Archives: January 2006

January 31, 2006

Goldman '71 remembers Wasserstein

In a Bloomberg.com article published yesterday, Henry Goldman ‘71 recalls his memories of the late Wendy Wasserstein. We met 35 years ago when she volunteered to take a year’s leave from Mount Holyoke as one of 20 from all-women colleges...

Brian Meacham '97 at 09:08 PM

January 25, 2006

Bobby Mason '96 on Survivor

Bobby Mason ‘96 is a cast member of the latest season of the CBS television show “Survivor,” taking place this year in Panama. Mason can be seen wearing an Amherst shirt in the group photo on the front page of...

Brian Meacham '97 at 05:40 PM

January 24, 2006

A look around the new Geology building

Sam Masinter ‘04, the College’s new Assistant Director of Public Affairs, has put up a gallery of interior images of the new Earth Sciences and Natural History Museum Building, for those of us not close enough to Amherst to...

Parker Morse '96 at 04:44 PM

January 23, 2006

Photos of the College

Users of the Flickr photo-sharing service might be interested in knowing that there is now an Amherst College group for photos of the College. There are several dozen photos there which have previously appeared here, but there are also contributions...

Parker Morse '96 at 09:45 PM

January 22, 2006

Kargman '04 on college essays

Bess Kargman ‘04 has written an editorial titled “Writing Wrongs” published in The Washington Post (and The Sacramento Bee, among other papers) on the subject of the sale of college application essays. She writes College admissions officers around the country...

Brian Meacham '97 at 01:09 AM

January 03, 2006

Happy New Year

It’s been a year and a day since our first post here, and we’ve got some some end-of-the-year news to go along with a resolution to do more with the site in 2006: Patrick Fitzgerald ‘82, lead prosecutor in the...

Brian Meacham '97 at 11:07 PM