Students & Alumni
Saluting the 2025 Centennial Medalists
Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
by Olivia Farrar
Morehouse Man, Redux
John S. Wilson Jr. grabs the chance to realize his calling.
by Nell Porter-Brown
![J.C. Buttre’s portrait, probably drawn when Everett ran for vice president on the Constitutional Union Party ticket in 1860, links him to Harvard and George Washington, one of his favorite subjects. (His lectures raised more than $100,000 to help purchase Mount Vernon [see <a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/05/granny-talk">“Granny Talk”</a>], and he wrote the entry on Washington for the 1860 <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica.</i>)](/sites/default/files/styles/mobile_teaser_wide/public/img/article/1013/nd13_page_047_01_.jpg.webp?itok=_fRKuRcM "Engraving by J.C. Buttre/Library of Congress")
Vita: Edward Everett
Brief life of a statesman-orator: 1794-1865
Bill Gates, Inside the Gates
Walter Isaacson on "complete rejectionist" Bill Gates at Harvard College—and the birth of personal-computer software
An Artful Business
Where inspired artists meet aspiring collectors
by Nell Porter-Brown
Capital Connections
An energetic alumni leader emphasizes her “ability to listen.”
Reexamining History
Photographer Diana Mara Henry ’69 publishes her collection Women on the Move.
by Kristen Strezo
Racing Past Antarctica
Rich Wilson ’72 circled the globe—nonstop, solo, under sail—and has written the tale.
by Craig Lambert
Vita: Henry Beston Sheahan
Brief life of a nature writer in a machine age: 1888-1968
by John Nelson
A Fever for Chèvre
The brothers Sandvoss moved from glitter to goat cheese.
by Steve Potter
Vita: Albert Bigelow
Brief life of an ardent pacifist: 1906-1993
by Steven Slosberg