Correcting the RecordWinter 2016 / Issue II / CXIIILast year, new developments roused our country’s crisis of conscience vis-a-vis the trial and execution of Ethel Rosenberg. Michael Meeropol ’64 (nee Rosenberg) and brother Robert, orphaned in 1953 by the execution of their parents, Julius and Ethel, served up a New York Times op-ed column in August. “Exonerate our mother, Ethel Rosenberg,” they wrote, addressing President Obama. Their plea was published a month after original grand-jury testimony was unsealed that reaffirmed perjury by the prosecution’s star witness, Ethel’s younger brother, David Greenglass. Video SectionFeatures
Nick Lum ’04—Tech Innovator Winter 2016 / Issue II / CXIIINick Lum ’04’s startup won the $50,000 Microsoft Education Award at the Tech Awards. SectionAlumni News
American Family, American DreamWinter 2016 / Issue II / CXIIIThe elevator was slow. By the time it delivered Denise Dennis ’72 to the second floor, the other guests at the preview gala for the “Through the African American Lens” exhibition had already entered the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) gallery space. SectionFeatures
The Poetry of Pen and InkWinter 2016 / Issue II / CXIII“You have to learn not to gesticulate when holding a fountain pen,” cautions Tomoko Sakomura, associate professor of art history, who once ruined a colleague’s shirt with splattered ink. However, many Swarthmoreans consider the occasional stain a small price to pay for the beauty and power this writing implement bestows. Video SectionFeatures
Flying BlindWinter 2016 / Issue II / CXIIIOn a summer night in 2012, Don Mitchell ’69 leaned forward, scarcely daring to breathe. These were his 150 acres of Vermont farm, fields, and woods—had been since 1972—but tonight, they felt different. He felt different. Three years earlier, he’d surprised himself by agreeing to work with state fish and wildlife officials to help a rare Vermont population of Indiana bats recover—a species that had been federally declared endangered since 1967. SectionFeatures
Caption This: Winter 2016Winter 2016 / Issue II / CXIIIBe creative! Submit a caption by Feb. 1, 2016. SectionCaption This
Janet Smith Warfield ’58—Consciousness Educator Winter 2016 / Issue II / CXIIIJanet Smith Warfield ’58 was named the 2015 Most Prominent Professional in the Field of Consciousness Education. SectionAlumni News
Garnet Homecoming and Family Weekend 2015Winter 2016 / Issue II / CXIIIScenes from this fall's Garnet Family and Homecoming Weekend. SectionPhoto Gallery
Edward Keenan ’59—Pioneering Linguist Winter 2016 / Issue II / CXIIIEdward Keenan ’59 won the 2015 S.-Y. Kuroda Prize for Lasting Contributions to the Mathematics of Language. SectionAlumni News
Jack-of-Some-TradesWinter 2016 / Issue II / CXIIIVersatility is no mystery to Alan Gordon ’81. SectionAlumni Profiles