Alumni | August 17, 2012

Class notes and obituaries September-October 2012

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

David Battat promotes alumni engagement.

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

Derek Bok donated his car for a good cause.

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

An animal’s journey from grief to love shows how much humans need each other, too.

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

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

The 2026-2027 Ledecky and Summer Undergraduate Fellows

But it can’t replace human connection.