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Harvard 12B Extracurriculars Cambridge, Boston, and beyond Events on and off campus in May and June

12H T.C. Cannon Paintings capture modern Native American culture

12J Beauport A Gloucester mansion’s lively creative spirit

12N The National Black Doll Museum What toys can teach us

12S Commencement Highlights of the week’s events

12L The Neponset River Greenway Getting out to explore new sights and neighborhoods in Boston and Milton

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Live performances of dance, theater, music, and poetry, along with community and art Extracurriculars vendors, and all kinds of food from around the globe. Lechmere Canal Park. (June 2) Events on and off campus during May and June Park Fest SEASONAL ware to jewelry and garden sculptures—by www.decordova.org CAMBRIDGE, MA CAMBRIDGE, MA Ceramics Program more than 70 artists. (May 10-13) The day-long celebration of “art, nature, and $6,750,000 $1,085,000 Spring Show and Sale creativity” at DeCordova Sculpture https://ofa.fas.harvard.edu Cambridge River Arts Festival Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachu- Unique works—from vases and dinner- www.cambridgema.gov setts. The line-up includes a 5K run, sculpture hunts, food trucks, art demonstrations, From left: a scene from director Luchino Visconti’s Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) at the Harvard Film Archive; the annual Ceramics Program Spring Show and Sale; and Art Book, and art-making opportunities (for any age) by Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord, part of an exhibit at the Arnold Arboretum that are inspired by the museum’s spring ex- FROM HARVARD LEFT: FILM ARCHIVE; HARVARD CERAMICS PROGRAM; SUSAN KAPUSCINSKI GAYLORD

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Boston Historical Costumers’ Picnic Anyone can join in this second annual stylish homage to the past by showing up in outfits, from elaborate to vintage to casual, that pre- Analog date 1960, and enjoying an afternoon by the river. Charles River Esplanade. (June 25)

Boston Harborfest www.harborfest.com Dainty blue boots (c. 1870-80) on display in More than a hundred events help celebrate “Fresh Goods: Shopping for Clothing in a New England Town: 1750-1900” at the America’s birth, from historic reenact- Concord Museum ments and Freedom Trail tours to con- Harvard Square Penthouse certs, a “chowderfest,” and an outdoor screening of Yankee Doodle Dandy. Wig Out! is a fun and illuminating look at the $1,295,000 | 2 BD + STUDY | 1.5 BA | 1,242 SF | PRIVATE BALCONY (June 29-July 1) culture of “drag balls,” in which contestants MUSEUM CONCORD THE OF COURTESY from respective family “houses” strut their The Carol Kelly Team NATURE AND SCIENCE stuff—attitude, dancing, costumes, imper- The Arnold Arboretum sonations, etc.—for applause and prizes. The Printer’s Proofs — from the Schneider/ www.arboretum.harvard.edu show, presented with Company One Thea 1073 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA Erdman Photography [email protected] The Spirit Books. Artist Susan Kapuscin- tre, in Boston, was written by Tarell Alvin Lab, 1981–2001 617.835.5008 ski Gaylord incorporates tree branches, McCraney and directed by Summer L. Wil- Culture thecarolkellyteam.com roots, and vines in her hand-stitched, word- liams. Oberon. (Through May 13) May 19–August 12, 2018 harvardartmuseums.org/analogculture less book sculptures, and encourages viewers to “read” them as contemplative connections EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS to nature. (Opens May 4) Houghton Library www.hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton Impressions of Woody Plants: Dis- Balanchine at Home and Abroad: Bal- junction, Two Artists, and the Arnold let as Cold War Cultural Exchange Arboretum explores exotic and native offers vibrant and historic souvenir pro- plant life, along with the relationship be- grams from performances by George Bal- tween botany and art through copper etch- anchine’s New York City Ballet in the Soviet ings by Bobbi Angell and watercolor paint- Union and the Bolshoi and Kirov Ballets’ ings by Beverly Duncan. (Opens May 11) visits to the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. (Opens May 1) Tower Hill Botanic Garden www.towerhillbg.org Drawing on collections from across the Uni- Join docents for weekend tours, take garden- versity’s libraries, Passports: Lives in ing and art classes, or just stop by Tower Hill Transition examines the timely issue of anytime—or on Family Day, which offers travel and immigration through archival doc- activities for all ages, including a talk and uments, as well as items related to a Harvard book-signing by Jana Milbocker, author of The student’s story of Latino immigration to the Garden Tourist: 120 Destination Gardens and United States, and a multimedia art installa- Nurseries in the Northeast. (June 16) tion about contemporary geopolitics and activism. THEATER 2018 Commencement & Reunion Guide Atlifecare Brookhaven living is as good as it looks. American Repertory Theater Harvard Art Museums Go to: harvardmagazine.com/commencement Brookhaven at Lexington offers an abundance of opportunities for www.americanrepertorytheater.org www.harvardartmuseums.org for a complete schedule and live coverage of events. intellectual growth, artistic expression and personal wellness. Our residents Little Jagged Pill explores the story behind Analog Culture: Printer’s Proofs from share your commitment to live a vibrant lifestyle in a lovely community. the eponymous Grammy Award-winning the Schneider/Erdman Photography brought to you online by 1995 album by Canadian-born singer and mu- Lab, 1981-2001 highlights master printer Call today to set up an appointment for a tour! sician Alanis Morissette. Directed by A.R.T. Gary Schneider and those he worked with, A Full-Service Lifecare Retirement Community artistic director Diane Paulus. including Richard Avedon, James Casabere, www.brookhavenatlexington.org Loeb Drama Center. (May 5- July 15) Nan Goldin, and David Wojnarowicz. A.K. (781) 863-9660 • (800) 283-1114

12D May - June 2018 Harvard Magazine 12E Harvard Squared Harvard Squared Burns: Survivors’ Remorse, seum, Semitic Museum, and Collection of that swim elegantly a complementary installation, Historical Scientific Instruments. (June 21) Spotlight across the pages. offers responses to the photo- Opening May 3 at the MIT Museum, “The “Purkinje neurons graphs. (Opening May 19) On Schlesinger Library Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago from the human cer- May 21, Schneider and artist www.schlesinger75radcliffe.org Ramón y Cajal” features 80 works by the ebellum” resembles a John Schabel will appear for a 75 Stories, 75 Years: Documenting Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist. His waving fan of sea moderated discussion on “Pho- the Lives of American Women at the explorations into microscopic structures of coral; “tumor cells of tography as Performance.” Schlesinger Library reveals the richness the brain earned him the Nobel Prize in the covering mem- of its holdings (established in 1943 with the GANZ THERESA 1906, yet he was also an exceptional artist. branes of the brain” Nam June Paik: Screen Woman’s Rights Collection). Among the hat that belonged to surgeon Mildred Jef- A still from Storm Diptych (2015), a video He pursued medicine and science on the could be tree bark. Play. Examples drawn from the objects are a large-format camera used by ferson, M.D. ’51, the first African-American installation by Theresa Ganz on display at the RISD Museum advice of his father, and easily combined The 1913 pen-and-ink museums’ collections reflect early photojournalist Jessie Tarbox Beals, woman to graduate from Harvard Medical drawing with his drawing at right, of “a central themes of the multime- the 1986 “toilet paper diary” that itinerant School, and a longtime, influential anti- Institute of Contemporary Art study of anatom- cut nerve outside the dia artist’s work, such as the poet Eleanor Skelton Cash kept while living abortion activist. www.icaboston.org ical forms. spinal cord,” evokes “subversion of conventional in a homeless shelter, and a white Panama Caitlin Keogh: Blank Melody presents The renderings an aerial view of pent technologies and media” and Addison Gallery of American Art works that combine the fine lines and delicate now on display at up streams and tribu- “the potential of moving images www.addisongallery.org color sense of a graphic artist with the brainy the museum date taries finally let loose. to explore alternative tempo- Gun Country explores historical contexts exploration of female forms and decorative from the 1880s At once abstract, ac- ralities.” (Opens June 30) and iconography through an array of fire- motifs. (Opens May 9) through the early curate, and beautiful, arms and related objects. Photographers 1930s. They de- these intricate works Harvard Museums of Among Us highlights images dating from Concord Museum pict neural path- speak to the dynamic Science and Culture early reform movements, the Depression, www.concordmuseum.org ways and cellular universality among www.hmsc.harvard.edu and wartime to more modern portraits of Objects, vestiture, and stories offer insight activity through organic forms. The Summer Solstice Cel- communities and of the nation’s changing into the early American industries and mar-

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12F May - June 2018 Harvard Magazine 12G Harvard Squared RISD Museum storms and hurricanes set to the first Museum of Fine Arts www.risdmuseum.org movement of Mozart’s String Quartet No. www.mfa.org Theresa Ganz: Storm Diptych. The 19. The work captures the moodiness and Klimt and Schiele: Drawn compares and video installation by the artist (and assis- volatility of Romantic-era paintings and contrasts the artists’ styles through rarely tant professor of visual art at Brown Uni- underscores the current destruction of seen works on loan from the Albertina Mu- versity) offers dramatic footage of rain- nature. seum in Vienna. (Through May 28)

FILM STAFF PICK:Art Reflecting a Harvard Film Archive www.hcl.harvard.edu/hfa “Declaration of Love and Guts” The Complete Luchino Visconti presents Osses- In T.C. Cannon’s Two Guns Arikara, a stately Native Amer- sione, Rocco and His Broth- ican sits in an armchair, loosely holding cartoonish blue fire- ers, and Death in Venice, arms. He’s dressed in a mash up of what looks like U.S. among other masterworks cavalry pants, Plains Indian and European garb, and sports by the Italian theater, op- ornate silver jewelry. His puffy violet hair cascades down era, and film director, who against a riotous purple, polka-dotted background. often explored themes of Like many of the 30 color-splashed paintings in “T.C. Can- betrayal. (June 1-July 21) non: At the Edge of America” (through June 10 at the Pea- body Essex Museum in Salem), the salon-style portrait below The Complete Howard reflects works by van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and even Pop Hawks highlights the cre- art. Yet Cannon’s bold figurative images also stand on their ative range of this hugely own as what he once called “real art,” made as “a declaration influential Hollywood di- of love and guts.” rector. Screenings include

Born in Oklahoma in 1948, Cannon was a member of the C. CANNON. OF T. ESTATE © 2017 all of his extant works, in- Kiowa Tribe. He went to art school, completing Mama and Abbi of Bacabi (1978), cluding his silent films and To Have and Have Papa Have the Going Home Shipwreck Blues (1966)—a simply among Cannon’s last Not, The Big Sleep, The Thing from Another and unfinished works, rendered Navajo couple sitting unwittingly at the crossroads and Two Guns Arikara World, and the newspaper-industry gem, His of American and Native American cultures—that influenced (1974-1977), below Girl Friday. (June 8-August 5) the New Indian Art movement, and then surprised those he knew by joining the U.S. Army, ultimately earning two Bronze Stars for his service LECTURES during the Tet Offensive. Back home, Cannon was apparently conflicted about his role The Radcliffe Institute for in violence and in suppressing other indigenous peoples. During the next decade, he Advanced Study produced a significant body of work that was at once deeply personal and political, www.radcliffe.harvard.edu developing his voice on canvas, and as a musician and writer. The art spoke to the Composer Camilo Mendez, RI ’18, presents inevitable co-existence of past and present, pain and triumph, and to the turbulence “Reimagining Musical Instruments: of the times. And it still does. The Sounds of Impossible Objects in At the museum, his 22-foot mural Epoch in My Music,” a concert of his recent works Plain History: Mother Earth, Father Sun, the Chil- performed by the New York-based quartet dren Themselves (1976-77) streams across a Yarn/Wire. Knafel Center. (May 2) wall reveling in moonlit early tribespeople in animal skins, bison and hieroglyphics, a sha- MUSIC manistic bare-breasted woman with an owl Boston Philharmonic Youth and eagle in flight, and, finally, a Native Amer- Orchestra AT HOME IN THE ican in a Stetson standing on a swath of green www.boxoffice.harvard.edu grass under a sun rendered as a woven textile. The program includes Three Places in New Cannon’s Kiowa name is Pai-doung-a-day: England, by Charles Ives, and Till Eulenspie- HEART OF IT ALL “One who stands in the sun.” gel’s Merry Pranks, by Richard Strauss. Sand- He completed about 50 major canvases, ers Theatre. (May 6) along with more than a hundred sketches, drawings, poems, and personal documents, many Back Bay Chorale Enjoy Boston’s best parks, restaurants, shops and thriving cultural scene within a mile of your doorstep. The unique also on display. In all, they illuminate a flourishing www.boxoffice.harvard.edu Robert A.M. Stern design offers waterfront views and a curated collection of services, making this Boston’s most vibrant new address. artistic vision, albeit one cut short. Cannon died The group performs “Essential Voices: Ralph One, two and three bedroom residences starting at $750,000 following a car crash Vaughan Williams.” Sanders Theatre. (May 13) in Santa Fe, at the Peabody Essex Museum SCHEDULE YOUR PRIVATE TOUR TODAY

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180537_Gibson-Sothebys.indd 1 3/28/18 9:50 AM Harvard Squared Harvard Squared antique 1780s wallpaper (originally ordered toleware (tin objects, typically kitchen- Explore Garden in the Woods CURIOSITIES: Learning from Dolls by Robert Morris, a signer of the Declara- ware) that he brought home from France. tion of Independence) depicting the rice Visitors can hunt for the groups of “eights”: In 2004, Debra Britt and her sisters, Felicia Walker and Tamara Mattison, began to and porcelain industries of China. There’s hooked rugs, chairs, sides of the table, scores collect and make dolls, doll clothes, and accessories. By 2012, the serious hobby had also a Jacobean-style dining room with a in the ceiling, and even facets on the door overrun their homes and “our husbands were, wood-beamed and white- knobs, Van Koevering points out. So excited like, you got to get this stuff out of here,” Walker plaster ceiling and heavy was Sleeper about creating this space that in says. So they rented a storefront space in down- oak furnishings that feels 1921 he wrote of his plans to his friend, the town Mansfield, Massachusetts, where they lived, like an old English pub. “Yet art patron Isabella Stewart Gardner (of the and transformed it into the National Black Doll he wasn’t a stickler for pure eponymous Boston museum), “Of course, I Museum of History and Culture. authenticity,” Van Koever- have all the details visualized and am enjoy- The nonprofit now features about 2,000 of ing says. “The ‘Pine Kitch- ing it accordingly.” their figures, Britt says, roughly a quarter of their en,’ one of the later rooms, is still-growing collection. Their mission is to “nur- Sleeper’s romanticized view Gardner visited Beauport many times, ture self-esteem,” especially among children, and of a Colonial-era kitchen.” as did other prominent members of Boston to preserve the legacy of black dolls. The toys It has a wide brick hearth and New York society and art circles; East- also pointedly reflect aspects of the centuries- hung with antique cast-iron ern Point itself was developed at the turn long African-American experience. One room is pots and utensils, but he had of the twentieth century as a wealthy sum- packed with 780 African- a local furniture-maker cre- mer enclave (which it still is). Yet the resi- style rag dolls (most ate the simple wooden chairs, dents, at least those Sleeper socialized with, crafted by the sisters), to which are “a little different tended to be the less conventional members Beautiful native recreate the inhumane from what the Colonials of the elite, more “bohemian-minded” and

conditions of a slave ship. MAGAZINE/NPB HARVARD would have had, and a little intellectual. plants in a dramatic “The Ugly Truth” display Debra Britt (below) in the more comfortable. So he would break the Sleeper himself came from a Boston family wooded landscape represents demeaning glamorous “Fashion Doll” room; rules sometimes.” of comfortable means: his father, Jacob Hen- “Ugly Truth” figures (above); and characterizations of black musicians, including D.M.C. He also freely repurposed historic materi- ry Sleeper, was a revered Civil War veteran, Open Daily • 10 am-5 pm 180 Hemenway Rd. • Framingham, MA people: Buckwheat, Little als: Beauport’s central hall is lined with pine and his grandfather, Jacob Sleeper, a founder 508-877-7630 • newenglandwild.org Black Sambo, Aunt Jemima, and golliwogs, among them. paneling (rescued from the dilapidated eigh- of Boston University. Reportedly frail, the Yet there are also hundreds of more contemporary figures teenth-century William Cogswell estate in young Sleeper was presumably tutored at symbolizing triumphs, artistry, and power: pint-sized Obamas; nearby Essex); from the hall one can also see home, Van Koevering says, but no record of comic-book superheroes, including Black Panther; plenty of the bulk of one wall filled with a graceful any formal education exists.

HARVARD MAGAZINE/NPB HARVARD athletes, like Michael Jordan and Serena and Venus Williams; double-wide, leaded-glass door, obtained In 1906, as a 28-year-old bachelor, he was and leaders Martin Luther King Jr., Condoleezza Rice, and Jesse Jackson—along with from a home in Connecticut, that Sleep- introduced to Eastern Point by Abram Piatt scientists, legal scholars, businesspeople, and other color-barrier-breakers. er altered to hold his perfectly arranged Andrew, Ph.D. 1900. An economics professor Just how healthy “If we can’t find a doll, we make it,” Walker notes: those collaged “Stand-Ins” include 130-piece collection of amber-glass objects. at Harvard, Andrew served as director of boxing hall of famer Jack Johnson, Thurgood Marshall, and Angela Davis. “Record- He cleverly installed a skylight in the pan- the U.S. Mint in 1909 is your brain? Makers” highlights musical artists, from Josephine Baker and Louis Armstrong to Tupac try behind the door “so that the amber is and 1910 and played a Shakur and Beyoncé—and the sisters’ father, a teacher whose record store was an always naturally back-lit,” Van Koevering role in the creation of offshoot of his own 5,000-album reserve. “My other siblings are collectors, too,” notes. Nothing was collected in the name of the Federal Reserve Join our 6-week course on healthy brain aging. Walker adds of the family habit. “I say ‘collecting’ is just a fancy word for hoarding.” investment. “He deliberately selected only System. Also a bach- Taught by Harvard-a liated McLean Hospital clinicians, Both parents were also members of the Black Panthers, and patrolled their Dorches- objects that personally appealed to him, in elor, he had already the science-based topics to be covered include: ter neighborhood. Pride in black culture was paramount; the kids played with any as much as he didn’t have the deep pockets built his own summer ■ Strategies and technology that address black-focused toys and games of other collectors in Boston at that time,” home, Red Roof, on memory di culties available; commercial black dolls she says. “And he had this fabulous ability Eastern Point’s rocky ■ Stress management tips that can help were, and still can be, hard to to showcase things.” ledge. Enamored of manage coexisting medical problems find. One display explains how Sleeper’s light-filled “Golden Step” room, the site’s beauty and ■ Diet and exercise recommendations for their grandmother, a maid, disas- holding a bank of diamond-paned windows “clearly besotted” Abram Piatt brain, heart, and cognitive health sembled white dolls, “then dyed overlooking Gloucester Harbor, is a nod to Andrew with Andrew, Van them all brown, and put them New England’s maritime history. Wood- Koevering says, Sleep- For information or to register, please call:

VIA GETTY IMAGES GETTY VIA IMAGES back together for us,” reports work, the trestle tables and chairs, and a er purchased a lot one house away, and by Walker. “Everyone wants to see cabinet painted a sea-foam green set off ma- 1908 had moved into Beauport, named for 877.300.0382

something that represents jolica and Wedgwood dishware. Prow orna- PUBLIC DOMAIN French explorer Samuel de Champlain’s them,” Britt has concluded. “It ments of bare-chested mermen hang on the description of Gloucester Harbor. The two

THE BOSTON GLOBE BOSTON THE immortalizes you.” vn.p.b. wall amid models of a China trading vessel men became close, and years later during and whaling and fishing ships. World War I, when Andrew founded the National Black Doll Museum of Adjacent is the “Octagon Room.” Auber- American Field Service, an organization of History and Culture Ranked #1 in the country for psychiatric care. JOHN TLUMACKI/ JOHN nbdmhc.org gine walls dramatize Sleeper’s amethyst volunteer American ambulance drivers who and ruby-red glassware and red antique worked on the front lines in France, Sleeper

12N May - June 2018 Harvard Magazine 12O Harvard Squared Harvard Squared Step Outside with 16), which take visitors on a longer, more detailed tour of rooms not seen on the regu- lar tour, and “Designing Beauport, Room Outward Bound Professional! by Room” (beginning on June 8), which delves into Sleeper’s personal process and progression in creating the mansion. “Tour- “The Outward Bound experience has been a powerful way ing the house, you can begin to see the early to set the tone for the year. As a direct result I am seeing a rooms with an English theme and then see higher level of gratitude, teaming, and active leadership.” the additions, in 1910 and 1912, and the emphasis on Americana—the Pine Kitchen, the Franklin Game Room—and see how he - Barbara Best, Executive Director of Harvard Kennedy moved through different phases, and when School Center for Public Leadership he gave up wallpaper,” Van Koevering ex- Beauport’s “Golden Step” room cele plains. “He clearly loved glass, and display- brates maritime history and culture. ing it, but he didn’t start collecting it until 1917. The amber-glass window in the cen- served as its administrator and fundraiser tral hall was the last reconfiguration of the Document1Document1 11/20/03 11/20/03 11:51 11:51 AM AM Page Page 1 1 both in Boston and in Paris. house, in around 1929.” That “besotted” assertion is based on 60 WHY I JOINED THE HARVARD CLUB OF BOSTON extant letters he wrote to Andrew between Beyond Beauport, friends in Eastern 1906 and 1915. There is no explicit proof the Point and Boston sought Sleeper’s artistic There are many dierent reasons to join the Harvard Club of Boston. men were gay, or that they had a romantic talents. After the war, he chose to work as Mike Seward is a Harvard alum and former varsity hockey player for or sexual relationship. (Sleeper’s personal a professional designer, opening an office the Crimson. Here's why he joined. Photo by: Tom Fitsimmons papers might have contained evidence of his in Boston (where he lived when he was not preferences, but those items, although listed in Gloucester). His clients included Isa- THOMPSON ISLAND (617) 830-5114 "I joined the Harvard Club in my freshman year, and brought in inventories of Beauport’s holdings follow- bella Stewart Gardner and Henry Francis OUTWARD BOUND [email protected] my Harvard friends as well as friends from other colleges to EDUCATION CENTER ing his death, were missing by the time the du Pont, for whom he worked on a Long www.thompsonisland.org the fun events like Member Mixer at the Downtown Boston Harbor Islands mansion was opened to the public in 1942.) Island estate and, in the latter 1920s, as a Clubhouse. Seven years later, I'm still a member because of Yet, about a decade ago, after a close friend consultant on a remodeling at Winterthur, the people and the programs oered by the Club. Every of Sleeper’s identified him as gay in an oral the Delaware estate that is now a premier month, there is an exceptional line-up of activities, like food history, Van Koevering says, Historic New museum of American decorative arts. In the and wine or beer tastings, networking events, and access to England began acknowledging that idea early 1930s, Sleeper also traveled to Holly- Red Sox and Bruins tickets. And the wide range of people in ASSISTEDASSISTEDLIVINGLIVINGRETIREMENTRETIREMENTCOMMUNITYCOMMUNITY during its tours. The organization also en- wood to work for several celebrities, and he the Club is also a huge reason I stay. The Club has Independent and Assisted Living Teaching the World® courages discussions on the subject. “A Cel- was working on a Vanderbilt family home members from many dierent schools, like MIT, Boston Specialized Memory Care University, and Holy Cross - not all the members are from Here’sHere’s what what people people are are Teaching the World® ebration of Pride and History at Beauport in Connecticut when his life was cut short Whatsayingsaying do Harvard about about us. alumni us. Museum” (on June 10) highlights “the sto- by leukemia. He was buried in the family Harvard. And I get great career and life advice from them." have in common? ry of a gay man in the early twentieth cen- plot at Mount Auburn Cemetery, and An- -Mike Seward ’15 tury,” according to the promotional blurb, drew wrote a Gloucester Times tribute to his Cadbury Commons and explores Sleeper’s circle of family and friend, noting, among other assets, his “im- For more information regarding membership, please A Remarkable Senior Residence friends. And on June 28, a tour of Beauport peccable taste” and “ingenuity in color and call 617-450-4402 or visit harvardclub.com. will be followed by “Codman, Sleeper, and design which was distinctly creative.” (An- the Gay Man Cave,” a lecture at the nearby drew died two years later of influenza; his Back Bay Clubhouse Downtown Clubhouse Rocky Neck Cultural Center by Wheaton ashes, at his request, were scattered from an 374 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 1 Federal Street, Boston, MA College art-history professor Tripp Evans. airplane flying over Eastern Point.) Name:Name:MiltonMilton R. R. Occupation:Occupation:PostalPostal Supervisor, Supervisor, Retired Retired He plans to discuss “how these men dis- Beauport drew crowds even during Sleep- Hobbies:Hobbies:Reading,Reading, Walking, Walking, Exercising Exercising armed the stigma of same-sex attraction by er’s lifetime; it was not that unusual for peo- Lifestyle:Lifestyle:Independent,Independent, Active Active creating spaces that asserted their author- ple to show up at the front door requesting a VOX CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE QUEST ChoiceChoice of Senior/Assisted of Senior/Assisted Living: Living: Four-Day College Application Intensive CadburyCadbury Commons Commons Open House ity, provided sanctuary, and reimagined the tour, which Sleeper’s longtime housekeeper, The Harvard alumni who chose historical past.” (Ogden Codman Jr., him- Mary Landergan Wonson (who stayed on “There“There is a is stable a stable and and gentle gentle atmosphere atmosphere LearnSATURDAY,Open and JANUARYHouse thrive 21, of Cadbury helpof help and and Commons empathy empathy throughout throughoutmay have the the self an interior designer, and co-author, with after his death), typically obliged. He had community.retiredcommunity. from I feel Iwork, feelassured assured but that not thatI am fromI partam part oflife. of in a9a bilingual,m-12pm Edith Wharton, of The Decoration of Houses, earned a national reputation as a designer, others’others’ lives, lives, as they as they are ofare mine. of mine. For Formyself, myself, contributed to alterations of the decorative curating decorative art exhibits and serv- I feelIMuseum feel that that Cadbury CadburyVisits Commons • CommonsPlay Reading provides provides a a caring,Preschool9a andandm-12pm Kindergarten creative wellSymphonywell trained trained and andcaring Selections caring group group of •people ofLecture people who who scheme of the Codman Estate, in Lincoln, ing as a consultant to museums and collec- are interestedare interested in my in welfare.”my welfare.” Preschool and Kindergarten Massachusetts, now also owned by Historic tors. 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12P May - June 2018 Harvard Magazine 12Q Harvard Squared HARVARD COMMENCEMENT & REUNION GUIDE Beauport’s verdant grounds (below) and Sleeper’s cleverly back-lit display of amber glass style rooms. From 1909 to The Week’s Events 1911, Sleeper even served as the first “director of museum” (overseeing the collections) at the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, which Ballet classes: age 3 - teen, later became Historic New England. adult and pointe. Sleeper’s brother inher- ited Beauport, but couldn’t New Students Welcome! afford to keep it. In 1935, the View Summer Schedule at: conservation-minded Hel-

ena Woolworth McCann, heir to HARRISON JIM www.freshpondballet.com the Woolworth department store Visit us on Facebook: chain, bought the mansion and OMMENCEMENT WEEK includes facebook.com/FreshPondBallet preserved it virtually as Sleeper addresses by President Drew Gil- had left it. The McCann family pin Faust and Congressman John A Special Notice Regarding spent several years summering Lewis, LL.D. ’12. For details and Harvard University’s 367th Commencement Exercises Nina Alonso, Director, FPB C there, but by 1941 both she and her updates on event speakers, visit harvard- 1798a Mass Ave husband had died. Their children, magazine.com/commencement. Thursday, May 24, 2018 Cambridge, MA 02140 knowing their mother’s wish that * * *

617.491.5865 Beauport be preserved as a house TUESDAY, MAY 22 commencement.harvard.edu museum, donated it to Histor- Phi Beta Kappa Exercises, at 11, with poet ic New England with the caveat Kevin Young ’92, director of the Schomburg Since 1642, with just nine graduating students, Harvard’s Commencement Ex- that they could stay there when- Center for Research in Black Culture at the ercises have brought together the community unlike any other tradition still ob- ever they wanted. One of them New York Public Library and poetry edi- served in the University. Degree candidates with family and friends, faculty and often did, into the 1970s, amicably closing of the Newport mansions. Instead, the place tor at The New Yorker, and orator Neil Shubin, administrators who supported them, and alumni from around the world are antic- the door to her quarters in the “Red Indian” speaks to a generous creative spirit, and still Ph.D. ’87, a paleontologist who is Bensley ipated to participate in our 367th Commencement Exercises this spring. To ac- room when tours came through. holds a warmth that’s unusual in a house professor of organismal biology and anato- commodate the increasing number of people planning to attend, we ask that And therein lies much of Beauport’s ap- museum. “It was a place that was lived in, my at the University of Chicago and author any interested readers carefully review the guidelines governing ticketing, rega- peal. It’s not stuffy, or built on a grand scale; was comfortable, and enjoyed,” Van Koever- of Your Inner Fish. Sanders Theatre. lia, security precautions, and other important details, which are available online at and it lacks the ostentatious flash of many ing says. And it will just stay that way. Baccalaureate Service for the Class of https://commencement.harvard.edu/ticket-information. 2018, at 2, Memorial Church, followed by COME FOR A VISIT. MEET OUR STAFF. Commencement Day Overview EXPERIENCE THE COMMUNITY. class photo, Widener steps. Visiting Gloucester ist, and “Unfolding Histories: Cape Anne Class of 2018 Family Reception, at 5. The Morning Exercises begin when the academic procession is seated in Tercen- The city offers plenty of things to see Before 1900” (through September 9) tells Tickets required. Science Center plaza. A Not-For-Profit Assisted Living Community tenary Theatre. Three student orators deliver addresses, and the dean of each School and do, along with great restaurants and regional history through a range of archi- Harvard Extension School Annual Com- • Special Memory Support • Two Acres of Secure Gardens introduces the candidates for their respective degrees, which the president then con- Neighborhood and Walking Paths cafés. Some suggestions: val materials. mencement Banquet, at 6. Tickets required. fers. Toward the conclusion of the ceremony the graduating seniors are asked to rise, • Daily Fitness and Social Events • Private Studios now available Good Harbor and Wingaersheek From there, it’s easy to walk to restau- Annenberg Hall. and their degrees are conferred on them as a group by the president. Honorary Degrees • A Warm, Inclusive Community • * Short Term Stays Available Beaches. Both have alluring sandy ex- rants, shops, and the harbor. Pleasant are then conferred before the Exercises are adjourned. panses, rocks to climb at low tide—and Street Tea Co. serves lunch, smoothies, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 COME FOR A VISIT. MEET OUR STAFF. crowds. Best to arrive early, or late. and caffeine, or stroll farther, up Main ROTC Commissioning Ceremony, at 10:30, Diploma-granting Ceremonies and Luncheons: Graduates and their guests EXPERIENCE165 CHESTNUT STREET,THE COMMUNITY. BROOKLINE WWW.GODDARDHOUSE.ORG Rocky Neck Cultural District. Street, to the lively local favorite Lee’s with President Faust and a guest speaker. return to their respective undergraduate Houses or graduate and professional Schools. A Not-For Profit LANCE CHAPMAN AT 617-731-8500 EXT. 105 Cape Ann has long drawn artists, from Diner. For creative cuisine and cocktails, Tercentenary Theatre. Assisted Living Community Harvard and Radcliffe College alumni/ae who have celebrated their 50th Reunion are Winslow Homer to Milton Avery. Cur- try Franklin Cape Ann, Short and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public invited to join the Tree Spread luncheon, while all other alumni may pre-purchase tick- • Soil Tending rent art-makers regularly mount exhibits, Main, or Tonno. And don’t miss stops at Health Convocation at 11, with Mary Rob- ets for boxed lunches at the Alumni Spread in Harvard Yard. • Progressive Minded open their studios, and hold other special both Dogtown Bookshop—where pro- inson, LL.M. ’68, LL.D. ’98, former president The Afternoon Program • Inclusive Culture events. prietor Bob Ritchie presides over thou- of the Republic of Ireland and United Na- features an address by Harvard President Drew Gilpin • Socially Engaging Cape Ann Museum is downtown. sands of used, rare, antique, and out-of- tions High Commissioner for Human Rights. Faust and the Commencement speaker. Officially called the Annual Meeting of the Har- • Intellectually Stimulating “Harold Rotenberg: An American Im- print books—and, two doors down, Main HMS Quad. vard Alumni Association, this program includes the Overseer and HAA director election results, presentations of the Harvard Medal, and remarks by the HAA president. 165 CHESTNUT STREET, BROOKLINE pressionist” (through June 17) features Street Arts and Antiques, which holds Senior Class Day Picnic, at noon. Tickets WWW.GODDARDHOUSE.ORG vibrant, textured works by the local art- something unique for everyone. required. The Old Yard. —The Harvard Commencement Office and The Harvard Alumni Association CALL LANCE CHAPMAN AT Senior Class Day Exercises, at 2, with 617-731-8500 EXT. 105

12R May - June 2018 Harvard Magazine 12S Harvard Squared HARVARD COMMENCEMENT & REUHarvardNION GSquaredUIDE the Harvard and Ivy Orations, remarks 2:30, with guest speaker Carla Harris ’84, by incoming Harvard Alumni Association M.B.A. ’87, managing director, investment from 11:30 (time varies by school). sion producer and writer, and HMS lecturer president Margaret Wang ’09, and a guest management at Morgan Stanley. Baker GSAS Luncheon and Reception, 12 to 3. on global health and medicine. HMS Quad. speaker. Tickets required. Tercentenary Lawn. Tickets required. Behind Perkins Hall. Theatre. Graduate School of Design Class Day, College Diploma Presentation Ceremo- FRIDAY, MAY 25 Harvard Kennedy School Commence- at 4, with Paola Antonelli, author, editor, nies and Luncheons, at noon. The Under- Radcliffe Day opens with a morning pan- ment Address, at 2, by Ohio governor John and senior curator of the department of ar- graduate Houses. el discussion, “Toward a New Global Ar- R. Kasich. JFK Memorial Park. chitecture and design at the Museum of Alumni Procession, 1:45. The Old Yard. chitecture? America’s Role in a Changing Law School Class Day, 2:30, with a fea- Modern Art. Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall. The Annual Meeting of the Harvard World,” moderated by Nicholas Burns, tured speaker. Holmes Field. Divinity School Multireligious Com- Alumni Association (HAA): The Com- Goodman Family professor of the practice Business School Class Day Ceremony, mencement Service for the Class of 2018 mencement Afternoon Program, 2:30, in- of diplomacy and international relations. at 4. Memorial Church. cludes remarks by HAA president Susan The panelists are foreign-policy experts Graduate School of Arts Morris Novick ’85, President Faust, and Michèle Flournoy ’83, a former undersec-

and Sciences Dudley House HARRISON JIM Commencement speaker John Lewis; Over- retary of defense; Washington Post columnist Faculty Dean’s Reception, seer and HAA director election results; and David Ignatius ’72; Kirkpatrick professor of 4-6. THURSDAY, MAY 24 Harvard Medal presentations. Tercentenary the practice of international affairs Meghan Harvard T.H. Chan School Commencement Day. Gates open at 6:45. Theatre. O’Sullivan; and political scientist Anne-Ma- of Public Health Award Pre- Academic Procession, 8:50. The Old Yard. Medical and Dental Schools Class Day rie Slaughter, J.D. ’85, who served in the State sentation and Celebration, The 367th Commencement Exercises, Ceremony. Ticketed luncheon at noon, fol- Department under Hillary Clinton. 4-7. Kresge Courtyard. 9:45 (concluding at 11:45). Tickets required. lowed by a speech, at 2, by Neal Baer, Ed.M. During the luncheon that follows (12:30-

Faculty Deans’ Receptions Tercentenary Theatre. ’79, A.M. ’82, M.D. ’96, pediatrician, televi- 2), former Secretary of State Clinton is to HARRISON JIM for seniors and guests, at 5. All Alumni Spread, 11:30. Tickets re- receive the 2018 Radcliffe Medal. Former ets are required, and the events will be web- The Undergraduate Houses. quired. The Old Yard. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (the cast live at radcliffe.harvard.edu. Follow @harvardmagazine for Harvard University Band, The Tree Spread, for the College classes colorful on-the-scene updates 2001 Radcliffe Medalist) will deliver a per- For updates on Commencement week Harvard Glee Club, and Rad- through 1967, 11:30. Tickets required. Holden from Commencement week. sonal tribute to Clinton, and a three-way and related activities, visit alumni.harvard. cliffe Choral Society Concert, Quadrangle. #Harvard18 conversation with Massachusetts Attorney edu/annualmeeting or commencement.

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Latest Arrivals Stellar restaurants in and around Cambridge by nell porter brown NATASHA MOUSTACHE NATASHA BRYAN GATEB Clockwise from top center: Pammy’s “Spaghetti 2.3” and jewel-box interior; mussels served in the plush Les Sablons dining room; Italian-style octopus ERIK JACOBS PHOTOGRAPHY at Benedetto, at the Charles Hotel

excels, matter when the goal is to make diners happy. Polished, caramel-colored plush, fancy spots to leather banquettes and tables line the casual stop-ins, these white-painted brick walls; potted fronds, restaurants are eager textured globe chandeliers, and a queen- to feed a range of local sized gilt-framed mirror reflecting convivial appetites. subjects soften the room’s spareness. The EMILY HAGEN EMILY Pammy’s, between waitress who set down our plate of “Spa- ailing into Commencement Week Harvard and Central Squares, must be the ghetti 2.3” ($19) described the “cured po- and longer days to follow likely prettiest (www.pammyscambridge.com). modoro” sauce: tomatoes immersed in soy means more gatherings with friends Flowers are always in bloom on a long com- sauce and rice-wine vinegar for a day, then S and evenings out on the town. If the munal table, amid glistening glassware so dehydrated, then soaked again, with honey usual bistros and bars don’t beckon, look to well-designed it feels naturally snug in the added, before they’re slow-roasted to con- some of the newer restaurants around. From hand. Details like that, at which Pammy’s dense the flavors. “It’s so simple,” she said,

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