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BROWN Clinton's January/February 1998 Budget Guru Art Class Field Trip Reporting a Massacre ALUMNI MAGAZINE / \ . . BROWN ALUMNI MAGAZINE Under the Elms 13 The campus debates race. two . . ambassadors debateVietnam . . how to stay young forever. . a cavalcade ofOlympians comes home quitting smoking . . . through exercise and more. .. . DEPARTMENTS Now & Here BROWN ALUMNI MAGAZINE January/February iygis Volume98, No.3 Old Enough Editor Anne Hinman Diffily'73 ManagingEditor Norman Boucher As ArtDirector K.nhryn deBoer read sociology pro- AssistantEditor ChadGaits I fessor Ann Dill's de- BusinessManager Pamela M.Parker scription of her great-aunt (see EditorialAssociate Torn Still '97 In Class,page 24), I laughed out ContributingEditors SheaDean'92, loud. The remarkable old PeterMandel '81 a.m.,JenniferSutton, woman she described — "sharp KarenWargo as a tack," in her nineties con- Photography John Foraste tinuing to drink, smoke, and Design Sandra Delany,Sandra Kenney manage a cattle ranch in the Midwest - reminded me in AdministrativeAssistant Sheila Cournoyer spirit,ifnot in the particulars,of my own great-aunt. An Isek Dineson character BoardofEditors once said, "Women, when they Chair John Monaghan '55 are old enough to have done with the business of being ViceChair DanaB.Cowin 'S2 women, and can let loose then- TomBodkin '75,Anne AzziDavenport'85, strength,mustbe the most pow- VIVItNNt FLI-SHER EricGertler Jonathan Karp '86, '85, erful creatures in the world." On both wrote:"It is perhaps only in old age, cer- Karen Leggett-Abouraya '72, sides of my family, women have lived to tainly past fifty, that women can stop EdwardMarecki '6s, PeterBernstein '73, very old ages, and several of them have being female impersonators. AnnieTsuiOgata '84,StacyPalmer'82, been powerful forces indeed. One of Age can free us to behave as we wish. Ellen Rosen '79,EricSchrier'73, these was my great-aunt Esther.Widowed This freedom is at once tantalizing and LisaSinghania '94. BenjaminWeiser'76, as a young woman, she moved back into frightening; many women are not accus- BillWooten '70Ph.D. the antique family homestead in a sleepy tomed to envisioning themselves as Connecticut hill town and worked in a strong, unconventional, or (in the best bank while raising two children. sense) selfish.Yet I think we are intrigued LocalAdvertising In retirement, her domestic obliga- by and attracted to vital, idiosyncratic Sprague Publishing(401) 294-1238 tions discharged, Esther came into her elderly women such as Ann Dill's great- (401) 294-1239FAX own. She was an enthusiastic traveler,dri- aunt, or mine. From them we learn - as ving to Florida each fall in her ancient Dill's students are learning in her course, NationalAdvertisingRepresentative Mercedes and vacationing in Europe and Aging and the Quality ofLife - that old EdAntes.Ivy League Magazine Network the Canary Islands. Blunt and funny in age isn't all about rocking chairs and 7Ware Street. a dry,Yankee way, she was a flirt to the grandchildren, charming as both ofthose Cambridge,Mass. 02138 end, playing cards and going out dancing institutions may be.We become powerful (617)496-7207 until her legs failed her. Relatives were creatures when we realize that, given a b-embuasldeidngbyREosmtheeor'ss swtirtihng hoefabroiynfgriaeinddss, moloddiagceumcanofbheeaalsthreapnledtefiwnaintchiaclhsaelcluernigteys, 1 [998b) BroumAlumniMagazine devoted as dogs, some ofwhom she trav- and brio as we make it. MPaubrlcihs,heMdayb,imaonndtJhullyyibnySBerptoewmnbeUrn,ivNeorsvietmy,bePrr,os|i.drneunaerey., eled and even cohabited with as late as KI PrintedbyTheLanePress,P.O.Box 130.Burlington her eighties. As .1 young woman, 1 was /buLjk Vt.05403. Send changes ot'address to P.O. Box 1908. impressed: Aunt Esther was cool! Providence,R.I.02912,[4011 s<,; 2;.'-.Altmtm_Reeords I last saw Esther when she was in her Anne Hinman DiFfiLY '73 P.'rbovriodwennceed,uR..1S.e0n2d91e2d;it(o4r0i1a)l8c6o3r-r2e8s7p3o;ndfeanxt1e40110)B86o3xiiSvsjm. nineties, a few years before she died. She Editor AJumni_Magazine"brown.edu.Web site wu\\brown came to Rhode Island on a balmy June edu Ad ii.ri.it1 01 Brown_AhimnL_Magazine j day and presided over ourbackyard picnic Addresscorrectionrequested table in enormous sunglasses and a nun- bus ot white hair,Still droll and charming PRINTED is 1111 I sA ami, yes, sharp as a tack. She reminded something Carolyn Heilbrun once JANUARY II 1;l<I AI)Y I ')v8 The Brown Alumni Network WeLUVOU SH0ULP'V& £AlP GO. I'M A BROWN QRAP MVS6LF/ RFAUY.' N&V&R B& BASHFUL VOUR F6U0W AlUMNI AR& AN ABOUT USING TH& Of IMPORTANT ReeOURCe... ANP MI6HT BROWN N&TWORK, Kip, FV&N HOIPTHe TICKET TO VOUR DR&AM JOB/ £y&\ dmeet I'VE CERTAINLY HIR6P MV $HARe OF BRUNONIANS,,, ISN'T THAT RIGHT, l^VITSKY? Make work for you! it BROiliN ALUMNI Fordetails,checkoutourwebsite at www.brown.edu/Administation/Alumni/ The Brown Alumni Network is not ajob bank- ASSOC IATION it isa resourcefor informational interviews. Pleasedo not solicit volunteers forjobs. PRODUCED BY THE BROWN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Carrying the Mail ofmonthly breast self-exams forwomen more.The Internet and intranets will be and monthly testicular self-exams for as good oras bad as the people who teach men cannot be overestimated. Ifsome- others how to use them. thingappears unusual,have it examined JenniferWayne-Doppke '<!>>' by a physician. Letting masses or moles Port Byron, N.Y. wait too long can be deadly. [email protected] Congratulations to Doug Ulman and all survivors whose experience and example benefit both those surviving cancer and A Tougaloo Family the rest ofus. Mark P.Atlas '83 Here is anotherTougaloo-Brown con- Stony Brook,N.Y nection ("TheTougaloo Connection," Ttie writeris directorofpediatricstem-cell September/October).The Mansion was transplantation and assistantprofessorofpedi- the birthplace in 1876 ofmy mother-in- atrics at the Children's Medical Centerat law,Marion DarlingWentworth. Her Stony Brook (NewYork).- Editor father,Leander Darling,was sent by the American Missionary Society to be Tougaloo's second (I think) president.We The Internet's Potential still have letters written to him by his formerstudents after he returned north. Thank you for covering the Internet Marion was also the grandmother of Profile in Courage phenomenon ("Plug-In Utopias,"Sep- Frances MarionWentworth '74. tember/October). I use and write about Lillian Hicock Wentworth '33 Doug Ulman's courage in his tight against technology as the vice president ofonline Braintree,Mass. cancer ("Goingforthe Goal,"September/ research and development for a health- [email protected] October) is an example ofcancersurvivors care publishing company m Santa Barbara, turningpotential tragedy into a meaningful California. I'm also the executive editor outcome. ot Medicine on the Net,a monthly print The Levy File, Amended Despite the current ease with which publication that helps health-care practi- we all say the word cancer,in many peo- tioners sort out the Internet. Aaron KurilofT's otherwise excellent pro- ple's minds it remains a whispered word. Despite the wonderful aspects ofthe file ofme ("The Levy File,"September/ Doug's organization will prove to be a Net (I'm able to telecommute full-time October) took my wife.Valerie-to whom tremendous support foryoung men and from my home in upstate NewYork,for I've been married forty-one years -by women who survive cancer and feel un- example),I warn my readers and audiences surprise when she read about"Levy and able to tell the world. Indeed,it was Peter that the Internet is not a panacea. In tele- his wife, Natalie"deciding to move to Findlay '85 who enlightened many in vision ternunology,the Net is about 10 Prague in the 1960s. I've assured her that my generation at Brown with his group percent MasterpieceTlieaterand 90 percent I wasn't leading a double life,but I'd like independent study project,Understanding Geraldo Rivera. old friends to know that I was then and Cancer.The course grew in one semes- However,it is also a useful way of still am married to the formerValerie ter from about fifteen students to 180. sharing information. I was disappointed Wladaver (NYU '53,master's from Mid- Although he died ofleukemia in 1983, that author David Shenk '88 failed to dlebury '55),and I have never taken Peter still inspires many ofus,as I'm sure address the potential ofintranets (internal responsibility for"Natalie's"bed andboard. Doug's spirit and energy do now. networks that use Internet technology to It also would have been nice ifAaron As a pediatric oncologist, I would also share information) to filter computer-based had mentioned that the action that trig- like to use Doug's example to remind knowledge in schools. Imagine taking the gered most ofthe events described or readers that early detection can lead to ease ofthe Internet interface and applying alluded to was the Soviet-led invasion of the cure ofmany cancers with minimal it to very limited networks,eitherwithin Czechoslovakia in 1968. treatment and side effects.The value one school or in linking several schools in I should add that Rowboat to Prague, a region.With intranets,teachers can con- the book that cost my wife,daughters, tinue to do what they do well - filter and me a home as well as twenty years' TO OUR READERS information- while takingadvantage of involuntary absence from Prague,is still the best aspects ot Internet technology. in print from Second Chance Press.Sag Letters are always welcome, and we try to No technology is a magic bullet,and Harbor, NewYork. print all we receive. Preference will begiven to ifwe forget our poetry in the pursuit ot Alan Lcry V> those that address thi content oj the magazine. techno-utopia, that is a sad development Prague,Czech Republic Please limit letters to 300 words. We reserve indeed. It is up to parents and educators [email protected] the right to edit for style, clarity, ami length. to approach the Net as a tool,nothing 4 • IANIIAHV/I-LBRUARY I 998