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FALL/WINTER 2006/2007 THE MAGAZINE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES VOLUME 7, NUMBER 2 16 The Far-Reaching Impact of the Center for International Economics and Development with 1 Frank Jones By Nancy Deneen Fulbrighters in 10 Poet and Rock Sta the Field: What They Learned, and Bon App étit Will Butler: What they Gav 8 7 by by Bo Nielsen Lisa St Nancy Deneen ein e r 2004-200 Admission Tr 25 Wilson The Societ 21 Faculty Award 3 Letter 2 From the Dean 1 DEPARTMENTS WEINBERG COLLEGE OF ARTS ARTS OF COLLEGE WEINBERG NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN s s ends: y 6 AND SCIENCES AND WILL BUTLER AND THE ARCADE FIRE ARCADE THE AND BUTLER WILL FROM THE ARCADE FIRE’S ALBUM, FIRE’S ARCADE THE FROM AT2005 LOLLAPALOOZACHICAGO, SIVASHANKER (LEFT) AND FRIEND AND SIVASHANKER(LEFT) COVER ART BY TRACY MAURICE TRACY BY ART COVER FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR KAVITHASCHOLAR FULBRIGHT FRANK JONES IN A STORY IN STORY A IN JONES FRANK PHOTO BY DAVIDWALLACE BY PHOTO AT FUSHIMI INARI SHRINE, INARI ATFUSHIMI PHOTO BY ADAM TRAVISADAM BY PHOTO THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC ARIZONA THE ON THIS PAGE,BELOW: THIS ON COVER PHOTOS, KYOTO, JAPANKYOTO, FROM TOP: FUNERAL JUDD A. AND MARJORIE MARJORIE AND A. JUDD AT ADDRESS BACK ON AYEAR ALUMNI, FOR WEINBERG COLLEGE, NORTHWESTERN.EDU CROSSCURRENTS CROSSCURRENTS@ SEND LETTERS AND WEINBERG COLLEGE WE’D LIKEWE’D TO HEAR COVER, BY FAX TO PUBLISHED TWICE CROSSCURRENTS, OR BY OR E-MAIL TO (847) 491-4289, NANCY DENEEN, FRIENDS OF THE FRIENDS OF STORY IDEAS TO NORTHWESTERN AND SCIENCES, AND PARENTS, AND UNIVERSITY. FROMYOU. OF ARTS OF IS

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Amid much fanfare in 1937, the Photo: Stephen Anzaldi “forest ox” with deer-like grace LETTERS and impressive horns became the FACULTY AWARDS last of the wild Asian cattle to be

loved reading about the im- business. It’s great being near the few weeks since receiving that phone other empirical methods. In a landmark study in portant and interesting work school and my three kids always call and social psychologist Jennifer 2003, Richeson and colleagues showed through I that Doug Medin is doing at enjoy visiting the campus and class- A Richeson says the news has not really brain scans that social interaction with members Menominee. I am a member of the rooms. sunk in yet. She was taking a day off in the city of a different race might be stressful enough to Keshena family and an enrolled to celebrate her 34th birthday when an official affect how people perform afterwards on cogni- member of the Tribe. My mom’s Sean P. Harte ’87 from the MacArthur Foundation called her cell tive tests. Among the implications of her work maiden name is Keshena. My phone to inform her of the $500,000 “genius are that true diversity cannot be achieved by recognized as a new species. For great, great, great grandfather was ongratulations on the won- grant.” As a MacArthur fellow, she is part of a simply grouping individuals of different races Keshena. He was a Chief along derful issue. My favorite years, it has been the subject of scientific study and conservation distinguished and eclectic group of 25—among the together but by tending to the quality of their with Oshkosh and they were sign- article was about Doug C efforts via forays into the region’s others, a naturalist, a jazz violinist, a deep sea interactions. ers of Treaties of 1848 and 1852 Medin and his innovative thinking jungles. explorer, and a country doctor—who received the She doesn’t subscribe to the “genius” designa- ceding much of Wisconsin and the on culture and learning. My hus- But, in a paper published by no-strings-attached award for 2006. tion but views the award as a blessing. With that Upper Peninsula of Michigan to band and I have traveled extensively the Journal of Zoology (London), “I’m in the midst of all the buzz about the blessing comes a responsibility, she says, not only the U.S. government. I grew up through Mexico and the Yucatan the scientists concluded that award, so it still feels pretty new,” she says. to continue doing her best work but to somehow in Chicago but spent summers on and Oaxacan areas as well as Chi- the kouprey may not be a wild The calls, e-mails, and requests for interviews, use the award to foster racial harmony. the reservation visiting family and apas and parts of Guatamala. He species at all, but is more likely a including this one, have been almost non-stop. Where are we now in the national dialogue friends. Growing up my family is an architect and enjoys studying domestic hybrid—between banteng (an authentic wild ox) and zebu “My family is thrilled,” she says. “They’re prac- about race, she is asked. “What dialogue about was also pretty involved with the the ruins and I enjoy the people and cattle—that later became wild, Indian Center here in Chicago and culture. tically passing out flyers on the street.” race?” she counters. “There really isn’t one. probably in the political turmoil Northwestern shares their excitement. Many people are afraid to talk about race, so it my family was active in working As an art consultant for the Mar- of the 19th century. The kouprey to restore the Menominee’s tribal riott hotel here in the Coralville/ is thought to be extinct in the Richeson, an associate professor of psychology just doesn’t happen. “ status. Iowa City area, [my] emphasis wild today, although a few may and African American studies, was recruited to “Maybe this would be a good use for the I feel fortunate to be a part of the is on Iowa artists and we have exist in domesticated form. The our faculty in 2005. She is also a fellow at the money,” she adds, “creating programs, such as Northwestern community and was included a major hallway dedicated researchers compared a published University’s Institute for Policy Research. She intergroup dialogue workshops, that bring people an economics major, class of 1987. to the area’s Meskwaki Nation and DNA sequence from a kouprey received her undergraduate degree at Brown of different backgrounds together. However, I with sequences from two living University and her master’s and PhD at Harvard want to think about how best to achieve this goal Northwestern has opened so many its culture. I found absolutely fas- Cambodian banteng. Their doors for me and I am grateful that cinating Medin’s thoughts on these prediction, based on its anatomy, and taught at Dartmouth before coming to before making a firm commitment. I also want there was such a strong emphasis on two cultures versus the European was that the kouprey was a hybrid Northwestern. “We were thrilled to be able to consult with some very smart friends and col- doing well in school at my frater- American thoughts toward science and that the two kinds of ox to recruit Jenn to Northwestern,” Dean Daniel leagues.” nity, Alpha Tau Omega. I received learning. would share similar mitochondrial Linzer commented, “both because of her individ- In the meantime, she forges ahead with what my MBA degree from Amos Tuck The story on Katharyn Ely was DNA—a prediction confirmed in ual excellence and because her work fits so well the MacArthur Foundation called her “creativity, School at Dartmouth in 1991. I have very inspiring and I also enjoyed their study. with several groups across the College and the originality and potential to make important con- had the opportunity to work on the story on Paul Growald’s project Authors of the paper are Gary J. Galbreath, associate director of University.” tributions in the future.” Wall Street and am a former mem- (the luna moth was my mother’s the program in biological sciences; Richeson’s research takes a fresh look at preju- ber of the Chicago Board of Trade. favorite also). I will continue to John C. Mordacq, College lecturer dice, stereotyping, and intergroup relations. In I currently work with many other look forward to this magazine with in the program; and F. Hunter studying how members of minority and majority Northwestern alums here in down- renewed interest. Weiler, a conservationist with groups interact with one another, she uses brain town Chicago at Mesirow Financial, the Wildlife Protection Office of imaging, survey techniques, self-reporting, and where I head up our commodities Mary Lea Mountain Kruse ’64 Cambodia. 2 3 PHYSICIST ALEXEY YAMILOV, LEFT, AND GRADUATE STUDENTS WEI FANG AND XIAOHUA WU TAKE OPTI- UP-AND-COMERS CAL MEASUREMENTS OF RANDOM LASERS IN HUI CAO’S LABORATORY BRING HOME IN 2004. PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS FACULTY AWARDS

ew chemotherapies for cancer patients. New WENDI GARDNER, Psychology impacts how their interdependent selves are defined, “The questions of origin are intriguing to me; my understandings of compact object astrophys- Early Career Award from the International Soci- and in turn, their feelings and behaviors in relation- research connects to our effort for a global under- Nics. New ideas about the social aspects of ety for Self and Identity ships versus groups.” standing of cosmic phenomena and links between our our self-concept. These are some of the applications of helio-centric world and the rest of the Universe.” research being conducted by Weinberg faculty mem- Gardner’s research examines the power of self- VICKY KALOGERA, Physics and Astronomy Kalogera says she appreciates being in the dynamic, bers still in the early years of their careers. They are construal (the way we define ourselves) to shape a NSF CAREER Award for Theoretical Studies of energetic environment of Northwestern, which she already being recognized with significant awards. We wide variety of behaviors. In particular, she and her Compact Objects in Binary Systems calls a “can-do” institution that appreciates, supports, share details of their exciting work: students are interested in the distinction between nurtures, and rewards excellence in research and independent self-construal (defining yourself in terms Kalogera says the award’s long-term support will teaching achievement. HUI CAO, Physics & of traits and attributes) and interdependent self-con- allow her to develop her research program in mul- Astronomy strual (defining yourself in terms of your roles in tiple directions—something just not possible with a 2006 Maria Goeppert- relationships and memberships in groups). standard grant in her field. BRYNA KRA, Mathematics Mayer Award from the “For a long time, people thought that these ways “It allows me continuity in a American Mathematical Soci- American Physical Society of viewing the self were culturally constrained,” she number of projects that still ety Centennial Fellowship, says, “for example, that North Americans, by and have a lot to teach us, and it an award for mathematicians The award recognizes out- large, had independent selves whereas East Asians will also allow me to start in between six and ten years past standing achievement by a had interdependent selves. It was thought that this some completely new research their PhD. There are only two woman physicist in the early was due to long cultural histories (e.g., the impor- directions that promise to awarded per year. years of her career and provides opportunities for her tance of self-reliance in North American history and reveal new understanding in to present these achievements to others through pub- the central values of Confucianism in East Asian his- compact object astrophysics. “The award lets me focus more lic lectures. It is named for Maria Goeppert-Mayer tory). But my students and I “Compact objects, such on my research over the next who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963. are showcasing the universality as neutron stars and black holes,” she explains, “are two years, allowing me to get thoroughly involved The award cites Cao “for her groundbreaking contri- of these types of self-constru- the end points of the lives of normal stars that are in a new project without shortchanging my teach- butions to the experimental studies of coherent light als—as well as their power in like our Sun, only more massive. Although they are ing responsibilities. It gives me more flexibility and generation and transport in disordered media, includ- explaining some social behav- ‘death’ remnants they become detectable as astrophys- freedom to attend conferences, travel, and talk to col- ing her invention of microlasers based on disordered ioral differences seen across ical sources of X-rays and gravitational waves when leagues.” media.” cultures and even across gen- they are found in binary systems with other com- Her field is ergodic theory, which is a branch of “We invented a new type of microlaser—a micro der. pact objects or normal stars. The main goals of my dynamical systems dealing with the long term behav- random laser—by utilizing strong scattering for “Within North American research are to understand the evolutionary history ior of systems that are too complicated or too chaotic optical confinement,” says Cao. The random laser is culture we see how girls and and links of the various presently observed sources, to be understood locally. Kra says she is particularly an unconventional laser whose cavity is formed not boys are socialized to main- and to predict the physical properties and detectable interested in interactions of ergodic theory with num- by mirrors but by optical scattering in a disordered tain different types of interdependent self-construals observational signatures of other—yet unknown—cos- ber theory and combinatorics. Some of the questions medium. Over the last decade, random lasers have and how this affects their behavior as adults. For mic compact objects. I use our theoretical understand- deal with basic objects in the whole numbers, such caught the attention of researchers because their example, girls have long been raised to emphasize the ing in the interpretation of current high-energy astro- as arithmetic progressions or prime numbers, but the characteristics lead to unique applications. In the relational aspects of interdependence (close friend- physical observations as well as in the development techniques used seem to be (on the surface) unrelated medical field, they can be used for tumor detection ships) whereas boys are largely socialized in teams of future detectors that will unveil the gravitational to whole numbers. and photodynamic therapy. and groups (Little League, Cub Scouts, etc.) and this radiation from the nearby physical universe. The math department’s strong group in dynamical 4 5 A NEW NAME FOR GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The department of Geological Science is rocketing into the future with a new name: EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES. According to Brad Sageman, chair of the department, the designation better reflects the breadth of research interests

among its faculty, some of whom study other planets, as well as the Earth, in their WILL BUTLER cover art by Tracy Maurice effort to understand the physical, chemical, and biological processes that shape our

world. The department’s new profile includes five new faculty members, expansion POET AND ROCK STAR Funeral of its undergraduate and graduate programs, development of a new analytical facility in the Tech BY NANCY DENEEN Institute, and new research directions for many members of the faculty.

systems was a big draw in her coming to Northwest- TERI ODOM, Chemistry ern, she says. The 2006 Exxon/Mobil Solid State Chemistry ill Butler, class of 2005, plays bass, the papers, often written on his laptop on a bus Faculty Fellowship keyboards, and percussion for the at 4 a.m. after a show. W Arcade Fire, an indie band whose Back on campus, Butler was able to indulge his KARL SCHEIDT, Odom’s research broadly focuses on nanophoton- swift rise has been remarkable. In the past two twin loves of poetry and music. He remembers Chemistry ics—manipulating light at the nanometer scale—and years, the band has been nominated for two winning Battle of the Bands with his cover band, Boehringer-Ingelheim nanomaterials. Recently, Odom and colleagues have Grammy awards and graced the cover of Time’s New Investigator in resolved the long standing question of how more light Canada edition. The group is led by Will’s older Organic Chemistry for can be transmitted through metal nanohole arrays brother, Win, and Win’s wife Régine Chassagne. than is expected by classical models. Such nanohole But Will’s singular contributions are hard to 2005-06. (He also won the miss. During the band’s high-energy performanc- arrays are interesting structures for controlling light 2006 Amgen Young Inves- es, Will is the freest of free spirits, known to in three dimensions and also as platforms for sensi- tigator Award) jump on his brother’s back in mid-song and use tive detection of chemical and biological molecules. anything within reach as a musical instrument. “The award is a great The group has also fab- He’s the one having the most fun and bringing honor,” says Scheidt. “As ricated multifunctional the audience with him. one of the few single-individual awards in science, pyramidal nanoshells that Butler currently is holed up with the band at it brings national prominence and visibility to my exhibit interesting opti- their new studio outside Montreal. He is busy research program. The support from the BI award cal properties in the red collaborating with band members to finish an will allow me to hire a postdoctoral fellow for two and near-infrared regions, album “with something new to say.” In the rela- tive quiet of the refurbished former church, he years. With this coworker, I plan to investigate how a wavelength range that plays a less flashy but equally important role— certain compounds we have synthesized in my labo- suggests these nanopyra- that of poet and wordsmith. He took a short ratory reduce the level of prostate cancer metastasis. mids might be useful in emerging types of can- break to speak with Crosscurrents about the nur- This work is geared towards developing new thera- turing of his writing ability at Northwestern and cer treatment based on pies.” his time as rocker/student. nanoparticles. Scheidt’s research focuses on developing new ways The dual life worked quite well, he says. to make molecules that are important in medicine, Odom explains, “This award recognized our new “When you’re in an intensive school program materials, and biology. “The compounds we are creat- paradigm for creating multifunctional, nanoscale [the Writing Major], you get to know your teach- ing in my laboratory have potential applications as materials by combining chemistry with nanofabrica- ers quite well and they understand when you new chemotherapies for cancer, as tools for under- tion. By merging bottom-up and top-down approach- have to take time with your intense band.” He standing molecular and cell biology, and as new elec- es, we developed a simple hybrid approach to produce toured Europe during fall of his senior year as tronic materials.” ordered arrays of semiconducting and metallic nano- the band’s first album (called Funeral, despite its He says the innovative and collaborative atmosphere structures that are being used to address important mostly joyful sound) became an overnight sensa- tion. “It was pretty hilarious,” he recalls. “Now in the chemistry department helped bring him to problems in materials and photonics.” I have to write my paper. Now I have to fly to Evanston and has helped his research flourish. Photo: Jim Newberry Sweden. Now I have to drive to London. Now I DURING HIS SENIOR YEAR THE READER CALLED BUTLER, have to write another paper.” Somehow he made ALREADY TOURING WITH THE BAND, A “POETRY MAJOR WITH all the important concerts while making A’s on PROSPECTS.”

6 7 some of our questions before getting back to the come up with anything [when writing], and it’s joy and terror of composing songs. frustrating to play an awful show.” On getting into the business: “My brother, The best part of being in a band: “It’s really Win, started it. I’ve always been a sideman, play- nice not to have a day job,” he says, laughing. Photo: Anton Corbijn ing with my brother for 20 years or something “And the luckiest aspect of it—it happened at like that. My Mom is a harpist and her parents the perfect time: I didn’t have to really consider are both musicians. [Her father was the late dropping out of college or getting a job.” bandleader and steel guitar virtuoso Alvino Rey The worst part: “All the complaints sound and her mother is Luise King of the pop-sing- pretty pathetic. Your job is to fly around the ing King sisters]. We took piano lessons and I world and play music for a living. There’s not a played clarinet in the school band…nothing really lot of downside to that. I miss being in Chicago intense.…But it’s hard to want to play any instru- because I have friends there. When you’re ment if you’re not in a group—it’s not as much actively touring, it gets tiring, but that’s a silly ARCADE FIRE IS KNOWN FOR THE EXUBERANCE OF ITS LIVE PERFORMANCES. FROM LEFT ARE RICHARD REED PARRY, TIM fun. So basically it was when Win started play- complaint: ‘Oh, don’t make me go to Brazil. Do I KINGSBURY, JEREMY GARA, WILL BUTLER, WIN BUTLER, RÉGINE CHASSAGNE, AND SARAH NEUFELD. ing music, and I had a bass from Christmas one have to?’” year, and it was like, oh, now What he learned at it’s fun to play.” Northwestern: “The poetry Citizens on Patrol, and playing during Dance that in his poems Butler “achieves a voice that Being onstage: “It’s totally program gave me the tools to Marathon. He worked at WNUR as program- manages to be at once contemporary and con- different from writing music judge things that are hard to mer and DJ. And he served as poetry editor for sciously archaic, without becoming mannered. in the studio. We’re all into judge. Poetry is a hard one to the literary magazine, Helicon. His teach- the presentation of the actual talk about. At Northwestern, ers remember him keeping his successes in show as opposed to just play- I learned to say, ‘This poem perspective with a terrific sense of humor. ing music. It’s nice to be able is good because of A, B, and To his mentors and fellow writing majors, to think of something else, C.’ Or, ‘This poem is bad Butler is one of the most gifted poets to like stage design and lights because of A, B, and C, but emerge from the Writing Major in recent and interacting with people.” this thing D is good, so I years. “The Ocean that Rises” is a col- On performing versus writ- like it just for the sake of D.’ lection of lyric and narrative poems he ing music: “They are both so I’ve just been reading some has written about the sea. In preparation, all over the place, it’s hard to Orwell essays, and he says he memorized Tennyson, Kipling, and say which I enjoy the most. vague language is about the Coleridge and read the works of Homer, It’s really satisfying to write worst we’ve got. So I learned Conrad, and Melville, whose mix of the a song or contribute to a song to be less wishy-washy aes- grandiose and absurd in Moby Dick is and come up with a good part, but it’s also fun thetically. Hoorah.” something he says he strives for. He chose to play a good show. And it’s frustrating to not the nautical theme partly for his pater- nal grandfather, Simon Butler, now in his WILL BUTLER (CENTER) AND ARCADE FIRE AGAINST THE 90s, “a boat builder and sailor—a Harvard CHICAGO SKYLINE AT LOLLAPALOOZA, SUMMER OF 2005 man, who in a thoroughly New England Photo: Adam Travis way disapproves of most everything mod- ern. He quotes on occasion the King James Bible and the poems of Masefield.” Butler wanted to write poems that both he and his grandfather would enjoy. Here is one:

A MAN LEAVES THE SEA

LONESOME, I WILL BE NO LONGER

TIED TO YOU. YOU NEED A STRONGER Photo: Mike Saccone HAND THAN MINE TO SLAP YOUR FACE. BUTLER AS FEATURED IN THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN WHEN I DO IT, I LEAVE NO TRACE. DURING SENIOR YEAR It is as if the speaker of the folk ballad found a Brian Bouldrey, director of the Writing Major, home in contemporary America.” says he wishes he had written the poem himself, Butler and his band are recording their new and he would like to use it as the quote which album bit by bit. Merge Records’ spokesman opens a forthcoming book of his own. In nomi- Martin Hall says the album should come out in nating Will for honors in English, his thesis March, with full force U.S. and Canada tour- adviser, Christina Pugh, a poet herself, observes ing expected in April and May. Butler answered

8 9 JENNIFER MANNE, SECOND FROM RIGHT, IN SOUTH KOREA, WITH SOME OF THE ENTERTAINERS AT SONGTAN FULBRIGHTERS PUBLIC HEALTH CENTER. THEY WERE TAKING A SUR- IN THE FIELD VEY ABOUT HIV RISK AND WHAT THEY LEARNED, WHAT THEY GAVE PREVENTION. Northwestern has just reached the 100 mark in the number of students receiving Fulbright scholarships since the Office ofFellowships began eight years ago. BY NANCY DENEEN

hey’re back. The latest Northwestern alumni gal. The mostly foreign “entertainment workers” her Korean speaking skills both at Northwestern and ceived as “the bad guys” (like the M.P. head of securi- of the Fulbright experience are back in the near the bases are in a special category, however, during a semester abroad in Seoul—getting people to ty who recently had been dishonorably discharged for TStates after pursuing in-depth postgraduate when it comes to obtaining visas and are generally trust her was. human trafficking), Manne was very conscious of the research in their chosen countries. For many the year allowed to operate without fear of criminal prosecu- Manne found that most of the sex workers are need to act as goodwill ambassador. “As a Fulbright meant intense immersion in another language and tion. Mandatory testing of these workers for sexually young women from the Philippines (with a small scholar, you’re supposed to be spreading a good feel- culture, involvement in social justice issues, and the transmitted diseases (STDs) has been the law since number from Russia), often lured to Korea under false ing about the United States. Luckily for me, this was beginnings of deep and perhaps lasting friendships. the 1960s. pretenses. “Women making little money at legitimate my project—to show people that America is a country It was a time to look Jennifer Manne used her Fulbright scholarship to jobs in the Philippines will hear they can make $500 with many different faces. While there are some bad back at their own find out how this policy affects both the rights of the a month in Korea singing in a bar or waitressing in a ones, there are also some really good ones.” country with a more workers and restaurant. ‘It’ll be great,’ recruiting agents tell them, Manne is back home in Ft. Lauderdale, but the nuanced understand- prevention of ‘a much nicer life.’ In reality, they come to Korea prevention program continues, headed by a Filipina ing of its strengths disease. Manne and never see more than $100 or $200 a month,” says social worker and supported by the health center and and shortcomings. It was a chance to act as goodwill quickly real- Manne. Their “managers” get paid off the top and the the NGO. As she heads to Harvard University for a ambassadors in the most effective way possible: per- ized that she human traffickers who paid for their visas and plane master’s in public health, and eventually, she hopes, son-to-person. had taken on a tickets often charge them huge additional fees once a medical degree, she plans to continue fighting for Weinberg’s Fulbright scholars tackled HIV/AIDS subject seldom they land. Thus they are in debt and stuck in Korea. women’s health rights abroad. An activist while at treatment in Tanzania; racial issues in Poland; the discussed: “All Sometimes they are beaten. Northwestern, she admits that getting to know the place of Japanese women in the labor force; the plight I could find in The women were dangerously uneducated about women of the camptowns has deepened her outrage of sex workers in South Korea. What they found Korean or in sex. According to Manne’s initial surveys, 75 per- and her resolve. “We are taught from the time we’re pointed some in a new career direction, while chang- AT TEMPLE AT SORAKSAN, SOUTH KOREA English was cent thought birth control pills would protect them five years old that we’re Americans, we have rights. ing others on the inside. Some expressed hope that one tiny section of a book that mentioned the policy. from disease. But they began to learn from Manne, But that means something so different for people they gave back as much as they got, which is, after The Korean government hadn’t reviewed it, no one often in the very clubs they worked by night. Under in other parts of the world and to really understand all, the spirit of the Fulbright program. For 60 years, knew how it was being implemented, and a lot of the watchful eyes of their managers, she gave power that makes me more determined. You have to change the U.S. Department of State has been sending Koreans didn’t even know it existed.” And speaking point presentations on how to avoid HIV and STDs, things or at least help create spaces where other peo- American students abroad and international students to American military brass on the topic was nearly on screens that usually featured music videos. “I had ple can have better lives and more opportunities.” to this country with the goal of fostering mutual impossible. “I could have spent my entire Fulbright to be very clear about what my job was,” she says. understanding. In an era in which this seems to be year just trying to get them on the phone,” she says. “I wasn’t allowed to try to convince them to leave Tony Lin: A Polish-Speaking Asian American more critical than ever, here are a few of their stories. An American Studies major, she credits her strong their jobs. That would have been risky for me and Tackles Racial Stereotypes preparation in research and writing with helping her for them.” She passed out literature, answered their Jennifer Manne: Preventing Disease deal with the challenging situation. questions, and often translated Korean into English Lin says the arriving blue city bus was one of his among Sex Workers in Korean Camptowns She was fortunate, upon arriving in South Korea, to for them. In return for empowering them to take favorite sights in Krakow, since it was his only daily find a local non-governmental organization (NGO), better care of themselves, they eventually gave her mode of transportation. Waiting by the bus stop one Sex workers at camptowns, entertainment areas the Korea UNAIDS Information Support Center, their trust. Sometimes they shared their stories: of day, a few local boys approached him and asked, in close to U.S. military bases, are a sensitive subject which welcomed her as a research intern. With the deeply-missed two-year-old son back home with broken English, “Du iu haf sigarets?” When Lin, an for both the host government and the U.S. military their support, she connected with female entertain- grandma or the business they dream of owning one Asian American answered, “Nie ma” (no), the boys leadership, but they are nonetheless a fact of life in ers in the camptowns of Songtan and Pyeongtaek. day. stared at each other and then broke into laughter. parts of Asia. In South Korea, prostitution is ille- While talking wasn’t difficult—Manne had honed Because Americans in camptowns are often per- “A colored minority speaking Polish is sufficiently

10 11 TONY LIN, CUBS FAN, KAVITHA SIVASHANKER, IN HELSINKI, FINLAND LEFT, AND FRIEND AT THE IN FRONT OF THE FUSHIMI INARI SHRINE’S SIBELIUS MONUMENT FAMOUS TORII IN KYOTO, AND, AT RIGHT, WITH HIS JAPAN ROOMMATES IN POLAND

strange to the ordinary Pole,” says Lin. He grew to carry on small talk with the locals. He grew to appre- “Companies will argue that this is not based on gen- Sivashanker was not surprised to find that some expect the incredulous looks his fluent Polish pro- ciate Polish food, especially “true Polish kapusta” der but on skills and qualifications. But if you actual- of the most determined women seek positions in voked as he conducted research on the role that race (sauerkraut). And he was able to indulge his passion ly look at who is being placed in these tracks, there’s a foreign-affiliated companies based in Japan. “These plays in Poland. The first thing to remember, he says, for classical music, even giving occasional concerts. much greater percentage of women [with skills simi- women want companies with the cultural values is that Poland is a largely homogeneous society, with “It was an honor to play Chopin in Poland and lar to men] placed in the clerical track and a higher of the United States and Europe, companies which Ukrainians and Germans constituting the biggest Schubert in Vienna,” he says. percentage of men placed in the managerial.” Slowly, offer a higher level of advancement and treat women ethnic minorities and “colored minorities”—Asians Lin does not plan further research on race, but says things are improving, she found: the ’85 law didn’t more on a merit-based system.” Often, such women and Africans—constituting less than one percent of it has deepened his understanding of Poland. This include penalties; the revision did. Some women are are over 30 and don’t plan on marriage or children. the population. added perspective will be valuable as he begins a PhD In a very traditional society, in which 40 percent of At Northwestern, Lin studied Slavic languages program in Slavic languages and literatures at the women still say those of their gender should work and literatures, psychology, and piano. The research University of California-Berkeley this fall. Lin, who only inside the home, such ambitious women are method he used in Poland was similar to his psychol- was born in Taiwan and speaks Mandarin Chinese often regarded with scorn. “But their number is grow- ogy experiments: defining a question, reviewing lit- and Taiwanese, reflects the Fulbright ethos when he ing,” she says, adding, “They are called ‘makeinu’ erature, coming up with a methodology (devising a adds, “As part of my academic career, I plan to pro- which means ‘underdog.’” questionnaire, interviewing subjects), analyzing data mote cultural exchange between Taiwan/China and The year in Japan reinforced her desire to work in and drawing conclusions. What he learned, he says, is Slavic countries.” human rights law. “I knew I was interested in this that racism exists in Poland in a subtle way, a conse- as an undergrad, but being in Japan showed me that quence, he thinks, of the lack of contact with foreign- Kavitha Sivashanker: Documenting the Progress of I want to influence people not just in the U.S. but ers. “Personally, I had only a few unpleasant (verbal) Working Women in Japan abroad.” She is currently a first-year law student at experiences with Poles. [But] in general, it is very Columbia University, which has a strong program difficult for a person of color (or non-Catholic) to be Examining opportunities for working women in international law. She says she already misses the considered Polish or part of Polish society. He or she in Japan was a natural outgrowth of Kavitha kindness of the Japanese people, who are often willing has to fight numerous stereotypes.” On a personal Sivashanker’s studies at Northwestern. Ethnography to walk for miles just to show complete strangers the level, Lin began teaching English to spread the idea and language skills gained from her combined soci- way. She also misses her favorite fried noodle dish: that Asians can be Americans too—the concept of ology/international studies major enabled her to yaki soba. She realizes she is a different person after “Asian American” is a difficult one for Poles, he says. conduct interviews in Japanese. Her curiosity about her experience—able to face new and challenging situ- “After analyzing my subjects’ responses and com- the glass ceiling had been piqued by a senior thesis ations with a boost of confidence. “Having to adjust paring them to my own, it is fair to say that in on American working women and she was ready to to a new environment with a different language, Polish society, Asian/African will always be Asian/ investigate another part of the world. being able to survive, make friends and do research… African—foreign, in other words. Race matters, for after that, it doesn’t seem hard to face challenges in She spent her Fulbright year studying how equal KAVITHA SIVASHANKER, LEFT, WITH HARRIET MAYOR FUL- better or worse.” He found it troubling that in Poland employment opportunity laws, passed in Japan in 1985 BRIGHT, WIFE OF THE LATE SENATOR J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, IN my own country and in my own language.” there is no anti-discrimination legislation, no institu- and revised in the late ’90s, have affected women: FRONT OF THE CHIONIN TEMPLE IN KYOTO tional framework for minority protection. “The laws seem to promote equality but the language Lin’s Polish is fluent after courses at Northwestern is a little soft. There are a lot of loopholes that com- starting to sue, usually in class action suits, some of and a previous year spent in Poland on scholarship. panies can still use to discriminate against women.” them very high-profile. And lately, women have won He could read the newspaper and scholarly literature, One common practice is the two-track recruiting sys- gender discrimination suits against such corporate interview his subjects in their native tongue, and tem—one for clerical workers, one for management. giants as Mitsubishi and Sumitomo.

12 13 AT LEFT: JANE ANDREWS (LEFT), MAMA MUHADISA, HER CLOSE FRIEND AND COOK, AND DR. ERIK IN ILULA

AT RIGHT: TULLAH MWAGIKE AND ANDREWS AT THE BUS STOP IN ILULA BEFORE ANDREWS’ RETURN GREETINGS FROM TO DAR ES SALAAM TANZANIA

Former Fulbright scholar JANE ANDREWS is the Iringa Regional Hospital and undergo voluntary been diverse, including working as a server at a hotel in a rocky hill in order to build a water tank (the begin- currenly at The Johns Hopkins University School of counseling and testing are HIV positive. Iringa (urban), owning a small fabric (kanga, kitenge, ning of a long project to improve their water situation). Medicine pursuing an MD/MPH. She sent a longer But all we had to do [to realize the severity of and batik) shop, and planting and harvesting her own Since they are digging out of rock, they have assigned version of the following e-mail to family and friends in the problem] was listen to the doctor’s stories of tomatoes and maize (which she now does in the rainy each neighborhood a different day to work, and women April 2006. meningitis cases season in Ilula). One day she brought us to her house mostly come and pick at the rock with shovels. When and note that about and cooked a beautiful meal for us. The papaya meant they can’t break it, they burn rubber tires on top of it Ka mwene, mnogage? every person of the that she spent a lot of money, because papayas are more to get it hot, and then pour cold water to make the rock This means hello and how are you in Kihehe, the most thirty-member board expensive than bananas, the usual fruit. She dreams crack. prevalent local language in Ilula, Iringa. I just returned of the Ilula Orphans of going back to finish high school and going on to Ilula is well-organized, more socially connected than from a ten-day trip to Ilula, probably the most rural envi- Program (IOP) has University, becoming a famous any community in the United ronment I have been to in Tanzania. Considering that I between one and four singer like Celine Dion, and States I have ever been to. For am officially studying the process of HIV/AIDS treat- orphans living with being rich enough to build her example, as we were leaving ment in rural areas, it felt wonderful to be in this com- them. own house. And she always says we found a village government munity. After a six-hour that she wants to officer walking around solicit- I was there to write a proposal to bring antiretroviral bus ride, we got off be as adept and multi-talented ing donations to deliver an ill drugs to Ilula, to be turned in to the Clinton Founda- at Ilula (a very arid, ANDREWS WITH NURSING STUDENTS as her role model, Berit Skaare, woman to the hospital. It is the tion. I feel like I landed on a pot of gold, because just as middle-of-nowhere- an energetic, retired Norwegian responsibility of village officers I was starting to think I would have to adjust my proj- looking place from the road, with one big Pepsi sign high school teacher who runs to take up a collection for those ect a bit (because there are no specifically rural treat- saying “Welcome to Ilula”). A group of six men the Orphans Program with in their society who are totally ment initiatives in Tanzania), I am being allowed to had all waited for us for an hour in the hot sun, not about 30 volunteers. unable to help themselves and participate in what will probably be one of the first con- being sure of our arrival time. These were some of This whole experience feels in a dire situation. Quite a wel- certed efforts to provide rural ARV treatment in Tan- the chair people and trustees of the IOP program. very surreal at times, and Dar fare system. Families in Ilula zania. Most rural populations do not have the money to A colorful group, they told us again and again that Es Salaam feels pretty posh A TEACHER EXPLAINS THE NEW IOP GIRLS CENTER TO continue to hang on by strings, travel to urban centers in order to test, much less return we were “waaaarmly welcome!” and really made right now. I am constantly COMMUNITY. some hopeful and climbing, monthly to obtain drugs. an effort to make us feel comfortable. These char- indignant and incredulous with others desperate. Meanwhile it The village of Ilula is host to a health center that acters, plus a few others, are people with whom we the situations I come across here, but hoping I can feels like there are many little angels like Berit, holding serves about 115,00 people in the spent many hours over the next direct my frustrations constructively. It seems pretty back deluges with a pinky finger.... district, with one doctor, one ten days…the ones at whose sinful to go to these villages that lack water, lack trans- assistant medical officer, three houses we ate, on whose motor- port, have preschooler classrooms with mud floors Asante wapendwa marafiki na familia (thank you my clinical officers, five nurses, and cycles we rode, the ones who and come back with anything but fire and an empty beloved friends and family). seven nurse midwives. The part explained life in Ilula to us. suitcase. But I return inspired as well. Amazed by the you should raise your eyebrows We spent our days with Tul- five kilometer road that Isagwa, the most rural village, Jane at is the “one doctor.” While the lah Mwagike, the 27-year-old has dug out of the mud with shovels so that the village region of Iringa has the second secretary for IOP, who takes would have a road for trucks to pass. Astounded by highest HIV/AIDS rate in the care of her five younger broth- the cement and iron roof health center that they came country at 13.4 percent, Ilula defies ers and sisters since their together to build, upon the promise of the district gov- the statistics with a recorded 24 parents died seven years ago. ernment that if they built a center, the district would percent HIV/AIDS rate. Add to Tullah taught me much about hire a doctor and nurse to staff it. Beyond impressed this the statistic that 32 percent AT ILULA CLINIC, WOMEN GIVING BIRTH USE Tanzania just through hang- by the way that Itunda (a village on the main road) of pregnant women who enter THIS WOVEN BED. ing out with her. Her jobs have has carved a 15 by 20 foot flat indentation on the top of

14 15 THE FAR-REACHING IMPACT OF THE CENTER FOR

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS Photos: Mary Hanlon AND DEVELOPMENTWITH BO NIELSEN

n the past 30 years, the economies of the world international economics and development—Olivier before actually implementing these changes in an ever emerging markets, so that critical situations can be have become increasingly interdependent. All- Jeanne of the International Monetary Fund and more complex economy. anticipated and managed better. Currency crises can IAmerican Levi jeans are now made in China, Marcel Fafchamps of Oxford University, to name For example, in the pre-model era in the 1970s, cen- lead to turmoil, as recent events in Argentina vividly while Toyotas roll off assembly lines in Detroit. two—to interact with faculty and give lectures to tral banks fought rising oil prices and the slowdown illustrate. After abandonment of a fixed exchange rate The volume of oil pumped in Saudi Arabia is felt by graduate and undergraduate students. of the economy by loosening the money supply. That in 2001, the Agentinian economy suffered a down- broom handle makers in tiny Arcola, Illinois, who But the Center is perhaps best known for its con- led to a great inflation. One consequence: people turn that was comparable in magnitude to the Great may have to raise prices as they ship their products ferences for central bankers from around the world. were paying 15 percent on their first mortgage. Today, Depression. With the banking system in free fall, one all over the world. “Our yearly Advanced Workshop for Central in a similar economic scenario, the Federal Reserve quarter of the population unemployed, and dramati- In the past four years, a Northwestern research Bankers has resulted in amazing partnerships,” is doing the opposite and is tightening the screw. It cally higher poverty rates, the country teetered on the center has gained a reputation for advancing our said Eichenbaum. In September, officials came to helps that the Fed can experiment with very lifelike edge of chaos. understanding of the global economy—volatile Northwestern from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, models. Researchers at the Center have emphasized the role exchange rates, currency crises and all. The Center Finland, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, South Korea, “We are living in a period where models make all of government fiscal imbalances and weak banking for International Economics and Development draws Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, the difference for policy makers,” Eichenbaum said. systems as the root cause of many currency crises. upon the strengths of Weinberg’s economics depart- and Sweden, as well as from the European Central Economists feed statistics into the models and get The models developed at the Center can help gov- ment with its renowned PhD program and the Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the real predictions in such areas as consumption expen- ernments monitor incipient crises and develop pro- Kellogg School of Management, regularly ranked International Monetary Fund. diture, investments, interest rates, and exchange rates. active polices to minimize their damaging effects. number one in the world. The inspiration for the Advanced Workshop came They can factor in the possible behavior of house- Policy makers are paying attention. Together with “The Center fosters research aimed at understand- from the explosion of academic research relevant to holds and firms as well. their colleague Craig Burnside at Duke University, ing how the world’s economies are linked together monetary policy, according to Sergio Rebelo, Kellogg In the end, when all the pieces of the puzzle are put Eichenbaum and Rebelo have given numerous semi- and the implications of these linkages for economic professor and co-director of the Center. “We are into place, the Northwestern models forecast how nars and lectures to Work Bank economists. They development,” said Martin Eichenbaum, the Ethel and exposing central bank economists to the research the economy might respond to a policy, even if that also developed a handbook published by the World John Lindgren Professor of Economics and a driving frontier in topics that range from model building to policy has never been tried. Bank that helps country economists assess the fiscal force behind the Center. forecasting techniques,” said Rebelo. “The guys at the Center are cutting-edge in the sustainability of government policy. The research powerhouse is a virtual center: It does During the Workshop, classrooms become “state-of- world when it comes to monetary policy research,” Use of models like those developed at Northwestern not have a fancy entry hall or libraries or any physi- the-art monetary policy laboratories” as researchers said Niels Lynggaard, assistant head of economic is becoming more widespread as central banks and cal space at all. It is literally run out of the laptops of from various countries design models that help them research at the Danish National Bank. Lynggaard governments become convinced that their predictions a handful of dedicated faculty members. Primarily evaluate the consequences of different policies. should know. He attended the Workshop in 2005, are helpful tools in policy making. And that’s good funded by the University, the enterprise brings top Economic models are, in fact, the backbone of the and the bank sent another representative in 2006. news on a global scale. researchers and decision makers together so that the Center’s research. Called general equilibrium models, The Danish National Bank is working on modifying most advanced research can be shared and applied to they have been developed over a number of years by models of the U.S. economy in order to study a small ABOVE PHOTOS, FROM LEFT: MARTIN EICHENBAUM, RIGHT, economic policy-making the world over. Conferences Eichenbaum, Rebelo, and fellow economics professor open economy such as Denmark. CONVERSES WITH ADVANCED WORKSHOP SPEAKER JAMES fostering such exchanges have been co-sponsored by Lawrence Christiano. Center researchers are now working on general STOCK, PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. GUEST SPEAKER NOMBULELO GUMATA, ECONOMIST, SOUTH the Center and institutions such as the University Academics, policy makers, and financial institutions equilibrium models that can be used to study emerg- AFRICAN RESERVE BANK. SERGIO REBELO, LEFT, WITH JOSEPH of Tokyo, the Banque de France, the University can use these models as an economic sand box. They ing markets. The ultimate goal is to help develop DJIVRE, CHIEF ECONOMIST, BANK OF ISRAEL. of Toulouse, the Bank of Italy, the University of can play around with hypothetical policy changes and policies that support sustainable economic growth in Montreal, and the European University Institute. In see the consequences of alternative scenarios. And these markets. The Center has also sponsored work addition, the Center brings to campus top scholars in there is much to learn by testing the effects of change on the cause and consequences of currency crises in

16 17 FROM LEFT, JONES AT BON APPÉTIT’S EDITO- FLAMBÉE! RIAL HEADQUARTERS, KANSAS CITY, MIS- SOURI, CIRCA 1969. PURÉE! BAKER BROWNELL,

The Arizona Republic PHILOSOPHY PROFES- SOR AND SAUTÉ! KENNETH COLEGROVE, FRANK JONES HELPED MAKE POLITICAL SCIENTIST COOKING SOIGNÉ Photo: David Wallace,

his diary, from Salt Lake City to his arrival, when he and stayed together until Mary Jane’s death in 2000. wrote ‘I’m panning for gold.’ My father had the same Jones’s career took a detour with the outbreak of talent, and he encouraged me to go ahead with writing, World War II. He and his Phi Delta Theta fraternity reading, history, and literature.” brothers crammed into a car and drove to Officers’ At Northwestern Jones threw himself into the study Candidate School the day after the Japanese attack of English literature, which he supplemented with jour- on Pearl Harbor. A childhood condition thwarted his nalism classes at the Medill School of Journalism. His plans, however, and he spent the next three and a half first professor in the English department was Walter years serving stateside as an NCO. K. Smart, who had in fact written By the time Jones was discharged his high school English composition in 1946 he was married with a four- and grammar book and whom Jones month-old son, and journalism describes as a “marvelous guy.” didn’t seem like a practical choice BY LISA STEIN He also recalls reporting professor any more. He went into advertis- Roland Wollsley, philosophy profes- ing instead, first as a copywriter sor Baker Brownell, and the politi- and technical writer. He eventually cal scientist Kenneth Colegrove, founded two advertising agencies. t’s only fitting that Frank Jones, a man with a pas- Great Depression. He had spent most of his childhood who was frequently called to After he merged the second one with sion for language and fine dining, helped turn the in Columbia, Missouri, until he started high school, Washington, D.C., to consult with a large agency, he felt burned out French idiom for “enjoy your meal” into a house- I when his father moved the family to Kansas City. His political leaders as the United States and ready for something new. hold phrase. Even as an undergraduate and aspiring father, an insurance agent, told Jones he could afford was drawn into war. Soon after, a good friend who journalist, Jones, class of 1942, waited tables at fraterni- to send him to any four-year college he wanted if he Jones also made time for social was a trade magazine publisher ties and sororities to earn enough money to visit swank completed his first two years at a local junior college, pursuits. Following a Northwestern approached him with a business Chicago restaurants such as the Pump Room, the so that’s exactly what he did. football game in Ann Arbor opportunity. He had acquired the Camellia House restaurant at the Drake Hotel, and the Jones had dreamed of becoming a journalist since in the fall of 1940, he met fel- copyright to the title Bon Appétit Marine Dining Room at the Edgewater Beach Hotel. high school, and decided on Northwestern for its aca- low Northwestern student Mary and wanted to launch a publishing “I learned what good eating, good service, and fine demic reputation and proximity to a major city. “My Jane Orr at a local University venture with Jones. “I don’t know ambience were for. At that time I had more ambition world started in a very, very small town with a rural of Michigan hangout. “We got WITH WIFE-TO-BE, MARY JANE ORR, a darn thing about food,” his friend than money,” Jones recalls of his student days. atmosphere and I felt I’d be happier if I got to know acquainted there and when we got AT THE JUNIOR PROM, 1941 admitted. Jones’s ambition and experience paid off in 1965, more kinds of people and lots of different things. I back to campus we ran into each other at Scott Hall. But Jones knew that “Bon appétit” was a phrase when he launched Bon Appétit magazine and helped wanted to get out of Missouri and get into a bigger uni- When I discovered from my friends that the junior whose time had come. In the 1960s American view- make the art of gourmet cooking fun and accessible to verse in Chicago.” prom was coming up on February 14, I asked Mary ers of Julia Child’s French cooking show had her jolly, home cooks across America. Just as impressive was the He attributes his love of writing and eventual pen- Jane to go and she accepted. It was a big deal. It was singular sign-off, “Bon appetit!” ringing in their ears fact that he pulled it off in Kansas City, Missouri, far chant for traveling to his great-grandfather Carlton my first real date.” as they trotted off to prepare coq au vin or vichys- from the glamour and connections of magazine centers Jones, an adventurous soul with little formal school- The pair went downtown to the Hilton on Michigan soise. The only notable food magazine at the time in New York and Los Angeles. ing who set off on the Gold Rush in 1849. “It took Avenue and listened to music by the Benny Goodman was Gourmet and Jones often heard complaints from Bon Appétit gave Jones the ideal melding of his inter- him four months to get to California by wagon and band. “We danced then and we didn’t stop dancing for friends that it was too esoteric and that its recipes ests, and a long-awaited chance to succeed in journal- mule train and he kept a diary every day. His writ- 60 years,” Jones says. They married three years later required exotic ingredients unavailable to small town ism. Jones came to Northwestern on the heels of the ing was remarkably good; we found the second half of 18 19 FRANK AND MARY JANE ENJOY A VACATION AT CHAPPAQUIDDICK, ON MARTHA’S VINEYARD, CIRCA 1970.

ILLUSTRATIONS ON THIS PAGE ARE TAKEN FROM THE 1942 SYLLABUS, COURTESY OF NORTH- WESTERN UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES. THE WILSON SOCIETY BECOMES PART OF A BIGGER CIRCLE

We are pleased to introduce the University- wide giving society, the Northwestern University Leadership Circle. The Leadership Circle is a dynamic new recognition program created to enrich Americans. By this time Jones a lot of satisfaction,” observes Abby Mandel, founder and strengthen our partnership in furthering the had also begun to explore and president of Chicago’s Green City Market, author University’s mission. The Leadership Circle will recognize donors who FRANK AND KIMBERLEY BARBARO WITH THEIR BOYS, Europe on travels with his of several cookbooks, and a columnist for Bon Appétit BENJAMIN, LEFT, AND HENRY make annual contributions of $1,000 or more to all wife, savoring the cuisines of for 16 years. “You get the feeling that cooking and areas of the University. Benefits include recognition Having both graduated from WCAS (Frank in ’95 France, Italy, Switzerland, and entertaining are just so much fun to do.” in the Honor Roll of Donors in Northwestern’s annual and me in ’96), giving to Northwestern was never a Scandinavia, which height- Bon Appétit soon began to gain national notice and in report and receiving the Circle newsletter. If your gift question for us, it was an expectation. In addition to ened his interest in epicurean 1969 both Pillsbury and Meredith Corp., publisher of of $1,000 or more is directed to the Weinberg College delights. Better Homes & Gardens, made offers to buy it. Jones of Arts & Sciences, you will ensure membership in harboring fond memories as undergraduates, we attri- “I thought there must be decided to sell to Pillsbury in a stock trade and stayed the Wilson Society. bute a great deal of the professional opportunities and room for another good maga- on as editor-in-chief for five years. In 1967 he had The Wilson Society will remain the College’s pre- financial success we have achieved to having gone to mier giving society. Since its founding in 1992, it has zine, and I decided to build launched another magazine, Bon Voyage, which focused Northwestern. Frank in particular feels indebted to the been instrumental in helping the College maintain University for giving him considerable financial aid Bon Appétit,” Jones explains. “I wanted it to be much on the travel industry, but the publication lasted only a its mission—excellence in liberal arts education at more usable and useful to the average person who liked few years. Northwestern. and we are committed to ensuring that others have the to cook well.” In the mid-1970s Pillsbury put Bon Appétit up for sale, same opportunity. Jones got to work assembling an all-woman team of and Jones thought about buying it back. Bud Knapp, WHY JOIN US? Even as alumni going on 10 and 11 years post gradu- writers and editors who devised recipes and scoured who owned Architectural Digest, wanted it badly, so he • Help our students enjoy exceptional opportunities. ation, we still feel connected to WCAS. As Evanston Your Wilson gift supports undergraduate research, the United States and abroad for story ideas under the bought it and Jones served as editor-in-chief again until residents with season tickets to both football and bas- partnerships with Chicago institutions, interschool able direction of senior editor JoAnn Thompson. He he retired in 1980. Knapp eventually sold Bon Appétit ketball, we find ourselves gravitating back towards sought out well-known wine writers, such as Alexis and Architectural Digest to Condé Nast for a reported collaboration, graduate education, and much more. • Participate in the vibrant intellectual life of the campus at every opportunity. We have both partici- Lechine, Harry Waugh, and Frank Schoonmaker, and $175 million. College through special invitations to lectures on pated on our reunion committees and attended Frank’s skilled food photographers such as George DeGennaro These days Jones is happy to spend time with his campus. Hear Nobel laureates in literature, leading 10-year reunion last fall in addition to anxiously to make the publication look good. He found a reli- three children, two grandchildren, and two great- scientists, and well-known political commentators. awaiting mine in a few weeks. able color-separation company in a small Kansas town grandchildren. He enjoys living in a retirement com- • Exchange ideas with faculty at book club events and an excellent offset printing company in Lawrence, munity outside Kansas City and limits his travels to where some of the College’s most fascinating faculty As members of the Wilson Society for the past Kansas. Jones himself wrote for the magazine, special- see his daughter in Arizona and to pay an occasional discuss their latest work. several years, we have had opportunities to connect izing in wine columns. visit to the West Coast. Jones marvels at the expansion • Network with an interesting group of other alumni further with the University from a book club event at As Jones researched and built up a readership for his of the food and entertain- and campus leaders at special events in Chicago and Dean Linzer’s house to a dinner at the Peninsula Hotel other cities across the country. magazine he encountered some skepticism. “The reac- ment media industry and with amazingly distinguished alumni. tion of many people I visited in New York, Chicago, at how America’s cooking MATCHING GIFTS can double or triple the size We continue to benefit from our connection to and Los Angeles bordered on disbelief when they habits have changed over of your donation and will now count toward Wilson WCAS even as we get older and further from our learned we did it all in Kansas City. But within a few the years. “Most families Society Membership. graduation dates. Thus, it is only natural for us to years our Kansas City publishing location was a non- with both parents working want to give back to the University that has given so YOUNG ALUMNI can join the Wilson Society issue to the lads and lassies in New York and L.A. Our don’t have that much time much to us. graphics were the best.” to spend on cooking,” he (and Leadership Circle) at lower giving levels. For Homemakers loved the magazine for its fresh, down- muses. “But those who do more information please contact the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences development office at Kimberley Barbaro ’96 to-earth approach. “Bon Appétit has had this focus on still want it right.” (847) 491-4583. Thank you for your continued sup- presenting cooking as an enjoyable hobby that gives port.

20 21 DEAN’S CIRCLE LEADERSHIP CIRCLE Beth Steckman Bartlett ’81 Glenn C. Anderson ’53 Joseph L. Wyatt, Jr. ’44 Jean Bordwell Burtness ’44 Sara Torrison Ewald ’60 Stephen A. Keen ’81 The following alumni and friends The following alumni and friends George O. Bennett ’80, MBA ’95 Anne Anderson Jeffrey D. Zukerman ’79 John S. Bushnell Robert B. Fairley, BSCH ’69 Kimberly A. Myers Keen made gifts of $25,000 or more to made gifts of $10,000 to $24,999 to Lawrence J. Blum ’50 John H. Bitner ’61 Kathryn B. Zukerman Kristine Kupka Bushnell ’68 Paula Housh Fairley ’68 Matthew J. Keller, Jr. ’58, JD ’61 Weinberg College of Arts and Sci- Weinberg College of Arts and Sci- Andrew C. Chan ’80, MS ’80 Vicki D’Ianni Bitner ’66 Anonymous (2) Susan Beda Butts, MS ’77, PhD ’80 Mary Turnbull Fellman ’54 Margaret F. Keller ’93 ences during fiscal year 2006. ences during fiscal year 2006. Susan M. Chudacoff ’60 Louis A. Bradbury ’68 Joseph K. Bylebyl ’73 Phillip S. Figa ’73 Karen Kent ’78, MS ’78, DDS ’82 Franklin N. Corbin ’51 Larry L. Coates, MMGT ’82 MEMBER Lance F. Bylow ’90 Candace Cole Figa ’73 Evan M. Kent Robert S. Bernstein ’71 Marsha Lee Schoenfeldt Berkman ’58 Lee Lawson Corbin ’51 Jennifer Leigh Coates The following alumni and friends Jeffrey P. Caira, MMGT ’83 Thomas B. Fleeter ’73, MSHA ’75 Paul Anthony Kent ’71, MMGT ’79 Rhonda R. Bernstein Norman M. Berkman Arlene A. Czech ’51 Andrew C. Deckas ’85 made gifts of $1,000 to $2,499 to Sylvia Offner Caira ’83 Peter C. Flintoft ’65 Frances Higgins Kent ’72 Roberta Buffett Bialek ’54 Simon J. Blattner ’58 Michael A. Daniels ’68, MA ’69 Esther Nielsen Deininger ’47 Weinberg College of Arts and Sci- Daniel J. Campbell ’77 David J. Flores ’86 Charles E. Kern ’81 Susan Schmidt Bies, MA ’68, PhD ’72 Kimberly Blattner Bonnie Swanson Daniels ’69 Susan C. Eby ’80 ences during fiscal year 2006. Katherine M. Peshek Campbell Douglas D. Flowers ’80, MMGT ’82 Robert L. Kern ’79 Robert J. Bishop ’79 John C. Blickle James F. Dorsey ’75 Alan Zachary Engel, MMGT ’78 James D. Carper ’79 Jill Borland Flynn ’64 Ingrid Henhapl Kern ’79 Susan Schmeichel Bishop ’80 Jennifer E. Blickle Thomas R. Errath ’84, MMGT ’89 Lisa Rosen Engel ’79 James S. Aagaard ’53, MS ’55, PhD ’57 Penny C. Bardzinski Joseph J. Francfort ’80 Steven K. Kessler Deborah Hartsough Brady ’65 Ronald Alvin Collins ’93, MMGT ’98 Deborah Burke Errath ’85 Jerald P. Esrick ’63 Mary-Louise Aagaard Keith T. Carron, MS ’81, PhD ’85 Ralph C. Friedenberg ’59, MD ’63, Susan K. Kessler ’82 Larry D. Brady Nancy Sanson Walbridge Daniel L. Flint ’53 Ellen Feinstein Esrick Nancy A. Abshire ’61 Rebecca C. Carron GMEF ’69 James L. Ketelsen ’52 Janis Graves Brewster ’75 Christopher B. Combe ’70 Patricia Florence Flint Amy Millman Faxon ’75 Suzanne E. Allen ’61 John D. Cassiday ’59 Betty A. Hagaman Kathryn L. Ketelsen James H. Brewster, III Courtney Ivey Combe Michael F. Gentile ’80 A. John Gambs ’68, MMGT ’74 Jonathan S. Altman ’89 Sue Huie Cassiday ’60 Mary Oconnor Gadwell ’45 Lois Moore Kircher ’57 Roy J. Caperton ’43 Timothy G. Dalton, Jr. ’60 Stephanie Wilson Gentile ’79 Paula Gambs Costas Anastassiadis ’93 Joseph M. Cernugel ’72 Melvin D. George ’56 Jeri Lea Kisala ’80 Nicholas D. Chabraja ’64, JD ’67 Robert Eccles Donna M. Petkanics ’80 Edward P. Gamson, PhD ’70 Arthur H. Anderson, Jr. Janet L. Cernugel Meta J. George ’57 Mary Riordon Kolb ’41 Eleanor Chabraja Mary Eisner Eccles Jay R. Gerstenschlager Bryna Goldman Gamson ’67, Rebecca S. Anderson, MA ’72 Conrad Malcolm Chanzit ’76 Mary E. Gianos ’80, MD ’84 Ralph B. Kraetsch ’48, MS ’50 William A. Cook ’53 Michael V. Fasano ’70 James E. Glassman, PhD ’79 MSED ’68 David H. Anderson ’53 Lisa Gattel Chanzit Peter S. Ginsberg ’84, JD ’89 Carolyn Jones Kraetsch ’50 Gayle Cook D. Cameron Findlay ’82 Harry B. Gray, PhD ’61 Ronald David Garber ’76 Marilyn Cox Anderson Chih Shan Chen, MS ’64 Kathryn Isaak Ginsberg ’89 Paul A. Larson ’78 Linda Crowe Tate Amy Scalera Findlay Steven J. Harper ’76, MA ’76 Jeffrey S. Gibbs ’84 Michele Jean Anderson ’65 John F. Christ ’89 Elliot R. Goldberg, DDS ’72 Margaret W. Larson Ruth Dunbar Davee, MA ’37, PhD ’42 Mark D. Gilbert Kathy Loeb Harper ’77, MA ’79 Jack Guthman ’60 Ruth Teninga Anderson ’40 Christina Codo ’80 Jeri Werner Goldberg ’71 Jacob Lassner Jim A. De Naut ’84 Nancy Brooks Gilbert ’80, MA ’80 Julian Hawes Sandra P. Guthman Vartkess Ara Apkarian, MS ’78, Frank D. Cohen ’95 Howard W. Goldstein ’70 Phyllis Lassner Anne Simone Balas De Naut Richard B. Gilmore ’66 Joseph R. Hershberger ’85 John Hebden PhD ’81 Susan B. Cohen Seth A. Goldstrom ’96 Margaret Athey Lawrence ’99 Terri Dial ’71 Sandra C. Gilmore Jinlin Huang, PhD ’92 Jane Hebden Alice Batts Apkarian, MS ’79, PhD ’83 Scott B. Cooper, MD ’82, GMER ’85 Jeffrey A. Goldwater ’81 J. Martin Lebowitz ’60, MD ’63 Brian Burry Marshall R. Hall ’60 Lee W. Huebner ’62 Susan D. Heisler ’66, MMGT ’82 Irene C. Aronin ’73, MMGT ’75 Sue Yong Chung ’80, MD ’82 Joan Mullan ’82, MA ’84, GMER ’94 Allan B. Levin ’60 Barbara Easley Franke ’54 Marcia Pearson Hall ’61 Berna Gorenstein Huebner Quentin G. Heisler, Jr. Howard Arvey ’42, JD ’48 Richard Dean Crago ’77 Charles W. Goonrey ’58, JD ’61 Sandra E. Levin ’62, MA ’66 Richard J. Franke Henry A. Hubschman Clarence L. Irving, Jr. ’76 Leslie A. Hoffmann ’70 Howard B. Atkin ’71 Robert A. Creamer ’63 Diane M. Graese ’75, MMGT ’79 Matthew C. Levin ’95 Walter M. Goldschmidt Joanne L. Hubschman Leslie A. Wiley ’79 Sara Kerr Hunt ’68 David L. Auchterlonie Joy A. Creamer Barbara T. Greening Deneese S. Levin ’97 Karla Goldschmidt Kathy Karth Jones ’77, MMGT ’82 Lynne R. Jacobs ’81 David L. Hunt Barbara L. Keller ’69 Eric P. Daliere ’89, MMGT ’96 Margaret Weatherly Hall ’63 Ruth M. Levine ’72 George H. Heilborn ’56 Daniel P. Jones John F. Johnston ’68 Lynne Davidson Jarrell ’84 Stuart J. Babendir Elizabeth Baron Daliere ’89, Stuart Hamilton ’46 James T. Lidbury ’87, JD ’90 Phyllis Ehrhardt Heilborn Adam R. Karr ’93 Susan Spielman Johnston ’68 Steven Jay Katz ’78, JD ’81 Nancy Babendir MMGT ’95 Fay Hamilton Mike Lin Jay Hoag ’80 Latonia G. Karr C. Douglas Kranwinkle ’62 David D. Kim ’86 Shelby Bakken Oscar A. David Phyllis Kratz Harris ’40 Suhwa Lin Michaela Hoag Robert H. Kellen ’49 Susan Warren Kranwinkle ’62 Renee Kim Ronald P. Bangasser ’71 Melissa Kemp David ’85 Mark D. Hassakis ’73 Karen Jean Linder ’80 David G. Kabiller ’85, MMGT ’87 Jean Woollett Kellen ’58 Christine M. Lavelle ’89 Jody Krug-Schulte ’72 Susan M. Andretta-Bangasser ’71 Robert E. Davis ’85, MMGT ’89 Janet S. Hassakis Daniel I. Linzer Morris A. Kaplan ’35 David S. Klafter ’76 Frances E. Leland, PhD ’59 John E. Lathrop ’88 Ellen G. Baras ’76, MMGT ’78 Robert L. De Fer, Jr. ’81, MMGT ’88 Helen R. Haynes ’81 Jennifer B. Linzer Dolores Kohl Kaplan Nancy Kestenbaum Richard W. Leopold Scott Martin ’84 Frank P. Barbaro ’95 Donald D. De Ford Martha Carter Haynes ’52 Thomas Wolf Loeb ’76 Antonio Magliocco, Jr. Timothy K. Krauskopf ’84, MBA ’99 Virginia Langner Luppescu ’78 Linda Martin, MMGT ’96 Kimberley Bogue Barbaro ’96 Wendy de Monchaux ’81 Arthur Allen Henrikson ’43 David B. Love ’77 Carla Solomon Mele Howland Bruce F. Peters ’58, MD ’64 Scott D. Michel ’77 Charles F. Barber ’39 David Mac Williams Elmer L. Herbaly ’48, MS ’50 Janet O. Love, JD ’81 Elizabeth F. McMillen ’36 Aaron R. Marcu ’77 Aulana Peters Ann A. Michel ’80 Lois Lacroix Barber ’42 Mrs. Donald D. De Ford Kathleen Targos Hewell ’80 Claude A. Lucchesi, PhD ’55 T. Willem Mesdag ’74 Mary Lu Bilek Jay R. Pritzker, JD ’93 Eric E.E. Moum ’77 John F. Benjamin Lois Dierstein ’47 James P. Hickey Ruth Wellstein Lucchesi ’56 Thomas F. Mich, MS ’64 W. Robert Meadows ’41, MD ’44 Mary Kathryn Pritzker Patricia Moum Esther Rosenthal Benjamin ’79, Thomas A. Dieterich ’56 Katherine Perkins Hickey ’79 Patricia M. Lynch ’89 Judith Greasley Mich ’64 Michael A. Monts ’73 Martyn Redgrave Norman P. Neureiter, PhD ’57 MA ’80, PhD ’88 Ann Campbell Dieterich Arthur J. Hill Kenneth Edward Macek Michael H. Morris ’70 Joan Garrison Monts ’73 Lynne Redgrave Georgine Reid Neureiter ’54 Hillary S. Berger ’90 Catherine Miller Dixon ’87 William Gene Hime Catherine R. Macek Arthur Pancoe, MS ’51 James R. Norton ’70 John M. Richman Robert J. Piros ’49, MS ’79 James E. Berger ’79, MMGT ’81 Alison Lubin Doerfler ’94 Nancy Rose Hime ’50 Denise R. Madigan ’79 Gladys Pancoe Deborah Lewis Norton ’70 Priscilla Frary Richman Alexander I. Rorke ’74, MA ’75 James A. Berkenstadt ’78 Malcolm Dole, Jr. ’57 Jeffrey J. Hinck ’92 Bruce J. Maguire, III ’82 James B. Pick ’66 Steven C. Preston ’82 Bruce I. Rosen ’74 Elizabeth J. Sturgeon Holly Cremer Berkenstadt ’77 Henry C. Doll David B. Hirschey ’72 Paul A. Mahon ’84 Rosalyn M. Laudati Molly M. Preston Jonathan A. Rosen ’81 Raj Sandhu Steve Bishop Mary McEwen Doll, MD ’66 Eloise L. Hirschey ’72, MMGT ’77 David M. Maley Brian S. Posner ’83 Jeffrey A. Rosen ’79 Caroline Rosen Mary C. Henry ’81, MSJ ’82 Shannan Satkamp Bishop ’92 Sara Pickens Doran ’91 James W. Hitzman ’78 Judith E. Maley ’82 Jennifer G. Posner ’86 Kathleen Nichols Rosen ’81 Joseph U. Schorer ’75 Nancy Dankes Schneider ’56 Jonathan A. Bloom ’95 Justin B. Doran Winifred Lehman Hohlt ’60 Nancy Gore Marcus ’67 Steven J. Quamme ’83, JD ’86 Ian S. Sanders ’91 Mildred L. Calhoun ’75 Evans Schoeman ’70 Charles F. Blum ’73 Brian S. Doyal ’86 Randal A. Hoke ’80 Maurice Marcu Robert E. Shaw ’70, MMGT ’81 Ivan A. Schlager ’82 James M. Snyder Linda B. Schoeman Nina Kruuthumer Lawrence B. Dumas Linda Lawrence Hoke ’80 Richard L. Marcus Charlene Heuboski Shaw ’70 Martha V. Schlager Diane L. Snyder John F. Schramm ’82 David C. Bohan ’75 Janet Sally Dumas Robert F. Hugi ’80 Ann Augustus Marcus ’61 William R. Tobey, Jr. ’58 D. Gideon Searle, MMGT ’83 William F. Strome ’77 Wanda A Schramm ’83 Kathryn L. Kemp ’78 Gerald H. Duncan Claire Tolf Hugi ’78 Diana Hellenga Marsilje, MA ’68 Anne Coulter Tobey Nancy Schneider Searle, MMGT ’78 Alison Rosfeld Strome Gordon C. Scott ’89 Marian Richter Bolz ’50 Betty L. Duncan Neal D. Hulkower ’70, MS ’73, Harold J. Matthies ’49, GMER ’53, Joseph A. Walder, MS ’72, MD ’75, Gordon I. Segal ’60 Ellen Taus ’80 Anne Nelson Scott ’89 John A. Bolz Marie Castaldi Duncan, MD ’51, PhD ’77 MD ’53 PhD ’79 Carole Browe Segal ’60 Robert L. Tree, MA ’50, PhD ’59 Stephen T. Shapiro ’77 Leslie Bowen GMER ’57 Frank W. Iaffaldano ’86, JD ’89 Scott Walter Mattis ’77 Elizabeth Houck Warnock ’80 Jean E. Sheridan ’80 Robert D. Tuttle ’51 Alan H. Silberman ’61 Carol Bowen Timothy Keese Earle Barbara Curry Iaffaldano, JD ’87 Sheryl Levy Mattis Todd E. Warnock John H. Shields, II ’62 Donald M. Ullmann, MMGT ’82 Margaret A. Silberman, MA/MS Susan E. Boyd ’65 Eliza H. Earle David S. Inglis ’79 Patricia Irwin McConnell ’66 Joseph H. Wender ’66 Patricia Pesek Shields ’61 Susan J. Ullmann ’76, MMGT ’82 ’85, PhD ’89 Marjorie L. Bredehorn ’41 Charles K. Edmondson, Jr. William V. Jackson ’45 James F. McCoy ’93 Ann Colgin Wender Richard W. Tinberg, MMGT ’75 Janet Mead Unterman ’70 Lonnie D. Simmons ’89 Eleanor Coon Briggs Eleanor Taktakian Edmondson ’68 Dwight M. Jaffee ’64 J. Gary McDavid David B. Weinberg Elaine Tinberg Thomas E. Unterman P. Justin Skala ’82 Jillisa Brittan ’85 J. P. Edmondson ’56, MBA ’58 Samuel W. Jameson ’58, MSJ ’59 Janet Kurzeka McDavid ’71 Lynne Weinberg Mark Waldman ’75 John W. Watkins ’83 William M. Smedley ’38, MS ’40 Donald E. Britton Harry S. Edwards, PhD ’50 Donald B. Jenny ’72 Philip Vance McGuire ’75 Diane Stillwell Weinberg Todd M. Warren ’87 Jack Nelson Young ’48 Andrew Z. Soshnick ’85, MA ’85, Nanette Colehower Britton ’44 Matthew S. Edwards Debbi M. Johnstone ’77 Susan Milligan Richard G. Weinberg Ruth Warren Anonymous (3) JD ’88 J. Charles Bruse ’68 Kristin Peterson Edwards ’92 Thomas A. Jones, MS ’68, PhD ’69 Helen Claire McMahon ’55 Jack A. Weinberg Brenda K. Soshnick Candice Carter Bruse George R. Ehlert Anne S. Jordan ’73 Mark J. Merriman ’71, MBA ’73 Sheila Weinberg BENEFACTOR FELLOW Henry M. Staley ’54, MBA ’56 Charles R. Bruton ’68 Georganne D. Ehlert Geoffrey P. Judge ’76 Brigid A. Merriman Judd A. Weinberg ’47 The following alumni and friends The following alumni and friends John R. Tinkham ’83 Henry M. Buchbinder ’49 Sally Strothman Eklund ’55 Edward H. Judson Lisa R. Messinger ’89 Frieda L. Weinberg made gifts of $5,000 to $9,999 to made gifts of $2,500 to $4,999 to Henry M. Vogel ’89 Gilda Rosenzweig Buchbinder ’75 Elaine Ellis Marilyn M. Judson ’45 Steven Miller Orrin R. Williams ’45, JD ’52 Weinberg College of Arts and Sci- Weinberg College of Arts and Sci- Maria Sakamoto-Vogel ’89 William G. Buckner ’56 Jessie Stark Ellis ’43, MS ’45 Valerie M. Kahn ’86 Jacqueline Miller Anonymous (1) ences during fiscal year 2006. ences during fiscal year 2006. Dansby White ’79, MMGT ’81 Barbara Rothenstein Budasoff ’74 Anne Hincke Evans ’47 Neisen Orrin Kasdin ’76 Edward J. Momkus, JD ’77 Stephen R. Wilson ’70, MMGT ’74 J. Mark Budd Frederick C. Ewald ’55, MD ’62, Ana R. Kasdin Elizabeth Goltermann ’80 Paul Bartlett Louis G. Alexakos ’55 Susan Condon Wilson ’70 Gita Blumentals Budd ’76, MMGT ’78 GMEF ’66 Karen Sprecher Keating ’75 Michael M. Morison ’85, MBA ’95 22 23 Gloria G. Morison ’87 Soretta Baim Shapiro Piali Basu ’06 Nicole Thompson Osborne ’06 Kathryn K. Morrison ’81 Scott A. Shay ’79, MMGT ’80 Hannah Ryan Beatty ’06 Jeffrey William Paller ’06 William Mumma Jennifer O’Hearne Shepard ’87, JD ’90 William R. Bennett ’03 Jerome Curran Pandell ’05 Kathleen A. Mumma Robin L. Sheperd ’96, MSED ’99 David George Beraka ’06 Amy M. Paulik ’06 Lois Myerholtz Paul C. Shiverick ’75 Charles W. Birnbaum ’03 Sarah E. Personette ’01 Max Nathan, Jr. ’56 Pamela Shu ’74 Benjamin Scott Blickle ’05 Michael Patrick Pest ’06 Herbert B. Nechin ’56 Norman Chun Chen Sih, PhD ’64 Christina L. Bobek ’06 John J. Piersall ’05 Roberta Fishman Nechin Stephen M. Silverman ’69 Allison Marie Bond ’06 R. M. Piscitello, IV ’06 Joseph F. Nery ’95 Marilyn Skony Stamm ’73 Robert Satoru Brownell ’06 Colleen Teri Plein ’06 Julianne P. Nery ’95 Harold Edwin Snow ’73 William Henry Bruns 06, MA ’06 Michael James Pruyn ’06 William J. Nissen ’69 Martin Sosin Anh-Tuan Bui ’06 Jessica Martha Reggi ’06 WEINBERG Patricia Press Nissen ’70, Brett Spencer ’81 Rachel Carpenter ’05 Corey Charles Robinson ’06 MA/MS ’71 Linda V. Spencer ’81 Jonathan Ken-Chee Chan ’06 Kevin Kamau Rodrigues ’06 Thomas C. Nord ’62 Lawrence S. Spitz ’47, MA ’48 David J. Corey ’98 Lisa Lawrence Rogal ’06 ADMISSION TRENDS: Franklin C. Norman, Jr. ’85 Barbara S. Spitz Robert Brandon Correa ’05 Kimberly Miller Rubenfeld ’96, Susan P. Norman ’85 Bonnie Evans Stearns ’66 Daniel V. Crowe ’63 MBA ’04 Robert F. Norman ’84 Neele E. Stearns, Jr. Brandon Scott Dimond ’05 Rachel Reinhold Sacks ’06 Kathie Z. Norman ’86 Mary C. Sunderland ’78 Jason Michael Downs ’06 Jesseca E. Salky ’03 2004-2006 Frederick R. Norten ’91 Eugene S. Sunshine ’71 Kira Moyer Dubas ’06 Peter J. Sargon ’03 Phyllis Elliott Oakley ’56 Hollis Leach Sunshine ’71 Matvey Farber ’04 Stephen M. Schaberg ’06 Robert B. Oakley G. John Svolos ’56 William J. Farmer ’03 Allen Richard Schmaltz ’06 Gregory J. O’Leary ’84 Guy R. Syvertsen ’70 Andrew J. Fitzgerald ’03 Stephanie Renee Schmitz ’06 David A. Oliver ’81 Douglas B. Tamkin Marta Nicole Flory ’06 Alexander K. Schneider ’99, MBA ’06 BY WILLIAM N. HAARLOW, Erica S. Onan ’98 Linda Kleinberg Tamkin ’74, MA ’75 Dana Michelle Foley ’06 Ellen A. Seiffert ’03 Albert W. Pearsall ’57, MBA ’63 Joseph M. Terry ’96 Jennifer M. Frank ’04 Pallavi Shankaraiah ’06 DIRECTOR, COLLEGE-ADMISSION RELATIONS Sarah R. Pearson Peter J. Throdahl ’65 Whitney Marjorie Frick ’06 Alissa Ruth Shapiro ’06 Donald R. Balcom Kathleen J. Throdahl Aleksandra Weronika Gadzala ’06 Ruth Strandness Shnider ’06 Joan Perkin Eugene I. Tolpin ’67 K. Patrick Garland ’62 Kristin Joan Streicher ’06 Dennis L. Peters ’66, MMGT ’74 Gail D. Tolpin Jihyun Han ’06 Sheena Rae Tart-Zelvin ’06 YEAR # APPLICANTS # ADMITS % ADMITTED # ENROLLING % ENROLLING Candace D. Peters Michael P. Toomin ’62 Joshua Elias Harmon ’05 Elizabeth A. Uihlein ’03 2004 9540 2823 29.6 1052 37.3 John E. Petersen ’62 Constantine L. Trela ’76, JD ’79 Molly P. Harnischfeger ’04 Nicholas John Vetter ’01 Mary Livingston Petersen ’62 Jean Dalton Trela Adam Thomas Hauch ’06 Brian M. Wilson ’03 2005 9815 2881 29.4 1056 36.7 Lloyd J. Peterson ’65, MD ’69 Martin A. Urban, MD ’83, GMER Michael A. Headly ’04 Benjamin Joseph Wolfert ’06 Jane H. Peterson ’65, MSED ’69 ’84, GMER ’87, GMER ’88 Kathleen M. Hitchins ’03 Michelle Lin Wu ’06 2006 11,357 3075 27.1 1127 36.7 Max Pine ’56 Susan M. Fowell ’81, MD ’85, Rebecca Lynn Hostetler ’06 Matthew A. Yale ’00, MBA ’06 Daniel H. Pink ’86 GMER ’89, GMEF ’90 John Joseph Hughes III ’05 Jonathan Lee Yoo ’05 The number of students applying to Weinberg has risen sharply in the last two years. THIS YEAR’S Bruce Pomeroy Michael J. Vasconcelles ’85, MD ’89 Lily Christina Johnson ’06 NUMBER OF 11,357 WAS AN ALL-TIME RECORD. This surge in applicants came at a good time because Anne Pomeroy Martina A. Vasconcelles ’85 Grace Joo ’06 Undergraduate alumni are indicated Irwin Press ’59 Carrie Byrns Vill ’78 Rahul M. Kalita ’06 by the year in which the bachelor’s the enrollment goal for the incoming Weinberg class was raised this year from 1070 to 1110. Nev- Stanley E. Prosniewski ’87 David C. Villa, MMGT ’79 Ouardya Katherine Kebir ’06 degree was awarded. Other North- ertheless, because the College is increasingly attractive to outstanding students, the percentage of Robert S. Prusak ’82 Nancy Jane Villa ’76, MMGT ’80 Erin Nicole Keller ’06 western degrees are noted by the Jamie Dierking Prusak ’82 Steven C. Voorhees ’72 Larah Merrell Kent ’06 degree or program and year. students we have been able to admit to Weinberg has continued to fall; this past year we admitted Joseph Murray Pyle, III ’75 James F. Wallack ’77 Pamela K. Knodell ’06 just over one in four applicants. In 2000, we admitted over a third of Weinberg applicants. Kimberly R. Pyle ’76 Arete Swartz Warren ’68 Matthew T. Kramer ’04 Northwestern’s fiscal year runs Brad Radulovacki ’83 Jeffrey M. Weiser ’79, MMGT ’81 Matthew (Lake) Kubilius ’04, from September 1 to August 31. Robert D. Rasor, JD ’73 Thomas R. Westerhoff ’62, MD ’66, BSCH ’04 Of those admitted, the percentage who accept has increased. That percentage has moved from Danae Kay Prousis ’71 GMER ’71, GMER ’72 Elizabeth Lang ’96, MBA ’04 We have tried to be accurate and about 33 percent in 2000 to roughly 37 percent last year, so we’ve made real progress in attracting Robert C. Rechkemmer ’97 Sally Westerhoff Suwun Bosco Leu ’06 complete, but errors may have Siobhan Refice-Greene ’78 Harold T. White, III ’70 Richard Leung ’06 occurred in these listings. We our admitted students. Henry B. Reiling ’60 Elizabeth Phillips White Cliff Chi Wei Lin ’06 appreciate your assistance in bring- Carol Schuetz Reiling Nancy Whitford Johnstone ’52 Merry Lin ’06 ing inaccuracies to our attention. The quality of new students measured (however imperfectly) by the SATs continues to rise. The Patricia A. Richards ’68 Kevin L. Willens ’84 Michelle P. Lin ’05 Please address all corrections to the Patricia Cusick Ripton Graham Williams ’53 Jason Liu ’06 WCAS Office of Alumni Relations SAT changed this year. The Math component stayed the same, the Verbal component became Gabriel M. Rodriguez ’79 Anne B. Vytlacil Matthew Wah Louie ’06 and Development. “Critical Reasoning” and a “Writing” section was added, so a perfect SAT is now 2400, not 1600. Paula M. Romberg ’82 Mark Alan Williams, PhD ’88 Lauren Hannah Lowenstein 06 James A. Rosenthal ’81 Suzanne Lyn Zebedee, PhD ’88 John Paul H. Lussow ’98 To support the College, visit us at: We won’t have comparable Writing numbers until next year, but for each of the past three years Ann Rubel Roth ’43 John R. Wilson ’48, MS ’52 Daniel A. Magliocco ’06 www.giving.northwestern.edu. the mean composite SAT (Math plus Verbal/Critical Reasoning) of enrolling Weinberg students Jill I. Roth ’98 Barbara Ziegler Wilson ’50 Stephen P. Master ’06 has been over 1400; this year it was 1403. By comparison, the composite mean SAT for Weinberg Aryeh Routtenberg, MA ’63 Gordon Wood Weinberg, PhD ’66 John J. Mcglothlin ’06 Ari B. Rubenfeld Adalberto G. Yanes Lindsey Nicole Mcguire ’06 students in 2000 was 1382. Lewis A. Rubin ’81 Geri Doran Yanes ’80 Sarah R. Melick ’06 Katharine A. Russell ’70, MMGT ’80 John J. Ying David S. Miller ’06 Benita A. Sakin ’73, JD ’77 Lisa Gallo Ying ’85, MMGT ’89 Jonathan G. Miller ’02 Gregory S. Samorajski ’76 James B. Young ’66 Jacquelyn Elise Moss ’06 Patricia White Schmidt ’51 Sally G. Young ’66 Chiaki Nakanishi ’06 Sarah M. Schmidt ’94 Roger A. Yurchuck ’59 Peter John Newstrom ’06 Julia V. Matthei Steven J. Zelman ’73 David K. Ng ’05 Frank E. Schmitz ’85 Anonymous (3) Brittaney Victoria Nicolas ’06 Hilary E. Schmitz Joel A. Nierman ’04 Philip E. Schoech ’73 RECENT GRADUATES Erika Dyan Nuber ’06 Howard S. Schwartz ’86 Sungeeta Agrawal ’06 Tiffany L. Obenchain ’03 F. Sheppard Shanley Alvaro A. Aleman ’06 Margaret Katherine O’Leary ’06 John P. Shannon, Jr., MS ’60, PhD ’61 Kasim Magbool Arshad ’05 Catherine Crossin Ollwerther ’06 Susan Lobraico Shannon ’58 Sinan Bastas ’06 Christopher C. 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