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Civil-rights leader and visiting USA professor Bob Moses Campus Notebook 12 Plan B for Ph.D.s • Daniel Ellsberg Is an Israel-Palestine peace deal still possible? 24 speaks on campus • University halts Princeton professor Daniel Kurtzer has served as ambassador to both new HEI investments • Bridge-year Israel and Egypt. He’s an optimist — but a realist, too. program grows • Update on graduate- By Griff Witte ’00 alumni relations • Naacho dance troupe celebrates anniversary • FYI: Daybreak of the digital age 28 Findings • FACULTY BOOKSHELF: Democracy works • FROM PRINCETON’S VAULT: A Tiger Alan Turing *38 lay down one day and imagined the computer. on the Titanic • ON THE CAMPUS: Grad This spring, the world celebrates that accomplishment and all that student is spoken-word poet • Students followed. mount mental-health activities • More By W. Barksdale Maynard ’88 Sports 20 Women’s basketball in NCAAs • EXTRA POINT: From Princeton to fighting on the ice • Sports shorts What’s n ew @ PAW ONLINE Perspective 23 The race to a top college starts early FIRST GENERATION Gregg By Tamara Sorell ’81 Read about Princeton’s Lange ’70’s early history of computing, Alumni Scene 34 Rally ’Round including Professor Alonzo Jay Famiglietti *92 tracks a vital the Cannon Church ’24 *27. resource: water • STARTING OUT: Sam Finding parallels in Dean Gulland ’10 • TIGER PROFILE: Moshe Mathey 1912 and Jay Pritsker *05 creates video journal for WATER WATCH Sherrerd ’52, two modest scientists • READING ROOM: David Treuer See Jay Famiglietti *92 explain trustees who helped

UNIVERSITY Princeton flourish. ’92 writes about life on Indian reserva- / how satellites track under- tions • New releases ground aquifers. ANDERSON Class Notes 37 A. SCHAEFER

DANIEL NAACHO AT 10 Memorials 57 BEVERLY View videos from the Indian Princeton Exchange 61 ARCHIVES; dance troupe’s first decade. UNIVERSITY Final Scene 64 WOJCIECHOWSKI;

FRANK Try our PDF version of ON THE COVER: Woodrow Wilson School professor and former PRINCETON SPRING SPORTS IRVINE; ambassador Daniel Kurtzer. Photography by Peter Murphy. TOP: Kevin Whitaker ’13 covers this issue — and share FROM the latest headlines from your feedback — at CALIFORNIA, PHOTOS, OF Tiger teams. paw.princeton.edu THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Classrooms Without Borders f I were a student at Princeton, there is nothing I would language instruction, field trips to other communities and sites rather do in the summer of my freshman or sophomore of national significance, and the knowledge one accrues from year than enroll in a Global Seminar. These once-in-a-life- simply living in a different country, we have an educational ad- time opportunities lie at the heart of our commitment to venture that is at once immersive, intensive, and transformative. Igive every undergraduate a chance to weave an international ex- As one participant put it, “I think that this course profoundly perience into his or her education. In a rapidly shrinking world, affected both my personal and academic development, and I am Princeton’s goal is to “produce globally competent citizens” who so glad to have taken it.” have the substantive knowledge, cultural sensitivity, linguistic These sentiments have been echoed by students and faculty skills, and practical savoir faire to thrive in societies that differ alike as seminars have multiplied, spreading outward from from their own. And while there are many ways of developing Vietnam to encompass 16 countries on four continents — from these strengths, Global Seminars are designed to do so in an Germany to Brazil; from Ghana to China. To date, more exceptionally holistic fashion. than 300 Princetonians have taken a Global Seminar, enrich- Sponsored and subsidized by the Princeton Institute for ing their summers without impinging on their time on cam- International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), these six-week, pus — a concern that, in the past, has deterred some members credit-bearing summer courses enable members of our faculty of our student body from studying abroad. And in a couple of and small groups of freshmen and sophomores to explore a months, 75 additional students will probe a host of fascinating topic of mutual interest in situ, be it Irish theater in Ireland, questions in the places that gave rise to them. Indian art and architecture in India, or Zen Buddhism in Japan. Some will accompany Assistant Professor of Spanish and Princeton’s first Global Seminar in the summer of 2007 was Portuguese Languages and Cultures Bruno Carvalho to Rio de conceived by former diplomat and PIIRS Advisory Council Janeiro, where they will examine different representations of member Desaix Anderson ’58, whose 35-year Foreign Service this celebrated city and competing visions for its future at the career culminated in the re-opening of the American embassy in intersection of disparate cultural and modernizing forces. An- Vietnam in 1995. Under his deft direction, 14 students traveled other group, led by Michael Cadden and Timothy Vasen, who to Hanoi to study the “origins, implications, and consequences” head the Lewis Center for the Arts and our Program in Theater, of the Vietnam War and, more broadly, America’s place in the respectively, will travel to Athens to study, observe, and perform world today. the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. Students are promised “a total immersion in the vibrant, chaotic, contradictory, very old and very new world of Greek theater,”

GILSON something that not even the most creative Princeton-based course could replicate. ERIKA Still another seminar, taught by Professor of East Asian Stud- ies David Leheny, will examine the challenges confronting Japan in the wake of last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, as well as the effect of this disaster on Japanese self-understanding in the context of the country’s postwar narrative. And a conti- nent away, Professor Şükrü Hanioğlu, who chairs our Department of Near Eastern Studies, and Senior Lecturer in Turkish Erika Gilson will join forces to introduce our students to 16 centuries of Byzantine and Ottoman history in Istanbul, noting that, ultimately, the city “itself becomes the classroom.” Finally, Professor of History Jan Gross will hold a seminar One of the highlights of the 2010 Global Seminar, “Islam, Empire, and in Kraków that explores the life of Poland’s Jews before, dur- Modernity: Turkey from the Caliphs to the 21st Century,” was a week in Cairo, where students visited the Muhammad Ali Mosque. ing, and after the Holocaust. Students will live in the city’s old Jewish quarter and, among other ﬁeld trips, visit the Auschwitz As with later seminars, Desaix’s was designed to introduce concentration camp, which played its own terrible part in the participants to points of view unlikely to be heard as fully, if at destruction of Poland’s Jewish population, formerly the second all, at Princeton. Accordingly, half the daily lectures were given largest in the world. by resident scholars and other representatives of Vietnamese It is not surprising that three times as many students apply to society, ranging from a former general to a prominent writer. participate in a Global Seminar as can be accommodated, and we This seminar also established a pattern for subsequent offerings are therefore seeking to endow and expand this program. I look by including a handful of local students in its activities, thus forward to the day when there is room for all in what Dean of creating opportunities for cross-cultural exchanges, and by in- the College Valerie Smith has rightly called “one of the high- corporating small-scale public service projects. In Vietnam, our lights of the Princeton undergraduate experience.” students helped schoolchildren improve their English-language skills, widened a rural road, and scraped and painted a building serving those adversely affected by the use of Agent Orange in the Vietnam War. When to these activities are added daily

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Inbox BUZZ BOX Inbox Debating legitimacy, care “After many years of hard work and dedication by of Princeton’s mosaics the wrestling community, it is so much more satisfying Every story, letter, and memorial at to see the program back on its feet and finishing paw.princeton.edu offers a chance to comment ‘the reversal.’” — Chris Thatcher ’93 The March 7 cover story on Princeton’s excava- Wrestling’s reversal the future seemed doomed), were cer- tion of ancient mosaics tainly tough for all P.U. wrestling fans. from Antioch and a I enjoyed reading the Feb. 8 Extra But now, after many years of hard work related slide show at Point column by Merrell Noden ’78, and dedication by the wrestling com- PAW Online drew com- “Wrestlers go from flat on their backs munity, it is so much more satisfying to ments from readers. to a comeback,” so much that I carried see the program back on its feet and “A s we read of art it around with me for two weeks. I was finishing “the reversal,” as the article’s destruction and looting in some Mid- the wrestling team captain in 1993, author stated. dle Eastern countries today, we can be when the program was proposed to be The “relentless scrappers” (wrestlers, grateful to [Professor Charles] Morey downsized and/or cut from the varsity coaches, students, parents, fans, and and his colleagues for their good work level. Our team members, inspired by alumni) have been patiently, but opti- in the ’30s,” wrote DAVID FARMER *65 *81, the amazing support of the wrestling mistically, waiting more than 15 years “and for doing the digging and export alumni (spearheaded by H. Clay for this “reversal”: Two points scored. legally!” McEldowney ’69), worked very hard CHRIS THATCHER ’93 EMIN GUN SIRER ’93 said PAW failed to coordinating a number of activities Blairstown, N.J. note that “Syria and Antioch were that spring, including designing and under French occupation at the time. distributing “Save Princeton Wrestling” The legitimacy of any such grant is buttons, T-shirts, and posters for the P- Defending the protesters highly questionable.” He added: “These rade, and the unprecedented 24-hour mosaics belong under the Mediter- wrestling marathon. This epic event Bravo to Alex Barnard ’09 for his elo- ranean sun, where they were created — P had at least two people wrestling at all quent explanation of why we need and not in New Jersey.” 5 times, but also many other activities. I have an Occupy movement (Perspec- Noting a “crumbling mosaic that had should have been finishing my thesis, tive, March 7). He is quite right that been damaged by weather and neglect” but instead I was up most of the night our society has been much harmed by at Princeton, ROBIN MARTIN ’75 asked taking part in a historic occasion! laws that encourage irresponsible risk- “how can priceless mosaics be left out- I can’t recall if the wrestlers have taking in the banking sector (laws side?” and wondered about the fate of had a full-page article in PAW since passed because of this sector’s undue exhibits from Guyot Hall’s natural his- 1989, so it was very rewarding to see influence on government policy), and tory museum. “The administration one in the recent issue. The “dark years” that institutions of higher learning must catalog all museum-quality items of the mid-1990s, when Eric Pearson should think seriously about what it given to Princeton over the years, and ’87 was interim coach (putting his means to endorse institutions that pur- curate them properly,” Martin said. “real” career on hold and possibly hav- sue profit at the expense of the public ing the most difficult two years ever, as good — an endorsement that by impli-

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FROM THE EDITOR cation includes an endorsement of these practices themselves. Dodds Auditorium was packed last November when SUSAN BERNOFSKY *98 New York, N.Y. professors Daniel Kurtzer and Amaney Jamal gave presentations on the prospects for peace between Israel and Palestine. The dictators in Egypt and Libya were gone, the uprising in Syria still growing. Attention turned to the Israeli-Palestinian con- Protecting linguistic diversity flict: Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit recently had been released from Hamas captivity, Fatah had failed in its United Nations bid for statehood, and Hamas and Fatah I wish Olivia Waring ’12 success in her were holding talks on reconciliation. What next? study of Tibetan dialects as a Sachs Kurtzer — the former U.S. ambassador to both Egypt and Israel — spoke first. scholar (Campus Notebook, Jan. 18). He told his students that they were required to stay only for the first 15 seconds of Ironically, the “homogenization” that his talk, as that’s all the time it would take to sum up the situation. Then he played she wrings her hands about is directly 15 seconds of a famous Monty Python “Silly Olympics” sketch: the 100-meter dash attributable to the study of linguistics for people with no sense of direction. The runners line up. They jump up and that she loves so much. As Patrick down, stretch, and make all sorts of preparations. A gun starts the race and the run- Geary notes in The Myth of Nations, ners take off — going forward, backward, in circles. “The infinite gradations of broad lin- Kurtzer is one of two former U.S. ambassadors on the Woodrow Wilson School guistic groups in Europe were chopped faculty, along with Barbara Bodine, former ambassador to Yemen. They bring their up by scientific rules into separate lan- practitioners’ skills to the ivory tower — both the inside knowledge gained over guages,” leading directly to standard- years in the Foreign Service, and a knack for expressing themselves with clarity and ized languages in 19th-century Europe. humor. One might think that an ambassador to the Middle East would have to be Geary estimates that only about half an optimist, and as Griff Witte ’00 writes in his profile of Kurtzer on page 24, he is. of those living in France in 1900 spoke But neither he nor Jamal expected to see much progress soon. And by March, it French. More recently, China’s National seemed clear they were right: The eyes that once focused on Israel and Palestine ! ! ! Language Commission revealed in had moved on, to Iran. 2005 that only 53 percent of the popu- — Marilyn H. Marks *86 lace could speak Mandarin. It is not English that overwhelms linguistic P diversity in places like the Philippines 6 and Indonesia, but rather the respective

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assessment of their leadership skills” ton.edu/projects/islamic/index.html. — the amazing collection of coins that (Campus Notebook, Feb. 8), was an The “Moment With” Jack Bogle ’51 is part of the library’s numismatic col- erroneous interpretation of data show- reminded me that University archivist lection: http://www.princeton.edu/~ ing 58 percent of men vs. 45 percent of Dan Linke was fortunate enough to rbsc/department/numismatics/. women thinking they are in the top of acquire his papers some years ago for BEN PRIMER their class with regard to leadership. the Mudd Manuscript Library. Associate University Librarian How about: “Women were more realis- “From Princeton’s Vault,” on the stu- Rare Books and Special Collections tic than men in assessing their leader- dent artwork that went to the World’s Princeton University Library ship skills”? Columbian Exposition, reminded me LIZA HALLORAN ’87 how the magnificent drawings got to Ottawa Hills, Ohio Mudd. In 1990, someone suggested that For the record I ask Steve Slaby for his papers, since he had been a campus activist during his PAW’s March 7 cover story about the In Princeton’s collections years as a professor of graphics and Antioch excavations, “Dig of the cen- engineering. When I went to his office, tury,” did not mention all the people I’d like to add some information to I noticed the drawings on his wall and who had major roles in the expedi- articles in the March 7 issue. First, I suggested that — in addition to his tions, particularly art and archaeology appreciated the mention in the Presi- papers — these framed drawings professor George W. Elderkin, who dent’s Page of the Pathé Baby project belonged at the Archives. He agreed, directed the initial expedition in 1932. for graphic arts that Lynn Shostack and I carried them across Olden Street Elderkin also edited a book about the w’69 supported. Lynn’s first project to Mudd and hung them there. excavations, Antioch-on-the-Orontes. He enabled the library to catalog and digi- For information on the Bogle and joined the Princeton faculty in 1910, tize its collection of Islamic manu- Slaby papers, use the search field at retiring in 1948. Subsequent directors scripts, the largest in North America. http://findingaids.princeton.edu/. were Clarence Fisher and William We now have online-catalog records for Finally, W. Barksdale Maynard ’88’s Campbell. almost all of the manuscripts, and PAW article on the Antioch expeditions readers can see the most important leaves out another important benefit of Every story, letter, and memorial at manuscripts here: http://library.prince- Princeton’s leadership of the expedition paw.princeton.edu offers a chance to comment. P 7

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Each Alumni Day at the luncheon in Jadwin Gym, the Chair of the Alumni Council speaks to the assembled multitude about the business of the Council. For space considerations, what appears below is somewhat abridged, but I hope that the message still comes through!

Henry Von Kohorn '66 President, Alumni Association of Princeton University Chair, Alumni Council

Anyone who is paying attention knows that when Alumni; learn how to participate in a service project; it comes to alumni engagement, Princeton is the sign up to interview prospective students; or access envy of its peers. Name your metric – turnout at a library of more than 200 videos and lectures for Reunions, participation in Annual Giving, a taste of Princeton academics no matter where interviewing candidates for admission, attendance in the world they may live. at special events like the Coming Back conferences We embrace inclusiveness with the deep belief for black alumni and the She Roars gathering for that all Princetonians add value. The more alumni women alums – Princeton outshines everyone. we engage, the better our Reunions, the better our Nonetheless, there are some alumni who are not regional events, the better our conferences. We engaged. To these we say, we are all Princetonians; want all alumni to talk up Princeton when they we are all part of the family. meet a talented high school student; to lend a The Alumni Council’s goal for this term – and hand to a fellow Princetonian who is new to an beyond, we hope – is to help make all alumni area; to consider a fellow alum for a job. feel included. If somehow an alum doesn’t feel Through these activities and more, we hope to connected to Princeton, we want to reach out. develop among all alumni a sense of belonging A number of initiatives are already underway to and mutual respect; to make everyone feel welcome further our goal of inclusiveness, with more to and comfortable; to express in every way that each come. We have major conferences upcoming for alumnus has a unique contribution to make; and that LGBT, graduate, and black alumni. For the past few his or her participation in whatever form is essential years, we have sponsored Global NetNights, in to our overall success. We hope that our initiatives which regional associations throughout the world will result in broader alumni engagement – to the hold career and social networking events on the same day. We have put in place a new Alumni this effort in any way you can. Association Web site, from which any Princeton Alumni Day group, or the Association of Princeton Graduate February 25, 2012 11paw0404_Moment_NotebookTest4 3/16/12 10:14 PM Page 11

A moment with . . . Civil-rights leader Bob Moses, on education We have been what might happen today or tomorrow. running“ an education system that is driving Martin Luther King Jr. has been ele- a caste system. vated into the pantheon of American heroes. Is singling out one person a dis- Fifty years ago, Robert Parris” Moses was service to the movement? field secretary for the Student Nonviolent America has always elevated Coordinating Committee (SNCC), traveling individuals around the major events through Mississippi to register black voters. facing the country. That’s not a dis- In 1964, he organized the Freedom Summer service — it’s what America does, project and helped form the Mississippi but it shouldn’t be only what Amer- Freedom Democratic Party, which sought to ica does. It’s usable if people decide seat black delegates at the Democratic to use it. You can use King to talk National Convention. Almost 20 years later, about the issues that he was trying Moses used a MacArthur Fellowship to to address and their current mani- create the Algebra Project, which focuses festation. on improving minority education in math. He is a visiting lecturer on campus this year, You’ve done a lot involving education. co-teaching a course with Professor Tera What is behind the Algebra Project? Hunter called “Liberating Literacy.” In Mississippi in the 1960s, we worked to get sharecrop- pers to demand their right to vote and then act on that P Tell me about your class. demand. The Algebra Project, at its core, is trying to do the 11 We have been trying to form a narrative about the country same thing around education, using math. How do you get connecting work, education, the Constitution, and issues students to demand their rights? dealing with civil rights and justice during the era before, during, and right after the Civil War. For example, we have How do you do that? been reading an article in The Yale Law Journal by Judge The Algebra Project targets the bottom quartile. As Goodwin Liu, who argues that the citizenship clause of the opposed to looking for the math talent, it tries to find the 14th Amendment provides a constitutional right to an educa- math floor. Now, we either forget about students at the bot- tion. We have had lectures by professors who have done origi- tom or try to remediate them to death. We’re looking at what nal research on freed people’s conceptions of work and math to teach and how to teach it so those students might be education during Reconstruction. willing to do it.

Do your students know much about the civil-rights movement? Why has the racial disparity in educational performance been so Most of the young students don’t know about SNCC. hard to overcome? There’s a made-up story about the civil-rights movement that We have been running an education system that is driving parallels the made-up story about the country. It revolves a caste system. We agree to have failing schools with the around Martin Luther King Jr. and the idea that there were caveat that we also have a plethora of programs to rescue dif- some big demonstrations — the March on Washington, ferent categories of students from them. Almost every pro- Birmingham, the march from Selma to Montgomery — and gram you can think of — charter schools, vouchers, that in response to those media events, the country shifted. affirmative action — all rescue different categories of stu- The problem for young people is that this narrative doesn’t dents. We can’t announce that as an education policy, but explain how they can enter into a struggle about the major that’s what we do. issues the country currently faces. It overlooks the importance of people like Ella Baker, who brought together young Is there any place in America that presents a model of the society people who had been organizing sit-ins in out-of-the-way you would like to see? places around the South. That led to the creation of SNCC, If there are any, I haven’t lived in them. Put it that way. π DELIERRE/FOTOBUDDY but that part of the story is rarely told. You have to under-

BERNARD stand what actually happened then in order to understand — Interview conducted and condensed by Mark F. Bernstein ’83

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Campusnotebook Web exclusives and breaking news @ paw.princeton.edu Ending the stigma of jobs outside academia for Ph.D.s Last fall, Princeton history professor Anthony Grafton took graduate schools to task for failing to adjust to a grim reality of the job market — that many history Ph.D.s will not be able to land a job in academia. Kjell Wangensteen GS In The Chronicle of Higher Education, sics, and religion, Grafton told PAW in about the situation.” The graduate Grafton wrote that despite a decades- March — where a nonacademic job school is concerned about this issue, long slide in the number of faculty often is perceived as a second-place Russel said, and is supporting depart- positions, “graduate programs have accomplishment for those who don’t ments that invite alumni to discuss been achingly reluctant to see the achieve the brass ring, a tenure-track their nonacademic careers. So far, the world as it is. ... The goal of training teaching position. In the sciences and English, molecular biology, and politics remains the same: to produce more social sciences, he said, working in departments have held such events. professors. ... We warn [students] to industry is more common and not stig- Lending urgency to the issue is “a very develop a ‘Plan B’ in case they do not matized. Grafton called on universities challenging job market for new Ph.D.s find a teaching post. And the very to change their training and career in humanities for the last two decades,” words in which we couch this useful preparation to better equip students for said John Curtis, research director for

P advice make clear how much we hope life outside academia. the American Association of University BEVERLY they will not have to follow it.” William Russel, dean of the graduate Professors. In the last decade, many retir-

12 SCHAEFER The issue applies to many fields in school, said Grafton’s article “made a ing faculty have not been replaced, or the humanities — such as English, clas- strong and constructive statement their positions have become non-

S Ellsberg defends release of secret files to WikiLeaks Princeton won’t invest more in W In a campus talk March 8, Daniel Ellsberg Daniel Ellsberg — who in 1971 released the top-secret Pen- hospitality firm E tagon Papers detailing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War — defended the Army The University will stop making additional N intelligence analyst charged with releasing investments in HEI Hospitality, a Connecticut- secret military logs and State Department based hotel-investment firm. The decision fol-

E cables to WikiLeaks. lows three years of campus debate about “I identify very much with [Pfc.] Bradley whether the company has engaged in unfair H Manning,” Ellsberg told a capacity audience labor practices, but Andrew Golden, president

T in Dodds Auditorium. “Despite the stress of of the Princeton University Investment Co. his position, he did the right thing.” (Princo), told The Daily Princetonian that the Ellsberg offered his views in a conversation with journalist Bart Gellman ’82, decision not to reinvest was based only on

F a Woodrow Wilson School visiting lecturer. Gellman pointed out that WikiLeaks business reasons. “It would be absolutely

SCHOOL has been criticized for indiscriminately providing information that endangered wrong to infer that Princo had concluded that O covert operatives and fueled terrorist operations. But Ellsberg defended Julian HEI was out of compliance with regulations or WILSON Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, as merely playing the role of a publisher. Ellsberg industry standards,” he said.

WOODROW said he does not agree with all of Assange’s methods, but said there is no evidence The University is not withdrawing its previous P of harm to individuals as a result of the documents’ release. investments in HEI, spokesman Martin Mbugua

O Noting the Obama administration’s crackdown on government leaks, Ellsberg said. Brown, Yale, and the University of Pennsyl-

LEVANTI/COURTESY predicted that Congress would pass an Official Secrets Act if the Supreme Court vania also have halted further investments in T

LARRY overturns recent prosecutions. By Abby Greene ’13 the company.

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There’s a kind of willful dents in believing they will get teach- positions, 16 percent had postdoctoral ing jobs, said Kjell Wangensteen, who is fellowships, and 58 percent held teach- naiveté“ among many a Ph.D. student in Princeton’s art and ing positions, most in higher educa- entering” graduate students archaeology department and the outgo- tion. Nineteen percent did not have in believing they will get ing communications director for the jobs. But postdocs usually last one or Graduate Student Government. “People two years, and teaching positions also teaching jobs. Kjell Wangensteen GS say, ‘The economy is going to improve may be short-term. by the time I graduate.’” “It has become harder for students to tenure-track jobs, said Maggie Debelius Those students who do look for non - win a tenure-track job directly upon *00, co-author with Susan Basalla May academic positions may be propelled taking the Ph.D.,” said Princeton clas- *97 of So What Are You Going to Do With by factors in addition to the job market: sics professor Robert Kaster. “It has That? Finding Careers Outside Academia. Academics have long hours, frequent become more common for people even Debelius worked at a dotcom after relocations, and a lack of job security. at top programs like ours to serve a earning her Ph.D. in English and is But many students feel nonacademic kind of extended apprenticeship, now at Georgetown in a non-tenure- careers carry a stigma, said Debelius, spending two to three years in one or track position. “There just aren’t who interviewed hundreds of Ph.D.s another temporary position.” enough jobs to go around,” she said. for her book: Students who acknowl- Grafton wants universities to better Teaching-job openings for new Eng- edged applying for both academic and prepare students for nonacademic jobs lish Ph.D.s declined by 45 percent from nonacademic positions feared that by broadening the curriculum, adding 2009 to 2011, said Professor Deborah “advisers would be less likely to write a workshops exploring the working Nord, director of graduate studies for glowing recommendation or make that world, offering digital technology, and Princeton’s English department. “We try extra phone call if they feel the student encouraging internships. This spring, to alert [our students] to the realities of is not devoted to the profession.” his department will offer a weeklong the job market,” she said. But “it would Solid statistics about the careers in “boot camp” focusing on history as be inappropriate and destructive, I which humanities Ph.D.s end up are practiced at museums, historical soci- think, to coax them out of the profes- hard to find because many doctoral eties, and libraries. While many of sion once we have admitted them.” The programs do not collect comprehensive Grafton’s former students teach, he issue is more dire for those without a data. At Princeton, Ph.D. students are said, others work at foundations and degree from “an elite institution” such surveyed just before graduation, but educational testing companies. P as Princeton, she said. that snapshot can be deceiving. The The Office of Career Services offers 13 “There’s a kind of willful naiveté” 2011 survey found just 6 percent of panels for graduate students on among many entering graduate stu- humanities Ph.D.s took nonacademic continues on page 14

Bridge-year program expands, changes sites

The 3-year-old bridge-year program, which allows incoming freshmen to defer their enrollment for a year and spend nine months participating in service abroad, will expand from 20 to 28 students this fall. In another change, students will be placed in China and Senegal, replacing Serbia and Ghana. The program will continue to operate in Varanasi, India, and Urubamba, Peru. Students traveling to China will spend the year in the city of Kunming working with health, education, and environmental organizations and studying Mandarin. In Senegal, students will volunteer with envi- FRANK ronmental conservation, health care, and Naacho celebrates a decade of dance WOJCIECHOWSKI refugee-support groups, and will study the Naacho, a student group that performs Indian dance, marked its 10th anniversary March 1–3 Wolof language. Sixty students have partici- in the Frist Campus Center theater with “Yaadein,” a production that mixed styles including pated since the bridge-year program began Bollywood, folk, and classical dance. in 2009. paw.princeton.edu • April 4, 2012 Princeton Alumni Weekly 12-19paw0404_Notebook_NotebookTest4 3/16/12 9:21 PM Page 14

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Ph.D.s continued from page 13 nonacademic careers, such as in higher- For students, health tips from Dr. Oz education administration, and work- Saying he knows “what shops on translating an academic’s Princeton life is like” as lengthy CV into a shorter résumé. a Princeton parent and Marketing yourself for nonacademic uncle, Dr. Mehmet Oz — jobs is “kind of a professional reinven- surgeon, talk-show host, tion,” said Christopher Moses-Jenkins and author — told *10, who is dean of students at Brook- students March 8 his lyn’s Berkeley Carroll School. Inter- prescriptions for mental views mean talking to “an audience and physical health. that doesn’t really care about confer- Speaking to a full ence papers in the same way,” he said. house in McCosh 50, Oz But for current graduate students, touched on issues of the biggest struggle may be feeling addiction (“you need to comfortable revealing their interest in a prove to people that nonacademic career, Wangensteen said. they’re worth it”), anger “There’s a perception that advisers (“hostility breeds isola- will lose interest in your project,” he tion”), and sleep (“if you said. “What’s really needed is a more take more than 18 sleep- open acknowledgment of the impor- ing pills a year, it will tance of nonacademic career paths, affect your mortality”). which are just as legitimate as the He also acknowledged tenure track.” π By J.A. how he coped with stress as a Harvard undergraduate: “alcohol.” FYI: FINDINGS “The best example of mental illness in this P country,” Oz said, is our “weight issue,” which he connected to chronic stress. Obesity is the 14 “main health-care cost we can change,” he said, adding that “people don’t change based on what they know. People change their minds based on how they feel.” The talk was the most well-attended of a week of activities devoted to improving students’

mental well-being (see also On The Campus, page 18). Other events included mental-health DEENA

screenings, a lecture on the importance of sleep, free fitness classes, and stress-relieving WELDE “cookie events” offered by 22 departments. By F.H. and Giri Nathan ’13 Does getting beget giving? Not necessarily, at least for those who receive financial aid. That was a finding of a paper that examined the correla- tion between alumni giving and receiv- IN BRIEF recognizes innovative and interdiscipli- ing three types of financial aid: campus nary research. Botstein shares the $1 jobs, scholarships, and loans. Having a The University’s GENDER-NEUTRAL HOUSING million prize in the “future” category campus job bore no significant relation program, implemented in 2010, is with Eric Lander ’78 (see page 35) and to postgraduation giving. Scholarship expanding to allow 278 students to par- J. Craig Venter for their contributions recipients gave with the same frequency ticipate next year. The program, which to genome research; Botstein was cited as non-aid recipients, but less money. was instituted in seven of the four- as “the intellectual leader of genomics And student-loan recipients gave less person suites in Spelman Halls, will since its inception.” The prize is frequently and gave less. The study, by add rooms in Scully, 1901-Laughlin, endowed by the Dan David Founda- Princeton economics professor Harvey and Foulke halls for juniors and sen- tion and based at Tel Aviv University. Rosen and Texas A&M professor iors. The expansion will allow students Jonathan Meer ’02, used data from an to choose from a variety of room types, Former students of Civil War historian unnamed research university and con- including doubles and triples. and professor emeritus JAMES M. trolled for aid recipients’ financial abil- MCPHERSON have paid tribute to him ity to donate. The results were published DAVID BOTSTEIN, professor of genomics by writing a collection of essays titled in a working paper for the Griswold and director of Princeton’s genomics The Struggle for Equality: Essays on Sec-

VEACH Center for Economic Policy Studies in institute, is one of six researchers to tional Conflict, the Civil War, and the

STEVEN October 2011. By Nora Taranto ’13 share the 2012 Dan David Prize, which Long Reconstruction (University of

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University to invite all grad alums to campus conference in fall’13

Princeton is moving ahead with several initiatives to strengthen ties with graduate alumni, highlighted by plans to invite all grad alums to the centennial celebration of the Graduate College in the fall of 2013. The conference would be modeled after the She Roars conference, a weekend event that drew about 1,400 alumnae back to campus last spring, according to Margaret Miller ’80, assistant vice president for alumni affairs. Miller said many details are yet to be determined, including the dates, but said the University is hoping for a large turnout. Other initiatives include: • The geosciences department will hold a graduate-alumni conference April 30 to May 4 that includes a full day of faculty Rose Li *92 panels on campus and a three-day field trip to south-central Pennsylvania. The graduate school hopes three departmental reunions will be held in 2012–13, building toward a goal of six each year. • The University is adding a third staff position to its graduate alumni-relations team. Two staff members, including the lead position, will be based at the Alumni Association, and the third will be at the graduate school. • Among the goals for the increased staffing, Miller said, are expanding the contacts between grad alums and their departments, scheduling more regional events and activities, expanding contacts with international graduate alumni, and offering more events targeted to graduate alumni at Reunions and Alumni Day. • The Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni also is in transition, moving toward an advisory role that offers “strategic advice to the graduate school and the P Alumni Association,” according to Rose Li *92, APGA president. “We are very grate- 15 ful for what the University has been doing,” Li said, “but we do keep pushing because there is more to do.” The APGA is seeking to raise $100,000 by June 30 for the APGA Fund for Grad-

*92 uate Students, which supports travel for presentations at professional meetings and LI for field research. Funds will be matched on a two-for-one basis by Ann Harrison ROSE *91 and her husband, Vicente Madrigal *89; as of mid-March, Li said, the group

COURTESY was about halfway toward meeting its goal. π By W.R.O.

Virginia Press). The editors are Orville TIMOTHY DONNELLY, a visiting professor Vernon Burton *76, a history professor of creative writing who is teaching and director of the CyberInstitute at advanced poetry in the Lewis Center for Clemson University; Jerald Podair *97, the Arts this semester, has been awarded a professor of history and American the $100,000 Kingsley and Kate Tufts studies at Lawrence University; and Poetry Award for his second collection Jennifer L. Weber *03, an associate pro- of poetry, The Cloud Corporation. fessor of history at the University of Kansas. JILL DOLAN, professor in English and theater and director of the Program The University’s vice president for in Gender and Sexuality Studies, has information technology and chief received the George Jean Nathan information officer for 11 years, BETTY Award for Dramatic Criticism for her LEYDON, will retire June 30. Provost blog, The Feminist Spectator. The Christopher Eisgruber ’83, who $10,000 prize, awarded annually by described Leydon as “a nationally Cornell’s English department, recog- recognized leader in her field,” will lead nizes an outstanding work of drama a committee to find her successor. criticism. π

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Campusnotebook FACULTY BOOKSHELF: DANNY OPPENHEIMER Democracy shouldn’t work — but it does

While many people are discouraged the factors, which he says is the local to with the state of politics, Danny impossible to do when vot- the national Oppenheimer, an associate professor of ing, given the numerous level. psychology and public affairs at Prince- issues to consider. “There’s Oppen- ton, offers an ultimately optimistic view just too much to know, so heimer and of democracy in Democracy Despite there’s no way people could Edwards Itself: Why a System That Shouldn’t Work be anything but ignorant,” explore at All Works So Well (MIT Press). he says. other weak- Oppenheimer, whose research Oppenheimer finds that nesses in the examines human decision-making, factors that have little to do voting co-authored the book with Mike with a candidate’s qualifications — process, including the redrawing of Edwards, founder of the political blog such as what a candidate looks like, electoral districts to favor the incum- Leftfielder.org. They consider a para- how tall a candidate is, or how a candi- bent party, an electoral system that can dox: Democracy shouldn’t work date’s language makes people feel be arcane and confusing, and the fact

because most voters make decisions (ranging from whether, for example, a that it is impossible for leaders to sat- JON that are both irrational and ignorant; candidate says “death tax” versus “inher- isfy the varied interests of everyone ROEMER/COURTESY but in spite of this, the system not only itance tax” or uses active versus passive who voted for them. Still, Oppen- works well, it is the best system of gov- voice) — influence voting because heimer argues that democracy works in

ernment available. those factors evoke an emotional spite of these flaws and provides WOODROW By “irrational” and “ignorant,” response. He cites studies and experi- greater liberty, peace, and prosperity WILSON P Oppenheimer does not mean “crazy” ments about decision-making that than any other system. SCHOOL 16 and “stupid.” Rather, he means making measure the degree to which various Unlike governmental systems that a decision without considering all of factors influence voter behavior from suppress dissent, the authors argue,

MORE FACULTY BOOKS straight friendship.” ... THEODORE K. RABB Wilson School professor *61, a professor emeritus of history, STANLEY KATZ writes about In The Sounding of the explores how artists have depicted war what Woodrow Wilson Whale: Science and Cetaceans and warriors from 1879 would make of Prince- in the Twentieth Century antiquity to the ton today in a chapter of (University of Chicago 20th century in a The Educational Legacy of Press), which The New York color, illustrated Woodrow Wilson: From Col- Times called a “sweeping, important study titled The lege to Nation (University of Virginia study of cetacean science and policy,” Artist and the War- Press). The collection of essays explores history professor D. GRAHAM BURNETT ’93 rior: Military History Wilson’s academic career and its con- explores the history of our scientific Through the Eyes of the Masters (Yale nection to his political life and “exam- understanding of, and relationship to, University Press). ... Professor JOYCE ines the central role that Wilson played these ocean behemoths. ... In his latest CAROL OATES edited New Jersey Noir in the evolution of American higher novel, Jack Holmes & His Friend (Akashic Books), a crime anthology education,” writes James Axtell, the (Bloomsbury), creative that includes stories and poetry set in editor. Alumni contributors writing professor EDMUND New Jersey. Among the contributors are W. BRUCE LESLIE ’66 and WHITE tells the story of a are poets PAUL MULDOON and C.K. WILLIAMS JOHN MILTON COOPER JR. ’61. ... two-decade friendship and novelists SHEILA SHELDON GARON, a professor of between Jack Holmes, who KOHLER, EDMUND WHITE, history and East Asian stud- is unsure of his sexual pref- and JONATHAN SAFRAN ies, looks at how thrift has erences, and Will Wright, a FOER ’99. RICHARD been encouraged in East Southern blueblood from Princeton. TRENNER ’70 created the Asia and Europe and lessons for the The Observer called the novel an book’s cover photo- United States in Beyond Our Means: “urbane study of the geometry of gay- graph. ... Woodrow Why America Spends While the World

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democracies allow citizens the opportunity to “let off steam” through elec- From Princeton’s vault tions. The fact that democracies provide elections gives people confi- Our man on the Titanic dence in the system and encourages “flawed people and their flawed leaders to continually work toward building a better society,” they write. They argue that the greater the number of people who are involved in decision-making — voters and lawmak- ers at all levels — the more likely it is that some of the irrational, uninformed decisions will cancel each other out. The book compares democracy to the board game Clue, where each player has only a small piece of the solution, but by What: A century ago, a gaining insight from the other players famously “unsinkable” liner is able to reach the correct conclusion. took 1,500 passengers to a The book also offers suggestions for making our flawed system better, watery grave, including one including encouraging voters to be as Tiger, Stephen Blackwell informed as possible, improving the vot- 1888. His signature, above, ing process, and — most importantly survives on a Princeton form — getting more people to the polls. that sought personal infor- “A lot of people right now are down mation from alumni. Much on democracy and pessimistic about modern interest in the dis- the country,” says Oppenheimer. “And aster dates from “A Night there will be bad times. But democra- to Remember,” the best- P cies have the ability to get out of those selling 1955 book by 17 bad times.” π By Mark Syp ’05 Walter Lord ’39. A snuff wholesaler in Saves (Princeton University Press). ... Trenton, wealthy Black- In Zone One (Doubleday) by COLSON WHITEHEAD, a visiting lecturer in creative well had been morose writing, a plague ever since his young bride has devastated the succumbed to typhoid. Seeking a change of scenery, world. The story takes he sailed to Europe with Washington Roebling, among Trenton’s leading place primarily in citizens, who wanted to test-drive Fiats in France. Manhattan, where people are trying to After two delightful months, the friends sailed for home together. Blackwell rebuild civilization. bought first-class ticket No. 113784 for Cabin T, Boat Deck, R.M.S. Titanic. “Whitehead transforms the zombie novel into an allegory of contemporary As the doomed ship began to list, Roebling smiled and waved to the women Manhattan (and, by extension, Amer- and children he gallantly had assisted into lifeboats. Blackwell was last seen ica),” wrote Kirkus Reviews. ... HAL talking with Capt. E. J. Smith in the Smoking Room. University president John FOSTER ’77, a professor of art and archae- Grier Hibben 1882 later would say he was thankful Blackwell died – he surely ology, offers a new interpretation of had surrendered his place to another, and any true Princeton gentleman would Pop art by examining the work of have done the same. Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy After his drowning, Blackwell’s letters kept arriving from Europe, saying he Warhol, Gerhard finally felt happy. Richter, and Ed Ruscha RICARDO in The First Pop Age Where: Alumni Records, Princeton University Archives (Princeton University BARROS Press). By W. Barksdale Maynard ’88

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Campusnotebook ON THE CAMPUS Agrad-student ‘hypernerd’ who loves the spoken word By Greg Rosalsky GS

Buried under a mountain of reading brief poems on and coursework, it’s hard for a graduate his Twitter page, student to find time for any artistic pas- noting that the sion outside the classroom, let alone 140-character maintain a prominent arts career. limit is “great for But for performance poet Joshua parsimony.” Bennett, a first-year Ph.D. student in In 2009, Ben- English, the solution is simple. “In bed,” nett was among Bennett explained. “Almost every poem the artists invited I’ve written in bed.” to perform at the first White House In both his poems and his studies, Poetry Jam. In the audience were Bennett said, he is interested in “desta- WATCH: Joshua Bennett’s performance at President Barack Obama, First Lady bilizing certain ideas around race, reli- the White House @ paw.princeton.edu Michelle Obama ’85, and about 200 gion, disability, gender, [and] sexuality.” guests. But most of Bennett’s poems “tie Bennett achieved national fame “Spoken word is written for the back to family somehow,” he said, and through competitive “slam poetry” stage, as opposed to being written for he draws inspiration from his siblings events while he was an undergraduate the page,” Bennett said. He approaches who have disabilities. An older brother at the University of Pennsylvania. his poems as a storyteller would, has schizophrenia, his younger brother While he no longer competes, Bennett describing himself as “an Afro-futurist has autism, and his older sister is deaf; P remains an active spoken-word poet, hypernerd with a penchant for telling the poem he performed at the White 18 performing at venues around the coun- stories that end with someone falling House, “Tamara’s Opus,” is about his try. He also does hip-hop and writes in love.” struggle to communicate with her. “I

Brink, Shehzad Ukani, and Jamie Alessonforhigh-achievingTigers: Joseph to share their struggles with issues such as depression, failure, and It’s OK if you don’t always feel ‘fine’ sexual orientation — and overall, how By Vivienne Chen ’14 to reconcile happiness and health with ambitions and achievements. “I hear people say, ‘I’m going to work The common response of goal-oriented “One of the issues at Princeton is that hard, not sleep, and be miserable, but and hyperambitious Princeton students, the question ‘Where do I belong here?’ it’s only for these four years, and then ’14

CHEN throughout all their responsibilities is often framed as ‘Where do I want to I’ll be happy,’” said Gao. “But I also see and occasional setbacks, is to struggle end up?’” said USG president Bruce a lot of people graduate from Prince- VIVIENNE through and say to everyone: “I’m fine.” ton and get into super-structured career But in an intimate setting on the Fri- advancement paths — and they do the COURTESY

’12, day evening before midterms, a half- That mental pressure same thing over again.”

CHUNG dozen students acknowledged their is“ something everyone Brink told of a preceptor who began HABIN feelings of failure and anxiety, and feels, but no one talks a precept “by slamming his hands on

TOP: described how the culture of “I’m fine” the table and saying, ‘You guys have to

FROM can stigmatize those who seek help for about. be happy now. You’re never going to stress and other mental issues. happy in the future if you don’t start PHOTOS, ” The gathering was the capstone of Easop ’13. The success-driven mindset [being] happy now.’ No one else has

MAYFORTH; Mental Health Awareness Week, a leaves little room for students to enjoy ever said that to me here.”

HAL series of events sponsored by the Sus- their college experience, he said. But happiness at Princeton, students tained Dialogue student group and the Easop joined with senior Addie Dar- agreed, often is tied to accomplishments.

ILLUSTRATION: Undergraduate Student Government. ling and juniors Shirley Gao, Maia Ten “If we’re not getting graded or achiev-

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12-19paw0404_Notebook_NotebookTest4 3/16/12 9:22 PM Page 19 was raised in a family in which differ- ence was thought of in a really interesting way,” he said. Bennett, who spent a year as a Mar- shall scholar before coming to Prince- ton, plans to become a professor. 3$:OLWLFV33$$$: : O LWL F V While grateful for the intellectual 3ULQFHWRQ$OXPQL:HHNO\3ULQ FHWRQ$ OX PQ L::HHHNOO\\ training that Princeton has given him, WDNHV\RXLQVLGHWKHWDNNHH V\RXL QVLGGHHWKH Bennett sometimes finds campus life to be solitary. “I have not found an arts SUHVLGHQWLDOFDPSDLJQSUUHHVLGGHHQ WLD OF D PPS SDLLJJQ community here that is interested in spoken word, hip-hop, or aerosol art” $VSHFLDO5HXQLRQVSDQHORIDOXPQL$VSHFLDO5HXQ LRQVSDQHORIDOX PQ L — also known as graffiti — he said. MRXUQDOLVWVZLOOSURYLGHDQLQVLGHU¶VMRXUQUQD LO VWVZ OOL SURYLGHDQLQVLGHU¶V “Part of my hope is to help remake the space in certain ways.” ORRNDWWKHFDQGLGDWHVDQGWKHUDFHORRNDWWKHFDQGLGDWHVDQGWKHUDFH He will perform for the first time on the Princeton campus at an April 6 ################################## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # open-mic event he has organized at the Carl A. Fields Center For Equality and Moderator: -RHO$FKHQEDFK-RHO$FKHQEDFK¶UHSRUWHU¶UHSRUWHUU7KH:DVKLQJWRQ3RVW77KKH::DDVKLQJWWRRQ3RVW Cultural Understanding, where he is a graduate fellow. He hopes it will draw PAW-litics:PAW-litics: Saturday,Satur da yy,, JuneJun e 2 both Princeton students and New York 10:3010:3 0 am,am, McCoshMcCosh 1010 artists.

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“You don’t want to admit you have had any missteps, because everyone else around you seems to have made none of the same mistakes,” said Joseph. “That mental pressure is something ǯ everyone feels, but no one talks about.” Ukani agreed, saying if there were ǦǦ ǡ ǡ one message he’d like to get across to Ȉ the student body, it would be that Ǣ Ǣ “there is absolutely nothing wrong Ȉǯ ǦǨ Ǥ with not feeling so composed and per- ǣǤǤȀ fect. It is OK to not feel fine.” π ͳǦͺͲͲǦͶ͸ͲǦ͵ʹͶ͵ ̷Ǥ Ȉ

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Ivy League Player of the Year Niveen Rasheed ’13 scored 20 points, but that was not enough to beat Kansas State in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Edwards ’12 also scored 15 points. But it was not quite enough for the Tigers, Tigers suffer third-time loss whose late comeback attempts fell short in the final minute. in opener of NCAA tournment The loss was Princeton’s first defeat P since mid-December, ending a 17-game 20 It was a history-making season for the “This is a game we could have and winning streak. The Tigers finished the women’s basketball team. Princeton should have won, but we didn’t,” head season at 24–5. dominated the Ivy League with a 14–0 coach Courtney Banghart said after the “This was definitely the best we’ve conference record — the first Ivy team loss. played out here in the tournament,” All- to go undefeated in league play twice Princeton looked nervous in the good said. “We don’t have anything to in three years — and earned a ninth opening minutes, committing three hang our heads about. We did what we seed in the NCAA Tournament, the turnovers and missing four shots wanted, except win.” highest for any Ivy League team in his- before scoring its first points. But the Three of the players who led the tory. The Tigers outscored their league Tigers quickly found their footing and team to its dominant position — All- opponents by an average of 31 points took a five-point lead, their largest good, Edwards, and point guard Laura per game, another conference record. advantage ever in a tournament game. Johnson ’12 — will graduate in June. And the team was ranked No. 24 in the Ivy League Player of the Year Niveen For the remaining Tigers, their dreams Associated Press poll, becoming the Rasheed ’13 capped the run with a of winning an NCAA Tournament first women’s Ivy League basketball three-pointer and a jump shot and fin- game, three seasons in the making, will team to place in the top 25. ished with a team-high 20 points. have to wait another year. π By Kevin But on March 17, the Tigers failed to The Tigers trailed by four points at Whitaker ’13 reach their ultimate goal: winning a halftime, but center Devona Allgood game in the postseason. With a 67–64 ’12 helped them turn the tide again. loss to eighth-seed Kansas State, Prince- After Rasheed missed a free throw that TIGER ACES ton was eliminated in the first round of could have tied the game early in the KevinWhitaker’13spotlightstop the tournament for the third straight period, Allgood ripped the ball away athletes and teams every Monday year. from a Kansas State forward and made morning @ paw.princeton.edu The Tigers’ performance against a layup while getting fouled, sinking Kansas State far exceeded their two the bonus shot to give Princeton a two- Zak Hermans ’13 previous NCAA appearances, when point lead. SCHAEFER Princeton trailed by double digits at Allgood made seven of 10 shots for

BEVERLY halftime. This year’s game was close 15 points and added a game-high 12

PHOTOS: until the final buzzer. rebounds, while All-Ivy guard Lauren

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EXTRA POINT Another day at the ice fights for Princeton NHL players

By Merrell Noden ’78 George Parros ’03, left, who plays right wing for Merrell Noden ’78 is a the NHL’s Anaheim former staff writer at Ducks, brawls with a Sports Illustrated Florida Panthers player and a frequent PAW in February. contributor.

I really ought to like professional hockey. It is a lightning-fast sport, requiring tremendous skill and stam- ina. But the fights that seem to break out in virtually every NHL game make me squirm with embarrassment. The New York Times’ three-part series on the life and death of hockey fighter Derek Boogaard revealed that hockey’s com- batants may be prone to developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (C.T.E.), a condition thought to be brought on by repeated blows to the head. That discovery is fueling a growing debate about the health dangers of hockey’s rampant fighting. P Two of the league’s most prominent 21 fighters are Princeton graduates — Kevin Westgarth ’07 of the Los Angeles Kings and George Parros ’03 of the The Los Angeles Kings’ Kevin Westgarth ’07, right, mixes it Anaheim Ducks. Last year Parros led up in a February game against the NHL in major penalties, while the Phoenix Coyotes. Westgarth was tied for 10th. Westgarth, who is in his second full what he does. there’s no consequence for them. They season in the league, sounded somber “I saw an opportunity and I took it,” won’t have to face a player like me.” last September when asked what les- he told me. “I realized if I was going to Parros said he’s had just one concus- PHOTOS, sons he might take from Boogaard’s make it to the NHL sooner rather than sion in his seven-year NHL career, but death. “I’ve been extremely lucky,” he later, I knew that given my size, I’d he does admit to chronic soreness in FROM admitted to the Los Angeles Times. probably have to start [fighting].” his hands, back, and shoulders. As for TOP: GARY “Inevitably it is our choice, and we all Parros didn’t fight in college hockey, the dangers to his brain, he allowed I. kind of know the deal.” where it carries stiff penalties. In the that it is a risk, but one worth taking. ROTHSTEIN/AP Parros is far from the typical hockey pros, he told me, fights fire up a flat “This C.T.E. they talk about, it’s not just

tough. While the rugged, 6-foot-5 team — much like a baseball manager from fighting. It’s from being in a high- IMAGES; player is famed around the league for who gets himself thrown out of a game intensity sport with all the collisions. MARK his lumberjack’s mustache, he also is — and discourage dirty play. Using logic It’s a risk you run, but we get to do J. known for cutting his long hair in pub- that seemed tortured, Parros claimed what we love for a living.” TERRILL/AP lic every year to raise money for child- that fighting actually cuts down on vio- That part I can understand. Parros hood leukemia. I wondered: Why lence in NHL games. Players are less clearly is a thoughtful guy, and I liked IMAGES;

would a bright 32-year-old risk chronic likely to throw a punch or an elbow, him a lot. That’s why I sure hope he’s FRANK

pain and possible dementia to smack this thinking goes, because if they do, right about the gamble he and West- WOJCIECHOWSKI some guys around in a hockey rink? enforcers — big guys who know how to garth seem to be taking. π When I met Parros before a game fight — will respond. “If you eliminate against the New Jersey Devils, he fighting, you’re going to have more Extra Point explores the people and issues (NODEN) was incredibly matter-of-fact about people making dangerous hits because in Princeton sports.

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PRINCETON SPORTS SHORTS CORKSCREW

WINE SHOP MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING won a fourth- straight Ivy League championship (above, the team celebrates with a dip in DeNunzio Pool) at home March 1–3. Jon Christensen ’12 won all three The Princeton Corkscrew Wine Shop individual events in which he com- We like good wine too. peted, setting an Ivy League record in the 100-yard breaststroke. Stevie Vines ’13 was named the meet’s top diver. MEN’S BASKETBALL won its last four games of the regular season, including a 62–52 victory over Penn March 6 that denied the Quakers a share of the Ivy League title. The Tigers finished 10–4 in conference play and defeated Evansville 95–86 in the College Basket- ball Invitational before losing 82–61 P to Pittsburgh in the quarterfinals 22 March 13. Jaci Gassaway ’13 scored 15 goals in her first four games for WOMEN’S LACROSSE, which started the season with two blowout wins and two tight losses. MEN’S LACROSSE also split its first Promote your major! four games, with close defeats to second-ranked Johns Hopkins March 2 Advertise your event! and eighth-ranked North Carolina March 10. To cap a strong indoor season for Reserve space for an ad in MEN’S TRACK & FIELD, Peter Callahan ’13 and Donn Cabral ’12 earned All-Amer- PAW. Special discounts offered ica honors at the NCAA Champi- when you advertise in both onships March 9-10. Cabral finished the May 16 issue and eighth against tough competition in the Reunions Guide. the 5,000-meter race, while Callahan came in sixth in the mile. For the first time in 25 years, WRESTLING hosted the regional EIWA Championships at Jadwin Gym. Gar- For more information rett Frey ’13 reached the 125-pound contact Colleen Finnegan, championship and finished second at the March 3–4 event, qualifying for advertising director at

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Perspective The race to college: Are great students left behind? By Tamara Sorell ’81

Tamara Sorell ’81 is a scientist living in Groton, Mass.

On the day after Thanksgiving, while most future Princeton applicants were sleeping, my 16-year-old daughter was preparing to report at 4 a.m. to her sales job and the madness of Black Friday — without a parent to drive her. She didn’t mind; she likes the independence and rewards that earning her own money brings, the ability to buy a smartphone and fancy sneakers that she wouldn’t get otherwise. She’s a successful young woman, with high grades, diverse musical and artistic talents, and leadership positions. She limits her advanced courses to the academic subjects that truly interest her, which gives her time to spend on the art classes she loves. She takes time to build a meaningful social life. She was recommended for participation in a prestigious art program, but because of the distance and her parents’ work commitments, she could not for at least 10 years, and have interviewed applicants in sev- attend. eral states. I always ask if the student ever held a job for pay; P And Black Friday was not the only day she went to work. never has the answer been yes. While my sample may not be 23 For the past seven months, she has worked 20 to 25 hours a typical, it is clear that paid work is not high on the list of week at minimum wage at a local shoe store. elite-college contenders. This is indeed a sad reflection on Still, when it came time for her to start applying to col- the qualities that top colleges seek. Working at a real job — lege, I advised: Don’t waste your time applying to top schools. the kind where the bosses don’t care what you think, you My growing concerns about college admission were crystal- must deal with rude and harassing managers and customers, lized by two recent articles in The New York Times. The first, a and you get fired if you show up late or need time off — is a finely articulated piece by Stony Brook University professor valuable life experience. Keeping such a job requires higher- Neil Gabler (“One Percent Education”), lamented the har- level executive functioning, social skills, and persistence. The nessing of our finest universities by the economic elite. The experience differs from finding a boutique opportunity second article, headlined “Bracing for $40,000 at New York through family contacts, or paying to work as a “counselor City Private Schools,” described the ballooning tuition along in training” at a summer camp. with the growing number of applications and consulting To day’s successful Princeton applicant often is the product firms charging more than $20,000 for admission advice. of single-minded pursuit of a strong résumé and substantial What do these stories have to do with each other? Well, parental sacrifice that is well beyond the type of attention to everything. As one mother quoted in the article about private their children’s education that parents historically have pro- schools remarked, parents evaluate schools based on their suc- vided. This investment of time and money has become a fil- cess at getting students into prestigious colleges. These days, I ter that excludes the vast majority of our talented youth: fear that admission requirements at top colleges have reached Most American families cannot afford $5,000 for “leader- the point where students who don’t have elaborately financed ship” training, overseas eco-volunteer trips, student ambas- résumés and top-tier academic preparation cannot compete. sadorships, or summer academic camps. And while I support my daughter’s choices, I’m concerned The statistics of attendance by students from “middle- about the loss of choice for many youngsters from lower- or income” families also are misleading. When one parent’s middle-income families for whom responsibilities such as income can support a family comfortably, the second parent paid work, caring for younger siblings or older relatives, and — typically, the mother — can leave the workforce to dedi- SELÇUK helping at home effectively eliminate the time available to cate herself to her children’s needs, shuttling them to lessons, pursue elite activities that now seem to be required. tutors, and sporting activities. Such parents become the DEMIREL I have been on the Princeton Alumni Schools Committee continues on page 56

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East’s conflicts, and he remains hooked today. “It looks so solvable,” he says. “And then you get into it, and it’s hard.” Is an Israel-Palestine Kurtzer, balding, bespectacled, and compact at 62, knows this better than almost anyone. He’s been U.S. ambassador to Israel and to Egypt, and spent decades at the State Depart - peace deal still ment as an integral player in U.S. efforts to forge a resolution. But each of those efforts has failed, and now the consensus in Washington is that the peace process is dead. After a burst possible? Dan Kurtzer of activity in the first year of the Obama administration, U.S. initiatives to convince the Israelis and the Palestinians to come to terms on a deal have ground to almost nothing. The time, says yes policymakers and academics agree, simply is not right: The United States can’t want peace more than the Israelis and the Palestinians themselves. Attention is focused on Iran, not BY GRIFF WITTE ’00 on Palestine. And besides, in an election year, a peace deal is a political nonstarter. Or so says the Washington consensus. Kurtzer hates the Washington consensus, and he uses every opportunity from his perch as the S. Daniel Abraham In late June of 1967, a recent high school graduate Visiting Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies at the named Daniel Kurtzer traveled to Israel for the first time. Wo o drow Wilson School to fight against it. He pens op-ed The trip was a gift from his parents, and it marked the end columns proposing ways to get the talks moving again. He of a quiet, middle-class childhood in Elizabeth, N.J., where gives lectures in Dodds Auditorium proclaiming that all is Kurtzer had been a standout student at the local Jewish day not lost. In trips to the Middle East with his students, he school. instills in them a sense of the possible. Along the way, he Israel had just emerged from six days of war that had butts heads with old friends and colleagues from the trenches reshaped the Middle East. Israeli forces had thoroughly routed of Mideast diplomacy who have lost faith in what is known the militaries of three neighboring Arab states — Jordan, universally as “the process.” Egypt, and Syria — and took control of vast new territory. Kurtzer is, by the accounts of those who know him, an Kurtzer had had to delay his trip because of the fighting, but eminently reasonable man. When he arrived as U.S. ambas- P once in Israel he found a country euphoric with victory. sador in Egypt — the first Jew in that job — and then in 25 Jerusalem — a city that had been divided by razor wire and Israel, he was viewed with deep suspicion. But as time went scarred by snipers for 19 years — suddenly was reunited. on, he was sitting for long talks with everyone from Muslim The young American volunteered to help clean the accu- Brother hood leaders to former Israeli prime minister Ariel mulated debris from a grand stone amphitheater atop Sharon. Kurtzer listens. He calmly analyzes. He speaks in Mount Scopus, in Jerusalem, that had been stuck in a deso- sober, measured tones, and comes up with imaginative yet late no-man’s-land for the better part of two decades. For practical solutions to seemingly intractable problems. days, he picked up trash and scrubbed the steps, working in “He’s extremely fair-minded and creative in his sense of the shadow of buildings that had been decimated by war. how to pursue a genuine strategy,” says U.S. Deputy Secretary When the great New York Philharmonic conductor Leonard of State William Burns. “There’s no one for whom I have Bernstein led a concert at the amphitheater in early July in greater personal and professional respect.” celebration of Jerusalem’s reunification, Kurtzer sneaked in And yet Kurtzer has chosen to spend his career working in by pretending to deliver flowers. He was among the hun- a part of the world where reason is often in short supply, and dreds who listened in rapt silence to the strains of Isaac where old grudges usually triumph over necessary compro- Stern’s violin, and who looked out upon the Judean hills at a mises. Perhaps Daniel Kurtzer’s most unreasonable belief is land of almost limitless possibility. that the conflict in the Middle East — the solution to which But Kurtzer soon grew troubled. That summer, he visited has been apparent, in its basic outlines, for decades — can the West Bank and the Gaza Strip — both of which had still be solved. been captured by Israeli forces — and saw devastation in the eyes of the people who lived there. “If you only looked at the It’s an unseasonably warm Feb. 6 in Princeton, and Kurtzer Israelis, it was celebration,” Kurtzer recalls. “You looked at the is feeling upbeat. The New York Giants — his favorite team Palestinians, and you saw people who were defeated. This — won the Super Bowl the night before, overcoming the thing wasn’t going to work.” odds to defeat the New England Patriots in the game’s final To Kurtzer, there was only one sensible answer: partition. minute. Possibility is in the air. And Dodds Auditorium is But nearly half a century later, that sensible answer remains packed. The listeners have come to hear Kurtzer and Robert

PETER maddeningly elusive, lost in a tangle of competing peace Wexler, a former Florida congressman who now heads a MURPHY plans and violent realities. Kurtzer became hooked during think tank, answer a simple question: Is Middle East peace that 1967 visit on the idea of a resolution to the Middle possible?

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Kurtzer believes the answer is yes, but he starts with the for years as American negotiators, leading countless rounds reasons why many insist otherwise: The Israelis and the of haggling and cajoling in the name of peace. But Miller Palestinians are moving in opposite directions, hardening has lost faith. Kurtzer, Miller says, “is convinced that any con- their bargaining positions. The region has been destabilized flict created by men and women can be resolved by men by the Arab uprisings, unleashing an undercurrent of anti- and women.” Miller is not. He famously penned a 2010 piece Israeli sentiment. The United States has pulled its troops in Foreign Policy magazine declaring that the outsized from Iraq, diminishing American leverage. President Obama American role in trying to reach a Mideast accord not only has signaled that his focus is on expanding economic oppor- was hopeless, it was counterproductive. “We were part of the tunities in Asia, rather than solving the ancient conflicts of problem. We thought we could fix things and we couldn’t,” the Middle East. And above all, Kurtzer notes, any discussion Miller says. “I’m tired of seeing America fail.” of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict involves “dealing with con- The Miller view has won out for now in Washington, stituencies that have black and white views on these issues, despite Kurtzer’s best efforts. During Obama’s 2008 cam- not gray.” paign for president, Kurtzer was among the future presi- So there are obstacles. But Kurtzer closes with a counterin- dent’s advisers. Kurtzer helped write a speech that Obama tuitive jab at the Washington consensus. He and Wexler delivered at the annual American Israel Public Affairs intend to prove, he says, “that it’s not too hard, that peace is Committee conference that year in which the junior senator possible, and that we can want peace at least as much as the from Illinois advocated a robust role for the United States in parties themselves.” helping the Israelis and the Palestinians cut a deal. And then, on a screen above Wexler as he runs through a But once in office, Obama’s efforts floundered. He tried to slick PowerPoint presentation full of history, maps, and data, force Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to peace happens. an indefinite freeze on construction in West Bank settle- On a map of Israeli and Palestinian lands, lines that have ments. Netanyahu refused. Obama blinked. Ever since, the hardened over decades into steep walls and menacing process has been stuck in neutral. Kurtzer lauds Obama for barbed wire shift effortlessly east or west. Hundreds of thou- saying the right things, but criticizes his administration for sands of Israelis living in West Bank settlements suddenly are resorting to tactics when a broader strategy was needed. At a inside Israel proper as areas outside the 1967 boundaries are time when the United States should have taken a tough line absorbed. The Palestinians get parts of present-day Israel in with both sides, it withdrew instead, he says. return. The Israeli military occupation of the West Bank “I was raised in a diplomatic environment in which you P ends, but Israel wins enough guarantees from the Palestinian don’t necessarily take no for an answer,” Kurtzer says. “You 26 leadership that security isn’t compromised. The United States may not turn it into a yes, but it’s what’s called tough diplo- and other international powers make sure that both sides macy. I don’t walk away if I don’t take the hill on the first keep their promises. The process requires major concessions try. The hill’s important. You stick with it.” and tough choices. Yet, in the end, Israel and Palestine are Diplomacy is part of Kurtzer’s DNA; he talked with both nations with permanent borders, existing side by side. friends about doing it for a living as early as high school. In the Land of PowerPoint, it all looks possible. Kurtzer’s parents (his father owned a delivery service) had Kurtzer knows it isn’t that easy. On the ground in the embraced Orthodox Judaism when he was in middle school, Middle East, those clean lines become blurry, and even the and he had switched from public school to a Jewish day most logical of proposals becomes a mess of competing his- school. When it came time to pick a college, his friends torical claims and deeply ingrained enmity. But his point is chose Yeshiva University in New York City. He went with clear: What unfolded on the screen was based on real plans them. From there it was on to Columbia, where he received that have been offered by one or both of the parties. The dif- a Ph.D. in political science, with an emphasis on Middle ferences between the two sides are bridgeable. And, crucially, Eastern studies. By then, his travels in the region had left the United States has a role to play in forming the bridge. him with little doubt about his career choice, and he joined “Nobody has quite found that mix of resolve, determina- the Foreign Service in 1976, just days after defending his dis- tion, and smarts to put together a peace process that can sertation. work,” Kurtzer says. “I happen to think there is a strategy that The State Department in the 1970s was still very much an might work.” old boys network, with few women or minorities in top Perhaps some are convinced he’s right. But when the pres- posts. Almost from the beginning, Kurtzer, who never tried entation is over and the crowd spills out into the evening to hide his religion, was told there would be limits to how chill of Scudder Plaza, an elderly man who had been in the high he could rise. A senior official once told him he wouldn’t audience mutters: “We’ve got no business in the Middle East. be able to work in the Middle Eastern affairs bureau: “He Let them sort it out.” said, ‘We work five days a week and then we come in on Saturdays and think and chat and put our feet up.’” That Kurtzer hears that argument, in a more sophisticated form, wasn’t an option for Kurtzer, who as an Orthodox Jew from some of his closest friends. Aaron David Miller, for observes the Sabbath. But by the 1980s, the department was one, describes Kurtzer as his “teacher and mentor in the art changing, and Kurtzer soon had that senior official’s job. and science of diplomacy.” The two men worked side by side Kurtzer’s religion became a factor once again in 1997,

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when he was appointed to the ultra-sensitive job of manag- Hosni Mubarak into court on a hospital gurney, Kurtzer ing one of Washington’s most critical alliances as U.S. acknowledges feeling “terrible” for the man he came to like ambassador to Egypt. Although Israel and Egypt had signed so well during his ambassadorship. Jamal pronounces herself a peace agreement nearly two decades earlier, anti-Semitism “less sympathetic” to the departed despot. remained a real concern. Soon after his arrival in Cairo, an Kurtzer, who is the father of three sons and who lives with article appeared in the Egyptian press insinuating that his wife in Princeton, makes it a habit to expose his students Kurtzer and his wife — who keep kosher — were boiling to competing perspectives. During visits to the Middle East, Christian children in their kitchen, a rehashing of the old his classes have met with everyone from top Israeli officials blood libel. to Hamas leader Khaled Mashal. “I want them to think,” he “It was a horrible article. That night we went to a recep- says. “Rose-colored glasses don’t work anymore.” tion and people crowded around apologizing,” Kurtzer recalls. Will Wagner ’10 wrote his senior thesis on the Egyptian “I knew then that we had broken the back of the issue.” media’s influence on politics, a subject about which his Even an envoy from the Muslim Brotherhood ultimately adviser, the former ambassador, knows more than a little. agreed to meet Kurtzer, two years after his arrival. “What he “But he always made sure I was the one driving the process,” basically said was, ‘We waited, we checked you out, and says Wagner, who is now working at the State Department as you’re OK. You’re not perfect. Maybe we wanted someone a fellow in Princeton’s Scholars in the Nation’s Service named O’Reilly. But you’re OK.’” With the Brotherhood Initiative. “He was never one to push his own views.” ascendant in today’s post-Mubarak Egypt, Kurtzer acknowl- Julia Morse *10 says that in class, Kurtzer focuses on the edges that being a Jewish ambassador would be “a much big- history of policymaking in the Middle East — a subject on ger obstacle to overcome” now than it was then. which he has written one book and is at work on another — The suspicion was nearly as intense, if not more so, when rather than his prescriptions for the future. Still, Morse said Kurtzer hopped across the Sinai and became U.S. ambassa- she finds persuasive his argument for a robust American role dor to Israel in 2001. In the Jewish homeland, he says, a in peacemaking. “He understands how Washington works. Jewish ambassador for the United States was regarded as all- He understands how Tel Aviv works. He understands how too-likely to cave to Palestinian interests: “They assume Ramallah works. And from that, he says, ‘I can see how we you’re bending over backward to not be pro-Israel.” can work out an agreement,’” says Morse, who received her master’s degree at Princeton and is now back for her Ph.D. Anyone who Googles the name Daniel Kurtzer will find a Top officials in the Obama administration, too, believe litany of suggestions — some subtle, others not — that he is that Kurtzer’s optimism may be warranted in the long term. P biased toward one side or the other. Kurtzer insists his only This spring, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has hardly been 27 bias is toward U.S. foreign-policy interests. Back in the late on the radar screen, with tensions over Iran’s nuclear pro- 1980s, Kurtzer was a key figure in formulating U.S. policy gram and uncertainty over how to handle the Syrian upris- that opened a dialogue with the Palestine Liberation ing dominating the attention of U.S. policymakers. But, Organization. As ambassador to Israel, he pushed the Israeli while acknowledging the difficulty of the present moment, government to dismantle settlements and delivered stern Burns, the deputy secretary of state, says Kurtzer is playing messages about the killing of Palestinian civilians and an important role by “reminding people what’s possible.” restrictions on movement. Yet as he told The New York Times Kurtzer’s unflagging belief in the potential for an Israeli- as he was leaving his post, he came to admire the Israelis for Palestinian deal — and in the promise that such a deal could their resilience during a long period of terrorist attacks, and help bridge the region’s other major fault lines — explains noted his disappointment that the Palestinians had not fol- why he is expected to be a strong contender for Mideast peace lowed through with realistic policies, good government, and envoy should Obama win a second term, when presumably clear opposition to violence. the president would have more room to maneuver in the Amaney Jamal, an associate professor of politics at Prince - Middle East without the political pressures of re-election. ton who focuses her scholarship on the Arab world, calls If he were to take on the role of Mideast envoy, it would Kurtzer “as straight a shooter as I’ve seen on the conflict.” not be his first foray into long-shot causes. After leaving the That surprised her when she first met him, she says, because State Department, he became the founding commissioner of of his long career inside the U.S. diplomatic corps — a tribe the Israel Baseball League. Never heard of it? It didn’t last that does not always reward those who call it as they see it. long. The teams played just one season on makeshift dia- Jamal and Kurtzer make an unlikely pair — she a monds — one had a pole smack in the middle of right field Palestinian-American academic, and he a Jewish-American — before the league ran out of money. Still, efforts are under former policymaker. But since 2005, when Kurtzer arrived at way to revive the idea. Princeton after retiring from the State Department, they Kurtzer is an optimist, but he’s also a reasonable man. have become a regular duo on campus, visiting each other’s Pressed on which will come first, a professional Israeli base- classes and speaking together on panels. ball league or a Middle East peace deal, he doesn’t miss a Jamal says that much of the fun of her friendship with beat: “Baseball, unfortunately.” π Kurtzer is that they don’t agree on everything. When Egyptian authorities periodically wheel former president Griff Witte ’00 is deputy foreign editor of The Washington Post.

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Just before the Second World War, a Big Idea was detonated: the idea of the computer. The world has never been the same. Princetonians played a key role. Here graduate student Alan Turing *38 finalized his landmark paper, “On Computable Numbers,” the light-bulb moment in which humankind first discovered the concept of stored-program computers. And here one of his professors, John von DAYBREAK Neumann, would build just such a device after the war, MANIAC at the Institute for Advanced Study, forerunner of virtually every computer on the planet today. Of course other people were involved, and other institutions — Penn had its pioneering wartime ENIAC machine OF THE — but Turing and von Neumann arguably were the two towering figures in launching computers into the world. As George Dyson claims in his new book on early computing at the Institute, Turing’s Cathedral, “the entire digital universe” can be traced to MANIAC, “the physical realization” of Turing’s dreams. June 2012 marks the centennial of Turing’s birth in London, and universities around the world — including Princeton and Cambridge, where Turing did the research DIGITAL that led to his landmark paper — are celebrating with conferences, talks, and even races. Mathematicians are calling 2012 “Alan Turing Year.” Since the year also is the 60th anniversary of the public unveiling of MANIAC, this seems a particularly good time to recall the part Princeton played P in the birth of all things digital. 28 Turing was a 22-year-old math prodigy teaching at Cam - AGE bridge when, in spring 1935, he decided to further his studies by coming to Princeton. He just had met the University’s von Neumann, a Hungarian-émigré mathematician then visiting England. By the time he encountered Turing, von Neumann was the world-famous author of 52 papers, though only 31 years old. The world Turing’s specialty was the rarified world of mathematical logic, and he wanted to study near top expert Alonzo Church ’24 *27, another Princeton professor. The legendary c e l e b r a t e s Kurt Gödel was here, too, although nervous breakdowns made him frequently absent. All these geniuses had offices in Fine Hall (today’s Jones Hall), where the Institute for the man who Advanced Study temporarily shared quarters with the University’s renowned math department. Turing arrived in Princeton in October 1936, moving into imagined the 183 Graduate College and living alongside several of his fellow countrymen — enough for a “British Empire” versus “Revolting Colonies” softball game. A star runner, Turing computer enjoyed playing squash and field hockey and canoeing on Stony Brook. Still, Turing made few close friends. He was shy and awkward, with halting speech that has been imitat- LONDON BY W. BARKSDALE MAYNARD ’88 ed by actor Derek Jacobi in the biopic movie Breaking the

GALLERY, Code. Being homosexual, Turing felt like an outsider. Soon the postman delivered proofs of Turing’s article for a PORTRAIT London scientific journal. The young author made correc-

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one of the epic papers in history. profoundly important. Here begins, in theoretical principles Princeton likes to take some credit — in 2008, a P A W - at least, the digital universe as distinct from the old analog convened panel of professors named him Princeton’s second- one. “The entire Internet,” Dyson writes, “can be viewed as a most influential alum, after only James Madison 1771 — but finite if ever-expanding tape shared by a growing population Turing actually wrote the paper at Cambridge. It dealt with of Turing machines.” The idea led, a decade later, to the con- mathematical problems similar to those on which Church struction of an actual stored-program computer — but not was working independently. In fact, Church published a until the paper tape of theory was replaced by lightning-fast paper that took a different approach several months before electrical impulses. Turing’s came out — but Turing’s paper contained a great Church praised his student’s paper and popularized the novelty. As he lay in a meadow, he had a brainstorm. He pro- label “Turing machine.” But Turing kept a certain distance posed solving math problems with a hypothetical machine from his professors, with Church recalling years later that he that runs an interminable strip of paper tape back and forth “had the reputation of being a loner and rather odd,” even — writing and erasing the numbers zero and one on the by rarified Fine Hall standards. When Turing presented “On paper and thereby undertaking calculations in binary form. Computable Numbers” in a lecture to the Math Club in The machine was to be controlled by coded instructions December 1936, attendance was sparse, much to his disap- punched on the tape. pointment. “One should have a reputation [already] if one Previous machines throughout history were capable of hopes to be listened to,” Turing wrote to his mother glumly. performing only one assigned task; they were designed with Little could this lonely and dejected Englishman have some fixed and definite job in mind. By contrast, an opera- imagined that one day he would be considered among the tor could endlessly vary the functioning of a hypothetical most important graduates in the University’s history — “Turing machine” by punching in new coded instructions, so important has “On Computable Numbers” proven to us instead of building an entirely new device. Here was a “uni- all. versal computing machine” that would do anything it was Von Neumann later would make history by adapting programmed to do; curiously, the machine proper remained Turing’s ideas to the construction of a physical computer, untouched. Thus Turing’s genius lay in formulating the dis- but the two men formed no particular friendship, despite tinction we would describe as hardware (the machine) ver- the proximity of their offices. In personality they were virtu- sus software (the tape with binary digits). ally opposites. Von Neumann warmly embraced his adopted He never actually built such a machine — for Turing, it country, styling himself as “Johnny”; the reticent Turing P remained an intellectual construct — nor explained exactly never fit in and was shocked by coarse American manners, as 30 how the tape would have worked. Nonetheless, his idea was when a laundry-van driver once draped his arm around him

the request of University president BEFORE Wo o drow Wilson 1879 to teach mathematics. His brother Thorstein, who wrote The TURING, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), is better known, but Oswald arguably had a more lasting impact. During World War THERE WAS II, Einstein urged President Franklin D. Roosevelt to build an atomic bomb. VEBLEN Ye a r s earlier, Princeton’s Veblen had pressed Roosevelt to help him bring Computing’s early mathematics and physics faculty out of days at Princeton Europe before the war, undoubtedly delaying the development of Hitler’s By Jon R. Edwards ’75 bomb. On campus, he is fondly remembered for helping to move the VOLKMAR

This is adapted from a longer essay on Univers ity toward a focus not just on K. the history of computing at Princeton, teaching, but on primary research. WENTZEL/NATIONAL available at paw.princeton.edu. But Veblen’s most important contribution to computing stemmed from Princeton’s computing story begins his work on ballistics. In the wake of GEOGRAPHIC/GETTY not with Alan Turing *38, Alonzo World War I and the increased mobili- Church ’24 *27, John von Neumann, ty of military equipment, much more Oswald Veblen, circa 1960, or Albert Einstein, but with Oswald accurate and timely methods for firing IMAGES shortly before his death. Veblen, who came to the campus at were needed. Veblen undertook the

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and started to chat. Von Neumann bought a new Cadillac stored program. Each Colossus inhaled paper tape at a stun- every year, parking it splendidly in front of Palmer Lab; ning 30 miles an hour, processing 63 million characters in Turing had difficulty learning to drive a used Ford and nearly total before the collapse of the Third Reich. backed it into Lake Carnegie. The outgoing von Neumann Turing ought to have become a national hero for his always wore a business suit, initially to look older than his ingenious code-breaking at Bletchley Park — historians say tender years; the morose Turing looked shambolic in a it helped to shorten the war by as much as two years — but threadbare sports coat. the existence of Colossus remained a secret for decades. Despite their differences, von Neumann recognized Turing’s brilliance and tried to entice him to stay as his assis- War changed the future for von Neumann, too. Famed for tant for $1,500 a year after his second year of study was com- his contributions to pure math, he now was transformed, plete. But Turing’s eyes were on war clouds. “I hope Hitler paradoxically, into the most practical of applied scientists. will not have invaded England before I come back,” he wrote Consulting for the U.S. Army Ordnance Department even to a friend. before fighting began, he studied the complex behavior of Already looking ahead to military code-breaking, Turing blast waves produced by the detonation of high explosives. sought some practical experience with machines. A physicist Eventually he was helping to build an atomic bomb. friend loaned him his key to the graduate-student machine Since no atom bomb ever had been attempted, scientists shop in Palmer Lab and taught him to use lathe, drill, and needed to model how one might work. This required innu- press. Here Turing built a small electric multiplier, its relays merable calculations. At Los Alamos, roomfuls of clerks mounted on a breadboard — a foretaste of the complex tapped on desk calculators and shuffled millions of IBM machines he soon would use back home to crack Nazi codes. punch cards. After two weeks there, in spring 1944, von In May 1938 he defended his Ph.D. dissertation, “Systems Neumann was dismayed by the slow progress. What was of Logic Based on Ordinals” — a paper unrelated to comput- needed was computation at electronic speeds. ers but still, according to one historian, “a profound work of Such swiftness was promised by ENIAC (Electronic first-rank importance” in advancing mathematical logic. Numerical Integrator and Computer), a project to build an all- Then he sailed home to England, which soon declared war digital, all-electronic device to calculate shell trajectories for on belligerent Germany. Army Ordnance at Penn. Von Neumann watched its progress Turing worked at top-secret Bletchley Park, where a team with fascination but dreamed of something even more built 10 huge electronic digital computers, called Colossus. advanced: a true stored-program computer, a Turing machine. Turing did not design these, but he recognized them as sign- To get ENIAC to change tasks, its handlers had to reset it P posts pointing to the digital future — though they had no manually by flipping switches and unplugging thousands of 31

creation of trajectory tables that would fourth was a pioneering effort in game take into consideration variables such theory, and the fifth explored the link HONORING as altitude, wind, temperature, shell between formal logic systems and the materials, azimuths, and the like to limits of mathematics. achieve specific firing distances. Each “One of von Neumann’s most ALAN TURING*38 table of 3,000 entries required many remarkable capabilities was his power multiplications, by hand, taking an of instant recall,” wrote Herman H. Princeton’s celebration of Alan Turing *38 average of 12 hours of error-prone Goldstine in his 1972 book, The kicks off this month with an exhibition work. Traveling back and forth Computer from Pascal to von Neumann in the Firestone Library lobby featuring between Princeton and the Aberdeen (Princeton University Press). “As far as I Turing’s Princeton dissertation and Proving Ground in Maryland, Veblen could tell, he was able on once reading graduate file. often thought about how to speed up a book or article to quote it back ver- the work and make the calculation batim; moreover, he could do it years On April 23, Andrew Hodges, mathematics process more efficient. later without hesitation. ... On one fellow at Wadham College, Oxford In 1930, Veblen invited perhaps the occasion, I tested his ability by asking University, and author of Alan Turing: world’s greatest mathematician, 27- him to tell me how A Tale of Two Cities The Enigma, will deliver the Louis Clark year-old John von Neumann, to started, whereupon, without any pause, Vanuxem Lecture at 8 p.m. in McCosh 50. Princeton as a lecturer in quantum sta- he immediately began to recite the first tistics. Von Neumann became a full chapter. We asked him to stop after 10 A three-day conference on Turing’s professor just a year later. He had to 15 minutes.” contributions takes place May 10–12, received his doctorate in mathematics with computer scientists and mathemati- at age 22 from the University of Jon Edwards ’75, a former administrator cians from around the world coming Budapest and already had published in Princeton’s Office of Information together to give general-interest talks and five papers. Three set out a mathemati- Technolog y, is co-coordinator of Princeton’s technical sessions. For information, visit cal framework for quantum theory, a Turing Centennial Celebration. http://www.princeton.edu/turing/.

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tangled cables. It could take days to rearrange its hardware Tukey *39, a Princeton professor, coined the term “bit.” So for a problem that then took just minutes to compute. vast was their influence, the internal arrangement of today’s Inspired by Turing — whose “On Computable Numbers” he computers is termed the von Neumann architecture. constantly recommended to colleagues — von Neumann Von Neumann wanted MANIAC to jump-start a computer began to conceptualize the design of a computer controlled revolution, transforming science by solving old, impossible by coded instructions stored internally. problems at electronic speeds. To maximize its impact upon To usher in the brave new world of Turing machines, von the world, he eschewed any patent claims and published Neumann audaciously proposed that the Institute for detailed reports about its progress. “Few technical documents,” Advanced Study build one itself, on its new campus beyond Dyson writes, “have had as great an impact, in the long run.” the Graduate College. He envisioned an “all-purpose, auto- Seventeen stored-program computers across the planet matic, electronic computing machine” with stored programs: soon were built following its specifications, including the “I propose to store identically named everything that has to MANIAC at Los be remembered by the Alamos and the first machine, in these commercially avail- memory organs,” he able IBM machine. wrote, including “the Controlled mysteri- coded, logical instruc- ously from inside tions which define the instead of outside, problem and control MANIAC seemed to the functioning of the many observers uncan- machine.” This nily like an electronic describes the modern brain. The great break- computer exactly. through was the set of Von Neumann’s 40 cylinders that sur- suggestion of building rounded its base like a some kind of mechan- litter of piglets. In an ical apparatus on the ingenious technical P Institute grounds was John von Neumann with MANIAC in 1952. The shiny cylinders contained random-access memory, visible achievement, these 32 greeted with dismay as flickering phosphor through the holes. cathode-ray tubes by many of the aloof (similar to those com- intellectuals there, horrified by the thought of greasy ing into use for television) provided the world’s first substan- mechanics with soldering guns. Nearby homeowners com- tial random-access memory. plained about potential noise and nuisance. But the One could lean over and literally watch the 1,024 bits of Electronic Computer Project went ahead anyway, starting in memory flickering on a phosphorescent screen on top of November 1945 with ample funding from the military, plus each tube, which Dyson calls the genesis of the whole digital additional contributions from the Univer sity and other universe. Such tubes had been perfected at Manchester sources. Young engineers were lured with a promise of free University, England, where Turing was a consultant. enrollment as Princeton Ph.D. students. “The fundamental conception is owing to Turing,” von Called MANIAC, for Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Neumann said of MANIAC. A decade earlier, the young Brit Integrator, and Computer, it was meant to improve in every had proposed a tape crawling by with numbers on it; now way upon ENIAC. The Penn machine had 17,500 vacuum MANIAC flashed at incredible speed the electronic equiva- tubes, each prone to fizzling; the Institute’s, only 2,600. lent of zeros and ones in glowing phosphor. ENIAC was 100 feet long and weighed 30 tons; MANIAC By our standards, MANIAC may seem a modest achieve- was a single 6-foot-high, 8-foot-long unit weighing 1,000 ment: As Dyson notes, the computer’s entire storage (five pounds. Most crucially, MANIAC stored programs, some- kilobytes) equals less memory than is required by a single thing ENIAC’s creators had pondered but not attempted. icon on your laptop today. No one yet had invented a mod- Assembly of the computer — from wartime surplus parts ern programming language; just to do the equivalent of hit- — began in the basement of Fuld Hall at the Institute; in ting the backspace key, science writer Ed Regis says, meant early 1947, the project moved to a low, red-brick building precisely coding in something like 1110101. nearby, paid for by the Atomic Energy Commission (the And the computer broke down frequently — all 40 building now houses a day-care center). Not for six years memory tubes had to be working perfectly at once. “The would MANIAC be fully operational. The design choices sensitivity of the memory, that was a big problem,” recalls von Neumann and his team made in the first few months UCLA professor emeritus Gerald Estrin, who was hired by reverberate to this day. von Neumann in 1950 to design the input-output device, a For example, they chose to use Turing’s binary system (0s paper-tape reader. “If there was a storm with lightning, you and 1s) instead of a decimal system, and collaborator John would feel it in loss of bits. We spent many nights on the

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floor trying to tune it up.” nuclear bomb, “Ivy Mike,” was detonated in the Pacific, pro- One of the last survivors of the team, Estrin, now 90, still ducing a fireball three miles across — 30 times bigger than can recall the roar of the big air-conditioners that labored to Hiroshima’s. keep MANIAC’s vacuum tubes cool, the clammy chill of the Meanwhile, in England, von Neumann’s former student room that helped ensure, incidentally, that weary computer was busy designing stored-memory computers of his own, operators never dozed. but that country could not compete with rapid U.S. develop- Von Neumann “was obviously very smart,” Estrin remem- ments. Von Neumann invited Turing to visit the Institute in bers. “The questions he asked. ... He was always calculating January 1947, as MANIAC was being assembled. “The the results in his head and predicting your answers before Princeton group seem to me to be much the most clear - you said them.” Once Estrin impressed even the master, how- headed and farsighted of these American organizations,” ever. “I got a call late at night. Von Neumann and others Turing wrote, “and I shall try to keep in touch with them.” were there with the But Turing was computer, and some- fated to accomplish thing wasn’t working. little more, owing to As I walked over from his arrest by British my home, I remem- police for homosexual bered I had flipped a activities (“gross switch and not put it indecency”), which back. So when I got derailed his career. In there, I just went over lieu of prison, he was and flipped the given shots of female switch. They were hormones to reduce flabber gasted. I his libido. In 1954, at looked like a genius!” age 41, he died of To put MANIAC to cyanide poisoning, work, von Neumann believed to be suicide. sought projects that A half-eaten apple sat demanded electronic by his bedside. For gay speed — problems With MANIAC on dedication day in 1952 were Gerald Estrin (third from left), atomic physicist Robert activists, Turing is a P that otherwise might Oppenheimer (fifth from left), and von Neumann (far right). martyr to homopho- 33 have taken years to bia, and they and oth- compute. For example, meteor ology: to predict the weather ers successfully pushed for an official apology by Prime

across half the United States 24 hours in advance required Minister Gordon Brown in 2009. PHOTOS:

40,750,000 calculations, obviously impractical for a clerk at a Three years after Turing’s death, von Neumann died of ALAN

desk calculator. On a public tour in 1952, a Daily bone cancer at 53. Princeton briefly took over the operation RICHARDS Princetonian reporter marveled at how MANIAC could pro- of MANIAC before donating it as an artifact to the duce in 10 minutes a forecast that would have taken a per- Smithsonian about 1960. By then, there were 6,000 comput- PHOTOGRAPHER; son 192 days and nights of continuous labor. Von Neumann, ers in the United States, nearly all using the von Neumann it seemed, had outwitted the weather gods for the first time architecture, and the digital revolution was galloping ahead. FROM

in human history. Neither of these two great pioneers lived to see the full THE

MANIAC was a true “universal machine” in the Turing explosion of the Turing Machine — for example, how tran- SHELBY

sense: It could do many tasks without any reconfiguration of sistors and chips shrunk computers so fast that, by 1969, the WHITE

its physical parts. Only the stored program need change. So Apollo Guidance Computer could fit in a cramped space- AND

it modeled the roiling gases in the interior of stars for ship, making possible a landing on the moon. LEON

University astronomers (see “The Stargazers,” PAW, Sept. 22, To day, personal computers alone number more than a bil- LEVY 2010), and for historians, calculated the position of planets lion worldwide — a far cry from the long-ago prediction, ARCHIVES in the sky back to 600 B.C. which Estrin remembers well, that 15 machines would suf- CENTER, But these clever investigations were far less urgent than its fice for the whole planet. Von Neumann Hall on the eastern military tasks, which were kept so secret that Estrin and edge of the Princeton campus honors the remarkable contri- INSTITUTE many others didn’t learn of them for decades. With the butions of that vigorous, enthusiastic, and far-seeing man. FOR

Soviet Union racing to build a hydrogen weapon, von And this year, as part of Turing Year celebrations, the former ADVANCED Neumann was determined to use MANIAC to meet the Princeton graduate student’s face will appear on a British threat. He advocated the development of a huge bomb that postage stamp. π STUDY,

could be dropped on the Russians pre-emptively, if necessary. PRINCETON, In a single calculation that ran for 60 days and nights in W. Barksdale Maynard ’88 is the author of Princeton: America’s

1951 (cloaked as “pure math”), MANIAC proved the feasibil- Campus, an illustrated history of the University and its architec- NJ, USA ity of a hydrogen device. Months later, the first thermo - ture, due in May from Penn State Press.

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“The water won’t be coming back by any natural means. Those regions, because of climate change, are drying out. They won’t be getting as much groundwater refill. And the populations are growing,” he says. “It’s not a pretty picture.” The technology that has allowed him to paint this picture comes from a Jay Famiglietti *92 says NASA mission called GRACE (Gravity underground aquifers Recovery and Climate Experiment). are being drained faster Launched in 2002, GRACE is a pair of than ever before. satellites that chase each other around the globe in polar orbit, circling the Earth every 90 minutes. When the lead- JAY FAMIGLIETTI *92 ing satellite approaches a denser region of the Earth, the extra mass leads to a tiny rise in the tug of gravity. The lead- Sounding the alarm ing satellite speeds up — momentarily stretching the distance between it and Jay Famiglietti *92 sees a future gov- 50 lectures in 50 weeks. the trailing satellite — until the trail- erned by thirst. The world’s under- The importance of the message ing satellite too “feels” the extra mass ground aquifers, which supply drink- spurs him on. Large swaths of the and catches up. By precisely measuring P ing and agricultural water for most world — ranging from teeming semi- the distance between the satellites, 34 people on Earth, are being drained arid regions of India to the irrigated researchers build up a gravity map of DANIEL

faster than ever before, he says. lettuce fields of California’s Central the Earth that points to regions of A. ANDERSON The director of the Center for Valley — rely on water pumped from greater or less density. “It’s like a giant Hydro logic Modeling at the University aquifers: layers of porous rock, deep scale in the sky,” says Famiglietti, who / of California, Irvine, Famiglietti has underground, that hold water. They are earned his doctorate at Princeton in UNIVERSITY taken his message on the road. This pumped as a boundless resource, with civil engineering and operations OF

year, armed with a lectureship spon- little in the way of monitoring or regu- research. CALIFORNIA, sored by the Geological Society of lation. Famiglietti says many nations GRACE initially was designed to

America, Famiglietti is barnstorming must change that way of thinking — monitor the changing masses of ice IRVINE the world’s universities with a goal of or face a future crisis. sheets and oceans. But Famiglietti real-

NEWSMAKERS platoon leader, he is responsible for STARTING OUT: to “everything the platoon does or fails A research SAM GULLAND ’10 men and works with the senior enlisted hydrolo- Army officer, in charge do” make sure that we’re prepared.” gist with of a platoon that will “to the U.S. deploy to Afghanistan Gulland has been on active duty Geo logical in late spring. ROTC at Challenges: since January 2011 and never has been Survey, PAUL Princeton, commis- everyone in deployed overseas, yet he outranks HSIEH ’77 was as a second lieutenant in the infantry. more about sioned his platoon. “Those guys know a lot named the 2011 Federal Employee of major: Woodrow Wilson School. Princeton basic soldier skills than I do.” The toughest the Year for his role in containing the “walk[ing] the line between about a thing, he says, is 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig spill. after ’77 What he does: In late January, also showing respect for Ga., taking charge ... but Hsieh “provided critical scientific in officer training at Fort Benning, HSIEH year the experience that these guys have.” information that proved to be a turn-

33 sol- PAUL Gulland started leading a platoon of this winter in ing point in ending the worst oil spill ’10 diers. His platoon spent a month give something back,” to COURTESY at the His motive: “I wanted in our nation’s history,” read the cita- “intensive pre-deployment training”

GULLAND says Gulland. Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. As SAM National Training

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Alumni scene ized it also could be used for ground- Tiger water. Water is heavy; just like oceans Moshe Pritsker *05 and ice sheets, layers of subterranean profile Co-founder of video science journal saturated rock are massive. His published work has revealed hot spots — or rather, dry spots — in places like Moshe Pritsker *05’s Web-based journal northwestern India, where ground - publishes videos of experiments. water is being depleted by 4 centime- ters per year. GRACE, he says, offers a comprehensive view that never could be assembled with spotty borehole monitoring efforts. Famiglietti now is using GRACE to monitor the seasonal ups and downs of ocean levels as rivers and runoff from the land discharge into them. What he’s finding is consistent with global climate change: a more variable cycle dominated by extremes of flood and drought. Not only will those extremes be hard to manage in their own right, but severe, frequent droughts also will make populations more dependent on exploiting the groundwater aquifers that already are being threatened. Famiglietti is taking his outreach CROSSING THE OCEAN FOR SCIENCE When Moshe Pritsker *05 was a graduate efforts as seriously as his science. He student in molecular biology, one of his professors read a paper in a prestigious regularly meets with members of journal about an innovative technique for growing stem cells. Eager to use the Congress to discuss the nation’s water technique in his Princeton lab, the professor asked Pritsker to reproduce the P problems. He appears in Last Call at experiment. Pritsker followed the paper to a T but was unable to replicate the 35 the Oasis, a documentary designed to results, a common experience in science. In this case, the professor had connec- sound the alarm on the world’s water tions and grant money that enabled him to send Pritsker to Edinburgh, Scotland, issues. Famiglietti presses for re-exami- to observe the experiment firsthand. After the trip, Pritsker was able to replicate nation of current settlement patterns the results, but the experience prompted him to question the status quo of text- and agricultural practices that use too only papers. He thought, “I’m crossing the ocean to come back with this tech- much water. “I think the handwriting nique. Why don’t we have a new type of journal?” is on the wall,” he says. “Our water Résumé: CEO, editor-in-chief, future will be defined by the haves and FILMING EXPERIMENTS Pritsker imagined a Web-based and co-founder of JoVE, have nots.” π By Eric Hand ’97 journal that would publish videos of experiments in the Journal of Visualized addition to papers. While in Boston doing his postdoc- Experiments. Postdoctoral toral fellowship, he learned how to operate a small cam- research at Harvard Medical tion. ... Barclays executive HUGH “SKIP” era and began persuading scientists of the viability of his School and Massachusetts MCGEE ’81 had an inside-the-ropes view vision — not easy, given the long history of print-only General Hospital. Doctorate of Phil Mickelson’s PGA Tour victory journals. Scientists are “quite conservative when it comes in molecular biology from Feb. 12, teaming with the golf star in to science,” Pritsker says. He managed to coax enough Princeton. the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. people to put up a few videos in 2006. ... ERIC LANDER ’78 is among the win- ners of a Dan David Prize, cited for LOOKING TO EXPAND To day Pritsker’s JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, his genome research. Named after the has a network of videographers in 14 countries, 50 employees at its headquarters late philanthropist Dan David, the in Cambridge, Mass., and $5 million in revenue from subscription sales to institu- award recognizes “achievements hav- tions and author charges. User satisfaction is high. “We constantly hear this f e e d b a c k ing an outstanding scientific, techno- from scientists and students that JoVE is so helpful,” Pritsker reports. He no longer logical, cultural, or social impact on practices science; his hands are full as CEO. For now, JoVE focuses on biological our world” in three categories — past, sciences — recent papers detail novel ways to study gene expression in developing

present, and future. Lander is the chick retinas and to image mouse lymph-node tissues — but Pritsker foresees BRIAN

director of the Broad Institute of expansion “to different areas of science — psychology, chemistry, engineering. Any SMITH Harvard and MIT. work that requires an experiment would benefit from JoVE.” π By Maya Rock ’02

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Alumni scene NEW RELEASES BY ALUMNI READING ROOM: DAVID TREUER ’92

The End of Illness (Free Press), which author The Native American DAVID B. AGUS ’87 calls “part manifesto” and “part life plan,” aims to journey give readers a new approach to their When David Treuer ’92 decided to write about life health that emphasizes prevention. on reservations, he did not want his account to Agus also explores medical technolo- follow the same arc as most stories about Native gies and offers practical suggestions. Americans. In other words, he was not interested An oncologist, he is a professor of in writing a tragedy. Instead, he hoped to convey medicine and engineering at the the “delicious and wonderful complexity” at the University of Southern California. ... heart of the Native American story. HELEN SWORD ’84 *91 encourages academ- “Reservations aren’t places of deficit. This is ics to produce journal how they’re usually seen — places where there is a articles without wordy, lack of peace, a lack of health, a lack of money, a jargon-laden prose — lack of opportunity,” says Treuer, an Ojibwe Indian writing that is pleasur- and the author of three novels. “But I actually got able to read — in to see them Stylish Academic Writing WHAT HE’S JUST READ: Hampton as places of surplus.” (Harvard University Sides’ Blood and Thunder Reservations do have higher rates of poverty Press). Sword is an associate professor than the rest of the country, Treuer says, but What he liked about it: in the Centre for Academic they also are home to tight-knit communities Development at the University of “His profound love for the with a deep sense of history and tradition. Auckland. ... PAUL OPPENHEIMER ’61 aims Southwest is almost over- That reservations are places of more, not to “evoke the life and discoveries of one whelming. When he starts less, is the central insight of Rez Life (Atlantic of the world’s most mesmeric modern talking about the mountains Monthly Press), Treuer’s first nonfiction book. P and deserts of New Mexico 36 theoreticians” in his biography of It took him years to articulate this idea, but Niccolò di Bernardo and Arizona, he just breaks Treuer says he felt it for most of his life. Machiavelli, free into this glorious prose.” Treuer grew up on the Leech Lake Reserva - Machiavelli: A Life tion in Minnesota. He still lives there part Beyond Ideology time when he is not teaching literature and creative writing at the University of (Continuum). A Southern California. Two events spurred him to write this book. The first was the major figure of the 2005 school shooting on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota that left seven Italian Renaissance, people dead. Both of his parents had worked at the school, and Treuer felt the Machiavelli was an author, statesman, need to give a fuller account of the story, one that went beyond tragedy. political theorist, diplomat, historian, Ye t Treuer did not know how to tell that story until 2007, when his grandfather philosopher, playwright, and poet. committed suicide. Treuer was asked to write the eulogy, and he felt a desperate Oppenheimer is a professor of compar- need to see the event in a different way. After much reflection, he was able to say ative literature at the City College and at the funeral that “all appearances to the contrary, [my grandfather] really got to the Graduate Center of the City live the life he wanted to live, in the place he wanted to live it, surrounded by the University of New York. ... J.J. KEYSER people he loved most,” he recalls. “In that, he was far luckier than most of us are.” ’61 and his son, In short, his grandfather’s life was a story of more, not less. John M. Keyser — Treuer brought the same perspective to the writing of Rez Life. The book relies on their band is DJ a variety of individuals, some friends and family members, to examine various facets Spazzy Stiff and of Indian life. For example, writing about his mother, a tribal court judge, allowed The Fresh Baronet Treuer to talk about the complicated story of Native American justice. Other — collaborated on chapters deal with treaty rights, the notion of sovereignty, and the surprising suc- the jazz CD Master Cruiser (Jive Corner cess of Indian casinos. He also writes about his brother, Anton Treuer ’91, with Records). The 12 tracks combine jazz, whom he is working to preserve the Ojibwe language; and the author’s friend, bossa nova, and electronica. J.J. Keyser Sean Fahrlander, a colorful storyteller and expert fisherman. The book weaves in is a retired surgeon and played with Treuer’s own story with a larger historical account of the Native American journey. JEAN-LUC the group The Minstrels at his 50th “The force of history is writ in people’s lives in very large letters on the reserva-

Princeton reunion last May. John M. tion,” says Treuer. “You can see [it] very clearly when you know where to look.” π BERTINI Keyser is a jazz guitarist. By Maurice Timothy Reidy ’97

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Computer monitor screens were smaller, keyboards were larger, and eyeglasses were huge in March 1985, when this photo was taken in Jadwin Hall. According to archivists, these computer-science students are pictured in the physics department. Their matching T-shirts feature the logo of the Massive Memory Machine Project (MMM), which began at Princeton around 1983 and studied how very large amounts of memory would change the way problems were solved. Can any PAW readers remember the occasion for the photo or the students pictured?

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P 56 Perspective continued from page 23 school, had no access to Advanced Place- can become the community. “band parents,” school-play producers, and ment classes, and our extracurricular activ- Princeton has a record of leadership in assistant coaches; serve on committees; ities were limited to the offerings at our promoting opportunity. Endowment and engage in activities designed to fur- undistinguished local high school. Some- funds are dedicated to financial aid. ther their children’s interests. The eco- thing along the way has shifted dramati- Tenure requirements have been modified nomic investment of these families may cally, and the result is winnowing of to support young parents. Early-action not be transparent, but is real nonetheless. opportunity that starts long before stu- protocols have been adjusted to include On paper, such a family might well have dents are old enough to apply to college. those who need to consider finances later the same “middle income” as one in I do not profess to any knowledge of in the process. These are hallmarks of an which both parents work in average-wage the mysterious inner workings of the ad- institution that values fairness and social jobs, whose children fend for themselves mission office, and only can imagine how evolution. It is time for Princeton to take or babysit siblings after school. The fami- difficult it must be to sift through the the lead to ensure that the best education, lies’ incomes may be similar; their situa- mountain of talent vying for such few with all that it confers, can be attained tions are not. spots. I cannot suggest how the selection across our socioeconomic spectrum. Princeton’s generous financial aid is to process could be shifted to consider crite- I am not worried about my daughter. be applauded, but here again the statistics ria beyond the constellation of expensive She will go on to receive a fine education can be misleading. According to Univer - achievements. I only know that this ré- at a public university and make a success sity statistics, 58 percent of students in the sumé arms race should be reversed. of her life by virtue of her own qualities. I Class of 2014 receive financial aid — but Princeton has been a part of my identity do worry, however, about the future of the that aid can extend to families earning as for nearly 35 years. In addition to inter- society that she and all of our children are much as $200,000 per year. Still, nearly viewing applicants, I have missed very few growing up into. The next generation’s C O U R

half the class does not qualify for — or of my 30 reunions, participated on a cam- leaders should include T E S Y

has not applied for — aid. T pus career panel, and worked on a major young people whose first A M A R

I doubt that people like my sister (Class A

reunion. But what is the meaning of lessons in success came S O R E

of 1984) and I would have a chance to at- “Princeton in the nation’s service?” It is from achieving balance in L L

’ 8 tend a top college today. We worked week- not just about the works of the Princeton their lives — and yes, per- 1 ends and summers throughout high community; it also must be about who haps from selling shoes. π Tamara Sorell ’81

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THE CLASS OF 1935 and a faithful classmate to Jake’s family and and 26 godchildren. He was buried in JOHN S. SIMPSON ’35 John, known to us as friends. Shreveport, La., the town in which he grew “Johnny,” died Nov. 10, 2011, at Indiana up. Regional Medical Center in Indiana, Pa., where THE CLASS OF 1939 he was born, raised, and lived nearly all of FRANK M. STEWART ’39 Preceded at Princeton by THE CLASS OF 1945 his life. A graduate of Kiskiminetas Springs his father, George B. Stewart Jr. 1906, his GARTH K. GRAHAM ’45 Garth Graham died March School, he majored in history at Princeton grandfather, George B. Stewart Sr. 1876, his 24, 2011. and was a member of Charter Club. His sen- brother, George B. Stewart III ’36, and other Garth entered Princeton from York ior-year roommate was Ray Hess. relatives, Frank was born in Beirut, Lebanon, Community High School in Illinois and At the University of Pennsylvania Law where his father was secretary-treasurer of joined Key and Seal. In 1944 he received his School he edited the Law Review. He gradu- the American University of Beirut. bachelor’s degree in chemistry Phi Beta ated in 1938, and returned to Indiana to Profoundly intellectually curious, he Kappa, and then received a medical degree practice with Fisher & Ruddock. He ultimate- earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from from Harvard in 1947 after having been in ly retired in 2006 from his own firm, Harvard, having worked in operational V-12 in the Navy Medical Corps. He served Simpson, Kablack & Bell. A member of the analysis for the Eighth Air Force during the during the Korean War in both Korea and Indiana County and Pennsylvania Bar associ- war. In 1947 he began teaching at Brown, Japan, and eventually spent 20 years on the ations, he was regarded as the dean of where he remained for his entire career, with medical staff of UCLA Medical Center and Indiana County lawyers. visiting professorships in London and at St. John’s Hospital. A member of Calvary Presbyterian Tougaloo College in Mississippi. In later Garth married Jean Williams, and they Church, Indiana Elks 391, and the Indiana years he published important work in popu- later divorced. He then married Erika Country Club, Johnny served on the Indiana lation biology, mutation rates, and genetics. Wunsch in 1972. They moved to Philadelphia, Hospital board for many years and was Frank was a passionate advocate of social where he was employed by Smith, Kline & involved with a number of other area non- justice, especially regarding Palestine and French. Garth retired as vice president of profits. His interests included reading, bridge, capital punishment. He enjoyed origami, product safety and continued to work as a and golf. Byzantine icon painting, travel, and many consultant in the pharmaceutical industry. Johnny was predeceased by Elizabeth, his other activities, including building his own Garth, who survived several serious ill- wife of 64 years, and two brothers. He is sur- computers. In 2005 he attended the 100th nesses, was deeply devoted to his Episcopal vived by two sons, William and John, and anniversary of the American Community Church parish, where he served on the vestry. their families; three grandchildren; and four School in Beirut. In addition to Erika, he is survived by his P great-grandchildren. Caroline, his wife of 45 years, died in son, Garth; daughters Katherine and Pamela; 57 1991. Of her, Frank quoted Proverbs in our and six grandchildren. Sadly, his youngest THE CLASS OF 1937 40th-reunion book saying, “A good wife is to daughter, Cynthia, died Dec. 9, 2011. The JACOB C. NEVIUS ’37 Jake died Jan. 11, 2012, in be valued above rubies.” class expresses its sympathy to the family. Trenton, N.J., where he had been a lifelong Frank died Nov. 2, 2011. He is survived by resident. his son, William, to whom the class extends THE CLASS OF 1950 He graduated cum laude from the Peddie its sympathy. JAMES C. MCCLAVE ’50 Jim died Nov. 30, 2011, at School in Hightstown, N.J., before coming to his home in Stuart, Fla. Princeton. During World War II, he served in THE CLASS OF 1944 He graduated from Cliffside Park (N.J.) the Army in New Guinea and the Philippines, CLARENCE WILLARD ROBINSON ’44 Will died Sept. High School and was a Navy officer during attaining the rank of captain. After his mili- 24, 2009, in his longtime home of Denver, World War II. He transferred to Princeton tary service, Jake joined the family business, Colo. from Dartmouth in 1947, adding to a Nevius-Voorhees, a New Jersey department- Coming from Andover, where he was McClave legacy. His father and uncle were in store chain, and eventually became the CEO. active in track, dramatics, and the glee club, the Class of 1903, and his brothers were in He was a member of the Trenton YMCA, he majored in politics at Princeton and was a the classes of 1936 and 1937. He belonged to the Trenton Rescue Mission, the Multiple member of the Westminster Society and Elm Tiger Inn and graduated with a degree in Sclerosis Association, the Symposium Club, Club. He roomed with Ray Kelly, Bill civil engineering. and the Christian Business Men’s Club. He Jamison, and Al Bingham. After three years Upon graduation he joined McClave & also belonged to the Newtown (Pa.) in the Army with service in Europe as a cap- McClave, a civil-engineering firm founded by Presbyterian Church. tain, he moved to Billings, Mont., with a his father and uncle. Jim continued the Jake’s wife, the former Margaret Wilson, small company that purchased oil and gas firm’s prominence as the civil engineer for predeceased him. He is survived by a son, leases. Several years later he moved to many Bergen County (N.J.) municipalities. the Rev. James Nevius; a daughter, Anne Denver after a career as an independent oil He was chairman of the board of Hudson Bittner; six grandchildren; and one great- operator. United Bank of Union City, N.J., from 1976 to grandson. During his time as a buyer and Active in the Presbyterian Church, Will 1990. After retiring in 1988, he moved to trader and president of the department-store traveled widely. In each of the class year- Florida. chain, Jake took time to enjoy canoeing, ten- books, he wrote about the depth of the Jim and his wife, Helen, were avid horti- nis, travel, and, of course, making money, friendships he acquired while at Princeton. culturists and were recognized for their according to our 10-year book. He returned to seven major reunions, the last prized daylily gardens in Bergen County. Jim The class extends its sympathy and fond being his 50th. was the longest active member (63 years) of remembrances of a loyal reunion attender Will is survived by a niece, five nephews, Hackensack Golf Club, where he was a three-

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time club golf champion. His Tiger Inn cles and poetry. Dec. 3, 2010. He is survived by Joan; son Bob roommate, Ron Wittreich, remembers a life- We extend our sympathy to his brother, Jr.; daughter Sandra; two granddaughters; time of friendship playing golf in member- Robert; children Malcolm, Virginia, and and his brother, Edgar. guest tournaments, reunions, and Tiger foot- Keith; and three grandsons. ball games. FREDERICK S. NELSON ’51 Sandy was born March Our sympathy goes to Helen, son John, THE CLASS OF 1951 26, 1926, the son of W. Ripley and Margaret and two grandchildren. Sadly, his son Jamie KENNETH E. FROST ’51 Ken was born Nov. 26, (Seymour) Nelson. died of cancer in 1998. 1928, in New York City, the son of M. A graduate of Choate, he served in the Kenneth and Maude (Jenkins) Frost. Merchant Marine for three years before com- HARRISON MCMICHAEL ’50 “Mac” died Nov. 20, He prepared at Lawrenceville. At Prince- ing to Princeton, where he was a history 2011. ton, he served on the Nassau Sovereign, was major and business manager of The Daily Born in Philadelphia, Mac came to Prince- a member of the Liberal Union and Key and Princetonian and belonged to Colonial. On ton from Lawrenceville. At Princeton, he was Seal, roomed with Graham White, and Sept. 13, 1952, he and Cornelia Gibson were a member of Terrace and graduated with majored in economics, graduating magna married. honors in biology. Though he graduated in cum laude. Sandy had a remarkable career in the nas- 1951, he elected to remain a member of ’50. He was called to active duty in Korea and cent world of business automation. Initially, Mac completed his medical studies at the was severely wounded in October 1952, after he worked for Hamilton Foundry and University of Pennsylvania Medical School which he spent three years recovering in Machine Co. in Hamilton, Ohio, where he in 1956, midway through fitting in a year of Walter Reed Army Hospital. Ken was award- first worked with raw materials, work in graduate-level biology at Cal Tech. Following ed two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star, and a progress, finished goods, and related invento- internship and residency in pathology, he Silver Star for heroism. ry controls. In 1955 he joined American served two years at the Armed Forces After his return to civilian life, he worked Cyanamid, where he eventually headed the Institute of Pathology in Washington as an in the family business, Long Island Storage team that developed and installed the first Air Force captain. He then returned to the & Warehouse, but soon turned to a literary inventory data-processing system of its kind medical school, joining the faculty in 1961. life, and in particular, to poetry. For some in the country. In 1964 he moved to Clairol He became an associate dean in 1969, begin- time he taught creative writing and English as data-processing manager, and eight years ning a 30-year tenure. literature at Columbia University and The later to the top electronic data-processing job After his retirement, Mac enjoyed boating New School. at its parent company, Bristol-Myers. with his family and traveling worldwide with On Nov. 22, 1986, he married Carolyn A resident of New Canaan, Conn., for over his wife, Blanche, whom he married in 1969. Gelland, also a poet. Both are published 54 years, Sandy was active in United Way, We extend our sympathy to Blanche; his authors, he for Night Flight and she for Four- the New Canaan library, the Field Club, and four children, Paul, Ellen, David, and Alarm House. They moved to Maine to read St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Sandy died Feb. P Suzanne; five grandchildren; and a great- and write. Ken died there Feb. 10, 2011; 27, 2011, and is survived by Cornelia; their 58 grandson. interment was in the Maine Veterans sons, George (“Toby”) ’76 and James (“Jim”) Memorial Cemetery with military honors. ’80; two grandchildren; and a great-grandson. EDWARD N. MELDAHL ’50 “Ted” Meldahl died Carolyn survives him. peacefully Nov. 11, 2011, in North Carolina. PETER G. ROUNDS ’51 Pete was born May 26, After graduating from Choate, he studied ROBERT W. HOEDEMAKER ’51 Bob was born July 1, 1927, the son of Harold E. Rounds, and grad- in the Navy V-12 program at Notre Dame 1930, in Paterson, N.J., the son of Peter and uated from Kimball Union Academy in 1945. and at the Navy Oriental Language School in Mildred Koch Hoedemaker. He was in the Army from 1945 to 1947, Oklahoma, where he was commissioned as He attended Passaic Valley High in Little serving in the First Infantry Division and an ensign in 1946. Entering Princeton in Falls, N.J., where he and our classmate Bill Medical Corps. At Princeton he was an archi- 1948, he graduated with honors in religion Brown were first in school together. At tecture major, business manager of the in 1950. He continued his study of Japanese Princeton he was in the NROTC and earned Nassau Lit, assistant swimming manager, at Columbia and at Tokyo University on a a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, and a member of Whig Clio, the moun- Fulbright Scholarship. played football, was on the swimming team, taineering and outing clubs, the Triangle Ted used his language skills by working played in the band, and belonged to Cannon. stage crew, and Court Club. He roomed with for Pfizer and Abbott Labs in Japan from He roomed with Chandler Dawson, Daniel Anson Taylor and Giff Malone. 1956 to 1968. He then returned stateside to Hansen, J.E.T. Rutter, and William Seavey. It has been many years since the class has work in family planning. He joined the Following graduation, Bob served as engi- heard from or about Pete. Our records indi- United Nations Fund for Population neering officer on the destroyer USS O’Hare cate that for a time he was in practice with Activities in 1973, initially covering Malaysia and was separated in 1954, after which he another architect, Claud Bokelman, in and Singapore from Kuala Lumpur, and then earned a master’s degree in electrical engi- Walpole, Maine, and that he retired from five African countries from Nairobi. After neering at MIT. He and Joan Hampel were practice in San Francisco, where he died July retiring, he settled in South Carolina with his married June 25, 1955. Thereafter, he fol- 7, 2010, as reported in the Social Security second wife, Joyce, whom he met in 1971 lowed a career as an engineer in the aero- Death Index. while singing in a choir in Bangkok. Joyce space industry. predeceased him. Bob enjoyed sports. In April 1986 he suf- THE CLASS OF 1954 He had a lifelong love for baseball that he fered a serious brain injury while playing JAMES MACWILLIAM JR. ’54 James MacWilliam shared with his children and grandchildren, handball and was totally paralyzed and died Jan. 14, 2012, in Houston from compli- and as a youngster he once pitched to Ted unable to speak. He was cared for at his cations following open-heart surgery. Williams. He delighted in singing, dancing, Princeton home by his wife and children Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., he prepared for and telling jokes. He was “a consummate with in-home nursing assistance. college at Wilkes-Barre Academy and wordsmith in English,” authoring funny arti- A longtime resident of Princeton, Bob died Wyoming Seminary. A second-generation

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Princeton graduate, he was a politics major, a THE CLASS OF 1961 New Brunswick, N.J. member of Cap and Gown Club, and manag- HORACE BLAIR KLEIN ’61 We lost Blair Dec. 18, Philip was born in Kenya and graduated er of varsity wrestling. After graduation, he 2011, in St. Croix Falls, Wis., after a 2 1/2- from Vineland (N.J.) High School. He was a became a flight instructor in the Naval Air year battle with pancreatic cancer. longtime resident of Princeton, where he ran Corps and was stationed in Florida. Born in St. Paul, Minn., Blair came to his own computer-programming company. Jim built a career in Houston by founding Princeton from St. Paul Academy. At The class extends its condolences to his the commercial-insurance firm of Essary, Princeton he was a Nassoon, a politics major, wife, Paula Vannella Berg; his mother; and Hart & MacWilliam. He continued at and a member of Colonial Club. the extended family. Insurance Concepts, which later became After Princeton, Blair earned a law degree Bancorp South. from the University of Minnesota and THE CLASS OF 1969 For five decades, Jim was chairman of embarked on a law career in corporate and MARTIN J. GOLUB ’69 Martin Golub died Jan. 29, Princeton’s Houston-based schools commit- private practices. Throughout his life, he was 2011, from acute myeloid leukemia and tee, during which he helped almost 1,000 passionate about local government as a myelodysplastic syndrome. students with their college applications. He mechanism for working “in our nation’s serv- A native of New Bedford, Mass., Marty coached baseball at Sharpstown High School ice.” In Minnesota he served the state as graduated from New Bedford High School in Houston and was chairman of the non- assistant attorney general and became the and enjoyed his senior year as an American profit Cancer Counseling Inc. He personally state’s first senate counsel. After moving to Field Service student in Belgium. On the trip overcame three forms of cancer in his life- Wyoming, he served in local government as home, he met Melinda, to whom he was mar- time. He maintained an optimistic attitude an administrative law judge and as a justice ried in 1968. and had an infectious smile. of the peace. After graduating from Princeton with a The class extends its condolences to his In retirement, Blair returned to the family degree in French literature, Marty and wife, Karen; his children, Catherine, James, farm in St. Croix Falls, where he served on Melinda moved to Ithaca, N.Y., for his doctor- Payson, Walker, and Christopher; stepsons many local councils and as town clerk. In al program at Cornell, but his studies were Craig and Keith; his sister, Anne; and his 10 addition, Blair participated enthusiastically interrupted by service in the Coast Guard grandchildren. in the work of many nonprofit organizations. Reserve. Subsequently, Melinda and Marty Blair is survived by his five children, both graduated from Boston College Law THE CLASS OF 1958 Daphne, Hoddy ’85, Philipp, Rick, and Kate; School, and he joined Seyfarth Shaw in GILBERT B. KIRWIN ’58 Gilbert “Gib” Kirwin came 13 grandchildren; his brother, Allan ’68; and Washington, D.C., and later established its to Princeton from Far Rockaway High School his sister, Minty Piper. With them we mourn Brussels office. in Queens, N.Y., where he had been president his passing. The family, including children Elisabeth, of his class and an All-New York City football Joseph, David, and Catherine, especially player. THE CLASS OF 1962 enjoyed their time in Brussels and the oppor- P At Princeton he majored in economics, WILLIAM W. BACKES JR. ’62 William Backes died tunity it presented for the children to grow was in the Navy ROTC, and played both Dec. 20, 2011, at home in Yardley, Pa., after a up multilingual. A distinguished and accom- 59 freshman and junior varsity football. During long illness. plished professional, Marty considered his his first two years he roomed with Paul Son of William W. Backes ’26, Bill came to family to be the joy and focus of his life. Nystrom, Larry Sault, Ken Lenert, Cliff Princeton from the Lawrenceville School, The Golubs lost their son David in 2008. MacDonald, and Bill Tornrose, and as a jun- majored in English, and dined at Key and Marty is survived, in addition to his widow ior and senior with Dial Lodge clubmates Seal. He managed the freshman baseball and children, by his sisters Beth, Mara, and Lenert, Jim Clarke, Willie Cox, Mike Curan, team, was in Whig-Clio, and was president of Valerie. We extend our sympathy to them. and Carroll James. the Pre-Law Society. His roommate, John Gib served as a Marine Corps officer in Sands, remembered, “When I met Bill 53- THE CLASS OF 1970 Okinawa, retiring from the Reserve as a plus years ago . . . he was the brother I never MATTHEW J. MEYERS ’70 Matt Meyers died June major. He then went to Hastings College of had.” 25, 2011, in Las Cruces, N.M., surrounded by Law in San Francisco. He maintained an He attended law school at Temple friends from his community of artists, writ- active law practice in San Francisco, primari- University. An attorney, he was the senior ers, environmentalists, yoga enthusiasts, and ly as a plaintiff’s trial attorney, and later in partner of the law firm of Backes & Backes spiritual seekers. Matt loved the peacefulness La Jolla, Calif., where he had a second home, in Pennington, N.J. he found in the mountains of New Mexico, until his death from cancer Dec. 2, 2011. Bill’s wife of 47 years, Joy, said, “I have where he taught yoga, meditation, and smok- Gib was a member of the San Francisco never known anyone more courageous. I ing-cessation techniques. Yacht Club, which he loved. He was active in started loving Bill when I was 17 and have Matt hailed from Brooklyn, graduating the Northern California Chapter of the been blessed to share so much of my life from James Madison High School, and National Football Foundation and College with him.” His son, Matt, stated, “All of my brought to Princeton all the intensity and Hall of Fame. He remained interested in father’s achievements are artifacts of a life spirit that Brooklyn begat. Matt excelled in Princeton, kept in touch with a number of lived attentively and with care. This is what Professor Alpheus T. Mason’s famously classmates, and attended many of our we mean, or should mean, when we speak of challenging course on “Constitutional reunions. He was involved with Bay Area integrity.” Interpretation,” and later, as editor of the Princeton activities — particularly in helping The class extends its sympathy to Joy; 1968 Bric-a-Brac, dedicated the yearbook to the athletics department with recruiting — sons Matthew and Pierson; his sister, Nancy Professor Mason. Ever loyal, Matt made a and followed Princeton sports closely. Walsh; and all family members. point of visiting Professor Mason whenever He is survived by his wife, Joanne; his he returned to Princeton. But Matt will be daughter, Rachel; and brothers Stanley and THE CLASS OF 1966 most vividly remembered by us as an avid Paul and their families. The class extends its PHILIP J. BERG ’66 Philip Berg died Sept. 20, and conspicuous leader of the campus anti- condolences to them all. 2011, at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in war movement.

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After graduation, he earned a master’s dents, he was voted “best teacher” for many degree in public health from Columbia PAW posts a list of recent alumni deaths years. He retired in 2003. University, and traveled extensively, includ- at paw.princeton.edu. Find it under “Web In 1977, Beiser earned a law degree from ing several extended stays in Israel. His Exclusives” on PAW’s home page. The list Harvard. Later, the dean of the Brown focus gradually turned from politics to indi- is updated with each new issue. Medical School asked him to develop the vidual and community well-being, and to program in liberal medical education. Beiser poetry. We are privileged to have known then became associate dean of biomedical such an indomitable soul, restless intellect, Alstead. Kip quickly became one of the ethics wherein he helped to develop a third- and wellspring of creativity. town’s leading citizens, raising a family, prac- year clerkship program in applied clinical ticing law, and being named one of New ethics. BRUCE A. WALLIN ’70 Bruce lost his struggle with Hampshire’s 10 probate judges. As a jurist, He was considered an expert witness in cancer Dec. 29, 2011. Kip was known for his careful listening, medical ethics by the Rhode Island Supreme Bruce prepared for Princeton at Highland probing questions, and thoroughly expressed Court. Tom Bledsoe M.D., associate professor Park High School in St. Paul, Minn. A poli- opinions, assisting many fractured families of medicine and a colleague at Brown, said tics major, he ate at Tower Club and graduat- to find just resolutions. Beiser “had a remarkable capacity to get the ed cum laude. A stalwart on the Ivy Classmates will miss sharing with Kip his group to stop and think about what, cultural- Championship rugby team of 1969, Bruce many joys in life: his family, Keene, New ly, had become a matter of routine.” was universally liked by teammates, who England’s woods, the Bosox, and Princeton. Beiser is survived by three sons and 10 recall how his fluent French helped arrange The class extends deepest sympathy to his grandchildren. lifesaving medical treatment for a teammate wife; his son, Sam; and his daughter, Meg. while at a tournament in Martinique. FRANK J. GRATZER *71 Frank Gratzer, a retired The academic life called him to Berkeley THE CLASS OF 1980 electrical engineer who had been with Bell for his Ph.D. Bruce then taught at the STEVEN D. MILLER ’80 We are sad to report that Laboratories and its successors for 30 years, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Cal Steven Miller died suddenly March 7, 2010, died at his home Oct. 24, 2010, of Hodgkin’s Fullerton, and, since 1990, Northeastern. at Washington University Medical Center in lymphoma. He was 65. A Fulbright scholar, he published books St. Louis of complications relating to open- He graduated from Manhattan College in on revenue-sharing and taxation. Teaching heart surgery. His wife, Lisa Huxley, was at 1966, and in 1971 was awarded a Ph.D. in government and finance, he twice won the his side. electrical engineering from Princeton. He Northeastern University Excellence in After graduating from Princeton with a then joined Bell Labs. Teaching Award. Remembrances posted by bachelor’s degree in politics, “Mill Mill,” as he Later, as executive director of Bell his former students and colleagues reveal a was known by his friends, received a law Communications Research (Bellcore), he was transformative teacher. His enthusiasm and degree from Washington University. At the responsible for broadband data services. P personal energy caused his courses to be time of his death, he was in private practice Gratzer was awarded the Bellcore CEO 60 oversubscribed and remembered for their in St. Louis. Award for his contributions to the telecom- intellectual challenge and excitement. John Novaria, who remembered Steve munications system of Greece. Bruce co-founded the West Roxbury from undergraduate days, said he “was In retirement, Gratzer enjoyed tutoring (Mass.) Courthouse Neighborhood extremely funny and probably made me students in math and physics at Raritan Association and coached youth soccer. He laugh more than any other classmate. I’m Valley Community College. Dedicated to stay- also was a source of political commentary for really saddened.” Jonathan Plitman wrote: ing in shape, he swam in a pool three times a local media. “He had a sharp eye for pretense but was week for more than 30 years. The class extends sympathy on the loss of at the same time full of good humor and Gratzer is survived by Ann, his wife of 41 this teacher, thinker, writer, mentor, coach, kindness.” years; two daughters, Allison Gratzer ’03 and engaged citizen, and family man to Bruce’s Steve is survived by Lisa, whom he mar- Carolyn Gratzer Cope ’98 s’98; two grand- wife, Vickie, and daughters Anne and Eva. ried in 1991; his father, Abraham Miller; his daughters; and his father, Frank Sr. stepmother, Stelle Miller; and his brother, ALBERT H. WEEKS ’70 “Kip” Weeks died of cancer Michael Miller. He was predeceased by his JANET G. SPECK *82 Janet Speck, a career U.S. Dec. 31, 2011, in Keene, N.H. mother, Phyllis Hyde, and his sister, Ellen Foreign Service officer, died of breast cancer Raised in Cedarhurst, N.Y., he prepared for Miller. Oct. 29, 2011, at the age of 58. Princeton at the Brooks School in North Steve will be missed for his wit and charm. Speck received a bachelor’s degree in his- Andover, Mass. At Princeton, Kip was an tory from Chicago in 1976 and a law degree English major and a member of Ivy Club. He from Cornell in 1980. She then earned a was preceded at Princeton by his father, Graduate alumni master’s degree in public affairs from the Louis S. Weeks Jr. ’40. EDWARD N. BEISER *67 Edward Beiser, professor Woodrow Wilson School in 1982. Following graduation, Kip embarked on a emeritus of political science at Brown Joining the State Department in 1983, she life fueled by his natural curiosity about peo- University, died Sept. 4, 2009, of Parkinson’s served in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Guyana, ple and their stories. Kip served the Inuit disease at an assisted-living facility. He was Russia, and Vietnam, as well as in community in Alaska, learning to travel by 67. Washington, D.C. She held the title of eco- dogsled; later he was an investigative Beiser graduated from the City College of nomic officer and earned numerous depart- reporter for the Keene Sentinel. Kip then New York in 1962 and received a master’s ment awards for her work. attended Catholic University Law School in degree in politics from Princeton in 1964 Speck is survived by a daughter, her Washington, D.C., where he met and married and a Ph.D. in 1967. mother, and two sisters. his wife, Christine. He began teaching at Williams College in They returned to Keene, a town he had 1965 and joined Brown’s political science Graduate memorials are prepared by the adored since childhood summers in nearby department in 1968. Very popular with stu- APGA.

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