Archives: April 2005

April 29, 2005

Hamill '05 is Penn Relays champion

The [sports information press release][1] says Carter Hamill ‘05 was second in the Penn Relays 10,000m race on Thursday night, but that’s not quite the case. On “distance night,” the Relays sometimes combine heats, and in the case of the women’s 10,000m, the collegiate championship race was combined with the open “Olympic Development” race.

Parker Morse '96 at 01:24 PM

April 28, 2005

O'Rourke '00 on Ricardo Muti

Today’s Slate Magazine features a piece by Liam O’Rourke ‘00 titled “Muti’s Bounty,” in which O’Rourke examines the work of the former musical director of La Scala in Milan, Ricardo Muti. Muti, who had been the conductor at La Scala...

Brian Meacham '97 at 09:41 PM

Plück '01 on US trade deficit

Institute for International Economics researcher Katharina Plück ‘01 is the co-author of an op-ed piece in yesterday’s New York Times entitled When the Dollar Bill Comes Due. Plück and co-author Catherine L. Mann explore the reasons that the U.S. trade...

Brian Meacham '97 at 09:23 PM

April 24, 2005

President Pouncey's first novel

Rules for Old Men Waiting, the debut novel by President Emeritus Peter Pouncey, has been published by Random House this month. The novel, described by the publisher as “a brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge,” centers on Robert...

Brian Meacham '97 at 08:39 PM

April 20, 2005

Three professors receive Guggenheim fellowships

Three Amherst professors were among the 186 people nationwide named Guggenheim Fellows for 2005. Visiting Lecturer of Fine Arts David Gloman, Associate Professor of Fine Arts Natasha Staller, and Assistant Professor of Religion Maria Heim received the grants, which average...

Brian Meacham '97 at 08:45 PM

April 15, 2005

Murphy '74 resigns from Atlantic Monthly

Cullen Murphy ‘74 is resigning as the editor of The Atlantic Monthly as a result of the magazine’s planned move from Boston to Washington, D.C. The magazine has been in Boston for 148 years since its founding, and is making...

Brian Meacham '97 at 08:27 AM | Comments (2)

Activist Weissman '69 profiled

A recent Springfield Republican article titled “Championing workers a lifelong commitment” profiled Jon R. Weissman ‘69, founder of Jobs with Justice, a national organization dedicated to supporting workers’ rights. The article details the development of Weissman’s activism, especially while he...

Brian Meacham '97 at 08:20 AM

Coolidge recording in Nat'l. Registry

The National Recording Preservation board has included radio coverage of 1895 Amherst graduate Calvin Coolidge greeting Charles Lindbergh as a 2004 entry into the National Recording Registry. The broadcast, made June 11, 1927, featured reporters “stationed at … three locations...

Brian Meacham '97 at 08:08 AM

April 13, 2005

Stearns Returns

The plastic shrouds which have hidden the new Stearns Dorm came down in the last few days, revealing the completed exterior of the dorm.

Parker Morse '96 at 09:25 AM

April 12, 2005

Project Survival brings Rieckhoff '98 back to campus

Monday’s Daily Hampshire Gazette ran a story (paid subscription required) about a student group which has brought Paul Rieckhoff ‘98’s nonpartisan veterans group, Operation Truth, to campus. Rieckhoff and two other veterans will speak at a meeting tonight in Johnson...

Parker Morse '96 at 08:00 PM

April 10, 2005

Foreign correspondent Roberts '33 dies

Influential diplomatic correspondent Chalmers M. Roberts ‘33 has died at age 91, the Times reports. Roberts joined the Washington Post in 1949, and began covering diplomatic circles in 1953. He covered stories such as the Pentagon Papers, the death of...

Brian Meacham '97 at 02:54 PM

April 09, 2005

Flores withdraws OAS candidacy

Former El Salvador President Francisco Flores ‘81 has withdrawn from the race to head the Organization of American States, it was announced today. Saying that his competition with Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez and Chilean Interior Minister Jose Miguel...

Brian Meacham '97 at 08:19 AM

April 07, 2005

Amherst 3, Museums10

Last week saw the official launch of Museums10, a new collaboration among Pioneer Valley-area museums, including Amherst’s own Mead Art Museum, the in-transition Pratt Museum of Natural History, and the Trustee-owned Emily Dickinson Museum. According to an article profiling the...

Brian Meacham '97 at 06:10 PM

Prof. Spratlan in St. Louis

Pulitzer Prize-winning Professor of Music Lewis Spratlan will be in St. Louis to attend the second-ever performance of his piece “The Manatees at Blue Springs” April 16. The piece will be performed by the Concert Choir of Washington University as...

Brian Meacham '97 at 05:20 PM

April 06, 2005

Cobham-Sander not bound for Hampshire

We [noted][1] in February that Professor of English and Special Assistant to the President for Diversity, Rhonda Cobham-Sander, was a finalist for the presidency of Hampshire College, a quick PVTA ride down route 116. Yesterday Hampshire welcomed their next president, and it’s not Cobham-Sander.

Parker Morse '96 at 03:38 PM

April 04, 2005

Strange Amherstiana on eBay

This week sees a couple of strange items in the unending flow of Amherstiana available on eBay. First, we have a letter of acceptance for the class of 2009, boasted to be the first of many such letters to be...

Brian Meacham '97 at 09:51 PM

April 01, 2005

Comic coincidence?

Cartoonists Bill Amend ‘84 and Darby Conley ‘94 are both Amherst alumni and creators of widely read comic strips with national circulation: Amend is the man behind Foxtrot and Conley is the creator of Get Fuzzy. Along with Stephan Pastis...

Brian Meacham '97 at 11:46 PM

Kimball '85 returns to the Valley

Tonight’s headliner at the Iron Horse in Northampton was Catie Curtis, but Curtis’s opening act (and backup singer through Curtis’s set) was Jennifer Kimball ‘85. Kimball, who made her earliest splash in the music business as half of The Story...

Parker Morse '96 at 09:58 PM

Prince Albert assumes royal powers

Prince Albert of Monaco, Albert Grimaldi ‘81, has assumed the royal powers of Monaco this week in the wake of his father’s worsening condition. Prince Rainier III, Europe’s longest reigning monarch, has been in power since 1949, and was hospitalized...