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Volume 61, Number 1, Fall 1998

Departments			Features
Letters to the Editor President's Page Rochester in Review Photo: Book learning in Rush Rhees Library In brief: freshman class, new trustees, University Press, and more Rochester Quotes Photo: Sesqui is coming Sports: Sports complex to get overhaul; winter and spring wrap-ups Review Point: Eric Hanushek, professor of economics and public policy Alumni Review Sesquicentennial celebration: dates and preliminary plans Alumni Relations gets new director Mary-Frances Winters '73, '82S (MBA), Hutchison medalist Katherine Hayles '77 (PhD), distinguished scholar awardee Bob Witmer '59, Armstrong Alumni Award winner VAN alumni recruit Rochester's best and brightest Lambda builds alumni momentum June reunion photo report Alumni Gazette Mr. Good Vibes: Ted Piltzecker '72E Taking bankruptcy out of the closet: Trudy Nowak '76 Trusting your instincts: Joyce Masur Buell '68 Magic maker: Michael Kanfer '80 Women's hall of famer: Mary Steichen Calderone '39M (MD) Making (sound) waves: Ilene Busch Vishniac '75 Class Notes River Campus Undergraduate River Campus Graduate Eastman School of Music School of Medicine and Dentistry School of Nursing In Memoriam Class Acts: NY Times man reports; master's degree 65 years later; and more Alumni Relations: Four generations of Vedders In Appreciation: Dan Stoller '66 The buzz on the Yellowjacket Club Books & Recordings by alumni and faculty Recommended Reading After/Words Bob Ludwig '66E, disk master to the stars Alumni Association Announcements Deferred giving opportunities Fall 1998 Reunion for Classes of '83, '84, '88, '89, '93-'98 Travel Alumni benefits			Special Report: Bridging the Cultural Gap Between Poverty and Medicine by Tom Rickey "We need to do a better job of teaching our young physicians the 'art part' of dealing with people in poverty," says the head of pediatric emergency medicine at the Medical Center's Strong Memorial Hospital. Jim Pawelczyk's Excellent Adventure by Steve Bradt When Jim Pawelczyk '82 was a junior, his swim coach set him to researching the mechanics of competitive swimming. And that, it seems, is how he got started on a career that put him aboard the 25th flight of space shuttle Columbia. Ed Gibson '59, Rochester's first astronaut Author, Author! by Sally Parker Literary scholar Bette London examines the practice of automatic writing--the transcription of spirit messages received from beyond the grave. It is, she says, one of the unorthodox routes to authorship taken by women writers of the not-so-distant past. 125 Years of "Workings and History" Through a series of changes in name, literary style, and editorial slant, the Campus Times hits its century-and-a-quarter mark. It's celebrated on these pages with excerpts culled from 125 years of student newspapering. 1997-1998: A Year in Review From the discovery of a novel way of producing DNA, to new alliances in health care and music education, to national and international conferences on the Congress, quantum optics, and Robin Hood--a look back at the academic year just past.

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