May 1, 2007

What's Past Is Prologue

Sage Stossel ’93, executive editor of The Atlantic Online, regularly contributes editorial illustrations to the Boston Globe. She prepared...

From The May-June 2007 Issue

Sage Stossel ’93, executive editor of The Atlantic Online, regularly contributes editorial illustrations to the Boston Globe. She prepared this narrative [see PDF] of Harvard’s June festivities after attending the muddy fifteenth reunion last year with her husband, Michael Callaghan, and her brother, Scott Stossel, both class of ’91.

Published in the May-June 2007 print issue in the Alumni section.

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