Table of Contents
FEATURES
38 It’s a Whole New Ballgame
A year into his new job, athletic director Harry Sheehy calls on years of experience to lay the groundwork for a sports turnaround at the College. By Brad Parks ’96
44 Burned
outdoorsman steve Posniak ’66 barely survived the 2007 Ham Lake Fire, which raged for weeks and destroyed acres of woodlands and hundreds of livelihoods in Minnesota. But he never truly escaped the inferno. By Jane Varner Malhotra ’90
50 Primary Colors
The road to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue begins— and sometimes ends—in New Hampshire, making presidential candidates a common sight on campus every four years. BY LEE MICHAELIDES
DEPARTMENTS
10 LETTERS
Notebook
20 CAMPUS
Around the Green in sixty seconds.
22 FACULTY
For more than three decades Hafiz Shabazz has tuned students into the rhythm of life through drumming. By Ben Moynihan ’87
24 ON THE JOB
Lulu frost designer lisa salzer ’04 finds beauty and bling in the everyday and ordinary. By Alexis C. Jolly ’05
28 ROUNDTABLE
Three national security insiders share their perspectives on threats facing the United States. By Matthew Mosk ’92
34 ARTIFACT
A 1665 view of the then-known world is one of 189,000 maps housed in Baker-Berry library’s map room.
36 SCIENCE
Pioneering apian expert tom seeley ’74 discovers democracy in a swirling swarm of honeybees. BY DAVID MCKAY WILSON
Alumni News
60 SEEN & HEARD
102 CLUBS
64 THE CLASSES
102 DEATHS
Continuing Ed 104
R. owen Williams ’74, the president of Transylvania University, on higher ed. BY LISA FURLONG
ON THE COVER Athletic director Harry Sheehy, photographed by John Sherman on September 9, 2011.
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Taking a Stand Candidate Bill Clinton stumps for votes on campus in 1992.
