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The Class of 1946 is looking forward to reuniting and celebrating its 65th reunion with a theme of “Thanks for the Memories.” The costume will be the traditional reunion jacket from previous reunions, khaki pants, white bucks, white shirt, and 1946 reunion tie. Thursday dinner will be a buffet held at the Nassau Club, with Friday dinner at Springdale Golf Club. The Blawenburg Brass Band will accompany the class during the P-rade. Dinner on Saturday will be at Forbes College and feature a musical jam session—any musicians are welcome to bring their instruments.

 

 

The class theme is “Going Back ... Old Friends, New Vistas,” based on the premise that classmates come back to see old friends, the alumni-faculty forums, and what is going on at the University, and their conversations with friends open new vistas. Headquartered at Forbes with ’46 and the Old Guard, ’51 will be wearing its traditional orange-and-white seersucker jackets embellished this year with new black ’51 baseball caps and orange ties.

 

The well-known New York musician Dan Levinson will bring his jazz group to Forbes Thursday evening for a night of Dixieland and New Orleans jazz and his swing band on Friday night to play danceable music of the 1940’s, 50’s, and 60’s. On Saturday evening the class will have cocktails at the Lewis Library followed by dinner at Cap and Gown’s new dining facility that will provide a grandstand view of the fireworks.

 

 

The Class of 1956 celebrates “The Fullness of Time” with an extremely full schedule. On Thursday afternoon, the class will host “A Conversation on China,” between Stape Roy ’56, a former U.S. ambassador and assistant secretary of state, and Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80, who served as director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department in the first two years of the Obama administration. That night, there will be a buffet dinner and music provided by the Freund Family Trio. A class memorial service will be held Friday morning at the University Chapel, and a tour of Princeton Battlefield and a forum on Reach Out ’56-’81-’06 will take place in the afternoon.

 

Friday evening there will be a class reception at the Art Museum, with a welcome by director James Steward and greetings from President Tilghman. Dinner on Friday night will feature the introduction of new class officers and music by Stan Rubin ’55’s big band. On Saturday morning, there will be a reception for the artists who are part of the class art exhibit, which will run all weekend. Saturday night will feature a buffet dinner, accompanied by the Boilermaker Jazz Band and culminating with fireworks. Rounding out the schedule is a farewell Sunday brunch at the Class of 1956 Lounge in Princeton Stadium.

 

 

The 50th reunion for the Class of 1961 begins Thursday with a reception and dinner, followed by entertainment from the Neil Wright Trio. Friday is full of forums — those in the morning include the future of health care, civil rights and liberties, and the role of American power, while those in the afternoon will look at the new India, college admissions, and chemistry in action. In the evening, there will be a reception with the Footnotes, followed by dinner and entertainment. On Saturday, the class will participate in the P-rade, and the class memorial service will follow. The evening will feature a reception with the J.J. Keyser Trio, dinner, and the Party Dolls, followed by fireworks. The weekend will culminate in style, with Sunday brunch at Drumthwacket, the New Jersey governor’s residence, down the road from campus.

 

In 1917, Lowell Thomas *16 left his teaching position at Princeton and took a film crew to Europe to cover the fighting for the U.S. War Department. His travels eventually took him to the Middle East, where he was among the first reporters to cover the exploits of T.E. Lawrence, the British captain later immortalized in the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia.

 

Thomas, who would go on to become a prominent broadcaster on radio and television, presented his films, photos, and accounts in New York and London in 1919, helping to establish Lawrence’s legend and earning the young officer a seat at the table during the Cairo Conference of 1921, during which the British partitioned Palestine and established the borders of Iraq.

 

The interesting relationship between the journalist and the captain is the subject of a new online exhibit, “Creating History: Lowell Thomas and Lawrence of Arabia,” curated by Lola Van Wagenen of Clio Visualizing History, a Vermont-based nonprofit, and filmmaker Richard Moulton. The exhibit weaves compelling images and video with contributions from historians and experts to explore Thomas’ role in telling Lawrence’s story and Lawrence’s lasting influence in the Middle East, which continues to use many of the boundaries he helped to draw.

The “Where are we?” contest returns to test your knowledge of campus architecture. Through July, The Weekly Blog will post a new contest on the publication date of each printed edition of the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

 

For today’s image, the primary clue is the figure in the upper left portion, which gives a hint about one of the Princeton departments that calls this building home. Where are we? Post your answer on PAW’s Facebook page or e-mail it to PAW. The first correct response will earn a Princeton-themed prize. (Past winners are not eligible for the prize.)

 

Update: Laura Munzer ’79 correctly identified Guyot Hall, calling on the campus knowledge she gained as an Orange Key guide. The figure shown is a trilobite, one of about 200 carvings on the exterior of the building, which houses geosciences, ecology and evolutionary biology, and the Princeton Environmental Institute. Check below for the full image.

The Princeton Alumni Weekly’s 2011 Reunions event, “Funny Princeton Live,” is an afternoon of humor featuring alumni comedians. The show, inspired by PAW’s January 19 special issue, will be held Friday, May 27 at 2 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium, with a laugh-packed lineup that includes Jeff Kreisler ’95, Joe Hernandez-Kolski ’96, Adam Ruben ’01, Jason Gilbert ’09, and Peter Wicks *02.

 

UPDATE: One addition to the Funny Princeton Live lineup: Matt Iseman ’93, stand-up comedian and star of the Style Network’s Clean House, also will perform.

Mitch Henderson ’98 will be the next men’s basketball head coach at Princeton, taking over a history-rich program that recently shared the Ivy League title under the direction of Sydney Johnson ’97, one of Henderson’s former teammates.

 

Henderson, who has been an assistant to former Tiger coach Bill Carmody at Northwestern University since 2000, will be introduced on campus April 21.

 

“Mitch has developed and polished his craft at Northwestern, a Big Ten university that is similar in philosophy with its commitment to the student-athlete – with emphasis on both sides of that hyphen,” said Gary Walters ’67, the director of athletics, in a press release.

 

Henderson said in the release that he’s “never stopped being a fan” of Princeton basketball. Like many alumni, he was watching the Princeton-Harvard Ivy playoff game when Douglas Davis ’12 hit a buzzer-beating jump shot to send the Tigers to the NCAA Tournament. “When Doug’s shot went through the net, I jumped off my couch, I was so happy,” Henderson said. “I was excited for Sydney and his staff, and for the team. I feel like I know our guys already.”

 

The 2010-11 Tigers were 25-7, posting the program’s best record since 1997-98, when Henderson was a senior captain of a team that won a school-record 27 games and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament. On April 5, Johnson announced he was leaving Princeton to become the head coach at Fairfield University in Connecticut.

 

Henderson, a four-year starter as an undergraduate, has spent his entire coaching career at Northwestern, helping the Wildcats reach the NIT in each of the last three seasons. He is the fourth consecutive alumnus to head the Princeton program, following Johnson, Joe Scott ’87, and John Thompson III ’88.

How would you feed a family of five on $85 a week? Julia Hicks de Peyster ’86 was pondering that question earlier this year. She had looked up the budget for a family on food stamps (the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP) and wondered if she could provide a healthy diet with that modest sum. A family project was born.

 

For the 40 days of Lent, de Peyster, her husband, Nick ’88, and their three sons – ages 12, 9, and 5 – are getting by on less and learning about the challenges that America’s working poor face on a regular basis. The project, de Peyster says, aims to spark conversation about an important topic without “trivializing the very real stress” that SNAP families face.

 

Even for de Peyster, a self-professed “cheapskate,” trimming to $85 per week in the Boston suburb of Wellesley, Mass., has required significant sacrifices (much less meat) and some creativity (for instance, stretching whole milk with water, instead of buying lowfat milk). But she has noticed perks, too, like meaningful conversations around the dinner table and far less waste in the family’s trash can.

 

Though the vote likely is headed for a recount, for now JoAnne Kloppenburg *76 appears to have earned a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, winning by a margin of 0.01 percent. [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]

 

Federal Judge Denny Chin ’75 rejected Google’s legal settlement with authors and publishers, saying that the company’s book digitization would have been a “de facto monopoly.” [New York Times]

 

Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson *86 was featured in Time magazine’s April 3 “10 Questions” column. [Time]

 

Major league pitcher Chris Young ’02 accomplished a rare feat in his New York Mets debut: He had two hits in the same inning. [New York Times]

 

Rutgers professor Alan Rosenthal *61 cast the tie-breaking vote as New Jersey chose a plan for redrawing the boundaries of its 40 legislative districts. [Star-Ledger]

 

Journalist and U.S. Army veteran Nate Rawlings ’04 wrote about his experience as an embedded reporter with the 4th Infantry Division in Afghanistan. [Time]

 

The “Where are we?” contest returns to test your knowledge of campus architecture. Through July, The Weekly Blog will post a new contest on the publication date of each printed edition of the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

 

Today’s image, taken by PAW art director Marianne Nelson, is more tightly cropped than our past samples, but careful observers may recognize this distinctive pattern of brick. Where are we? Post your answer on PAW’s Facebook page or e-mail it to PAW. The first correct response will earn a Princeton-themed prize. (Past winners are not eligible for the prize.)

 

Update: Rob Bernard ’88 won our prize for correctly identifying the Computer Science Building. This proved to be a difficult contest, but our follow-up clue seemed to help: One section of the bricks (not shown) includes an embedded code that translates to "P=NP?" Check below for the full image.

 

In each of nine acts, a different topic is covered, said Kennedy, who spent two weeks filming at the Vatican and talking to cardinals, the U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, as well as Vatican staffers and even people from the fire department.

 

The show takes viewers beyond the art and grandeur most tourists see and inside the inner workings of one of the largest organizations in the world.

 

Relatively few American students play rugby before college. For many of the men and women who pick up the sport at Princeton, the first game they watch also becomes the first one they compete in. Newcomers learn the basics, refine their skills, and eventually pass on what they’ve learned to the next crop of novices. The students also drive the program off the field, managing everything from scheduling to finances.

 

It’s a cycle that has endured with remarkable consistency, and on April 9, alumni of the Tiger programs will celebrate that tradition by marking two anniversaries: 80 consecutive years of competition for the men’s squad, and 30 consecutive years for the women’s team.

 

The weekend also holds great importance for the current Princeton teams, which are slated to compete on the West Windsor Fields. Men’s rugby will vie for the Rickerson Cup at the New Jersey State Intercollegiate Championship April 9, while women’s rugby will host the Ivy League Tournament April 9-10.

 

Men’s rugby traveled to Southern California for a recent spring-break trip, and according to captain Zak Deschaine ’11, the chance to focus on rugby for a week paid dividends. It also gave West Coast alumni a rare opportunity to catch Princeton in action.

 

“We played Loyola Marymount while in Los Angeles on tour, and we must have had 20 or 30 alumni show up,” Deschaine said. “It’s really a cool thing to see. … It’s something special to be a part of.”

 

In the first four years of the New Jersey State Intercollegiate Championship, Princeton has captured the Rickerson Cup three times, including last season, when the Tigers edged William Paterson in the final. Deschaine expects William Paterson to be a team to watch this year as well.

 

The women’s rugby team, which toured Ireland during spring break, will host the first Ivy League Tournament in three years (regional scheduling commitments have hampered the event).

 

In December, we introduced the “Where are we?” contest, which tests your knowledge of campus architecture. Through July, The Weekly Blog will post a new contest on the publication date of each printed edition of PAW.

 

Today’s image is clipped from a skyward view of a familiar building. Where are we? Post your answer on PAW’s Facebook page or e-mail it to PAW. The first correct response will earn a Princeton prize. (Past winners are not eligible for the prize.)

 

Update: Tim Platt ’80 was the first to correctly identify the University Chapel, photographed from the side of the building that faces Dickinson Hall and Washington Road. The Rothschild Arch is in the foreground.

 

To see a wider view, check below.

When Gabe Lewullis ’99 has a rare block of free time during his sports medicine fellowship at New England Baptist Hospital, he often heads to the Harvard Business School gymnasium. Over the years, a group of former Ivy League basketball players who now work in Boston have established an invitation-only pick-up game at the breeding ground of Wall Street’s next top draft picks. Lewullis received his introduction to the game from Matt Henshon ’91, a practicing lawyer and captain of Princeton’s 1991 men’s basketball team.

 

When Lewullis gets in a game, he inevitably drifts out to the right wing of the 3-point line while on offense. Once there, he pauses for a moment in hopes of catching his defender off guard. Then, he plants his left-leg and cuts sharply to the basket. If another Princeton graduate has the ball at the top of the key, he whisks a bounce pass to the cutting Lewullis, who will likely catch the ball in stride and lay it in the hoop for two easy points. Then Lewullis prepares for what always comes next. “When they see Princeton guys playing together,” he says, “if we beat them backdoor, you know you’re going to hear about it.”

 

For this, Lewullis has only himself to blame.

 

Fifteen years ago on a mid-March night in the basketball Mecca of Indianapolis, the freshman who had started just two games since December made the backdoor cut seen around the country. His subsequent layup clinched Princeton’s 43-41 win over the defending national champion UCLA Bruins in the first round of the 1996 NCAA Tournament. It was victory No. 525 in the storied career of retiring Tiger head coach Pete Carril. For the gray-haired man sometimes called the Yoda of college hoops, it was also his first NCAA Tournament win in 13 years. In the decade leading up to the UCLA game, Carril had developed an unwanted reputation for wearing Cinderella’s slipper for 39 minutes, only to have it fall off on the doorstep of upset immortality.

 

The game also sparked a vast web of interconnected stories, memories and myths that continues to grow 15 years later. But none of it would have been possible, if not for a little-remembered game played the previous Saturday on the campus of Lehigh University.