Table of Contents

DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE

SEPTEMBER 1989 VOL. 82 NO. 1

Music and the Mind Modelling the brain, by Jay Heinrichs and Karen Endicott 18

Sailing for Home How Mascoma Lake is like Fenway Park, by Heather Killebrew '89 24

Son of Animal House The man who wrote the movie returns to campus, by Chris Miller '63 26

A Cure for Nostalgia The ultimate comp exam, by Nancy Staab '90 31

DR. WHEELOCK'S JOURNAL • 4

LETTERS • 8

SPORTS • 11

SYLLABUS • 16

CLASS NOTES • 32

GIVE A ROUSE • 33

DARTMOUTH AUTHORS • 47

OBITUARIES • 65

CLUB CALENDAR • 76

DARTMOUTH UNDYING • 80

Cover: The Lyre, by Varujan Boghosian, courtesy the Ciba-Geigy Corporation.

For the cover story on how the mind processes music, we looked for illustration to Art Professor Varujan Boghosian, who recently had a major retrospective at the Hood Museum.