July / August 2002

Obituaries

Fantastic Voyage

How science fiction helped topple the Soviet regime.

A Partisan Perspective

With subjects - and readers - like them, how can a magazine go wrong?

Reunion Report: 1997

Reunion Report: 1992

Reunion Report: 1987

Reunion Report: 1982

Reunion Report: 1977

More than 500 classmates and their guests celebrated a wonderful twenty-fifth reunion over four glorious days filled with banter, barbecues, and a brunch with Providence mayor "Buddy" Cianci.

Reunion Report: 1972

"We had an absolute ball." "We wouldn't change a thing for the thirty-fifth." Those are just two of the many comments we heard from the 108 classmates and sixty-six spouses and guests who flocked to campus for our thirtieth reunion.

Reunion Report: 1967

About eighty-five classmates and fifty-four guests attended our thirty-fifth reunion.

Reunion Report: 1962

About 100 classmates and guests congregated for our fortieth reunion. Those who stayed to march basked in the sunshine and the sounds of bagpipes, " Ever True," and cheers of "'62! '62!" proclaimed by the newest alumni of Brown.

Reunion Report: 1957

How to describe our forty-fifth reunion and President Ruth Simmons's first? Just wonderful! With many people back, some for the first time since graduation, we ate, danced, schmoozed, marched, and left with renewed spirit for Brown.

Reunion Report: 1952

Reunion weekend brought 312 of us to brown - 199 members of the class of '52, plus guests and spouses. Some, returning for their first reunion since graduation, couldn't believe the myriad changes.

Reunion Report: 1947

We kicked off our 55th reunion with the brown bear buffet and campus Dance on Friday night.

Reunion Report: 1942

With great spring weather and wonderful events, we celebrated an outstanding sixtieth reunion. The weekend began with cocktails at class headquarters and a short bus ride for dinner at the Squantum Club on the Providence River, which was attended by eighty-three classmates and guests.

Reunion Report: 1937

After many months of talk, our sixty-fifth reunion has come and gone. We're already looking forward to the next official one.

The Waters of Hope

When all paths led to a dear old well.

Fresh Ink

New titles from Brown authors.

Reckoning with the Dead

More than 700 people died during Chicago's 1995 heat wave. Could their deaths have been prevented?

Toothless on Vinyl

To really comprehend the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, you really ought to be there.

Critic's Corner

Sam Wineburg '80

Competing for Shelf Space

Two young editors have shown that even a 500-year-old university press can produce best-sellers.

Interior Design

Sheila Bridges '86

Blinding Beauty

Finding the hidden people of the Amazon.

Visceral Language

Ben Marcus '91 M.F.A. on the power of words.

Style Central

Clueing in the cognoscenti.

An Independent Woman

Farewell: Rose Ring Carroll '54 Ph.D.

He Seized Every Moment

Farewell: Brian W. Dickinson '73 A.M.

Shakespeare and Scandal

For 100 years Sock and Buskin has been turning out actors bound for Broadway, The Big Chill - and Wall Street.

For Love and Money

After flocking to high-paying firms during the greatest economic expansion in U.S. history, many recent graduates now find themselves jobless. For some, the economic downturn may be a blessing in disguise.

Under Siege

Trapped in Ramallah, a teacher finds himself unable to return to his students.

Heard at the Forums

The Big Parade

Commencement Number 234, and Counting.

Stepping Up

The NCAA champion women's rowing team does it again.

The Agony of Defeat

Baseball loses the division by one pitch.

I Will Not Fear

To a woman raised in a country at war, September 11 seems all too familiar.

Sacred Places

Navigating the crosscurrents of tension and understanding.

Searching for Answers

Experts weigh in on reforming the Brown police

Gulf of Disharmony

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli tries to bridge the Atlantic

Hand in Glove

Young entrepreneurs at work

The Case for Good Neighbors

Poverty as a problem of human rights

Under Scrutiny

Consultants look at racial profiling and come up empty

Honorary Degrees

60 Seconds With...

Evelyn Hu-Dehart: Director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America

Since Last Time

Game Day

Data Points

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