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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.
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.
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.