Winter 2009
Leading the way
In 1965, Elita Pastra-Landis '69 first met Bojan Hamlin Jennings, now professor emerita of chemistry, while standing in the president's garden, having just arrived on campus as a first-year student. Little did she know the significance that encounter and the years to follow with Jennings would have on her life. (More)
Good dog
Since 1978, Susan Meddaugh '66 has written and illustrated 20 of her own children's picture books and illustrated 19 books for other authors. Meddaugh is best known for her six stories about Martha, a dog who gains the ability to speak by eating alphabet soup. The character was based on Meddaugh's own dog, Martha. The idea came to her when her son Niko, who was 7 at the time, looked up while eating lunch and asked: "Mom, if Martha ate alphabet soup, would she speak?"(More)
Stick by stick
Tripp Evans was taking a walk in his home city of Providence one summer day when he came upon an unusual sight: a huge construction made entirely of bare branches, sprawling across a college green. His first thoughts were: "Who made this? ... What made this?" Though formed from earthly materials, the piece had an other-worldly quality, as if it had been woven by mysterious forces, or perhaps a band of sprites. Was there magic involved? (More)
