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CONTENTS 12 Warmer, Fresher, Worrisome 14 Tiny Treasures FRONT DEPARTMENTS 07 Contributors 12 Idea Warmer, Fresher, Worrisome 09 Note 14 Artifact Tiny Treasures 10 Dialogue 16 Forefront Outsiders Create 26 Evidence How Are the Kids? 58 Text Post-Occupied ALUMNI 60 Who Is . Fannie Gaston-Johansson 62 Campus A Decade of Ideas 66 Golomb’s Gambits Categories 68 Giving Bodies and Bucks 70 Colleagues Taking Down TB 72 Friends for Life Slow Beginning, Happy Ending 73 Notebook Alumni on the Move 74 Alumni Association More Than Meets the Eye 75 Class Notes 79 In Memoriam 80 Afterwords Fully Immersed 4 | johns hopkins magazine 28 May It Go to the Heart s till i M age fro age M the f il M Defiant Requiem courtesy of p artisan artisan p ictures FEATURES 28 May It Go to the Heart 44 Mister Nice Guy Bret MccaBe Dale Keiger The story of Jewish prisoners performing Verdi’s As a scathing political cartoonist, Tim Kreider Requiem at Terezín taught conductor Murry Sidlin seemed to loathe almost everybody. His essays tell a just how powerful music can be. different story. 36 Flu Scare 52 Privy to History Mat edelson Bret MccaBe Publishing scientific research might prevent the A privy, a bedpan, and 100-year-old graffiti: next pandemic, but what if critical information The Homewood Museum offers an object lesson falls into the wrong hands? in history. Volume 64 No. 4 Winter 2012 | 5 KKEEEEEEPEPINEPINGINGNGG ITT ININ THTTHEHEE FAMILFAMAMMIMILILLYLY “I have a deep connnection Throuugh her will, Paula Booggs will hhelp Johns Hopkins ass with thhe universityy,y, so well aas her familyy.. Whatt will your legacy be? puttingg Johns Hoppkins ToTo planplan a bequest to benefitfit any in my will was nattural schoool or division of Johnss Hopkins and to become a member of the for mee. 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He is a regular contributor AssistAnt Editor Times, the Boston Globe, to Hopkins Medicine Magazine, Kristen Intlekofer the New York Times, and Johns Hopkins Public Health, Art dirEctor Kansas City’s the Pitch, and Johns Hopkins Nursing. Pamela Li among other publications. Alumni nEWs & notEs Paul Sahre (“Flu Scare,” Lisa Belman Rachel Wallach (“Missing from illustration, p. 36) is a graphic Kristen Intlekofer Middle School,” p.