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W I N T 2 0 12 M A G A Z I N E What kind of tools are needed to build a house for 'ft the 21st century?* ■ .UJü yr::s> V i f ■ ll- V X/. 1%’^ W -J A'* "'-I < ' \ iVt- ■ Â ' ' / J ft Hint: The same O tools you'll need to build the liberal arts college of the future. U P H I L L / D O W N H I L L 18 COLLEGE STREET Say goodbye to So Inclined', say hello to a new mobile site and new visual identities to some familiar Midd places; and tell us: what do you prefer in winter, pajamas or parkas? 24 OLD CHAPEL Looking eastward at the Middlebury network—^past, present, and future. C L A S S A C T I O N 48 PURSUITS If, Say what? Muze Clothing E- wears its inission on its sleeve, so to speak. 2 U 50 t BOOK MARKS E- Chilly out? Cozy up to the PC fire -with a couple of winter recommendations. tt 0. K 2 V I E W F I N D E R 3 L E T T E R S 16 C O N T R I B U T O R S 26 N O R T H E R N E X P O S U R E 54 C L A S S N O T E S 94 C L A S S I F I E D S 96 R O A D T A K E N Cover illiistratiofi by Patrick Latimer Contefits photoj^rapli by Brett Simison Inset photoi^raph by Mark Ostow 28 DEPTH OF FIELD A young conflict photographer wants to see the toughest things. 36 DIRTY JOBS? M Not to Linda Ross. Î1 38 THIS IS HOW THEY DID IT By creating a home for the future, a group from Middlebury not only captured hearts and minds at the ii 30 Solar Decathlon, they helped illustrate the very evolution of the liberal arts. i V I E W F I N D E R M i d d l e b u r y A H eads Up MAGAZI NE Winter 2012 By plugging in, are we checking out? Volume 8 fi, Number i Editor Matt Jennings Art Director Pamela Fogg T he other day , I was in Otter Creek Bakery just up the street from our editorial offices here in Middlebury, part of my daily morning ritual Assistant Editor of ensuring “adequate” caffeine and caloric intake, when a comment Regan Eberhart from a fellow patron really caught my attention. Designers Carey Bass ’99, Sepi Alavi “Now that’s what call multitasking.” 1 The comment was directed at me as stood before one of the coffee receptacles, Alumni Editor 1 Sara Thurber Marshall using my right hand to fill up my cup with a selection of the bakery’s darkest roast— while using my left to hold an iPhone, my attention riveted to the tiny screen while Contributing Editors my thumb was busy scrolling through my Twitter feed. Stephen Diehl , Robert Keren , Blair Kloman , MA English ’94 I chuckled, muttered something about a guilty habit, and went on my way. But as walked back to my office, couldn’t help but think: What was so important, so 1 1 Editorial Office interesting to a) divert my attention from the scalding hot liquid that was flowing 152 College Street nght before me, and b) perhaps more pertinent, though less imminently dangerous, Middlebury College have me ignore the very real people who were standing around me? Was it the latest Middlebury, VT 05753 political gossip concerning the Republican primaries? The “news” that someone I’m Phone: 802.443.5670 following didn’t sleep well last night? Could this not have waited—at least until had 1 E-mail: [email protected] filled up my coffee cup? Now some may want to accuse me of Twitter-bashing, of Online: www.middmag.com unfairly maligning the utility of the social media tool; so, let me acknowledge that 1 finnly believe that it can be useful—even revolutionary—in the dissemination of Advertising Sales Office infonnation. What woities me is this: at what cost? Fl.Abby Flummel A year ago, Shirley Collado, the dean of the College and chief diversity officer at 18 Garfield Street, Bristol, VT 05443 Middlebury, addressed this very question in a blog post titled “The Disconnection of Phone: 802.453.2913 Being Connected.” In that post, she wrote: “As walk about campus, see something E-mail: [email protected] 1 1 that worries me. Many students are so profoundly connected online that fear they 1 are disconnected from life right here. 1 often see students glued to their cell phones, Other College Offices disregarding people in the same room. 1 see students with laptop lives, peipetually (all area code 802) College Infomiation: 443.5000 Facebooking, tweeting, scanning YouTube, weblogs, podcasts, and wikis. The face- to-face conversation, the handwritten note, and the reassuring touch have given way Alumni Office: 443.5183 Adnussions: 443.3000 to the casual, distant interaction that sometimes comes with living life virtually.” Collado, who possesses a doctoral degree in psychology, went on to say that she The views presented are not necessarily those of wonied “that this may be the first generation without sufficient e.xperience in making the editors or the official poUcies of the College. human connections, that we are encouraging the development of individuals who Middlebury College of Middlebury, VT 05753. will not know how to talk directly to each other and resolve conflict across human publishes Midiilebury Magazine (ISSN 0745-2454) lines. We may run the nsk of simply becoming observers, passive nonparticipants in four times a year: winter, spring, summer, and our own lives. 1 worry that technology, to some extent, is pacifying and paralyzing us.” fall. © 2012 Middlebury College Publications. Miâdlchur]’ Magazine is pnnted at The Lane Press In a wonderful recent essay in the New York Times titled “The Joy of Quiet,” Pico in South Burlington, VT. Nonprofit standard Iyer points out that “the urgency of slowing down—to find the time and space to mail postage paid at Middlebury. VT. and at think—is nothing new, of course,” but he adds that cacophony of noise is at an all- additional mailing offices (USPS 964-820). POSTMASTER: Send address changes to time high. “We barely have enough time to see how little time we have. . . . And Middlebury’ Magazine, Middlebury College, the more that floods in on us, the less of ourselves we have to give to every snippet.” Middlebury, VT 05753. Printed in U.S.A. It’s a dual threat, then: We ignore what’s aU around us, while less and less of what we are paying attention to is actually being absorbed in any meaningflil way. Now, I’m not ready to give up Twitter or Facebook or blogs or (heaven forbid!) “old technology” like magazines or books; nor am 1 advocating that you do so, either. But let me join Iyer and Collado in suggesting a modification of both our media diet and means of accessing infonnation. Take a moment to recognize the people in your midst; your Twitter feed can wait. —MJ M i d dl e bu ry M agazi ne L E T T E R S Mr. Neuberger Thank you , Juua Alvarez ’71, for the beautiful image of Fred Neuberger (“ThankYou, Mr. Neuberger,” fall 2011). Your prose made me cry. Fred was my friend and a colleague, and he helped me help students like you find Middlebury.Tom, my youngest child, graduates from Middlebury this Febru­ ary. Fred would have been proud of his accomplishments.Thank you, Julia—you captured the essence of Fred! Alan Crocker Ashbumham, Massachusetts Never Forgotten R E M E M B E R IN G 1 HAVE MY OWN Fred Neueerger story. F R E D D IE In 1969, when applying to Middlebury. 1 W riters respond to flew up for an interview, my first time Julia A lvarez's traveling on my own.The night 1 arrived essay an d fondly had about a foot and a half of snow, and by recall a M iddlebury the time got to the Middlebury Inn, after legend. 1 midnight, it was dark and t]uiet, with only a night clerk there to let me in. When 1 We chatted a bit more, still at the fast, and my white shirt suddenly had a awoke the next morning, 1 knew some­ bench, and he managed to make me feel new color. thing was seriously wrong. like I still had a prayer. Six months later, We arrived in town about a half hour My watch said 8:50! My interview when that acceptance letter somehow before we were to be at the admissions was for 9:00! 1 showered and dressed in a came, there was a note attached to it— office, with no money, no credit card, and panic and ran from the inn, barely getting from him: “So how are you feeling now, an ugly white shirt. directions to the Emma Willard House. Andrew?” White’s Cleaners had no fast turn­ A window thermometer in town read 1 never forgot that—and 1 was sad­ around service, but happened to have a minus 10 degrees! 1 ran the whole way, dened to learn of his passing. white shirt that had never been claimed. in my suit and loafers, pushing back the Andrew Gross '74 (It must have been a size 18" that engulfed biting cold and a growing tightness in my Purchase, Neu'York my 15" neck, but it was my only option.) chest, which by the time 1 burst through Amazingly, the interview began on the doors, 15 minutes late, had grown Mr. Middlebury to Me time and at the end 1 felt compelled to into a major asthma attack. My chest was Julia Alvarez ’s recent essay reminded mention the change of shirts. So, Fred, as heaving so badly, 1 couldn’t even speak my me of a few things: The wonderful ex­ only he could do, said, “McKeown, don’t own name. perience my daughter Kelly McKeown worry about a thing. 1 won’t tell the They laid me down on a bench and Gaudet ’95 had learning from Julia during review committee of your inability to went to get an inhaler. It took another half her time at Middlebury, the unforgettable drive and drink at the same time, or that hour until my breaths finally subsided. 1 service for Fred to which Julia referred you wore a shirt many sizes too big for the thought 1 was screwed. I'd messed up my in the essay, and my interview with Fred interview.” one chance to get in, wasted my parents’ back in 1959. Needless to say, we had a few choco­ money, made a total fool of myself Back then 1 was a Lake Placid boy, late shirt chuckles over the years. I’m Mr. Neuberger came out and kneeled applying from the Northwood School. 1 happy we got a chance to catch up at the next to me and tried to make me feel okay. headed to Middlebury for an interview hockey reunion last winter.To me, Fred “Son,” he said, trying to lift my spirits,“it’s with a fellow classmate, and we decided to was Mr, Middlebury, not the most important part of the inter­ stop for a bite in Port Henry. With a quart Jim McKcowii '64 view process.Your grades and other things ot chocolate milk and sandwich in hand, West Lebanon, New Hampshire do count something too!” we continued on to Vermont. Then 1 knew 1 was screwed. My For those who know the route be­ Priceless Mistake grades and "other things” were less than tween Crown Point and Middlebury, it is Fred Neuberger admitted me to stellar.That interview was how I was plot­ rather curvy. And with the chocolate milk Middlebury, and when reminded him of 1 ting to get myself in. in my lap, 1 took one of the curves a bit that years later he shot back:"Biggest mis- I I I, U S T U A I 1 0 N BY A U I II U U Cî IRON W 1 N T 1-, R 2 0 1 M C' The newest place 1 D D L I:H U H Y () I 1 1. C I. T B () A R I) O I R U S I i I S fora R I.S I 1) 1. N T ILonald I). Liebowitz Middlebury Wedding F!•;I LOWS Louis Bacon ’79 is one of its Adrian Benepe ’78 Anthony M. Cavale ’96 oldest landmarks! Allan R. Dragonc.Jr. ’78 Donald M. Elliinan.Jr. ’67 Frederick M. Fritz '68 Charles M. Gately ’62 www.townhalltheater.org • - Amy Geier 802 388-1436 TOWN HALL THEATEROn Jane Rosenthal Horvitz th e G reen Ann Williams Jackson ’74 Catherine Lee ’92 Russell J. Leng ’60 Carol Levitch Patrick L. McConathy David R. Mittelman ’76 Ciarrett M. Moran ’76 Michael C. C')bel-Omia '88 Kimberly Collins Parizeau ’79 Professiofss: Steven B. Peterson '88 Where Tralhmg S. Carolyn Ramos ’93 Elisabeth B. Robert ’78 ♦mmersive Susan J. Scher '86 will your Educational Jed A. Smith '88 Experiences Deborah Ci. Thomas ’75 John R. Tormondsen '82 masters International James Edward Virtue ’82 Student Body Marna C. Whittington Linda Foster Whitton ’80 degree *■ Global Alumni Kendrick R. Wilson III Network E .M t R I I I take you? Comprehensive' James I. Armstrong Academic & Dort A. Cameron III '67 Career Advising James S. Davis '66 Churchill G. Franklin ’71 Nancy CotFrin Furlong '75 Claire Waterhouse Cîargalli '64 W here do you w ant to be tw o years from today? H alfw ay to a P h.D ., Robert C. Graham, Jr. ’63 o r halfw ay around the w orld? M aking it to the w eekend o r m aking a Willard T. Jackson '51 difference? L ocated on C alifornia’s spectacular C entral C oast, the M onterey Betty Ashbury Jones, M.A. French '86 Institute’s intim ate cam pus and 11 degree program s attract students from William H. KielTer Hi '64 John M. McCardell. Jr. m ore than 60 countries every year. From the halls o f the U nited N ations C. Ir\’ing Meeker ’50 to the boardroom s o f H ong K ong, from the B razilian rainforest to the Jonathan Ci)'Herron villages o f sub-S aharan A frica, M onterey Institute graduates are teaching Patricia Judah Palmer 57 and translating, building coalitions and building com panies - connecting Milton V. Peterson '58 the w orld, and m aking a difference. W. Kyle Prescott '49 Felix G. Rohatyn '49 Choose the degree that will get you to your destination. David E. Thompson '49 Robert P. Youngman ‘64 O l l IC IiR S 01- I M l. C o R R O R A T IO N Monterey Institute Frederick M. Fritz '68, Chair of International Studies Ronald I ). Liebowitz. President A Graduate School of Middlebury College John R.Tormondsen ’82. Vice Cihair Mama C. Whittington. Vice Chair Kendrick R. Wilson III. Vice Chair David A. Donahue '91, Secretary Be the Solution • www.miis.edu Stephanie M. Neil. Assistant Secretary International Business |MBA| • International Environmental Policy • Public Administration (MPA) Patrick J. Norton, Treasurer International Policy Studies • Nonproliferation & Terrorism Studies • Conference Interpretation Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) • Teaching Foreign Language • Translation Translation & Interpretation • Translation & Localization Management • Peace Corps Master's International 4 M 1 n n I E B u R Y M A {; A /- 1 N I. L E T T E R S take I ever made!” Knowing Fred’s sense Jay’s article last week, 1 have been using it Eimronnicnt of humor, I suspect 1 am not the only everf day to make up for lost time. 1 spent graduate to have received that accolade. five summers at Bread Loaf, but must have and Another thing know about Fred is missed the day that one of my professors 1 how proud he was to have been part of went over the word in class. Paradigm was Object: the legendary loth Mountain Division the buzzword in and around the Barn in during World War . So if I may pre­ the early eighties. Had it only been sweet 11 sume to speak for aU those other “biggest eitargial Recent mistakes” who have had the priceless op­ William “Wim” Hart, MA English '84 portunity of having gone to the College Canaan, Neii> Hanipshire African on the Hill under Fred’s watch, I’d like to say, as they say in the loth, “Climb to The writer teaches English at the Cardigan Art Glory!” sir! Mountain School in Canaan, New Hampshire. Dick Wien ’66 NewYork, New York The Answer Is No January 27— Can wit be taught ? Ifjay Heinrichs The Word ’77 can teach creative wit making, he has April 22 I WAS THRILLED TO MEET the WOrd my admiration. 1 suspect that in this game, eiiarfiia, which Jay Heinrichs ’77 defines as knowledge of the rules does not suffice. 1 “making an account appear live before the believe that witticisms well up unsolicited audience’s very eyes” in his article “Can and unstudied only from those who are Wit Be Taught?” (Fall 2011) endowed with a good sense of humor, and I have been teaching middle school a sense of humor cannot be taught. boys for 35 years and have never heard Elaine King Dandh ’45 the word. After yapping about “showing Donna, Texas not telling” forever, etmrgia has become the new word in my classes. 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