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TERRI SEWELL ’86 ON RARE-BOOKS TROVE ALUMNI DAY SELMA, HER HOMETOWN IS LARGEST GIFT 2015 PRINCETON ALUMNI WEEKLY PLANET HUNTERS N. Jeremy Kasdin ’85 and fellow professors search for planets orbiting other stars MARCH 18, 2015 PAW.PRINCETON.EDU 00paw0318_Cov.indd 1 3/4/15 10:49 AM Seeking 37 great leaders... motivated to tackle big challenges facing communities around the world with a successful track record of 20-25 years of accomplishments in their primary career recognizing the value of engaging with Harvard to prepare for their next phase of life’s work The Advanced Leadership Initiative is a year of education, reflection, and student mentoring led by a unique collaboration of award-winning Harvard faculty from across professional schools. The program is dedicated to educating and deploying a new force of experienced, innovative leaders who want to address challenging global and national problems. Inquire now for 2016. Visit the website to be inspired by the possibilities: advancedleadership.harvard.edu or email the fellowship director: [email protected] March 18, 2015 Volume 115, Number 9 An editorially independent magazine by alumni for alumni since 1900 PRESIDENT’S PAGE 2 Page 18 INBOX 3 FROM THE EDITOR 5 ’15 ON THE CAMPUS 9 Women at the eating Martinez clubs Dean of the college named president of Yessica Swarthmore Princeton receives rare-books collection STUDENT DISPATCH: courtesy A Princeton dreamer SPORTS: Soccer player goes pro Women’s basketball Sports shorts More Communications; of LIFE OF THE MIND 15 The poor and government The skills of an entrepreneur Smith/Office World War I aviators Faculty books Research briefs Brian PRINCETONIANS 33 Redlinski; Alumni Day coverage Terri Sewell ’86 on Selma Piotr George Harrington Butts ’08, actor More Archives; CLASS NOTES 38 Life Among the Stars 18 Over the Hill in Silicon Valley? 24 University MEMORIALS 57 Professor N. Jeremy Kasdin ’85 has a High-tech startups have a culture seemingly CLASSIFIEDS 62 novel approach to finding planets outside made for the young. But those of a certain Princeton our solar system. age need not feel left out. ; ’85 THAT WAS THEN 64 By Kenneth Chang ’87 By Mark F. Bernstein ’83 Kasdin PAW.PRINCETON.EDU Jeremy N. courtesy left: from Planet Finder Dr. Boom Family History New Directions Along the Border N. Jeremy Kasdin ’85 Watch Professor Andie Tucher ’76 Columnist Gregg Read Pyne Prize explains why searching Hubert Alyea ’24 discusses the stories Lange ’70 looks at winner Yessica for exoplanets *28 perform colorful we tell about our campus planning Martinez ’15’s poems NASA/ESA/ESO; is “the coolest experiments in a ancestors, and why we from coeducation about the experiences Top: possible science.” 1985 demonstration. tell them. to today. of immigrants. On the cover: Photograph by Peter Murphy THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE The Scheide Library: A Defining Collection n 1865, 18-year-old William T. Scheide — a railroad adding scholarly jewels to the Scheide Library was inex- employee who would soon find his fortune in the oil haustible. Just five months before he passed away in business — wanted to explore The Chemical History of November at age 100, Bill made his final purchase for the a Candle, a volume of lectures by British chemist and library — a bound volume of tractates by St. Augustine Iphysicist Michael Faraday, one of the great science popular- published in 1467 by Ulrich Zell, the first printer of Cologne, izers of his day. Germany. Scheide’s purchase of an 1861 copy of Faraday’s lectures The spirit of discovery and the intellectual breadth that satisfied his intellectual curiosity and also marked the start of undergird the Scheide Library make it a defining collection an astounding collection of rare books and manuscripts that for Firestone Library and for the University — reflecting today stands at the heart of Princeton’s Firestone Library. our distinctive emphasis on providing undergraduates with Thanks to the generosity of its founder’s grandson, the a broad liberal arts education and a rigorous, independent devoted Princetonian William H. (Bill) Scheide ’36, we can research environment. We are in the midst of a multi-year now proudly call the Scheide Library renovation of Firestone to enhance its a permanent part of the University’s ability to serve as a laboratory for the collections. humanities and social sciences for our This donation is remarkable not students and scholars. As part of the only because its estimated $300 APPLEWHITE renovation, the Scheide Library will million value makes it the largest move to another floor, but its design gift in Princeton’s history, but more DENISE will remain modeled upon John fundamentally because it enables us Scheide’s personal library, as his son to uphold our commitment to the wished. humanities and liberal arts education. We are grateful not only to Bill The Scheide Library has benefited Scheide, but to other generous students and scholars since it came alumni whose contributions to our to Firestone on loan from Bill in library collections have provided 1959, and will now continue to do abundant resources for our students so for future generations. Questions and scholars. Among many others, raised and discoveries made through Lloyd Cotsen ’50 has donated his studies of the 2,500 items housed international collection of illustrated in the Scheide Library will inform children’s literature from the 15th endeavors ranging from freshman century to the present; Leonard writing seminars to senior theses to Milberg ’53 has given to Princeton In this 2002 photo, William H. Scheide ’36 major works by senior scholars in the collections of modern American (standing) and Scheide Librarian Paul Needham years to come. look over some of the first printed editions of the poetry, Irish poetry and prose, and The Scheide Library is a spec- Bible, which are part of the magnificent collection Jewish American literature; and Sid tacular resource, with famed of rare books and manuscripts that now have a Lapidus ’59 has donated his collec- cornerstones including the first six permanent home at Princeton. tion of rare American Revolution-era printed editions of the Bible; Shake- books, pamphlets, and prints. By speare’s earliest folios; the original printing of the Declara- making their thoughtfully assembled literary and historical tion of Independence; manuscripts of Bach, Mozart, and treasures available for intellectual exploration, our alumni Beethoven; and the Blickling Homilies, the only substantial enable Princeton to live up to our mission of providing Old English manuscript in America. The collection was students with transformative educational experiences and meticulously assembled and curated by Bill, his father empowering our scholars to reveal fundamental truths about John H. Scheide 1896, and his grandfather. The Scheides humankind. were passionate about obtaining works based on their schol- Our library staff is working diligently to digitize many arly value, and as a result their holdings are in some areas rare book and manuscript collections — including the fully comparable to the great collections of national libraries Scheide Library — to expand access to these magnificent in Europe that were formed over hundreds of years. holdings. Bill Scheide firmly believed in giving those who Bill himself was an extraordinary and modest gentleman, were interested in studying his collection the opportunity to and a truly dedicated and wise scholar who was renowned share in his sense of discovery and wonder. We are fortunate across and beyond campus for his broad support of the arts, as a University, and as a society, to have Princeton alumni humanities, and social justice. A musician and musicolo- like Bill who have been such stalwart caretakers of our past gist, he made major contributions to our music department, and of our future. supported the University Art Museum and humanities programming, and helped hundreds of students attend Princeton as Scheide Scholars. And his enthusiasm for PAW PROVIDES THESE PAGES TO PRESIDENT CHRISTOPHER L. EISGRUBER ’83 YOUR VIEWS NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH FAIRNESS IN ADMISSIONS CAMPUS PROTESTS FROM PAW’s PAGES: 10/31/52 In response to an article about Adlai Inbox Stevenson ’22 in the Oct. 17, 1952, issue. LIVES LIVED AND LOST of Japanese ancestry handled the If you didn’t unconscionable prejudice we showered read those obits on them in the early years of World of 13 special War II. Princetonians, go Burr Loomis ’61 immediately and Chambersburg, Pa. dig out your Feb. 4 PAW! You may THE BRAIN — AND THE HEART recall only one or The articles published in the Jan. 7 two names, but edition regarding the Princeton all of these tales Neuroscience Institute show a number so vividly told will astound and inspire of cutting-edge research programs most of you. that have been produced by this Brad Bradford ’44 extraordinary institution. In no way can Highland Park, Ill. a comparison be made between these elegant studies and the work that was parties I recall in the past, when mention PAW describes This Kind of War by T.R. performed in the psychology department was made only of those carefully Fehrenbach ’45 as “a cautionary tale.” when I was an undergraduate. I often bred, genetically superior offspring In fact, it’s much more than that — it’s have felt the expenditures made by destined to be the next generation one of the best Korean War histories, Princeton were extravagant. In this of Princetonians. No life is without essential reading for understanding of particular instance, I must admit its tragedies and setbacks, and often that “forgotten war.” that I was wrong. I was particularly it is more interesting to hear how an Until seeing the mention of Mr. pleased to see that the work appears individual deals with adversity than to Fehrenbach in PAW, I had no idea he’d to have integrated both graduate and hear a litany of success stories.