Notes
Richard Dubin P’06 hosted "A
Conversation on Race and Television" with nationally recognized writer,
editor, producer and professor Kristal Brent Zook as his guest. A
professor in the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse
University, Dubin is a writer, producer and director who has worked with
all major U.S. networks and has numerous studio affiliations. His
specialty is comedic script writing, and he has been involved with such
television shows as Roc and the Emmy-nominated Frankie’s Place. He and his
wife, Kate, are the parents of Risa, a member of the Class of 2006.
Smokey D. Fontaine ’93 spoke on campus
as part of Black History Month events, reading from his just published
E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX (Harper Collins). During a series of
book signings in New Haven, Middletown, and Hartford, he also offered
comments about the writing process.
Richard Harper ’71 was the alumni
speaker during the annual Black History Month Convocation on February 4. A
visiting professor at Bard College and a member of the Vanguard Class, he
shared Wesleyan history with current students, describing campus life
during the turbulent late ’60s and early ’70s. His remarks were featured
in an article in the March 4 issue of the Wesleyan Argus, which can be
read on-line at
http://www.wesleyan.edu/argus/archives/mar042003/index.html.
Lawrence Jackson ’90 wrote Emergence
of Genius, the first biography about Ralph Ellison, which was cited by
musician/politician Ruben Blades as his current book of choice in the
March 2003 issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
Glenn Ligon ’82 offered "Evidence of
Things Not Seen", the third in a series of lectures offered by the Seattle
Art Museum in conjunction with Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob
Lawrence, currently on view at the museum. The lectures raise such
contemporary issues in relation to the Lawrence exhibition as migration,
racial identity and historical memory. He is a featured artist in the
Seattle Art Museum’s current exhibition titled Hero/Anti-Hero, a
counterpoint exhibition to Jacob Lawrence.
Sanford Livingston ’87, a member of
the Wesleyan Board
of Trustees, represented the university on a recent career panel at a
reception hosted in San Francisco by Wesleyan and twelve other colleague
institutions.
Leslie Anderson Morales ’76 has
published her first children’s book, Esther Dyson: Internet Visionary (Enslow
Publishers, March 2003). Congratulations, Leslie!
Ted Shaw ’76 was featured in an
article in the February 11 issue of the Wesleyan Argus. The article
focused on his work as counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education
Fund and on the cases challenging affirmative action at the University of
Michigan. The article is available in its entirety on-line at
http://www.wesleyan.edu/argus/archives/feb112003/index.html.
For more information about Ted as the recipient of the 2003 Baldwin Medal,
also see the Wesleyan Reunion/Commencement Web site at
http://www.wesleyan.edu/rc/
.
Beverly Daniel Tatum ’75 was
inaugurated as the ninth president of Spelman College in Atlanta on March
22. President Doug Bennet and Dean of the College Emeritus
Edgar Beckham ’58 were among those who
participated in the celebration. Congratulations, President Tatum!
C’mon home for
Homecoming/Family Weekend!
October 31–November 2, 2003 |
