Nell Porter-Brown
New England Regional | January-February 2005
Casbah Nights
It is strangely joyful to walk down the narrow, Colonial-era streets of Charlestown, lit by vintage-style gas lamps, and through the doors of...
New England Regional | January-February 2005
Back to School
Christoph H. Schmidt '55 and his wife, Babette, initially retired to their summer home in Cushing, Maine, but after several years, they moved...
Alumni | January-February 2005
Edward Conlon Blue Blood NYPD
Edward Conlon '87 cruises the streets of the South Bronx in an unmarked car looking out for Angel, an 18-year-old drug dealer suspected in the...
Up Next | September-October 2003
Where Next for Healthcare
Howard M. Spiro '44, M.D. '47, went to medical school partly because his father and grandfather told him to. "And in the 1940s," he...
New England Regional | July-August 2003
Making Things Happen
Last fall, World War II veteran Lawrence Lader '41 and several octogenarian Harvard classmates marched in uniform in front of the White House to...
Hooray for Harvardwood
Alumni in Hollywood rolled out the red carpet for 14 undergraduates who flew to Tinseltown during intersession for "Harvardwood 101,...
The Road to Romance
"I'm at that age where I'm crossing the threshold from high-school-fantasy concepts of romance to the brutal, painful, hopeless world of adult...
The Originals
During a late-night bull session at Winthrop House in 1965, Harvard undergraduates Jeff C. Tarr '66 and Vaughan Morrill '66 dreamed up what was...
New England Regional | January-February 2003
The Joys of Adult Education
Nearly 30 years after his college graduation, John W. Cobb '49, Gp '94, finally hunkered down to tackle what he'd always wanted to learn:...
New England Regional | January-February 2003
Milan in the Back Bay
It was a fluke—not happenstance, but the fish—that epitomized our visit to Via Matta, the stylish new restaurant across the street...
Alumni | January-February 2003
At Home on the Range
Harvard brothers tend to a cattle ranch in Wyoming
Alumni | January-February 2003
A "portion of the People"
When Dale and Theodore Rosengarten sent out the invitations to their son's bar mitzvah in 1993, their northern friends and family members barely...