Alumni | May 18, 2012

American Academy of Arts and Letters awards to Harvard alumni

Alumni recognized by American Academy of Arts and Letters

Pete Seeger ’40, the folk singer, recipient of the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts; read an excerpt from New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson’s recent book-length portrait.
Poet Frederick Seidel ’57, and Adam Hochschild ’63, author of several books, including King Leopold’s Ghost (about the Belgian colonization of the Congo, a National Book Critics Circle award finalist)—both recipients of Arts and Letters Awards in Literature; read a review of Seidel’s recent collected poems by Adam Kirsch ’97.
Roger Angell ’42, the New Yorker’s long-time fiction editor, baseball correspondent, and light-verse master (notably the year-end, full-page “Greetings, Friends!” poems), recipient of the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse; read an excerpt from Angell’s memoir.

The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum reunites for a 50th anniversary tour around France.

He was Harvard’s quintessential people person.

The former economics concentrator brings his talent for crunching numbers to netminding.

Sheila Jasanoff has spent her career studying how societies produce knowledge, evaluate expertise, and make decisions about technology.

In her memoir All That's Unseen, Emilee Hackney explores religion, friendship, and home.

FAS leaders say restructuring will be complete by mid-October.

The planned opening of the Goel Center in Allston for performances will be in spring of 2027.

Harvard graduate and NASCAR racer Patrick Staropoli on pedals, attention, and fearlessness.

Nobel Prize recipient Joseph E. Murray dedicated much of his career to organ transplant surgery.