July/August 2012

The Weekend That Was

Commencement 2012—Were you here? Or did you miss it? In either case, take a look at the BAM’s Reunion and Commencement slideshows.  We photographed the entire weekend—from Campus Dance to the procession down College Hill and Commencement exercises on Sunday.

2012 Field Day

A Mixed Bag - 25th Reunion

Metal Works

In Providence’s Steel Yard, Clay Rockefeller ’03 has created a nonprofit that trains industrial and fine artists while creating jobs.

Correction

Nice Work

About Roger Williams

Seeing Into Cyberspace

More on Malcolm X

Remebering Marty

Martha's Legacy

Carberry Resurfaces

Steinem On Campus

Providence Today

Bad Memory

Denying History

Get It Right, Please

Simmons Steps Down

Travel Agents - 50th Reunion

The class of 1962 may have set a record for busiest 50th reunion. Among other things, members organized a class golf tournament, a RISD tour, and live entertainment featuring performances by the Chattertocks and Jabberwocks, as well as a choir of alumnae (below) who sang nostalgic favorites at the class dinner in Andrews Dining Hall.

A Sensation

Service

As the final ceremony of Commencement Weekend, two undergraduates were commissioned as second lieutenants in the United States Marine Corps.

About Great Books

Novelist and essayist Marilyn Robinson ’66 on how our education system holds students back.

And the Winners Are

The honorary degree recipients.

Joy

Not Dead Yet

Baby boomers are getting old, which means the world of the elderly is about to change.

Seniors: Be the Best!

In her Baccalaureate Address and her remarks at the Hour With the President, Ruth J. Simmons leaves office with eloquence—and a new honorary degree.

When Grown-Ups Fail

National Book Award nominee Deborah Heiligman ’80 takes young readers from the bright innocence of childhood to the grey complexities of adulthood.

Keyboard Courtships

After finding herself divorced at sixty, a woman looks for romance online. Here's what she found there.

Mexico's Storyteller

A farewell to Professor-at-Large Carlos Fuentes, whose political acumen and sweeping novels made him a literary giant.

A Complicated Man

A farewell to Charles W. Colson ’53, a Nixon hatchet man whose time in jain turned him into an inmate advocate.

Obituaries

Obituaries from the July/August 2012 issue.

Ruth's Place

To honor what she's accomplished as president, the Corporation renames Lincoln Field after Ruth J. Simmons.

The Year in Sports

How did the Bears do during the 2011-12 academic year? Here's everything you need to know.

Change at the Top

Nine questions with Providence College grad Jack Hayes, Brown’s new director of athletics.

Networking

If your image of a classicist is a tweedy professor haunting dusty archives, think again.

Music

Boston’s Blue Heron choir has been performing and recording Renaissance music under the direction of Scott Metcalfe ’85.

Would You Blow the Whistle?

Blackballed by the Justice Department, Jesselyn Radack '92 now defends whistleblowers.

Fresh Ink

Writing as an Act of Faith

Doron Weber ’77 discusses the death of his son, Damon.

A Father's Story

After the tragic death of his teenage son, Doron Weber ’77 writes a searing memoir that raises questions about his treatment.

Fate

A must-see at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art this summer is “A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I—XVIII,” by photographer Taryn Simon ’97.

The Fixer

Movie producer Simon Kinberg ’95 writes vampire movies and earns up to $300,000 a week salvaging other writers’ scripts.

Lorena Garcia

During Senior Week, as they prepared to exit the Van Wickle Gates, several soon-to-be-graduates told the BAM what they’d been up to during their four years at Brown.

Emily Hsieh

During Senior Week, as they prepared to exit the Van Wickle Gates, several soon-to-be-graduates told the BAM what they’d been up to during their four years at Brown.

Francesca Zetar

During Senior Week, as they prepared to exit the Van Wickle Gates, several soon-to-be-graduates told the BAM what they’d been up to during their four years at Brown.

David Salsone

During Senior Week, as they prepared to exit the Van Wickle Gates, several soon-to-be-graduates told the BAM what they’d been up to during their four years at Brown.

Daniel Greenwald

During Senior Week, as they prepared to exit the Van Wickle Gates, several soon-to-be-graduates told the BAM what they’d been up to during their four years at Brown.

Nick Donias

During Senior Week, as they prepared to exit the Van Wickle Gates, several soon-to-be-graduates told the BAM what they’d been up to during their four years at Brown.

Evelyn Ansel

During Senior Week, as they prepared to exit the Van Wickle Gates, several soon-to-be-graduates told the BAM what they’d been up to during their four years at Brown. 

Jessica Biesel

During Senior Week, as they prepared to exit the Van Wickle Gates, several soon-to-be-graduates told the BAM what they’d been up to during their four years at Brown.

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