Campus & Community

Achievement at the Business School (HBS) takes many forms, both inside and outside the classroom. Each year the Deans Award recognizes individuals whose daily lives and actions embody and further define the Schools most important ideals. Five members of the Class of 2003 were honored by Dean Kim B. Clark for their outstanding contributions to the HBS community over the past two years they include the Rev. Thomas P. Doyle, C.S.C., Moon K. Lee, Brandt B. Pyles, Douglas K. Schillinger, and Matthew J. Turner.

One hundred seventy-one people were honored on Thursday (May 29) for reaching a milestone this year: 25 years of service to the University. The 49th annual 25 Year Recognition Ceremony – a unique event in that it recognizes both faculty and staff from across the entire University – was held at the Ropes-Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School.

An art educator, a political philosopher, a bioethicist, and a Washington journalist received the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Centennial Medal on Wednesday, June 4, at the Harvard Faculty Club.

A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today.

Harvards Class of 2003 reaped sage advice and congratulatory wishes from not one but two Class Day speakers yesterday (June 4): Saturday Night Live comedian and actor Will Ferrell and President George W. Bush, impersonated with hilarious accuracy by Ferrell.

Two extraordinary women contributed their inspiring presence to this years Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises. Ruth Simmons, president of Brown University, presented the oration, and Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, read the Phi Beta Kappa poem.

The following graduating seniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa:

At Harvard College, no one has to live on campus after freshman year, yet an astonishing 97 percent of students continue to do so until graduation – and whether they know it or not, they have their house masters to thank.

As a part of its new program in Berlin, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) will be sending three Harvard College students to Berlin, where they will serve as interns at important German institutions of learning and research.

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In Aftertaste, senior Ceridwen Doveys documentary film about South African empowerment project wine farms, there are no good guys or bad guys, no obvious winners or clear losers.

Next fall, while many of her fellow graduates are sending their resumes around to Fortune 500 companies or getting ready to pursue graduate or professional degrees, Shelby Braxton-Brooks 03 will be taking a route that is a little less well-worn and, in some peoples estimation, a lot riskier.

In his sophomore year, Sachin Shivaram 03 spotted a course at the Kennedy School of Government that sounded tailor-made to his interests: Race, Class, and Poverty in Urban America, taught by sociologist William Julius Wilson.

When Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton receives the M.Ed. degree today from Harvards Graduate School of Education (GSE), hell be one of the few graduates whose parents are not proud.

For someone who likes to get things done, often in overtime, senior hockey standout Jennifer Botterill places a surprising amount of stock in the power of persuasion. Yet the explosive Canadian forward – part owner of four Beanpot titles (two of which she won in OT), one national championship (also won in OT), and two Olympic medals – also understands when to pounce on opportunities like few in the game.

Johanna Paretzky 03 came to Harvard a jock. Her high school days and summer vacations had been filled with soccer, basketball, and karate, and she considered competing at Harvard.

Janel Reppert Rice makes sure to warn volunteers for the Prison Education Project of Harvard University that prison is not a consumer-friendly place.

On his first day at Harvard, John Rigby 03 thought the place was a mess. The Yard was littered with branches, twigs, trash, and whole oak trees torn from the ground. Of course, there was a good reason for the carnage: Boston was just beginning to peek out from hiding after the great hurricane of Sept. 21, 1938.

In his novel Moby Dick, Herman Melville wrote about mans encounter with the destructive forces of nature.

Driving along Interstate 80, pulling a rented trailer containing all his worldly possessions, Christopher Alloways-Ramsey had no way of knowing that his life was suddenly about to change.

David Kapell may be a long way from home, but he still runs the place.

Two Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) students have heeded the call to combat tropical diseases – by heading to the Arctic.

When Sara Goldhaber met Jeremy Fiebert during their first year at Harvard, they had no idea that, eight years later, they would be trying to get rural people in Costa Rica to exercise more and eat less sausage and cake.

Inside University Hall recently, five former deans of Harvard College gathered with the present dean and the soon-to-become dean for an informal portrait. In the back (standing left to right) are former Dean John Fox, Dick Gross (presently dean of undergraduate education), and present Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis. Seated left to right are former Harvard College deans Ernest May, Fred Jewett, Charles Whitlock, and Fred Glimp. After the photo op, the men chatted amiably (left).

This year, the Extension Schools Commencement Speaker award will go to Stephen Silver, A.L.M. 03, concentrator in religion. The title of his talk will be Thomas Wolfe Was Right … Half-Right.

The Radcliffe heavyweight crew captured the NCAA championship this past Sunday (June 1) on Eagle Creek Reservoir in Indianapolis. The Black and White clinched the NCAA team title – the teams second since 1972 – by winning the varsity race with a time of 6:26.98, besting Michigan (6:28.58), Stanford (6:29.54), Washington (6:30.07), Virginia (6:31.49), and Southern California (6:38.33).

The Davis Center for Russian Studies has announced the recipients of its fellowships, prizes, dissertation completion grants, and research travel grants for 2003-04.

Tony Lee, 60, of Brookline, died May 20, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital after a short illness.

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The Humanities Center at Harvard has named teaching fellows Marianne Hopman and Keja Valens recipients of its 2003-04 interdisciplinary dissertation completion fellowships. Hopman (Department of Classics) received the fellowship for The Figure of Scylla in Greek Culture, while Valens (Department of Comparative Literature) was recognized for Between Women: Figurations of Desire in Caribbean Literatures.