Alumni | October 15, 2012

Class notes and obituaries November-December 2012

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

David Battat promotes alumni engagement.

Derek Bok donated his car for a good cause.

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

A summer course for first-years focuses on academic success, diverse viewpoints.

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

The University will compensate families of those whose remains were sold and establish a scholarship to honor anatomical donors.

A roundup of University news from the summer of 2026

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

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