the Pirates. payday, which encourages them to treat it a handful of sixteen-year-olds, while hun- Alan Klein, a professor of sociology-an- as a real career option,” Martin says. dreds of players who are older, so-called thropology at Northeastern University and Martin was recruited to Pelotero by old men” may settle for tens of thousands. the author of several books about baseball two other young directors, Jon Paley Families will alter birth records, or in the Dominican Republic, including the from Washington University in St. Louis buy the identity of a younger neighbor, upcoming Dominican Baseball: New Pride, and Ross Finkel from the University of just to shave a year off their son’s age. In Old Prejudice, says other filmmakers have Colorado, who wanted to make a movie the film, we meet the tall and powerful tried to document the system. “What about what makes Dominican players so Miguel Sano, the top prospect in the 2009 distinguishes these filmmakers was they good. They liked that Martin already had season, who is kept in limbo as MLB in- actually spent time on the ground. You experience in Latin America from his two vestigators put him through a battery of could tell, because they were able to get student films—financed in part by Tufts’ DNA tests and bone scans to verify his deeper into the system.” Deep enough to Institute for Global Leadership—which age and identity. One of Sano’s relatives have a camera rolling when Sano’s fam- dealt with the growing violence against accuses the Pittsburgh Pirates’ scout, who ily appeals for help from the Dominican human rights defenders in Bogota and alliances between right-wing drug-trafficking paramilitary death squads and Colombian politicians. Plus, they needed someone who spoke Spanish. Martin, in turn, recruited Casey Beck, A07, who would be instrumental in filming and interviewing. They landed on the island in 2009. “We looked ridiculous,” Martin admits: four white college kids in a beat-up ’ninety-four Camry, with their broken Spanish and their camera equipment, trying to maneu- ver their way through the training camps and the slums where many of the players’ families live. He says the clown factor may actually have helped them at first. And then the players got used to having them around. “We didn’t leave,” he says. “We just kept coming back every day.” Soon after shooting started, Martin knew the film would not just be about children swinging broomsticks at rolled-up AV D Ance GUARD. Wearing the signature knee-length shorts of his homeland, Zander Kirkland, socks in the dusty streets. The Dominican A07, carried the flag forB ermuda at the opening ceremonies of the London Olympics this summer. recruitment business is its own game, He and his younger brother, Jesse, raced a two-person high-performance dinghy for their country. But Kirkland wasn’t the only water-going Jumbo in the Games. Mark Mendelblatt, A95, was there, with its own peculiar rules, one of which too, competing in his second Olympics for the United States. He skippered a Star-class racing has to do with age. Major League Baseball keelboat and finished seventh.A nd Gevvie Stone, M14, who represented the United States in puts a hefty premium on players who are rowing, placed seventh in women’s single sculls.

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baseball commissioner, who tells them his hands are tied. “There is only one Dog Star MLB. It’s a monopoly,” he tells them. “I am totally clear. This is happening A n award-winning career. A triumphant to an online casting call for a new film. because he’s poor.” return from retirement. A battle with a life- Bella nabbed the role, and four weeks By the time they returned to the threatening illness. A starring role in a film after her surgery, she was on set in United States, the directors were that’s getting Oscar buzz. A nomination at Newport, Rhode Island, with Bill Murray, broke. After a year of desperate pitches Cannes. In her ten years, Bella, a wirehair Bruce Willis, and Tilda Swinton to make to investors, a friend introduced them fox terrier, has seen enough drama to war- Moonrise Kingdom, this summer’s quirky to the former professional ballplayer rant a tell-all on the E! television network. hit—directed by Wes Anderson—about two Bobby Valentine (he would become “I fell in love with Bella at first sight,” runaway teenagers. She played “Snoopy,” manager of the Boston Red Sox in Lucia Hackett, a senior human resources the mascot of the Boy Scout troop intent 2011). Valentine had formed a small representative at Tufts’ Cummings School on tracking down the pair. media company to produce sports of Veterinary Medicine, says of the retired According to Indiewire, a daily film documentaries. He liked what he saw, show dog she bought from a breeder. news site, Moonrise Kingdom has a shot and signed on as producer. Hackett soon put the pooch back on the at Academy Awards for best picture, best The film has been a rock in the dog show circuit, this time in the veterans’ director, and best original screenplay. And cleat of MLB. A spokesman said that ring. Their life together seemed unfailingly in May, Bella scored a coveted nomina- the film, shot in 2009, has “inaccura- sunny until last April, when veterinarians tion all her own—for the Cannes Film cies and misrepresentations that don’t at Tufts’ Foster Hospital for Small Animals Festival’s Palm Dog Award, which recog- reflect the current status of operations found cancer in Bella’s abdomen. Rob nizes excellence in canine actors. Cornered in the Dominican Republic.” Klein McCarthy, V83, a Tufts veterinary surgeon, by paparazzi from the Worcester Telegram, says MLB has tried to address prob- removed the tumor and two lymph glands, Hackett observed that in the end, her pet lems—such as alleged skimming of one of which was malignant. did not win the prize, but noted: “It’s an signing bonuses by scouts—that have Resolutely optimistic about Bella’s honor just to be nominated.” been pointed out to them. But he adds: recovery, Hackett submitted photos of her — genevieve rajewski “These filmmakers got it right, and the fact of the matter is that those kinds B ella, no of things happen and will continue has-been to happen as long as the Dominican Republic is a third-world country.” Martin concedes that baseball adds hundreds of millions of dollars to the country’s economy. “That’s what makes it such a complex issue,” he says. “You can’t just look at Major League Baseball and condemn them outright.” For his part, he still loves the game, which he played in high school. And he still plans to go to Major League games. It will just be with a different appreciation for what the players have gone through to get there.

J ulie Flaherty is a senior writer in Tufts’ Office ofP ublications. For information on screenings of Ballplayer: Pelotero, see peloterothemovie.com.

STRATEGIC PLAN Tufts will create a road for Tufts—where it needs to be, and should newswire map for where the university aspires to be in be,” said President Anthony P. Monaco. R ead the full stories at Tufts Magazine ten years. “Strategic planning is an opportunity F Letcher DEAN TO RETIRE During his online: go.tufts.edu/magazine for us, as a community, to envision a trajectory eleven-year tenure, Stephen W. Bosworth,

8 tufts magazine fall 2012 photo: alonso nichols found. Typically, we don’t think further about the problem and discover that there may be other solutions.” The same happens in puzzle solving. If we’re looking for a noun, we don’t think to look for a verb. And if we find a noun that fits, we don’t explore other possibili- ties. “That’s somewhat characteristic of the way we solve problems in general,” Nickerson says. As much as science has uncovered about the mind, mysteries abound. Little is known, for example, about how we search our memories. In a crossword puzzle, there are a variety of clues for each word: definitions (some more subtle or tricky than others), the length of the word, and perhaps some letters filled in by intersecting clues. Seasoned solv- ers also look for hints contained within the clues—question marks or abbreviations—and they know that a clue and its answer are usually expressed in the same part of speech. And yet, Nickerson says, we have no idea how each brain goes about the process of combing its database of knowledge to find an answer. Quick, think of a four-letter word ending in bt. Most people can produce the word debt almost instantly. “How did you do that search?” Nickerson asks. We can look Clued In to the Brain for words by meaning, by partial length, What crosswords tell us about reasoning and memory by observing letters in certain positions, by visual cues, by auditory cues, or by B y Helene Ragovin some combination of those. But, he says, “it seems unlikely that a search of my entire lexicon, or anything close to that, is required.” hen dr. fill, a cross- both an avid crossword puzzle solver and For that matter, do we even search for word-solving pro- a research professor of psychology at Tufts, words at all? It might be easier to search gram, took on the six those processes provide a glimpse into how our memory on the basis of letters, syl- hundred contestants the mind works. lables, phonemes (units of sound that in this year’s American Nickerson examined the subject in an distinguish one word from another) or Crossword Puzzle essay published last year in the journal morphemes (meaningful linguistic units WTournament, its creator predicted it would Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. “It oc- of a word). finish among the top fifty. Seven expert- curred to me,” he says, “that crosswords Sometimes the answer is stuck on the level puzzles later, it placed one hundred intersect with a great number of things tip of your tongue. Often, Nickerson writes forty-first. Dr. Fill’s less than stellar per- that I’m interested in, particularly reason- in his journal essay, “I am not immediately formance highlights the complexity of ing and memory.” For example, he says, able to call the target to mind, but I have the processes that go on in a human brain “in problem solving, we tend to assume a strong sense that I will be able to do so as it is solving a crossword. For someone that we have found the solution, and once with the help of additional clues or, per- like Raymond Nickerson, G65, who is we do, that it’s the only solution to be haps, just with the passage of time. Author

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of ‘The Ugly Ducking’ would evoke that brilliant! Jumbo entrepreneurs and their big ideas feeling for me.” Will Shortz, the puzzle editor of the New York Times, agrees that some- J fumpOf Campus times the best strategy for when you’re Mark Abramowics, A10, and Kyle Nichols-Schmolze, E11, cofounders stumped is to leave the puzzle and THE BIG IDEA: A free online resource for students who seek off-campus living quarters. come back later. “Perhaps the brain JumpOffCampus, which charges landlords a monthly fee for listing their properties, pro- works subconsciously on problems in vides a website where prospective tenants can quickly search listings for places with a the interim,” he writes in a piece titled particular move-in date, rent, and number of bedrooms. A map shows locations. “How to Solve the New York Times STATUS : A bramowics says the business took shape after he and Nichols-Schmolze, as Crossword Puzzle.” “A fresh look at college students, grew frustrated with their own apartment hunt. “We couldn’t believe that a tough puzzle almost always brings there was no resource, and so we sought to make one, using our own experiences—and new answers.” those of our friends—as inspiration,” he This phenomenon is, of course, told nibletz.com, an entrepreneurship not limited to crossword puzzles. news site. Launched at Tufts in March In psychological terms, Nickerson 2011, JumpOffCampus is now based says, the creative problem solving in Providence, Rhode Island, and offers that continues below the level of services to students at twenty U.S. and awareness—an example would be overseas universities. This May, it won the the dream that supposedly gave Rhode Island Business Plan Competition, Dmitri Mendeleyev the insight for his garnering $15,000 in cash and some periodic table of elements—is known $24,000 in services from contest spon- as incubation. sors. jumpoffcampus.com Both the scientific literature and popular media have looked at the Vision Lock T he Black List idea that mental gymnastics such as S teven Siepser, A68, founder Dino Sijamic, E07, cofounder doing crossword puzzles keep the THE BIG IDEA: I nsurance coverage for your THE BIG IDEA: A website where film indus- brain agile and can help ward off de- eyes. Ophthalmological procedures such as try players can read and rate unproduced mentia and Alzheimer’s disease. Last Lasik surgery can entail substantial risks, scripts that their peers have identified as year, for example, an observational including loss of vision. But people who want worthy. Studios, directors, actors, produc- study conducted by medical research- to minimize those risks by choosing a highly ers, and agents looking for good but perhaps ers of 101 elderly New Yorkers found qualified practitioner often don’t know how unconventional screenplays pay a monthly that “late life crossword puzzle par- to find one, according toS iepser, an ophthal- fee of twenty dollars to access the site. ticipation, independent of education, mologist in Wayne, Pennsylvania. VisionLock STATUS: The Black List first came out in was associated with delayed onset of addresses both problems: it provides up to 2005 as a newsletter from the entertain- memory decline in persons who devel- a million dollars worth of coverage for bad ment executive Franklin Leonard. In 2009, oped dementia.” surgical outcomes, and it refers patients Sijamic began transforming it “I tend to believe it, because I want to a network of ophthalmologists who into the web compendium to believe that doing crosswords is a meet the highest standard of care. that has become indispen- way to postpone the ravages of time,” STATUS : S iepser’s venture got its sible among Hollywood Nickerson says. “In the meantime, start in 2009, when he decided that types. Hits from the whether it works or not, it’s still the tort system in medicine needed list have included The pleasurable.” to be replaced by a business model. Descendants and Slumdog He tested VisionLock in Florida, and by Millionaire. blcklst.com H elene Ragovin is a senior writer in February 2012, fourteen ophthalmological Tufts’ Office ofP ublications, editor of practices there were offering it. Now he’s Tufts Dental Medicine, and a crossword working on a plan to roll it out to the rest of T ell us about your innovative startups at fan who always has a puzzle in progress. the country. visionlock.com [email protected].

newswire continued M Eans OF EXPRESSION Born patients and others communicate. the former U.S. diplomat, grew the faculty with a condition that causes facial pa- SECRET LIFE OF BEES Noah Wilson- and student body and secured the fiscal ralysis, Kathleen Bogart, G12, draws Rich, G11, an ecologist who’s trying to soundness of the Tufts graduate school. on her experiences to help stroke determine what has killed more than a third

10 tufts magazine fall 2012 il l ustrations: harry campbell Dan Byrne’s Team Bright-Eyed

Line in the Sand The race was on to reach a tiny West African country

B y Mark Sullivan

here are three types of a five-thousand-foot pass in the Atlas intercontinental road rally, which raises fun in this world, accord- Mountains in Morocco at midnight in money to benefit children in West Africa. ing to Dan Byrne, E76: heavy snow with no guardrails and no One hundred fifty vehicles were pitted “Snow skiing under a blue headlights,” he recalls. “We later realized against each other in the race in January. sky, climbing a mountain, if we had taken a wrong turn we would Team Bright-Eyed, driving a diesel-pow- and ‘Holy mackerel, I can’t have fallen a thousand feet. At least it was ered 1995 Toyota Land Cruiser called the Tbelieve we made it through that, I thought pitch black so we couldn’t see how dan- Wildebeest, finished twenty-eighth out of we were going to die.’” gerous it was.” forty in its category, and raised $10,000 to- An opportunity for the third kind of He and his companions in Team ward a vocational school and an orphanage fun arose when Byrne and three team- Bright-Eyed—an entrepreneur named Art in Guinea Bissau. “This was on my bucket mates competed in Africa’s largest char- Edstrom; a writer for GQ Magazine, Sean list after climbing twelve-thousand-foot ity road rally, Budapest to Bamako 2012, Flynn; and Byrne’s son Conor, a pilot, rock Mount Adams in Washington and ahead covering 5,800 miles over two conti- climber, and “great navigator”—were the of visiting Antarctica,” Byrne says. nents. “We were driving off-road over first American squad to participate in the Byrne is an engineering entrepreneur

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based in Seattle. He founded a specialty for food. “In the first world, we have un- gas company that was acquired in 2006 limited choices,” he notes, “but in Africa by Airgas, the largest U.S. distributor of there were virtually no supermarkets. We industrial, medical, and specialty gases. had to go from shop to shop and didn’t Now he is working to commercialize even understand what was being sold. The temperature-control and refrigeration labels were in Arabic. Surviving on figs systems—powered by electricity or solar and nuts got old pretty fast.” energy—that could help deliver vaccines Then there was the recurring need to to the developing world. offer bribes, or “petits cadeaux,” to guards As a young man, he dropped out of at border crossings. Flashlights, tea, ban- Bates College to become an auto mechan- dages, and team hats usually did the trick, ic. For two years, he trained with General and “anything with ‘Obama’ was superb,” P aper Birch Motors, learning to fix Oldsmobiles and he says. Even the occasional flat tire pre- Buicks, then servicing Caterpillars. That sented memorable challenges to the for- B y Isa Milman, BSOT71 led to an epiphany. “I realized I wanted mer mechanic: in the western Sahara, to design these things,” he says. So he re- Byrne had to jack up a vehicle that was P eel me said the paper birch turned to college, at Tufts, to become an buried in sand up to its axles. That didn’t and I said yes engineer. “I was the only kid in my engi- stop the team from finishing in the top to the skin neering class who could rebuild a trans- twenty-five. yes to the songs of the invisible birds mission,” he recollects. Today his passion Byrne sums it up this way: “It was in the wood beyond, is renewable energy, and he is a sponsor amazing. It was grueling.” But if the hard- yes to the limbless tree and branches. of the cycling team and the hybrid rac- ships of the journey were out of the ordi- Yes to the turquoise wash ing team at Tufts. He has also established nary, the connections Byrne made with to the colour of spirit in the holy cities a scholarship in mechanical engineer- people were more exceptional still: “The to the memory of pyres. ing and an innovation fund to promote woman who runs the orphanage. A kid Yes the sacrifice ofI saac. hands-on learning. I have come to consider almost as a son. Yes our human terrors. Years from now, when he looks back The man who made us a fabulous meal Yes to the leaf like an outstretched hand on Budapest to Bamako 2012, Byrne will and said, ‘Welcome to Morocco.’ I’ll re- to the bony finger remember the floods, he says—his team member things like that.” to the inky lichen had to ford rivers, using a snorkel tube to to the feather maple make sure their motor didn’t drown. And Mark Sullivan, formerly Tufts Magazine’s to the moss. he’ll never forget what it was like to forage “News & Notes” editor, is a freelance writer. Yes to the ochre spore-beads to the lacy collar to the tall stem T he Wit and Wisdom of Daniel Patrick with its six-crowned tower. D.P.M. Moynihan, A48, F49, F61, H68 (1927–2003) Yes to the tufted cheat-grass yes to the wild violet to fat catkins carpeting the clearing. Yes to the crocheted strand of cedar. “N o one is innocent Yes, the velvet slipper the foot stepping one past the other after the experience yes, without destination. Yes to keep going. of governing. But not Yes. everyone is guilty.” From the new collection Something Small to Carry Home (Quattro Books). Used by permission.

newswire continued support system for people with cancer ESCAPE FROM FARMAGEDDON of the world’s honeybees, has made it his and other chronic conditions, says Lisa One breed of livestock vanishes from the business to encourage urban beekeeping. Gualtieri, a medical school faculty member planet every month. Why that’s bad and HEALIN G WORDS Blogging offers a who studies new media and health care. how Tufts veterinarians are helping.

12 tufts magazine fall 2012 il l ustration: dan page e u r e k a Right now, we’re working with mice that Scientists and engineers in their own words Bay D vid Levin have a genetic equivalent of human Down syndrome, and we’re using them to identify drugs that can help improve learning and Matthias Scheutz memory in their newborns. We’re years and his robot Cindy away from clinical trials, but I think it could eventually make a big difference for the lives of children with genetic disorders. In a way, the work we do is sort of the final fron- tier. In medicine, we put a lot of emphasis on the end of life, but we don’t have nearly as many resources to prevent problems at the very beginning of life.” —Diana Bianchi, executive director, Mother-Infant Research Institute, Tufts Medical Center

S topping Lyme Disease at the Source “T here’s no magic bullet against Lyme disease, but we may be able to target its R obots Who Understand People source. The bacterium that causes the “I want to make robots that will be genuine helpers to people. They might be used in eldercare disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, is carried by situations, for example—they could make sure older people take their medicine, help them small animals like mice. As tiny larval ticks get dressed, get out of bed, do all of the kinds of things a human helper would do. To achieve feed on the mice, they pick up the infection, this, though, we’ll need to able to interact with the robots in the same way we’d interact with which they spread to other animals when another human. So how do we get there? they feed again later in life. Right now, Well, the first ingredient is natural-language understanding.I t’s not enough to just un- there’s no human vaccine, but there is one derstand words, though—they’ll also have to understand subtle things like gestures, tone, that works on mice. If we can vaccinate context, and facial expressions. That means tying together lots of different areas of robotic them against Lyme, we may be able to sensing and processing, like computer vision, logic, reasoning, and so on. reduce the number of infected ticks. Normally, those systems can’t talk to one another, so my lab is creating software that Professor Linden Hu at Tufts Medical acts as an intermediary, and we’re testing it on a robot called Cindy. Using this software, Center and I are testing this idea right now, she can understand plain language and use context to determine what information she’ll using special bait containing the vaccine. As need to complete a simple task, like finding a box in a room. mice eat the bait, they become immunized It sounds simple, but underneath, it’s incredibly complex. To get there, we’ve needed to to Lyme, so they won’t infect ticks. We know understand what it takes to make a mind—something that can perceive, think, and act.” this method works in the lab. We’re now —Matthias Scheutz, associate professor of computer science and director of the working on getting the vaccine approved by Human-Robot Interaction Laboratory at the School of Engineering the USDA, and should be able to move into field trials in about two years.” Diagnosing Fetal ways to get the same genetic information. — Sam Telford, professor of infectious Genetic Disease One thing we’ve worked on is using free- diseases, Cummings School of “F or a long time, only two procedures have floating DNA—from the placenta—that is Veterinary Medicine been available to diagnose fetal genetic released into the mother’s blood. We have disorders. Both involve using a needle to helped to develop a simple blood test to ex- remove cells from either the placenta or tract that DNA without causing any harm to amniotic fluid that surrounds the fetus. By the fetus. Within the past year, this test has analyzing genetic material from those cells, already been incorporated into clinical care. you can tell for sure whether the fetus has It’s incredibly useful, but it still doesn’t a disorder like Down syndrome. solve the problem of what to do after diag- Unfortunately, these procedures come nosis. For me and my laboratory group, the with a risk of miscarriage, so for many years, challenge is how to treat genetic conditions my lab has been interested in noninvasive while the fetus is in the womb.

P hotos: alonso nichols (scheutz); kelvin ma (Telford) fall 2012 tufts magazine 13 planet tufts

laurels Trustee ALFRED TAUBER, A69, M73, is now York–Presbyterian/Columbia University a member of the International Board of Medical Center, where he was struck by BIG EAST COMMISSIONER Advisors. He is the Zoltan Kohn Professor the disparities in the way staff treated MIKE ARESCO, A72, F73, has been named Emeritus of Medicine at the Boston patients. His research interests include commissioner of the Big East athletic con- University School of Medicine and pro- end-of-life care for children, the bioethics ference. The appointment was made by a fessor emeritus in the College of Arts and of organ transplantation, children with unanimous vote of the league’s univer- Sciences of Boston University. disorders of sex development and gender sity presidents. The former executive vice identification nonconformity, and alloca- president of programming at CBS Sports, VISITING PROFESSOR IN U.K. tion of health-care resources for children. Aresco started his new job in September. DANIEL C. DENNETT, University Professor The Big East is becoming the first truly and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of DENTAL ACADEMIC DEAN national NCAA Division I conference, Philosophy at Tufts, has been appointed a NADEEM KARIMBUX is the new associ- with football-playing member schools in visiting professor at the New College of the ate dean for academic affairs at Tufts all four time zones and many institutions Humanities, which welcomed its inaugural School of Dental Medicine, with an aca- located in the nation’s top media markets. class of students to its London campus this demic appointment in the Department of fall. Dennett, who codirects Tufts’ Center Periodontology. He had served as assistant COURTHOUSE DEDICATION for Cognitive Studies, will contribute to dean for dental education at the Harvard The district courthouse in Quincy, the development of the college, particular- School of Dental Medicine. He was re- Massachusetts, has been renamed for ly in philosophy. He will also participate in cently appointed editor of the American FRANCIS X. BELLOTTI, A47, H79, whose the college’s professorial lecture program, Dental Education Association’s Journal of public service career in the state spanned and is scheduled to give his first series of Dental Education. more than sixty years, including terms as lectures beginning in January. lieutenant governor and attorney general. HONORARY DEGREE “The dedication of this courthouse is a TOP TEACHER ROBERT L. NORTON, G70, the Milton Prince great way to honor a man who has com- SHIRA FISHMAN, E01, a math teacher at Higgins II Distinguished Professor of mitted himself to serving others,” said McKinley Technology High School in Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Francis O’Brien, chairman of the Norfolk Washington, D.C., received a Milken Polytechnic Institute, received an hon- County Commissioners, the body that re- Educator Award from the Milken Family orary doctorate in engineering during names county buildings. Foundation. Established by the education WPI’s 144th commencement ceremony on reform leader Lowell Milken, the award May 12. “As an engineer and an educator, NEW ADVISORS celebrates exemplary teachers in kinder- Robert Norton has always found a way to DANIEL V. BYRNE, E76, chief technol- garten through grade twelve. It comes maintain a careful balance between theory ogy officer of Byrne Thermodynamic with a no-strings-attached cash prize of and practice,” his honorary degree citation Systems (and, coincidentally, the subject $25,000. A year ago, Fishman was named said. Norton, who received his master’s in of “Line in the Sand,” on page 11); MARK P. District of Columbia Public Schools engineering design from Tufts, holds thir- KESSLEN, E66, a partner with the business Teacher of the Year. teen patents and is the author of three text- law firm Lowenstein Sandler and chair of books, which have been widely translated. its intellectual property section; and MARK MEDICAL ETHICS AWARD M. MARTIN, G90, E13P, vice president of the JOEL FRADER, M74, professor of pediatrics THEATER MENTOR MEMS/Sensors Group at Analog Devices and of medical humanities and bioethics LAURENCE SENELICK, the Fletcher Inc., have been appointed to the Board of at the Northwestern University Feinberg Professor of Oratory, is the 2012 re- Advisors to the School of Engineering. School of Medicine, is the recipient of cipient of the Betty Jean Jones Award WILLARD H. DERE, M12P, senior vice presi- the American Academy of Pediatrics’ as Outstanding Teacher of American dent and global chief medical officer of 2012 William G. Bartholome Award for Theatre and Drama, presented by the Amgen Inc., and DAVID S. ROSENTHAL, Ethical Excellence. Frader became inter- American Theatre and Drama Society. M63, J87P, G88P, director of the Harvard ested in medical ethics nearly forty years The award recognizes university teachers University Health Services, are new advi- ago while he was an undergraduate and and scholars who have served as mentors sors to the School of Medicine. University working part-time as an orderly at New in the profession.

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14 tufts magazine fall 2012 F Itness 2.0. A state-of-the-art workout area, bracketed by mirrored walls and floor-to- ceiling windows, is just one attraction of the new Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center, which opened this fall. The new facility delivers a message that is felt keenly across campus, but one that the university’s older gym space frankly didn’t convey: that personal fitness and athletic endeavor matter here.T he eco-friendly 42,000-square-foot building on the Medford/Somerville campus also features new team locker rooms and a film classroom for off-the-field instruction. Watch a video and learn more at go.tufts.edu/fitness.

P hoto: kelvin ma fall 2012 tufts magazine 15 By Michael Blanding Photographs by john soares

In 1971 Janet MacIver, J69, a biophysicist, married Jim Baker, a mathematician. They were young and ambitious and wanted to have an impact on the world. So they decided to tackle the biggest technological challenge they could hope to solve in their lifetime: natural-language speech recognition. They pioneered a radical new approach and started Dragon Systems in 1982 to commercialize it. The company took off. People everywhere started using Dragon products for dictation or for communicating with devices. But before the Bakers could reap the full profit of their technology (which today is said to power the iPhone’s Siri), they entered into a business deal so disastrous it left them Speechless. J anet MacIver Baker, cofounder of Dragon Systems, speech recognition pioneer anet maciver baker, j69, simply calls it “the debacle.” it’s as saying in close to real time, with a practi- good a word as any to describe the cascade of events that led to the sud- cal degree of accuracy and a high degree den demise of Dragon Systems, the company she and her husband Jim of performance,” Baker says. “We figured it would take us twenty-five to forty years Jhad grown for decades, then lost virtually overnight. Living up to its to get there.” namesake’s reputation for power and creativity, Dragon cracked one of the At the time they made that choice, most intractable problems in computing—speech recognition technology. speech recognition was already a staple of Then, just as their successful business had merged with a larger company and science fiction adventures like Star Trek, Star Wars, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, was poised to grow worldwide, the Bakers watched as the company went bust, where robots and computers effortlessly taking all of their technology, employees, and money with it. responded to human speech—for good or for bad (“Just what do you think you Worse yet, they lost control of the pat- and just announced its own competitor to are doing, Dave?”). In reality, however, ents to their own ideas, and were now sud- Siri called Nina. None of this would be pos- the problem was not so easy to solve. denly barred from developing the technol- sible if it weren’t for a promise that Baker Computers might be good at arithmetic, ogy they’d pioneered. Baker has a word for and her husband made to each other more but they have only a fraction of the com- that, too: “Devastating,” she says. Sitting than forty years ago. putational power of the human brain. So at her dining table in an ornate Victorian Now in her sixties, Janet Baker flashes while humans can easily recognize the home in the Boston suburb of Newton, a warm smile as she lays out muffins and same word spoken in different tones and Baker clearly didn’t lose everything with coffee on a sun-splashed dining table. Her accents, computers exhibit a notorious tin the dissolution of her company. But even long gray hair is tied back in a no-non- ear for language. after more than a decade—and continuing sense ponytail, and she wears dangly ear- “There is huge variability in the way we lawsuits against those they deem respon- rings, gold-rimmed glasses, and a vaguely speak,” explains Baker. “I can say the same sible—she can’t talk about the debacle Asian-looking purple blouse. Dragons are word, word, wooord, wooooord?”—she without emotion. all around the house—with statuettes lin- alters the intonation half a dozen times— She plucks artifacts of Dragon Systems ing the mantle in the living room and a “and I can drastically change the way it from a large plastic bin filled with magazine two-hundred-pound sculpture guarding sounds. You recognize it as ‘word’ every clippings, articles from the New York Times the front hall. “In the Chinese world the time, even when there is a jackhammer or and the Wall Street Journal, and other dragon is the spirit of creativity, but every a lawnmower in the background. That’s mementos. Both of the Bakers have since culture has some powerful, untamed not easy.” Studies show that we humans landed on their feet. Jim is a Distinguished force,” she says. “We thought that speech often recognize words even when we don’t Career Professor at Carnegie Mellon, and and language was also a very powerful hear large parts of them—our brains fill helped found the Defense Department– force.” in the gaps automatically. How we do it, funded Human Language Technology The Bakers first vowed to tame that though, is an almost total mystery, depen- Center at Johns Hopkins University. Janet force soon after they married, during dent on a complex interplay of sensory and is a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab Columbus Day weekend of 1971. The cognitive brain functions. and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, two were doctoral students at Rockefeller But Baker had been trained in look- where she is researching how the brain University, in New York City, later trans- ing at problems from multiple direc- understands language. ferring to Carnegie Mellon University— tions at once. Growing up in Cambridge, And although their company disap- he a mathematician and she a biophysi- Massachusetts, she had already decided peared, the technology that Baker helped cist. Young and ambitious, they sought by the age of five that she was going to be invent lives on. In February 2010, the com- an area in which they could pool their a doctor. She remembers coming across pany that acquired Dragon’s patents and expertise to make a significant impact a hulking edition of Gray’s Anatomy in software, Nuance Communications, col- on the world. “We wanted to do some- her hallway bookshelf. Taught to read at laborated with Siri Inc., a spinoff of SRI thing that would be practical and useful an early age, she pulled it out and read International (formerly Stanford Research and more than a paper on a library shelf,” the foreword and was immediately dis- Institute), to unveil a new smartphone Baker says. “And we decided the goal had couraged. “The message was that you app, an intelligent assistant called Siri. Two to be satisfied in our lifetime.” can’t understand any system of the body months later, Apple acquired Siri Inc. for Making some rough estimates of the without understanding all of the other an undisclosed sum and made the app the computing power necessary to solve the systems, because they are all intercon- most hyped aspect of its iPhone 4S, released problem (and taking into account Moore’s nected,” she says. “I didn’t see how anyone last fall (Siri is also a big part of the new law, which predicts that microchips dou- could break into that loop.” The lesson iPhone 5). Nuance itself produces a suite ble in power about every two years), they stuck with her, however, as her interests of dictation programs based on Dragon settled on speech recognition as a worth- took her from clinical medicine to medi- NaturallySpeaking, licenses Dragon-brand while and attainable goal for their life’s cal research by high school. A friend was software to control everything from car work. “Our long-term goal was always to the son of a well-known neuroscientist at navigation systems to coffee makers to TVs, achieve a system to transcribe what you are MIT, Jerome Lettvin, who let her sit in on

18 tufts magazine fall 2012 Mementos of Dragon Systems, including photos of the Bakers demonstrating speech recognition, fill a tub in the couple’s home.

classes and even gave her lab space for her however, most researchers in speech rec- May 1982. They were a close-knit team, own experiments—a heady experience for ognition approached the task as a rule- sharing the work on both technical and a fifteen-year-old. based process, combining one or more of business fronts. When it came time for her to pick a those sources of information and applying They couldn’t afford large mainframes college, she chose Tufts, thanks in large certain rules to determine the word that or other custom hardware. Instead, they part to a new Experimental College pro- had been spoken. worked on small personal computers such gram, an intensive math and science cur- Jim pioneered a method to combine as the Apple IIe, streamlining and adapt- riculum funded by the National Science all of these knowledge sources into a ing mathematical equations that were typ- Foundation. The idea was for students to common mathematical model. He col- ically run on machines with much greater approach a problem—say, snake loco- lected statistics on the different sources of computing power. By 1984 they had cre- motion—simultaneously from different information, using probabilities to predict ated a prototype of a dictation system disciplines, including math, chemis- the words being spoken. As more speech that could transcribe words—Providing. try, physics, and biology. Baker’s roving becomes available, the system learns to The. Speaker. Paused. Between. Each. mind ate it up. “I’ve always been inter- make better predictions. “That was radical One. At first, it took twenty-two seconds ested in looking to see what one area of at the time, and even considered heretical for the computer to understand a single science can give to another,” she says. She by some,” says Janet Baker. “People were word. Over the next six years, however, applied that multidisciplinary approach saying you can’t model this, you can’t as computing power increased and they as she began focusing on how animals model that, but it turns out you can model made further advances, the response time process information, studying the neu- almost anything in this framework.” The shrunk to a fraction of a second. rophysiology of moth ears at Tufts, the approach quickly proved workable, though The company released the world’s visual receptors of horseshoe crabs at the computer industry did not adopt it for first general-purpose dictation system, Rockefeller University, and the acoustics more than a decade. DragonDictate-30K, in March 1990. of speech processing at Carnegie Mellon. After completing their doctorates at While the program was well received by Now turning her attention to the prob- Carnegie Mellon, the couple worked on the technical community and the press, lem of speech recognition, it was almost speech recognition at IBM and Verbex (a it didn’t break through with general con- like opening up Gray’s Anatomy all over division of Exxon Enterprises). But after sumers, who balked at the idea of pausing again. When humans take in speech, they a few years, they grew frustrated with the between words. Despite that drawback, process an incredible amount of informa- slow pace of development of the technol- there were major beneficiaries. People who tion—not only the unique characteristics ogy for commercial use. They decided couldn’t type, especially disabled people, of a person’s voice, but also the language to go it alone, opting to form a startup suddenly found that they could get jobs, being spoken, the topic of conversation, dedicated to advancing state-of-the-art go to school, produce email and reports, the speaker’s emotional state, and the speech recognition in practical, afford- and otherwise benefit from computers, all background noise. Like the systems of the able products and applications. With just because of the Dragon software. body, it’s hard to make sense of any one of $35,000 of personal savings—and a big Despite the modest success of Dragon- those without understanding the others. mortgage and two preschoolers to tend Dictate, the Bakers still hadn’t achieved At the time the Bakers began their quest, to—they founded Dragon Systems in the goal they set for themselves in 1971:

fall 2012 tufts magazine 19 to create a system that could transcribe business community, and made the “edi- Then came “the debacle.” continuous speech. This proved a tough tors’ choice” and “best of” lists in the In addition to hiring top lawyers and nut to crack. To recognize words without major computer magazines. Doctors, accountants, the Bakers paid $5 million pauses, the computer had to be able to lawyers, and average computer users could to the Wall Street firm of Goldman Sachs identify the beginning and end of words now just talk to create text and data. Now, to perform due diligence. Before consider- anywhere in the vocal stream—the dif- twenty-six years after the Bakers had first ing the offers, they wanted to make sure ference, say, between I love you and all of predicted success within twenty-five to the companies were on sound financial you or isle view. “That doesn’t sound like a forty years, they had reached their goal. footing and would come through on what big change,” says Baker, “but it turns out it As with many accomplishments, how- they promised. Looking back on the deci- takes from a hundred to a thousand times ever, the Bakers realized that this was sion now, Baker still insists they did the as much computational power.” After a only the beginning of a new journey. right thing. “We spent millions of dollars few years, they developed a prototype. Mainstream newspapers such as USA trying to do it the best way possible with Already, however, they were conscious Today and the New York Times, while the best partners we could find,” she says. of other companies—heavy-hitters like enthusiastic about the prospects of the new “We always had a policy of trying to find IBM and Microsoft—working on their technology, noted that it was not without the best possible people to do what could own speech recognition programs. Now its kinks—requiring substantial time to be done, but—” she continues, her voice within sight of their goal, the Bakers train the computer properly and still mak- lowering, “we lost big time.” sought an infusion of cash to pull them ing mistakes. “We had achieved our initial After merger arrangements with

A dozen years later, Baker still seems incredulous about the sudden reversal of fortune. “We kept on trying to get it back,” she says. “We tried to raise money to buy back a piece of it.” over the finish line first. Up to that point, goal, but we didn’t think we had achieved Visteon fell through, the Bakers decided the company had been completely self- our pinnacle,” acknowledges Baker. Now to go with L&H, signing a deal for $580 funded and debt free, growing entirely that they had cracked the nut of how to million. Initially, the deal was supposed through revenues from products, soft- transcribe speech, the Bakers redoubled to be half in cash and half in stock. But ware licenses, and some U.S. govern- their efforts to make the product better. just before signing, L&H spent a sub- ment research contracts. But competition In addition to improving the accuracy rate stantial amount to acquire another com- changed the game. of the software, they set out to exploit new pany, Dictaphone. The company asked In 1994, Dragon accepted $20 mil- applications. In short order, the company the Bakers for an all-stock deal instead, lion from the disk drive maker Seagate grew to four hundred employees, with six and they agreed. The deal went through Technology for a twenty-five percent different lines of research, including mul- in June 2000. The champagne had hardly stake in the company. The money went to tilingual dictation and transcription; tele- been drunk, however, before a Wall Street translating research code into marketable phone systems; embedded technologies for Journal reporter released a series of scath- form, as well as hiring a phalanx of sales cell phones, mobile devices, and auto navi- ing articles, starting in August, suggesting and marketing staff to launch the prod- gation; voice-enabled Internet, which was that L&H had cooked its books—that it uct with a splash within three years. (An just then becoming widespread; and audio had created fictitious orders to customers additional investment boosted Seagate’s mining for searching recorded speech for in Asia and blatantly fabricated revenues. stake to about thirty-five percent.) The specific words, topics, and speakers. By the end of November, L&H had gone result was Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Such an ambitious program would bankrupt, taking the Bakers’ company, the first general-purpose continuous require more cash. With revenues of and most of their money, with it. dictation system. All users had to do was nearly $70 million, Dragon Systems had A dozen years later, Baker still seems train the program to the sound of their a head start on all of these technologies, incredulous about the sudden reversal voice, and they could dictate notes and but the Bakers feared they wouldn’t keep of fortune. “We kept on trying to get it letters into word processing files, as well it for long with the big boys on their heels. back,” she says. “We tried to raise money as control their computer with simple Other companies had periodically offered to buy back a piece of it, and kept trying voice commands. On April 2, 1997, the to buy Dragon Systems—now the Bakers and trying until it became clear we were product was released into the world. seriously considered two such overtures, not going to get any of it back.” In the Dragon NaturallySpeaking was an one from Visteon, an $18 billion division fire sale that followed the bankruptcy, a instant success. It swept the awards of Ford Motor Company, and the other company called ScanSoft bought most of for the software industry, won acco- from Lernout & Hauspie, a $10 billion L&H’s assets—including the invaluable lades from both the technology and the Belgian speech software company. Dragon computer code—on the cheap.

20 tufts magazine fall 2012 T he Bakers’ breakthrough app, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, made tech headlines and dominated software awards in the late 1990s.

Siri’s critics, who fault the virtual assistant for her sometimes frustrating and less than helpful responses. Baker is bullish about the current boom in speech recognition applications, even if she isn’t at the heart of its proliferation. She compares it to the excitement over networks a decade ago, when connecting computers was a complicated feat. “Now people don’t think of networks, because they are integrated into everything we are doing,” she says. She envisions a world, not too far in the future, where speech technology is considered equally mundane. “Speech recognition will be most successful when it’s invisible, just incorporated into things as another way of inter- acting,” she says, “and you don’t have to Engaging in a speech company shopping to sue them. The financial services com- jump through hoops or go through a lot spree, ScanSoft acquired Nuance in 2005, pany has further demanded the Bakers pay of preparation to do it.” and took its name to become Nuance all its legal fees. The case is scheduled to go Besides lecturing on entrepreneurship Communications. to trial in November. at business schools and consulting on It wasn’t until 2010 that the executives Meanwhile, the Bakers have been left speech technology at the MIT Media Lab, from L&H were held accountable for their to pick up the pieces, watching helplessly Baker has returned to her roots in biol- crimes. Nearly a decade after the company while Nuance’s stock value has skyrock- ogy. As a researcher at Harvard Medical collapsed, its founders, Jo Lernout and eted in recent years, now exceeding $7 School, she studies the most complex Pol Hauspie, were convicted in a Belgian billion. (The company made an estimated computer there is: the human brain. Even court of accounting fraud and sentenced $60 to $120 million on the Apple deal as Siri and other programs have begun along with two other executives to three- alone). “We lost big time,” Baker repeats to mimic the brain’s potential, the way to five-year terms. Because of overcrowd- quietly. “But life goes on.” This year in humans understand language is still a ing in the Belgian prisons, though, their Kyoto, Jim and Janet Baker were honored black box to neuroscience. Using tools like sentences were all commuted and they “for fundamental contributions to the the- magnetoencephalography that didn’t exist served little actual time. The Bakers ory and practice of automatic speech rec- decades ago, Baker has gone back to square have filed suit against Goldman Sachs in ognition” with what amounts to a lifetime one, trying to understand how the brain U.S. District Court in Boston for a bil- achievement award by the international distinguishes between different words and lion dollars in damages, alleging that the engineering trade association IEEE, which concepts. “We started speech recognition company failed to vet L&H’s finances— declared in an award ceremony that the with only ten or twenty words,” says Baker, a case that could go to trial as early as pair has “reshaped the field of automatic referring to the early days of Dragon, this fall. Under advice from her lawyers, speech recognition.” when calculating how to transcribe even Baker won’t talk about the lawsuit, but a Apple won’t talk about how much that many words was an accomplishment. long feature story in the New York Times Dragon’s software undergirds the infra- Now, with the brain, she says, “we are back this summer detailed a string of mis- structure of Siri, and Baker won’t talk to ten-word recognition. We can do pretty steps by Goldman, in which the company about Siri, either. It’s public knowledge, well figuring out when and where it’s hap- entrusted the deal to four unsupervised though, that during the development of pening, but exactly how it’s doing it is still junior executives, who failed to ade- the software, Nuance contributed the por- a mystery.” quately check L&H’s customers. tion that transcribes a user’s speech—both If the dragon is the symbol of power For its part, Goldman Sachs has argued for transcribing voice to text messages, and creativity, then the brain might be the in court papers that checking L&H’s finan- notes, and emails, and for asking Siri ques- most formidable beast of all. T cials was not Goldman’s responsibility, tions like “Where can I find a hamburger but was properly the role of its accounting joint?” It was Siri Inc. that developed the Michael Blanding, a frequent contributor, firm, Arthur Andersen. Besides, Goldman app’s natural-language-understanding is author of The Coke Machine: The Dirty has argued, since the deal was made by the “back end,” the part that figures out Truth Behind the World’s Favorite Soft Drink board of Dragon Systems—a business that appropriate responses to those questions. (Avery, 2010) and is at work on his next no longer exists—the Bakers have no right So Baker probably escapes blame from book, The Map Thief (Gotham, 2013).

fall 2012 tufts magazine 21 Downton Abbeys

A behind-the-cordon tour of England’s great country houses

By Hugh Howard, A74 illustrations by paul cox

The ninth Duke and Duchess of Devonshire take tea with their family at Chatsworth.

22 tufts magazine fall 2012 fall 2012 tufts magazine 23 he lilting voice that floated across his grand garden proved to be nothing less than a siren song for Sir Harry Fetherstonaugh, the seventy-year-old bachelor squire of the fine country house known as Uppark, in West Sussex. In younger days, Fetherstonaugh (1754–1846) had been a boon companion of the profligate Prince of Wales, since enthroned as King George IV. But retired to Uppark, the aging baronet was belatedly to discover domestic bliss in a most unlikely place, namely the farmyard of his estate. Just months after first hearing her sweet voice, he married his twenty-year-old junior dairy maid,T the rather plain Mary Ann Bullock. It was, of course, an act of social suicide—Mary Ann, even after a trip to Paris to acquire the social graces, spoke with all the polish of the flower seller Eliza Doolittle.

Such upstairs-downstairs stories are a serious cook, with a belly to match— he observed dryly, his English as impec- irresistible to Americans and Britons alike. explained the houses’ array of food prepa- cable as his suit. “They were never there.” Lately, they have been a mainstay of the ration areas, which might consist of more Watching him carefully reset the PBS series Downton Abbey, a sudsy cocktail than a dozen discrete spaces, among them pieces, I recognized my good fortune to of love and war with the deeper narrative a salting room, brush room, bakehouse, be in the company of such well-versed fel- of the British ruling class: the struggle of brewery, still room, and buttery, in addi- low travelers to the past. My colleagues Lord Grantham and his family to maintain tion to larders, and pastry, vegetable, and possessed expertise in ceramics, silver, their equilibrium in the face of dramatic main sculleries, and, finally, the kitchen. and the Red Books (volumes of “before” shifts in their social landscape. Downton— Such talks left me, even after twelve hours and “after” views) of the landscape like the works of Evelyn Waugh and Jane of touring and highbrow discussion, designer Humphry Repton. The painting Austen—offers a glimpse of an ordered bound for the pub to compare notes with curators talked of attribution, varnishes, world now faded. So, too, do the historic other Attingham Fellows. and impasto; the architectural historians house museums the aristocracy has left As I took in the world of the English sought clues to how and why structures behind: great mansions like Uppark, set in aristocracy, the hierarchy of the peerage had changed over the centuries. immense parklands and home to priceless assumed a new significance (in descend- From the first day, however, the canvases and objets d’art. ing order, it’s duke to marquis, earl, vis- most vital moments for me concerned In 2011, I spent my summer vacation count, baron, and baronet). I learned that the people for whom these extravagant in Lord Grantham’s world. I was one of the country house, which depended upon mansions were home. People like Evelyn four dozen fellows of Britain’s Attingham income from the estate, was truly home, Forbes James, who a century ago was Summer School, which, each year since even though one might go to London the lady of the house at West Dean in 1952, has filled a coach bus with an inter- for “the season.” That home was linked West Sussex, and was said to be the ille- national coterie of curators, architects, through a matrix of socioeconomic fac- gitimate daughter of the Prince of Wales college professors, archivists, conservators to its surrounding community—vil- (later Edward VII). tors, and other devotees for a private tour lagers, local business, and even factories One Sunday morning Lady James of English country estates. The stops are and extraction industries. More than a called up the great winding stair to the mostly to houses operated as museums, few aristocratic families in earlier cen- nursery. “Nanny,” she ordered, “I need a but sometimes they include homes rarely, turies secured their position with the child to go to church with.” if ever, open to the hoi polloi. profits from coal dug from their acres. At Wanting to please her mistress, the Our group was on the road every one estate, Erdigg on the Welsh border, servant replied, “Which one, ma’am?” morning and afternoon, visiting more the colliery extended beneath the house Evelyn James’s answer: “The one that than three dozen country houses over the itself, which, as a result, began to subside goes best with my blue dress.” course of three weeks. In the evenings, we into the earth. The baby of the family was Edward. listened to lectures on ecclesiastical archi- By my second week as an Attingham Whether or not his mother’s detached tecture, Baroque (that is, “Baa-ROCK”) Fellow, I felt empowered to step over the approach to nurturance had anything furniture, and a dozen other specialties, velvet ropes into territory normally for- to do with it, Edward became a poet, a accumulating stores of knowledge about bidden to visitors. The conservators in patron of the arts, and an eccentric with such matters as the tapestries at Hardwick the group liked nothing better than to a consuming passion for the surrealists. Hall and the famous Holbein portrait invert a chair and investigate its webbing, Thanks to him, the James estate eventu- of Henry VIII at Belvoir (pronounced glue blocks, and secondary woods. At one ally became West Dean College, where “Beaver”) Castle. The food historian Peter house, a Dutch decorative arts curator students today learn conservation and Brears delivered one of the best presenta- removed a pair of stools from the foot of restoration, as well as tapestry weaving tions. This bearded bear of a man—he’s the bed in a state bedroom. “It is wrong,” and other crafts.

24 tufts magazine fall 2012 was designated to join the duke at table. A one-percenter for the ages (the Cavendish who built Chatsworth was a courtier to Henry VIII), he opened our conversation disarmingly. “I am embarrassed to say I’ve not read any of your books,” he offered, his eyes hooded, his gaze direct. Why would he have? I asked myself, but before I could respond, he added, “But I think you know something of Mr. Jefferson?” If he hadn’t read any of my prose, he certainly had gone to the trouble of reviewing my bio—which mentions my two books on Thomas Jefferson—and we were soon swapping stories about American presidents. No doubt he has a rooting interest, as his uncle was married to John F. Kennedy’s sister Kathleen before their premature deaths (his in World War II, hers in a car crash in 1948). But soon enough the conversation came around to Chatsworth. His family home is quite evidently the duke’s passion, and every detail engages him. The house is now operated by the Chatsworth Trust (the family pays rent for their quarters), but since he suc- ceeded to the dukedom on the death of his father in 2004, there is no doubt who is in charge at the 126-room dwelling. A new master plan he commissioned is in place. Many rooms and objects have been reinstalled. A man in his late sixties with a mobile face that always seems to convey his interest in the topic under discussion, he offered forthright opinions. We talked of an ongoing exterior restoration, and I “Lady James called up to the nursery, asked about the regilding of the windows, ‘Nanny, I need a child to go to church with.’ ” a touch that would give the palace the look of an immense jewel box. “Oh, you mean the bling?” he offered with a sly smile. After a pause, his face o walk from room to room which the last generation sold a good suddenly serious, he added, “It will be in some of the grand houses many of the finest paintings to pay off wonderful to see the house as my ances- is to view the ancestral past death duties assessed at eighty percent tors saw it.” T of a given family and to sur- of the estate’s value. When asked about the absence of vey the evolution of British painting— Chatsworth is currently occupied labels on the pictures, he gave me an in family portraits by Kneller, Van by the twelfth Duke of Devonshire, immediate answer. “It’s a house,” he said Dyck, Reynolds, West, Gainsborough, Peregrine Cavendish, and the Duchess, firmly but kindly. Not“ a museum.” Romney, Lawrence, Sargent, and even Amanda Carmen Heywood-Lonsdale Here, I believe, he was conveying more Lucian Freud. At Chatsworth, a palace Cavendish. When our group visited, the than a simple insistence on the domes- that some call “National Gallery North,” couple served lunch in one of the event tic. Country houses are big business in all of those artists are represented, along rooms, where women from the village the United Kingdom; Chatsworth and with Da Vinci, Raphael, and Rembrandt. waited on us. Perhaps because of my sta- its surrounding parkland alone welcome And, mind you, this a collection from tus as an elder amongst the scholars, I some seven hundred thousand visitors a

fall 2012 tufts magazine 25 “I drifted into Flintham’s library and found a number of my colleagues flopped on sofas.”

26 tufts magazine fall 2012 year. And as the duke’s words implied, he paintings in this case are by lim- Flintham is a mansion of mid-nine- is keenly aware that while the properties ners, uneducated itinerant artists who teenth-century character that remains in afford countless lessons about England’s worked before and after the turn of family hands. We had explored the house, cultural, economic, military, and royal the nineteenth century. These crudely visited the garden, and chatted with the history, the paying public often comes to executed pictures are accompanied by owner, a London barrister, and were see how the aristocracy really lived—and photographs taken a hundred or more about to walk to the bus when a sudden continues to live. years later. And every likeness is that hard rain delayed matters. Visitors to the estates are inevitably of a servant—a carpenter, housemaid, I drifted into Flintham’s library, an awed by the sheer scale of the archi- gardener, gamekeeper, housekeeper, or expansive space with book-lined balco- tecture. As an Americanist, I under- butcher—many of them with the tools nies reached by a spiral stone stair, and stood that our greatest early villas were of their trade in hand. found a number of my colleagues flopped descended from the English country house. But on the Attingham tour, there was no mistaking the vastly larger scale of At Kedleston, my first impression on the English antecedent even in compari- son to a vaunted national monument such entering the central hall was that as George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Jefferson’s Monticello could be put on At Kedleston, a domed masterwork by the architect Robert Adam, my first impres- display—in its entirety—within the sion on entering the central hall was that another domed house, Thomas Jefferson’s cavernous volume of that one room. Monticello, could be put on display—in its entirety—within the cavernous vol- If Lord Grantham’s kindness to his on sofas, idly writing in their notebooks ume of that one room. servants at Downton Abbey seems to or reading. As the time passed (the shower The weeks amounted to a short course some ahistorical, the Yorkes at Erddig proved persistent), others wandered in on British architecture. Our travels took amount to a notable precedent. And from elsewhere in the large house, where us to several buildings by Joseph Paxton, their example debunks the notion that they had been examining furniture and whose 1851 glass-and-iron Crystal Palace Britain’s upstairs-downstairs narratives good pictures. Some took photographs was a monument to both the Industrial were always confined to the realm of of the scene, and the big room seemed Revolution and England’s might, and scandal and romance. Indeed, our group happy to absorb us all. The interlude was by John Nash, one of the architects of learned that a Victorian-era housekeeper accompanied by the sound of water run- Buckingham Palace. I was amused to at Uppark, the same estate where Sir ning off the forty-foot-tall vaulted glass learn that, like our countryman Frank Harry Fetherstonaugh succumbed to the roof of the adjacent conservatory. Lloyd Wright, Nash repeatedly designed charms of his young dairymaid, later gave For an instant, the sensation came sophisticated buildings with leaky roofs. birth to another low-class individual who over me that we were truly inhabiting a The most remarkable architectural improved his social standing in a very country house, not just inspecting it, jot- features we encountered were not always different manner. The housekeeper’s son ting notes about it, or listening to wise the work of acknowledged masters. At grew up to be a writer named H.G. Wells. people instruct us. This extraordinary Welbeck, the intensely shy “Burrowing group of trained observers—all of whom Duke” constructed two-and-a-half miles I had come to like and admire—had of underground tunnels, some of them become more than tourists. We were, large enough for a horse and carriage. or the record, our itiner- however briefly, accidental guests. And at Erddig, an immense house on the ary did not include Highclere I might suggest we were lost in time. Welsh border packed with generations of Castle, home to the Earl and One could imagine that the fox hunt- objects, everything is inverted. Visitors F Countess Carnavon, the grand ers would be back from the fields at any arrive—it’s been a National Trust site Gothic wedding cake of a house that mil- moment, drenched but exhilarated. Or since 1973—as if they were tradesmen or lions have come to know on PBS. Having that tea was to be served or whiskey and servants. The farm and stable yards are toured many similar houses, however, I sherry offered round. And that the mon- on the approach, as is the slaughterhouse, can now both appreciate the drama of arch was Edward rather than Elizabeth. sawmill, and a dozen other trade build- Downton Abbey and recognize that its None of that was true, of course. But I ings. The kitchen and laundry wing are evocation of the past often depends on the do think it was why we had come. T next, and one enters the house at the ser- mere sketched-in outline of a single imag- vant level, the lower ground floor. ined moment. We Attingham scholars Hugh Howard, A74, is the author of Mr. There the basement passage amounts had one such vignette of our own, though and Mrs. Madison’s War, the subject of to a kind of long gallery, but one featur- no film crew was at hand. It occurred at his upcoming talk on the Tufts Medford/ ing portraits quite unlike Chatsworth’s Flintham Hall in Nottinghamshire. Somerville campus (November 15, 2012, parade of dukes and duchesses. The Like Downton (I mean, Highclere), 3:30–5 p.m., Tisch Library).

fall 2012 tufts magazine 27 in the ofANIMALS A people doctor finds his true calling

the doctor is on his way, but his patients appear not to notice. they are too busy grunting, clucking, slithering, lolling on their sides, hopping from perch to perch, or stamping their huge feet. Some are quite sick; others are recovering nicely from injury or illness. Some are in a nasty mood. Others raise their heads as the man in khakis, a stethoscope dangling from his neck, draws near. He treats them all the same, with a deft, compassionate touch punctuated by a medley of soft, soothing sounds. As he makes his rounds at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, Jim Grillo, V05, is a man in his element. The zoo, which has about fifteen hundred animals living on fifty-eight acres, is known for its tropical species, naturally suited to the zoo’s parklike terrain, with its stands of live oak and dangling Spanish moss. The sixty-four-year-old Grillo is one of three full-time vets working here. He radiates an easy, unassuming manner that must have served him well during the twenty-five years when his patients were human and he was a head and neck surgeon in New York City—before he made his dramatic midlife shift into veterinary medicine. He’s not the typical big-city surgeon who powers his way forward by sheer force of personality. Rather, this doctor steals up on you without fanfare. “Uh, hello,” he says quietly, glancing down. Grillo is of medium height. He has gentle brown eyes. Like sunlight and water, he is suited to this animal kingdom. Jim Grillo, physician-turned- veterinarian, examines one of a pair of Asian elephants on his morning rounds at New Orleans’ Audubon Zoo.

ANIMALS

By Bruce Morgan Photographs by Alonso Nichols Two powerfully coiled Bengal tigers await us at the first stop on his rounds. Grillo clucks to them through the bars. “Who’s my boy? Who’s my big boy?” he says to the nearest cat. The tiger responds with a low, throaty exhalation known as chuffing, indicating contentment, Grillo says. Neither tiger needs medical attention today. Next door, an Indonesian pig called a babirusa, with small, tightly curved tusks on either side of the snout, instinc- tively flops down to have her back stroked as Grillo approaches. “She’s kind of shy,” he notes as he caresses the pig through the bars while murmuring, again and again, “Who’s my girl, who’s my girl, who’s my good girl?” Droppings the size of grapefruit dot the floor of the giant shed leading to the next consultation. Two elephants stand side by side in the open air, tended by a young woman. One is forty-eight years old, the other thirty-nine. They have been together for more than three decades. Grillo leans on the enclosure fence, beaming at the pair before entering to examine them. As one elephant lifts a giant foot for inspection, it occurs to me—strangely, but also obviously—that these patients can’t talk. If they have been hurt, they can’t say how. If they feel pain, they can’t say where. This makes treatment something of a guessing game, but there’s also a positive side to the animals’ muteness. “They can’t lie to you,” says the doctor archly. The animals have to be observed closely for changes in behavior—a slackening of appetite, a hitch in the stride. “That’s why I like to be out with the animals as much as I can,” Grillo says. Some animals give up their medical history more easily than others. A male rhinoceros, for example, is unfazed by the concerted clapping and calling of Grillo and a staffer, who are determined The animals have to be to get the huge, armor-clad animal to swing toward them for a quick exami- observed closely for changes nation. Eventually, the beast gazes at in behavior—a slackening of them, or somewhat toward them. This rhino appears to be doing fine. A second appetite, a hitch in the stride. rhino, a female, recently had one of her “That’s why I like to be out two horns knocked off—no one knows how—and Grillo has treated the site of with the animals as much the injury. “She’s recovering nicely,” he as I can,” Grillo says. says, after examining the spot and pat- ting her lightly on the head.

30 tufts magazine fall 2012 Clockwise, from left: A golden lion tamarin, a monkey native to Brazil, is one of Grillo’s charges at the Audubon Zoo; Grillo checks out a female rhino that lost one of her horns; the doc conducts an ultrasound on a Fiji Island iguana; a great horned owl keeps watch over the zoo.

fall 2012 tufts magazine 31 Minutes later, we visit Daphne, a tapir school at Tufts. He was fifty-three, older that Grillo characterizes, only partly by far than any other student. tongue-in-cheek, as “one of my long- The transition had its challenges. term relationships.” Daphne, a large Grillo worried he had forgotten much piglike creature with a stubby snout, is of the science he once knew cold. The lying on her side in a grassy pen. She is approach of his first chemistry quiz filled twenty-five years old, somewhat arthritic him with dread. He was too modest to in her late middle age, and recover- tell his colleagues about his career as a ing from a toe infection that required surgeon. And yet, one of his professors, daily treatment for about a year. Grillo Larry Engelking, recalls, “he proceeded approaches her with a wide grin. “Been to jump right up to the top of the class.” awhile, Daphne, been awhile,” he mur- Determined to work at a zoo when he murs before dropping to his knees beside graduated, he applied for jobs around her and hugging her around the neck. the country and was hired at Audubon “Hey, my sweetie,” he says. in the fall of 2006. Daphne’s eyes get squinty and her head Out among the animals, the applause rears back as he strokes her belly—signs is slight. One of Grillo’s favorite of tapir bliss, according to a young staffer patients—though he’s reluctant to say standing nearby. Animals with chronic “favorite” aloud for fear of offending oth- conditions are the ones Grillo forms the ers in his care—is a ruffed lemur named strongest attachments to. “You get to love Stella, age twenty-nine, whose problems them,” the doc explains. “Daphne had us include a cardiac murmur and a chronic all worried for a while.” infection in one foot. Grillo has already performed several surgeries on her. “Once grillo has enjoyed being near ani- they’re in their late twenties, sometimes mals throughout his life. They embody there may not be much you can do,” he for him a quality he describes as “mysti- says, and you can hear the comforting cal.” It was entirely in keeping with his tone that he must have employed with character that on his first day in New patients and their families during his sur- York City—after completing medical gical days back in Manhattan. A lemur is school at Dartmouth and entering sur- a monkey-like creature, but the kindness gical residency at Roosevelt Hospital in translates well. Manhattan—he should venture over Alone, Grillo enters an area that con- to the Bronx Zoo. He thought he might tains a moat and some small trees and offer his services, both as a physician to a rounded hut, like something out of the staff and as a consultant on surgical The Flintstones. There he drops down procedures. on one knee to examine Stella. First, he There he met Emil Dolensek, the zoo’s strokes her tenderly to calm her. Then legendary chief veterinarian. “He was he says, “Let’s listen,” applying his the best person I ever knew, and the stethoscope to her skinny chest. He most profound influence in my life,” continues talking quietly to her for a Grillo says. During his residency, the while, unobserved except by a photog- young surgeon spent two days a week rapher and me. We are twenty yards dis- at the zoo, and remained in touch with tant, standing on an arched bridge over Dolensek after launching his surgical a culvert, unable to hear most of what practice, right up until his mentor’s he’s saying. It’s a cloudy Monday morn- death in 1990. ing in New Orleans. There’s a rush from Then, in 1999, Grillo hit one of those a waterfall behind us and the sound of turning points in life, after he was diag- tropical birds squawking and pealing nosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Long high in the wind. days spent lying in the hospital and, later, Jim Grillo is hard at work, erasing the rounds of chemotherapy gave him ample last imaginary lines between the animal time to think about his path, and in par- kingdom and ours. t ticular the road not traveled, the road lined with animals, which he still had Bruce Morgan is the editor of Tufts time left to explore. In 2001 Grillo shut Medicine magazine. A version of this article down his practice and entered veterinary appeared in Tufts Veterinary Medicine.

32 tufts magazine fall 2012 Animals with chronic conditions are the ones Grillo forms the strongest attachments to. “You get to love them,” he says.

C lockwise, from top left: Grillo greets Daphne, a twenty-five-year-old tapir with a touch of arthritis; peacocks have free run of the zoo; a favorite patient is Stella, a black-and-white ruffed lemur with a heart murmur and a foot infection; a South American crested curassow eyes the camera.

fall 2012 tufts magazine 33 M keover

34 tufts magazine fall 2012 A woman, a plan, a canal

By David Menconi

M keover

fall 2012 tufts magazine 35 ou could say that mia restore thirty-two miles of the river and The Army Corps of Engineers built Guttfreund Lehrer, J75, has transform the areas around it with green the river’s concrete culverts in the 1930s a complicated relationship open space and smart development. for flood control—which became neces- with the Los Angeles River— Creating an oasis of parkland within sary when freeways, neighborhoods, and which, in its current form, is a sprawling metropolis has irresistible commercial development encroached less a river than a rift, a con- appeal. And yet even the architect remak- on the flood plains. While the project crete drainage ditch dividing the City of ing it has some fondness for the current served its purpose, it also carved up the Angels. Lehrer has been trying to improve concrete behemoth. “No matter what you city, isolating communities from each the channelized culvert in various ways think of it, it’s a beautifully engineered other. Over time, a movement to remake since the late 1990s, when she and her kids piece of infrastructure,” Lehrer says. “A the river took hold among the public and would join volunteer cleanup crews to haul lot of it is pretty exquisite.” within local government. out trash. But in recent years, her work on To the world at large, the L.A. River Enter Lehrer, who came to Tufts from the L.A. River has become more transfor- is as recognizable a feature of the city a worldly background in her native El mational. A renowned landscape architect as the big HOLLYWOOD sign up in Salvador (her father was the Salvadoran specializing in large environmental and the hills. The channel has served as a ambassador to Israel for ten years, and infrastructure projects, Lehrer designed movie set for countless films, including Mia was one of five siblings who all went the City of Los Angeles’ master plan for the Grease, Chinatown, The Italian Job, and to college abroad). Lehrer began study- river, which looks to completely remake it. 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in ing architecture at a time when the field The master plan is a $3 billion public- which California’s future governor raced was becoming more multidisciplinary, works project that will take decades to through it on a motorcycle with a cyborg- integrating elements of city planning, bring to fruition, funded by a complex web driven semi in hot pursuit. At public talks geology, and hydrology. She pursued a of city, state, and federal sources, includ- she gives about the master plan, Lehrer self-designed major at Tufts called envi- ing a White House initiative, America’s includes such scenes in a video tribute to ronmental design, then earned a master’s Great Outdoors. Ultimately, the plan will the river’s pop-culture status. in landscape architecture at Harvard.

36 tufts magazine fall 2012 Left: The L.A. River’s broad culverts date from the 1930s (shown is the Dayton Avenue Bridge as it appeared in 1940).

Below: A helicopter pursuit in the movie Blue Thunder is one of countless chase scenes shot against the river’s stark expanse of concrete.

Opposite: Under Mia Lehrer’s master plan, the L.A. River becomes the city’s “green spine,” with pedestrian paths, inflatable dams, and even fish ladders.

Drawn to water early on, she wrote her L.A., the river has concrete edges, nobody To control flooding, the river will be Tufts thesis on the destruction wrought goes there, and it’s something that sepa- deepened. During times of heavy rain, a by the damming of a Salvadoran river. rates rather than unites the city.” With network of temporary inflatable dams will “We’ve since learned a lot how not to treat the arid climate, the river fills up only in control water flow. Removing the steep rivers,” she says. “But rivers can be very periods of heavy rain. “Most of the time,” concrete banks will also create a more daunting, complex projects.” Lehrer says, “it’s a gash through the city.” natural environment for animals. When she set up her practice in Los But a gash can be healed. Lehrer’s Done right, the river’s metamorpho- Angeles in the early 1990s, she found that architectural firm entered a competition sis could turn what was once a boundary her multidisciplinary training lent itself sponsored by the Los Angeles City Council into a greenway network that unifies the well to waterfront projects. In addition to to design the master plan for revitalizing city—turning barriers into bridges. “My many inland transformations—the rede- the river, and won it in 2009. Parts of the vision is to create a new kind of place that velopment of Hollywood Park, for exam- plan—bikeways, small parks, and such— brings communities together socially, ple, and the conversion of a Marine base are being built as demonstration projects economically, and environmentally,” into Orange County Great Park—she to give people a feel for the more ambitious Lehrer says. “This is an opportunity to continually returns to coastal areas and components still in the works. In all, there bring all that together and create a sense riverfronts. One such project is the rede- are three hundred projects to implement: of place along the river—from grey to velopment of a river in São Paulo, Brazil, parks, greenways, bridges (pedestrian and green, from concrete and asphalt to a a long-term undertaking she describes as automotive alike), and mixed-use com- better-functioning place.” T difficult because of the region’s rudimen- mercial/residential development with tary sewer systems. clean technology. Some of the old river- DA VID MEnconi is the music critic at The L.A. River is more complex still. side buildings will be preserved and repur- the News & Observer in Raleigh, North “It’s easy to look at most rivers and see posed. There’s talk, Lehrer says, of turning Carolina, the author of a biography of the that that’s what they are,” Lehrer says. an erstwhile minimum-security jail into a musician Ryan Adams, and a frequent “There’s a lot of water, green edges. But in museum about the river’s history. contributor to this magazine.

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When Galton completed his task, he even suggest that the willingness to was surprised to find that the prototypi- cheat on a partner is influenced by that cal criminal face was . . . beautiful. He person’s degree of symmetry relative to had become the accidental father of a the prospective lover’s. new approach to understanding which Our choice of mate, of course, is the human animal features humans find attractive. based on a suite of characteristics, not When the images were combined, just facial attractiveness. Moreover, each individual’s small imperfec- our choices differ according to our tions—wrinkles, scars, or blemishes— gender, our age, our experiences, and Inherently disappeared from the final photo. The our current and long-term goals. But resulting composite faces appeared to the extent that faces matter, Galton’s Beautiful youthful and healthy. Humans find accidental uncovering of traits that we these characteristics especially attrac- commonly associate with attractiveness A Victorian experiment tive, as they indicate fertility. remains significant. revealed much about faces And it isn’t surprising that we are As a means of identifying criminal attracted to traits indicating fertil- facial types, his photographic technique by Philip Starks ity. From an evolutionary perspective, became as irrelevant as another one of choosing a partner is particularly his ideas: eugenics, a field with its own important. Not only should we be well-earned social stigma. But in fair- rancis galton loved photog- attracted to fertile individuals, but we ness to Galton, I should point out that raphy and hated criminals. As should also be attracted to individuals he also invented twin studies, devel- F a man of means, he combined with the best genes. oped statistical techniques, showed these passions with a hope to both develop technical skills and provide a service to society. Using the best technol- The willingness to cheat on a partner may ogy of the day, and a captive and thus patient subject pool, Galton set out to be influenced by that person’s symmetry reveal the essential criminal face. This was a tall order, and one made relative to the prospective lover’s. no easier given the state of photography in the late 1800s. Galton—a versatile But how do you infer someone’s how fingerprints could be classified for scientist and inventor—designed his genetic quality just by looking at the forensics, produced the first weather own equipment and perfected a method person? Again, Galton’s prototypical map, and much more. of combining the likenesses of different criminal face suggests an answer. One But for a biologist like myself who subjects into a single blended image. variation that faded to the background both adores and is fascinated by the The logic, like the eventual images, was in the composite images was the slight human animal, his lasting message is flawless: superimposing images would deviation we all have from bilateral especially satisfying. Galton was the allow for meaningless variation to drift symmetry. The resulting image was of a first to use science to show that when into the background, while pulling highly symmetrical face. Many biologists you look at enough of us, and allow the essential similarities to the foreground. today think that symmetry is a reliable variation to fade to the background, Surely what shone through should external indicator of good genes. what emerges is undeniable: as a collec- be the pure criminal essence. With Research has shown that we rate tive, humans are inherently beautiful. the prototypical criminal face thus highly symmetrical faces more attrac- identified, trials could be sped up, and tive, that we are more committed to Philip Starks, an associate professor individuals might even be sequestered highly symmetrical partners, and even of biology at Tufts, studies the social before they fulfilled their criminal that sex with a symmetrical partner is behavior of animals, with an emphasis on destiny. But that isn’t what happened. more fulfilling. Some provocative data insects.

38 tufts magazine fall 2012 illustrations:illusa tr tions: dan page practice. These rules support an environ- and an understanding of teambuilding. ment where players take great pride in Sport knowledge and track record are their sports commitment, but not at the also important, but not at the expense expense of their academic experience. of these personal qualities. We look They are true student-athletes. At a uni- for leaders who understand why Tufts guest thinker versity like Tufts, sports should be in syn- invests in sports: for its educational ergy with academics, not in competition value. Coaches like this can be wonderful with it. While the academic experience influences in the lives of young people. is clearly the lifeblood of the institution, We also understand that sports can Sports experiences outside of the classroom, strengthen a community. Last year, we such as varsity sports, complement that started an initiative called Fan the Fire: Versus education in significant ways. Spirit, Sports, and Service (you can learn Division III is about balance and about it at bit.ly/fanthefire). At first, our Academics commitment to excellence in all phases goal was to draw more support for our of life. In the athletics arena one learns teams by creating events that highlighted Division III strikes the about working hard, bouncing back, both sports competition and charities right balance and, above all, teamwork. A few years that our teams support. The women’s ago, a Cornell College baseball player soccer team, for example, is affiliated by William Gehling, A74, G79 summed up Division III this way: with Team Impact, an organization that brings student athletes together in It’s a bigger part of us than our friends service of children with life-threatening n the aftermath of the penn and family can understand. Sometimes illnesses. But we quickly saw the poten- State scandal, I am sometimes we play for two thousand fans; some- tial for extending the reach of Fan the I asked if my view of college sports times twenty-five. But we still play Fire beyond sports. As students began has changed. The answer is no. I hard. You cheer for us because you to attend games and meets for the first believe what I have long believed: that know us. You know more than just our time—attracted by the connection to the Division III approach to college names. Like all of you, we are students public service—they began to form rela- sports—the approach embraced by first. We don’t sign autographs. But we tionships with the athletes. The athletes, Tufts—is the right one. This is not to do sign graduate school applications, in turn, began attending these students’ say that all the athletic programs at the MCAT exams, and student body peti- activities. As a member of our baseball large, sports-oriented Division I schools tions. . . . We train hard, lift, throw, team put it: “This is really about more have lost their way. Certainly there are run, kick, tackle, shoot, dribble, and than drawing fans to games. It’s about dedicated coaches working at that level lift some more, and in the morning we building one Tufts.” who care deeply about the young men go to class. And that’s it in a nutshell. At Tufts, and women they coach. But it is also our athletes are students like everyone true that the influence of money—big Tufts athletes reflect the values of else. They sleep in the same dorms, eat money—has seriously distorted the role that quote. They are dedicated, hard- the same food, take the same exams, of competitive sports at many Division I working, and talented. They strive to and strive to make the most of their institutions. win, and hurt when they lose. But in the academic experience. They’re also pas- What distinguishes Division III of the morning, they go to class. sionate about sports—and thankfully, National Collegiate Athletic Association Just as important, our coaches are in Division III, they can aspire to excel- from Division I is this: Division III in the business for the right reason: to lence in both. schools do not offer athletic scholarships, teach through the vehicle of sport. When and must follow rules that seek to manage we hire new coaches, we look first for B ill Gehling, director of athletics, has the time that players devote to sports— passion—passion for the sport, pas- been at Tufts for more than forty years say, by limiting the number of contests, sion for working with young people. as a student, a soccer coach, and an weeks of practice, and even hours of We then look for communication skills administrator.

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newspapers. Many were indeed home to mourn his uncle, and was honored by Christmas, especially officers in cof- above all the hundreds of royalty by his fins, those elder sons who led the initial place at the very front of the funeral charges, only to be greeted by thirty- cortege, mounted next to the dead caliber water-cooled machine guns, king’s only surviving brother. The next scholar at large courtesy of Krupp. day, the Times of London acknowledged The life expectancy of a British that to Wilhelm “belongs the first place officer arriving at the front in the first among all the foreign mourners.” A year of the war was less than an hour. year later, most of the kings reappeared The Sleep of Although poison gas contributed to for the splendid inauguration of King only four percent of the casualties, it George V. Many of them had played as Innocence was enough for many Europeans to call children together when visiting their World War I the Chemists’ War. Fritz English grandmother, Victoria. The The world on the eve Haber, the German professor who led czar of Russia called his first cousin, of the Great War the military research team in the cre- the German Kaiser, “Willy”; Wilhelm ation of lethal gases, won a 1918 Nobel addressed his intimate Kremlin letters to BY SOL GIttleman Prize. By Armistice Day, November 11, “Nicky.” 1918, there were nine million dead sol- On the other side of the Atlantic, diers, and with ghastly symmetry, nine the Democratic Party convention held he british and americans million dead four-legged pack animals. in Baltimore from June 25 to July 2 cannot wait for the actual It was only the beginning. was deadlocked, and on the forty-sixth T centenary to commemorate the Progress in the invention of killing ballot nominated the governor of New Great War of 1914–1918 and the peace machines has been one of the hallmarks Jersey, a former Princeton professor, son treaty that followed. Public television’s of the past century: from simple poison of an evangelical Presbyterian minister, Downton Abbey and Steven Spielberg’s gas to the sophisticated nuclear, biologi- as a compromise candidate: Woodrow War Horse signaled the beginning of cal, and chemical weapons of today, from Wilson. Foreign policy was on few this historical reexamination, and primitive wooden biplanes to the enor- people’s minds. Wilson’s mandate was there’s more to come. The BBC has mous air forces of World War II, then the to reform national politics and to insti- produced a five-part adaptation by Tom jet, the invisible stealth planes, now the tute progressive reform at home. He felt Stoppard of Ford Madox Ford’s monu- drone. In air and on sea, the advance in deeply that God would help him make mental series of war novels, Parade’s weaponry in the past hundred years has the right decisions. Wilson would soon End. The Library of America is publish- been breathtaking. Without it, the 200 need the help. ing in a single edition the two remark- million casualties of war would not have Contrary to the social scientists’ able World War I histories of Barbara been possible. No doubt we will still be assurances, blood relations could not Tuchman, The Guns of August and The counting beyond 2014. prevent bloodshed. Nationalism and eth- Proud Tower, edited by the historian A century ago, the Great War was nic hatred in the Balkans would eventu- Margaret MacMillan, whose Paris, 1919 just two years away. Did anyone real- ally defy all reason. The assassination of is arguably the best analysis of the peace ize in 1912 that the world soon would the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne treaty that ended one world war and set plunge into an abyss? There was vague in late June 1914 led within six weeks to a the stage for the next one. talk of war, and there were a few skir- war that involved all of Europe and soon We don’t seem to be able to get mishes in the Balkans, but these caused spread around the world. enough of a war that proved horrific little concern to the major powers. Looking back, we can only marvel beyond all imagination, the first truly Social scientists the world over declared at how invisible the signs of impending technological triumph in the name of war to be impossible, considering how cataclysm can be, and at how easily we mass death. Few anticipated what was interwoven were the economies—and embrace the comforting notion that our to come. Just before the guns of August the ruling houses—of the potential civilization has finally moved beyond its began firing in 1914, the last order combatants. propensity for war. given to the British officer corps was to At Edward VII’s funeral in May 1910, sharpen sabers for the charge. “Home nine European kings, all related to each Sol Gittleman, the Alice and Nathan by Christmas!” cheered the crowds at other, rode in the funeral procession to Gantcher University Professor, has been a Piccadilly as they watched their boys Westminster Abbey. Kaiser Wilhelm II, professor of German, Judaic studies, and march off to glorious battle against an the emperor of Germany, was dressed in biblical literature and is a former provost enemy called the Hun by enthusiastic the uniform of a British field marshall of the university.

40 tufts magazine fall 2012 parts. Once a team had signed a deal, it combatants came together for seminars would move on to the next negotiation, on negotiation and peace building. leaving to other executives the difficult Establishing good communication task of figuring out how to carry out is paramount. Too often, negotiators the new joint venture. Some managers assume that communication between Negotiating Life called the practice “throwing the deal the two sides will happen naturally once over the wall.” they begin working together. Instead, GM’s reliance on special negotia- they should set up a schedule of regular tion teams slowed and complicated the meetings to review progress. And in The execution of the joint ventures. First, it international arrangements, it is crucial gave negotiators, whose bonuses hinged to minimize any language barrier. In Endgame, on the number of deals they closed, every one joint venture between an American reason to downplay potential imple- and a French company, the two sides, mentation problems, such as a partner’s which had some knowledge of the oth- Part II questionable manufacturing experience. er’s language, nevertheless agreed that Second, the GM executives charged with they would use interpreters. Meetings Putting the deal into practice carrying out the deals were effectively were twice as long as normal, but better denied access to the knowledge the communication paid off. Bewy J s ald W. Salacuse negotiating teams gained and the rela- Above all, the parties working to tionships they forged. GM’s experience build a relationship must show respect provides a lesson for us all: when agents for one another. Each side must recog- he toughest challenge in or employees negotiate on your behalf, nize that the other brings something any negotiation is not closing the make sure they have strong incentives to valuable to their common enterprise. Tdeal (the subject of my Winter plan for implementing the deal. They need to treat one another as 2012 column) but making the deal work. B uild relationships. A relationship equals. To say—as one U.S. executive The annals of negotiation are littered is a kind of connection that usually did to a partner from a developing with deals that somehow were never car- implies a degree of trust between the country—“Let me do the thinking for ried out. The world is still waiting for the parties. Such trust is vital in making both of us” only undermines relations. permanent peace between Israel and the a deal work since, as the Oslo Accords Consider involving a third party. Palestinians promised by the 1993 Oslo experience has shown, implementa- Third parties can help resolve conflicts, Accords, for example. Closer to home, you may still be waiting for repayment of the thousand dollars you lent to your To say—as one U.S. executive did to a cousin five years ago. Here are three guidelines to help increase the chances partner—“Let me do the thinking for both that your next negotiation will produce the outcome you want. of us” only undermines relations. Plan methodically. Develop a list of questions about how the deal will tion always involves risks for some- provide needed resources, and verify that work, and prepare a tentative plan for body. Trust in the other side, based both sides are holding up their end of the implementation, specifying who does on a sound relationship, helps reduce bargain. For example, the United States, what, when, and how. Negotiators fail to perceived risks. which helped broker a treaty between push hard on implementation for sev- One essential step in relationship Israel and Egypt in 1979, has been vital eral reasons. Some just haven’t thought building is to ensure that the parties are to maintaining peace between the two about it carefully. Others fear that too well acquainted. For companies plan- countries ever since. So think about great a focus on such concerns will slow ning a joint venture or a merger, a retreat involving an appropriate outsider in the the process or stop it dead in its tracks. in a relaxed setting might allow the two next tough deal you negotiate. Still others work for organizations that sides’ executives to discuss their respec- inadvertently encourage them not to tive organizational visions and cultures. Jeswald W. Salacuse is the Henry J. think about implementation. General Joint training can also be effective. Braker professor of law and former dean Motors, for example, created special When the African National Congress of the Fletcher School at Tufts. His most teams for negotiating foreign joint and the white South African government recent book is The Law of Investment ventures to manufacture vehicles and sought détente, the leaders of the former Treaties (Oxford University Press).

fall 2012 tufts magazine 41 creations your ventures in the arts and media by kara peters

Berlin, so I wanted to showcase the food Luisa Weiss that was synonymous with Germany for me—dishes like quarkauflauf (a soufflé made with quark, a fresh, sour cheese), really good, super vinegary potato salad, and elderflower syrup.

When I’m homesick for the U.S., I cook stuff that I ate with my Dad growing up, like baked beans from a can, or his to- mato sauce recipe. To me, Asian food is also American food, so that’s another thing I’ll make. If I can’t make it at home, I’ll go to a Chinese restaurant and order roast pork.

Italians are surprisingly utilitarian about their food. They have the good fortune that their cuisine is universally beloved, but they’re not that romantic about it. Italians also have all these rules about their food—no cheese with seafood, no meat sauce with gnocchi, et cetera— whereas the Germans are less rigid.

One of my favorite recipes in the book is the beef ragu that I got from my family friend Gabriella. It’s such a good, basic author’s voice recipe, and it’s a real workhorse in my kitchen. For people who want an intro- duction to German cooking, the potato Cosmopolitan Chef salad recipe is incredible. My husband and I developed it together, and it’s total- MY BERLIN KITCHEN (VIKING). Luisa Weiss, J99, grew up shuttling between her father’s ly addictive—light and sour and amaz- home in Boston and her Italian mother’s home in Berlin. Food was an emotional touch- ing. We can eat the whole bowl. stone in her nomadic existence. Dissatisfied with her adult life in New York, she returned to Berlin, where true love—and the dishes of her childhood—awaited. Her memoir serves I think everybody on the planet has an up surprising recipes for delicious food and a life of honesty and passion. emotional attachment to food. Whether you’re sitting next to someone on a plane “Traditional German food is heavy, rib-sticking stuff. It’s not particularly glamorous or or the subway, or you’re waiting for the beautiful to look at, but it does the job. Germany is dark and cold, and the food goes bus, if you bring up food, people just along with that. But I feel very attached to the German culture—I grew up there and start to talk. Everybody remembers their married a German—so I feel like I need to defend the food. grandmother’s soup, or whatever food it was that they ate growing up. I think it’s There are wonderful things happening in Germany with fresh, seasonal ingredients, like wonderful to hear about people’s lives the white asparagus that fill the greenmarkets for just six weeks a year, or the beautiful through the food they ate, whether they chanterelle mushrooms. I never really ate much sauerbraten when I was growing up in cook or not.”

42 tufts magazine fall 2012 Photo: james glader BOOKS Funeral” contemplate death as one of them Professor of Law and Justice at Harvard, recalls a long-ago flood inM exico. critiques the law’s failure to account for The Immanence of moral distinctions between types of theft, God in the Tropics 13 Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft and calls for reforms that reflect modern Leapfrog Press Law in the Information Age complexities. George Rosen, former Harvard lecturer in English, What is theft? Sure, robbing the cash Improvising Medicine: An African served as a Peace register at the 7-Eleven qualifies, but is it Oncology Ward in an Emerging Corps volunteer in theft when a doctor uses a patient’s tis- Cancer Epidemic Kenya, and it shows. sue without permission to harvest a valu- Duke The characters in his compelling short story able cell line? How about when an Internet Discussions of health collection find themselves in exotic locales, activist receives copies of tens of thou- crises in Africa usually often exhilaratingly out of their depth. A sands of government documents and pub- center on issues such Victorian missionary en route to Africa lishes them on his website? Unfortunately, as HIV/AIDS or malnutri- discovers a more personal God under the at a time when intangibles are increas- tion, but epidemiologists dizzying oceanic sun, while an American ingly counted as property, and when the have identified a growing studying Spanish in Mexico finds that the means of stealing grow scourge: cancer. In this moving ethnogra- most impenetrable language is love. Even ever more variegated, phy of Botswana’s only dedicated oncology the stories set in Rosen’s native New theft law remains ward, Julie Livingston, J89, follows the England thrust their protagonists into for- frustratingly mono- patients and families who suffer and the eign territory: in “On the Flats,” a father’s chrome. Tackling both doctors who must improvise treatments sense of community is challenged by his philosophy and prac- with malfunctioning machines, scarce bed daughter’s encounter with the town lunatic, tice, Stuart P. Green, space, and inconsistent access to medica- and four friends in “The Sauna After Ted’s A83, D istinguished tion. She reveals that cancer, typically other books of note

In Fly Fishing: The Sacred Art (Skylight Paths), Rabbi ERIC for their kids in McClure’s Private School Application Workbook EISENKRAMER, A97, and the Reverend Michael Attas cast (and in this issue’s “Take It from Me,” on page 72). The poems their lines for spiritual insights. Contest for California (Arthur in Something Small to Carry Home (Quattro Books), by ISA H. Clark), by STEVEN G. HYSLOP, G73, G80, traces California’s MILMAN, BSOT71, pay homage to milestones, memory, and grief history from its founding in 1769 to its annexation by the United (a sample appears on page 12 of this issue). DEBORAH PIERCE, States in 1848. Nip meltdowns in the bud with The Grump J71, an architect, shows baby boomers how to create the perfect Meter: A Family Tool for Anger Control, developed by JANET nest for their golden years in The Accessible Home (Taunton KAUFMAN, J86, Lynn Kaufman, and their family. The working Press). RONALD PIES, clinical professor of psychiatry at the mother in And I Thought About You (Mascot Books), a children’s School of Medicine, presents The Heart Broken Open, twelve book by ROSEANNE L. KURSTEDT, J89, assures her young son poems that explore aging, illness, and the healing powers of that he’s always on her mind. SIMEON LOCKE, M52, looks the heart. In the children’s book Bus Driver (Holiday House), by at why and how we sleep and dream in Seven Kine, Fatfleshed NANCY POYDAR, J64, a little boy repeatedly loses his favorite toy (XLibris). A down-on-his-luck sportswriter outs a charming gay before finding the perfect home for it. Would-be artists will find baseball prodigy in Fontana (Bold Strokes Books), by JOSHUA encouragement and inspiration in The Drawing Mind (Trumpeter), MARTINO, A02. In Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan (Tom by DEBORAH PUTNOI, J89, BFA89 (who shares tips in “Take It Doherty Associates), ROBIN MAXWELL, BSOT70, retells the from Me,” page 73). An antique evening dress transports a thir- Tarzan story from the perspective of Jane, a Cambridge University teen-year-old to Marie Antoinette’s court in The Time Traveling scientist on a fossil-hunting expedition in West Africa. FAITH Fashionista at the Palace of Marie Antoinette (Little, Brown), McCLURE, J89, advises parents who seek an elite education the second young-adult novel by BIANCA TURETSKY, J01.

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viewed as a solitary ordeal, can be a like “I See Your Face Before Me,” “In the Lefty: An American Odyssey profoundly social experience, highlighting Days of Our Love,” and Thelonious Monk’s Ballantine Books the kind of person-to-person care often “Variations on a Dream,” Piket embraced T here are forty- lost amid the technology and bureaucracy the daunting musical challenge of being one former New in Europe and America. out there on her own. “This CD wasn’t so York Yankees much about stepping out of my comfort notables zone,” she blogged. “It was about step- honored at MUSIC ping back into my comfort zone and finding Cooperstown out if I still have something new to say.” in the Baseball Eric Brace, A81, founder of Red Beet Hall of Fame. It Records, coproduced Patty Griffin’s beauti- is safe to say ful version of “I Love,” the title track from ART that none of them spans the gen- the album I Love: Tom T. Hall’s Songs of erations of pinstripe immortals so Fox Hollow, which was recently nominated T he Museum of Fine Arts in Nagoya, perfectly as Vernon “Lefty” Gomez, for an Americana Music Association Japan, featured A Stroll in the Sky, a whose pitching arm and extraordi- Award. The awards celebrate the best large-scale mixed-media piece by Kushala nary personality symbolized New in American roots music. Brace and his Vora, BFA15, and Eileen Wang, BFA15, York glamour in the 1930s. This coproducer, Peter Cooper, recorded the in the exhibition The Masters of Japanese loving biography by his daughter, album just south of Nashville at Fox Hollow Art. Their collaboration was inspired by Vernona Gomez, J62, with help Farm, the home of Tom T. Hall, the country another image at Nagoya, Dragon Amidst from Lefty’s grandson, John Banas, singer and songwriter known for such hits the Clouds. A85, and Lawrence Goldstone, puts as “Harper Valley PTA,” “I Like Beer,” and Vora and Wang hewed to the traditional Gomez at the center of an intimate “Little Bitty.” In addition to Patty Griffin, notion that one can never see the head and baseball story that includes Babe the album, which was nominated for a the tail of the dragon at the same time. “In Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe DiMaggio, Grammy Award, features contributions by order to maintain the fluidity of the atmo- right up to the Yankees of Mantle, more than a dozen other artists, includ- sphere and incorporate the disjointedness Berra, and Ford. Gomez was also a ing Brace and Cooper. In the Americana of the dragon, our composition is made Broadway personality, whose mar- Awards ceremony in September, “I Love” out of a series of triangles,” Vora explains riage to the musical-comedy star was edged out by Jason Isbell’s “Alabama on her blog. The pair updated this staple June O’Dea brought this articulate Pines” for Song of the Year. of Asian art by combining watercolor with and witty ballplayer into the circle embroidery, ink, and pastel. “To modernize of Gershwin, Hemingway, Jack Roberta Piket, J88, has released her the whole piece, we introduced pastel for Dempsey, and George M. Cohan. ninth CD, Solo, a selection of jazz stan- two reasons: one to bring out the vibrancy His daughter Vernona listened dards performed on solo piano. Her previ- of the dragon amidst the chaotic and dark well. The result is a marvelous ous recordings have showcased piano atmosphere. Second, to embrace a mood memoir that takes the reader from trios, electric instruments, and strings of festiveness in looking forward to the year a small-town California homestead and woodwinds. In performing classics of the dragon,” writes Vora. to the bright lights of Broadway. The narrative goes international as well: Lefty, June, the Gehrigs, and the Ruths all traveled to Japan in 1934 as officialM ajor League am- bassadors of baseball, to play with an American professional team. One of those players secretly took photos of the Tokyo waterfront, and General Jimmy Doolittle later used them, along with Gomez’s own film, when American planes bombed Japan in 1942. This is a baseball book, and much more. —Sol Gittleman A Stroll in the Sky, a large-scale mixed-media piece at the Museum of Fine Arts in Nagoya

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BUBS AT FIFTY. The university once known as “the singing college” has produced its share of a cappella groups, among them the legendary Beelzebubs, who are about to hit the half-century mark (they’re shown here in a 1965 photo). But Tufts students and alumni have also spread their wings to opera, indie rock, classical, punk, even “electro-hip-hop-dub-something,” as two Jumbos have labeled their iTunes hits. While the Bubs warm up for their fiftieth-anniversary celebration (February 7, 2013, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Cohen Caption Head: Auditorium), we highlight a few of our musical this is a caption for the full alumni on pages 50, 54, and 55. For clips, photos, page lead story photo this is and more, visit tuftsalumni.org/jumbomusic. a caption place holder

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Brian McCarthy, N ew at the Helm Tufts Alumni president meet brian mccarthy, a75, a07p, the newest president of the Tufts University Alumni Association. A partner in the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Los Angeles, he recently shared his Tufts story and reflected on the benefits of belonging to Tufts Alumni.

Y ou met your wife, Shelley, J75, A07P, who’s on the Arts and Sciences Board of Advisors, the second day of freshman year. How did you meet? She lived in Wren, and I lived in Carmichael, and we shared the dining hall. It took a little while for me to catch her eye, but I was persistent. Eight years after we met, we married. We have two What do you love most about being a part of Tufts Alumni? daughters, Kiley, a proud member of the Class of 2007, and Bryn, First of all, it’s incredible that Tufts Alumni consists of more than who graduated from Connecticut College in 2011. a hundred thousand people around the globe. I get great pleasure from seeing the increased pride that Jumbos have in the universi- What do you like to do when you come back to the Hill? ty and the special sense of community that exists among alumni. I come back to Tufts a lot, and I like to spend time in the library This is particularly true the farther away from Boston you get. because I think in many ways it’s the heart of the university. That When you meet a fellow Jumbo in a distant locale, there is an au- may sound old-school, but I do get a sense of what’s up with the tomatic and unique bond. When I moved to Los Angeles in 1983, students from spending time there as well as engaging in conver- I would meet other Tufts folks, and it was always exciting because sations with folks in the Mayer Campus Center. it was unexpected—a touch of the Hill in L.A. Today, California is one of the fastest-growing places that alumni call home. We hear you have a soft spot for Carmichael. I lived in Carmichael for four years. In my freshman year, Why should alumni be excited about future programming? there was a group of us on the first floor who became really Tufts Alumni has a great strategic plan with a view toward look- good friends, so we decided to stay together sophomore ing at how the alumni association can grow and better serve year. My freshman roommate and I roomed together again alumni around the world. I urge people to get involved, attend as sophomores, became RAs in our junior year, and by alumni events, and stay in touch with the university. You’ll be senior year, we were too lazy to move since the dining hall surprised at how many people you know or are glad to meet for was downstairs. I still keep in touch with many of those guys. the first time.

tufts university alumni Regional Vice Presidents Treasurer association executive committee Diana Lopez, J78 Vikki Garth, J81 David Meyers, A96 Immediate Past President President Regina Rockefeller, J73 Brian McCarthy, A75, A07P Barbara Clarke, J88 Directors First Vice President/President-Elect Secretary John Barrett, E88 Mrinalini Jaikumar, G96 Kate Kaplan, G95 Mark Ferri, A84, F86 Administrative Vice Presidents Chris Goguen, A92 executive director, Kevin Boyle, A78 Ken Fan, E01, F07 alumni relations Keisha Pollack, A00 Doug Moll, A85, D85, DG91 Timothy Brooks

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HILL Nancy Herbert California to celebrate their HI LL Bill Brooks, Jeff KEY 47 Shapira reports that sixtieth reunion. See bitly.com/ 54 Cicia, Bob Garvey, Faith class year abbreviations those who attended the class’s jumboweekend for photos and Ellis Heneghan, John Meade, and A : Liberal Arts sixty-fifth reunion “so much stories. The weekend kicked off Ben Sands, see Hill 52. BSOT: Boston School of Occupational Therapy enjoyed exchanging our conversa- with the Charles Tufts Society BOUVÉ: Bouvé-Boston School of tions and reminiscences.” See luncheon at Gifford House, where HILL Joe Allegro, Dave Physical Education photos and read more about many had the opportunity to meet 55 Harrison, Jack Heneghan, CRANE: Crane Theological School Alumni Weekend at bitly.com/ President Anthony P. Monaco. On John McGrath, and Bucky Spurr, D: Dental jumboweekend. Pops night, the class received see Hill 52. DG: Dental Certificate the Founders Cup for achieving a E: Engineering HILL Worcester State forty-eight percent participation HILL Fifty-Fifth Reunion: ELIOT-PEARSON: Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development University celebrated rate in the reunion class gift. The David Wells reports: “Sixty 50 57 F: Fletcher School the legacy of Professor Emeritus children of Nelson S. Gifford, H96, classmates attended, renewing G: Graduate School Melvin Merken, G51, who retired former chair of the Tufts Board old friendships and fabricating H: Honorary Degree in 2010 after fifty-two years of Trustees, made a gift to the fond stories about the mayoralty J: Jackson College L: Sackler School of Graduate with the university. He joined Class of 1952 Scholarship in his campaigns and Spring Sing. We do Biomedical Sciences Worcester State’s chemistry de- honor. Later, Jumbos attended the get better with age! See you all at M: Medical partment in 1958, eventually serv- ROTC Commissioning Ceremony our sixtieth.” SMFA: School of the Museum of Fine Arts ing as chair of the Department and a seminar by astronaut Rick N: Friedman School of Nutrition of Chemistry and Physics, the Hauck, A62, A87P, J92P, H07. Ed HILL James L. “Jim” Science and Policy Department of Natural and Earth Sullivan runs summer cookouts, 59 Newman, Engineering, P: Parent of Student Sciences, and the university’s known as Friends of the ’50s owner and managing partner of V: Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine Curriculum Committee. Merken’s gatherings, at the Baronian Field Newman Consulting Group in passion for teaching was matched House in June. All graduates from BloomfieldH ills, MI, received the by his passion for scholarship; he the 1950s are welcome; please Distinguished Service Award from in 2001, to the health-care in- and his wife, Shirley, established contact [email protected] to the American Society of Heating, dustry in the twenty-first century. two scholarships for Worcester attend. Recent participants in- Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning O’Connor continues his day job State students. Upon his retire- cluded Peg Boudreau, Bill Burns, Engineers at its annual conference as an administrator for a non- ment, he said, “After fifty-two Nancy Cafiero, Len Cullen, Bob in San Antonio, TX. Newman serves profit community mental health years, I can sincerely say that I Cummings, Jack Fitzsimmons, as chair of the Sustainability center and hopes to increase his loved what I did.” Dave Lincoln, Len Lombardi, Committee of the Building Owners teaching as an adjunct profes- Connie Kemball McElwain, Bob and Managers Association. sor in metropolitan New York. HILL Sixtieth Reunion: Taft, Paul Talmo, Al Thomann, and Thomas F. Winkler III, D66, 52one Scolumnixty classmates wide and Floyd Webster. From the Class of HILL Bob Baker, D10P, DG12P, a Tufts trustee guests= 9p9 came from as far as 1953, attendees included Dick 61 Engineering, see HILL 85. emeritus and clinical professor Asher, Dave Burns, Dave Fenton, of endodontics at Tufts School Bob Jones, Dick Lawrence, and HILL Fiftieth Reunion: of Dental Medicine, received Phil Richardson; from 1954: Bill 62 Check out photos the District One Distinguished Follow Brooks, Jeff Cicia, Bob Garvey, of the fiftieth reunion and Service Award from the Tufts Alumni Faith Ellis Heneghan, John Alumni Weekend at bitly.com/ International College of Dentists Meade, and Ben Sands; and from jumboweekend. Linda Lee during the organization’s annual 1955: Joe Allegro, Dave Harrison, (Friedman) Baker, see HILL luncheon in January, held in con- Jack Heneghan, John McGrath, 85. Rick Hauck, see HILL 52. junction with the Yankee Dental facebook.com/tuftsalumni and Bucky Spurr. Terence O’Connor earned a Congress in Boston. doctorate in medical humanities HILL Dick Asher, Dave in May from Drew University in HILL Richard A. Meserve, 53 Burns, Dave Fenton, Bob Madison, NJ. His dissertation 66 J88P, who served @tuftsalumni Jones, Dick Lawrence, and Phil applied the works of political as chair of the U.S. Nuclear Richardson, see Hill 52. scientist Neal Riemer, who died Regulatory Commission from

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Do ers’ profiles 1999 to 2003, has been elected president of the Harvard Board of Overseers. He received the William S. Lee Award for Leadership from the Nuclear Energy Institute and the Richard L. Garwin Award from the Federation of American Scientists in recognition of “his distinguished service and significant contributions to nuclear safety as chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and for more than thirty years of leadership in science policy.” In 2011, Meserve was the inaugural recipient of the Vannevar Bush Dean’s Medal from Tufts School of Engineering, an award named for another distinguished Tufts alumnus that recognizes technology leaders who help better society. Meserve is president of the Carnegie Institution for Science, a nonprofit that conducts research dick berggren, g67, g70 in biology, earth sciences, and as- tronomy, and he serves on a part- HOME: Ipswich, Massachusetts hadn’t yet stopped racing, and one Monday time basis as senior counsel in the old job: Motorsports announcer for FOX morning, the only way I could get to school Washington, DC, office ofC ovington TV. Retired in June from a career that included was in my ramp truck with my race car loaded & Burling LLP. Marion Silverthorne such highlights as several times interviewing on the back. I’d barely got to my office when writes, “If there are any Tufts alums the winner of the Daytona 500 for national the college president paged me. She was beside living and/or working in Nairobi, I’d television. herself about that ‘thing’ in the faculty parking love to meet them. I’m in Nairobi stea dy gig: Editing Dick Berggren’s Speedway lot. Wanted it out of there immediately. I didn’t on a long-term contract, working Illustrated, his monthly racing magazine comply—I wasn’t about to park my truck and with USAID/Kenya on a manage- new project: Establishing the first com- race car on a city street—and I knew that my ment information system.” Please prehensive motorsports museum in the days as a professor would be short after that.” email [email protected] to get Northeast, to be built on the grounds of the toughest decision: Going to Virginia in in touch with her. New Hampshire Motor Speedway 1977, after his professorship ended, to accept prou dest sports achievement: Making a job as editor of Stock Car Racing. “I had to HILL Forty-Fifth Reunion: it as a race car driver. “I’ll always remember leave behind a broad circle of friends and, for 67 The Class of 1967 the thrill of coming off turn four in the lead several months, even my wife.” celebrated its forty-fifth reunion on and seeing the checkered flag waving. But d efining traits: Warmth, good humor, total the Hill in May, which concluded then in 1981, after twenty years of racing and lack of confusion about who he is and what he with Sunday brunch at the home of twenty-six wins, came the big crash. At a track wants. A taste for fresh-cut fries with salt and Joyce Field Pastor, A95P. For more in Iowa, my car hit a dirt bank and went flying vinegar. A fondness for watching his Airedale, on Alumni Weekend, visit bitly.com/ toward a crowd of fans. I was terrified, think- Indy, “do silly things that make her happy.” jumboweekend. ing I would hit someone, and when it was over, And an undying passion for his favorite sport. and I found out I hadn’t, I figured I’d used up “You sit up there in the stands amid all the Harvey Melniker, A01P, all my good luck. I never raced again.” noise and drama and watch cars going so fast, 69 A09P, see HILL 03. prou dest academic achievement: racing so close together with so much at stake. Becoming a psychology professor. “Psychology Even when I’m not covering a race, I’ll go to the GRADUATE Y.A. Liu, always interested me, still does. But after track, buy a ticket, grab a hot dog and a beer, 70 Engineering, professor teaching the subject for nine years at Emmanuel and take it all in. It’s dazzling.” of chemical engineering at College in Boston, I had to leave it behind. I e ducation: M.S. and Ph.D. (psychology), Tufts Virginia Tech, has been named an

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Alumni Distinguished Professor was great—the same one we had for sustained excellence in at our thirty-fifth reunion.T hanks to scholarship and teaching. committee members Steve Wermiel Why orange you a member During his thirty-year career at and Faye Gmeiner for the beautiful yet? Virginia Tech, Liu has achieved floral centerpieces and travel mugs. international recognition We met our goal of fifty new donors, for promoting sustainable and thus, a $25,000 scholarship development and environmental will be given in our class name. stewardship. He and his graduate From my perspective, it was a great students have made significant event, with conversations, laughter, contributions to energy and water and smiles throughout the evening.” conservation and to the design For more on Alumni Weekend, see and optimization of polymer, bitly.com/jumboweekend. Suzann biodiesel, and petroleum refining (Parker) Leist writes, “After more operations. While serving than thirty-five years,I have retired as a senior advisor to the from Procter & Gamble. In my last president of China Petroleum position (consumer and market and Chemical Corporation, knowledge), I reached my career Tuftsonline Liu led the development of goals—working with interesting, community water-saving engineering and smart colleagues around the www.alumniconnections.com/tufts investment proposals. globe, reapplying my knowlege of languages, and understanding the Heather Karmin Melniker, habits and practices of different 71 A01P, A09P, see HILL 03. cultures. Working with upstream HILL Kim Bowman, M78, HILL Thirty-Fifth Reunion: scientists on hair products, I 74 of Lexington, MA, has been 77 The Class of 1977 HILL Fortieth Reunion: traveled for in-market research, honored as the 2012 Community returned to the Hill for its thirty-fifth 72 Dick Hansen, Engineering, training, and global meetings. Clinician of the Year by her physician reunion, which was held at the reports on the fortieth class reunion It has been a great ride. Now I peers of the Norfolk District Medical Mayer Campus Center and Hotung in May: “One of the highlights of the am focusing on other interests, Society. Board certified in internal Café and featured performances by weekend was our class meeting. projects, and extended family.” and geriatric medicine, Bowman is the Jackson Jills and Beelzebubs. We were fortunate that Board of After thirty years in the ink-jet a community physician in Brookline, For more, see bitly.com/ Trustees members Jim Stern, A09P, printer industry, Wendy White affiliated with BethI srael Deaconess jumboweekend. and Varney Hintlian, as well as retired from the 3D printer Medical Center in Boston. A Bruce Reitman, dean of student manufacturer Solidscape, member of the Massachusetts HILL Steven Schragis affairs, were able to participate. where she was manager of Medical Society since 1986, she 78 founded One Day University It was a great opportunity to hear administration. She has moved to has been a member of the society’s in 2006, which features professors about current activities and issues the New Hampshire lakes region House of Delegates since 2003. from forty schools throughout the from their perspectives. Our reunion and would like to hear from you She also served as a member of the country, including Tufts, presenting was held in Remis Sculpture Court, if you are in the area; contact Committee on Women in Organized their best one-hour lectures to adult with sixty-two attendees. The DJ [email protected]. Medicine from 1994 to 1998. students-for-a-day. No homework. No exams. Just a day of education, entertainment, and the pure joy of lifelong learning. MEDICAL Kathleen Brown Wa ys to share the events of your was inducted as a fellow in the 4 life with your classmates American College of Radiology (ACR), one of the highest honors 1 Email: [email protected] the ACR can bestow, at the orga- 2 Online Community: www.alumniconnections.com/tufts nization’s annual meeting in April (go to“Classnotes,” then click on “Submit/Edit a Class Note”) in Washington, DC. Brown is a pro- 3 Mail: Class Notes, Alumni Relations, Tufts University, 80 George Street, Medford, MA 02155 fessor of clinical radiology at the 4 Fax: 617.627.3938 David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

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a lumni highlight Brookline Public Health. Noted for her expertise in working with T om Hauck, A76 challenging geriatric patients, Salamon completed a fellowship “ Upon graduating with a degree in art history, in geriatric medicine at Harvard I embarked on a fifteen-year career as a guitar Medical School. She served as player and songwriter in Boston-area punk-pop the director of geriatrics at the bands, including the Atlantics and Ball and Pivot,” Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in writes Tom Hauck. He got his musical start in an Jamaica Plain for nineteen years. Experimental College class on rock ’n’ roll, where Salamon has been associate he and Bruce Wilkinson, A76, were each required chief for clinical programs at Beth to write and record a song. One song became two, Israel Deaconess Medical Center then three. More band members were brought into since 2004. the group, and the Atlantics were born. During commencement weekend in May 1976, the group HILL Thirtieth Reunion: got its first break, opening for the Ramones in 82 Eighty-six classmates and Cambridge. Says an ABC Records release from their guests attended their thirtieth 1977, “The Atlantics play rock ’n’ roll for a reason. reunion on the Hill in May (see It’s fun having fun. The boyish camaraderie, curious bitly.com/jumboweekend). Paul suits, and rakish interplay onstage are one side of Tringale and the reunion committee what makes the band so exhilarating. Then there’s thank all who attended and are the music. . . . Their clever, romantic blend of grateful for donations that met the menace and wit has left audiences at the Paradise “Everyone Counts” fundraising and the Rat in Boston . . . reeling in the wake of big city rock ’n’ roll.” Wilkinson died in 2000. Hauck challenge for student scholarships. still writes and records new music with the help of the musician and producer Tony Goddess, A95. Wendy Kritt writes: “Some of us A professional writer and editor, Hauck lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with his wife and two who weren’t able to make our children. His publications include Pistonhead, a novel about an aspiring rock musician whose life official reunion got together in takes a turn when tragedy strikes. Catch clips of the Atlantics at tuftsalumni.org/theatlantics. Washington, DC, this past spring for our own mini-reunion. Proudly wearing Tufts apparel were Wendy HILL Marilyn Blumsack, married his longtime partner, Boston, received the 2012 (Weiss) Kritt, Kris (Samuels) 79 G82, the recently retired John Guyan, and they live in Distinguished Achievement Award Holmes, Cathi (Ostroff) Cohen, director of Tufts’ Osher Institute White Plains, NY. from B’nai B’rith Housing in E14P, Judy (Freedman) Kaminsky, of Lifelong Learning, received recognition of his extensive work Jamie Ostroff, Susan (Shillman) a Distinguished Alumni Award HILL James Beck, in creating affordable housing. Weinstein, and Vicki (Venetianer) for her decade of service during 80 professor of medicine U.S. Senator Scott Brown, Rosenthal.” a ceremony on April 21. She at the University of Colorado, has A81, emceed the event. B’nai was instrumental in getting a been appointed chief of medical B’rith Executive Director Susan HILL Ian Bailon, an million-dollar endowment from services for the Veterans Affairs Gittelman describes Henken as 83 attorney with the the Osher Foundation for the Eastern Colorado Health Care having “a passion for helping international law firm Greenberg Tufts program, and oversaw its System in Denver. A specialist the most vulnerable in our Traurig, has been named to growth to nearly five hundred in pulmonary and critical care communities to build a better life the Daily Journal’s list of Top members. Barry Ostrer received medicine, Beck focuses on HIV- for themselves and their families.” Intellectual Property Lawyers in an M.A. in teaching from related pulmonary infections, lung California. Bailon is the author of Manhattanville College and is immunology, and investigation HILL Scott Brown, see a four-volume set, E-Commerce now teaching fifth-grade math of the lung microbiome. During 81 HILL 80. and Internet Law: Treatise with at Dwight-Englewood School in a recent term as chair of the MEDICAL Suzanne Salamon, Forms (see IanBallon.net). He also Englewood, NJ. He retired from a education committee for the head of the Brookline (MA) serves as executive director of thirty-two-year career at IBM that American Thoracic Society, Medical Reserve Corps and a vol- Stanford University Law School’s spanned engineering, sales, and he received a presidential unteer for the Brookline Council Center for E-Commerce. community outreach, and he also commendation. Rick Henken, on Aging, was the recipient of the MEDICAL Kitt Shaffer was in- received the chairman’s award for president of Schochet Associates 2011 Public Health Leadership ducted as a fellow in the American client excellence. Ostrer recently and Federal Management Inc., Award given by the Friends of College of Radiology at its annual

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meeting in April in Washington, HILL Mauricio Restrepo, DC. Shaffer is a professor of radi- 86 Chris Filmer, E86, and ology at Boston University School Jan Faryaszewski, A85, met Lettuce reconnect you. of Medicine, vice chair of radiology at the I-house during freshman at Boston Medical Center, and a year. After nearly three decades, radiology education consultant at the trio reunited over freshly Brigham and Women’s Hospital. brewed beer in Zug, Switzerland, to plan the future of SABMiller HILL Amanda Brauman in Europe, as, respectively, 84 King writes, “In March CFO, Europe; strategy director, 2012, I joined the faculty of the Europe; and vice president of Zero Balancing Health Association finance, Poland. Restrepo worked in Columbia, MD. Zero balancing at American Express and then is a holistic system of manual earned an M.B.A. at the Harvard therapy developed in the 1970s by Business School. After a three- Fritz Frederick Smith that combines year stint in investment banking Eastern and Western approaches to in New York City, he moved anatomy, touch, and healing. I offer back to Colombia, where he Tuftsonline classes to health-care professionals joined SABMiller in 2002. Filmer community and the general public.” worked for Teradyne in Boston www.alumniconnections.com/tufts after earning two Tufts degrees, HILL Saundra Deltac in quantitative economics and 85 received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, and then education from Emory University received an M.B.A. from INSEAD Clinical Research Institute, the president and dealer principal of in May and has joined Towson in France. He later moved back to largest clinical trial research Beck Chevrolet in Yonkers, NY. University in Maryland as an South Africa, where he worked as organization in the world. He John Rumpler writes, “This fall I assistant professor of English a management consultant, joining had served on the Duke faculty will return to campus to teach a language course and program SABMiller in 2006. After Tufts, since 1993, most recently as the course, ‘Fracked Out: Confronting development in the College of Faryaszewski received an M.B.A. Richard S. Stack Distinguished the New Gas Rush,’ at the Ex Education. Deborah (Bornstein) from Thunderbird School of Professor in Cardiology. The College. The class will review the Dunie, Engineering, writes that Global Management, served in the Stanford Department of Medicine staggering array of environmental she met Linda Lee (Friedman) U.S. Navy, and then spent eight comprises 220 faculty members and health threats posed by the Baker, J62, and Bob Baker, E61, years with the Coca-Cola Company in fourteen divisions. Harrington gas extraction technique known on a vacation cruise to Svalsbad, and twelve years with Danone. says he sees his new job as “[cre- as hydraulic fracturing, and give Norway, this past July, searching He joined SABMiller in Poland ating] a team within the depart- students opportunities for active for polar bears in the ice floes 544 earlier this year. ment of medicine that’s bigger citizenship around the issue.” miles from the North Pole. Jan GRADUATE Jessica Ferguson than the individual pieces.” Faryaszewski, see HILL 86. After is involved in the Par Avion HILL Marty and Nicki twelve years in New Mexico, Rozie Project, a collaborative interna- HILL Twenty-Fifth Reunion: 89 Berlyn Katz announced Kennedy and her family returned tional art exhibition sponsored 87 Seventy-seven classmates the birth of Aven Gabriel Katz “to the grid” when they moved by the Boston-Strasbourg Sister attended their twenty-fifth on June 20, 2012, in New York to Berkeley, CA, in July. Kennedy City Association. The project reunion in May (see bitly.com/ City. John Singer, a partner and is now the executive director of travels to France this fall after a jumboweekend). Rachel Scheff cofounder of Singer Deutsch LLP, the San Francisco Contemporary showing in Boston this summer. and the reunion committee thank a securities and employment Music Players, the nation’s oldest Her work was featured in the June all who came and who helped law firm, and Jennifer Zeller, vice continually running new music 2012 issue of Loupe magazine. meet the “Everyone Counts” president at Interscope Geffen performance organization. She Visit museumofmemory.com and fundraising challenge for student Records, announced the birth writes, “The girls are entering prcboston.org for more. scholarships. of their daughter, Maya Jolie, on middle and high school, and John MEDICAL Robert Harrington is July 9, 2012. The family resides will be active in the vibrant new- the new chair of the Department HI LL Allyson and Russell in New York City. John, who was music community in the Bay Area of Medicine at Stanford University 88 Geller announced the named a 2011 Super Lawyer for as well as his ongoing work with School of Medicine. Previously, arrival of Melanie Rebecca on the New York City area, provides Spoleto Festival USA.” he directed the Duke University April 13, 2012. Geller is vice legal commentary on Wall Street

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Do ers’ profiles employment issues for CNBC and Bloomberg Television. MEDICAL Lynn Fordham was inducted as a fellow in the American College of Radiology at the organization’s annual meeting in April in Washington, DC. She is chief of the division of pediatric radiology at North Carolina Children’s Hospital in Chapel Hill and an associate professor of radiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Maryellen Gilfeather was also inducted as a fellow in the American College of Radiology in April. Gilfeather is a partner-associate at Utah Imaging Associates in Bountiful, UT, and an adjunct associate professor of radiology at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center.

HILL Natale DiNatale, 90 who has been practicing labor and employment law in Connecticut since 1996, has Laura rotolo, j97, F00 joined Robinson & Cole’s Labor and Employment Practice Group. HOME: Medford, Massachusetts Childbirth, the classic work by the pioneering Hope on 2 Wheels cofounder OCCUPATION: Staff attorney for the ACLU of midwife Ina May Gaskin that got her through Scott Kasper, G96, and twenty- Massachusetts. “I focus on civil liberties is- her recent pregnancy and remains one of her three others cycled more than two sues, including immigrants’ rights, prisoners’ favorite books of all time. Characteristic snip- hundred and fifty miles nonstop rights, free speech, privacy, and racial justice.” pet: “There is no other organ quite like the from New York City to Washington, w hat drives her: “I was born in Argentina uterus. If men had such an organ they would DC, in June to raise money to during a brutal military dictatorship. I have brag about it. So should we.” help those with type 1 diabetes. come to believe that the best protection guaranteed to crack her up: Pranks Kasper’s wife, Rachel Kasper, J91, against such regimes is an open society, in and pratfalls. “I have a pretty childish sense provided service and gear (SAG) which people participate in upholding high of humor. Now I finally have a one-year-old support. See hopeon2wheels. standards of justice and equality.” daughter and a nephew who understand me.” com for more information. William w hat haunts her: Her encounter with DEFINING TRAITS: Energy, a sense of purpose, Labovitz of Mt. Lebanon, PA, members of the Maya K’iche community, an a love of life, and above all, gratitude. “I know has joined Rothman Gordon ethnic group from the mountains of western that I have opportunities that many others do as a litigator. Labovitz teaches Guatemala, who were detained in a 2007 im- not have. When I feel down, I realize that it is communication law and regulation migration raid. “They asked, ‘Who gave the my responsibility not to squander those ad- at Point Park University. U.S. government the power to deport people vantages, and to work on behalf of the society whose ancestors have been on this continent in which my daughter will grow up.” HILL Rachel Kasper, see before the United States was even a country?’” ma jor worry: That in the wake of 9/11, we 91 HILL 90. Jason Rand, how she unwinds: Baking. “My mom will “give up our rights in exchange for the partner and creative director of says that ‘stressed’ is just ‘desserts’ spelled illusion of security.” HarrisonRand Advertising in New backwards—and it’s true!” e ducation: B.A., Tufts (international Jersey, and David Rand, his brother star turn: Playing Maria in her high school’s relations); M.A.L.D., Fletcher School; J.D., and business partner, received production of West Side Story. American University Washington College awards in seventeen categories E mpowering READ: Ina May’s Guide to of Law from the Westchester Ad Club in

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June. The brothers built their firm Cambridge. He was previously devoted to philosophical issues HILL Fifteenth Reunion: on the foundation of excellence affiliated with Massachusetts in the Harry Potter books. 97 The Class of 1997 set by the firm’s founder and their General Hospital, where he celebrated its fifteenth reunion at grandfather, Harold Harrison, and served as associate director of HILL Lisa (Kaplan) the Burren in Davis Square in May. their mother, Daryl Rand. the ob/gyn residency program 96 Rabinovich and Philip More than eighty alumni and their shared between MGH and Rabinovich, along with big sister spouses and guests attended (see HILL Fares Khalidi and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Mia and big brother Benjamin, bitly.com/jumboweekend). Darrah 93 Saskia Meckman, J94, welcomed Jordan Noah on January Feldman and her husband, Jason of Boca Raton, FL, welcomed HILL Saskia Meckman, 31, 2012. Phil is cofounder Greenberg, announced the birth baby Serena on March 7, 2012. 94 see HILL 93. and managing partner of RMR of their daughter, Eden Claire, on Rita Lara has been named director Wealth Management in New June 2, 2012. She joins big sister of development for Corporate HILL Shawn Klein, an York City; the family lives in Sydney Deanna. Accountability International, a 95 assistant professor of Roslyn, NY. Kanani Titchen was nonprofit that protects human philosophy at Rockford College awarded an M.D. from Jefferson HILL David Garrett writes rights, public health, and the in Illinois, writes, “I launched a Medical College in May. She 98 that he and “seven environment from certain corporate new blog, The Sports Ethicist also received the Jennifer Reed Jumbos from our class—Sam actions around the world. (sportsethicist.com), to examine Bakker, M.D., Class of 2001 Abeshouse, Mike Bender, Julie MEDICAL Edwin Huang, an the ethical implications of sport Memorial Prize for Compassionate Wilusz Bender, Liz Canter, Annie assistant professor of obstetrics, and the ways sport can teach us Care and the American Medical Cook, Brad Coyle, and Damian gynecology, and reproductive about ethics and human life.” Women’s Association Excellence Siebert, Engineering, plus Laura biology at Harvard Medical Klein also published a paper, in Mentoring Award, and was Tavares and eight children under School, has been appointed “Harry Potter and Humanity: inducted into the Hobart Amory age eight—made for an exciting chair of obstetrics and gynecol- Choices, Love, and Death,” in a Hare Honor Society and the Gold weekend hiking, swimming, ogy at Mount Auburn Hospital in special edition of Reason Papers Humanism Honor Society. eating, and playing at Tully Lake

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a lumni highlight that provides access to quality care for diverse populations in un- S tephie Coplan, A09 derserved communities throughout New York City. Matthew and T he first gig ever landed by his wife, Juliet, welcomed Jonas the indie rock band Stephie Jacob on May 31, 2012. They also Coplan and the Pedestrians have two daughters. was at the Midway Café in NUTRITION Helen Costello re- Jamaica Plain, just weeks after ceived the 2012 Andrew L. Felker Coplan graduated. A singer- Award from the New Hampshire songwriter trained in classical Department of Agriculture, and jazz piano, Coplan had Markets, and Food in recognition seven soulful numbers that first of her contributions to the health set—none of which revolved and vitality of New Hampshire. around romance. “I made a very conscious decision to not FLETCHER Ko Unoki, head write about relationships,” she 02 of strategic alliances for tells us. “I was going to be the first female songwriter in the history of the universe to never write a the Asia region at Bayer Yakuhin song about a boy. Obviously that didn’t work out.” What did work out: Coplan drew breath from those Ltd., received a doctor of business who’d done her right, wrong, and a little bit of both. “Jerk,” a catchy hit that’s made its way around the administration degree from the country, brought the artist and her Pedestrians to Boston in June as part of the 101.7 WFNX Seaport School of International Corporate Six show, where they opened for Cake and Two Door Cinema Club. “I think the dream for all of us is just Strategy of Hitotsubashi University, sustainability, to be able to play music all the time,” she writes. “And if fame and fortune happen along Japan, and has turned his doctoral the way, that would be sweet, but that’s not the plan.” The plan: tour full-time. Coplan, whose voice is thesis into a book, Mergers, often compared to that of Metric’s Emily Haines, is well on her way. Hear her at tuftsalumni.org/coplan. Acquisitions, and Global Empires, published by Routledge in the United Kingdom. in Royalston, MA. Hopefully we been named assistant director of Fishman was named District of can do it next year with anyone the Center for Animals and Public Columbia Public Schools Teacher HILL Rachael Fuchs who is interested, especially Policy at the Cummings School of of the Year. Maura (Johnson) 03 Melniker, Douglas Craig LeMoult, who was busy in Veterinary Medicine. In addition Hollmer, Engineering, and her Melniker, A01, and big brother Washington receiving the Sigma to her new position, McCobb husband, Pete Hollmer, are living Jacob welcomed Sadie Madelyn Delta Chi Award from the Society also directs the Cummings in Massachusetts with their two on June 24, 2012. She joined a of Professional Journalists at the School’s newly established daughters; Pete has published large family of Jumbos, including National Press Club.” shelter medicine program. A his first novel, A Togahan’s Tale, grandparents Heather Karmin diplomate of the American College available in Kindle format from Melniker, J71, A01P, A09P, and HILL James and Nayiri of Veterinary Anesthesiology, Amazon. Douglas Melniker, see Harvey Melniker, A69, A01P, A09P, 99 Baljian Bell of Weston, McCobb has published research HILL 03. Evan Wecksell and Kelly and aunt Carly Melniker, A09. MA, welcomed Zaven William on shelter medicine, feral cats Meyersfield of North Hollywood, on March 12, 2012, joining big and pain management, and stress CA, welcomed Beckett Sage on MEDICAL Lee Rubin brother Avedis. Larisa Shambaugh reduction for confined animals. April 10, 2012. Adrian Wilairat, 04 has been appointed an has been accepted to the Broad associate director of the Center assistant professor of orthopedic Residency in Urban Education, HILL Shira Fishman, for Health and Homeland Security, surgery at the Warren Alpert School a two-year program that places 01 Engineering, a math has been appointed an adjunct of Medicine at Brown University. mid-career professionals in teacher at McKinley Technology professor of law at the University His practice focuses on hip and leadership positions in large urban High School in Washington, DC, of Maryland School of Law, knee replacement. He and his wife, school districts. Shambaugh received a Milken Educator where he teaches a class on Jamie, have two children, Abigail, will serve as director of special Award from the Milken Family cybersecurity law and policy. three, and Matthew, one. projects in Newark Public Schools Foundation (MFF). Presented by MEDICAL Matthew Weissman in New Jersey. MFF chairman and cofounder is the chief medical officer and HILL Rebecca Plofker is Lowell Milken, the award comes vice president of medical af- 05 the new head of business VETERINARY Emily with a no-strings-attached cash fairs for Community Healthcare development and communications 00 McCobb, M.S.02, has prize of $25,000. Last September, Network, a nonprofit organization at Idea.me, the leading regional

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platform of Latin America. HILL Jimmy Edgerton, has been promoted to execu- services on July 1. She had been Drew Porter was awarded a J.D. 06 Engineering, director of tive vice president for global key interim director since November, degree, an environmental law jWEST Solutions in Washington, account management at GfK SE when long-time director Sandra certificate, and a graduate DC, developed a project for in Cincinnati, a global market re- Baer was on an extended medical certificate in ocean policy from renovating a burned-out rowhouse search consultancy headquartered leave. In her new role, Sullivan sup- the University of Hawaii and that won jWEST a design and in Nuremberg, Germany. ports self-identified students with William S. Richardson School of construction award from the disabilities enrolled in undergradu- Law in May 2011. As the 2010 District of Columbia Historic HILL Douglas Wilson ate or graduate studies in Arts Jarman Environmental Law Fellow Preservation Office andO ffice of 10 writes, “I have recently and Sciences and Engineering. at the University of Hawaii, Porter Planning. The project, which used moved to Melbourne, Australia, She received a master’s degree conducted legal research and renewable and green building and am playing ice hockey for the in child development from Tufts in wrote for the Nature Conservancy technology, also won the annual Melbourne Ice, based out of the 2010, and completed a certificate in Honolulu and hosted a community award from the Historic Docklands Icehouse. If there are of advanced graduate studies in colloquium, “Conservation in a Mount Pleasant Society. any Tufts alumni down under, it mental health counseling from Changing Climate: The Bicultural would be great to meet up!” Fitchburg State in August, along Impacts of Climate Change on HILL Carly Melniker, GRADUATE Michael Simon is with Massachusetts mental health Coastal Habitats, Species, and 09 see HILL 03. Benjamin an American Association for the counseling licensure. Sullivan is Cultural Uses.” You can read Samuels writes, “With two scripts Advancement of Science Science also a private educational coach, his recent article “Unraveling optioned and my first horror and Technology Fellow in the has taught psychology courses the Ocean from the Apex Down: feature picked up by the producer National Science Foundation’s at Lasell and Simmons colleges, The Role of the United States of Dread, Midnight Meat Train, division of integrative organismal served as a mental health coun- in Overcoming Obstacles to and Book of Blood, I have signed systems. He earned a Ph.D. in biol- selor at a local middle school, and an International Shark Finning with a lawyer and manager!” ogy at Tufts. Linda Sullivan was ap- was assistant director and lead Moratorium” online at environs. FLETCHER Matthew Valle pointed Tufts’ director of disability teacher at a child-care center. law.ucdavis.edu. Seth Purcell of Hingham, MA, has been awarded a lumni highlight a Public Interest Law Scholarship from Northeastern University School of Law. Purcell, who has Cal Shapiro, A11, and Rob Resnick, A11 a master’s degree from Brandeis, has traveled the world as a T he Internet has been good to Cal volunteer for the Peace Corps and Shapiro and Rob “Rez” Resnick, has worked for five international because they’ve been good to the grassroots development Internet. Shapiro, a singer-rapper, organizations. and Resnick, a producer, formed NUTRITION Sonya Elder, Timeflies—which combines elements N09, food services director of pop, hip-hop, electro, dub step, for the Brookline (MA) Public and rock—in the fall of senior year. Schools, was named 2012 A few months later they started a Brookline Woman of the Year weekly YouTube series called Timeflies by the Brookline Commission Tuesday, treating what Vanity Fair for Women, in recognition of calls a “formidable fan base” to new, her efforts to get students to original cuts. Many tracks went viral, eat healthier. She introduced including a catchy cover of Disney’s vegetarian options and more “Under the Sea.” After a national tour fruits and vegetables on school promoting their first full-length album,The Scotch Tape (2011), which debuted at number eight on lunch menus. “A lot of people the iTunes album chart and number two on the iTunes pop chart, the duo released a mix tape, Under think of school food as being the Influence (2012), and is preparing for its second tour. Shapiro and Resnick, both music majors, highly processed,” Elder said. “If attribute much of their success to their study of classical music and composition. Resnick says he is you look at our menus, you’ll see “excited to see the [Tufts music] department foster the development of popular and electronic music a lot of fresh produce and raw for its students.” Shapiro told MTV News: “It’s amazing to think that roughly a year ago today we were ingredients. We’re trying to make graduating college with the hope of growing our fan base. Now here we are. It’s been a crazy ride.” it more like home cooking.” Give them a listen at tuftsalumni.org/timeflies and timefliesmusic.com.

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which were published in National financial markets and trends. He in memoriam Geographic magazine. He also and his wife, Joann, moved their turned his copious slides from family to a farm in Delaware’s extensive travel into slideshows Brandywine Valley that also 1930s 2012. “I would have played in he presented to organiza- boarded horses. His interests JOSEPH B. KIRSNER, M33, the the Boston Symphony Orchestra tions all over New England. included restoring cars, foxhunt- Louis Block Distinguished Service for nothing, for the joy of being ARTHUR CLAYMAN, E43, ing, farming, vegetable garden- Professor of Medicine at the there,” he told the Boston Globe of Lynn, MA, on April 5, 2012. ing, and riding motorcycles. University of Chicago, on July 7, last February. “But to be paid He was selected to speak at his 2012. He was 102. A pioneering well to do what you love is heaven Tufts graduation ceremony. He 1950s gastroenterologist and subject beyond belief.” Rotenberg’s love was a member of the engineer- HENRY P. DONOHUE, E50, of the book G.I. Joe, by James of Symphony Hall began while he ing honor society Tau Beta Pi of Fairview, PA, on February L. Franklin, Kirsner received two was a student at Tufts. He left and a U.S. Navy veteran. 25, 2012. After serving as a lifetime achievement awards campus every Friday afternoon to ELIAS SNITZER, E45, on naval officer in the Korean War, from Tufts University School of watch Serge Koussevitsky con- May 21, 2012, in Boston. The Donohue was a research engineer Medicine. “Few if any physi- duct the BSO. Rotenberg eventu- inventor of the glass laser, at Cabot Corporation, where he cians have had a broader and ally would play for Koussevitsky, fiber laser, and fiber amplifier, was awarded a patent for a new more positive impact than Joe and in 1991, was one of the last Snitzer pioneered advances in chemical process. His career Kirsner on thousands of patients, members of Koussevitsky’s BSO laser technology that led to the included executive positions at students, and professional to retire. In 1940, Rotenberg creation of broadband networks. Fenestra Corporation and Skinner colleagues,” said Kenneth S. was accepted into the inaugural He was an emeritus professor of Engine, as well as operating a pri- Polonsky, dean of the Division of class of the Berkshire Music ceramic and materials engineer- vate consulting practice. He was the Biological Sciences and the Center at Tanglewood, where he ing at Rutgers University. Snitzer an avid golfer and wrote poetry to Pritzker School of Medicine at was coached by Koussevitsky, demonstrated the first optical entertain his family and friends. the University of Chicago. Kirsner Paul Hindemith, and Gregor fiber laser in 1961, and he held RICHARD C. OSGOOD, helped found the American Piatigorsky. Rotenberg served numerous patents and received E50, on July 12, 2012, Gastroenterological Association, in the Army in World War II, as- several awards for his ground- in Manchester, NH. the American Society for signed to military intelligence be- breaking work in lasers and fiber LOIS A. (GROSS) JARDINE, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and cause of his fluency in French and optics. He also held research J51, of Greenfield, MA, on July the American Association for German. After the war, he was positions at American Optical, 6, 2012, surrounded by her the Study of Liver Diseases. He sent to Berlin to help locate Nazi Honeywell, United Technologies, loving family. She had been a taught generations of medical officers in hiding.I t was there and Polaroid. Read more about schoolteacher in Southington, students and young physicians that he befriended a Soviet officer his career at bitly.com/esnitzer. CT, where she designed and the importance of combining and fellow Jew, and the two par- ELEANOR McGONIGAL developed programs to teach competence with compassion ticipated in one of the first Jewish McNUTT, J49, a medical librarian, kindergarteners to read. After when treating patients. Read prayer services in that city since on April 20, 2012, in Pittsfield, retiring from teaching, Jardine more about Kirsner’s remark- before the war. You can read more MA. She loved to read, par- was a child advocate for the able life at bitly.com/jkirsner. about Rotenberg’s life and music ticularly mysteries and children’s Massachusetts Department of PRISCILLA COBB PAYNE, at tuftsalumni.org/rotenberg. books, and traveled exten- Social Services. A longtime mem- J30, on April 30, 2012, in sively with her husband, Bill. ber of St. James Church, she was Westwood, MA. Payne, who 1940s DONALD FREDERICK RUGEN, a Eucharistic minister, played in taught in Jamaica Plain and KATHERINE L. BEERS, J42, G49, of Wilmington, DE, on April the bell choir, and composed sev- later was an associate direc- of Oswego, NY, on May 26, 14, 2012. After working for eral hymns. She loved adventure tor of the Learning Disabilities 2012. She played piano and Pfizer, where he helped develop and travel; a highlight was a hot Foundation and the Landmark violin and was a retired sec- a product later marketed as air balloon trip over the Masai Schools in Prides Crossing, retary at Oswego Hospital. Visine eyedrops, Rugen moved Mara Game Reserve in Kenya. MA, was listed in Who’s ROBERT McILVIN, E42, of to Sun Oil Company, working She also loved music, art, and Who of American Women. Cheshire, CT, on June 23, 2012. as a research chemist until he theater, and was the founder and SHELDON ROTENBERG, He retired as director of engi- retired in 1982. Stock market first president of the Southington A39, a violinist with the Boston neering services at Armstrong analysis became a passion in High School Band Backers. Symphony Orchestra for forty- Rubber and was also an avid his spare time, as well as Elliott BERTRAM BLOOM, three years, at his home in photographer. He won many Wave Theory and Fibonacci D52, on June 23, 2012, Brookline, MA, on June 23, awards for his photos, some of ratios, both used to analyze in Boynton Beach, FL.

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JOHN “JACK” DEADY, A55, 2010. A thirty-three-year survivor of all ages to be independent the debate about the death pen- of Bedford, NH, on April 23, of breast cancer, Joanne was and to solve problems through alty is analytic, normative, and 2012. He retired from IBM after an active volunteer in her local negotiation and compromise. empirical,” his colleague Norman twenty-nine years and became a churches, Society of St. Vincent Late in her teaching career, she Daniels wrote in a faculty resolu- noted historian and lecturer on de Paul, and gift and thrift shops. taught classes in parenting and tion on the occasion of Bedau’s the Cocoanut Grove, Hawthorne JOHN A. LOSERT, A60, of The published a book, Parenting retirement. “There has been Inn, and 1852 Boston fires. He Villages, FL, on May 3, 2012. Tips for the Strung Out Mom considerable confusion between was active in mayoral cam- He was a former high school and Dad. She was passionate claims about prevention, deter- paigns, providing his signature science and math teacher and about many things—the people rence, retribution, and fair admin- accordion music. His survivors coached football, basketball, she loved, her students, her istration,” Daniels wrote. “Hugo’s include his wife, VIRGINIA track, and golf. He served as life’s work, hiking in the moun- work sorts through these issues (MURPHY) DEADY, J55, and principal of Hastings Middle tains, her art and meditation so we can see more clearly which three children. He was prede- School in Fairhaven, MA, where groups, and playing the flute. arguments are subject to em- ceased by his brother-in-law, he developed the school’s first pirical testing and which require CHARLES W. MURPHY, A54. parent-teacher organization. 1970s moral critique. One of his crucial RICHARD M. LIGHTCAP, HORTON CLEVELAND SAMUEL L. GUIFFRE, G75, on contributions is empirical, namely A59, of Palm Coast, FL, on July REED, G62, of Ponte Vedra, FL, March 20, 2012. documenting the enormous num- 8, 2012. He served in the U.S. on March 15, 2012. A vision- ber of innocent people sentenced Army Reserves and enjoyed fish- ary in preparatory education, 1980s to death in the United States.” ing. He is survived by his wife of Reed founded Jacksonville (FL) ELIZABETH DAVIS, J83, of San Bedau was a founding member of twenty-one years, Gail, and their Episcopal High School in 1966, Francisco, on June 2, 2012. She the National Coalition to Abolish children and grandchildren. serving as its first headmaster worked as a technical writer the Death Penalty and served for Colonel FLEETWOOD PRIDE and first president. After eleven at Peoplesoft, where she was many years on its board of JR., G59, of Belfast, ME, on May years there, he was appointed manager of publications, and directors, including several 27, 2012. He was a decorated headmaster of Charlotte Country at high-tech startups in Silicon years as chairman. He also had veteran of the U.S. Army Air Day School in Charlotte, NC. Valley and San Francisco. Her been a member of the American Corps, the Maine Air National Under his leadership, Country Day great passion was music, and Civil Liberties Union since the Guard, and U.S. Air Force, where merged with Carmel Academy, her tastes ranged from Wagner 1950s. Bedau frequently testi- he served with distinction for and Charlotte Country Day School and John Adams to the Grateful fied against the death penalty thirty-six years. His decorations became one of the ten largest Dead to the classic jazz of Ella before state legislatures and include the Legion of Merit, private schools in the nation. Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Congress. In 1994, he delivered Distinguished Flying Cross, Air He had a profound devotion to She also loved to cook and was a series of lectures at Tufts as Medal, World War II Victory literature and a great appre- a longtime member and con- the Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Medal, and Vietnam Service ciation of sports. He was also a tributor to Chowhound, a popular Professor of Philosophy; the Medal. He was loved, supported, devotee of travel and culture. online food discussion board. lectures were published in and accompanied by his wife The Reverend RUPPERT L. Making Mortal Choices (Oxford Marion on many assignments as LOVELY, A63, of Mequon, WI, FACULTY University Press, 1997). they raised their six children in on May 3, 2012. Lovely served HUGO ADAM BEDAU, J75P, Bedau was co-editor of Capital Germany, Alaska, California, and as minister at Countryside A85P, the Tufts philosopher who Punishment in the United Alabama. He retired from the Air Church Unitarian Universalist in vehemently opposed the death States (1976) and Debating Force in 1979, moving to Belfast, Palatine, IL, for thirty-six years. penalty and helped shape the the Death Penalty (2004). He where the Prides’ lifetime involve- RUTHANN SAPHIER, J65, of national debate on the issue, on was the author of The Courts, ment in their communities found Sun Valley, ID, a parenting educa- August 13, 2012, from complica- the Constitution, and Capital a new home. Pride loved fishing tor and writer, on June 2, 2012. tions of Parkinson’s disease. He Punishment (1977), Death Is and exploring the Maine woods, Saphier taught at progressive taught at Tufts for more than Different (1987), and Killing waters, and wilderness with private schools, including the thirty years, retiring in 1999 as as Punishment (2004), and his friends and grandchildren. New Lincoln School in New York the Austin B. Fletcher Professor coauthor of In Spite of Innocence City and the Westland School in of Philosophy emeritus. His book (1992). He is survived by his 1960s Los Angeles. She later founded The Death Penalty in America, wife, CONSTANCE PUTNAM, JOANNE F. KANGAS, J60, of and became the executive direc- in its fourth edition, has been a G99, and four children from a Edgewater, MD, on July 1, 2012. tor of the Wood River Network standard text on capital punish- previous marriage: Mark, Paul, She was the widow of DAVID for Youth, a youth development ment since it was first published and GUY BEDAU, A85, and M. KANGAS, A60, who died in program. She taught students in 1964. “Hugo’s contribution to LAUREN BEDAU EVANS, J75.

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01. BUia & AMPORT 2011, at Relais du Soleil in Glen Stephanie Buia, J99, wed Christian Ellen, CA. Jumbos in attendance Amport on September 24, 2011, included, back row, from left: in Rye, NH, and York, ME. Jumbos Graham Outerbridge, A04; Brian in attendance included, back Mikel, A04; Carlos Montalvan, A04; row, from left: Jeanne Kehrberger Sarah (Driver) Garrison, A04; Nick Bouvier, J99; Nicole Bach Lampe, Garrison, A04; Jordan Kolasinski, J99; Kate Kehrberger, A02; bride; A04; Andrew Valen, A04; Matt Eden Hauslaib, J00; Meghann Abbrecht, A04; Ian Schneider, Gill Flaherty, J01; Meghan Brown A03; and Amanda Sommers, A03; (Hodzic) Endelman, G07; Julie left: Alex Parachini, A05; Allan Rice, James, J00; and Lara Hauslaib, front row, from left: Jess (Trombly) (Medway) Mencel, A04; and David A04; and Stan Drozdetski, E03. The J99; front row: Marybeth Molly Rogers, A04; Sarah Gelb, A05; Mencel, E04, G06. Not pictured: couple resides in San Francisco. Baker, J00, and the groom. Becca (Doigan) Montalvan, A04; Jessica Helt-Cameron, G05. Shamora Michelson, A04; Jess 06. HENNELLY & NORTON 02. CONRAD & ABRAHAM Lovitz, A04; bride; groom; Marc 05. GREENFIELD & IRELAND Karen Hennelly, A04, wed Brice Zach Conrad, A98, wed Maire Zeiger-Guerra, A04; Abby Meyerson, Erin L. Greenfield,A 04, wed Fraser Norton on July 9, 2011, at the Echo Abraham on April 14, 2012, in A04; and Katie Mason, A04. B. Ireland, A03, on April 21, 2012, Lake Inn in Tyson, VT. Jumbos in Westfield,NY . Jumbos in atten- at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles. attendance included, from left: dance included, back row, from 04. GREEN & KELLY Jumbos in attendance included, Eric Adler, E04; Louise Flannery, left: Joe Brick, A98; Julie (Wilusz) Jessica Green, A02, G04, wed back row, from left: Kenny Berlin, A04, G11; Matthew Hirsch, E04; Bender, J98; Mike Bender, A98; Michael Kelly, E04, on July 9, 2011, E03; Sandra Goldberg Berlin, A04; Jonathan Remer, E04; Adam Wilson, groom; bride; Liz (Canter) Siebert, in Assonet, MA. Jumbos and friends Erica Levine, A04; Dominic Ju, A00, E04; groom; bride; Kasey Lindsey, J98; and Matt Andrus, A98; front in attendance included, from F09; Jerry M. Ireland, A66, A03P; A04; Lily Ladewig, A04; Kimberly row, from left: Schecky Miluso, left: Justin Green, A04; Meredith Corinda M. Barbour, J69, A03P; (Parent) Jason, A04, G07; Katherine A98; Brad Coyle, A98; Damian Gilbert, A03; Darren Green; Matt Berlin, A03; Agnes O’Connor, Burke-Wallace, A04; William Jason, Siebert, E98; and Bryant Lee, E98. Steven Green, A07; groom; bride; J69; Jon Najman, E03; and Susan A04; and Benjamin Stone, A04. Matthew Peterson, A04; Laurel Doan, A03; middle row, from left: 03. GOLDBERG & HERZBERG Hesch, E04; Patrick Miller, E04; Lauren Wheeler, A03; Amanda 07. KLICKER & HAHN Abby Herzberg, A04, wed Jesse Elizabeth (Candee) Miller, A04; Rowley, A04; Yael Friedkin, A04; Linda Klicker, J98, wed Steve Goldberg, A04, on August 27, Elliot Miller, E04, G06; Irma groom; and bride; front row, from Hahn, A97, on February 12, 2012,

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in Santa Barbara, CA. Jumbos and E01; Maura (Johnson) Hollmer, 10. MORRISSEY & RENNERT Bangalore, India. The couple met in friends in attendance included, E01; Betsy (Mikesell) Brown, J01; Taryn Morrissey, A03, wed Kevin medical school and recently moved back row, from left: Jesse Silver, Jeremy Brown, E01; Alan Silver, Rennert on May 5, 2012, at the back to Texas after completing E98; Roger Limon, A00; Jay Lifton, A00; Lauren (Warshaw) Silver, J01; Chesapeake Bay Foundation in their internal medicine residencies A96; Mike Kim, A96; Rob Kelley, Christine Johnson, J00; Jill Regen, Annapolis, Maryland. Jumbos and at Drexel University Hospital in A96; Thomas Frotten, E97; and J01; and Marla Schiff, J00; front friends in attendance included, Philadelphia. Marie Lee, A04; front row, from row, from left: Lauren Brodsky, J01; back row, from left: Steven Werlin, left: Todd Ragaza, A97; Tina Kim; groom; bride; and Jamie Eto, J01. A03; Andy Coombs, A03; Mike 12. NADELMAN & WEINZETL Tamaki Hiratsuka, J98; groom; Leiba; Matt Reardon, A03; groom; Carole (Nadelman) Marmell, J66, bride; Stephanie Jowers, J98; Karol 09. MIKULIAK & SOLTYSIK Rob Swanekamp, A03; Jolene Hart; wed Roger Weinzetl on June 24, Tillman, J98; Mei Zhu Peng, J98, Jessica Mikuliak, J95, wed David Alex Chechile, A03; and Cathleen 2012, at Sycamore Heights in M02; Akiko Jimbo Miyamoto, E98; Soltysik on October 22, 2011, Grado; front row, from left: Sarah Houston, TX, where they are living. and Sumita Singh, J98. The couple near their home in Maryland. Keener, A03; Lesley Frame; Rebecca resides in Boulder, CO. Jumbos in attendance included, Kahn, A03; Amanda Schupak, A03; 13. NAKAMURA & GAUDET from left: Robyn Miller-Tarnoff, bride; Kate Grossman, A03; and Kacie Nakamura, A07, N09, wed 08. KRETCHMER & WINTHROP J97; Beth Werlin, J97; Erica Hoffa Tate Paulette. The couple resides in Robert Gaudet Jr., A07, M11, on Emily Kretchmer, J01, wed Philippe Smithwick, J95; Liz Lemer Day, J96; Washington, DC. May 28, 2011, in Woonsocket, RI. Winthrop on November 6, 2012, Cynthia Braun Martini, J95; Karen Jumbos in attendance included, in Boston. Jumbos in attendance Altschuller Copeland, J96; Bill 11. MUTHAPPA & DAYANI back row, from left: Christine Gary, included, back row, from left: Erin Copeland, A96; and Sarah Brown Divya Muthappa, A04, wed Aria A07; Miranda Steed, E06; Luke (Walker) Frey, E01; Amy Kumpel, Lewis, J95. Dayani on January 1, 2012, in Yu, A07; Molly Nutt, A07; Mario

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C ervantes, A07; Mendeep Sidhu, Watanatada, F05. The couple 17. A99, M03; Joseph Marturano, resides in Boston. G10; Kenneth Ralto, M11; Alexander Glick, M11; and Maria 16. TABER & McCLURE DeAndrade, A07; front row, from Thomas Taber, A85, wed Catherine left: Megan Sullivan, A10; Jamie McClure on May 19, 2012, at Ratner, A07; Michael Stone, A07; the Ritz Carlton in Chicago. Bill Vladislav Gil, A07; Jose Vazquez, Rudnick, A86, officiated the civil A06; Christina Pastorello, A07, ceremony. Jumbos in attendance in- M12; bride; groom; Kim Nguyen, cluded, from left: Julie Abrams Leff, E07, G09; Susanne Wakerly, N09; J86; Steve Bernitz, A86; Saundra Brooke Colaiezzi, N09; and Lyly Deltac, J85; Stu Birger, A86; Dave Tran, M11. The couple resides in Iacobucci, A86; groom; bride; Bruce Chestnut Hill, MA. Cohen, A83; Lisa Cohn Cohen, J86; Rudnick; Dave Bloom, A85; Jackie Rony Jacques, A08; Jacob Trueb, A07; and Tara Espiritu, A07, G10; 14. STEIER & NATHENSON London, J87; Neil Silverston, A83; E08; Anyenda Inyagwa, A08; Irene front row, from left: Dan Feldman, Gabriela Steier, A07, wed Michael and Mike Darviche, A83. Chung, A08; Winston Fitzhugh, A08; A09; Stephanie Sirabian, A08; J. Nathenson, M09, on June 17, and Gregory Jette, A08; middle row, Terri Harding, A09; groom; bride; 2012, in Pittsburgh, PA. Jumbos 17. WANG & RICHARDSON from left: Sarah Kalin, A09; Ajaya Augustine Pyo, A08; and Eileen and friends in attendance included, Monica L. Wang, A07, wed Michael Mallapaty, E07; Anu Kaduvettoor, Zhou, A08. Not pictured: Jennifer from left: Anne de Laire Mulgrew, P. Richardson, A08, on June 26, A07; Tram Nguyen, A08; Jennifer Cho, A08; Christine Lee, A09; and a lecturer in Spanish at Tufts; Rafi 2011, at the Tower Hill Botanic Earls, A08; Daniella Burgi-Palomino, Fabian Chang, A08. The wed- Goldberg, A06; groom; bride; April Garden in Boylston, MA. Jumbos A07; Kerry Thornton-Genova, A07; ding photographer was Liza Voll, Baskin, A07; and Ethan Heller, E07. in attendance included, back row, Caitlin Doering, A07; Megan Duane, A09. The couple honeymooned in from left: Julian Lopez, A08; Curt E07; Andrew Cai, A08, M.B.S.11; Paris and Venice and now lives in 15. STRAUSS & CARON Campbell, A09; Andrew Hall, A07; Derek Yee, A08; Julie Schindall, Westborough, MA. Joshua Strauss, F09, wed Joseph Paul Caron on May 26, 2012, in the Dublin Unitarian Church, Dublin, YOUR CEleBRATION PHOTOS: Visit the online Big Day Album at http://tuftsalumni.org/thebigday. We strongly Ireland. Jumbos in attendance encourage couples to have their professional wedding photographer take the photograph they submit to included: Juan Arellano, F05; Tracy Tufts Magazine to ensure high-quality reproduction in print. Photos submitted electronically must be at least Garcia, F05; KafiaH aile, F05; 1024x680 pixels to be printed in the magazine. Email your information to [email protected]. Please note: Carmit Keddem, F05; Banafsheh Your information must be submitted within one year of your big day to be published in this section of the maga- Siadat, F05; Melinda Willis, F05; zine. Submissions may be held for an issue because of space limitations. Alissa Wilson, F05; and Patrin

60 tufts magazine fall 2012 Promises, Promises. Cierra Thompson, A15 With the promise of education comes the promise of great things to come. Please invest in a promising future.

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s part of a drive to boost financial aid for undergraduates in Arts, Sciences, and Engineering, Tufts is offering to match any newly established endowed scholarship greater than $100,000, thereby doubling the scholarship. It’s called the Financial Aid Initiative, and it’s part of an effort to raise $25 million in endowed scholarships for undergrads in AS&E. AEven after the university’s most ambitious fundraising campaign ever, demand for financial aid remains pressing. That’s because, in tough economic times like these, more families require more aid. Scholarship dollars are critical to closing the college affordability gap. Hence the Financial Aid Initiative. Such aid can make all the difference in putting a Tufts education within a student’s reach. Endowed scholarships open a world of opportunity. Take it from these students who have received them.

Carolina Reyes Gre gory G. and Christine D. Randolph Scholarship

filling out college applications can be nerve-wracking, but when Caroline Reyes applied to Tufts, she actually enjoyed the experience. “It was really cool,” she says. “The questions they asked made me want to answer all of them. They were so out of the box.” She opens a file on her laptop and reads aloud her response to an application question: “Tell us, briefly, what is Tufts?” Tufts, she wrote, is home to “Jumbo maximus, a rare species of students and professors” who thrive in an environment “where diversity and open- mindedness are treasured.” Tufts offered everything Reyes was looking for. The students were “very fo- cused, very driven,” and the faculty were not only among the best in their field but also approachable. The chance to study international relations, one of Tufts’ most popular majors, exerted a powerful pull: she dreamed of a career working

64 tufts magazine fall 2012 Photos: alonso nichols on global issues, particularly fair trade. “International relations is close to my heart,” says Reyes. “It embraces my heritage and culture, and gives me purpose.” Reyes grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of Colombian immigrants—her father a physician and her mother the manager of his practice. She says they both gave her the confidence to take a stand on time- ly and complex issues. In high school, she spearheaded a model UN and competed on the mock trial team. Now she brings that high energy to her Tufts studies and activities. Fluent in Spanish, she is learning Portuguese. She juggles coursework with service on the executive board for the sorority Chi Omega and a work- study job at the Tower Café in Tisch Library. She has been active in the Tufts Dance Coalition and has traveled to the Andes for a summer internship with Threads of Peru, a nonprofit that helps Quechua women market their woven goods. It was an experience, she says, that awakened her to the challenges and rewards of fair market practices that aim to help remote Andean communities. “It takes a lot of time, energy, and money to provide the resources for these women to be able to weave and sell their products,” she says. Looking ahead, she expects to travel more, and perhaps pursue graduate studies at the Fletcher School. Louie Zong For now, though, she is making R obert L. Feldman, A69, Scholarship the most of her undergraduate experience—which might not have been financial aid is helping louie zong, fascination with transit systems. He possible without the Gregory G. and A13, pursue not just one dream but says his Tufts experience has taught Christine D. Randolph Scholarship. three. He is majoring in civil engi- him to think about engineering in a With her younger sister approaching neering, minoring in studio art, and different way. He says his instructor college age, financial aid is a significant playing jazz piano. “It’s been a terrific in a class on computer-aided design, support for her family. “I am grateful experience,” he says in his soft-spoken Lee Monardi, “is as much interested in for the kind donations of alumni and manner. “Tufts and the financial aid teaching engineering as he is art.” friends of the university, such as the I’ve received have enabled me to expe- That’s a natural juncture for Zong. Randolphs, for giving me the opportu- rience all the facets of the things I en- Since arriving at Tufts from the Utica, nity to study at Tufts,” Reyes says. “It’s joy. It’s a great place and in a great city. New York, area, he has also developed a place where I have been able to ex- It’s got it all.” his natural artistic gifts (see samples plore my interests and push my limits, Zong was drawn to the School of his work at louiezong.daportfolio. and that has become my home.” of Engineering because of a lifelong com). “I never took an art class before

fall 2012 tufts magazine 65 Adv ancement giving. growth. gratitude.

Tufts,” he says. Now, through the university’s affiliation with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, he has studied animation, children’s book illustration, and comic book art. Skilled at merging images and type, he digitally illustrated a children’s book written by fellow students. For a project for a civil engineering class, Zong illustrated an alphabet book about concepts in geotechnical engineering. “On occasion I see art as a release from engineering,” he says. “But just as often, I believe art and engineering are connected: I am a visual thinker, and art allows me to convey what’s in my mind more easily.” He is particularly fond of car- tooning. One project is an animated online cartoon series called The Sun Also Rises. In addition, the Tufts Daily regularly runs his editorial cartoons and a comic strip that he describes as a slice of life, “like Calvin and Hobbes but a bit less philosophical.” With an internship at Fablevision Studios, a Boston-based animation company, his art portfolio continues to expand. Then there is piano. He has played with the Tufts Jazz Orchestra and per- T urning Around an Epidemic formed in small jazz groups. Recently Philanthropy fuels a strategy to prevent childhood obesity he got together with friends to form a trio to play Sinatra-style music in local clubs. Does he see some overlap between engineering and jazz? “They use the same kind of mindset,” he s an athlete, peter dolan, a78, a08p, has run marathons, com- says. “You’re thinking on your feet to peted in triathlons, and completed the grueling Hawaii Ironman solve a problem.” challenge. As a philanthropist, he is tackling an even bigger challenge: Zong has kept a close eye on ex- childhood obesity. penses while attending college. He AA Tufts University trustee and former CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, Dolan has held part-time and summer jobs and his wife, Katie, have donated $1 million to a national initiative known as as a house painter and as an arts-and- ChildObesity180, which he is chairing at the Friedman School. crafts coordinator at a day care center ChildObesity180 (www.childobesity180.org) seeks to become a major catalyst for in Arlington, Massachusetts. prioritizing and driving the necessary systemic changes to reverse the trend of child- With both parents working in aca- hood obesity within a generation. Founded in 2009, ChildObesity180 draws on the demia and with a younger brother, expertise and reach of senior decision-makers from the highest levels of government, Zong was in need of a generous fi- academia, public health advocacy, community organizations, the food industry, and nancial aid package. He is profoundly the media to drive an integrated national strategy to prevent childhood obesity. grateful for his scholarship: “It’s com- With this new donation, Peter and Katie Dolan have added to their previous gifts pletely accurate to say that I would and pledges to Tufts University in support of financial aid, the Summer Scholars not be here without this generous undergraduate research program, the Tufts Marathon Challenge, the School of gift,” he says. Medicine, and athletics.

66 tufts magazine fall 2012 p hoto: corbis The Dolans’ latest gift supports the To address these strategic areas “So we want to find the best school fundraising campaign under way for and promote a collective impact, programs and technology ideas that in- this large-scale campaign to make our ChildObesity180 is developing and exe- crease physical activity for kids—and kids healthier. ChildObesity180 was cuting a portfolio of initiatives designed then help them reach even more chil- publicly launched last fall with a $6.9 to affect numerous aspects of a child’s dren throughout America.” million grant from the Robert Wood daily environment. This past February, In the spring, the innovation com- Johnson Foundation, and $14.6 mil- with help from First Lady Michelle petition—supported by more than $1.2 lion in total funding has been raised so Obama, ChildObesity180 launched a million from 13 of the nation’s lead- far. “This epidemic is too important to nationwide competition for innova- ing health-insurance companies and wait another moment,” says Christina tion in school-based physical activity as foundations—awarded $500,000 in Economos, N96, the Friedman School’s part of its Active Schools Acceleration prizes, with individual awards of up to New Balance Chair in Childhood Project. $100,000, for the most creative, impact- Nutrition, who is vice chair and direc- “We know there’s so much good ful, and scalable programs and techno- tor of ChildObesity180. work going on all across this country to logical innovations that promote quality “Childhood obesity is the preemi- get our kids up and moving every single physical activity for children during the nent public health issue of our time,” day,” Obama said in a video announcing school day. The next step will be for the she says. “Today, one-third of children the Active Schools Acceleration Project Active Schools Acceleration Project to in America are overweight or obese and Competition, which ran through April. replicate the winning models on a larger on track to experience catastrophic scale, with the goal of achieving sustain- health conditions, swamp health-care able quality physical activity in schools. budgets, and create unprecedented The Active Schools Acceleration challenges across society.” ChildObesity180 Project was the second initiative The Dolan gift will provide core sup- launched by ChildObesity180. The first, port for ChildObesity180 and serve as Donors Healthy Kids Out of School, is a col- an engine to advance the group’s work, (as of July 1, 2012) laboration among nine of the nation’s says the project’s codirector, Miriam largest after-school, sports, and extra- Nelson, N85, N87, professor and director Core Support curricular organizations. Convened by of the John Hancock Research Center on Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ChildObesity180, the leaders of these Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity JPB Foundation groups developed and adopted universal Prevention at the Friedman School. Peter and Katherine Dolan nutrition and physical activity principles “Peter is an amazing champion and from a broad list of evidence-based rec- leader for ChildObesity180,” she adds. Healthy Kids Out of School ommendations for combating child- Robin Kanarek, interim dean Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. hood obesity. Detailed implementation of the Friedman School, notes: plans are under way, and a three-year, “Without Peter’s vision and leadership, Active Schools Acceleration $1.5 million grant from the Harvard ChildObesity180 would not be possible. Project (ASAP) Pilgrim Health Care Foundation will We are proud to be working with him Blue Cross and Blue Shield help catalyze these efforts. to reverse the obesity epidemic in this of Florida Foundation Through its portfolio of high-im- country.” Blue Cross and Blue Shield pact, evidence-based initiatives and its of North Carolina ChildObesity180 takes a high-level commitment to research and evalua- Blue Shield of California view of all activities in the childhood tion, ChildObesity180 will continue to obesity field and analyzes them to de- CIGNA Foundation bring partners to the table to work to- termine the best, most actionable and EmblemHealth gether in pursuit of a common mission: impactful opportunities. Through its Health Alliance Plan reversing the trend of childhood obesity unique decision-making matrix, the HealthPartners Inc. within a generation, says Economos. leadership of ChildObesity180 has Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey reviewed a comprehensive set of evi- For more information about Humana Inc. dence-based obesity prevention recom- ChildObesity180, including how you Kaiser Permanente mendations and identified four priority can support its efforts, contact The Regence Group areas on which to focus: children’s ac- Cindy Briggs Tobin, senior director of Tufts Health Plan cess to healthier foods, physical activity, development and alumni relations at Wellpoint Foundation marketing to children, and eating out in the Friedman School, at 617.636.2940 restaurants. or [email protected].

fall 2012 tufts magazine 67 take it from me Expert advice from our readers...

Applying to Private School Admissions savvy for K–12 parents

faith mcclure, J89, education blogger and author of mcclure’s private school application workbook, Somerville, Massachusetts (www.privateschoolapplication.com)

Study up. Start your research a full year before your targeted admission date. Go to private school fairs, often held throughout the fall. To find those in your area, contact local private schools or associations.

Get organized. Use a spreadsheet, such as the one you can produce from the downloadable template offered with McClure’s Private School Application Workbook. It will help you keep contact information handy and stay on top of admissions tasks and deadlines.

Visit. A pet peeve of admissions officers is families that do not make time for a school visit. Take advantage of open houses and information sessions before you apply, and be aware that afterward, schools might ex- pect you and your child to show up for events such as visiting days, tours, and interviews. E diting a Multi-author Book

E ngage your child in the project. The B ArrY S. LEVY, A66, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH, TUFTS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE; pupil can, for example, attend kid- CO-EDITOR OF SIXTEEN MULTI-CONTRIBUTOR BOOKS friendly school fairs and write thank you notes. Such involvement will pre- C hoose collaborators carefully. Find a trustworthy co-editor with pare your child for school visits and in- knowledge and skills that complement yours. Choose contributors who write clearly, terviews. It will also help you determine stay on topic, and meet their deadlines. And hire a dependable administrative if a particular school is a good match. assistant with excellent communication skills.

L ook into financial aid. Don’t assume D evelop a clear vision for the book. Otherwise you could end up with a you’re too poor for private school. Most series of unrelated essays, rather than chapters that compose an integrated volume. schools offer financial aid of some kind. For instance, Phillips Exeter Academy Be consistent. Edit the book to achieve a uniform style and format. charges zero tuition to any accepted student whose family income is $75,000 or M ix it up. Use stories, case studies, and illustrative examples to make the book less. And don’t assume you’re too rich to intellectually engaging, and include photographs, graphs, tables, and boxes of text qualify for aid, either. A CNNMoney ar- for visual appeal. ticle observed that some private schools offer partial financial aid to families in A ttend to detail. Ensure that the text is factually accurate, suitably the $150,000 to $350,000 range. comprehensive, correctly referenced, and helpfully cross-referenced.

68 tufts magazine fall 2012 illur st ation: joohee yoon How to Support a Dying Loved One What terminal patients need—and don’t need

Janice Kishi Chow, BSOT95, Occupational Therapist, Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Hospice and Palliative Care Center, Palo Alto, California

L isten. Be mindful of the moment you A common response is “You have no C onsider occupational therapy. Loss of are together, remaining present and en- idea.” Allow the person to define his or independence can make dying people gaged. Don’t worry about what you are her own feelings. fearful, angry, and depressed. Occupa- going to say next. tional therapists can help minimize this Be comfortable talking about death. loss. For example, a computer might be Settle into silences. Illness, the effects of Shying away when your loved one tries to modified so that someone whose dex- medication, or a topic’s emotional weight speak about death and dying can make terity has been impaired can still type. may slow mental processes. Silences give him or her feel more isolated. Remember Or someone who needs to conserve his your loved one time to think, so don’t that conversations about the subject can or her energy might be coached to sit ramble on to fill in the blanks. give you an opportunity to connect with down while getting dressed or making a the person more deeply. sandwich. Show acceptance and respect. Refrain from judgment or unsolicited advice. Don’t overstay your welcome. People can K now your limits. Pace yourself. Seek out And avoid saying “I know how you feel.” fatigue easily, even after a few minutes. your own support.

So You Think You Can’t Draw

DE BOrah PUTNOI, J/BFA89, ARTIST AND AUTHOR OF THE DRAWING MIND, BRIGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS (www.thedrawingmind.com)

T rust yourself. If you can make a mark on the M ake your mark. An artist has to experiment. paper, you can draw. There is a part of you Try crumpling your paper and then drawing that knows what to do. Follow it, and don’t on it. Draw a fast line, a bumpy line, a worry if what you draw looks different from jagged line, a line broken into pieces. what others draw. We all have our own Hold your pencil on the very top and visions and our own ways of expressing draw feathery marks. Use the edge of those visions. your pencil and make short dashes. Put a pencil in each hand and make T hrow away your eraser. In drawing lines that cross one another. there are no mistakes, only unexpected paths to follow. Think of each “mistake” as Don’t judge. It takes courage to draw. a possible new journey, one that might turn Be respectful of both your own work and out better than expected. that of others.

WE NEED YOUR ADVICE. What are you an expert on? Share your life-enhancing tips with “Take It from Me” (tuftsmagazine@ tufts.edu or Tufts Magazine, 80 George Street, Medford, MA 02155). If we publish your submission, you will receive $50.

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Through a Glass, Darkly

hat inspired this photograph, Travel photo-collages. The first one came from re- Imaginary Travel #7, was a printed visiting a small collage I had put together long ago. fabric storage bag hanging in a used I made a computer scan of it and used PhotoShop clothing store. To achieve the sense of to alter the colors and toning. My earlier paper col- Wdistance I strive for in my work—the sense of life lage incorporated the frame from a color slide, and viewed indirectly—I added a transparent layer of a it seemed to be a slide of an imaginary scene. Once photograph of a sheer curtain that was in front of a I thought about it that way, I started conceiving of wall marked by staples and years of wear. other such scenes, and the Imaginary Travel series So far, I’ve produced fifteen of these Imaginary was born. —marilyn kirsch, mfa76

70 tufts magazine fall 2012 “ The ExCollege goes beyond the conventional curriculum; it is the everything else. It’s known as a place for creativity and innovation, and with my gift, I can make sure that legacy continues.”

By vocation, Lynn S. MuSter, J90, is a staff attorney for the Massachusetts Appeals Court. But you may know her as the unofficial spokesperson for the experimental College.

As a freshman, the political science major enrolled in a women’s studies course at the exCollege and was immediately drawn to its focus on educational innovation, curriculum expansion, and student empowerment. Lynn went on to

For more information lead a first-year explorations class on u.S. and Soviet union political cultures in her junior year and coordinate a symposium on nontraditional initiatives in higher please contact Tufts’ education her senior year. today, she participates in the exCollege’s alumni council Gift Planning Office and is on the planning committee for its upcoming 50th anniversary celebration.

888.748.8387 An annual tufts donor, Lynn recently included the exCollege giftplanning@ tufts.edu in her estate plans because she believes the testing ground is www.tufts.edu/giftplanning essential for exploring new areas of study. “the programming there is always 10 steps ahead. So many courses that are now seen as traditional—like Hebrew and History of Jazz—got their start at the exCollege.”

to read more of Lynn’s story, visit giving.tufts.edu/muster.

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