Campus & Community

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.

A.R.T. one of Time’s top five Time magazine has recently named the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) as one of the five best regional theaters in the country. For its focus…

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.

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced its student grants and fellowships for the 2003-04 academic year. The center will support the research projects of 36 undergraduate and graduate students with awards that total more than $350,000.

At the ROTC Commissioning Ceremony held Wednesday (June 4) in Tercentenary Theatre, nine Harvard seniors took the oath of office administered by Roger C. Taylor 53, retired Navy officer, currently a writer on nautical subjects.

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers urged the rushed, overscheduled Class of 2003 to know their priorities, to know that time is precious, and to keep the daily rush of temporarily urgent tasks from crowding out whats truly and enduringly important in life.

Harvard senior Amy Bei became interested in tropical diseases in the summer after high school, when she worked at a lab in San Francisco, near her home in Santa Rosa, Calif.

This is not the Worcester, Mass Boat Show, is it? I am sorry. I have made a terrible mistake. Ever since I left “Saturday Night Live,” I mostly do public…

In order to gain admittance to Harvard Yard on Commencement morning, June 5, guests must have Commencement tickets, which they will be required to show at our gates.

Ryan Quill puts a fresh coat on the columns of the Memorial Church in preparation for Commencement.

C. Dixon (Dick) Spangler Jr., M.B.A. 56, has been elected president of the Universitys Board of Overseers for 2003-04. He will succeed Thomas S. Williamson Jr., A.B. 68, following Commencement on June 5.

A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on Thursday (June 5). For the 15th consecutive year, a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvards Commencement Exercises.

Morning Exercises

May 5, 1969 – The Harvard Corporation approves the creation of a 15-member University Benefits Committee to oversee and develop faculty-staff benefit plans (for pensions, medical insurance, etc.) throughout the institution.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 24. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Based on the latest advice from the World Health Organization (WHO), Harvard University lifted its restriction on travel to Hong Kong, effective May 23. Travelers to Hong Kong are advised to continue to observe precautions to safeguard their health. Travelers from Hong Kong who are visiting Harvard are asked to know the symptoms of SARS by consulting the University Health Service (UHS) Web site (http://www.uhs.harvard.edu/NewsFlash/SARSinfo.htm) and to contact UHS if they experience any of these symptoms, via telephone at (617) 998-HUHS (617) 998-4847 or via e-mail, sars@huhs.harvard.edu.

Hastings elected to NAS In recognition of his distinguished career and continuing achievements in original research, J. Woodland Hastings, Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences, was one of 72…

Gordon Teskey, appointed professor of English and American literature and language in 2002, is putting the finishing touches on a book-length manuscript to be published by Harvard University Press under the title, Delirious Milton: The Poet in the Modern World.

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