Alumni | February 17, 2012

Class notes and obituaries March-April 2012

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Published in the March-April 2012 print issue under the headline “The Classes,” in the Alumni section.

The play Spare Parts is a contemporary fable about the quest to live forever.

David Battat promotes alumni engagement.

Plus, veteran higher education leader Thomas Ehrlich reflects on university curricula for his 70th reunion

President Alan M. Garber used traditional Memorial Church address to consider the unique qualities of human intelligence and learning.

All That’s Unseen charts the Harvard graduate’s uneasy journey from Appalachia to Cambridge and back.

Accepting the Radcliffe Medal, the activist and writer spoke about gender, violence, and social justice—with a dose of humor. [video/audio]

The Gretel and the Great War author on how the Lampoon derailed his science career—and set him on a literary path.

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.

The 2026-2027 Ledecky and Summer Undergraduate Fellows