Archives: July 2006

July 21, 2006

Kaminer '81 goes from Medea to media

There are plenty of successful College alumni working in marketing and communications, but there aren’t many who can point to staging Euripides’ “Medea” on the portico of the President’s House as their start in the field. In fact, there’s only...

Parker Morse '96 at 10:42 AM

"Howdy" Groskloss '30, 1906-2006

In April we celebrated the 100th birthday of Dr. Howard “Howdy” Groskloss ‘30, then the oldest living major leaguer. Groskloss passed away last Saturday, the 15th. Retrospectives in the Treasure Coast Palm and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cover both Groskloss’s brief post-College...

Parker Morse '96 at 07:46 AM

July 19, 2006

College gets $13M Center for Community Engagement

The press releases are just a few hours old, but the news is already in the Boston Globe and other papers: the College will receive over $13 million over the next seven years from the Argosy Foundation, a private foundation...

Parker Morse '96 at 03:07 PM

July 18, 2006

Paging President Ward

After months of headlines about materials failures and substandard work in the tunnels of Boston’s Central Artery Project (aka The Big Dig,) this month’s collapse of a ceiling panel, which took the life of a passenger in a car...

Parker Morse '96 at 09:58 PM

July 16, 2006

MacLeod '74 takes over Glimmerglass

Michael MacLeod ‘74 has been general director of Cooperstown, New York’s Glimmerglass Opera Festival for less than a year, but the Albany Times Union has already run a feature article singing his praises. Given the man’s personal history, a broad...

Parker Morse '96 at 08:47 AM

July 15, 2006

Eyewitness accounts from a war zone

Levi Quaintance ‘08 wanted to study Arabic at the American University in Beirut for the spring ‘06 semester. But recent events have made his language study trip somewhat more of a history lesson. “[The airport’s fuel depot is] still on...

Parker Morse '96 at 01:02 PM | Comments (1)

July 06, 2006

'46 to '96

At Alumni Weekend, back in June, my class, 1996, hosted a joint panel with the class of 1946, back for their 60-year reunion. In preparation for the panel, members from both classes answered a survey asking three questions: What have...

Parker Morse '96 at 02:27 PM | Comments (1)