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PRESIDENT’S PAGE 2 INBOX 5 FROM THE EDITOR 7 ON THE CAMPUS 11 What’s next for Princeton Former Princeton professor at center of misconduct case Wilson scholars weigh in Civic engagement Strategic planning: Natural sciences, online education SPORTS: Women’s basketball Road to Rio LIFE OF THE MIND 21 Fiction and poetry: Jhumpa Lahiri, Boris Fishman ’01, Idra Novey, Alexander Chee, Edmund White, Michael Dickman Research shorts PRINCETONIANS 33 Abbie Bagley-Young Vandivere ’01 Paul Roberts Page 46 ’85 on seminary education Author John Seabrook ’81 Scholars contribute to CLASS NOTES 37 Wilson debate, page 14 Shifting Into Neutral 24 The Long Telegram 27 The Nature of Things 30 MEMORIALS 57 Gender identities are A reflection on the anniversary A love affair with the wonder CLASSIFIEDS 61 changing. And so vocabulary of the great achievement of of physics began in childhood is changing, too. George Kennan ’25. — and never abated. THAT WAS THEN 64 By David Galef ’81 By Stephen Kotkin By Alan Lightman ’70

PAW.PRINCETON.EDU Snow Days Road to Rio A blizzard during Read about alumni January’s intersession who are major players produced tranquil behind the scenes of scenes and playful three Olympic sports. moments on campus. See examples of Good, clean fun? each in Mary Hui ’17’s Tim Vasen Gregg Lange ’70 on photos online. A student fondly hazing traditions that, recalls the late professor thankfully, have been as a mentor in theater swept into the dustbin

of Communications Denise Applewhite/Office left: Schaefer; from Beverly Mary Hui ’17; Top: and in life. of history.

On the cover: Students play football during a blizzard Saturday, Jan. 23. By the time the storm ended early Sunday morning, Princeton had received more than 22 inches of snow. Photograph by Ricardo Barros THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Extending Core Values into a Dynamic Future

eaffirm Princeton’s commitment to residential liberal arts education. Expand the undergraduate student R body. Elevate attention to the Graduate School. Increase socioeconomic diversity. Embrace the value of service. Cultivate the innovation ecosystem around the

University. Facilitate research and scholarship that will DENISE APPLEWHITE address profound questions and urgent problems. T hese are among the headlines in the strategic framework published by the Board of Trustees in early February. Designed to be a flexible and revisable guide to decision- making about Princeton’s future, the document is a major milestone in the planning process we launched two years ago. It incorporates insights developed through trustee deliberations, campus conversations, and the listening tour that began my presidency. At 24 pages in length, the The strategic framework reaffirms the University’s commitment document is relatively short, and I encourage alumni to read to residential liberal arts education. Here, Assistant Professor it online at www.princeton.edu/strategicplan/framework/. of Politics Ali Valenzuela dines with his advisees in Rockefeller The framework’s publication occurs at a time of College. impassioned public controversy about the value of liberal arts education and the role of research universities. Politicians quality and importance of Princeton’s graduate programs. and pundits have questioned whether college is worth the Because Princeton’s commitment to undergraduate cost and have urged universities to focus on vocationally education is so rare in the world of research universities, oriented programs. People speculate about how technology past planning documents and mission statements have might make traditional forms of education obsolete. At the sometimes overlooked our superb Graduate School, and the same time, the demand for places at Princeton and other extent to which it is critical to the University’s teaching and selective colleges is greater than ever. research mission. Like virtually all of the Princeton alumni with whom The framework devotes special attention to the impact I have spoken, the trustees endorsed emphatically the value of technology on our world and on higher education. of a liberal arts education. As the board observed, the case Technology is reshaping the questions that students and for this kind of education is powerful even if made in purely researchers ask and the means by which they ask them. economic terms. Because Princeton has a world-class engineering school Princeton’s mission, however, turns not upon the private thoroughly integrated with the tradition and values of economic value of a degree, but on the ways that a great liberal arts education, the University can offer a distinctive research university serves the public good. Liberal arts perspective on the challenges and opportunities that come education and scholarly research are rooted in a recognition with technological change. of the long-term value of learning. The students whom Technology also requires the University to develop a more we educate today will call upon their educations decades robust innovation ecosystem around the campus. Students hence to address problems that we can scarcely imagine, and faculty alike are seeking opportunities to collaborate and curiosity-driven scholarship can generate insights of with non-academic partners to advance the University’s surprising and transformative power. teaching and research mission, and facilitating such Princeton’s strategic framework observes that the long- initiatives will be important to Princeton’s future. term perspective of a liberal arts university is both especially There is much more in the framework, including priorities needed and increasingly rare in an age dominated by related to visible leadership in the arts and humanities, short time horizons, utilitarian attitudes, and diminishing environmental studies, regional and world affairs and attention spans. This gives Princeton a special responsibility cultures, and engineering. Incorporated in the framework are to use the resources that have been entrusted to it to a mission statement and an identification of the University’s strive not only for the highest levels of quality but also for defining characteristics and aspirations. I hope Princeton’s “significant and lasting impact in pursuing its mission of alumni will contribute to the ongoing conversation about service to the nation and the world.” the framework—it represents a milestone in our planning One obvious way to increase our impact is to admit more process but not its completion. students. We turn down a higher percentage of qualified Much remains to be done. The observations, perspectives, applicants today than at any other moment in our history. and support of alumni are invaluable as Princeton continues I have no doubt that if we could admit more of these talented to do everything it can to demonstrate, in the words of the young people, they would make positive contributions to our framework, that “Princeton’s distinctive model and mission campus and the world. I am delighted that the framework are today more vibrant, valuable, and relevant to the world’s authorizes my administration to begin planning for the problems than ever.” addition of about 500 students, which will require the construction of a seventh residential college. I am equally pleased that the framework highlights the

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SIZING UP ISSUES story, Jan. 13) brought back memories. In Regarding the discussion of 1972 I joined about 100 other Princeton “microaggressions” on campus, I’m students for a sit-in (our term for surprised no one has quoted Adlai “occupy”) at Nassau Hall. We took over Stevenson II ’22, Democratic nominee the main room, site of trustee meetings, for president in the 1950s, who, while and demanded an end to the Vietnam addressing the state committee of the War — or, at least, the elimination of Liberal Party in New York City in 1952, ROTC on campus. Amid clouds of declared: “You can tell the size of a man by marijuana smoke, the strumming of the size of the thing that makes him mad.” folk guitars and some extracurricular Mike Walter ’81 activities by couples in the dark corners, security and arraigned in student court. Bloomington, Minn. we chanted our slogans: “Ho, Ho, Ho I received a year of disciplinary probation Chi Minh, NLF is gonna win!” President — not a trivial matter when a false DISAGREEING, WITH HUMILITY Robert Goheen ’40 *48 entered the move thereafter would have resulted in Christopher Shea ’91’s article on free room, with aides in tow, to address us, expulsion, loss of my student deferment, speech (feature, Nov. 11) is an interesting and we shouted him down. The poor, and service in the wartime U.S. Army. But summary of the issues, even if at the end bow-tied man, the picture of academic there was a bright side: We did get rid of the questions remain unresolved. dignity, turned on his heel and walked ROTC, and we ended the Vietnam War. However, there is an unfortunate out. To my memory, it was reported that Mack Rossoff ’74 sentence at the end which states that he then uttered the phrase that often New York, N.Y. students should learn to debate their would be quoted: “This isn’t Princeton,” ideological adversaries. So they should, although PAW places this catchphrase PANGS OF REGRET of course; but even more important, sometime earlier, at a protest at the Re Gregg Lange ’70’s column, “So Little they should learn enough humility Institute for Defense Analyses. Time” (posted at PAW Online Nov. to understand that just because you What a contrast with the protest of 27): Thank you for this very poignant disagree with me, you are not necessarily the Black Justice League. The students and reassuring reminder of all that my “ideological adversary.” After all, are polite, they speak with President Princeton is and has been. If there’s we may both be partly right and partly Eisgruber ’83 for five hours, they chant someone who has not felt such pangs, wrong. Unfortunately, both you and I live about love. The demand is for “cultural I’m not him. Having spent a career in a neo-Manichaean culture that grows competency training” and affinity in medicine (professionally) and the out of our American winner-take-all housing; they do their homework. The performing arts (avocationally), there blindness, and bears little relation to real picture that accompanies the article says are many things for which I am grateful life and the ways in which real people it all: These are respectful young people, to Princeton. However, I can easily must interact with one another. polite, diverse, dialoguing, posting, and, identify the regrets as well. My greatest Nicholas Clifford ’52 apparently, effective. The demands, if one is recognizing that, as a freshman, Middlebury, Vt. not wholly met, will be addressed. This I could have taken a course with one of is Princeton. the greatest theologians of the mid-20th A CONTRAST IN PROTESTS As for my crowd, we were century, Reinhold Niebuhr. While I have Reading “Occupying Nassau Hall” (cover photographed individually by campus found I can debate both his theology and his politics, missing the opportunity PAW TRACKS Paul Rochmis ’60 to encounter thinking at that level is something I have regretted for years. OFF PROSPECT: In an oral-history John Severinghaus ’68 interview recorded at Reunions last Norwich, Vt. year, Paul Rochmis ’60 recalled the disappointment he felt when several of his peers were not extended bids GIVING CREDIT TO WILSON from the eating clubs — an incident I write to correct the misconception that that led to his decision to become an the name of Wilson College is simply independent student. Listen to his an arbitrary way to worship Woodrow

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ALUMNI SHARE THEIR FAVORITE LOVE SONGS campus. Most recently and alarmingly, PAW published a letter from Murphy The Conversation Online Sewall ’64 (Inbox, Jan. 13) that stated Responding to a list of singer-songwriter “there’s very little reason why Wilson Ruth Gerson ’92’s favorite love songs in College should be named after him.” the Jan. 13 issue, readers shared their In fact, naming Princeton’s first own special songs at PAW Online. residential college after Wilson is Larry Greenfield ’64 recounted how, for his 30th wedding anniversary, he perhaps the best example of honoring created for his wife a book of song lyrics, Wilson in an objective and appropriate “one for each year of our marriage, and way. Wilson was one of the first and they described something personal that most vocal proponents of bringing the we treasured about our lives together.” residential-college systems of Oxford Mike Axelrod *66 met his wife, Joyce, in 1956, and their theme song for many and Cambridge to American universities. years has been “When I’m Sixty-Four” by the Beatles. “The words to this song He laid out his “quad plan” to the ring true today and hopefully many years to come,” he wrote. Princeton Board of Trustees in 1906, Michael Burrill ’66 wrote that “I’ll Be Seeing You” was especially appropriate which eventually would be realized in the for wartime, “with lovers separated by thousands of miles.” Noting the last line, form of houses at Harvard, residential “I’ll be looking at the moon, but I’ll be seeing you,” he added: “I can just imagine my parents listening to it. They were married in 1941, and I was born on D-Day.” colleges at Yale and Princeton, and many Art Garfunkel’s version of “I Only Have Eyes for You” is J. Russell Stevens other variations at universities across ’76’s favorite song. “Garfunkel’s voice is beautiful, and the production is wonderful.” the country where students live in For Katherine P. Holden ’73, these songs stir “so many great memories”: residential communities. the Commodores’ “Lady (You Bring Me Up),” Hall & Oates’ “You Make My Dreams In the spirit of academia, the Wilson Come True,” Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September,” the Spinners’ “One of a Kind Love College name credits Wilson for a Affair,” and Jackie Wilson’s “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher.” specific ideological contribution. Eric Shullman ’15 LISTEN to readers’ special songs at paw.princeton.edu

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Conference highlights include: • A conversation with President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83 • Remarks by and Q&A with former presidents William Bowen *58 and Harold Shapiro *64 • Talks, programs and panels featuring faculty, senior Gretchen Philippi ’91 Gretchen Philippi remembers well her own experience applying administrators, fellow alumni, and students Chair, Alumni to Princeton, “typing (using a typewriter, not a computer!) my • A festive Shabbat dinner Schools Committee application on the afternoon of December 31, as close to the • The chance to network and socialize at informal gatherings Puerto Rico deadline as I could be.” After she was accepted, it was the with students and fellow alumni April hosting weekend and staying with students that helped • Tours and tastings, student performances and much, much more! clinch her decision to go to Princeton. Some of those same students are still her friends today. Additional details: alumni.princeton.edu/jewishlife There is no registration cost for the conference. She also recalls wonderful scenes as a student: seeing snow for the ﬁ rst time in her life on the Forbes golf course, spending cold weekends warm in Tower Club, attending midnight mass in the Chapel’s faint light, celebrating in the Woodrow Wilson School fountain after handing in her thesis. And after graduation, when she was teaching in Manhattan, she returned to campus often through the Teacher Prep program “new teachers network.” “Whenever I arrived back on campus,” she says, “it felt like I c. 2015 was coming home. We had dinner at Prospect while sharing our classroom experiences. The group and the director at the time, Marue Walizer, were a great source of support.”

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The University’s trustees approved a framework for Princeton’s growth.

housed in facilities that are “no longer adequate,” the report said, and Princeton A Changing Landscape will need to “invest aggressively” to support the school. The report singled Trustees authorize plans to add students, out fields related to information science, accept transfers, invest in key areas noting that competition with the private sector for faculty in computer science rinceton appears ready to expand Undergraduate Student Body is especially intense and that over the again, as a “framework” adopted The trustees authorized the start of past decade, enrollment in computer P by the Board of Trustees in January planning to expand the undergraduate science courses has quadrupled. recommends increasing the size of the student body by 125 students per class, undergraduate student body, accepting adding 500 students to the present total Among other recommendations, the transfer students, and investing in of 5,200. To accommodate additional trustees said Princeton should: programs and buildings in growing fields students, plans for a seventh residential Increase the graduate-student such as engineering, environmental college will be developed over the course population “incrementally” and offer the studies, and computer science. of this year. University officials did not resources to attract the best grad students. The 24-page document will serve as specify possible sites for the new college. Develop an interdisciplinary a guide for University decision-makers. A larger student body would allow program in environmental studies and It identifies major goals and priorities Princeton, through its alumni, to make build new facilities to house it. The and lays out questions and standards to a more significant contribution to the report noted the urgency of global be used in pursuing them, and comes nation and world, Eisgruber has said. environmental issues and increasing after two years of discussions in which This would be the first expansion of the student interest in related fields of study University task forces have been exploring undergraduate population since 2005, (see story, page 18). topics ranging from the future of the when the University began adding a total Expand study-abroad programs and humanities to the residential colleges. of 500 students. the study of key regions and cultures. The main objective of the blueprint is Continuing efforts to attract a more Reinforce that service and civic “not to specify all of the University’s diverse pool of applicants, Princeton will engagement are priorities in both future initiatives, but to create a planning begin planning for a transfer program, academic and extracurricular realms. framework for determining them and a policy that was discontinued in 1990 Continue Princeton’s “signature for understanding the trade-offs among and could be reinstated as early as 2018. commitment” to affordability and them,” the report said. Allowing transfers could encourage a ensure that all students can “share “While the completion of this wider range of applicants, including fully in the educational opportunities framework is a significant achievement, students enrolled in community colleges it offers.” more planning remains ahead of us,” said and U.S. military veterans, the report said. Exercise “visible leadership” in the President Eisgruber ’83. “The framework arts and humanities, especially in light of identifies a number of goals that will Engineering/Computer Science cutbacks elsewhere in these areas. require very substantial commitments of Despite new facilities in recent years, Enhance the diversity and inclusivity

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levels and in all fields,” with a particular Led Princeton’s Genomics Institute focus on diversifying the faculty. The framework includes the first Former Professor Quits Chicago update to the University’s mission Post Amid Sex-Misconduct Charges statement in 15 years: “Princeton Jason Lieb, who abruptly left a position as director of Princeton’s University advances learning through Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics in 2014, has resigned scholarship, research, and teaching of from his post at the University of Chicago after that university unsurpassed quality, with an emphasis on recommended he be fired “for violating the school’s sexual-misconduct undergraduate and doctoral education policy,” according to The New York Times. that is distinctive among the world’s Lieb, a molecular biologist whose work attracted millions of dollars in great universities, and with a pervasive federal funding, joined Princeton from the University of North Carolina, commitment to serve the nation and Chapel Hill, July 1, 2013. The following February, Princeton announced his resignation, effective July 1, 2014. world.” In highlighting Princeton’s The Times reported that it had obtained a letter by investigators distinctive emphasis on undergraduate at Chicago that said Lieb had “engaged in sexual activity with a education, past mission statements have student who was ‘incapacitated due to alcohol and therefore could not not been as clear in recognizing the role consent.’” The letter also said that Leib had made unwelcome sexual of the Graduate School. advances to several female graduate students at an off-campus retreat, Addressing the University’s finances, according to the Times. Lieb, who was on leave during the investigation, the report said that the trustees have could not be reached for comment. A statement by the University approved changes that should give of Chicago said “the findings, conclusions, and recommendations [of the administration more flexibility in the investigation] will be part of the faculty member’s employment spending from the endowment, which record.” (The statement did not identify Lieb but was sent in response was valued at $22.7 billion in June to a query about him.) Jason Lieb According to the Times, 2015 and which supports nearly half of faculty members at Chicago Princeton’s operating budget. had received an anonymous The upper level of the target range email before Lieb was hired of the spend rate (defined as the stating that there had fraction of the endowment’s value that been allegations of sexual is spent in a given year) was increased misconduct or harassment at from 5.75 percent to 6.25 percent “to Princeton and UNC, and that accommodate increasing market both universities had launched volatility” and more fairly balance the investigations. needs of current students and those of The article reported that a member of Chicago’s hiring future generations. committee said Princeton Noting that current University was contacted and that the spending is near the lower end of the University “said there had been no sexual harassment investigation range, the board agreed to consider of Dr. Lieb while he was there. He said efforts to find out more about higher rates of spending over the next what prompted Dr. Lieb’s departure proved fruitless.” According to two years to “provide resources that the the Times, Chicago faculty said they were told by Lieb “that Princeton University could use to co-invest with faulted him for not informing them about a complaint of unwanted donors to fund the strategic priorities.” contact filed against him” at UNC, but “he had seen no reason to do so” Many of the task forces involved in because the complaint was not substantiated. the planning process have completed Princeton spokesman Daniel Day said he could not respond to their work, while others continue to questions about Lieb’s departure, whether there were allegations of sexual misconduct while he was on campus, or whether Princeton meet. Work on a campus plan, which investigated the professor’s conduct. “On those questions — we do not will offer guidance for changes to the discuss personnel issues. That’s our long-standing policy,” Day said. The physical campus over the next decade University also does not comment on what information may be provided and broader strategies for the next 30 in reference checks, he said. years, is expected to be completed by Sexual misconduct has been a growing concern at universities in the end of 2016. The recommendations recent years. In the face of federal pressure to act, Princeton — like of the task forces will be reviewed, the other universities — recently revised its sexual-assault policies and has University said, with an expectation that aimed to clarify what is considered consent. “some will go forward only if there is In January, the journal Nature published an editorial referring sufficient philanthropic support to pay to several instances of sexual harassment by faculty members at for them.” Princeton officials declined to universities, saying it is a “serious problem in science” and concluding that recent incidents “are examples of a systemic underlying rot that is provide a time frame for the University’s driving many young researchers out of science for good.” By M.M.

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University and as the 28th president of The entrance to the United States are sufficient grounds Wilcox Hall carries the name of for the refusal to honor his name in an Wilson College. institution that values diversity and the standards of a liberal arts education,” she wrote. Giddings asserted that Wilson believed racial control was needed for the nation to enjoy economic progress and progressive reforms; segregation was required for social peace. So rather than being at odds, Wilson’s progressivism and belief in racial control were “co- dependents,” she said. “I would argue that policies that reflected such ideas were largely responsible for the country undergoing what was arguably the most violent period in American history during the years of his administration,” Giddings wrote, noting the race riots and mob violence that took place across the country in 1919, particularly in Northern Assessing a Legacy cities where blacks and whites were competing for jobs. The consequences Nine scholars offer their viewpoints of that legacy can be seen in inner cities as part of review of Wilson’s record today, she continued. Johns Hopkins University professor he University has released Contributors offered a range of Nathan D.B. Connolly recalled how Wilson nine letters from scholars of viewpoints on Wilson’s legacy to the segregated the federal bureaucracy T Woodrow Wilson 1879 about the nation, to African Americans, and to upon arriving in Washington in 1913: legacy of the former U.S. and Princeton Princeton University. Most did not take “In one especially dramatic example, president. The scholars were invited a clear position on the BJL’s demand that some 300 black women employees in to contribute to the fact-gathering the names of buildings and programs the Bureau of Printing and Engraving process of a special trustee committee honoring Wilson be changed. One who returned from a weekend in mid- considering whether the University did was Paula J. Giddings, a professor of November to find half of the women’s should change how it recognizes Wilson, Africana studies at Smith College. dressing room converted into a ‘Colored a demand of the Black Justice League “In my opinion, [Wilson’s] Only’ dining room. Integrated eating (BJL), a student group, because of segregationist and racially exclusive at the engraving bureau had apparently

Wilson’s documented racism. policies as president of Princeton horrified first lady Ellen Axson Wilson Schaefer Beverly

IN SHORT at the University of Connecticut, Princeton offered EARLY ADMISSION

will be awarded the National Medal to 785 students after receiving of Technology and Innovation. They 4,229 early-action applications for will be honored at a White House the Class of 2020. The number of ceremony along with 14 other candidates increased 9.8 percent recipients. from last year. Levin’s research focuses on how large-scale patterns are Rooms in the Carl A. Fields From left: SIMON LEVIN, an ecology maintained by small-scale behavioral Center for Equality and Cultural and evolutionary biology professor at and evolutionary factors at the Understanding have been assigned to Princeton, and MICHAEL ARTIN ’55, level of individual organisms. the following CULTURAL-AFFINITY professor emeritus of mathematics Artin’s work focuses on algebraic GROUPS: black and African American at MIT, will receive the National geometry, while surgeon-scientist students, Asian and Asian American Medal of Science, the nation’s highest Laurencin studies regenerative students, Latino students, and scientific honor. CATO LAURENCIN engineering, materials science, Arab and Middle Eastern students.

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In determining how to of color at home or abroad, Wilsonian SCHWARZMAN SCHOLARS memorialize Wilson, rhetoric traveled places Wilson himself Five Win New “we would do well to never would have dreamt of taking it.” remember the ironies The other scholars who contributed Scholarship letters are: College of William & Mary Two Princeton seniors and of American politics.” professor emeritus James Axtell, three alumni have been — Johns Hopkins professor Nathan University of South Carolina professor named to the first class D.B. Connolly Kendrick A. Clements, University of Schwarzman scholars, of Wisconsin professor emeritus a program modeled on during her tour of the facility.” John Milton Cooper Jr. ’61, Stanford the Rhodes scholarship. In determining how to memorialize University professor David M. Kennedy, Created by Blackstone Wilson, Connolly asserted, “we Southern Methodist University professor Group co-founder Stephen Schwarzman, the new would do well to remember the Thomas J. Knock *82, and University of scholarship covers the ironies of American politics.” Though Richmond professor Eric S. Yellin *07. cost of study and living Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was (Axtell, Cooper, and Yellin were in China as part of a one- segregationist, he noted, it advanced among the scholars interviewed for year master’s program African Americans economically; though PAW’s story on Wilson’s legacy in the at Tsinghua University in Lyndon Johnson was known for his use of Feb. 3 issue.) Beijing. The Princetonians racial epithets, he advanced civil rights. The trustee committee exploring are among 111 students in “And Woodrow Wilson, a segregationist how Princeton should commemorate the inaugural class. and U.S. expansionist, made government Wilson had received more than 525 Ella Cheng ’16, of increasingly responsible for protecting comments on its website by Feb. 3 (to add Queens, N.Y., is majoring in the Woodrow Wilson School. life, liberty, and property, even if his your views, go to wilsonlegacy.princeton. A former USG president, own limitations prevented him [from] edu/join-conversation). In addition, she will pursue a degree in democratically applying his vision,” the committee scheduled small-group public policy. Connolly wrote. meetings in January and February with Tyler Rudolph ’16, Duke University professor Adriane members of the Princeton community. of Fort Collins, Colo., Lentz-Smith noted another irony: The committee was formed in the an operations research “When the president urged Congress wake of a 33-hour sit-in by BJL members and financial engineering to join the Great War as [a] fight for in the office of President Christopher major who is earning a ‘rights and liberties’ and to construct Eisgruber ’83 in November. Among the certificate in finance, plans ‘a universal dominion of right,’ that group’s demands relating to Princeton’s to study business and would ‘make the world itself at last free,’ racial climate were the renaming of the entrepreneurship. Lucas Briger ’12, who African Americans heard something Woodrow Wilson School and Wilson concentrated in history, that resonated with their freedom College and the removal of a mural of works in London as dreams,” Lentz-Smith wrote. “Although Wilson from Wilcox Hall. director of business the president never intended his calls For the full text of the letters from the development for a natural- for self-determination and a War for nine historians and scholars, go to resources company. He Democracy to apply to communities wilsonlegacy.princeton.edu/observations. is interested in China’s international development and foreign relations. IN SHORT Anastasya Lloyd- Damnjanovic ’14, of Los furnishing their respective rooms a University culture that values

Angeles, majored in politics with sofas and chairs, books, and diversity and inclusion across a range and is completing her artwork. Work on permanent of identities,” Jarvis said. second year at Oxford as a renovations to the Fields Center is Sachs scholar. She hopes expected to begin this summer. RANDALL KENNEDY ’77, to work as a foreign policy JUDY JARVIS has been a Harvard law adviser or diplomat. named director of the professor and Yung Yung “Rosy” Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, author, will deliver Yang ’13, a Woodrow and Transgender the address at Wilson School major, is Center. Before coming the Baccalaureate a research official in the to Princeton in January, ceremony May 29 in the University chief executive’s office of she served as director of Vassar Chapel. Kennedy, a Rhodes scholar Hong Kong. She wants to College’s LGBTQ Center and Women’s who clerked for Supreme Court learn more about China’s Center. “I hope to partner with Justice Thurgood Marshall, served as international relations and domestic policies.

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STUDENT DISPATCH Service at Princeton: For Many, the Challenge is Finding the Time Matthew Silberman ’17

From the moment on campus concluded that Princeton they open their has fallen short of its commitment to acceptance packets, service. A survey of senior classes from Princeton students 2011 to 2014, cited in the report, found know how important that an average of 44 percent of students volunteer service and had not participated in volunteer service civic engagement are to the school. while at Princeton; an average of 62 Emblazoned on every letter and percent did not pursue civic-engagement pamphlet is the University’s unofficial opportunities such as political advocacy motto, “In the nation’s service and the or social entrepreneurship. service of all nations,” and the phrase Asked about the findings, some is heard in countless speeches during students said the issue is not that they freshman orientation. But when classes feel volunteering is unimportant, but start, the vision of Princeton students that it’s hard to devote time to it serving the wider world often fades amid academic and extracurricular quickly, as academic stress sets in and commitments. For example, Dean Rodan personal pursuits take precedence over ’19 said he volunteered regularly during volunteer work for many. high school, but things changed when he A task force created by President came to Princeton. Eisgruber ’83 to look at civic engagement “The culture is definitely more aimed

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toward educational pursuits,” Rodan First Lastname said. “But we are all busy people, so it’s hard to blame the culture. More outreach to students — whether more posters, or more emails — might coax them out of the libraries and dorm rooms.” For those who make service and community engagement a priority, some volunteer only during breaks and focus on academics when classes are in session. Community Action (CA) — a weeklong introduction to public service that is an alternative to Outdoor Action for incoming freshmen — and Breakout Artist in Residence, Department of Theater and Performance Studies and trips through the Pace Center for Civic Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University Engagement expose students to the world beyond campus. These trips had a The Native Country of the Heart: strong impact on Jarron McAllister ’16, who participated in Community Action The Gender and Geography of Desire and became a CA leader as a sophomore. Maestra Moraga draws her own road map home, as she explores questions of “On top of doing service and working generational and ancestral memory in shaping queer and female desire. with community partners, the mentorship aspect of CA was really what pushed me Thursday, March 10, 2016 Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies to apply [as a leader],” said McAllister, 4:30 PM who also led a fall Breakout trip. McCormick Hall Room 101 This academic year has seen Reception to follow at Prospect House stepped-up efforts to make service a part of everyday life at Princeton, and to connect with students who may not have had experiences like McAllister’s. The University’s strategic-planning document released last month (story, page 12) seeks to Princeton AreA “emphasize and facilitate service in Summer Programs [Princeton’s] curricular, co-curricular, No woman’s life is so dark and extracurricular programs.” at PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL Student leaders at the Pace Center led her future can’t be bright. a door-knocking campaign during the fall Summer term to let freshmen know about service Time to think about opportunities, and the center promoted Borderline personality disorder can leave a “Month of Service” in January. Among you feeling trapped and alone. At our 3East DAy cAmPS and Gunderson programs, our mission is to www.pds.org/summer-programs other projects, participants prepared 609.279.2700 food for distribution to area residents show you that there are paths forward, using coping with hunger and decorated brown evidence-based treatments for women and girls in supportive residential settings. paper bags for lunches provided through PRINCETON …providing opportunities for summer! the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen. The personal achievement men’s basketball team held a clinic for through tennis since 1954 Call us at 617.855.3934 local children. Summer Princeton, New Jersey for a conﬁdential assessment. “The life of a Princeton student Tennis Camps: is hectic,” said Myesha Jemison ’18, Each week of the summer, M-F 2016 who volunteers with Community PROGRAM June 20 - August 19 TOP RANKED PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL House, which offers offers educational – U.S. News and World Report Player Dev. (8-15 yrs, full-day), Community Park, Princeton SUMMER support to underrepresented youth in Rookie Camp (5-10 yrs, ½ day), Community Park, Princeton the Princeton area. “But my service at Tournament Training Camp (by try-out, full-day), CAMPS Princeton University Community House is a priority, so I’ve McLean 3East: McLean Gunderson: Specialty Camps: Girls Prep Camp, Elite Camp made sure that it continues to be central and Davis Cup Camp Over 40 camps for boys & girls 2-17 now enrolling for summer! www.mclean3east.org www.mcleangunderson.org Walenta Tomasz illustration: courtesyPhoto: Silberman ’17; Matthew to my Princeton experience.” 609-520-0015 • www.ptp.org stuartschool.org/summer www.arballet.org/pbs

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students who are completing their theses as a way to reduce the dependence on Emerging Trends uncertain federal funding.

Task forces offer detailed blueprints Online Education for natural sciences, online learning In April 2012 Princeton joined with Stanford, Penn, and the University of n this issue, PAW continues coverage Michigan to launch Coursera, now the of the reports of task forces studying largest provider of Massive Open Online Imore than a dozen aspects of teaching, Courses (MOOCs). In its review of research, campus life, and alumni affairs. online learning, the University’s Faculty Their findings are part of the planning Princeton’s Future: Council on Teaching and Learning said process that created a strategic framework Recommendations that it had found “pervasive uncertainty for Princeton (story, page 12). about its effectiveness.” Princeton faculty members have Natural Sciences scattered across campus. taught 22 MOOCs, the group said, and Solutions to some of society’s most Continue to support computational have experimented with techniques such urgent problems, this task force said, research in the sciences. The report as “flipping the lecture” — recording will require “the rapid emergence of a noted that “scientific leadership and lectures for students to view in advance new field of study of complex natural innovation will increasingly depend on of class, and using the freed-up time for ecosystems within the biosphere.” data-intensive and simulation-driven discussion and problem-solving — in 14 Growing numbers of students are analysis and predictions.” University courses. receiving a certificate in environmental Launch a five- to 10-year “gravity Among those at Princeton who have studies and are focusing on related fields initiative” at a time when “the field of participated in “flipped” classes, some of study, the group said. general relativity is subject to new activity instructors said they are labor-intensive The task force called for construction and novel developments.” Scholars in and demand continued experimentation. of a building to house two departments mathematics, physics, and astronomy Students were split almost evenly, focused on the study of the environment would work together on the project. the report said, with some saying that — geosciences, and ecology and Expand the research-based classroom sessions were “unfocused.” evolutionary biology — as well as a new international experiences available to Recommendations include: environmental institute with a “broadly Princeton’s undergraduate and graduate Princeton’s “signature initiative” in conceived integrative mission.” The students in the natural sciences. online education should be to develop departments are in buildings more than Achieve more diversity among materials that encourage students to 90 years old. graduate students, postdocs, and faculty, enter the STEM (science, technology, Among the other recommendations: including the creation of a “Princeton engineering, and math) fields. Invest in equipment needed for Natural Science Scholars” program Create small online courses that an area of molecular imaging called that would offer female and minority students could take during the summer. cryo-EM, in which images are studied postdoctoral students a three- to four-year The report noted that in the past three at cryogenic temperatures, and recruit residency, independent research funding, years, nearly 22 percent of Princeton faculty with expertise in the field. Create and close interactions with faculty. students obtained degree credits from a center to coordinate imaging facilities Provide financial assistance for grad summer courses at other schools. Increase support for experimentation A task force called for a in online education and provide incentives new environmental-studies to faculty to create materials that make building for departments curricula “more accessible to our housed in Guyot Hall increasingly diverse student body.” (pictured), built in 1909, Consider partnering with other and Eno Hall, built in 1924. universities on large quantitative courses and languages that are taught less commonly. Provide teaching and technical support only for online projects “that have clear potential to enhance teaching and learning at Princeton.” By Jennifer Shyue ’17 Task force reports can be found at

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Annie Tarakchian ’16 scored 12 points in the Tigers’ Jan. 30 win over Yale.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Michelle Miller, Alex Wheatley, and Amanda Berntsen — have carried much of the scoring load this year, but head coach Return of the Killer P’s Courtney Banghart has been encouraged by the play of her young reserves as well. Familiar rivals vie for the top prize “We’re so much better than we were a in Ivy League women’s basketball month ago,” she said after the win over Yale. “We can be so much better in a uring a four-decade span of Jan. 9, a two-point loss that sent week, and a week after that. That’s what Ivy League men’s basketball Princeton into its exam break — and the you’re supposed to do — good teams get D dominance that began in the remainder of the league season — with better in January and February.” 1960s, Princeton and Penn became an added sense of pressure. Princeton will have at least one more known to fans as the “killer P’s” — two “Our backs are against the wall, and we chance to face Penn in the season finale powerhouses that, in the course of have a new edge,” said co-captain Annie at Jadwin Gym March 8. But the Tigers, one weekend, could reduce a hopeful Tarakchian ’16. “That game showed gaps winners of five Ivy titles in the last six contender to an also-ran. in our offense and defense. It sent us off years, know that the rest of the league The balance of power has shifted into 20 days of just getting better.” will be aiming to topple the killer P’s in on the men’s side, but in women’s Princeton’s four seniors — Tarakchian, the interim. basketball, the killer P’s have re-emerged. “We get every team’s best, so we have Princeton and Penn had a combined “We can be so much to be on our A-game,” said Wheatley, the 44–4 record against the other Ivies in better in a week, and a team’s other co-captain. “We’re used to 2013–14 and 2014–15, and this season week after that. That’s having a target on our back. It’s been that followed that pattern in its first full what you’re supposed way all four years, and I’m glad nothing weekend, with both teams sweeping has changed. It makes every weekend Brown and Yale by an average margin of to do — good teams exciting.” By B.T. 17 points per game. get better in January READ MORE about the women’s Crucially, the Quakers topped the and February.” and men’s basketball seasons at

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Katie Reinprecht ’13, left, and Julia Reinprecht ’14, shown in 2012, are vying to return to the Olympics, along with Tiger teammate Kathleen Sharkey ’13.

THE ROAD TO RIO said, “but I improved and learned a lot Three National Champions Aim for as a field hockey player and athlete. It definitely helped me when I went back Success Against the World’s Best to Princeton, and it’s helping me today as After the thrill of sharing Princeton field Reinprecht said. “We want to break the I head to Rio.” hockey’s first NCAA title in 2012, Julia ceiling of women’s field hockey. We Sharkey broke her ankle last summer Reinprecht ’14, Katie Reinprecht ’13, and want to show it can be played at a new but returned to play in a series against Kathleen Sharkey ’13 couldn’t help but intensity that’s not been seen.” Japan in December. She’d like nothing compare it to the disappointment they The United States currently ranks more than to team up again with the felt only months earlier. seventh in the world, after rising to a Reinprechts for more field hockey history. The trio took a year off from school best-ever fifth in March 2015. The U.S. “It’s definitely really nice having the to train with the United States women’s team won the Pan American Games Reinprechts on the national team,” she national team, and the Reinprecht in July, securing a spot in the 12-team said. “It’s been almost 10 years with sisters made the final roster that played Olympic field. Katie, and Julia as well. We’re friends in the London Olympics. But it wasn’t a “I want to feel the team is competing off the field and teammates on the field. dream ending. at its best and it’s the most confident, We’re familiar with our styles of play, so “It’s obviously cool going to the united team out there,” Julia Reinprecht it’s easier to get a connection on the field. Olympic Games, but we finished last,” said. “We’re hoping that puts us on I’m very happy I get to still have them as Julia Reinprecht said. “It makes you the podium.” teammates.” By Justin Feil more motivated and realize how much All three alumnae have worked to hard work it takes to have success at that expand their roles on the team: Julia, BEHIND THE SCENES level. We thought we worked hard, and primarily a defender, is more vocal At PAW Online, read about alumni who clearly we didn’t work hard enough.” than she was four years ago; Katie, a lead organizations that support Olympic That lesson drives the U.S. team, midfielder, has tried to be more of a athletes. From left: Donald Anthony ’79, which has a new coach and refocused facilitator and not just a scorer; and president and chairman of the board training regimen. Since graduation, the Sharkey, a forward, has become one of of USA Fencing; Derek Bouchard-Hall Reinprechts and Sharkey have been the team’s top scoring threats. The final ’92, CEO of USA Cycling; and Dale living in Lancaster, Pa., home of USA 16-member Olympic roster, plus two Neuburger ’71, a vice president of FINA, Field Hockey. Exhausting daily training alternates, will be announced in July. The the international swimming federation. challenges the players physically and experienced Reinprechts aren’t taking mentally, but it’s the only path they can their spots for granted, and Sharkey is see to medaling at the 2016 Olympics in trying to make her first Olympic team. Rio de Janeiro. “It was definitely disappointing to

“Our culture is a bit different,” Katie not make the top 16 [in 2012],” Sharkey ’71 courtesy courtesy Cycling; Neuburger USA Dale Sports;left; from courtesy Fencing; USA TODAY Geoff Burke/USA Top:

20 Princeton alumni weekly March 2, 2016 RESEARCH, IDEAS, BOOKS FICTION AND POETRY RESEARCH SHORTS Life of the Mind

Italian is fully a product of my reading in Italian, and learning to read in another language reminds me of my original passion for reading. It’s sort of like being given a second life and a second chance to do all of this in another language — writing in a way that I think I did as a child, when I was just learning to express myself in English. I came back to that feeling. I do think my writing in Italian is in some sense more mature, though perhaps not in its technical capacity. Italian is a language that I choose for myself. It represents my adulthood in some sense, having some distance from my childhood languages, English and Bengali.

While in Rome, you didn’t read in English for three years, and you Q&A: JHUMPA LAHIRI wrote exclusively in Italian for two years. Have you returned to English now that you are at Princeton? Loving Italian I started reading in English again for my students. We read Italian literature Writing in Italian offers a meditation in translation all semester, which was on Lahiri’s passion for the language kind of a nice compromise, and then I started reading my students’ work, so ulitzer Prize-winning novelist her adopted language, teaching works in the English part of my brain has been Jhumpa Lahiri, known for her translation, and writing fiction. reactivated. It was exciting to introduce P lyrical fiction about the Indian them to some of the writers who have American experience, has published This book is a departure for you. It’s meant so much to me. her first nonfiction work, a love letter nonfiction, and the language — the to the Italian language. First infatuated short, simple sentences — feels very Are you writing fiction? after college, Lahiri — who has been different from your fiction. I’ve been writing quite a bit of fiction in teaching courses in writing fiction My Italian sounds different, but what I’m Italian as well as a number of nonfiction and translation in Princeton’s creative mainly aware of is the thought process. pieces. I also have a translation project writing program since September — The way of seeing things is very different in mind, from Italian to English. That’s studied Italian for nearly two decades because of my relationship to the probably the first thing I will write before moving to Rome language as an acquired language. I have formally in English. with her family in 2012. a certain sense of freedom I have never Lahiri wrote In Other felt before as a writer, and that’s very Do you see yourself returning to Words — a collection of exciting to me. I think writing in Italian writing in English? autobiographical pieces helped me to reacquaint myself with what I really don’t know. I feel right now I’m that includes two short I really love about writing, which is that not, but that doesn’t mean I won’t. Right stories — in Italian (it sense of working with words — the shape now when I wake up and I think about was translated into English by Ann of them, the feel of them — and really writing, I think about my writing projects Goldstein). PAW spoke to Lahiri about focusing on that and very little else. in Italian. Interview conducted and

Liana Miuccio the sense of freedom she feels working in The other part is that my writing in condensed by J.A.

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FACULTY BOOKS Boris Fishman ’01 teaches creative writing. A Debut Novel Tackles Translation

The protagonist of Idra Novey’s debut novel, Ways to Disappear, is a translator of Brazilian literature named Emma, who lives in Pittsburgh with her rather boring boyfriend. When Beatriz Yagoda — the author Emma has spent her career translating — disappears, Emma takes the next flight to Brazil to search for the missing novelist and contend with loan sharks, washed-up literary agents, and the unfinished draft of Beatriz’s latest book. The novel’s vivid images and surreal plots were drawn in part from CREATIVE WRITING Novey’s experiences in Brazil — she once was trapped in a hotel there for several days during a monsoon. Big Sky Country Novey, a lecturer in creative writing at Princeton since 2013, is a translator of Montana holds the key to a family’s Spanish and Portuguese and the author idiosyncrasies in Boris Fishman ’01’s novel of two books of poetry, including Exit, Civilian, which was a National Poetry oris Fishman ’01 grew up in teaching this year in Princeton’s creative Series winner. She teaches translation, New Jersey, but for 20 years writing program. which she says is “a great way to learn B he has been obsessed with The novel is set in the claustrophobic how to write. You don’t have to come Montana. That obsession — sparked by world of Russian immigrants — as up with the plot or the material. You’re his affection for novelist Jim Harrison, is his highly acclaimed first novel, thinking about questions of register and who lives there — led to the starring A Replacement Life — but this time tone and rhythm and cadence. All role Montana gets in Fishman’s new Fishman’s central character is female. you’re focusing on is style.” By Katharine novel, about the adoption of a baby from “I wanted to get out of my head and Boyer ’16 Montana whose birth mother gives him into a female character’s head,” he says. READ MORE: A Q&A with Idra Novey away with the words of the book’s title, “Fiction is a kind of fantasy where you at paw.princeton.edu Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo. get to live lives you can’t live in your Maya, a Ukrainian real life.” exchange student, and The novel explores “archaic notions Alex, the coddled son of of womanhood” in Russian and Russian immigrants, get American culture. “Maya realizes she’s married and eventually given herself away to be somebody’s adopt a son, Max, who mother, somebody’s daughter-in-law, puzzles them with his and she’s hollow inside,” he says. behavior — at 8, he eats grass, sleeps Fishman is exploring other facets in a tent, and runs away to sit with his of his own life these days. After more face submerged in a river. To solve the than a decade living in New York mystery of how Max got that way, they City — and a summer during which he set off from their home in New Jersey volunteered as a farmhand, planting to Montana. thousands of lettuce heads a day — “I wanted readers to think about he is experimenting with a move to some of these unanswerable questions, Montana. He plans to write in the like what inheritance means and what it mornings and work on a farm in the Idra Novey means to belong,” says Fishman, who is afternoons. By J.A. left: Stephanie Kaltsas; Donata Zanotti From

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The Queen of the Night In Our Young Man, a Poet Michael Dickman, has been called a must- gorgeous French model whose work often appears read by Entertainment named Guy becomes the in The New Yorker, has Weekly and nearly a toast of New York City. published a new collection dozen other publications. The latest novel from of poems in which Creative writing professor creative writing professor imagination and reality Alexander Chee worked Edmund White, who are juxtaposed with the for more than a decade on the novel, was named New York’s 11th state author beauty and violence of the natural world. which tells the story of soprano Lilliet in January, explores gay life from the In Green Migraine, dreamlike images Berne, darling of the Paris Opera. The disco era to the age of AIDS. Guy’s illuminate landscapes. Dickman, who lush, sweeping novel of 550 pages, set in romances with older, wealthy men force sometimes collaborates with his twin 19th-century France, draws readers into him to reflect on the hypnotic power of brother and fellow poet, Matthew, has a glamorous, secretive world. physical beauty. taught at Princeton since 2010.

Alexander Chee Edmund White Michael Dickman

RESEARCH SHORTS Popular kids can start Sensational MEDIA and evolutionary biology brethren get to food more fashion trends, but can COVERAGE of a disease graduate student Matthew quickly and maximize they prevent BULLYING? outbreak might lead to Lutz has found that they the number of ants Psychology professor less recall about it. That’s work together in more that could forage. They Elizabeth Levy Paluck the finding of a study by sophisticated ways than managed these complex found that they might be psychology professor Alin scientists previously computations while only able to. Paluck — along Coman and Jessica Berry realized. Studying the aware of the touch of with Hana Shepherd ’15, in which subjects were so-called “army ants” in the ants closest to them of Rutgers and Peter given information about Panama, Lutz and Chris and the traffic patterns Aronow of Yale — put a disease, followed by a Reid of the New Jersey over their backs. The students at 56 New statement to induce high Institute of Technology, research was published Jersey schools through or low anxiety. When they along with others, found in the Proceedings of a voluntary training later listened to a fake that the insects self- the National Academy of program that spreads radio broadcast about the assembled into chains Sciences in December. anti-violence messages disease, those exposed to and bridges to help their By Michael Blanding through social media and the high-anxiety message colored wristbands. The remembered fewer facts. schools saw a 30 percent The study was published reduction in conflict, and in Psychological Science in results were stronger December. when popular kids were the volunteers, according ANTS are known as the to findings published in ultimate team players, the Proceedings of the working together diligently National Academy of for the sake of the colony.

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DAVID GALEF ’81 Shifting Into Neutral New Roads in Language

What’s wrong with the following sentences? nor as efficient (or as quickly adopted) as latinx.” When a politician abuses his power, that’s no surprise. Why now, and what’s changed? Will everyone please hand in their test now? Though a few languages across the globe have no inherently She’s a Latina from Brooklyn. gender-specific pronouns (the Native American Quechuan, for The first sentence assumes that all politicians are male, an instance), English is like most other languages in its masculine obvious error in our era, but one that went unchecked for far bias. Males may not think too much about sentences like too long. A grammarian might point out that the masculine he, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are him, and his are — or were — default pronouns in English, meant created equal ... ,” but it’s understandable that females may to stand in for all of mankind, a fairer term for which would be bristle at the exclusion. Even in the academy, which analyzes humanity. One way around this problem is to pluralize: “When such distinctions, college departments still offer courses like politicians abuse their power, that’s no surprise.” “Masterworks of British Literature” and provide “fellowships” But maybe half a plural is better than none, an idea that leads for deserving scholars who are not necessarily fellows. Only to the second sentence, which mixes the singular everyone with recently has Princeton changed the masters presiding over the the plural their. Here, pluralizing to “Will all people please hand residential colleges to “heads,” in an attempt to distance itself in their tests now?” sounds a little awkward. If we redefine their from “master” as the owner of a slave plantation. This move as applying to any number or gender, that might work. led John V. Fleming *63, professor of English and comparative Now what about “She’s a Latina from Brooklyn”? This literature emeritus at Princeton, to defend the venerable usage sentence seems sensitive to female-male distinctions in a way of “master,” writing in a blog post, “We do our students no that the name Princeton Alumni Weekly, for example, does not. service by turning the lexicon of the English language into a But what if you’re transgender and wrestling with identity political Rorschach test.” issues, or simply don’t buy into the male-female binary? Yet it’s a cliché among linguists that language is an ever- This kind of issue is exactly what led to the formerly named changing phenomenon, not a static construct. If enough people Princeton Latino/a Association to come out with a statement in misspell or change the pronunciation of a word, compared to late 2015, reading in part: “accepted” usage, then the new form gains currency. As change “Out of a desire to be both inclusive and supportive of all happens, it’s also understandable why some don’t like the new members of our community, we have adopted the use of the coinage: It goes against what they know and are comfortable ‘X’ to replace the gender binary ‘a’ for women and ‘o’ for men with, it sounds funny, etc. But this reaction describes a lot typically used in Spanish. This encourages all of us to think of of humanity’s attitude toward change in general, not just to gender as part of a continuum in which some of us do not fit language. To argue against change: The history of neologisms Wthe societally established normative understanding of gender.” is riddled with well-meant but clunky attempts, like “waitron,” That means: latinx — pronounced “lateen-ex” — for everyone. later changed to “server,” then back to “waiter” as an all- As Brian Herrera, assistant professor of theater at the Lewis inclusive term, the way “actress” has changed to “actor” for Center for the Arts at Princeton, notes: “The ‘a/o’ or ‘o/a’ has both sexes. Or consider “significant other,” which many now become normative in scholarly and activist circles, but with use only with an arch inflection and prefer to call “partner.” wide variation of application. Other variants have emerged — But “police officer” sounds better than “policeman,” and even perhaps, most notably, ‘latin@’ — that have sought to disrupt if “flight attendant” doesn’t trip off the tongue, “stewardess”

the gender binary of ‘a/o,’ but none has been so emphatic sounds downright archaic. The jury is still out with regard Keraval Gwen

24 Princeton alumni weekly March 2, 2016 paw.princeton.edu December 03, 2014 Princeton alumni weekly 25 “here,” and now the name of a play by Taylor Mac, featuring a Words are not just a matter of transgender character. You may also encounter “ze” for “he or linguistics, but also are part she,” “mer” for “him or her,” and others. The website Pronoun Island (http://pronoun.is/) has a long list. of a social program. They reflect Erin McKean is the former editor-in-chief of United States dictionaries for Oxford University Press, and more recently psychology and art — a whole one of the founders of Wordnik.com, the largest repository of English vocabulary and usage on the planet, and she has this to culture and its history. say on the topic: “I’m lucky in that I have a very high annoyance threshold for words and phrases — and also lucky that I don’t to “chairperson”: It certainly corrects the male bias behind have to spend much time correcting people who misgender “chairman,” but it adds a syllable. The term “chair” may me. (I spend more time correcting people who assume my be an admirable solution, but to some it sounds like a piece first name is ‘Eric.’) What does annoy me are huffy reactions of furniture. to these terms by people whose lives are largely unaffected by Bear in mind that, though a few languages have built-in these issues.” gender-neutral pronouns, others even have male and female In fact, two different directions are evident here. One is gender nouns, as in French, with le and la as male and female to give equal time to he and she, to accord females the same identifiers, as well as masculine and feminine endings. Yet notice as males. The other is to dissolve a sexual binary that the principles of gender are not so clearly demarcated along seems invidious to those of indeterminate gender, and perhaps male and female lines, but instead along ancient animate and less and less relevant to how we treat sexual identity in the 21st inanimate principles that have little to do with sex. Consider century. Yet a recent New York magazine article about college la barbe, the beard, in French, with its female modifier. And students grappling with the various permutations of sex and in German, which has three categories, the word for “girl” gender shows how complicated some of the terminology can (Mädchen) is neuter. get. As one student quoted in the article stated, “I say that I’m As for English, for decades egalitarian-minded people have an agender demi-girl with connection to the female binary been trying to address some of the inequalities, coming up with gender.” Translation: someone who identifies with being “Ms.” to solve the awkward problem of whether to use “Miss” female biologically, not too strongly, yet does feel somewhat or “Mrs.” for a woman of indeterminate marital status, when feminine in the cultural sense. “Mr.” covered both bachelors and married men. “Master” Clearly, transgender and other categories changed wasn’t really an equivalent to “Miss,” since it was used for the needs of the language. Words are not just a matter of young men. The latest term in this series is “Mx.,” to avoid linguistics, but also are part of a social program. They reflect assigning a sex altogether, spotted in a New York Times Metro psychology and art — a whole culture and its history. The article in December 2015 — though another way to avoid such crux of the issue may be this: Binaries and either/or thinking distinctions would be to avoid titles altogether. And though are great tools, but they’re also reductionist, considering the “sex” refers to biology and “gender” to cultural roles, for many diversity of people in our world. What should one call a man people, the two have merged. who made the transition to a woman? Why should one have to The fight for fair usage is not just an individual struggle. choose? Joy Ladin *00, a professor of English at Stern College Institutions have heeded the call, including the American Bar of Yeshiva University, as well as a transgender poet with five Association, which advocates using gender-neutral language published volumes, has written about her experience in poetry in all its policies and procedures. The sixth edition of The books like Transmigration and a memoir called Through the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders. Transgender, which came out in 2009, advocates language that is “accurate, she notes, is “some kind of complicated relation to gender clear, and free from bias.” To that end, “using man to refer to that can’t be summed up as male or female,” adding, “I don’t all human beings is simply not as accurate as the phrase men think there’s any beautiful way to put it.” On the other hand, and women.” The manual goes on to suggest, “Avoid labeling as a biological woman at this point, she wants to be called people when possible.” “she”: “I’m not happy when people eliminate binary gender definitions.” On the third hand, to be sensitive to others, “I try hat’s the issue, really? Anyone can hear the to eliminate gender terms as much as possible.” problem in sentences such as “Anyone in Perhaps this represents a move toward a solution: not a series his first trimester understands the bodily of categories, not “one size fits all,” but an honest attempt to changes that accompany pregnancy.” A anticipate others’ needs and accommodate them. Such a course late 20th-century remedy still with us of action is, in fact, one definition of civilized manners. But that’s isW “he or she,” “his or hers,” “s/he,” and so on, but they have sometimes easier done than said. the awkwardness of added syllables and often destroy the rhythm of a sentence. They also may have a fussy, corrective air. In Richard Russo’s novel Straight Man, published in 1997, David Galef ’81 — fiction writer, critic, a pedantic professor in the English faculty, always correcting poet, translator, and essayist — is a professor others, is nicknamed “Orshee.” Other attempts at a solution of English at Montclair State University in

include “hir,” a mash-up of “him” and “her,” pronounced New Jersey. Galef ’81 Courtesy David

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26paw0302_EssayGalefrev1.indd 26 2/8/16 6:10 PM Essay to Lisbon and, after that, to London. Then, in June 1944, just as the Allies were making their D-Day landings in Normandy, Kennan was sent again to Moscow; he traveled through the STEPHEN KOTKIN smoldering ruins of heroic Stalingrad on his way. When he authored the Long Telegram in 1946, he had been abroad for 18 out of 19 years, and had just turned 42. “I was, in a way, astonished,” the Oxford philosopher Isaiah Berlin, who first met Kennan in Stalin’s Moscow in 1945, would recall. “He was not at all like the people in the State What Department I knew in Washington during my service there. He was more thoughtful, more austere, more melancholy than they were. He was terribly absorbed — personally involved, somehow — in the terrible nature of the regime.” Would Kennan’s text constituted a response to, of all things, a campaign speech by Stalin. Washington wanted to know if the hardline speech delivered at the Bolshoi Theatre, part of the despot’s “re-election” to the Supreme Soviet, should be taken at face value. Kennan had a fever and tooth trouble, and had Kennan tendered his resignation, so he expected to be leaving Moscow soon, but U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman already had departed for the last time, leaving the embassy to Kennan, the deputy chief of mission. The answer to Washington’s query, Do? Kennan wrote, “involves questions so intricate, so delicate, so strange to our form of thought, and so important to analysis On an anniversary of our international environment that I cannot compress answers into [a] single brief message without yielding to what of the Long Telegram, I feel would be [a] dangerous degree of over-simplification.” thoughts on diplomacy Nineteen pages — some 5,000 words — followed, the longest telegram in State Department history. Kennan cut through the fog to pinpoint the premises of Soviet eorge F. Kennan ’25 was the behavior: a division of the world into two irreconcilable camps, grand architect of Communist capitalist and socialist; the tendency of contradictions within containment, which brought U.S. capitalism to generate world war; the resultant likelihood of victory in the Cold War, and a a capitalist military intervention to destroy the Soviet Union; transcendent scholar, author of but also the possible windfall to socialism of, instead, an more than 20 books and winner intra-capitalist war. Therefore, Kennan explained, the Soviets of two Pulitzer Prizes. He taught worked to exacerbate differences among capitalist powers, while the importance of diplomacy, manipulating the many Soviet sympathizers abroad. as well as the imperatives to Others had warned of the menace presented by the USSR, integrate historical study into diplomatic practice and to avoid but Kennan illuminated with vivid and lucid prose how that Gbecoming like the very enemies we battle. These are enduring opaque regime was driven to a kind of defensive aggressiveness lessons as the United States confronts today’s large yet lesser by its history, national traditions, and institutional makeup. threat of terrorism. “The Soviet regime is a police regime par excellence, reared Last month marked the 70th anniversary of Kennan’s famous in the dim half world of Tsarist police intrigue, accustomed to Long Telegram from Moscow to Washington, in which he outlined think primarily in terms of police power,” he wrote. “This should a resolute course of American foreign policy and galvanized never be lost sight of in gauging Soviet motives.” At a deeper the political establishment across the Republican-Democrat level, because of longstanding Russian insecurities and a Soviet divide. The context was a widespread desire for continuation of version of Russian messianism, “we have here a political force the World War II alliance with the Soviets, and naïveté in many committed fanatically to the belief that with US there can be quarters about Joseph Stalin and his baffling regime. no permanent modus vivendi, that it is desirable and necessary Kennan had entered the diplomatic service the year that the internal harmony of our society be disrupted, our after graduating from Princeton, and gone on to serve at the traditional way of life be destroyed, the international authority embassy in Moscow after Franklin Roosevelt had granted of our state be broken, if Soviet power is to be secure.” diplomatic recognition to the USSR in 1933. Kennan would be Kennan had administered a cold shower to official dispatched to Prague in 1938–39, in time to witness Hitler’s Washington. But he also provided hope, for he averred that the annihilation of Czechoslovakia. Next came a posting to Nazi Soviet system contained the “seeds of its own destruction.” Berlin, where Kennan was taken into custody in December The upshot would have to be a patient policy of deterring 1941 after Germany declared war on the United States. After and containing Soviet aggressive impulses over a possibly his release from a Nazi prison six months later, he was assigned very long haul, until that regime evolved or collapsed. “Much

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27,28paw0302_EssayKotkinRev1.indd 27 2/8/16 6:11 PM depends on [the] health and vigor of our own society,” Kennan instructed. “We must formulate and put forward for other “We must have courage nations a much more positive and constructive picture of [the] and self-confidence sort of world we would like to see than we have put forward in [the] past ... We should be better able than Russians to to cling to our methods give them this. And unless we do, Russians certainly will.” Containment, therefore, was about more than matching the and conceptions of Soviets tank for tank; it also entailed a competition in political human society.” systems, way of life, and values. “We must have courage and — George F. Kennan ’25 self-confidence to cling to our own methods and conceptions of human society,” Kennan warned in conclusion. “After all, the greatest danger that can befall us in coping with this problem of five months. At a press conference at a German airport, Soviet communism is that we shall allow ourselves to become Kennan likened his restricted living conditions in Stalin’s like those with whom we are coping.” Moscow to his imprisonment in Hitler’s Berlin — this from Secretary of State James Byrnes deemed the Long Telegram a man who had written incisively about Soviet sensitivities. “a splendid analysis,” while Secretary of the Navy James The infuriated Russians denied him re-entry as persona non Forrestal 1915 circulated it internally and made sure it got grata, a fate no other American ambassador in Soviet history to President Harry S. Truman. “My reputation was made,” suffered. Kennan lasted longer, two years (1961–63), as Kennan would write. “My voice now carried.” ambassador to Yugoslavia, but when its Communist leader Tito professed neutrality over the Soviet threat to Berlin — a eturning to Washington, Kennan inaugurated the victory for balance-of-power strategists like Kennan — the foreign-policy adviser position at the National ambassador erupted in disappointment that Tito had not War College in 1946, and then the directorship gone further. He soon resigned what turned out to be his last of a State Department policy-planning think government posting. tank in 1947. That year he followed his bracing There was no small irony, as well, in Kennan’s elevation Rbut classified Long Telegram with an essay in Foreign Affairs, of American domestic behavior to the core of its fight against “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” under the byline Mr. X, to foreign foes. He lamented in his diary that even his friends conceal his identity as a government official and communicate did “not know the depth of my estrangement, the depth of my his views publicly as a concerned citizen. He urged “a long- repudiation of the things [the American public] lives by.” But term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian just as Kennan rightly maintained that the nation’s foreign- expansive tendencies.” Such a posture, he predicted, including policy aims should be commensurate with its resources, “the adroit and vigilant application of counter-force at a series avoiding overextension — particularly in places where genuine of constantly shifting geographical and political points,” would national interests were not at stake — so he continued to insist induce a “gradual mellowing” of Stalin’s system. that the United States could prevail abroad only by remaining Kennan’s ideas never were consistent. Behind closed true to itself at home. doors, he also was pushing hard for clandestine sabotage Today’s Russia is considerably smaller and weaker than operations against the Soviets and covert assistance to armed the Soviet Union, without a globally resonant ideology such underground anti-Communist movements, a position usually as Communism, but Moscow continues to vex Washington. seen as the opposite of containment and dubbed “rollback.” Almost to his passing in Princeton on March 17, 2005, Kennan In September 1946, he even had urged consideration of had been pressing for continued diplomatic engagement, preventive nuclear war to deter feared Soviet aggression. But recognizing that although the two countries rarely agreed, very soon he objected to the founding of NATO, the arming of Russia did have state interests and could be neither ignored nor newly established West Germany, and the building of a nuclear isolated. What he would have advised in the face of President arsenal. (In later years, reacting to the militarization of U.S. Vladimir Putin’s more recent aggressive posture over Crimea foreign policy, he would ferociously deny he had intended any and eastern Ukraine, the Syria intervention, and the bomber military dimension to containment.) overflights of Europe can be only a matter of speculation. Long- Revulsion at the prospect of Armageddon and an abiding term patient resolve? Not overestimating the Russian menace personal disquiet caused a break with his mentor Dean or underestimating America’s manifold advantages? Building Acheson — Truman’s secretary of state — and turned Kennan up U.S. alliances, domestic institutions, and infrastructure as a into a critic of the global strategy he had invented. He entered basis for negotiating from strength? As a rule, Kennan sought to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as a visiting direct Washington along the narrow path between showdown scholar in 1953 and joined as a permanent faculty member in and conciliation, either of which can lead to unnecessary war. 1956. Neither his previous nor his future government service Diplomacy never gets any easier. matched the brilliance of his books. Indeed, his one great triumph in government, the Long Telegram, was one of writing Stephen Kotkin is the John P. Birkelund and conceptualization, not of implementation: He played no ’52 Professor of History and International part in making those concepts become real. Affairs and the founding co-director with In the daily work of diplomacy, he was less successful. A Adm. Mike Mullen of Princeton’s Program in

stint in 1952 as U.S. ambassador to Moscow had lasted less than History and the Practice of Diplomacy. Images Left: Sameer A. Archive/Getty Khan; oppositeEric Schwab/Hulton page:

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ALAN LIGHTMAN ’70

The Nature of Things Why I love physics My long love affair with physics began when I was 12 or 13 years old, growing up in a chaotic household in the moist heat of It was a lovely curve. By this age, I knew about mortality and Memphis with three younger brothers constantly at each death — my grandfather had died when I was 9. But this law other’s throats and a jittery mother who sometimes joined in for pendulums seemed immortal. It seemed older than Earth, the bedlam and fainted when the shouting reached a certain maybe older than the universe. Was this part of the world? Was decibel level, a time when I was first mesmerized and baffled this God? This was physics. by the opposite sex and further confused by an aunt who drove Physics is concerned with the primal forces of nature recklessly in her little MG sports car despite all of our warnings — gravity, electricity and magnetism, the forces that bind and by other irrational behaviors of friends, teachers, and just particles together within the centers of atoms — and the about every human being I knew. response of matter to these forces. Physics tries to understand At moments, I managed to escape. In a large closet, these forces and capture them in mathematical equations, as in miraculously bare of the clutter in the rest of the house, I built the rule for the pendulum. my own laboratory. I stocked it with test tubes and petri dishes, Physics also is concerned with the nature of time and space, Bunsen burners, resistors and capacitors, coils of electrical aspects of reality that most of us take for granted. Einstein’s wire of various thicknesses and grades. Among other projects, shocking proposal that two identical clocks in motion relative to I began making pendulums by tying a fishing weight to the each other do not tick at the same rate was pure physics. end of a string. I’d read in Popular Science or some similar Biologists and chemists work with systems. Physicists work magazine that the time for a pendulum to make a complete with the elements of systems. Where a biologist might study swing was proportional to the square root of the length of the how potassium atoms enter the outer wall of a nerve cell and string. With the help of a stopwatch, I verified this wonderful start an electrical pulse shuddering through the cell, a physicist law. Then, I used it to actually predict the swing time of new would study the forces within an individual potassium atom, pendulums even before I made them. I was amazed and the orbits of its electrons and the electricity they generate, enthralled. Here was air and light and sky. Here, I witnessed and how they affect the electrons in nearby atoms. Physics is firsthand the regularity and order of nature. Beneath the the ultimate reductionist science. Physics condenses every apparent complexity in the physical world, there were simple physical system to its most essential parts and then tries to and dependable rules of behavior. And the rules were beautiful. fathom and quantify those elemental parts. I once was having

On a piece of paper, I made a graph of the rule for pendulums. lunch with the great chemist Roald Hoffmann — we were at a Smith T. Mark

30 Princeton alumni weekly March 2, 2016 paw.princeton.edu December 03, 2014 Princeton alumni weekly 31 techniques of analysis. We debated the twilight foothills Physicists want to between the known and the unknown — the strange ability of subatomic matter to behave like both particles and waves, take apart and take the unsolved problem of the nuclear force, the question of apart until they whether black holes really existed, the origin of the universe. I have always been philosophically inclined, and one aspect of have reached that physics that entranced me in Gerace’s apprentice shop was the which no longer can implication of physics for the deep and eternal questions. Such as: Do we have free will? Are our actions and thoughts fully be divided or predetermined by cause-and-effect relations? Does space go on split or separated. forever? Is there a smallest nugget of material reality? How did the universe come into being? Why is there something, rather than nothing? (Well, maybe most people don’t ponder this one, And then they want to but physicists do.) understand that tiny The answer to the bug-fall-off question was, of course, previously known to science. I experienced a thrill in working thing completely. on this problem and getting the right answer, but that experience paled beside the thrill of my first original research little Middle Eastern restaurant in Cambridge — and we talked problem as a graduate student in physics, at work on a problem about the difference between his science and mine. Roald was whose answer was unknown. This was the early 1970s. The extolling the complexity of chemical systems, the way that first black hole, Cygnus X-1, recently had been discovered, different parts interact with each other to produce intricate and a new generation of graduate students was rushing off structures, like the ornate bending and folds of certain large to do thesis research on the behavior of black holes and their molecules. I, in turn, celebrated the simplicity of physics, its surroundings in space. I had set to work on studying (with relentless mission to pare down nature to its most fundamental pencil and paper, mathematics, and computers) the evolution elements. Physicists want to know the very smallest Russian of a disk of gas swirling around a black hole — a situation doll. Physicists want to take apart and take apart until they thought to be common if black holes really existed and also have reached that which no longer can be divided or split or thought to reveal properties of the associated black hole. separated. And then they want to understand that tiny thing Despite expectations from other scientists, my calculations completely. I loved that purity, that clarity. showed that such a gaseous disk would be highly chaotic. I started college at Princeton with the mistaken idea that Instead of remaining quiet, the gas would seethe and flare, I wanted to be an engineer. I admire engineers. We need sending out sporadic bursts of X-rays. Another theoretical engineers. They make things work. But in my engineering physicist, Doug Eardley, two years my senior, joined me in this classes, I was taught to memorize formulae and apply them, discovery and added mathematical smarts that I lacked. I was rather than how to derive those formulae from elemental exhilarated. At a modest level, Doug and I had contributed forces. I was not satisfied. Then, in my sophomore year, a to scientific knowledge. We had found something true about renegade member of the physics faculty named Bill Gerace nature that previously was unknown by human beings. approached me in the shadows of a lab room and posed the I have not made any momentous discoveries in my career following problem: If you put a frictionless bug on a frictionless as a theoretical physicist. But each new research problem clock, starting at the 12 o’clock position, and the bug starts has brought a fresh challenge. In each problem, I’ve had the sliding clockwise, at what hour mark does the bug fall off? A pleasure of confronting a locked house and scheming for well-posed problem. I went back to my dorm room, wrote down weeks and months to find the secret door in, of visualizing the the equations to be solved, and came back to Professor Gerace physical situation and then representing it mathematically the next morning with the answer. (The angle of fall-off is — with clean and elegant and pristine equations — and then cos-1(2/3) or about 48 degrees, corresponding to a time of 1:36.) figuring out how to solve those equations. And always the At that point Gerace invited me to join a handful of undergrad constant admiration of the magnificent cathedrals of modern physics majors he was quietly mentoring, each of us given our physics, relativity and quantum mechanics, whose mystery and own desk in his sprawling office in the basement of Palmer beauty continue to amaze me and other physicists. Laboratory. There was a blackboard, of course. Between our I remember a moment years ago with my 10-year-old official classes, we members of Gerace’s tiny physics guild daughter when I held a prism in front of the window. She taught ourselves relativity, quantum mechanics, and other exclaimed at the rainbow of colors cast on the opposite wall. mysteries and beauties of modern physics. (The most brilliant “What made that?” she said with delight. member of that cadre, Bob Jaffe ’68, has long been a colleague of mine at MIT.) Alan Lightman, a novelist, essayist, physicist, All of us in that little group loved physics. We felt that and educator, is Professor of the Practice we were entering a special and privileged world. We felt of the Humanities at the Massachusetts we were learning secrets most people didn’t know. And we Institute of Technology. His book Screening felt powerful with our new knowledge. We wrote beautiful Room was named one of the best books of

equations on the blackboard. We discussed mathematical 2015 by The Washington Post. Lionstar Michael

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ROLLING ALONG: Abbie Bagley-Young Vandivere ’01 restores Old Master paintings at the Mauritshuis museum in the Netherlands, and in her spare time skates on the Dutch national roller derby team. She says playing rugby at Princeton helped her “realize the importance of being involved in a community of fun, athletic women.” Rijsdijk Jurgen

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Paul Roberts ’85 leads the only historically black seminary of the Presbyterian Church.

P Aul ROBERTS ’85 for the next decade. But he began to feel a void. A New Ministry He read stacks of career manuals and started attending church. It was among The president of a historically black seminary the pews that he found a home. He and his then-fiancée moved to Atlanta, rethinks the training of ministers where Roberts earned a master’s of divinity degree at the seminary he now For his senior thesis in architecture at commit to a residential, three-year is reshaping. Both thought his turn to Princeton, Paul Roberts ’85 created seminary program, Roberts says. He’s religion as a career “would be a phase, architectural plans for redesigning a also making the program affordable. that it would pass,” he says. But for 13 historically African American church. “You shouldn’t have to pay up the wazoo years he has served as minister of a small Three decades later, Roberts is engaged to serve the church and the community,” congregation in Atlanta, and in 2010 in another redesign project as he forges a he says. The seminary has had no formal he began running the seminary, which fresh approach to seminary education. campus since 2014. Courses are offered currently offers 20 courses and two As president of the Johnson C. Smith online and at satellite locations for less certificate programs. Theological Seminary in Atlanta, the than $400 each. One of Roberts’ biggest challenges only historically black seminary of the Roberts never planned to work is addressing the concerns of those who Presbyterian Church, Roberts is making in the church. After Princeton, he are wary of a non-traditional model the training of ministers more accessible moved to New York City and landed for a seminary. But he is undaunted: and practical. These days, people are a position in advertising, eventually “I love this time of radical change.” less inclined to uproot their lives to working at several firms in the field By Jessica Lander ’10

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went on to graduate from Princeton in 1950. Jim spent much of his career as an investment adviser and had a keen interest in the stock memorials market. He enjoyed spending time within his communities, including the YMCA, Holy Name Church, the American Red Cross, and the Westport Council of Aging. Respected by many for his integrity, Jim was genuinely interested in the well-being of others. Passionate about history and current affairs, he also enjoyed golf, tennis, and reading. Jim was a devoted family man and leaves PAW posts a list of recent alumni deaths at paw.princeton.edu. Go to behind children James H. Hudner Jr., Edward “Web Exclusives” on PAW’s home page and click on the link “Recent Alumni Hatch Hudner, and Katherine Hudner Howd; Deaths.” The list is updated with each new issue. their spouses; and eight grandsons. The class The Class of 1943 Scott married Edith Pratt in 1949 and worked at extends its deepest sympathies to his loving John A. Howard ’43 Sherman Textile Co. in Worcester, Mass., where family. John died Aug. 6, 2015. he climbed the ladder to become CEO. Scott He prepared for Princeton at then became proprietor of a company with 30 Hyman Lans ’47 North Shore (Ill.) Country Day Hallmark outlets. Hy died June 12, 2013, at home in Sanibel, Fla. School, where he was president He served the community as president of the He spent three years in the Navy after high of the student government. At Worcester County Horticultural Society and as a school and earned a biology degree from Princeton, John was manager of Triangle Club member of the Worcester Club. He also worked Princeton in 1947. After graduation, Hy attended and the choir. His major was English. at the Red Cross and his church. the University of Illinois College of Medicine, John left Princeton at the end of junior year Scott is survived by Vivian Dygert, his wife of earning a degree in 1948 with highest honors. to join the Army, where he had an outstanding 19 years; sister Nancy Nye; children Katherine, Hy interned at Cook County Hospital and career with the 745th Tank Battalion and was Sally *84, and Andrew; three stepchildren; 12 did a surgical residency there from 1950 to 1953. awarded a battlefield commission, two Purple grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. During the Korean conflict, he was chief general Hearts, and two Silver Stars. He finished his surgeon in the 6208th Contingency Aeromedical college education at Northwestern, earning Stephen B. Lamb ’44 Staging Facility Hospital and a surgical bachelor’s and master’s degrees as well as a Steve died July 28, 2015. consultant with the Far East Air Force. Ph.D. At our 10th reunion, John was awarded He prepared at Western Before starting private practice in surgery our annual Achievement Award. Reserve Academy and in Highland Park, Ill., Hy was involved in many John was president of Palos Verdes College majored in economics at positions in the medical arena around Chicago. from 1951 to 1954. Later, he served on President Princeton, where he sang in the He wrote 14 scientific articles between 1949 and Eisenhower’s committee on government choir and participated in the Madison Debating 1955. And despite a very active career, he and his contracts and became president of Rockford Society and ROTC. Steve roomed with John wife managed to get to Florida each February. College, holding that position for 17 years. In Miller and John Larkin and left in 1943 to serve Hy is survived by his wife, Barbara; children 1976, John founded the Rockford Institute, three years in the Field Artillery. He married Kenneth Lans, Deborah Lans, William a nonprofit study center that focuses on the Carol Hill in 1944, with whom he had children Liedholm, Christie Peterson, and Eric Liedholm; functions, purposes, and independence of all Sandra, Stephen II, and David. nine grandchildren; a great-grandchild; and his major institutions of society. He served as its Post war, he was first a salesman for sister, Barbara Weinstock. first president from 1976 to 1986 and served as McBee Inc. and then formed a company with senior fellow of the Howard Center for Family, classmate Addison Taylor that was involved in The Class of 1948 Religion, and Society. special magnetic recording. Next, Steve started Richard S. Morgan ’48 John’s survivors include his wife, Janette; Stephen Lamb Associates while living in Oyster Dick was born July 5, 1926, in daughters Marie Schroeder, Martha Manning, Bay, N.Y. After 40 years, he retired to live in New York City and died Aug. 23, and Katie Drerup; and son Steve. Nine Hana, Hawaii. 2015, at age 89 in State College, grandchildren and five great-grandchildren A loyal Tiger, he attended many reunions, Pa., where he had been a also survive him. including 10 consecutive majors ending with longtime professor of molecular the big 65th. He had two hobbies — playing gin biology at Penn State University. The Class of 1944 rummy and bench pressing. At age 85, Steve Dick went to Andover and then apparently Scott Ewing ’44 lifted an age-group world record of 325 pounds. started college in the V-12 program (he wore a Scott died Aug. 28, 2015, in Steve was preceded in death by Carol. Navy seaman’s uniform for his picture in the Syracuse, N.Y., at home and He is survived by his three children and six 1944 Freshman Herald). He graduated from surrounded by family. He was 93. grandchildren. Princeton in 1948, earned a medical degree at The son of Frank Ewing Columbia, and served in the Air Force until 1953. 1910, he went to Phillips Exeter The Class of 1947 His avocational interests involved sculpture and majored in chemistry at Princeton. Scott James H. Hudner ’47 and the outdoors. He founded the Rhoneymeade was a member of Cannon Club and roomed with Jim died peacefully Aug. 5, 2015, in Westport, Arboretum and Sculpture Garden in Potter Tom Simpson and Bill McRoberts. Mass., where he had lived since 1984 with his Township, Pa., near his home in Centre Hall, Pa. He left in 1943 to serve four years in the Army wife, Florence, who had died recently. He is survived by his sons, Nicholas ’75 and Air Corps, 18 months of which were spent in the After graduating from Phillips Andover Caleb; sister Diana Olcott; five grandchildren; Pacific theater, where he was a staff sergeant. Academy, he served in the Army and then and four great-grandchildren.

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The Class of 1949 150-pound crew his freshman year, and was a and roomed with Bob Bohner, Charles Hardy, William Q. Harty ’49 member of Colonial. and Roger Williams. Bill died Feb. 1, 2015. He served on an aircraft carrier during the Bill then worked successively for Union A lifelong resident of New Korean War. After leaving the Navy, Ben took Carbide, DuPont Co., and Chemetron, with Jersey, Bill spent his career in over his father’s office-supply and equipment time out for two years in the Army Chemical banking, first with Guaranty company in Oklahoma City and expanded it Corps. He received a fellowship and earned a Trust Co. (now JP Morgan to designing and decorating residential and master’s degree in chemical engineering from Chase), and later with Nippon Credit Bank. He commercial interiors. the University of Louisville in 1955. He married retired in 1989 and spent his post-retirement In 1961 he accepted an offer from a Ellen Spalding that same year. years as a deacon in the Roman Catholic business colleague, Kirk Bassett, to come to In 1958 he took a job with Spalding Laundry Diocese of Paterson, N.J. Tiburon, Calif., a bayside community in Marin Co. in Louisville, a large family-retail and Bill came to Princeton after almost two County. There they opened a clothing store, industrial-laundry business, eventually serving years in the Army Air Force. He majored in appropriately named “The Bird and Hound.” as its president. Twenty years later he left economics and was a member of Campus Club, The store, which first featured recreational Spalding and started Universal Uniforms Inc. the Catholic Club, and the Flying Club. In 1950, clothing and then women’s East Coast-style and later, Universal Denim Services. Bill’s he married Claire Thompson and then joined sportswear, thrived for more than 35 years. recreational passions were sailing, croquet, and Guaranty Trust, where he eventually headed the As a businessman, Ben, though known locally backgammon. public-utilities and energy department. In 1982 as John, was active in civic affairs. Bill suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and he joined Nippon Credit Bank and helped to Ben is survived by his second wife, died Aug. 25, 2014, in Louisville. He is survived launch the bank’s U.S. operations. Constance, to whom he was married for 27 by his son, Peter ’78; Peter’s children, John Bill’s devotion to the church was a mainstay years; children John, Tally, and Charles from Augustus ’08, Mary Grace, and June; daughter of his life, and in his first years of retirement his first marriage to Suzanne Talbot; three Lisa Austin, her husband, Tom; and their he began training for the diaconate. In 1986 he grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Our children, Alex and Tate; and by his brother, was ordained as one of the first deacons for the condolences go to his family. Tom. Ellen predeceased him in 1998. Diocese of Paterson and served the Morristown Assumption parish until 2008. The Class of 1951 The Class of 1952 We offer our sympathy to Claire, their Robert J. Poor ’51 Robert L. Stott Jr. ’52 seven children, 21 grandchildren, three great- The son of Grace McMahon Bob graduated cum laude from grandchildren, and Bill’s extended family. and Arthur G. Poor, Bob was the Taft School. At Princeton born March 5, 1926, in he joined Tiger Inn, played Harold H. Seikel ’49 Passaic, N.J. several club sports, and was on Harold died Feb. 19, 2015, at the age of 86. At that He graduated from the the freshman basketball team. time, he had been a resident of Seaford, N.Y., for Lawrenceville School in 1944 and served as a Bob majored in English and roomed with more than 40 years and had been practicing law merchant mariner for two years. At Princeton, Pete Homans. for at least as long as that. Bob majored in geology and belonged to Cap He lived in New York City for many years Harold came to Princeton from Jamaica High and Gown. He roomed with Rufus Finch, Eb and was senior managing partner of Wagner School, where he was on the swim team and Gaines, Francis Gowen, George Nimick, Tom Stott & Co., specialist firm of the New York sang in the Glee Club. He left Princeton without Remington, Peter Stroh, and Joe Werner. In Stock Exchange. Bob was on the boards of graduating, and later described himself (in our 1951 Bob married Eugenia Mayer, a union that the Browning School, Taft, and the New York 10th yearbook) as follows: “I was a MBDNG — later ended in divorce. Stock Exchange. He also was a vestryman at St. one who Matriculated But Did Not Graduate. Following graduation, he was in the Army Bartholomew’s Church. After this, I conducted my own business for two years, where he served as a forward Bob later moved to Vero Beach, Fla., and (catering), then re-entered college, taking my observer in Korea. Bob spent much of his died there Nov. 10, 2014. He leaves his wife, bachelor’s at Hofstra and my law degree at New business career in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Heidi; sons David and Lawrence; and brother York Law School.” He went on to write, “My Brazil. From 1970 to his retirement in 1992, he Donald. To them, we offer our sympathies. activities have and always will, I guess, include was general manager of Fritzsche, Dodge, & everything athletic at Princeton.” Olcott, manufacturers of flavors and fragrances The Class of 1954 After this, we heard nothing more directly in São Paulo. The family then moved to James M. Crawford Jr. from Harold over the years. We did learn that he Annapolis, Md., where Bob was active in ’54 Jay died Aug. 13, 2015, of and his wife had three children, Jeffrey, Lisa, and community affairs. natural causes. Karen, and we believe they survive him. Bob suffered from vascular dementia and Born in the Philippines, We regret the loss of this member of the Class died Aug. 21, 2014, in Holiday, Fla., at age he spent most of World War of 1949, and we extend our deep condolences to 88. He is survived by his wife, Mary Clifford II interned with his family Harold’s family. Poor; children Elizabeth, Robert, Michael, and at Santo Thomas University in Manila. He Alexander; and two grandchildren. His brothers, matriculated from the Thatcher School, The Class of 1950 Arthur and David ’50, predeceased him. majored in English, and was a member of J. Bennett Wren ’50 Tower Club. Ben died June 4, 2015, in William M. Tate ’51 After graduation, he earned a master’s Cloverdale, Calif. The cause Bill was born April 22, 1929, degree and Ph.D. in history at the University of was cancer. in Frankfort, Ky., to Maria California, Berkeley. He then attended Naval He came to Princeton from McElroy Tate and William P. Postgraduate School to study Russian and later Shattuck Military Academy in Tate. He prepared at Choate joined the Intelligence Service. Minnesota, though he grew up in Oklahoma and majored in chemical Jay was a devoted father and grandfather. City. Ben majored in psychology, rowed on the engineering at Princeton. Bill belonged to Elm He had a wealth of knowledge and was an

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avid sports fan. During his career, he worked After graduation, Bob architecture in 1960. as a journalist, photojournalist, and author, enrolled at Stanford, where he As a principal at Pokorny & Pertz, he worked interviewing people such as Ronald Reagan earned a Ph.D. in mathematics. on the restoration of Manhattan’s South Street and Walt Disney. While there he worked under Seaport and on development plans in Charleston, He is survived by his wife, Carolyn; daughter Gábor Szego, and during Taiwan, Armenia, and Kuwait City. He was a Audrey; stepchildren Lynne, Dawne, Chris, the summers he had jobs in fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and Jim; and four granddaughters. The class is technical operations. a New York City planning commissioner, and honored by his service to our country. Bob then worked for IBM as a systems chairman of the New York University Settlement, analyst in San Jose, Sacramento, and a venerable immigrant settlement house. He was Norman W. Usher ’54 Honolulu. He changed careers and opened chairman of Pratt Institute’s graduate program Norman died May 6, 2015, in his Manhattan three retail bookstores over a 10-year period. in urban design, where he was beloved by his home. Later, he returned to mathematics when he students and taught for more than 30 years. Born in Omaha, Neb., with the last name formed Minicomputer Associates to market Thousands of sketches and paintings followed Osheroff, he graduated from Omaha Central systems with in-house software packages for Stu’s travels around the world with Jeanette, his High School. At Princeton, Norman majored businesses. wife of 50 years. His late-in-life collaboration in economics and was a member of Key and Bob had a formidable intellect and wide- with clay produced fantastical figures and Seal Club. He played trumpet in the Tigertown ranging interests in investments, mathematics, animals. Stu served the class with Byron Bell in Five Dixieland Band and was in Triangle. After politics, genealogy, and collecting rare chess thematic designs for our later reunions and with graduation, he spent two years in the Army and sets. He was active in the Presbyterian church. Al Tucker in creating our 50th reunion book. was stationed in Korea. He continued to play Bob is survived by his dear daughter, Betsy, He died July 8, 2015. The class extends its the trumpet while in the service. with whom he lived, and three grandchildren. condolences and love to Jeanette and their Norman earned an MBA at New York daughters, Joanna and Eliza. University. He worked in the data-processing Robert W. Irving ’57 division of IBM in Philadelphia. He had Bob died Aug. 17, 2015, in The Class of 1959 married Deanna Sorenson in 1962 but was Marietta, Ga. Laurin A. Wollan Jr. ’59 divorced at the time of his death. There are no He attended Phillips Exeter Larry died July 4, 2015, in known survivors. Academy before matriculating Richmond, Va. at Princeton. Bob majored in Growing up outside of The Class of 1955 history, joined Charter, and roomed with Dick Chicago, he attended Springfield Edwin McIntosh Cover ’55 Geyer. He was one of the Chapel deacons, High School, where he was Mac died July 15, 2015. president of Charter Club, and was a member active in sports and served as prom chairman. Born May 13, 1933, in of Orange Key. At Princeton, Larry lettered in baseball, ate Baltimore, he prepared at Bob was a first lieutenant in the Marine at Cannon Club, and majored in politics in Woodberry Forest School. Corps. His career centered around banking preparation for law school. After graduation, Mac majored in history, joined and insurance at Maryland National Bank he earned a law degree from the University Cottage Club, and lived at 11 Alexander St. with and Equitable Trust Co. in Baltimore. He of Chicago and a master’s degree in public his wife, Anne Lowell Thorndike. Mac wrote retired from Barnett Bank as an executive administration from the University of Illinois. his thesis on “Woodrow Wilson and the 1919 vice president and senior credit policy officer He briefly taught political science at Election for Governor of New Jersey.” His father, in Florida. Additionally, he was president of Millikin University before embarking on a Thomas, was a member of the Class of 1928. several banking organizations. distinguished legal career, which drew to its After graduating from Harvard Law School, Upon retiring, he worked with nonprofit close at the Department of Justice during the Mac served as counsel for several corporations organizations in Florida and Georgia, including Watergate years. for 33 years, retiring in 1993 as vice-president helping to found a branch of the Executive Larry then returned to the lectern, spending and general counsel of Olin Corp. Service Corps in West Palm Beach, which three decades as a professor of criminal justice After living in Darien, Conn., for a number he came out of retirement to direct. Then he at Florida State University. At FSU, he met of years, Mac and his wife, Annie, split their and his wife, Mary, moved to Marietta and Elisabeth Showalter Muhlenfeld, an English time between Skidaway Island, Ga., and their continued their charitable volunteer efforts. professor who became his second wife in 1981. second home in Park City, Utah, with frequent The class sends condolences to Mary; Betsy went on to assume the presidency of Sweet trips to visit their daughters in Massachusetts his children, Susan and Robert; and five Briar College in 1996 and the family moved and Connecticut. Annie and Mac enjoyed golfing, grandchildren. to Virginia, where Larry assumed the self- skiing, singing in the church choir, and spoiling appointed role of master of Sweet Briar House. their grandchildren. Their retirement was cut Stuart Pertz ’57 *60 With both awe and annoyance, Larry’s short by Mac’s premature demise on a cruise ship Stu combined the activities of classmates still recall his elephantine memory, taking him and Annie to vacation in Norway. an artist, architect, planner, which ranged from the trivial to the arcane, all He is survived by Annie, daughters public servant, teacher, arranged in encyclopedic categories. In just Carolyn Moore and Anne Rawlins, and mentor, and friend in an reward, he will not be forgotten. five grandchildren. Mac’s brother Thomas incredibly full life of working The class extends sympathy to Betsy; his predeceased him. The class sends condolences. for others. children, Ann and Larry; and to his stepchildren, He came to Princeton from Brooklyn Allison and David Muhlenfeld. The Class of 1957 Technical High School and majored in Robert S. Dinsmore ’57 architecture. His senior-year roommates were The Class of 1961 Bob died July 13, 2015, in San Antonio. While Zenro Qsawa, Harry Roegner, and Peter Blue. John H. Marino Sr. ’61 at Princeton, he joined Prospect Club and After earning a bachelor’s degree, he continued John died May 19, 2015, after a sudden majored in mathematics. at Princeton and received a master’s degree in diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.

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John was born in degrees in mathematics from what is now University. A fifth volume was in progress. Middletown, N.Y., and Carnegie Mellon University. He received Gibbons was married five times and is graduated from Goshen a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1950 with a survived by Patricia, his wife of 29 years; and Central High School. While dissertation on game theory (which in six children. His brother, John (President Bill at Princeton, John studied to 1994 won him the Nobel Memorial Prize Clinton’s science adviser from 1993 to 1998), become a civil engineer and in Economic Sciences). After Princeton, he died July 17. served as president of Court Club. He was a became an instructor at MIT in 1951, earning a member of the Aquinas Association, the Army tenured position in 1958. Morgan R. Broadhead *65 ROTC, and the Flying Club. His senior-year In 1957, Nash married Alicia de Morgan Broadhead, professor of history at roommates were Ed Diener, Frank Mignogna, Lardé. He resigned from MIT in 1959, Jefferson Community College in Louisville, Pete Nettrour, Frank Novak, Joe Witherspoon, as an incapacitating mental illness led to died Aug. 2, 2015, at the age of 75. and Dick Wollmershauser. hospitalization. Illness took its toll and divorce Born in 1939, Broadhead graduated from the After Princeton, John earned a master’s followed in 1963, with various hospitalizations University of Connecticut and then completed degree in transportation engineering at Purdue until 1970. Paranoiac delusions continued his graduate studies at Princeton, where he University and served as an officer in the Army for two decades, but Alicia stood by him, earned a master’s degree in history in 1965. Corps of Engineers. He enjoyed a fulfilling taking him into her home in 1970, and they He taught history at Vassar College, career as a professional engineer in service to remarried in 2001. Nash’s life and recovery Southern Methodist University, the University the rail industry and was considered one of the were described in book and film, both titled A of Texas, and the University of Louisville nation’s experts in the field. Beautiful Mind. before he began his very long career teaching at John was an active member of professional Nash is survived by two sons and a sister. Jefferson Community College. rail and engineering organizations and served Broadhead is survived by his wife, many nonprofits in the Washington, D.C. James H. Noren *60 Ann; three sons (including Alex ’90); two area. John was a loyal and active Princeton James Noren, who retired from the Central stepchildren; seven grandchildren; and four alumnus — he frequently attended reunions Intelligence Agency after a long career there, step-grandchildren. and was proudly positioned in the middle of his died July 28, 2015. He was 86. cherished classmates at his 50th-reunion photo Noren graduated from Hamline University Richard C. Leone *69 in 2011. in 1951, and in 1953 and 1960 earned an Richard Leone, a longtime president of the John is survived by his wife, Patricia; master’s degree and Ph.D. in economics, Century Foundation (formerly the Twentieth son John Jr. and daughter Ann Southerlyn respectively, from Princeton. After serving Century Fund), and a prominent figure in Marino; stepdaughters Sarah Melinda Cassidy in the Army, he had a distinguished 32-year Democratic administrations in Trenton, N.J., and Katherine Dolores Klingemann; and career with the CIA as an economic analyst, died July 16, 2015. He was 75. their families. specializing in the Soviet Union. Leone graduated from the University of During his retirement, he worked as a Rochester in 1962, and in 1969 earned the first The Class of 1968 consultant and published a book. He was a Ph.D. awarded by Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Kim L. Farr ’68 founding member of St. Stephen’s United School. In 1973 and 1977, he managed the Kim died Sept. 13, 2013, in Methodist Church in Burke, Va. successful gubernatorial campaigns of Brendan Roswell, Ga. Noren is survived by his wife of 61 years, Alice T. Byrne ’49, and at 33 was New Jersey’s He attended McArthur High Mary; two daughters; and two grandchildren. youngest treasurer. School in Hollywood, Fla. At Leone became president of the New York Princeton, Kim was the student William C. Gibbons *61 Mercantile Exchange in 1980, and in 1985 he manager of the Chancellor Green Student William Gibbons, the author of a highly became a managing director at Dillon Read Center and ate independently. He majored in acclaimed four-volume history of the Vietnam & Co. Republican Gov. Thomas H. Kean ’57 architecture and his thesis was titled “Urban War for the Library of Congress, died July 4, appointed Leone to the board of the Port Renewal in Trenton.” 2015, at 88. Authority of New York and New Jersey. From Kim worked for a software company called Gibbons graduated from what is now 1990 to 1994 Leone was chairman under Cyborg Systems Inc., and later started two Randolph College in 1949. Then he earned a Kean’s Democratic successor, Jim Florio. companies of his own, The Wellness Way and master’s degree in 1952 and a Ph.D. in 1961 in Later, Leone often criticized the governors of Anti-Aging & Wellness Atlanta. politics from Princeton. In the late 1950s, he New York and New Jersey for turning the Port To Kim’s family, the class extends its worked in the House and Senate, and in 1960 Authority into a political bartering agency where deepest sympathy. became an assistant to Senate Majority Leader professionals were replaced by patronage. Lyndon Johnson. From 1989 to 2011, Leone was president Graduate Alumni Gibbons worked for the Agency for of the Century Foundation, a nonpartisan John F. Nash Jr. *50 International Development on its legislative public-policy research organization focusing John Nash, whose front-page New York Times staff from 1962 to 1968. In 1969, he joined on inequality, voting rights, civil liberties, and obituary reported that he “was widely regarded Texas A&M University, and in 1972 became a opposing privatization of Social Security. From as one of the great mathematicians of the senior analyst in the Foreign Affairs Division 1993 to 1996, he was an APGA board member. 20th century,” was killed with his wife, Alicia, of the Library of Congress’ Congressional Leone is survived by his wife, Meg Cox; two May 23, 2015, in a taxi crash on the New Jersey Research Service. children; a granddaughter; and his first wife, Turnpike. He was 86. They were returning to In 1978, at the request of the Senate Foreign Anita Osper. their home in Princeton Junction from Norway, Relations Committee, Gibbons began to write where he was a co-recipient of the Abel Prize, a a complete history of the war in Vietnam. This issue contains an undergraduate memorial top award for mathematicians. Starting in 1984, his work was published in four for Stuart Pertz ’57 *60. In 1948, Nash came to Princeton after volumes. He retired in 1989, but continued his graduating with bachelor’s and master’s work as a visiting professor at George Mason Graduate memorials are prepared by the APGA.

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