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Princeton Alumni Weekly

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012 VOLUME 113 NUMBER 4 President’s Page 2 Inbox 3 From the Editor 5

Campus Notebook 10 DAVID

Endowment results • Alumnae, ALTSHULER professor embroiled in literary flap • Fred Buechner ’47, page 22. Committee begins presidential search • More outreach to grad alumni • Aspire gala • French theater in Prince - ‘Pay attention to your life’ 22 ton • IDEAS: Breaking Ground: More Writer Fred Buechner ’47, an ordained minister, has spent a efficient solar panels • FYI: Militant lifetime bringing the sacred to a secular society. groups’ support • Briefs • ON THE By Maurice Timothy Reidy ’97 CAMPUS: Student activism • Adapting to the ban on freshman rush Sports 18 America’s soundtrack 26 With a remarkable comeback, What are the sounds that define U.S. culture? Librarian of Princeton breaks Harvard’s winning Congress James H. Billington ’50 judges what makes the list. streak in football • Sports shorts By Marc Fisher ’80 A Moment With 21 Hayley Gorenberg ’87, champion of LGBT legal rights Alumni Scene 30 What’s new @ PAW O N LI N E A Nobel Prize for Lloyd Shapley *53 PRINCETON VS. YALE • Malcolm Warnock ’25, oldest alum, PHOTOS, dies at 107 • STARTING OUT: Alex Landon Follow football’s trip to New FROM Haven and the bid for a Big

’12 • Oral histories from the Class of TOP: Three bonfire. ’62 • READING ROOM: Katie Roiphe *95 BEVERLY takes on today’s intelligentsia • New SCHAEFER; releases SOUNDS OF PRINCETON

Gregg Lange ’70’s PRINCETON Perspective 37 Listen to archival recordings, including a song performed Rally ’Round the Cannon In Europe, a taste of home by Jimmy Stewart ’32. Stories of the first five UNIVERSITY By Kerry Saretsky ’05 ships that have carried Class Notes 38 NATIONAL TREASURES the name USS Princeton. ARCHIVES;

Memorials 57 Hear clips of James Billington LIBRARY ’50’s selections for the National

PAW on iTunes OF Princeton Exchange 61 Recording Registry. Listen to Rally CONGRESS; ’Round the Cannon as Final Scene 64 BRETT ORAL HISTORY a podcast on iTunes. TOMLINSON/PAW Watch video highlights and ON THE COVER: Linebacker Garrit Leicht ’15 celebrates Princeton’s comeback win over Harvard. Photograph by read interviews with members Beverly Schaefer. of the Class of ’62. the president’s page In the Service of the Humanities he year 2013 marks the 60th anniversary of the the aegis of the Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows. Council of the Humanities, which from its perch Over the past 60 years, countless scholars, writers, and artists in the Joseph Henry House, makes its creative have been guests of the council, spanning the spectrum from presence felt across our campus. At a time when the up-and-coming postdoctoral fellows to celebrated figures in the Tutility of liberal arts curricula is being questioned, I am happy world of arts and letters, among them Eudora Welty, Arthur to report that the humanities are alive and well at Princeton. Miller, and Meryl Streep. Another set of guests are the Ferris, In recent years, new certificate programs ranging from McGraw, and Robbins visiting journalists, who come from The translation and intercultural communication to Latino studies New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, the BBC, and have emerged, and last spring, a robust 19 percent of our many other organizations to spend a semester teaching their seniors earned degrees in humanistic disciplines, well above craft in undergraduate seminars. Their unofficial dean is John the national average. If history, which straddles the humanities McPhee ’52 of The New Yorker, who has taught in the program and social sciences, is included, this figure rises to a quarter since 1974. of the graduating class. The vitality of the humanities at Last but certainly not least, the council sponsors a number Princeton owes much to strong departments and programs, of interdisciplinary courses on both European and Asian exceptional faculty, and students with catholic interests, but cultures. One of these is the legendary team-taught, double- it is multiplied by the work of the council — a crossroads for credit “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture: humanists of every stripe and, more recently, colleagues from History, Religion, Philosophy, Literature and the Arts,” other divisions of our University. where 45 incoming students are immersed in what they call “intellectual boot camp” with six faculty members each term. The course’s popularity is understandable. As one freshman recently put it, “it sets you up for so many different disciplines because it builds you a scaffolding of all of Western thought.”

Herrington Two of the council’s newest initiatives expand this concept further. One is the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the

Lance Humanities, affectionately known as I-HUM, where selected graduate students receive an extra fellowship year in order to explore a new field that will broaden their research agendas. Participants receive a joint degree in the program and their home department. At the undergraduate level, I-HUM’s counterpart is the new interdisciplinary certificate in humanistic studies, where students can chart their own paths through the curriculum by creating bridges from their area of concentration to another field, thereby illuminating one with the questions and approaches of the other. Students are encouraged to forge thoughtful connections between the humanities and arts; between the humanities and related social sciences; between Scheide Professor of Music History Scott Burnham shares his knowledge different cultures; or between the humanities and sciences. and enthusiasm with students in the Council of the Humanities’ double- They may also serve as pioneers in the burgeoning field of credit course “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture: History, digital humanities, which uses technology to address perennial Religion, Philosophy, Literature and the Arts.” questions and formulate new ones, whether that means mining digitized texts for linguistic patterns or reconstructing historic Founded in 1953 by Professor of Classics Whitney J. sites through geospatial imaging. Oates ’25 *31 and led today by Stuart Professor of Philosophy Let me close with a brand-new council venture. Through Gideon Rosen *92 and veteran executive director Carol this imaginative program, pairs of scientists and humanists Rigolot, the council currently coordinates 23 interdisciplinary collaborate on projects that can benefit from their dual programs and committees that stretch from the Ancient World expertise. In one such partnership, musicologist Anna to contemporary American culture; from political philosophy Zayaruznaya and computer scientist Rebecca Fiebrink *11 to linguistics. Since its beginnings, the council has been an are seeking to help users around the world engage with incubator, nurturing projects in their formative years. The a medieval manuscript in collaborative ways. Engineer Department of Comparative Literature, the Program of Naomi Leonard ’85 and composer Dan Trueman *99 are Freshman Seminars in the Residential Colleges, the Program studying feedback and interaction in musical composition, in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the programs now while philosopher Mark Johnston *84 and astrophysicist encompassed by the Lewis Center for the Arts were hatched Ed Turner are exploring philosophical issues in inflationary in the council’s academic nest and nurtured there while cosmology and the multiverse. These projects, which would developing their own strong wings. Put another way, the have been unthinkable 60 years ago, illustrate the council’s council is a master of reinvention, deriving its shape, though unique ability to help our faculty and students interweave not its fundamental mission, from the ever changing needs strands of learning that, together, reveal new and exciting and interests of our campus. sections of the tapestry of life, making for an anniversary The council also hosts a rich array of visiting fellows from that all of us can celebrate! around the world for periods ranging from a few days to three years, to say nothing of our own juniors and seniors, two dozen of whom come together once a month to explore ideas under

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Inbox Inbox BUZZ BOX Death of Warnock ’25 “Burr ... was a scoundrel, and we alumni must sparks alumni memories accept the fact that he is a notorious Princetonian.” Each story, letter, and memorial — Paul Matten ’84 at paw.princeton.edu offers a chance to comment “I tend to look at [Burr] more as I view LBJ, that Alumni reacted with sadness and fond latter-day ‘deeply flawed idealist.’” memories as PAW Online reported Oct. 9 that Malcolm Roe Warnock ’25, — Edwin L. Brown *61 Princeton’s oldest Aaron Burr, pro and con influential alumni in place of Donald alumnus Rumsfeld ’54? and a Within the Revolutionary generation, EDWIN L. BROWN *61 fixture at the leader with the best judge of talent Asheville, N.C. Reunions, and integrity was none other than had died George Washington. Tellingly, Gen. — earlier and later, President — Washington Potential in admissions that day (see Alumni Scene, page 31). wanted little to do with Aaron Burr Jr. “I will always remember Malcolm 1772 (feature, Oct. 10), given the latter’s In a letter in the Oct. 10 issue, Ken Warnock ’25 with fondness and deserved reputation for intrigue of Phillips ’62 wrote exhorting the Uni- respect,” JANICE STULTZ RODDENBERY *77 various sorts. versity to make admission decisions commented at PAW Online. She said Whether it be his well-documented based on “potential” rather than on she first met Warnock at a Chapel moral deficiencies, or his infamous “achievement.” I’d argue that it already Choir alumni sing at Reunions. “He duel with the genius Alexander Hamil- does so — not only because Shirley was 100 years old, and he joined in the ton, or his anti-American association Tilghman, Janet Rapelye, and other singing with the rest of us, as did his with the nefarious James Wilkinson University officials have said as much two daughters,” she said. “I trust that he P post-duel, Burr cannot be redeemed. on the record, but because without the has joined the heavenly choir and is 3 He was a scoundrel, and we alumni consideration of potential, the Univer- singing with great gusto.” must accept the fact that he is a notori- sity would never have admitted me. JUSTIN PURNELL ’00 wrote on Facebook: ous Princetonian. On paper, I was a good-enough high “What an inspiration for generations of PAUL MATTEN ’84 school student, but I was no valedicto- Tigers.” New York, N.Y. rian, prizewinner, or artistic or athletic Former Alumni Association president

superstar. Instead, the admission offi- ANNE SHERRERD *87 wrote on Facebook: After reading this careful weighing of cers who read my file must have seen a “I’ll never forget Malcolm singing ‘Old Burr’s considerable merits alongside spark in my essays that would burst Nassau’ in a booming voice at the Old the familiar demerits, I tend to look into flame in a challenging university Guard luncheon and sharing tips for a SAMEER at him more as I view LBJ, that latter- setting in a way that it hadn’t in the long happy life (a good marriage and A.

day “deeply flawed idealist” — to more circumscribed environment of playing tennis into your 90s). He will KHAN be squeezed among our 25 most my high school. Indeed, it did — and I be missed by so many.” π

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shall be forever grateful for that rela- ing first-rate technology at “objectively” Princeton tively large leap of faith, which allowed fair prices to most of the peoples of the Alumni me to succeed at Princeton and to carry world, even within the flawed con- on to do graduate work in my field. straints of market capitalism. I Weekly That many such leaps of faith have say this, however, not to exclude more turned out to be well-founded is the straightforward “non-market” (but pub- An editorially independent magazine mark of an admission staff that knows lic and private R&D-supportive) solu- by alumni for alumni since 1900 its business very well. tions, which many readers might NOVEMBER 14, 2012 Volume 113, Number 4 EMILY RUTHERFORD ’12 suggest. EDITOR Oxford, United Kingdom BOB HILLS ’67 Marilyn H. Marks *86 Doylestown, Pa. MANAGING EDITOR W. Raymond Ollwerther ’71 Photos with memorials ASSOCIATE EDITORS Jennifer Altmann Thinking about diversity Katherine Federici Greenwood Isn’t it bad enough being dead without DIGITAL EDITOR PAW putting up our Nassau Herald pic- I am not surprised that Princeton is Brett Tomlinson SENIOR WRITER tures (Editor’s letter, Sept. 19)? raising its voice in defense of racial dis- Mark F. Bernstein ’83 HENRY D. CARD ’77 crimination in college admissions CLASS NOTES EDITOR Austin, Texas (Campus Notebook, Sept. 19). Even Fran Hulette one of its former presidents famously ART DIRECTOR Editor’s note: Beginning with the Sept. 19 did so. All, of course, in the cause of a Marianne Gaffney Nelson issue, PAW began publishing Nassau “robust” diversity that is supposed to PUBLISHER Herald photos to accompany undergradu- bring great educational benefits. Nancy S. MacMillan p’97 ate memorials. Among others who wrote in Sadly, the chief diversity that seems ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Colleen Finnegan was Gus Brothman ’51, who cited the to interest these folks is diversity in “nostalgic appeal and easy recognition” skin pigmentation; when it comes to STUDENT INTERNS provided by the photos. diversity of opinions, which one might Laura C. Eckhardt ’14; Nicole M. Kreutter ’15; Erin McDonough ’14; Rosaria Munda ’14; consider more directly linked to the Allison S. Weiss ’13 educational enterprise, the enthusiasm PROOFREADER Joseph Bakes Big Macs and pricing slackens. And at the end of several WEBMASTER River Graphics years of benefiting from robust diver- As an executive at a leading pharma- sity, some (but not all) students get PAW BOARD Annalyn M. Swan ’73, Chair ceutical firm in the 1980s, one of the to celebrate separate (but, I am sure, Richard Just ’01, Vice Chair great challenges was establishing a fair equal) commencements. It’s best to *James Barron ’77 Anne A. Cheng ’85 and transparent pricing system for life- laugh. Otherwise one would have to *Robert K. Durkee ’69 saving drugs marketed worldwide. weep. John McCarthy ’88 *Margaret Moore Miller ’80 Beyond our own strong sense of ethical JOHN POLT ’49 *Nancy J. Newman ’78 pricing behavior, we were subject to Oakland, Calif. David Remnick ’81 William W. Sweet *75 strict price controls in many countries, Charles Swift ’88 oversight in congressional hearings, With respect to the Class of 2016 *ex officio various patent regimes and threats, (Campus Notebook, Oct. 10), 42.1 per- Bianca Bosker ’08, Young-alumni representative shareholder expectations, and media cent of the students are “U.S. minority” LOCAL ADVERTISING/PRINCETON EXCHANGE commentary, among many other con- and 11.3 percent are “international.” Colleen Finnegan siderations. 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In defense of Will’s essay FROM THE EDITOR Two points in response to the stunning The evening of Friday, Oct. 19, had been billed as quartet of letters (Sept. 19) criticizing Princeton’s big celebration — a time to mark the success of the Aspire cam- George Will *68 for daring to take a paign: $1.88 billion raised, more than $242,300 for every undergrad and grad swipe at abortion in his essay (Perspec- student on campus. And indeed, it was the greatest campus tive, July 11) about his son Jon, who bash of the year. Until the next afternoon, that is. has Down syndrome. That’s when Princeton’s much-maligned football team did First, pace critics Brian Zack ’72 and the unimaginable and ended Harvard’s 14-game winning

Joe Illick ’56, Will is perfectly right to streak, claiming sole possession of first place in the Ivy BEVERLY refer to the unborn as “babies.” That’s League. The spontaneous outpouring of joy in the football SCHAEFER the term countless pregnant women stands — delirium, actually — was a full-throated exclama- use (“How is my baby, doctor?”), as do tion point to the polished party the evening before. those referring to miscarriages (“We At the Aspire event, more than 1,000 alumni volunteers Athletics director Gary Walters ’67, lost the baby”). Indeed, it would be jar- and donors and their guests were rewarded with an impres- left, and Coach Bob Surace ’90 ring and uncouth to say something sive show that illustrated how their money was being spent – like, “So how is your fetus doing?” or from financial aid, to neuroscience, to the arts, with much in between. You can “I’m sorry you lost your product of see coverage of the event on page 12. conception.” The only reason to insist The production was flawless, as Princeton celebrations tend to be. on dry, clinical terms like “fetus” is to But though President Tilghman delivered her lines perfectly Friday night, it distance ourselves emotionally from was even more wonderful when she jumped out of her seat, shouting with someone who is going to be hurt or glee, on Saturday afternoon. killed, e.g., by aborting them. By the time you are reading this, we will know how Princeton fared against Second, that special-needs children Yale. It’s possible that the Tigers will have fallen from the league’s top spot. No can require extra love and effort is not a matter. In its dramatic victory against Harvard, the football team brought pure reason to kill them, either before or after joy to Tigertown — and that’s something no one can plan. birth. Yes, even raising healthy children — Marilyn H. Marks *86 is demanding. But so is lifelong commitment to a spouse, caring for the poor, P and teaching students. In these and 5 other cases, we certainly can offer sympathy and support for the burdens peo- YOU KNOW THE VALUE OF AN ple face in fulfilling their obligations. But surely we can do better than to dis- IVY LEAGUE NETWORK. member or poison (the main abortion techniques) a “special-needs” spouse, IMAGINE THE VALUE OF TWO. poor person, student, and, yes, child. An MBA from Johnson at Cornell University opens a new world of connect- WALTER WEBER ’81 ions and possibilities. It creates bonds that are forged under the pressures of Alexandria, Va. solving real issues for real businesses — from innovative startups to Fortune 500 companies. Combine the strengths of others into solutions that work — An inspiring professor for your career and your company. Learn more or register for an admissions event at johnson.cornell.edu. I just returned from a remote camp working as an exploration geologist and learned of the death of Professor

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nomenon at the time. Then he went further and inspired me to research and Increase Your ROI write another report. He pointed out (Return On Ivy) that the atmosphere is connected to the ocean and any increase in atmospheric You’ve reaped the bene ts of investing in an Ivy League CO2 would equilibrate with ocean CO2, education. Now let your business reap the bene ts of then asked what would be the result. advertising in the Ivy League Magazine Network. After some quick figuring, my con- Join the list of automotive, travel, nancial, and corporate clusion was that the ocean would advertisers who use the ILMN to reach the most af uent, become undersaturated in calcium car- in uential, and educated audience in print. bonate within 45 years, resulting in coral reefs and seashells dissolving. I To advertise, call Larry Brittan, Associate Publisher, at 631-754-4264. don’t know about the timing predic- tion, but recognition of this dynamic hit the newsstands only in the past few years. My senior thesis predicted that humans would fail the moral test of our age by not addressing global warm-

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FOREIGN STUDY PROGRAM IN THE AFRICAN DESERT OR in our materialistic culture. CONDUCTING CLIMATE RESEARCH IN THE FROZEN ARCTIC, ECOLOGIST AND POPULAR PROFESSOR ROSS VIRGINIA IS THE Professor Holland was an excellent

NATURAL teacher and an inspiration to me. I

Alcp&8l^ljk)'() 58E43>;;0AB regret not telling him that in person

while I could have. LARRY CAMPBELL ’70 www.ivymags.com Darby, Mont. P 6 Making a clear point

Re “Ignoring the little guy” (Campus Notebook, Sept. 19): A decades-long study [on economic inequality and political power] to make a point that is “intuitively obvious and manifestly Susan Gordon Ingela Kostenbader clear” (a line from one of my math Sales Associate Sales Associate teachers in the ’50s). 609.688.4813 609.902.5302 FRANK SLOAT ’55 RESIDENTIAL BROKERAGE Catonsville, Md. PrincetonRealEstate.net • PrincetonHome.com &ROGZHOO%DQNHU&RUSRUDWLRQ&ROGZHOO%DQNHULVDUHJLVWHUHGWUDGHPDUNRI&ROGZHOO%DQNHU&RUSRUDWLRQ $Q(TXDO2SSRUWXQLW\&RPSDQ\(TXDO+RXVLQJ2SSRUWXQLW\2ZQHGDQG2SHUDWHGE\157,QFRUSRUDWHG For the record

Cover date: Firestone Library is the headquarters of Calling All January 16, 2013 The Papers of Thomas Jefferson project. The location was incorrect in the Oct. Princeton Musicians! Space deadline: 10 feature on Aaron Burr Jr. 1772. November 19, 2012 PAW failed to note that the image of a Promote your music to 85,000 For more information Daily Princetonian front page showing readers as part of PAW’s special Bruce Springsteen, which appeared January music issue. Join fellow contact advertising director with Buzz Box in the Oct. 24 issue, was alumni and faculty musicians in Colleen Finnegan taken from a Prince joke issue in 1984. advertising your music and any cﬁ[email protected], upcoming performances! 609-258-4886 Springsteen appeared in concert in Jad- win Gym in 1978.

Each story, letter, and memorial at November 14, 2012 Princeton Alumni Weekly • paw.princeton.edu&& paw.princeton.edu offers a chance to comment Dear Fellow Alumni,

t latest count, there are some 87,000+ members of the Alumni Association A of Princeton University. The governing body of the Alumni Association is the Alumni Council, which does its work principally through a series of standing and ad hoc committees. In my view, Princeton has the most engaged alumni on the planet. The volunteers who comprise these committees are responsible for much of our success, and I want to use this month's Chair's Page to introduce their dedicated leaders to you. Locomotives to them all! Henry Von Kohorn '66 Chair, Alumni Council President, Alumni Association of Princeton University

James T. Barron '77 Mike Coccaro '73 Susan Conger-Austin *83 Debbie Godfrey *84 Chair, Class Affairs Commitee Chair, Commitee on Reunions Chair, CAPA Chair, Alumni Relations & Communications Supporting class officers in Giving support to classes Maintaining a lifelong learning building class community. in planning and running relationship between the Initiating new ways to communicate a reunion. University and its alumni. with and among Princeton's growing alumni population.

Bruce Leslie '66 Charlene Huang Olson '88 Laura Dannen Redman '03 Maureen Kelly Scott '75 Chair, Princetoniana Committee Chair, Committee on Regional Chair, Careers Committee Chair, Princeton Schools Committee Associations Sharing the culture and Addressing career Supporting alumni interviewers traditions of Old Nassau. Working with regional associations development interests and via Alumni Schools Committees to engage Princeton alumni with needs of Princeton alumni (ASCs) around the world. the University and with each other. throughout a lifetime.

Jeff Vinikoor '03 Lisa Washington '89 Jeff Wieser '74 Debbie Scott Williams '84 Chair, Technology Chair, Volunteer Stewardship Chair, Committee on Chair, Princeton Prize in Advisory Committee Community Service Race Relations Fostering appreciation for Identifying new technologies volunteers in all Alumni Affirming the value of Commending young people to enhance connections Council activities. participation by all who work to increase between alumni and volunteer organizations understanding and mutual the University. in community service. respect among all races. Did you know that over 18,500 undergraduate and graduate alumni have volunteered on behalf of Princeton and her "MVNOJ"TTPDJBUJPOJOUIFQBTUGFXZFBST mMMJOHNPSFUIBO 23,000 volunteer roles, from schools committee interviewers to class, regional association, and reunions volunteers to career advisors and mentors? A few are represented here, from distinguished Aluminary Charlene Huang Olson ’88, who has served in roles across the spectrum, to the twelve chairs of the Charlene Huang Olson ’88 Chair, Committee on When the Princeton Club of Chicago awarded Charlene Huang Olson ’88 Alumni Council’s standing committees described by President Regional Affairs the Arnold M. Berlin ’46 Distinguished Service to Princeton Award in April and Chair Henry Von Kohorn ’66 in his accompanying “Chair’s President, Class of ’88 of 2011, Olson shared that when she was applying to colleges, her parents Page.” To all our volunteers, we send a Princeton-sized tiger set only one rule: she could not apply to Harvard. Olson never knew why, cheer. We hope to see you back for Alumni Day in February so but joked that Harvard’s mascot “certainly had no respectable spot on the that we can thank you in person for all you do on behalf of this Chinese zodiac.” best old place of all!

That was lucky for Princeton. And it was lucky for Princeton that after her Hope to see you soon, post-graduation years of non-stop travel as a consultant, she decided in 1995 to call Chicago home. She was invited by a fellow alum to join NPOUIMZ1$PG$IJDBHPMFBEFSTIJQNFFUJOHTJOUIFPGmDFPG+FGG4IBSQ “The group was incredibly enthusiastic in their orange and black and set me on the path of becoming an engaged alum.”

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these circumstances, Andrew Golden, 3.1% return for endowment president of Princo, described the endowment’s returns in a PAW interview as an achievement. as its value shrinks slightly “It’s reasonably solid, given the environment of the last year,” he said. “Mar- kets were fickle, if not downright The Princeton University Investment Co. reported Oct. 19 mean-spirited. ... Particularly if you that the endowment earned a modest 3.1 percent gain were involved in anything outside of the U.S., you faced a headwind.” in the year ending June 30. The endowment was worth Among Princeton’s peer schools, $17 billion – $100 million less than a year earlier — endowment returns ranged from 8 per- after taking into account investment returns, gifts cent (MIT) to a slight loss (Harvard). Golden said the results do not affect received, and spending from the endowment. the University’s overall strategy, which In many years, Princeton’s strategy of recession sliced about a quarter off the is to diversify in a broad array of invest- investing in ownership of energy endowment’s value. The endowment is ments domestically and abroad, with reserves and directing a bigger pool of especially important because it pro- hopes of generating a return of about its endowment to developing countries vides a substantial amount of Prince- 10 percent per year. generated huge returns. Last year the ton’s operating budget — 47 percent The steady-as-she-goes strategy comes tables were turned, as energy prices fell this year. more than three years after the Univer- and foreign markets fared poorly. By this time last year, University offi- sity was hit hard by the financial crisis, The results are a sharp contrast from cials knew that they were in for a year as the endowment lost about 23.5 per- P the University’s performance in of rough sledding — with intensifying cent of its value in 2008–09. Princeton 10 2010–11, when the endowment soared concerns about the pace of the U.S. cut $170 million in spending over two nearly 22 percent to an all-time high of economic recovery, Europe’s worsening years and scaled back its capital plan. $17.1 billion. That surpassed the peak financial crisis, and a slowdown in fast- Today, despite continued control achieved before the financial crisis and growing economies like China’s. Under over budget growth, the belt-tightening

S Literary flap pits Princeton professor vs. alums

W This might be dubbed the Battle of the Best-selling Authors. Pulitzer in 2003 for his novel Middlesex: “Books once dis-

Round One: Jeffrey Eugenides, a Princeton creative writing missed as popular trash are now studied in universities; PHOTOS: E professor and author of novels considered literary by the books that won Pulitzer Prizes are barely remembered.” AP IMAGES, N literati, calls out novelist Jodi Picoult ’87 in a Sept. 26 inter- Round Three: Eugenides tells The Prince that the alumnae “are taking a single word” — belly-aching — “out of the con-

view with Salon for “belly-aching” about what she sees as FROM text of a long discussion and using it as a headline to their

preferential treatment of men’s novels by the media. LEFT: E

Round Two: Picoult joins forces with Jennifer Weiner ’91 own ends.” Picoult told the newspaper that the pair had been CHRIS

H in touch with Eugenides and he initially had suggested they — fellow author of “women’s novels,” otherwise known as PIZZELLO best-sellers that do not get much respect — to smack down meet for a beer so he could explain his comments, but he T Eugenides in a letter to The Daily Princetonian. later cut off contact with them. (WEINER); Picoult and Weiner say they would like to speak at

“The women Eugenides teaches,” the pair write, “will MEL EVANS F graduate into a world where their work the University about how female writ-

is less likely to be acquired by pub- ers are treated. If that happens, let’s (EUGENIDES); O lishers, where their books are less hope the three of them end up sharing a few beers and singing likely to be reviewed, and where REX

“Old Nassau.” π FEATURES P they are less likely to write for important publications.” (PICOULT) O They also had this rejoinder From left, Jennifer Weiner ’91, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Jodi Picoult ’87

T for Eugenides, who won a

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Campusnotebook Endowment returns: is over. “We are not antic- How Princeton fared of a spending-target the ownership of energy resources that ipating any additional range of 4 percent to have become a staple of Princeton’s strat- cuts, and we are focused MIT 8% 5.75 percent. The spend egy — which returned just 1.4 percent. on selective investment Dartmouth 5.8% rate for this year is Other investment types did some- and resource allocations Yale 4.7% expected to be 4.7 per- what better. Fixed income and cash to continue to advance Princeton 3.1% cent. As the endow- returned 2.4 percent, private-equity the University’s mission,” Columbia 2.3% ment declined several investments yielded 2.7 percent, and a said Princeton spokes - Penn 1.6% years ago, the Univer- class of specialized funds that invest man Martin Mbugua. Brown 1% sity breached the upper based on specific conditions, known as Princeton has created a Stanford 1% range, hitting 6 percent independent return, had a 4.3 percent $100 million “rainy-day” Harvard —0.05% in 2009–10. bounce. The biggest winner was U.S. fund, separate from the Cornell N/A as of late October In the past year, stocks, with a 5.9 percent return. endowment, to help in Princeton saw some of Princo is not altering any of its case of a shortfall, but the The largest university the traditional drivers of investment targets, though the actual administration expects a endowments, in billions its investment success allocation may vary due to market fluc- balanced budget in com- Harvard $30.7 become drags instead. tuations. A third of the portfolio is ing years. Yale $19.3 The biggest winners directed to private-equity investments, Some other universi- Univ. of Texas System $18.3 the previous year, for and another 25 percent goes to inde- ties are beginning to Princeton $17 instance, were invest- pendent-return funds. Real assets, such reduce spending in an Stanford $17 ments in fast-growing as natural resources and real estate, get area where Princeton has emerging markets such 23 percent. The University invests 11 led: financial aid. Cornell recently said as China and India, as well as invest- percent of its assets in emerging-market it would require students whose fami- ments in stock markets in developed stocks, 5.5 percent in developed-coun- lies earn more than $60,000 a year to countries outside the United States. try stocks, and 6.5 percent in U.S. stocks. help pay for their education by obtain- Going into that year, Golden had The 3.1 percent return is the lowest ing loans from the government and increased the endowment’s allocation in the past decade except for 2008–09. other sources. MIT said it would require to emerging-market countries. Still, the return brings the University’s low-income students to increase their But both types of investments did 10-year average up from 9.8 to 9.9 per- contribution. Princeton, meanwhile, poorly in the year ending June 30. cent. That’s because the average no P increased its financial-aid budget for this Emerging-market stocks returned only longer includes the fallout from the 11 year by 5.6 percent, to $116 million. 0.2 percent, while developed-country 2001–02 burst of the dotcom bubble The University spent 4.4 percent of equities lost 9.7 percent. Also perform- and the impact of the recession that fol- its endowment last year, in the middle ing poorly were real assets — such as lowed. π By Zachary Goldfarb ’05

In search for a president, new committee gets down to business The University’s presidential-search at Partners HealthCare System; RANDALL chairman of the physics department; committee got to work last month, with L. KENNEDY ’77 of Dedham, Mass., a Har- philosophy professor GIDEON A. ROSEN a goal of recommending to the trustees vard Law School professor; ROBERT S. *92; and mechanical and aerospace in the spring who should be President MURLEY ’72 of Lake For- engineering professor Tilghman’s successor. The 17-member est, Ill., chairman of HOWARD A. STONE. CLAY- committee includes 11 alumni. investment banking at TON K. MARSH ’85, deputy Heading the group is KATHRYN A. HALL Credit Suisse Securities; WHAT’S YOUR VIEW? dean of the college, is ’80, chairwoman of the trustees and the NANCY B. PERETSMAN ’76 What should Princeton the University staff CEO and chief investment officer of of New York, N.Y., man- look for in choosing its representative. Hall Capital Partners. Other trustees on aging director at Allen next president — and who The group includes C. two undergraduates, the search committee are JOHN D. DIEK- & Co. LLC; and is your ideal candidate? MAN ’65 of Atherton, Calif., managing JAMES YEH ’87 of Hins- CATHERINE ETTMAN ’13 partner at 5AM Ventures; LAURA L. dale, Ill., senior manag- Share your advice: and JEFFREY MORELL ’13; FORESE ’83 of New York, N.Y., COO of ing director at Citadel Write to PAW or and one graduate New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Investment Group. email [email protected]. student, CHAD P. MAISEL, Medical Center; JOSHUA GREHAN ’10 of Faculty members on an M.P.A. candidate in New York, N.Y., development associate the committee are the Woodrow Wilson at KickStart; BRENT L. HENRY ’69 of Chest- MIGUEL A. CENTENO, chairman of the soci- School and president of the Graduate nut Hill, Mass., VP and general counsel ology department; LYMAN A. PAGE JR., Student Government. π

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Princeton has kicked off a series of focus groups in cities across the country to help plan a major conference for graduate alumni next Oct. 18–19. “This will be one of the University’s marquee conferences,” said Tony Fiori *03, the new president of the Associa- tion of Princeton Graduate Alumni. While specific plans will await the completion in February of the grad- alumni focus groups, he said the event is likely to combine “intellectual engagement with fun aspects.” The conference not only will coin- After volunteers and donors worked to raise $1.88 billion during the five-year Aspire cide with the centennial of the Gradu- fundraising campaign, it was the University’s turn Oct. 19 to say thanks. More than ate College but is expected to be one of 1,000 people filled Jadwin Gym, transformed into a gala reception hall with rows the first major events for the Univer- upon rows of long, festive tables — and streamers, above, thrown into the air. sity’s new president, Fiori said. Along with performances that ranged from the high-brow (professional dancers In another effort to boost the Silas Riener ’06 and Sydney Schiff ’10) to the much-lower-brow (Triangle kick line engage ment of grad alumni, Princeton in drag), alumni heard testimonials about how their money was being used for will hold its first departmental regional financial aid and research, among other things. They viewed massive video screens gathering for alumni, a Dec. 3 dinner to witness a brain scan taking place at that moment — an example of work at the P at the Algonquin Hotel in New York Neuroscience Institute — and heard bridge-year students express thanks. 12 City. The literary event will feature “Here’s to all of you,” Nancy Peretsman ’76, who co-chaired the campaign with talks by English professor Claudia Robert Murley ’72, toasted the guests. She and Murley then presented a black box Johnson *81 and comparative literature tied with orange ribbon. Inside: a thousand pages with the names of 65,120 professor April Alliston. The University donors. π By M.H.M., Julia Bumke ’13, Abigail Greene ’13, and Lauren Wyman ’14 is targeting graduate alumni in the humanities, including classics, philoso- Heard at weekend colloquia Todd Purdum ’82, Emily Carter, professor and phy, religion, English, comparative featuring alumni and faculty: national editor of Vanity director of the Andlinger literature, and the various language Fair: “Fifty to 55 years ago, Center for Energy and the departments. Alan Blinder ’67, professor political scientists felt that Environment: “For electric- Graduate alumni tend to feel a of economics and public the government of the United ity, it’s incredibly important to strong connection to their depart- affairs: “Until we get over States was too unified, which continue our investments in ments, and the politics and psychology this notion that if it’s spent meant that there wasn’t fusion. ... Solar and wind are departments will be hosting separate on the government it’s a bad enough partisan conflict. I both intermittent sources of grad-alum conferences on campus in thing — whether you’re talking don’t think anyone would electricity – you don’t get April. The events will focus on “the about roads and bridges or argue that now.” electricity when the sun hottest, most relevant topics” in the two talking about education — I doesn’t shine and the wind departments, according to Debby Cor- don’t see a way out of Amer- George Shultz ’42, econo- doesn’t blow – but fusion can rodi Foster ’92, senior associate director ica’s economic problems.” mist and former secretary work continuously.” for graduate alumni relations. of state: “About five years Foster heads a three-person team Ramesh Ponnuru ’95, ago, I put solar panels on my Eric Schmidt ’76, Google devoted to strengthening the connec- senior editor of National house at Stanford. ... By this executive chairman: “What tions of grad alums with the University Review magazine: “The time, I’ve saved enough to is the No. 1 use of bandwidth and with each other. “I’m excited that search for the real man is a pay for the cost of those pan- today? Email, video, G-chat? we now have a larger team of profes- mistake for [the public in els. In another year I’ll pay for It’s Netflix! ... When we built sionals supporting graduate-alumni considering] most of these the opportunity cost of the the Internet, we thought it

relations and can leverage the additional politicians. It’s much more money. I now also drive an would be used for educational KEVIN

expertise and staff” of the Alumni Asso- important to look at the forces electric car. So I say, ‘I’m driv- purposes. But we got it wrong. BIRCH ciation, Fiori said. π By W.R.O. that are acting on them.” ing on sunshine!’” It’s for watching movies!”

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up to performances isn’t easy for him. Vive la France! Students bring “I do nothing but this and my academic work,” he said. Students in Princeton’s advanced French theater to the stage French courses benefit from L’Avant- Scène as well. They study the text of After filling his freshman-year schedule varied backgrounds — some grew up one of the group’s plays in class and with engineering classes, Cole Freeman in French-speaking countries such as then attend a performance. ’14 signed up for an introductory Belgium and Mauritius; some are Madeleine Planeix-Crocker ’15, French language course on a lark. Americans who learned French as chil- whose parents are French, grew up in This fall, he took the stage as Horace dren; and others took up French for Los Angeles and has been doing the- in Molière’s L’École des Femmes, a mas- the first time at Princeton. While some ater since the first grade. The hardest terpiece of 17th-century theater, deliv- are French majors, others major in biol- part of L’Avant-Scène, she said, is “con- ering a long speech — in French verse ogy, engineering, and art history. veying to the audience that a Molière — on the effects of love. The two-hour “The students come to L’Avant-Scène play is pertinent in the 21st century.” performance was staged by Princeton’s with a passion for French language Planeix-Crocker and the group’s five L’Avant-Scène, a student theater com- and culture,” said Florent Masse, a sen- other sophomores planned to travel to pany that presents four full-length ior lecturer who founded the group. Paris with Masse during fall break for French plays a year. It is the only Amer- “They develop fluency while mastering an eight-day immersion in French the- ican college theater group dedicated to the classical and modern repertories ater, an annual trip for L’Avant-Scène performing plays in French, according of French theater. The demands of the- members. They were scheduled to meet to several French scholars. ater serve the pedagogical objectives of directors and actors, attend classes at Freeman is one of 16 Princeton stu- language learning — being heard one of France’s leading universities for dents — both undergraduate and grad- and understood, and using good acting, and see a play every night. uate — who make up the theater pronunciation.” “L’Avant-Scène is a unique opportu- workshop, which regularly has tackled Mikhail Tikhonov is a fourth-year nity for students,” said professor 17th-century classics such as Le Misan- Ph.D. student in theoretical biophysics François Rigolot, who has taught French thrope, Phèdre, and Tartuffe. who has performed in five L’Avant- at Princeton for 40 years and has “It’s a huge amount of work, but I Scène productions. snagged a few small parts in L’Avant- P always have fun,” said Freeman, who got “It’s an amazing way to discover Scène productions, which draw audi- 13 involved in L’Avant-Scène after learning great works of literature,” said Tikhonov, ences of about 120. The students, he about it in a French class. He dropped who is Russian and studied in France said, had “much longer and more com- engineering to major in French. for three years. But squeezing in two or plicated roles” than he did. “I learned The students of L’Avant-Scène have three hours of rehearsal a day leading much from them.” π By J.A.

From left, Tyler Lawrence ’16, Mikhail Tikhonov GS, and Remi Yamazaki ’14 perform in Molière’s “L’Ecole des Femmes,” staged by the campus group L’Avant-Scène. FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI

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BREAKING GROUND FYI: FINDINGS

A st u d y o f Nooks, crannies boost solar cells P ak i stan i s h as fo u n d st ro n ge r INSPIRED BY NATURE Wrinkles are S U P P O RT F O R not always bad, and folds are even M I L I TA N T GRO U P S better. By introducing microscopic am o n g th e m i d d l e c l as s th an wrinkles and folds to plastic sur- am o n g th e p o o r, c h al l e n g i n g c o n - faces and applying polymer solar v e n t i o n al w i s d o m . Th e re s e ar c h cells on top, Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, te am , w h i c h i n c l u d e d P r i n c e to n professor of chemical and biologi- gr ad u ate st u d e n t Gr ae m e B l ai r an d cal engineering, and her colleagues p o l i t i c s p ro fe s s o r J ac o b S h ap i ro , have demonstrated a 47 percent an aly z e d s u r v ey s f ro m 6 , 0 0 0 P ak - increase in the efficiency of light i stan i ad u l t s . Th e re s e ar c h e rs ’ c o n - absorption compared to a plastic c l u s i o n th at th e p o o r i n P ak i stan solar cell on a flat surface. The w e re s u b stan t i al ly m o re n e g at i v e nooks and crannies in the surface to war d m i l i tan t gro u p s u n d e r c u t s even extend absorption beyond the th e as s u m p t i o n s o f A m e r i c an p o l i - visible light spectrum and into the c i e s th at h av e fo c u s e d o n u s i n g ai d near-infrared spectrum. to re d u c e p o v e rt y as a way to c o m - The patterns of folds in the sur- b at m i l i tan t v i o l e n c e . Th e re s u l t s face are similar to those found on w e re p u b l i s h e d i n J u ly b y th e A m e r i- leaves, the ultimate example of a c an J o u r n al o f P o l i t i c al S c i e n c e . miniature solar-energy power- A new photovoltaic house. “If you look carefully at cell developed by Th e ar r i val o f ro c k f r ag m e n t s f ro m leaves, the surfaces are not flat — Professor Lynn Loo’s d i stan t p l an e t s — as w e l l as there is a lot of structure,” said Loo. research team is more m i c ro o r g an i s m s al o n g fo r th e r i d e P Scientists believe that the structure efficient and tougher — m ay h av e i n t ro d u c e d L I F E O N 14 of leaves creates a more effective than traditional cells. E A RTH . A te am th at i n c l u d e s v i s i t - way to guide light to cells where Folds on the cell’s i n g re s e ar c h e rs E d war d B e l b r u n o photosynthesis takes place. “Photo- surface, shown in an d A m aya M o ro - M art i n s u g ge st s synthesis itself is efficient, but you the rendering, right, th at p l an e tary f r ag m e n t s h av e need to harness as much light increase efficiency by e s c ap e d o n e s y ste m ’ s gr av i tat i o n al as possible,” Loo explained. Her guiding light waves. p u l l an d d r i fte d th ro u g h s p ac e u n t i l lab applied the same rationale to p u l l e d i n to an o th e r p l an e tary s y s - solar cells. te m , w h e re th ey m i g h t h av e c o l - l i d e d w i th a p l an e t l i ke E arth . Th e WHAT’S AHEAD Solar panels currently are made from silicon — a re s e ar c h was p u b l i s h e d i n A st ro b i - rigid, brittle material that requires an energy-intensive process to o l o g y i n S e p te m b e r. make. Loo’s research focuses on making solar panels from plastics, a lightweight material easy to manipulate and make at low cost. Solar S o c l i c h é d i s th e l u m b e r i n g fi g u re panels can be printed on these surfaces using a process analogous to o f F RA N K E N STE I N ’ S M O N STE R, w e printing newspapers and magazines on paper. fo r ge t th e 1818 n o v e l b y M ary Wo l l - “We think that [our approach] is a simple process that you can sto n e c r aft S h e l l ey th at h atc h e d th e extend to large surfaces,” said Loo, deputy director of the Andlinger m y th . I n “Th e A n n o tate d Fr an ke n - Loo Center for Energy and the Environment. The ultimate goal is to ste i n ” ( B e l k n ap P re s s o f H ar var d OCKO translate the discoveries into techniques that manufacturers can incorporate into the design U n i v e rs i t y P re s s ) , E n gl i s h p ro fe s s o r ILLISA of better, more efficient solar cells. S u s an Wo l fs o n an d a c o l l e ag u e at

COURTESY Ru t ge rs , Ro n al d L evao , fi n d th e HOW CAN WE USE IT? In the future, durable and flexible plastic solar panels could power your n o v e l b r i m m i n g w i th al l u s i o n s to

RENDERING: cellphone with small panels on your backpack, or let you charge your tablet computer on a “P ar ad i s e L o st ” an d “Th e Ri m e o f camping trip via panels integrated on your tent. “The big goal is to have building-integrated th e A n c i e n t M ar i n e r ” as w e l l as to [plastic] solar panels,” said Loo. S h e l l ey ’ s o w n t u m u l t u o u s l i fe . WOJCIECHOWSKI; Loo and her team also are applying the wrinkled-surface approach to other plastic polymers STEVEN FRANK that already absorb light in the near-infrared range. Low-cost, large-scale plastic solar panels By W. B a r ksd a l e M a y n a rd ’88 VEACH

PHOTOS: may be just around the corner — at your house or your neighbor’s. π By Anna Azvolinsky *09 a n d N o ra Ta ra n to ’13

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IN BRIEF The first building to be named among those planned for the University’s arts Three significant gifts by alumni complex south of McCarter, shown in were announced by the University in rendering, will be called the Wallace October. Dance Building and Theater. It is MICHAEL NOVOGRATZ ’87 and his wife, named for SUKEY CACERES NOVOGRATZ ’89, donated $4 MONTE J. million to WALLACE support the ’53 and his expansion brother, of the NEIL W. University’s WALLACE bridge-year ’55, who program, together donated $15 million. The Wal- which laces founded General Investment & allows Development Cos., a privately held real incoming freshmen to defer their estate and investment holding firm enrollment for a year and spend nine based in Boston, in 1959, and they months participating in service abroad. spent their careers there. Monte Wal- The program expanded from 20 to 28 lace served as chairman of the $125 students this fall. “Bridge year is one million development program for way Princeton gives students an incred- Princeton in 1968–79. A gift from the ible learning experience, and helps pre- brothers created Wallace Hall, a social- pare them for leadership on a global sciences building. scale,”said Michael Novogratz, a principal and director with Fortress Invest- A visit to the ment Group, a New York-based global Twitter page investment-management firm. of BEN TAUB ’14 The five-story psychology building reveals that P that is part of the neuroscience and psy- he’s not the 15 chology complex nearing completion average on the southern edge of campus will be Princeton stu- named for two alumni who have made dent. Tweets on the situation in Syria alternate with posts like this: “Performed with @CeeLoGreen and @MuppetsStudio last night in Las Vegas!” Instead of spending what

would be his senior year at Princeton, CRISPIN Taub chose to compete on the third JON season of NBC’s The Voice — a stint that made performing on pop star Cee- GERBERICH;

JIM a $20 million gift, NANCY PERETSMAN ’76 Lo Green’s Vegas Christmas special and her husband, ROBERT SCULLY ’72, with the Muppets a possibility. shown with their daughter, Emma On Sept. 18, Taub was selected by WOJCIECHOWSKI; Scully ’12. Peretsman, who co-chaired Green to be on his “team” — one of FRANK the University’s Aspire campaign, is a four on the show, each headed by a managing director at Allen & Co., an celebrity artist — but four weeks later

NOVOGRATZES; investment-banking firm in New York. he was eliminated from the competi- THE Scully retired from Morgan Stanley in tion. A philosophy major who sang 2009 after 35 years in the financial- with the Katzenjammers, Taub saw a COURTESY services industry. “Peretsman-Scully parallel between the University and the LEFT:

TOP Hall is an eloquent expression of show. “It is exciting to be around peo-

FROM Nancy’s commitment to the Aspire ple who are as driven to strive for suc- campaign,” President Tilghman said. cess in music as most students are

CLOCKWISE “She and Bob have given an enormous driven to strive for success in academ-

PHOTOS, boost to one of its core priorities.” ics,” he said. π

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Campusnotebook | ON THE CAMPUS Stirrings of interest in political campaign: Red vs. blue at debate; fall-break trips By Michael Granovetter ’15

The red fingers went up in Richardson Auditorium as Mitt Romney attacked President Barack Obama’s record on energy. The blue fingers came out when Obama took on deficit reduction. More than 400 students, faculty, and staff showed up to watch the second presidential debate on a big screen three weeks before the election — invited to come in red or blue garb,

’13 and given their choice of a red or blue foam finger to cheer on a candidate. O’NEILL

JOHN Those sporting blue clearly outnumbered those in red, and they rose to PHOTOS: their feet as Obama detailed his plans

BARRETT; to reduce the deficit. There were cheers

RON throughout the debate — but not a great deal of finger-waving — and the

ILLUSTRATION: audience seemed more well-behaved

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than what was unfolding on the screen. Ban on freshman rush alters social life, The event, sponsored by the College Democrats, College Republicans, Whig- spurs changes at Greek organizations Clio, and the class governments, was an By Abigail Greene ’13 attempt to break through the Orange Bubble that tends to insulate students from what’s happening off campus. When Phoebe Brown ’16 decided to attend Princeton, she had no intention of joining Zachary Beecher, president of the Class a sorority. When she got here, however, Brown quickly changed her mind, realizing of 2013, urged the audience to “get that she was only meeting other freshmen. She wanted to meet students in other fired up” while noting the importance classes, too. “The sororities are the link between your student life and your social of “critically responding to what’s life,” Brown said. going on.” Brown’s is the first class to experience the ban on freshman rush of Greek Both the College Republicans and organizations, and she expressed her disappointment about the policy. “Every sin- College Democrats were planning gle one of my friends is planning on rushing, and we are all pretty frustrated by to send students to canvass potential [the ban],” she said. “The Princeton social life is now confined to sophomores, voters in battleground states the week juniors, and seniors.” before the election, using fall break Though fraternities had Caroline Slutsky ’14, president of the for its original purpose: to actively significantly fewer pledges Panhellenic Council, said that all of the campaign for candidates. The Democ- this year ... more than 70 Greek organizations have respected the rats planned to join Obama supporters ban, which was recommended by the in Florida, while the Republicans sophomore women rushed Working Group on Campus Social and were joining Romney volunteers in sororities, more than double Residential Life in May 2011 and Virginia. the 2011 total. approved by President Tilghman. The fall-break trips followed a period But the new policy has led to changes of little evident political activity on on the part of the Greek organizations. Fraternities are considering ways to shorten campus. their pledge process so that it ends before bicker, and both fraternities and sorori- Natalie Sanchez ’14, president of the ties are revamping their publicity campaigns to attract sophomores. College Democrats, said she was disap- And though fraternities had significantly fewer pledges this year — most organi- P pointed by the lack of student enthusi- zations took about five new members — more than 70 sophomore women rushed 17 asm, given the issues at stake. Neverthe- sororities, more than double the 2011 total, Slutsky said. Many interpret this as a less, she noted, “Just because a student sign that the organizations will be able to adapt successfully. isn’t excited about one candidate, he is “Everyone is respecting the ban. Everyone will respect the ban next year,” said not necessarily politically apathetic.” one sophomore fraternity member who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The president of the College Repub- “But from what I’ve seen, people are pretty committed to staying alive. I really licans, Jacob Reses ’13, said he also don’t think this has to be the end.” believed that there was a quiet interest Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey, who co-chaired the working in the campaign on campus. “When group, said the committee sought to promote a sense of community, connections [students] sit down to talk about this between freshmen and upperclassmen, student-mentorship opportunities, and bal- stuff, they tend to be deeper conversa- ance in students’ lives. tions that are similar to the conversa- During the debate over the University’s policy toward fraternities and sororities, tions that people all across this country some students said that Greek organizations satisfy some of these goals, particu- are having,” he said. larly that of providing mentorship relationships. During a panel discussion in Septem- “I think the notion that the sororities provide a mentorship program is some- ber that examined political activism on thing that ought to have been given more attention,” said Lily Alberts ’13, a former the Princeton campus over time, Presi- U-Councillor who attended CPUC meetings at which sorority leaders made pre- dent Tilghman conceded that often, sentations. “If the University better developed its systems of mentorship, it could “the Orange Bubble may be too thick make fraternities and sororities obsolete in that sense.” — that what is happening outside ... The University took a step in this direction when, expressing concern that early isn’t having a big-enough impact on rush narrows a freshman’s social circles and encourages high-risk behavior, the what is happening on campus.” working group recommended the ban of freshman rush and created four teams to While students find ways to fight for address the group’s findings. Initiatives begun or planned include the return of the political issues that they care most pas- annual Orange and Black Ball, a “family system” in the residential colleges to sionately about, such as education or encourage contact across classes, and a re-evaluation of freshman orientation. immigration reform, Tilghman said, Cherrey said that response to these projects has been positive, citing the growth “the activism I see is not around elec- of the Women’s Mentorship Program — which forms “pods” of four women, one toral politics.” π from each undergraduate class — from 85 to 150 students. π

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Roman Wilson ’14, shown in the fourth quarter, caught a 36-yard touchdown pass with 13 seconds left in the game to give Sports the Tigers a 39–34 victory over Harvard.

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During the Oct. 20 football game against though the Tigers surged momentarily son said after the game. “I don’t know if Harvard, 10,823 Princeton fans learned in the third quarter, the Crimson it’s sunk in yet.” how wide a range of emotions they rebounded to go up 34–10 early in the One online calculator says that, even could feel in a three-and-a-half-hour fourth, looking like a team that had after a 59-yard kick return by Anthony span. Before the start of the game, orange won its last 14 games, the longest active Gaffney ’16 gave Princeton great field flags were flying and excitement was winning streak in Division I. position down 34–10, the Tigers had high on campus — the Tigers were 2–0 Twelve minutes and 45 seconds of only a 2 percent chance of coming in the Ivy League for the first time since game time later, those struggles were back to win. In reality, their odds were 2006, on a three-win streak and entering forgotten. Roman Wilson ’14 caught a probably even lower — those calcula- their biggest game in several seasons. prayer of a pass from Quinn Epperly ’15 tions assume the teams are of equal And then the game started, and that for a 36-yard touchdown with 13 sec- strength, while Princeton and Harvard optimism quickly was laid to waste. onds left, completing a four-touchdown sure didn’t look evenly matched for Princeton’s defense was no match for comeback and giving the Tigers a shock- three quarters on Saturday. “I’m glad Harvard’s third-ranked offense, which ing 39–34 victory. The mood inside we don’t play a seven-game series, to be stalled in Princeton territory on its first Princeton Stadium had gone from honest with you, because they’re senior- series before scoring touchdowns on its agony back to ecstasy. Fans stormed the led and they’re that good,” head coach second, third, and fourth drives. Mean- field after the final whistle to celebrate Bob Surace ’90 said after his team was while, the Tigers could not solve Har- the sole leaders in the league. outgained by more than 200 yards. “We SCHAEFER vard’s defensive front, punting on all “It’s an incredible feeling, looking were lucky to have one more play today.”

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Students and alumni stormed the field to celebrate the Tigers’ stunning win with P the players, including Luke Taylor ’13. 19

final quarter — something it hadn’t Murphy didn’t trust his offense to get chest, giving the Tigers another done in a period since Nov. 23, 2002 — one yard on a fourth down after it reprieve. Two plays later, the 5-foot 11- and do so against the league’s second- already had gained 634, punting and inch Wilson out-jumped Splinter in best defense. Meanwhile, the Tigers had giving Princeton one last chance as they tight coverage in the end zone for his to get quick stops against a Harvard started from their own 10-yard line. historic touchdown, an unbelievable offense that had advanced into Prince- In the most important two-minute end to an unbelievable comeback. ton territory in all nine of its drives. drill of their lives, the Tigers once again “Quinn threw a great ball, I had the Quite a few crazy things had to hap- seemed out of luck when quarterback leverage on the safety, and I just had to pen for the Tigers to complete their Connor Michelsen ’15 was sacked with go up there and make a play,” Wilson comeback. Princeton’s offense, not usu- a minute left, holding his left hand in said. “It’s something we do every week ally a quick-strike unit, scored three pain as his teammates rushed back to in practice, and all the guys believed times on drives lasting less than two the line of scrimmage. But Princeton that it was going to work.” minutes. The Tigers deflected a punt got a game-changing lifeline when the For the first time in six years, Prince- on one Harvard drive and blocked a refs whistled Harvard for unsportsman- ton students could entertain thoughts field goal on the next (which might not like conduct after the play, giving the of a Big Three bonfire, especially with have been all that improbable, given Tigers 15 yards and, more importantly, Yale struggling for most of the season. Princeton’s history of blocking kicks). stopping the clock. And as the only team left undefeated in After a two-point conversion was It was up to Epperly — whose legs, the Ivy League after three league games, stopped at 34–32 and Harvard got the not his arms, more often had been fea- the Tigers could set their sights even ball back with 2:27 to play, things still tured in the Tigers’ offense — to finish higher. A team that has finished in last seemed dire for the home fans. But the the job. Princeton fans’ hearts were place for two years running now needed Tigers’ defense, which had not forced a almost broken again when a lazy first- only three wins in its last four games to three-and-out all game, got one when it down pass went right to Harvard safety earn at least a share of the conference needed it most. Harvard coach Tim Chris Splinter — but it bounced off his title. π By Kevin Whitaker ’13

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SPORTS SHORTS

Teresa Benvenuti ’16

With October wins over national pow- new head coach Billy Pate, Princeton ers Maryland and Connecticut at Bed- players won nine singles or doubles ford Field, FIELD HOCKEY rose to No. 2 in tournaments in fall competition. the national rankings. After routing SPRINT FOOTBALL came close to its first Harvard Oct. 20, the Tigers were on official victory since 1999 in consecu- track to win their eighth straight Ivy tive games at Princeton Stadium. The League title, having won their first five Tigers lost to Post University 32–29 in conference games by a combined score overtime Oct. 5 and fell to Franklin of 33–1. Pierce 21–14 the following weekend. P WOMEN’S SOCCER beat Harvard 3–1 MEN’S GOLF won the Ivy League match 20 Rule Oct. 20 to extend its win streak to eight play tournament Oct. 21 at TPC Jasna s For games and improve to 5-0 in league Polana, a few minutes west of campus, Datin play. Jen Hoy ’13 scored in the victory, while WOMEN’S GOLF placed first the In the Ne g w Eco maintaining her league-leading average same day at the Lehigh Invitational, nomy of 1.14 goals per game. MEN’S SOCCER is with Kelly Shon ’14 and Anna Jang ’13 RS! Date Smart! at T . match tying for first place individually. your smart months Men’s soccer defeated Harvard 2–1. .Meet two The NCAA announced Oct. 15 that it now and ! .Join the house are on would no longer hold postseason championship events in New Jersey due to the state’s plan to legalize sports Celebrating 15 years! gambling. The field hockey and of Ivy Dating women’s soccer teams had been on pace to potentially host NCAA tourna- 1-800-988-5288 ment games this fall. π

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A moment with ... Hayley Gorenberg ’87, advocate for LGBT rights Having allies speak publicly acclaimed cases now being considered for acceptance out“ makes an enor- by the Supreme Court are those mous difference. challenging the Defense of Mar- ” riage Act. It’s key that we take on Hayley Gorenberg ’87 is deputy legal and bring down all the places director for Lambda Legal, the oldest where discrimination based on and largest national legal organization sexual orientation is formally dedicated to combating discrimination allowed — it’s prejudice wrongly against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans- enshrined as law. I’m the lead gender (LGBT) individuals and people attorney on a case that says New with HIV. Employed as a journalist after Jersey is violating the Constitu- graduating from Princeton, she then tion by barring access to mar- earned a law degree and became a legal riage. New Jersey has a civil-union advocate for low-income clients in New law, which doesn’t cut it. York City on such issues as lead poison- There’s been a lot of public ing and discrimination against people attention to our marriage work, with HIV. She has been at Lambda Legal but that’s less than one-quarter of since 2003. PAW interviewed Gorenberg our docket. I do a lot of work as the University was planning its first addressing the school environ- alumni conference on LGBT issues, ment for young people perceived scheduled for April 11–13, 2013. as LGBT or questioning their sex- P uality: anti-bullying, fighting harassment and discrimination, 21 How did your involvement in gay rights begin? supporting curricula that promote respect for everyone. It goes back at least as far as high school. This may be a bit of a stereotype, but it came from being involved in local the- What factors have helped make Americans more tolerant of LGBT ater — getting to know adults in the theater world who were individuals? out. Later, I was involved in peer-to-peer counseling at You’re interviewing me on National Coming Out Day! Princeton, and I had close friends who I thought at the time People coming out absolutely makes a huge difference. When were gay, and I don’t think they were supported enough by family and friends and neighbors realize they know LGBT their family and friends to come out. I wanted to contribute people, it allows them to understand and respect them as to making sure that wasn’t the case for other people. people. And I can’t help but be enthusiastic when NFL players [Brendon Ayanbadejo of the Baltimore Ravens and Chris Are you gay yourself? Kluwe of the Minnesota Vikings] want to say strongly and No, but often people assume I am. Sometimes I let people colorfully that gay people should have equal rights. Having go with the assumption. But it can be thought-provoking to allies speak out makes an enormous difference. “out” myself as straight — it can trigger those who assumed I’m gay to contemplate that all of us can think about equal- What kind of experience did gay students have on campus when ity, and not just when our own rights are being directly you were at Princeton? repressed. I’ve come to feel like the work I do is all the more Awareness and visibility and support were paltry. I remem- important as the mother of two young daughters. At its core, ber that the same three men who were willing to be pho- a lot of my work has to do with how damaging it is for us to tographed basically became the public face of being gay at inflict limits on people based on their gender, and on our Princeton, so it looked like there were just three. I knew there ideas of what it is to be “enough of a man,” or “enough of a were others, but there was very little discussion or support. woman,” or the “right kind” of man or woman. Certainly there was no celebration of lesbian and gay identity. I think the University has come miles and miles since What issues are you working on these days at Lambda Legal? then. I’ve become prouder and prouder to be a Princeton FRANK Our wheelhouse is taking cases to court, but we also do a grad as time has gone by. To have this conference at the Uni- WOJCIECHOWSKI sliver of lobbying as permitted by law, on issues like job dis- versity feels like we’ve advanced light years. π crimination based on sexual orientation. Among the most — Interview conducted and condensed by Louis Jacobson ’92

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Fred Buechner ’47 in 1955, two years after his short story “The Tiger” was published in The New Yorker.

November 14, 2012 Princeton Alumni Weekly • paw.princeton.edu 22-25PAW1114_Buechner_MASTER.Feature 10/25/12 9:33 PM Page 23 ‘Pay attentionto that hill in Vermont, and he comes up out of himself, out of his own feelings and thoughts — that’s his greatest resource.” “Probably right now, if you went around the country from Sunday to Sunday and listened to ministers, Buechner would surely be among the two or three most quoted,” says yourlife’ Dale Brown, director of the Buechner Institute at King College in Tennessee, a program that seeks to foster conversation on faith and culture. But beyond the pulpit, one of ‘YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE AN ORACLE, the most common refrains Brown hears about Buechner is: the way you ask these questions,” Fred Buechner ’47 says, “I’m surprised I never heard of him before.” with some irritation, from his patio chair on Wind Gap If Buechner is not as well known as, say, his late contem- Farm, the Vermont home where this writer and preacher has porary Gore Vidal, perhaps it is because he is, in his words, lived for more than 40 years. “too religious for secular readers” and “too secular for reli- Having just turned 86, and with 30-plus books to his cred- gious ones.” That may be changing. Last year King College it, Buechner has earned the right to decide what he wants to held a “BuechnerFest” exploring the various ways artists of talk about: perhaps about his career as a writing wunderkind faith engage the culture. A second festival is planned for who left the trappings of New York literary life behind to 2013. The school sponsors an annual lecture, also named for become a Presbyterian minister. Or about leaving a job in Buechner, which has been given by the writers Ron Hansen, the ministry to return to writing, and winning the devotion Barbara Brown Taylor, and Marilynne Robinson, among of writers such as John Irving, Garrison Keillor, and Kathleen others. For Brown, the founder of the festival, the annual Norris. Or maybe about having a literary festival devoted to gathering was a natural way to honor Buechner. He believes your work and your words printed on coffee mugs. Buechner’s work will continue to grow in popularity as P Buechner (whose full name is Carl Frederick Buechner, more people discover it. 23 pronounced “Beekner”) is happy to talk about any of these subjects. He is not, however, interested in playing the role of BORN IN NEW YORK CITY, Buechner attended the Lawrence - sage. He does not want to talk about God or the afterlife or ville School in New Jersey before matriculating at Princeton. how to achieve literary success. Instead, sitting outside on a His father also had attended Princeton and knew Scott and July day with the Green Mountains in the distance, he Zelda Fitzgerald — a literary connection, one family mem- repeats the mantra that has come to define his life and work: ber suggests, that Buechner quietly treasures. Entering his “Pay attention to your life.” library, a visitor and fellow alumnus is greeted with the ques- “Because otherwise it’s just a lot of wasted effort,” explains tion, “Have you read This Side of Paradise?” Buechner, a cane by his side. “To live is to experience all sorts “I really knew two Princetons,” says Buechner, resting in of things. It would be a shame to experience them — these an armchair and surrounded by thousands of books. “The rich experiences of sadness and happiness and success and first one was during the war, when everybody was being failure — and then have it just all vanish, like a dream when drafted or enlisting. It was just one drunken farewell party you wake up. I find it interesting, to put it mildly, to keep after another. Nobody did any work. I didn’t learn anything track of it and think about it.” at all. I was in the Army for two years. When I came back, I Buechner may resist the role of oracle, but that has not was so delighted to be free again that I buckled down and stopped people from seeking him out. His books have learned a few things.” earned him a large audience among both believers and skep- In his second stint at Princeton, Buechner began work on tics. His writings are widely quoted and anthologized. A Long Day’s Dying, a novel that served as his senior thesis. Recently first lady Michelle Obama ’85 cited Buechner’s His advisers were reluctant to allow him to write a novel, description of vocation: “where your deep gladness and the but he convinced them, and the book was published after world’s deep hunger meet.” He has a large following in graduation to wide acclaim. The novel, which Buechner Christian colleges, and has delivered sermons at the National describes today as “tortured, labyrinthine, elusive,” was com- COURTESY Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and at Westminster Abbey pared to the work of Henry James. It was a New York Times

FRED in London. best-seller and remains Buechner’s most commercially suc-

BUECHNER “He is just so eloquent and thoughtful,” says Bob Abernethy cessful work. His second book, The Seasons’ Difference, was a ’49, the host of Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, a PBS program critical disappointment, but he enjoyed a measure of ’47 that aired a profile of Buechner in 2006.“He sits up there, on reprieve when his short story “The Tiger” was published in

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The New Yorker in 1953 and won an O. Henry Award. It is Buechner still writes letters, but his diminished productiv- about a Princeton undergraduate who dresses up as the mas- ity is frustrating. After all, this is the man who wrote in his cot at a football game; later, at a party, a girl asks him to tell 1992 memoir Telling Secrets: “After 40 years of writing books, her about tigers. He never gets the chance. “If I had, it would I find I need to put things into words before I can believe probably have gone something like this,” the narrator says. they are entirely real.” “Tigers are wild-hearted creatures of great strength and dig- For Buechner, the process of writing about his life is nity who are to be found in jungles or in zoos and nowhere sacred: “My story is important not because it is mine, God else. There was a time when every once in a while you’d see knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances one parading around, unhurried and in superb control, at a are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours. ... football game, but that was 25 years ago, so if you think you It is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, see one there nowadays, you can be sure it’s only a fake.” as I have long believed and often said, that God makes him- Buechner did not remain among the New York literati for self known to each of us more powerfully and personally.” long. After he began studying for the ministry at Union Buechner turned to memoirs to explore a troubled family Theological Seminary in New York, moved by the example past. When he was just 10, his father committed suicide. In of the pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, his memoirs The Sacred Journey and Telling Secrets, he circles one reviewer commented that “Mr. Buechner has put his back to this event again and again to explore its significance. foot in it.” Even at a time when Union was home to luminar- “If ever anybody asked how my father died, I would say ies like Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich, Buechner’s choice heart trouble,” he writes. “That seemed at least a version of was greeted with puzzlement. the truth. He had had a heart. It had been troubled.” “It was the kiss of death, in a way,” Buechner says of his Despite the difficult subject matter, Buechner found joy in decision to be ordained. “When book reviewers saw that I writing about his life, especially his youth. “It gives you back was a minister, what they read was not the book I had writ- a part of your life that you might never have stopped to ten, but the book they thought a minister would write.” think about,” he says. His library is filled with mementos of According to Brown, Buechner’s journey fits a pattern. “It his youthful passions: the Oz books by L. Frank Baum; a is the [C.S.] Lewis model,” Brown writes in The Book of glass pair of ruby red slippers; drawings from the Uncle Buechner: A Journey Through His Writings. “Erudite academic Wiggily cartoons. The Magic Kingdom, as he calls his library, sheds the robes of the dons for the cloak of Christ.” However, is a place of both seriousness and whimsy. Children’s books he notes, “the story is more complicated and more interest- are shelved along with the works of Anthony Trollope and P ing than the formula suggests.” Augustine. One wall is filled with rare books he bought in 24 In fact, Buechner served only for a short time in formal Europe on his honeymoon. Buechner spends most of his ordained ministry. From 1958 to 1967 he served as chaplain days in his study or the writing room that adjoins it. Here at Phillips Exeter Academy, where he also taught English. At are “books I’ve known all my life and love to have about Exeter he had to find new ways to present the Christian me,” he says, “even if I don’t read them all the time.” story to disaffected teenagers with a budding disrespect for Amid the books sits evidence of his friendships, both real authority. (John Irving was among his early students.) In a and literary. Next to his chair is a bust of the poet James way, his career as a Christian writer has been the same ever Merrill. They met at Lawrenceville and remained friends since: finding ways to tell a religious story to a secular society. until Merrill’s death seven years ago. On the wall hangs a let- “Every minister should start off with a hostile congrega- ter from William Maxwell, a writer whom Buechner much tion, I think,” he muses, “because they just don’t accept it all.” admires and considers underappreciated. A picture of In the preface to Secrets in the Dark, a collection of ser- Graham Greene smiles from across the room. Buechner mons published in 2006, Buechner writes: “It seems to me never met the man, but he feels a strong kinship with his there is an Exeter student in each of us, even those of us who work, especially the novel The Power and The Glory. The cen- are churchiest and most outwardly conforming, who asks tral character of that novel is an inept and sinful “whiskey the ultimate question, ‘Can it really be true?’ and every time priest” who somehow manages to do God’s work. Leo Bebb, I have ever preached, I have tried to speak to that question.” the protagonist of four novels Buechner wrote during the 1970s, is a similar character: a charlatan preacher who still IN 1967 BUECHNER MOVED TO VERMONT, where he returned to bears witness to the presence of God. “It was really the great writing full time. He and his wife, Judy, raised three daugh- literary romance of my life,” Buechner says of the four Bebb ters on Wind Gap Farm, and the daughters and grandchildren books. “When I took the pen it was as if there was a hand are frequent visitors. If Buechner’s life is not quite monastic, inside my hand ... I didn’t have to stop and imagine. They it is quiet and reclusive. He does not use email and still cor- were very alive in my head. And very good company.” responds with his readers in longhand. At the height of his Though Buechner’s books generally have been well career he wrote a book a year, but he no longer is so prolific; received, there have been negative reviews. Writing about his last collection of essays, The Yellow Leaves: A Miscellany, Treasure Hunt in 1977, Edith Milton commented in The New was published in 2008. Asked how he spends his days he says, Republic that Buechner’s characterizations remind one of impishly, “I stare into space.” “I can’t seem to write anymore, “those Broadway comedies of the ’30s, in which funny peo- unfortunately,” Buechner says. “I hope it will come back.” ple, easily recognizable from the second balcony by one

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large but harmless peccadillo, enter, collide, and exit, with- not they call upon his name or even honor it, may [Christ] out major social or dramatic consequences.” be present especially in the hearts of all who teach here and But Buechner’s next novel, Godric, was a finalist for the all who learn here, because without him everything that 1980 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Dale Brown teaches the book goes on here is in the long run only vanity. May he be alive regularly at King College, and believes it will be Buechner’s in this place so something like truth may be spoken and most lasting work. It tells the story of a 12th-century saint heard and carried out into the world. So that something like who embarks on a journey of self-purification late in life. love may be done.” Buechner’s fans regularly cite quotes from the book. “What’s prayer?” Godric asks. “It’s shooting shafts into the dark. What WHEN HE IS NOT IN HIS STUDY, Buechner often sits on his mark they strike, if any, who’s to say? It’s reaching for a hand patio. Today he is reading The New York Times. A copy of The you cannot touch.” New Yorker is by his side. He wears a crisp collared shirt, slacks, and a hat, with BUECHNER MAY BE uniquely prepared a button that reads for the quiet life that he now lives. “Jesus loves you, but He never was a man of idle chatter, I’m his favorite.” Up even at the height of his career, and the hill is his wife’s he does not enjoy analyzing his work garden, and farther up in public. He never went on a book a grove of trees known tour. He is unlike his late friend for their maple syrup. Merrill, who was known for heady The conversation talk. Buechner prefers to let his writ- drifts from the Latin ing do the talking. At a 2006 tribute quotation on his ring at the National Cathedral, he ended (Vocatus atque non the day by urging the audience to vocatus, Deus aderit, stop talking and appreciate the quiet. meaning “Invoked or “I have a feeling we have talked not invoked, God is enough — that we need silence. Not present”) to his life- much — three minutes; to spend long struggle with three minutes not saying a damn doubt regarding P thing. Can we do that? Are we brave whether he thinks 25 enough to do that?” about the afterlife. For a man who appreciates silence, (Not really.) Before Buechner does not claim to be, at this long he grows tired of late stage in his life, engaged in deep these subjects. Earlier reflection. He dismisses questions in the day, he confided, about his prayer life in the same way “I get tired of my own he dismisses questions about his writ- words, I get tired of ing. Nothing serious, he says; nothing disciplined. It is also my own voice, I get tired of my own patterns of thought,” notable that the Rev. Buechner does not attend church. He and now it seems to be coming true. He would prefer to talk finds most ministers to be playing a role rather than being about his family or a visitor’s plans for summer break. In themselves, a pose he finds intolerable. One of the few other words, he wants to be himself. preachers he considers “authentic” is his eldest daughter, “The secret of literary success, I think, is to end up sound- Katherine, a pastor of a church in northern Vermont. ing like yourself, which is hard to do,” he says. “It’s as soon as “Ministers are supposed to say religious things, and they you start writing, or making a speech, you want to sound say religious things,” he says. “I always think that at some like what you think is going to sell best, or what people will point in their lives they were moved passionately to become listen to most acutely, what will remind them most of things preachers, but that passion has been lost under the clutter of they say to themselves.” their other ministerial obligations. ... What comes out is not The sentiment is captured in King Lear, a play Buechner very lively.” taught at Exeter and returns to again and again. For a Still, while Buechner may not be a churchgoer, or even a moment, he tries to recall the final lines of the play. He regular man of prayer, he is known for writing eloquent drums his fingers on his leg, tapping out the notes to a half- prayers. His son-in-law, David Altshuler, remembers fondly a remembered song. And then it comes to him. prayer Buechner wrote for the funeral of his father, John H. “The weight of this sad time we must obey,” he says, paus-

Altshuler. Marking his 50th reunion, which coincided with ing for effect. “Speak what we feel, not what we ought to A. BLAKE the University’s 250th anniversary celebrations, Buechner say.” π offered a reflection that tried to honor both his Christian GARDNER identity and the school’s diverse population: “Whether or Maurice Timothy Reidy ’97 is online editor at America magazine.

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One of James Billington ’50’s duties as librarian of Congress is to safeguard national sound treasures. Standing outside his office — with its magnificent view of the Capitol — Billington breaks into song himself.

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AMERICA’S AS LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, JAMES BILLINGTON ’50 SAFEGUARDS TREASURED MOMENTS IN U.S. CULTURE By Marc Fisher ’80 SOUNDT November 14, 2012 Princeton Alumni Weekly • paw.princeton.edu 26,27,28,29paw1114_BillingtonREV1_MASTER.Feature 10/26/12 5:21 PM Page 27

From 1912,there’s the only surviving recording of America’s biggest burlesque and vaudeville star of the 19th century, Lillian Russell. Even older, there’s a tiny snippet of sound from Thomas Edison’s laboratory, one of the inventor’s staff members singing a bit of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” recorded in 1888 on a tin cylinder meant to be part of a child’s talking doll — the earliest known commercial sound recording. But of all the finds and treasures of sound in the Library of Congress’ vast vaults of tape, records, and discs, the one James Hadley Billington ’50 finds most moving is the recording of voices of former American slaves, interviewed in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration. “There’s a big difference between reading about it and hear- ing somebody telling you their story,” says Billington, a former Princeton history professor who is marking 25 years as the Librarian of Congress. Each year, the library adds 25 pieces of sound to the National Recording Registry, a hall of fame of sorts that is the audio expression of the library’s main mission, as Billington puts it, “to be a mint record of the cultural and intellectual achievements of the American people.” This year’s additions to the decade-old registry include the Edison cylinder — discovered in a desk in 1946 but unplayable until last year, when digital mapping tools developed by the library and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scanned the 5/8-inch-wide surface to unlock the strains of “Twinkle, Twinkle.” “Green Onions” by Booker T. & the MGs was chosen both for its infectious tune and because the rhythm-and-blues group was racially integrated P — a rarity when the song came out in 1962. The Vince 27 Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas was selected because it introduced jazz to millions of Americans in 1965 both through the TV broadcasts of the animated Peanuts special and through radio play of the “Linus and Lucy” theme; Donna Summer’s 1977 hit, “I Feel Love,” pointed the way from disco to electronica and became a gay anthem.

Overseeing these selections is Billington, who — long before he was a librarian — was one of the nation’s pre- eminent historians of Russia, as he remains today. For nine years, he taught Russian history at Princeton, following his older brother, David, onto the faculty. (David Billington ’50 retired in 2010 after 50 years as a Princeton professor of civil and environmental engineering.) James Billington studied Russian history as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford and went on to write five books on the topic, to found the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (where he was director from 1973 to 1987), and to accompany President Ronald Reagan to the Soviet Summit in Moscow in June 1988, as the Cold War began to wind down. Through all those years, he has been a powerful advocate for international education and exchange — of both people and cultural materials. JEFFREY During his long tenure at the helm of the world’s largest library, Billington has moved the Library of Congress into MACMILLAN millions of American homes with a deep digital catalog of DTRACK manuscripts, photos, maps, and video, in addition to reg- P’14 paw.princeton.edu • November 14, 2012 Princeton Alumni Weekly 26,27,28,29paw1114_BillingtonREV1_MASTER.Feature 10/26/12 5:36 PM Page 28

Selections from the National Recording Registry NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC DEBUT Available at OF LEONARD paw.princeton.edu BERNSTEIN, 1943 The 25-year-old

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istries of American sound and film treasures. He has enabled his years at Princeton, meets each year with a panel of voters to keep tabs on their representatives in Washington experts on music, sound, and preservation. The panel nomi- with digital and ever-more-detailed connections to the work- nates recordings for the registry, and Billington gives final ings of Congress. approval. He nudges the panel to broaden the definition of “The American public owes a lot to Jim Billington,” says important sounds beyond songs and speeches — to include, Princeton University Librarian Karin Trainer, noting the dig- for example, the wail of a steam-powered foghorn that was a ital collections he created. Her own favorites, she says, are daily part of the lives of those who lived near Lake Michigan the American Memory Project, which contains documents, between 1906 and 1981, or the song of the humpback photographs, videos, recordings, and maps, “with something whale, a recording that enjoyed a burst of popularity in the of interest for everyone from schoolchildren to prize-winning 1960s and turned popular opinion against the killing of senior scholars”; and the National Digital Newspaper whales. The great majority of the 350 selections in the Program, through which readers can search the contents of registry are musical compositions, but some spoken-word 19th- and 20th-century American newspapers. and natural-sound recordings are added each year. (To The Recording Registry — like the older National Film nominate a recording for inclusion in the registry, go to Registry, to which selections will be added in December — www.loc.gov/nrpb.) serves all three of the library’s chief goals: to acquire, pre- The idea, Billington says, is not to “just engage in nostalgia serve, and make accessible to the public the heritage of a or fulfill a scholar’s desire to preserve everything,” but to cap- nation that “tends to be a throwaway society,” Billington says. ture and explain American history through the sounds that Still lean and energetic at 83, he presides over the Library of made a difference in both high and pop culture. (Alas, only Congress from a rooftop office with glorious views of the some snippets of the recordings on the registry are available Capitol Dome out one window and the library’s distinctive online because of rights issues, but the library is working to cupola out the other. win permission to put more of the nation’s aural history on Billington, whose own musical experience consists of its website.) working as a “super” — an amateur, “supernumerary” actor “The amazing thing about American music is it’s broken — in opera productions in his native Philadelphia during down the division between what’s classical and what’s popu-

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Daniel J. Linke and his staff have flagged about 70 key items — mostly film and video — to be preserved in PRINCETON digital form; many of these can be viewed on the Reel Mudd blog (blogs.princeton.edu/reelmudd). PAW chose

a handful of interesting audio clips from the collection, briefly described below. To listen to segments of ALUMNI each, visit paw.princeton.edu. By B.T. “MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION,” WEEKLY/JULY PARLIAMENT, 1975 Jazz, rock, JIMMY STEWART ’32 GOIN’ BACK WITH THE BASKETBALL’S NCAA 2,

and dance music won’t be the SINGS, 1931 The future CLASS OF 1917, 1937 TOURNAMENT DEBUT, 1937 same after funk gets serious in movie In a rare promotional 1952 WPRB’s live this sharply political but totally star 45 that includes broadcast of Princeton’s danceable work by George Clinton stretches excerpts of Princeton opening-round clash with and a top-flight band. his vocal songs, class president Duquesne at Chicago range to Whit Landon ’17 urges Stadium. A fourth- serenade classmates to come quarter surge led the his beloved in a record- back for their 20th Dukes to a 60–49 win. ing of “Day After Day,” reunion; the B-side from the Triangle show features an invitation HONORING ADLAI A STRIKE AGAINST THE “Spanish Blades.” to wives and children. STEVENSON ’22, 1968 WAR, 1970 Following While dedicating a bust the U.S. invasion of of Stevenson, diplomat Cambodia, students, George F. Kennan ’25 faculty, and administra- “PURPLE RAIN,” PRINCE, 1984 said of his friend, “No tors gathered in Jadwin A new blend of analog and one ever rose more Gym, where a majority electronic sound; catchy tunes; admirably than he to voted for a campus and a fusion of funk, pop, soul, the test of disappoint- strike to condemn mili- and rock make this one of the ment and defeat.” tary intervention. P era’s most influential albums. 29

lar,” says Billington, pointing to the library’s collections of communicating in 140-character blurts is doing to the ability the works of Frank Sinatra, the Gershwin brothers, and of Americans to express themselves in linear fashion. Victor Herbert to show how artists used classic forms and “Is the new technology moving us more toward plebiscite blended different ethnic traditions to create new genres. democracy?” he asks. “Are we losing representative government? A quarter-century into his tenure, Billington still gets “Serious argument and discourse were made possible by excited enough to leap out of his chair as he describes the the sentence,” he says. “Now, on chat rooms and Twitter, you library’s latest project, an effort to “bypass the whole educa- have combinations of acronyms. I’m a big believer that con- tion bureaucracy and get our cultural heritage out to kids versations with mute authors of the past are better than the in K-12 with an online history of America through song,” noise of debates filled with slogans or chat rooms filled with a site that’s expected to be available around the end of this people who haven’t read anything.” year. Relying in part on his 12 grandchildren to stay up to the minute on technological change, Billington is no Luddite; Even as Billington has helped focus scholars, librari- he presses the library’s curators to take advantage of social ans, and readers around the world on the huge opportunities media to push holdings out to users wherever they may be. made available by the information revolution, he also has He has no plans to retire: There’s more to be done, he says, insisted that Americans think seriously about what we’re at “to preserve the values of the book culture while incorporat- risk of losing as we embrace new media. As readers move ing the heightened possibilities for greater knowledge from reading printed books to zipping around the infinite offered by new technologies.” library of the Web, Billington worries that the basic building That’s a challenge facing both the library and the nation, block of our intellectual and cultural history — the sentence he says. As readers’ attention spans shrink and Google’s algo- — is losing its central position. The library proudly rithms take the place of human connection, Billington fears, announced in 2010 that it had acquired every public tweet “it may soon be as difficult to read a Dickens novel as it is tweeted since Twitter’s inception in March 2006 — billions for us now to read Beowulf.” π of them, to be archived digitally — in a process still in the early stages. But at the same time, Billington wonders what Marc Fisher ’80 is a senior editor at The Washington Post.

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Alumni scene Shapley is on a short Lloyd Shapley *53 was recognized for work he did in the 1950s and list“ of the most important 1960s on the design of markets figures in game theory, and matching theory. many of whom were at Princeton. — Princeton economics professor” Dilip Abreu

Lloyd Shapley *53, who was awarded the Nobel Prize Oct. 15. Shapley, 89, won the prize with Harvard professor Alvin Roth for their work on the design of markets and matching theory. Working independently of one another, the two addressed the problem of how to match different agents in a market as efficiently as possible — for example, how to pair new doctors with hospitals, prospective students with schools, or patients needing organ transplants with donors. Shapley’s work, which applies to markets where price is not a factor, seeks to ensure that both sides feel they have gotten P the most attractive match. Working 30 Lloyd Shapley *53 wins with David Gale *49, Shapley was recognized for establishing the theoretical underpinnings of the theories in the Nobel Prize in economics 1950s and 1960s, while Roth devised real-world applications. (Gale died in AP In the fall of 1949, two young mathe- John Nash *50, who won the Nobel 2008, and the Nobel is not awarded IMAGES/REED maticians interested in game theory Prize for economics in 1994 and posthumously.)

lived on the same floor of the Gradu - became famous as the subject of the “Shapley is on a short list of the SAXON ate College and became friendly rivals: book and film A Beautiful Mind, and most important figures in game theory,

NEWSMAKERS consistently. She also STARTING OUT: doesn’t blow financial models and helps raise ALEX LANDON ’12 maintains Former U.S. investor funds. congressman JIM Analyst for strategy and MARSHALL ’72 was finance at the Houston- “is Challenges: The financial work she does sworn in Sept. 14 as based startup Clean Line a steep completely new to me. So that’s been president of the Energy Partners, which is an curve,” says Landon, who landed United States transmis- learning Marshall ’72 developing high-voltage, direct-current Line Energy and then into internship with Clean Institute of Peace in lines to integrate more wind power sion was offered a job. Washington, D.C. Established by grid. Princeton major: mechanical the electric Congress in 1984, the nonpartisan aerospace engineering. it is and What she likes: “My favorite part about institute aims to prevent international a small, flat company,” meaning how the com- the team. It’s conflict without resorting to violence. What she does: Landon analyzes and bureaucracy.

’12 hierarchy con- there isn’t a lot of ... ROBERT A. CARO ’57 was nominated for projects — which are planned to lot of dif- pany’s “You are really given exposure to a a National Book Award for The Passage LANDON the windiest parts of the nation’s central regulatory, nect ferent aspects of it,” including legal, of Power, the fourth volume of his biog- ALEX — to population centers on the coasts region environmental, and public-outreach issues. the electric grid, given that wind

COURTESY will impact

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many of whom were at Princeton at more or less the same time,” including Nash, Gale, and Harold Kuhn *50, said Princeton economics professor Dilip Abreu. “They were huge talents, all present at the birth of the field, and that combination was quite explosive.” Shapley earned a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1953 and taught at Princeton for three years before becoming a research mathematician at the RAND Corporation. He currently is a professor emeritus of economics and mathematics at UCLA, where he joined the faculty in 1981. “I didn’t know this was coming,” Shapley told The Daily Princetonian. “I’m not an economist. I’m only a member of the faculty of the economics department at UCLA.” Sixty-three years ago, Shapley and Nash were hotshots in Princeton’s math department. Kuhn, a professor SAMEER A.

emeritus in the Princeton mathematics KHAN department, said Nash and Shapley were “very much friendly rivals” who enjoyed tossing ideas about game theory back and forth or playing Go, a Oldest alum dies at 107 strategy-intensive board game played P in China for thousands of years. Malcolm Warnock ’25, Princeton’s oldest alumnus and a fixture at the front of the 31 “The common room at Fine Hall Old Guard during the P-rade at Reunions, died Oct. 9. He was 107. A retired was the place where everyone met lawyer from Maplewood, N.J., Warnock was a member of the orchestra and Glee every afternoon, and the ideas sort of Club during his undergraduate days. He received the Class of 1923 Cane, given to bubbled over there,” Kuhn said. “Lloyd the oldest returning alum at Reunions, a record eight times (2001, 2006–12). Shapley was the best in terms of his Thomas Meeker ’56, who knew Warnock, said Princeton was “vital” to the older overall accomplishments of a very alum. “When we would go over to visit with him, we would always look at the bright group of people. His Nobel is Alumni Weekly together.” At the Old Guard luncheons at Reunions, Meeker said, long overdue.” π By J.A. “no matter where you sat, you could hear Malcolm’s voice above all others.” π

raphy The Years of Lyndon Johnson; and Foreign Service officer who had served A new play by RICHARD GREENBERG ’80, Susan Wheeler, director of Princeton’s 31 years and been U.S. Ambassador to Truman Capote’s ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ PHOTOS,

Program in Creative Writing, was nom- Chad, had arrived in Tripoli as chargé is scheduled to open on Broadway in FROM

inated for her poetry collection Meme. d’affaires, a February, reported The LEFT:

The winners were scheduled to be month after New York Times. COURTESY announced Nov. 14. ... LAURENCE POPE Ambassador Greenberg said in a state- USIP; *77, who was a visiting graduate stu- Christopher ment that he hoped “to REUTERS/ISMAIL dent in the Near Eastern studies Stevens was return to the original set- department in killed in ting of the novella, which

1976–77, is the new Benghazi. ... is the New York of the ZITOUNY; top U.S. diplomat AMY MADDEN Second World War, as in Libya. In ’75, a blues well as to resume its tone COURTESY October, the U.S. and rock Madden ’75 — still stylish and AMY

State Department bassist and romantic, yes, but MADDEN announced that songwriter, was inducted into the New rougher-edged and more candid than

Pope *77 ’75 Pope, a retired U.S. York Blues Hall of Fame in August. ... people generally remember.” π

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Alumni scene The Class of ’62 and the Princeton they knew Last spring, PAW invited members of the Class of 1962 to talk about their undergraduate experiences in a series of interviews recorded at Reunions. The following excerpts highlight a few common topics — including eating clubs, women on campus, and academics — from those conversations. Recordings and transcripts will be archived in the University Archives. Video excerpts are available at PAW Online.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS no marks. And I thought, well, this is emerge. The class arrived not long after the The Class of ’62 was among the first in which good, reminds me of high school. ... contentious bicker of 1958, in which 23 sopho- public-school grads outnumbered those from We had a grading system that went mores were left without bids and many alleged prep schools, and according to some class- from 1 to 7, a little different from now. discrimination against Jewish students. mates, the difference between the two groups Seven is a total disaster. He had written was apparent during freshman year. “6.” And the only thing on the paper Bales: The club system was the only was the word “nonsense.” And I avenue for social life. If you weren’t in Al Muller: I came from a public high thought, oh my God, I am in a totally a club, it was a strain to find a social school, a darn good one, but I was way different environment here. environment. We didn’t have the P out of my league when I got here. I [residential] college system. My friends 34 mean, I just breezed through high David Entin: Freshman Shakespeare was who were not in clubs had to go up to school — and then here, I thought I by far the hardest class I’d ever had. We Nassau Street to find some place to was going to flunk out. were reading two plays a week, plus spend time with their dates. And the 100 pages of criticism, plus writing pressure to get into clubs — the whole Barry Bosak: I came from Exeter. ... We papers — it was just overwhelming. process, I think — was not the kind had 36 members of our class come [to And yet, I wrote my first paper, and the of environment for social life at a Princeton]. Yale had 50 from my class professor called me in and said, “You university. of 220, and Harvard 71. But that’s the know, you write well, you have good way things were back then. ideas, we should hear more from you.” Entin: I remember in our class we did ... It was amazing, because these kids have 100 percent bicker. And then Muller: Prep-school preparation, I think, from prep school had read these plays when I was on Inter-Club Council, I was a lot better than the high schools before; I had maybe read one pushed strongly for having 100 per- — even the best ones. I hadn’t really Shakespeare play in my life. It was all cent. Everybody that wanted to get in known how to study until I came here. new to me. ... They were spouting off ... would get in a club. in class, and I was sort of in awe. Then John Bales III: One of the first grades I I found out it was the art of bull. Mac Odell: I was actually a rebel at the got here at Princeton was on a paper time. I was one of the ones that stood that I worked very hard on. ... It was THE SOCIAL SCENE up and raised my voice in protest over about a 10-page paper, and I thumbed Eating clubs held a prominent place in ’62’s bicker and helped found the Woodrow through all the pages, and there were social life, but alternatives were starting to Wilson Society, Woodrow Wilson

Watch video excerpts of PAW’s Class of 1962 Oral History project @ paw.princeton.edu John Bales III ’62 Barry Bosak ’62 Robert Burkhardt ’62 Doug Davis ’62 Bruce Dunning ’62

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huge glasses, owl- wonderful, wonderful guy. Got me eye glasses. And I going in the wrong direction, but that’s remember going OK. I forgave him immediately. into a class, I think it was CHANGES ON THE HORIZON Poetry 206, and For the Class of ’62, women were occasional he started off by visitors, not classmates. Princeton had few reading some minority students, and the campus seemed poems. I had isolated from America’s growing attention to never heard poet- race relations and civil rights. ry read before. Yes, I had listened Bob Medina: You know, on the weekend, to some people you imported women, and they stayed attempting to at the local boarding house. It was a read poetry. This different world. ... It was actually safer, The caption for this 1962 Bric-A-Brac guy, the emotion if you brought a girl into your room photo reads: Have you ever seen so in Wordsworth, past 9 o’clock, to have her spend the many guys in ties and coats in your life? and Keats, and night than to have her leave at 9:15. Shelley, that he Lodge, where I spent the last couple had — I, we, just everyone in the Dunning: Princeton was a very little, years of my Princeton time. I thought course leaned forward in their chairs. upper-class, upper-middle-class group there should be an alternative. ... He would make the English lan- of white guys. There was no real diver- guage come alive. sity. ... But I thought it was quite Bruce Dunning: There was a sense of diverse — I was meeting people from adventure [at Wilson Lodge]. We were Jim Hunter: All of the chemical engineers all over the country who had different doing something new. ... The Wilson took organic chemistry, and [John] experiences. group, it wasn’t just outcasts, but they Turkevich [*34] was the guy. And he were more independent-thinking peo- was just a dynamo. He was incredible. Odell: We had our token Jewish popula- ple: some campus lefties and also a lot ... I mean, they were fun to go to, tion. We had our even-more-token P of evangelicals, because they didn’t like those classes, even if they were at 8 black population. ... We had a very 35 the club scene. But we had quite an o’clock in the morning. modest international student body. interesting group. We did unusual things, like inviting professors to Andy Hall: I took a logic course with Bales: We were living in a little cocoon. meals. That had never been done. The John Tukey, who was a renowned logi- It never dawned on us that there was a clubs started doing that later. cian at the time. ... He was a very whole upheaval beginning in the coun- bright teacher, but he had a way of pre- try. ... it’s just too bad that I didn’t IN THE CLASSROOM senting the material in a way that just have a broader awareness and put on Fifty years after graduation, several class- sort of made it very easy to understand some shoes and get on a bus and go mates still had vivid memories of their favorite and get your head around. And he was down to southern Alabama, and go professors. fabulous in that way. down to places where young people of my age were making a difference down Doug Davis: Oskar Morgenstern was fab- Odell: I took a course from Eric Rogers, there. And not only was I not making a ulous. He was the professor of business a physics course that totally fascinated difference, I didn’t even have a sense of cycles, and I’ve been a business-cycle me. ... And I suddenly thought of what was going on. π theorist all my life because of him. myself as being the next great physicist. ... I dropped out of architecture, went Robert Burkhardt: For me, the most signif- into physics, and totally bombed out Interviews by Brett Tomlinson and icant was Sherman Hawkins. He was in advanced math. ... Rogers was an Allison S. Weiss ’13. Transcriptions by this young guy, and he had these big, absolutely mind-blowing genius, and a Erin McDonough ’14. PHOTOS: BRETT TOMLINSON/PAW

David Entin ’62 Andy Hall ’62 *66 Jim Hunter ’62 Bob Medina ’62 Al Muller ’62 Mac Odell ’62

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After 60 years in the A cultural financial field, JOHN BOGLE ’51 sounds an alarm over what he critic sees as the change from a focus on long- Katie Roiphe *95 has not shied away from term investment to controversial interpretations of contempo- short-term speculation in The Clash of rary culture, beginning with her 1993 the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation book, The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and (Wiley). Bogle is the founder of the Feminism, which was published when she Vanguard Group and president of was a doctoral student in English at Bogle Financial Markets Research Princeton. Her latest book reflects a simi- Center. ... LESLEY WHEELER *94’s poetry lar willingness to challenge readers to collection The Receptionist and Other rethink cultural norms. In Praise of Messy Tales (Aqueduct Press) features a novella Lives (Dial Press) is a collection of sharp in verse. Set in acade- essays whose common theme is a criticism of what she deems the liberal intelli- mia, the story follows gentsia’s otherwise traditional preoccupation with a “healthy” life and a growing Edna, an administra- unwillingness to accept those who live or think outside of the mainstream. tive assistant who has The book coalesced around Roiphe’s observation and, in turn, her frequent to deal with “crabby” essays in periodicals and online column on Slate.com, that a certain educated professors, a difficult (and, in Roiphe’s opinion, largely politi- dean, and other goings-on of college WHAT SHE’S ABOUT TO READ: Toby’s cally liberal) population was too life. Wheeler is an English professor at Room by Pat Barker focused on sterile goals: the right family, the right schools, and the right career. Washington and Lee University. ... In What is it about? “Barker has These individuals have “latent moralistic Book Was There: Reading in Electronic written several novels about the P attitudes toward people who live out- Times (University of Chicago Press), craziness surrounding World 36 side of certain cultural scripts” and “are ANDREW PIPER ’95 examines the history War I. This is her latest.” judging people who are not conforming of reading, the relationship between to very traditional, conservative ideas of books and screens, and how digital family, for instance,” says Roiphe, a journalism professor at New York University. devices are changing Roiphe said her “obsession” led her to gather previously published pieces in the way we read. The which her theme, while not explicitly stated in the essays, simmers subtly under- chapters are organized neath. In Praise of Messy Lives is loosely divided into four sections: personal essays around what people on Roiphe’s own life as a single mother among the bourgeoisie intelligentsia of do when they read, Brooklyn; academic essays on books and literature, including a widely read New including how people York Times Book Review article about how male novelists write about sex; cultural touch books and profiles of subjects ranging from New York City prep-school parents to a prep- screens, how they look at them, and school student turned dominatrix; and an analysis of the quotidian frustrations of how they share them. Piper teaches the Internet age. German and European literature at In one essay, Roiphe taps the modern television phenomenon Mad Men to juxta- McGill Univer sity. ... Airplay on FM pose today’s hyper-achievers with Don Draper’s more decadent and relaxed — and radio stations is a key factor in deter- arguably more creative — contemporaries of the 1960s. She writes, “As a culture mining a song’s commercial success. we have moved in the direction of the gym, of the enriching, wholesome pursuit, GABRIEL ROSSMAN *05 explores how songs of the embrace of responsibility, and the furthering of goals, and away from loung- become hits on the radio in Climbing ing around in the middle of the afternoon with a drink.” Such “wholesome pur- the Charts: What suits,” she contends, stifle both individuality and the ability to “seize the day.” Radio Airplay Tells Us Another essay suggests that society’s subtle deprecation of the single mother is About the Diffusion of both stereotypical and misguided — might not a woman free of a damaging rela- Innovation (Princeton

HOUSE tionship be a better mother than one in an unhappy marriage? Why is society so University Press). An

RANDOM quick to condemn a “messy” life that actually may be quite full and quite loving? assistant professor of “I am attracted to topics that are uncomfortable and always have been,” says sociology at the Uni ver -

COURTESY Roiphe. “What I really want to do is get people to think about things” and encour- sity of California, Los Angeles, Ross - man looks at the roles played by record SCHORI, age people “to be less puritanical and parochial and bourgeois.” π By Kathryn

ANNA Beaumont ’96 labels, broadcasters, and listeners. π

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An American appetite P By Kerry Saretsky ’05 rebellious pride and a shameful desire to tuck away my 37 American identity so that it would be safe for later. Kerry Saretsky ’05 is a publishing strategist and food writer. One night, feeling homesick and lonely, I dug into the She lives in London, and her blog French Revolution can be suitcase under my bed and pulled out a special treasure I found at www.frenchrevolutionfood.com. had reserved for just such a moment: a box of Kraft maca- roni and cheese, purchased for a precious £5 at Partridges in Food has always been the center of my world. Growing up London. I tiptoed off to the little dormitory kitchen, hoping in New York City in the ’80s, I was raised on my French no one would catch me and judge me in this ultimate mother’s home cooking, coming of age with gorgeously moment of Americanness. I tore open the little blue box, gooey gratins, an abiding affinity for duck fat, and an admit- and cascaded the noodles into a pot of boiling water. Yes, I ted sense of bread snobbery. On my dad’s side, I was a fifth- added some grated extra-mature English cheddar — I am a generation New Yorker, and that meant, as many Manhattan - food writer, after all — but then I sat down on my bed with ites will attest, restaurants. We went out constantly, and were my bowl of lurid orange pasta clutched tenderly against my never on the same continent two nights in a row. Volcanic chest, and I gulped it down, feeling each bite somehow vindaloos on Saturday, honey-gushing baklava on Tuesday, restore in me a piece of who I was, of where I was from, of and crispy schnitzels on Thursday. Eating, for me, was always what I really wanted. an otherworldly, or at least an across-the-worldly, experience. I’m not sure where the general dismissal of American cui- American food, on the other hand, was kids’ food. Chicken sine comes from — or why the idea that we don’t have an fingers. Cheeseburgers. Yeah, I ate it occasionally and loved American cuisine ever took root. In cooking school in Paris, it, but my mother, as many French mothers do, prided her- during one demonstration, I gasped at my chef’s liberal use self on my gastronomic inquisitiveness, and I was more likely of butter. “Mais non!” he chided me. “Ce n’est pas du tout aussi to be seen cracking a lobster than nibbling a hot dog. mauvais que ton Coca-Cola!” It’s not nearly as bad as your Coke. It was only when I went to Europe to attend graduate It was just another one of the outlandish jibes of culinary big- school at Oxford that I truly began to appreciate American otry I came to regard as ridiculous. He can think American

cuisine. It was 2007 — not the best time for Americans food is just Coca-Cola all he wants, but I know better. CATHERINE abroad. My new neighbors didn’t bother to hide their dis- Because, over the last five years in Oxford and London, I MEURISSE dain toward me, the new Yank. I had never had to defend have established a very clear definition of American cuisine. who I was before, and I was caught somewhere between continues on page 56

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Clas sno tes From the Archives Student dancers were rehearsing for a perform - ance of the Black Arts Company (BAC), according to archivists, when University photographer Bob Matthews captured their poses Jan. 27, 1995. Founded in 1990, the BAC strives to create an artistic forum expressing the experiences of black people everywhere. BAC is open to all students regardless of race or gender, according to its website, and currently has more than 30 members in its dance troupe. Selections range from tradi - tional African dances to hip-hop and ballet. Can any readers identify these dancers? S W E H T T A M

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Perspective continued from page 37 realization that America has a whole new Because I miss it. I crave it. I go to sleep export: food. thinking about it, and I wake up dream - No, it’s not Kraft and Coca-Cola ing about it. Like a smoker who’s forced to (though I do praise them for being, in quit because he’s run out of cigarettes, I’ve moderation, delicious cultural ambassa - had to go cold turkey. dors). Instead, it’s real American food, Mmm. Cold turkey. I wonder where I done the American way. MEATliquor can get that here. plates up flat-top cheeseburgers in the In- connectconnect The salty, juicy snap of a half-sour pickle. N-Out or Shake Shack style, but in a fancy Blueberry pie, room temperature, no Marylebone outpost with a line snaking ice cream. Corn on the cob, in any itera - around the corner from 7 o’clock. At tion. Corn muffins, toasted, with sweet Burger and Lobster, a tiny restaurant butter. Sweet potatoes, fried. Turkey, just chain in London, you can order only the generally. Pulled-pork sandwiches with eponymous burger or lobster, done right cool coleslaw. Tea that’s iced. A bagel my with drawn butter, or a brioche roll. Or grandfather would have called a bagel. my favorite addition, which I’ve yet to try: Lobster, plain and proper. Bacon that’s Mishkin’s, a self-proclaimed “kind-of Jew - smoked and crispy and right. Gosh, how ish deli with cocktails,” which couples the Alumni great are BLTs? Jumbo shrimp cocktail. Reuben with schmaltzed radishes, and Iceberg wedges with blue-cheese dressing. cream soda with Chablis. These restau - headliners,headliners, Good, aged steak; not overcooked. Pump - rants are either imitating or re-creating campus news, kin pie. American classics in a modern American There are not words to describe how I way — casual but excellent, simple food ssports,ports, miss these foods! This menu seems with tradition, and no reservations. And disparate, even quotidian. But the unify - last night on the British food channel, andand mmore,ore, ing factors are simplicity, honesty, and in - there was a three-hour American lineup, aallll iinn youryour tegrity. Real American food was local and with British culinary celebrities doing seasonal before it was cool to be local and their requisite tours of the States. I sat P Facebook seasonal. Nothing on that list has more back in proud, stomach-rumbling bliss, as 56 than a handful of ingredients. American Jamie Oliver served collard greens and newsnews feedf eed food takes the best of what’s around, and grits. makes it just a bit better — whether it’s a One thing I’ve learned from the French New England clambake or shrimp and side of my family is that pride in your grits in the South. No muss, no fuss; just food is pride in who you are as a nation. real, clear, honest food, done with our I’m proud that we’re no longer hiding our American ingenuity and determination light under a bushel. American food is — for perfection. and here’s a word I can use only with my And that’s what I miss most. fellow Americans, so I employ it with Over the last five years, I’ve made my added vim — awesome. The sweet-tart mark writing about French food, and I’m burst of a cranberry. The juicy char of about to marry a British man. Some may corn grilled in its husk. The corn-crackle say I’ve gone native. Not so. Gone are the crunch of a fried green tomato. The hon - days of shame. I now openly proclaim at esty of a New York seared steak. Com - the office to friends and co-workers who pared to the French classics on which I smile with good humor that America has was raised, or to the exotic reveries to the best food in the world. I tug them which I escaped in my restaurant days, along to try the new Tex-Mex Chipotle there’s not much there. But it is so us, knockoff burrito place in Hammersmith. I making use of sit them down at a table at Honest Burg - what we have, ers and order them gourmet burgers and a adding ingenuity,

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c reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. 1985, Bill and Mary lived in Sparks, where Editor’s note: PAW posts a list of recent After the war he returned to metallurgy at he was able to enjoy the pleasures of retire- alumni deaths at paw.princeton.edu. Los Alamos Lab before beginning his 20-year ment. His sense of humor and love of his Go to “Web Exclusives” on PAW’s home career with the CIA, which took him over- family never abated. They remained the page and click on the link “Recent alumni seas during the Suez Crisis and Cold War. He characteristics of his entire adult life. deaths.” The list is updated with each kept his covert professional life just that, To Mary and the children the class sends new issue. acknowledging only minimal information condolences on the loss of our classmate. once retired in Potomac, Md. He was an THE CLASS OF 1935 active tennis and paddle player well into his THE CLASS OF 1947 CHRISTOPHER S. DONNER JR. ’35 80s, and volunteered for Common Cause and CHARLES CALLANAN ’47 Chuck Chris Donner, teacher, educa- Recording for the Blind before moving to died July 6, 2012. tional administrator, patriot, Arkansas in 2002. Chuck graduated from and retired Marine Corps Harry was predeceased by his third wife, Albany Academy for Boys in major was honorably dis- Thea, in 2005. He is survived by their daugh- 1943 and from Princeton in charged from life May 19, ter, Dr. Amy Pollard, and her husband. 1949. At the University, he 2012, in Hallandale, Fla. He was 99. was captain of the hockey team and played Born in Philadelphia, he came to us from LLEWELLYN C. THOMAS ’35 Llew varsity football and lacrosse. He served as a the Haverford School. At Princeton he died Oct. 26, 2011, in Eugene, lieutenant in the Navy during World War II majored in history; was a member of the Ore., of age-related causes. and the Korean conflict. Glee Club, the Gun Club, and Whig Hall; and The son of an Episcopal After his military service, he worked for a took his meals at Terrace, where he lived missionary, he was born in family heavy-construction and materials during senior year. Porto Alegre, Brazil. He grew business. In 1966, Chuck moved to Baltimore After earning a master’s degee in history up in the Washington, D.C., area and came to in order to find educational opportunities for at Stanford in 1941, he joined the Marine Princeton from Episcopal High School in his special-needs son. While in Baltimore he Corps and served as an artillery officer in the Alexandria, Va. At Princeton, he majored in earned a master’s degree in teaching from Pacific theater. His recently published book, economics, ran track, and ate at Terrace Club. Johns Hopkins University. Beginning in Pacific Time on Target, chronicles his experi- His senior-year roommate was Sut Sutton. 1968, Chuck was headmaster of the Park ences with the 1st Marine Division. After the During World War II, he served in the School in Brooklandville, Md. After nine war, he remained active in the Marine Navy aboard the USS Rooks. After attending years he moved to New England and settled P Reserve. His civilian life was spent as a the University of Virginia School of Law and in Yarmouth, Maine, where he devoted most 57 teacher and administrator at schools in and a few years in practice in Washington, he of his time to projects dedicated to improv- around Philadelphia, chiefly at Chestnut Hill started his own law practice in Maryland, ing the education and health of children. Academy, and concluding at Miami Dade specializing in trusts and estates. Outstanding among these endeavors was the Community College after he had retired to In 1939, Llew married Hilah Bryan, who Trout Foundation, which he founded and ran Florida. He had a busy extracurricular life predeceased him in 2009. He is survived by for a decade. Chuck’s life was given over to that included travel, boating, scuba diving, three daughters, Hilah Thomas, Elizabeth service, and he won many awards for his and underwater photography. Mayer, and Ellen Thomas; a son, Merrick; contributions. Chris’s wife of 46 years, Madge, prede- five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. A man of wisdom and compassion, he ceased him in 1983. His second wife, was a loving role model and will be sorely Marianne, died in 1996. He is survived by THE CLASS OF 1942 missed by all who knew him. Chuck is sur- his son, Christopher, and his family; three WILLIAM BAUER JR. ’42 Bill Bauer vived by his wife, Mary, and two sons and grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. died May 24, 2012, in Sparks, three daughters and their families, including Md. 10 grandchildren. HARRY T. GILBERT JR. ’35 We lost Bill was born in Newark, PHOTOS:

Harry June 9, 2012, in Little N.J., and prepared for college HEINRICH D. HOLLAND ’47 Dick Holland died May DEPARTMENT Rock, Ark., from complica- at Blair Academy. At 20, 2012, in Princeton. Known as the “father tions after a stroke. He was Princeton, Bill roomed with Bob Korf, Mac of modern economic geology,” Dick edited OF

100. Roach, and Clancy Stanard. He majored in the 10-volume Treatise on Geochemistry, RARE

Born in Chicago, Harry modern languages and joined Key and Seal. first published in 2004. BOOKS

grew up in several cities and came to After leaving Princeton, Bill served for Born in Mannheim in 1927, he escaped AND

Princeton from The Hill School. He majored three and a half years in the Army. At the from Hitler’s Germany via the Kindertrans- SPECIAL in psychology, took his meals at Cottage, end of World War II he was separated as a port, a rescue effort for children. The reunit- and was in Triangle. Senior year he roomed technical sergeant. In 1951 he married ed family moved to Kew Gardens in Queens, COLLECTIONS, with Alex McWilliams, Billy Fisher, Peter Mary L. Mitchell and moved with her to N.Y. Dick prepped at the Hun School,

Williams, and Ralph Osborne. Greensboro, N.C., where he entered the insur- entered Princeton in 1943, and graduated PRINCETON Harry followed his father into the steel ance business as a special agent in marine with highest honors in chemistry in 1946.

business until joining the Army Field insurance for American Insurance Co. With Dick earned his master’s degree and Ph.D. UNIVERSITY Artillery in 1941. He landed on Omaha Mary he had three children, Susan, William, from Columbia. In 1950 he returned to

Beach on D-Day+18 and was proud to serve and Philip. Princeton as a geology professor, where he LIBRARY under Gen. Patton in the Battle of the Bulge, After leaving the insurance industry in stayed until 1972. He moved to Harvard,

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where he worked until his retirement in when he retired as a partner, there were 600. counterintelligence. After his retirement he 2000. He was a past chairman of the board of St. served on the board of directors of the Dick applied thermodynamics to the ori- Margaret Hospital and regularly was active Southeast Fairfax (Va.) Development Corp. in gin and formation of hydrothermal deposits in Princeton affairs. the Alexandria Route 1 corridor and on the of copper, zinc, lead, and silver. His work on Walt died Oct. 9, 2011, in Oakmont, Pa. He board of United Community Ministries and the chemical evolution of the atmosphere led is survived by his children, William ’79, other charitable organizations. He also was to a theory of the great oxidation event 2.4 Susan, Robert, and Nancy Buchanan; seven active in local beautification and economic- billion years ago. His most important publi- grandchildren; his sister, Isabel Pedersen; development programs. cations were The Chemistry of the Atmos- and his brother, James W. Braham ’54. Ann Ben died of cancer Oct. 31, 2011. He is phere (1978) and The Chemical Evolution of predeceased him in 2009. survived by Perky; his son, Benjamin; daugh- the Atmosphere and Oceans (1984). ter Holly; two granddaughters; three grand- Dick is remembered as a man of great loy- ADDISON L. DYER JR. ’51 Skip was sons; and his sisters, Virginia Purviance, alty to friends and students, a lover of wine, born May 18, 1927, the son of Rebecca Sinkler, and Tracy Marble. and an avid conversationalist. The class Miriam White and Addison L. proudly sends its admiration of Dick to his Dyer ’22. THOMAS D. WRIGHT ’51 Tom was children, Henry Lawrence, Anne, and John. An Army veteran of World born Nov. 22, 1928, in Alice, his wife of 57 years, predeceased him War II, he was a graduate of Richmond, Va., to Thomas D. in 2010. Lawrenceville. At Princeton he majored in and Claudia Lewis Wright. He basic engineering, was a member of the grew up on Bonnie Brae Farm THE CLASS OF 1950 Cleveland Club and WPRU engineering in Durham, N.C. DOUGLAS M. DYNE ’50 Doug, a supervisor, and served as secretary of Key A graduate of Millbrook School, he earned longtime resident of Tuxedo and Seal and on the editorial staff of Prince- a bachelor’s degree in engineering at Prince- Park, N.Y., died June 7, 2010. ton Engineering magazine. Skip roomed with ton. He was on the business board of The He graduated from Jim Brassill, Bill Couch, and Bill Schrauff. Daily Princetonian and joined Quadrangle. Mercersburg Academy, hav- His marriage to Barbara Tichenor in 1953 He roomed with Don McLean, Jim Wallis, ing previously attended ended in divorce. Skip’s business career and Rollin White. From 1951 to 1954 he Ridgewood (N.J.) High School. At Princeton, began with Firestone Tire and Rubber as a served as a gunnery officer on the USS he studied mechanical engineering before tool engineer. In 1952 he joined Dana Corp., Laffey. withdrawing in August 1948, presumably to where he worked for 16 years, ending as In 1961, Tom joined Tomrich Construction continue his studies elsewhere. He had plant manager in Detroit. Thereafter he was in Durham with his brother, eventually serv- belonged to Cloister. associated with Borg-Warner, Western Forge, ing as its president. He later worked with We received no news from Doug after he Times Wire & Cable, and Marsh Instrument. Cape Land Co. in Wilmington, N.C. P left Princeton other than that he had married In 1974 he started his own management-con- Tom’s 1967 marriage to Carolyn Pumfrey 58 and resided at several New Jersey addresses. sulting firm in Canon City, Colo., where he ended in divorce. Tom was a lifelong enthusi- From Mercersburg magazine, we learned also was director of economic development ast of fox hunting and co-founded the that he had been the president and CEO of for Fremont County and where he remained Triangle Hunt in Bahama, N.C., where he was Dyne & Lenihan Engineering, from which he until his retirement 17 years later to master of fox hounds from 1961 to 1980. retired in 1996, and that he was survived by Evansville, Ind. From 1980 to 1982 he was master of fox four sons and seven grandchildren. Skip died Oct. 20, 2011, in Noblesville, hounds of the Oakley Hunt in Bedfordshire, Ind. He is survived by his daughter, Jennifer England. THE CLASS OF 1951 Auble; his son, Timothy; five grandchildren; Tom died July 21, 2011, in South Burling- W. WALTER BRAHAM JR. ’51 Walt and his sister, Miriam Dyer-Dunning. His ton, Vt. He is survived by his daughter, Lucy was born Dec. 8, 1929, in New wife, the former Julia Howard, predeceased Ormrod; his son, Thomas D. Jr.; four grand- Castle, Pa., to W. Walter and him in 2010. children; and his sisters, Claudia Elliman and Selina Whitla Braham. Elizabeth Dicconson. His sisters Meriwether He graduated from B. FRANKLIN PEPPER ’51 Ben was Hudson and Diana McCargo and his brother, Mercersburg Academy. At born March 2, 1930, in Richard H. Wright III, predeceased him. Princeton he was a history major and a Chestnut Hill, Pa., the son of member of Tower Club and the varsity swim- Anna Harris and Benjamin F. THE CLASS OF 1954 ming team. He roomed with Jeff Arrick, Bud Pepper ’27. JOHN W. ACER ’54 John Acer died Brown, Pinky Cohill, Bill Latimer, Bruce He attended the Buckley June 24, 2012, after a long Kennedy, and Vernon Wise. Walt graduated School, Chestnut Hill Academy, and St. struggle with leukemia. magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Mark’s. At Princeton he majored in history, Born in Medina, N.Y., he Beta Kappa. was a member of Cottage and Orange Key, graduated from Hotchkiss. At From 1951 to 1953, Walt served in the and played rugby. He roomed with Bob Princeton, he majored in Marines as an operations officer. In 1956 he Akeley, Bob Jennings, and Larry Keyes. He mechanical engineering. He joined the Army received a law degree from Harvard. His married Helen “Perky” Warner July 14, 1951. after completing his sophomore year and marriage to Diane Wright that same year After service in the Navy, Ben joined the served as a guided-missile instructor at the ended in divorce, after which he was married Central Intelligence Agency, where he spent Redstone Arsenal. In 1956, he enrolled at the to Ann Haines for 48 years. 30 years as a case officer in the operations University of Iowa, where he received a Walt spent most of his working career at directorate, serving abroad in Berlin, Mexico bachelor’s degree in engineering and a mas- Kirkpatrick, Pomeroy, Lockhart & Johnson City, and London. He worked primarily ter’s degree in labor and management. He (now K&L Gates) in Pittsburgh. When he against Soviet and Eastern European targets, later enrolled in the Arizona State University joined the firm it consisted of 17 lawyers; his particular expertise being in the field of Law School and earned a J.D. degree.

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John had a successful law practice in Frank did not keep in touch with the class, ing his career in the Far East. Phoenix and also served as a pro tempore but we do know that he married Mary Hesse Lyn started out with Extel Corp. covering judge in various Maricopa County court- in 1961. His lifelong career was in advertising, China, Singapore, Taiwan, Burma, Indonesia, rooms. He found time to provide free legal including at J. Walter Thompson and Young India, Korea, the Philippines, and Hong assistance through the Volunteer Lawyers & Rubicam in New York, Denver, and Detroit. Kong. In 1983 he entered the Foreign Service, Program. He also became an elder in his His prime responsibility was Ford Motor Co. first as a senior commercial officer in Hong church and served as president of North In 1969 he married Deborah Bothome. He Kong and later in a similar position in Beijing. Phoenix Corporate Ministry. In 1980 he especially enjoyed living in the Grosse Point During the protests in June 1989, Lyn was entered politics, eventually becoming a dele- area and met his beloved partner, Katherine sent into the crisis area in and around gate at the 1992 Republican National Torrant, there. He was an avid outdoorsman, Tiananmen Square to assess events and to Convention in Houston. In 2012, he received sailor, skier, and ice skater in Maine, Lake locate and evacuate American citizens. His the National Federation of Republican Champlain, and Traverse County. work there earned him a presidential com- Assemblies lifetime achievement award. To his daughters Maya, Andrea, and mendation for his bravery, his actions being John is survived by his wife of 57 years, Ashley; son Franklin; and his grandchildren, described as “brilliant and courageous.” Martha; their daughters, Susan, Catherine, the class sends its condolences. Lyn returned to private business in 1989 and Julia; three grandchildren; and his broth- and held a series of increasingly responsible ers, Donald and Milford. The class is honored THE CLASS OF 1965 positions with Honeywell and Northern by his service to our country and extends JAMES L. HENSHAW ’65 Jim died Telecom in Hong Kong and Nortel World condolences to his family. May 25, 2012, at Memorial Trade in London and later North Carolina. Hospital in Abington, Pa., He retired in 2003. THE CLASS OF 1955 from Parkinson’s disease. To his wife, Corinne Plummer, and his DANIEL K. LANE ’55 Daniel Lane, Jim was valedictorian of son, Owen Tanner, the class sends sympathy. son of Pauline Kerns and his class at Orchard Park Clinton Welsh Lane, was born High School near Buffalo. At Princeton he THE CLASS OF 1972 in St. Louis May 12, 1933, was a University Scholar, took his meals at LEWIS E. GRIMES ’72 The class learned this sum- and died there July 2, 2012. the Woodrow Wilson Society, and majored in mer about the sudden death of Lewis E. At Princeton he roomed in astronomy. He later received a master’s Grimes July 5, 2011, in Glen Ellyn, Ill. 1903 Hall with R.E. Dillon and F. Prichard. degree in astrophysics from Cornell. He Lewis entered Princeton with the Class of He was enrolled in the Woodrow Wilson spent his career in the Buffalo area with sev- 1971 but graduated with 1972 after a year’s School, served as president of Cottage Club, eral computer-software companies and later recovery from a fall from a scaffold during and graduated summa cum laude. Dan grad- as administrator of a Wesleyan church. summer employment in 1970. uated from Washington University Medical Jim’s life was defined by his deep Lewis came to Princeton from Baltimore School in 1959 and completed his residency Christian faith. He was secretary of the Polytechnic Institute. He was a member of P in Ann Arbor, Mich. He returned to St. Louis Princeton Evangelical Fellowship, to which the Princeton Outing Club (an organization 59 in 1963, joining his father in a private prac- his roommates John Andrews and Jim active in outdoor recreation), worked at the tice of dermatology, where he remained for Montgomery also belonged. At the time of Student Pizza Agency, and joined Colonial 50 years. A clinical professor and president his death he was a member of Faith Bible Club. He lived at Edwards Hall as a junior of the St. Louis Dermatology Society, Dan Fellowship Church in Harleysville, Pa. and at Princeton Inn in his final year. was an emeritus staff member of medicine at His Princeton experience was defined in Lewis began his studies in engineering but Barnes-Jewish Hospital. part by learning to appreciate classical music, switched to philosophy, graduating with Dan, a 1951 graduate of St. Louis Country which became a lifelong passion, and by a highest honors and a teaching certificate. He Day School, served on the school’s board and conviction that coeducation and a stronger earned a master’s degree in philosophy from was elected to its sports hall of fame in base- focus by the faculty on teaching rather than the University of Pittsburgh in 1974 and a ball and football. research and publishing would provide more master’s degree in chemical engineering from Dan golfed with joy. He loved to travel substance to the University’s education. Carnegie Mellon in 1980. He worked for with his wife of 57 years, Janet. He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Amoco Oil, its successor BP, and Universal Preceded in death by his brother, Clinton Joyce; sons William, David, and Benjamin; Oil Products. His passions were philosophy, W. Lane Jr., Dan leaves Janet; sons Daniel Jr. and four grandchildren. The class sends con- language, music, bicycling, and his family. and Robert; daughters Constance Irene Lane dolences to his family on the loss of this fine He is survived by his wife, Brenda B. and Sarah Lane Hurth; nine grandchildren; man who was taken from us too soon. Darrah; his children, David Grimes and Leah brother Edwin D.; sister Barbara L. Stephens; Sampey and Leah’s husband, Frank; siblings sisters-in-law Patricia W. Lane and Barbara K. THE CLASS OF 1970 James Grimes Jr. and Lois Bittinger; and Clark; and many nieces and nephews. LYN W. EDINGER ’70 Lyn died July many nieces and nephews. The class sends 21, 2012, at his home in sympathy to them and the extended family. THE CLASS OF 1957 Burlington, N.Y. FRANK H. DAVIS JR. ’57 Frank died June 15, 2012, Lyn was born in Syracuse THE CLASS OF 1973 at age 76. and attended high school in ALLYN R. MARSH III ’73 Terry He graduated from Milton Academy, Albany. At Princeton he was Marsh died peacefully Sept. 7, where he was captain of the hockey and an honors student in history. After gradua- 2010, following a brief bout track teams. At Princeton he majored in tion, Lyn joined Princeton-in-Asia and trav- with brain cancer. psychology and joined Cap and Gown. He eled to Nanyang University, where he taught Coming to Princeton from also played hockey. From 1952 to 1954 he for three years and became fluent in Kingswood Oxford School, he served in the Marine Corps. He returned to Mandarin. This experience led him to majored in chemical engineering. Terry Princeton to graduate in 1960. become the class’s “Old China Hand,” pursu- roomed at Princeton with Horrow, Maxson,

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Monat, Rockwell, and Williamson, with whom Harris graduated from Stanford in 1965, he maintained lifelong friendships. When he Graduate alumni and in 1967 received an M.P.A. from the wasn’t regaling classmates with his encyclo- JOHN H. FRITZ *50 John Fritz, a retired professor Woodrow Wilson School. He was with Mobil pedic memory of jokes, Terry was an enthusi- of history and dean of arts and sciences at Oil in Europe before earning a Ph.D. in busi- astic member of Charter Club and chaired Fairleigh Dickinson University, died Feb. 9, ness from Harvard (1974). He then worked the engineering council. He earned an 2012. He was 87. for the Arthur D. Little firm as an energy-pol- advanced degree from UC Berkeley and went After high school, Fritz enlisted in World icy adviser to international oil and gas com- on to a 35-year career with Dow Chemical War II and was called up for the Korean panies, chemical companies, and while cementing an international reputation War. In between, he graduated from The governments. in membrane filtration. Among Terry’s many College of William & Mary in 1948, and in In 1982 he was recruited by Montedison passions, sailing was especially prominent. 1950 earned a master’s degree in history S.p.A., the Italian multinational chemical In our 35th-reunion book, Terry wrote that from Princeton. He retired from Fairleigh company. In 1990, he joined the London Princeton was “a wonderful four years that Dickinson in 1974. office of McKinsey & Co. as a partner. There, went by all too quickly; an experience I Fritz’s great interest was U.S. equestrian he built up the firm’s European energy and couldn’t have hoped for, didn’t deserve, can activity. He officiated at Olympic games, Pan- chemicals practice. Harris established never repeat, and will always appreciate.” American games, and in all major U.S. cham- McKinsey offices in the Middle East, which Terry was more than we could have hoped pionships. He had been CEO of the U.S. served all the major oil, gas, and chemical for in a friend. The memory of his pursuit of Equestrian Team, and was key to developing companies in the Persian Gulf. He retired excellence, unflappable good humor, devo- teams at Culver Academy and Texas A&M from McKinsey in 2003, but remained as a tion to family, and especially his desire to University. Fritz was a trustee at Centenary director emeritus and senior adviser. help those less fortunate than he, will be for- College in Hackettstown, N.J., from 1990 to Harris continued as an independent con- ever cherished by all who knew him. 2008, and chair of its equestrian advisory sultant, last living and working in Abu Our deepest condolences go to his wife of council. The equestrian team’s arena was Dhabi. He particularly enjoyed serving on 35 years, Susan; his son and daughter; his named for him. Centenary awarded him an the board of the Freeman Spogli Institute for granddaughter; his mother; and the extended honorary doctor of humane letters in 2003. International Studies at Stanford. family and countless friends. A loyal Princetonian, Fritz was a life mem- Harris is survived by his wife, Tamara ber of the APGA and had been a member of Sinclair; two children; and two granddaugh- THE CLASS OF 1980 its board. He was a generous donor to the ters. He had three prior marriages. DARIUSH ARASTEH ’80 Dariush Graduate School’s AG campaigns for 39 years. died Feb. 3, 2012, after living Fritz died in his birthplace, Rockford, Ill., GWENDOLYN L. LEWIS *75 Gwendolyn Lewis, a with neuroendocrine cancer and is survived by numerous cousins. professional photographer who had been a for nearly a decade. sociology professor, died of cancer Feb. 8, P Born in Ann Arbor, Mich., DANIEL ORR *60 Daniel Orr, retired professor of 2012. She was 68. 60 Dariush grew up in Bethesda, economics at the University of Illinois at Lewis was a 1965 graduate of Reed Md. At age 9, he lived for a year with family Champaign-Urbana, died at home June 6, College. After earning a master’s degree from in his father’s native Iran. He graduated 2012, at the age of 79. San Jose State University in 1968, she earned from Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Orr graduated from Oberlin in 1954, and a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton in 1975. received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineer- received a Ph.D. in economics and sociology She taught at the University of Pittsburgh ing from Princeton, and earned a master’s from Princeton in 1960. He began teaching from 1973 to 1980, and during the 1970s, degree in mechanical engineering from at Amherst, after which he moved to the spent 18 months in Turkey on a Fulbright UC Berkeley. business school at the University of Chicago. fellowship. In the early 1980s, she was a A scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Early in his career, his research and writing research associate at Cornell and a project Laboratory for 30 years, Dariush was known on econometrics established his reputation. director for a Chicago-based consortium of worldwide for his research on energy-effi- In 1966, he and a Chicago colleague were private colleges. In 1984, Lewis joined the cient windows. Central in developing the brought to the University of California at National Research Council. She later was window performance rating used today in San Diego to help build an economics employed in several science-oriented posi- the United States, he authored over 100 aca- department at a new campus. While there, tions before becoming a senior education demic papers and co-authored two books. he chaired the department for 10 years, as it specialist at the U.S. Department of Agricul- Dariush will be remembered for mentor- grew and attracted scholars, two of whom ture in 1991. She was director of higher edu- ing young scientists and collaboratively shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2005. cation programs from 1995 to 1998. bringing emerging technologies to market. A In 1979, Orr moved to Virginia Polytechnic Lewis then began a second career as a natural athlete, he enjoyed everything from Institute as department chair and assembled photographer. She emphasized architectural tennis and Ultimate Frisbee to rowing and a noteworthy faculty. His last move was in subjects while specializing in black-and- hitting home runs. He was deeply engaged 1989 to become chair of the economics white photography. Exhibiting in more than in his son’s life, from hobbies to schoolwork. department at Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, 100 shows in the Washington, D.C., area, she His memorial website is: http://windows. from which he retired in 1999. won many awards. Active in her local Reed lbl.gov/dariush. Orr is survived by his wife, Mary Lee; two alumni chapter, she served on the college’s Dariush leaves his wife, Nancy Hendrick- children; and three grandchildren. A daugh- board of trustees in the 1990s. son ’82; son Jasper; and his sister, Roya. Gifts ter predeceased him. Lewis is survived by her husband of 24 in his memory may be made to: Agua Para years, David C. Montgomery. Her first mar- La Vida — In honor of Dariush Arasteh, HOWARD E. HARRIS *67 Howard Harris, a director riage ended in divorce. 2311 Webster St., Berkeley, CA 94705. We emeritus of McKinsey & Co., died from the will miss Dariush’s brilliance, charm, and effects of an aggressive cancer May 9, 2012. Graduate memorials are prepared by the wit, and we send condolences to his family. He was 68. APGA.

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BowenHall Modern architecture dominates Prospect Avenue across from the eating clubs. Bowen Hall, the home of materials-science research, is adjacent to a University parking garage. Photograph by Ricardo Barros

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MANY THANKS Consider the numbers: 65,120 of you made gifts to Aspire. 8,338 of you volunteered. How many students and faculty will benefit from your generosity? Too many to count. From all of us to all of you: Many, many, many thanks. Determination is in our nature

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