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CC: Connecticut College Magazine, Summer 2011 Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Alumni News Archives Summer 2011 CC: Connecticut College Magazine, Summer 2011 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "CC: Connecticut College Magazine, Summer 2011" (2011). Alumni News. 333. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews/333 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Archives at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni News by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. G?f£~~t. , 100 >president's page A new century, a fresh start Leo I. Higdon,}c THE COLLEGE'S CENTENNIAL in the studio and on the athletic gave him the confidence he needed to seemed far off that August day in fields. They have earned recognition succeed in the international equities 2007 when I welcomed the Class of through fellowships from Goldwater, market. 2011 to campus. As all presidents do, Fulbright and the National Science In her Founders Day keynote I advised the new students to take Foundation, among others. They address, historian Linda Eisenmann full advantage of all the opportunities have studied economics in Argentina, '75, parent of twO Connecticut they would find here. I knew rhey cultural identity in Peru and gender- College graduates, summed up the would be shaped and transformed by based violence in Guatemala. They life-changing experience of this this experience. have become activists and advocates education: "It's the place where On May 22, as 1handed diplomas with initiatives that range from my own scholarly inclinations to each member of the Centennial threatened indigenous populations to were nurtured and my intellectual Class, I reflected on how much these education policy to a re-evaluation of perspectives developed." students accomplished in four years the College's venerable Honor Code. The impact of Connecticut - and how they, like each class that Our newest graduates have College is, indeed, important and preceded them, have left their mark impressed me with their intelligence, far-reaching. Our graduates' success on the College. their talent, and their passion for shows the value of this degree, and Connecticut College today offers engaging important issues on campus I look forward to seeing how the an education that reaches students to and in the world. They are privileged Centennial Class of 20 11 will put cross boundaries between different to have completed a Connecticut their liberal arts education imo action areas of study and solve complex College education, and I hope they in the years ahead. problems by using the tools and will use it to help others - wherever Ihope to see our newest graduates perspectives of multiple disciplines. they go and whatever they do next. and many more alumni at our Just as importanr, this education Connecticut College graduates culminating Centennial celebration, takes place within a residential are capable of anything. In this which will take place Oct. 21-23, setting in which students experience Centennial year, dozens of alumni 2011. This Fall Weekend will include firsthand how their personal choices have come to campus to share their a multimedia production featuring and contributions affect the entire varied experiences with students. the stories of inspiring alumni, community. jonathan McBride '92 talked about professors and students along with The members of the Class of how the College prepared him for life a host of other events and activities. 2011 have made the most of this as a White House staffer. Attorney More details can be found on page education: 132 completed the Lauren Burke '06 explained how her 10 and at http://centennial.conncoll. requiremems for more than one study of Mandarin led to helping edu. Please join us for a once-in- major; 62 earned a certificate from youth trafficked from China. And 1Ou-years celebration of Connecticut one of our interdisciplinary centers. financial analyst Carl Prather '04 said College's Great Beginnings - and They have excelled on the stage, his close relationships with faculty your own .• 2 CC:CONNECTICUT COLLEGE MAGAZINE SUMMER 2011 ce. letters, etc. CONNECTICUT COLLEGE Max.w"" To the Editor: Volume 19 I Number 4 EDITOR; LiIiI H. Brownell My mother, Anne, my aunt Beth and I ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Phoebr Hall - all Conn alumnae - made some ART DIRECTOR I ONLINE EDITOR: Benjamin Parmt (deliciousl) Mystery Mocha courtesy of CO~TRIBUTORS: Melissa Bennett, jon Crispin, Elizabeth Esry Wood-Satran '92's recipe in the Hamilton, Mary Howard, Eileen Jenkins. Charles Lrvandoski Winter 2010 issue ("Ask a Camel"). 73, Alexis Levengood '10, Bob MacDonnell, Amy Marrin, Brandon W Mosley, Barbara Nagy, John Narewski, Andrew We love getting our alumni Nathanson '/3, Whit Richardson '02, Franz Riff, A. Vincrnt magazines - keep up the great work! Scarano, Harold Shapiro. Will Tamasian, Geordie Wood CLASS NOTES COORDINATOR: Karen Laskry Lela Butts '06 CLASS NOTES EDITOR: Samberh Fields Stanfordville, N. Y cc eon"ec',icm College Magazine is published by,he Office of C,:,lI~e ~e1ano"5.Patricia M. Carey, Vice President. The magazine's mI'I;!';''' 'S m maJnraln [les be""""" ,he College. ;1:.'; a1umn; :rnd all other co"suruents and to report On issues ofimponance 10 these group •. A belated "thank you" for the articles in the our banquet in order to have fully spent our CC: Connecticut College Magazine{lSSN 1060-5134) (USPS 129- 140) IS published four "me" a year, lfl summer, WI, wimer and spring, Winter 2010 issue featuring the meaningful budget for the year!) and IS ~aikd free of charge to members of lI'e Conneclicut College AI"mn, Asso<;,allon and frIends of rhe College. Periodicals class POS!- work done by Penney Jade Beaubrun ' 11, age paId at New London, CT, and at additional offices. Christina Burrell' II and Eric Lef'Iore ' I I Kathleen Vadala '72 ~omributions: CC: ConnectiCul College Magnine will coll.'lider but Director of Choral Music ISnot responsible for unsohclled manuscripts, proposals and phOlO- during their funded summer internships and graphs. Address correspondence to: experiences studying abroad. Elizabeth Seton High School Edl[or, CC: Connecticut College Magazine, Becker House. These students, and so many others. take Bladensburg, Md 270 Mohegan Avenue, New London, CT 06320-4196. Phone: 860-439-2500 the best of Connecticut College with them Fax: 860-439-5405 Ienjoy your magazine so much, especially E-mail: [email protected] as they move beyond campus boundaries - energy, dedication and enthusiasm not only your article "A Century of Great Visitors" Alumni: Send addres. ,hm'g,; ". for advancing their own experiences and (Spring 2011). I spent my childhood in what Alumni Office educations bur for helping and improving is now called Woodworth House and remem- Connecticut College the lives of others as they do so. ber much you wrote about. 270 Mohegan Avenue Iwas surprised that with the photo of New London, CT 06320 The College truly provides "a student Eleanor Roosevelt on page 32, you did not or e-mail to alumni@Cof/f/coll.edt, experience without equal." Thank you! II identify the student beside her as Jean Wal- lace Douglas '43, daughter of then-vice presi- Posrlllaster: Send address change" TO Bonnie G. Leflore P'll CC: ConneLrlCUl College Magazine, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New Marlborough, Mass. dent of the United States, Henry Wallace, London, cr 06320-4 I96 Nor was he listed as one of the prominent CONNECTICUT COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES James S. Berrien 74, Chair, William P. Barrack '81, Via Chair, I enjoyed the many groups that you covered speakers - he was Commencement speaker Judith Tindal Opmny '72, Viu Chair, LauraJ. Allen '81, David when Jean graduated. At the time "Demo- W Barber '88, Eduardo Caslell '87, Theodore S. Chapin'72 P'07, in your "Century of Song" article (Winter K""on Copeland '76, Raymond J. Debbane P'09, Constance Smi,h 2010), but wanted to remind you that formal crat" was a four-letter word on campus; I Gemmer '80 P'IO. Claire S. Gould '10, Prescott \XI: Hafner '80, Zoe Klein Henriqun '99, Leo 1. Higdon, Jr., l'raident, Estella Johnson '75, choral music also played a role in the musical trust that's no longer true! Da"ld B. Kelso P'09, LlIlda J. Lear '62, Thembumenzi Lukbele '08, Jean was an attractive and bright young Lynda Banet Munro '76 P'08, John F. Niblack P'98, David H. I'alren life of the College. Between 1968 and 1972, 76 P'04 & '09, Maria C. Pellegrini '69, Theodore M. Romanow '76, to person in her own right. Since, she has Harri, R. Rosenheim '09, Thomas A Sargem '82, W Carter Sullivan while the College was still in transition '79, Sally Susman '84, Franklin A. Tuitt '87, Kevin Wade 76, Pamela co-education, I served as accompanist for headed up her family's foundation. D. Zilly'75 the Connecticut College Chorus, first under ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS Margaret Woodhouse Becker Constance Smilh Gemmer '80 P'1 0, f'mi,unt, Tammie Clayton Reid the leadership of Professor James Armstrong '01, Via Prnitknt, Knute Gregg '94, Sternary, Andrew Bogle '94, and then under Professor Paul Althouse. In Baltic, Conn. Carol Blake Boyd '72, Christy Burke '93, Ryan Chan '00, Cynthia Linton Flemmg '54, Martha Gifford '73, Lucie HoblirzeUe lannoni addition to singing challenging repertoire '')7, Mark 1ger '75, Ken Kabel '76 P'll, William Kane '84, Chris r enjoyed reading Linda J. Lear's article, McDaniel '94, EHi Nagai-Rothe '03, Brem N""er '99, Christine Gould for women's chorus, the group planned an Reardon '79, Susan Peck Robinson '65, Usman Sheikh '04, Suunne annual concert with a men's college choir to "Those Extraordinary Hamilton Sisters," in Richmond Simmons '95, Frederick S"mon '96, Jean TIerney Taub the Spring 2011 issue.
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