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 CLASS
OF ’74
Nobelist Found a Way to
Peer into the World of Molecules
Ahmed Zewail Gr’74 Hon’97, a
scientist at the California Institute of Technology, accepted the Nobel
Prize for chemistry last month for his pioneering research in femtochemistry—a
field that has emerged from the use of ultrafast lasers to observe chemical
reactions as they actually happen. Continued...
CLASS
OF ’90
Spinning Sugar Into Lucre
When the health food trend emerged
in the early 1990s, Douglas Chu W’90 and Scott Samet W’90
thought they had stumbled upon the perfect business opportunity. "We
were working for BankersTrust, doing mergers and acquisitions," Samet
recalls, "when we realized that no one out there was selling health
foods in movie theaters." Continued...
 CLASS
OF ’58
Protecting Artists from Piracy—
and Poor Taste
Pick a topic, almost any topic, and
chances are Theodore Feder’s staff at Art Resource, the world’s
largest photo archive of fine arts, can find an image to help illustrate it.
Continued...
CLASS
OF '55
Worth Saluting
When the Women’s Army Auxiliary
Corps was formed during World War II, Martha Settle Putney Gr’55
glimpsed a way out of her dead-end government job. And so she volunteered.
Armed with a master’s degree from Howard University and a strong
sense of self-assurance —"I told the W.A.A.C. official I would
accept nothing less than a commission"—she entered elite company
as one of few black women accepted into the officers-training program.
Continued...
CLASS
OF ’46
“Still the Greatest Country”
In the fall of 1941 Nao Takasugi WG’46
was a 19-year-old studying business at UCLA. Back home in Oxnard, Calif.,
his family —Japanese-Americans in good standing in their community—operated
a thriving market. Continued...
 CLASS
OF '85
Lemons, Sugar, Water … and a Marketing
Plan?
To Emmanuel Modu WG’85, learning
the fundamentals of investing and starting a business is as important
as reading and math. A vice president at Chase Manhattan Bank, Modu
has set up his own Web site (www.teenvestor.com)
to encourage young people to get an early start in entrepreneurship
and money management. Continued...
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