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CLASS
OF ’75 Earth
Literacy
One
finds Alan Wright C’75
in a Shakespeare garden, up to his work boots in sage and thyme. Along
with 16 happily muddy eighth graders at Westtown School in Pennsylvania,
he is, he says, waking the garden to spring—raking away old leaves,
pruning back dried stalks, laying in steaming piles of mulch. Look,
he encourages his students. Smell. Think. Imagine. And here is lavender,
and here, the seedpods of last year’s marigolds. Continued...
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by Josef Gast
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CLASS
OF ’89 A
Labor of Literacy
New
mothers are commonly sent home from the hospital with instructions for
breastfeeding and burping their infants. Dr. Ian Bennett CGS’89 GM’01,
a clinical instructor in the Department of Family Practice and Community
Medicine at Penn’s School of Medicine, is studying the effects of doling
out a different kind of advice: how to read to their babies. Continued...
CLASS
OF ’70 The
Rx Files
“The
days when a family doctor
had all your information in a manila folder, at the ready day and night,
are long gone,” writes Dr. Marie Savard Nu’70 GrNu’72 M’76 in her book,
How To Save Your Own Life (Warner). A nurse-turned-doctor- turned-patient-rights
champion, she encourages individuals to take responsibility for their
health by collecting all of their medical records themselves. “If anybody
is going to keep track of your health history,” she says, “it’s going
to be you.” Continued...
CLASS
OF ’96 A
Major League Road Trip
While
Brian Bolten W’96 may not
be one of the elite group of men inducted into the National Baseball
Hall of Fame, a T-shirt of his is traveling in the company of Jackie
Robinson’s 1956 Dodgers jersey, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson’s shoes, and
the baseball bats that set records for Babe Ruth. Continued...
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Ben
in the Box: One of Keith Drake’s detailed sketches.
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CLASS
OF ’77 The
Artist and the Little Red Toy
When
eight-year-old Keith Drake C’77
sat down to draw the family piano using his first Etch A SketchTM, his
parents were not expecting the detailed picture, complete with 88 tiny
piano keys, that he created. Today, Drake has sketched renditions of
everything from the Mona Lisa to the Statue of Liberty to Thomas Edison—all
of which, he says, leave his acquaintances with one reaction: “How did
you do that?” Continued...
CLASS
OF ’96 On
a Track to the Past
Two
years ago Major Barnett
SW’96 traveled to Selma, Alabama, to bury a stepbrother he had never
met. And while stopping to fill up on gas one evening, the Binghamton,
N.Y., resident looked out across an enormous green field and thought:
“This was something slaves had to go through to secure freedom. It was
a long hard road to travel—to have dogs after you, people hunting you,
not knowing whom to trust.” Continued...
CLASS
OF ’98
The
House Call of the Wild
Bill
Danforth GNu’98 has
no
trouble remembering the day he arrived in Bethel, Alaska, population
6,000, three years ago this month: The voracious mosquitoes. The barking
packs of dogs. The “omnipresent sunshine.” The “suffocating, pulverized
glacial-silt dust.” And the “flat, treeless terrain.” Continued...
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