WINTER 2019 | CELEBRATE! | ALUMNAE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Welle sley Runs 2019 magazine.wellesley.edu Winter @Wellesleymag FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 16 Wellesley Runs 2 From the Editor 38 WCAA By Amita Parashar Kelly ’06 3 Letters to the Editor 42 Class Notes 28 Celebrate! 4 From the President 76 In Memoriam By Jennifer E. Garrett ’98 5 Window on Wellesley 80 Endnote 30 2018 Alumnae Achievement Awards 14 Shelf Life By Hilary Hurd Anyaso ’93 and Catherine Caruso ’10 Above: Liz Miranda ’02 (in red) on the campaign trail with constituents last fall. PHOTO BY WEBB CHAPPELL, COVER ILLUSTRATION BY AAD GOUDAPPEL From the Editor VOLUME 104, ISSUE NO. 2 hat’s here that we’re not seeing? That’s a question I ask myself a lot, on all kinds of levels, literal and meta- Editor phorical. What have I missed? Are there realities here that are hidden by Alice M. Hummer outward appearances? How can I look more deeply? Senior Associate Editors W Lisa Scanlon Mogolov ’99 I got to pondering this question the other day on one of my lunchtime mean- Catherine O’Neill Grace derings on campus. I had been down near Tupelo 3oint³the lake had its À rst skim of ice³and was on my way up the path back toward Severance Green, just below Founders. I happened to Design Hecht/Horton Partners, Arlington, Mass. look up to the tops of some very old oaks, now naked of their leaves. Way up there, bending in the breeze, was a nest. I’m not talking about one of those cozy abodes that, say, cardinals build, Principal Photographer Richard Howard the kind that might À t in the palm of your hand. This was a true mansion³an impressive weave of twigs and other materials. Somebody large had grown up there. Student Assistant Emma Bilbrey ’19 I looked up again, and suddenly saw nests everywhere—large and small—in the trees along the path and up the edge of the green. They overlook the spot where the vast commencement Wellesley (USPS 673-900). Published fall, winter, spring, and summer by the Wellesley College tent has stood for the last few years, and I amused myself by imagining mother birds peering Alumnae Association. Editorial and Business down on the graduates and leaning over to nudge their reluctant Á edglings. ´/ook, they’re Offi ce: Alumnae Association, Wellesley College, leaving,µ they’d say. ´<ou should, too.µ 106 Central St., Wellesley, MA 02481-8203. Phone 781-283-2344. Fax 781-283-3638. The point is, there’s a whole community up there in the springtime, lives that go on almost totally Periodicals postage paid at Boston, Mass., and unseen to those of us who walk by every day on the ground. What’s here that we’re not seeing? other mailing offi ces. Postmaster: Send Form This magazine is full of people who are leaders because they’ve been able to see things 3579 to Wellesley magazine, Wellesley College, 106 Central St., Wellesley, MA 02481-8203. others have missed. Probably the most extreme case is astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala ’90, who helped create the scientiÀ c equipment that detected the existence of gravitational waves, WELLESLEY POLICY thereby conÀ rming (instein’s Theory of 5elativity ´A &osmic %reakthrough,µ page . %ut One of the objectives of Wellesley, in the best College tradition, is to present interesting, equally important is &amara -ones ’, a physician and public-health specialist who has spent thought-provoking material, even though it her career helping other people see that racism adversely affects the health of Americans may be controversial. Publication of material ´'iagnosing 5acism,µ page 0 . 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What /iz found she was meant to do was become a community and youth organizer in her The Alumnae Office has a voice-mail box to be used by alumnae for updating contact neighborhood. What she saw, where others may not have, was opportunity—opportunity to and other personal information. The number is help where people were struggling, and to help others see, too. /ast 1-800-339-5233. year, for example, she raised funds to take ,00 young people You can also update your information online to see Black Panther. ´This À lm was an important way to show when you visit the Alumnae Association web- the empowerment and the rich legacy of African people site at www.wellesley.edu/alumnae. throughout the world,” she told an interviewer last year. DIRECT LINE PHONE NUMBERS ´It was important for me to show young people that they College Switchboard 781-283-1000 are superheroes, too, and that they are scientists, and Alumnae Offi ce 781-283-2331 Magazine Offi ce 781-283-2344 they can make a difference in their world, too.” She Admission Offi ce 781-283-2270 went on to launch a political campaign and now rep- Career Education Offi ce 781-283-2352 resents the À fth Suffolk 'istrict in the Massachusetts Development Offi ce 800-358-3543 House of 5epresentatives. INTERNET ADDRESSES So take a look up. <ou may start to see nests every- www.wellesley.edu/alumnae where. What’s here that we’re not seeing? magazine.wellesley.edu Alice M. Hummer, editor 2 WELLESLEY MAGAZINE Letters to the Editor journalism provided by my classmates on which we hated. And what “protocol”? I wouldn’t campus was instrumental in raising awareness be surprised if you receive a lot of letters about Wellesley welcomes short letters (300 words of national as well as campus issues. the statement because it made me see red! maximum) relating to articles or items that have Susan Sprau ’68 Elizabeth Seymour Bynum ’54 appeared in recent issues of the magazine. Send Northridge, Calif. Pittsford, N.Y. your remarks to the Editor, Wellesley magazine, 106 Central St., Wellesley, MA 02481-8203, email Revisiting 1968 More About Pants your comments to [email protected], The article “1968: The Year Everything Re: changes after 1968. On page 22 of the fall ’18 or submit a letter via the magazine’s website, Changed” was interesting but limited in scope. issue (“1968: The Year Everything Changed”), a magazine.wellesley.edu. Why 1968? Did Amita Parashar Kelly ’06 know member of class of ’66 says she was at Wellesley there were Vietnam teach-ins at Wellesley in the “when students had to wear skirts to class.” Homeschooling Eloquence fall of 1965? Did she know Wellesley girls were I was in the class of ’45, and during my fresh- Thank you for the beautiful arrested at the Pentagon in 1967? Did she Ànd man year, Life magazine published a full-page article about homeschool- out that Wellesley had a small chapter of SDS, photo of two of my classmates, taken from the ing by Sarah Ligon ’03 Students for a Democratic Society? Did she rear without their permission. It caused quite (“Home School,” fall ’18). learn there were Wellesley students who par- a sensation, as it showed Wellesley women My kids and I have been ticipated in harboring AWOL soldiers in the wearing what we now call jeans! I think they homeschooling for 10 years “sanctuary movement,” at Brandeis, Boston were called dungarees then. Many of us wore and even though my oldest College, and MIT? More than one student went pants of various kinds. We certainly never “had are now in the public high into factory work and became a labor organizer. to wear skirts to class.” In 1943, Mayling Soong school for the first time One dropped out, not to “support,” but to actu- Chiang 1917 (Madame Chiang Kai-shek) visited this year, we are still behaving like homeschool- ally join, the Poor People’s Campaign! campus wearing classic Chinese pants, and then ers and learning tons together at home. I love the I was also dismayed at the distortion of it became even more common for Wellesley stu- love of learning that my kids have. Thank you for history. The article stated “the party had no dents to wear slacks. putting the richness of homeschooling into words clear nominee” after the assassination of Robert Eleanor Herz Swent ’45 so eloquently. Kennedy. This misses the point of the demon- Palo Alto, Calif. Elizabeth Hamilton Wachtler ’91 strations outside the Democratic Convention Claremont, Calif. in 1968. Several Wellesley students worked for Dig It Eugene McCarthy, a peace candidate, the Bernie Thank you for sharing our update Saving Central Park Sanders of his day, who was sold out by the party @Wellesleymag! (“Uncovering I lived in New York in the 1970s, when Betsy hierarchy after winning more votes in the prima- Science at Wellesley,” fall ’18). Barlow Rogers ’57 was just starting her work ries than any other Democratic candidate.