Alumni | June 17, 2013

Class notes and obituaries: July-August 2013

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Published in the July-August 2013 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.

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

A new book traces napalm's invention to Harvard—and its evolution from heroic discovery to pariah

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

In 2004, a frenzy spread across Harvard Yard in days. Four billion users later, we are only just catching up.

The president of Harvard Magazine’s Board of Directors will step down in September.

The 2026-2027 Ledecky and Summer Undergraduate Fellows

Former Indiana University president Thomas Ehrlich looks back on curriculum, co-education, and other major trends.