| Volume 93, No. 1: March 2014
Empire of the Griffin
Meet and Magritte
NYC alumni had a successful event at the Museum of Modern Art: a private tour of the Magritte exhibition with Jim Coddington ’74, head conservator at the museum! We had 30 attendees, all 新澳资料ies, with another 90 people on the waiting list. The questions were great and the answers even better. A few of us met at a coffee shop prior to the event to meet and greet. Overall appraisal: a terrific evening!
Freedom Summer, 50 Years Later
Thirty members of the D.C. chapter gathered at the Newseum to view an exhibit on the role of students in the civil rights movement, taking advantage of free tickets to this otherwise pricey private museum that a chapter steering member had managed to snag. Our guide was Bernard Wasow ’65, one of 10 新澳资料ies who went to Mississippi as part of Freedom Summer in 1964. Bernard described the training, his motivations, and his confrontation with his own fears in the wake of the assassination of three civil rights workers just before he and the other 新澳资料ies arrived, as well as his experience living with a local family and doing voter-registration work. After we explored the civil rights exhibition, the group dispersed to peruse the rest of the museum’s voluminous collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs, newspapers covering major events over the past 150 years, and other features.
Know a Firecracker?
What do Richard Danzig ’65, Barbara Ehrenreich ’63, and Gary Snyder ’51 have in common? They are the first three honorees of the Thomas Lamb Eliot Award. Who will be the fourth? Help us grow the pool of potential recipients by nominating a worthy graduate. The awardee should have achieved distinction in one or more fields of endeavor based on the quality and importance of his or her contributions. The record of achievement should be both intrinsically impressive and importantly consequential for the world. The awardee should have produced a record of achievement over a sustained period. It is also important that the awardee exemplify qualities valued by the college, including int