May 10, 2001

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

The Big Picture: Murray Turnbull
"Play the Chessmaster, $2" the sign reads. The chess master, as he calls himself, has been a fixture in front of Holyoke Center in Harvard Square ever since 1982, a year before Au Bon Pain arrived.

Three receive Gardner Fellowship Three Harvard seniors - Celia Pym, John Gravois, and Kate Williamson (pictured left to right) - were awarded the George Peabody Gardner Traveling Fellowship for 2001. The fellowship is available to graduating seniors who are concentrators (or joint concentrators) in the departments of visual and environmental studies, English, philosophy, or anthropology. The award includes a stipend for a year of travel and study. Pym will walk across Japan in a journey to find yarn, climb mountains, and visit cities and islands written about in books by such Japanese authors as Haruki Murakami; Gravois will travel to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to work as a reporter for the Cambodia Daily, maintain a sculpture studio, and free-lance in print and radio journalism; and Williamson will study textiles in Kyoto, Okinawa, and Tokyo. Award winners were selected by a committee of the visual and environmental studies department for demonstrating a curiosity about the history and customs of cultures other than their own.

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