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Breaking Barriers: Working and Loving While Blind
Check out Peter Altschul's new book. Peter was born blind. This memoir reveals Peter’s journey through blindness as he teams with his five guide dogs to overcome personal challenges and eventually discovers love, success, and happiness. You can find details and purchase the book through his website. |
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Classmates in PAW
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3/23/11 -- Bill Ford sees a greener future for cars.Check out page 9 or here. Bill spoke at the Friend Center on February 15. (Check this out also.) |
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12/8/10 -- Cover and Page 26: Richard Morse - Into Haiti's Heart
Read about Rick's life in Haiti, his band RAM, and his life's story.See also: Richard Morse tweets from Haiti - Classmate Richard Morse, manager of the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince and long-time resident of Haiti, reports on life during and after the earthquake. See the PAW article in the Feb 24, 2010 PAW (page 33), or read the online article. Also check out this article. |
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12/8/10 -- Page 14: David E. Kelley Speaks On Campus
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - 5 PM
For any of you who were unable to be on campus to hear David Kelley in a conversation with Broadway theater owner Jordan Roth '97 about his life and work, you can read the article or check out Princeton.edu/arts and The Lewis Center. This was held at the James M. Stewart '32 Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street and was presented by Performance Central. And check out David's Wikipedia page. |
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Katherine Mosby has several books in print
Private Altars, published by Random House, winner of the Book of the Month Award for Fiction, finalist Discover Award for First Fiction, The Season of Lillian Dawes, published by Harper Collins, New York Times Notable Book 2002, The Book of Uncommon Prayer, published by Harper San Francisco, and Twilight, published by Harper Collins. |
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Phil Witte's 2 Books are out
The first book, entitled What you don't know about turning 50; A funny birthday quiz was published in November 1999. It sells for $6. If you are one of us who is turning 50, or who already has, this book is invaluable. Well, OK, at least it will ease the pain. The second book, published in February 2006, is entitled What you don't know about turning 60; A funny birthday quiz (also $6). Phil is also a freelance cartoonist (Wall Street Journal, Barron's,
and other publications).
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Christine Brady and The Americas Foundation in PAW
In case you missed it, the September 27, 2007 PAW had an Alumni Spotlight on our own Christine Brady and her work in Tijuana. The Americas Foundation has been a class service project since our 15th Reunion; quite a few classmates have contributed money, supplies and sweat equity to help build Christine's schools. She was the recipient of the United Nations Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award in October 2005. You can read the article from PAW or find out more about The Americas Foundation, or view some recent construction photos or email Christine.
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The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law - Mark Herrmann's New Book
Check out Mark Herrmann's new book on the American Bar Association website at the ABA store. Read Mark's Bio here.
 Listen to an interview with the author Mark Herrmann. (10:35)
Listen to the author read a sample from the book. (19:46)
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Would You Buy A New Car From This Classmate?
That is the question that Time Magazine asks about Bill Ford on the cover of the January 30, 2006 issue. Read the articles about Bill's plans to remake Ford as a green car company that can compete with Toyota. Read about Ford's history and get a sneak peak at their 2007 products. Then ask Bill a question via the bulletin board they have there and return later for his response. Note: This article appeared before Bill the Chairman fired Bill the CEO. Now how do you explain that to your wife!
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Steve Norris and the California Supreme Court
Steve Norris writes: "I won the first appeal I argued before the California Supreme Court!! I was really worried about it, but it was a positive outcome for Unocal. My argument has also been recorded on the Supreme Court website." Read about it here.
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Go-To Guy Joe Jackson
University of Florida Law Professor Joe Jackson has become the Go-To Guy for both the homeless and local law enforcement who deal with the homeless in Gainesville, Florida. Read all about it.
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Alexander Wolff on the cover of Sports Illustrated
The Other Game is a fascinating story by Alex Wolff about a small shoe company called And1 which grew, through somewhat uncoventional means, to be second only to Nike in the number of NBA players endorsing its product. And it's redefining basketball in the process. Read the article for all the details, and check out the And1 Mix Tape Tour and the 15 member And1 Troupe if it comes to your town.
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Valerie Erwin Opens New Philadelphia Restaurant
Classmate Valerie Erwin opens a new restaurant in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood. The Geechee Girl Rice Cafe is located at 5946 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA and on the web at www.GeecheeGirlRiceCafe.com. Read about it in the Class Notes section of the March 21, 2005 PAW.
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Andrew Moore's Photos in Green Light Magazine
There is a new "cultural commentary publication for the Princeton University community." The innaugural issue was February 2005 and contains two photos by our own Andrew Moore. They are "Baby Bear" on page 17 and "End of the Line, Sakhalin Island" on page 39. Check them out, and the rest of the magazine as well. More info at www.greenlightmagazine.org.
His first book, Inside Havana, the culmination of a four year project in Cuba, was published in 2002. His second book, tentatively titled Russia: After Utopia, is due out this fall. This is a collection of photos taken in Russia over a five year period. He is also the producer and cinematographer for the film How to Draw a Bunny, a documentary about the artist Ray Johnson, which won a Special Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and is now avalable on DVD from Palm Pictures. Andrew teaches Introductory and Digital Photography at Princeton.
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A Moment with Andrea Jung
Read an interview with Andrea Jung, CEO of Avon Products, on the last page of the February 23, 2005 issue of PAW.
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Jennifer Schwamm Willis's New Book
The Book of Wizards and Pirates: Swashbuckling Stories from the Seven Seas is Jennifer Schwamm Willis's new book.
To find other books by Jennifer, see Barnes and Noble or Amazon.com, or the Google search page.
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Rob Goldberg - Renaissance Man
The 2/23/2005 issue of PAW On-Line has a spotlight article on Rob Goldberg. The subtitle: Rob Goldberg ’79 produces award-winning documentaries, plays in a band, and coaches kids basketball. The article describes Rob's documentary film-making, including an Emmy nomination in 1996 for National Geographic’s Beauty and the Beasts about wildlife, and his win of the Best Writer prize at the Jackson Hole Film Festival in 2001 for Discovery’s The Burning Sands, a series about deserts. He also still plays lead guitar and writes songs for The Voltaires, who you may have heard at out 25th Reunion. And he's a soccer day and a basketball coach.
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Sara Laschever's Book Women Don't Ask Receives Accolades
Fortune Magazine just named Sara's book, Women Don't Ask: Negotiation And The Gender Divide, one of the "75 Smartest Books" they know. The list appears in Fortune's March 21, 2005 issue (the 75th anniversary issue) and puts it in pretty heady company. Other books on the list include:
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1513)
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, Chapter 12 by John Maynard Keynes (1936)
- The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith (1955)
- The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker (1966)
- Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy (1969)
- The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam (1972)
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro (1974)
- Den of Thieves by James Stewart (1991)
- The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (1997)
- Personal History by Katharine Graham (1997)
- Never Give In: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches (2003)
- And many others ranging from The Art of War by Sun Tzu (circa 500 B.C.) to Anthony Trollope's novel The Way We Live Now (1875) and Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000).
Here's the link to read the article:
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fortune75/articles/0,15114,1034780,00.html. See the item below (5 items down) for the original mention of Sara's book. |
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 John Gartner's New Book The Hypomanic Edge
Are Americans rich because they're nuts?
That's the thesis of a new book, The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (a Little) Craziness and (a Lot of) Success in America, by John D. Gartner, a psychotherapist and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School. America may be the dominant force in the global economy because we're a nation made of somewhat Crazy Eddies—gonzo businessmen and -women who may be genetically predisposed to take big-time risks. Thus begins the review of John's new book on Slate. An excellent review of an interesting book. Perhaps it should be required reading for all budding CEOs. (It also references Meg Whitman '77 toward the end.)
UPDATE: John's book was reviewed in the New York Times Magazine, December 11, 2005. Read the article.
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Andrea Jung in Newsweek (January 3, 2005)
She moved a tired brand upmarket and created a global powerhouse. Now Jung's name is cropping up on shortlists for bigger jobs. Who'll be knocking on her door next? So starts the article in Newsweek about Andrea Jung and her career at Avon. Since taking over as CEO in 1999, sales are up 45% and the stock price is up 164%. (If only she had told me to buy some?) Check out the article, including speculation on where she'll wind up next, in Newsweek (the one with Barak Obama on the cover).
For other items on Andrea, see Time.com Global Influentials, Gold Sea Asian Wonder Women, Wharton (Business School) Women in Business, The State.com, where she is profiled just below Meg Whitman '77 (eBay CEO and benefactor of the new Whitman College being built where the tennis courts used to be), Andrea's Opening Statement at a McKinsey & Co Roundtable on China, and a short biography.
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Terry Silverlight's New Book, and in Electronic Musician, April 2004
Read the article on classmate Terry Silverlight's career in the April 2004 issue of Electronic Musician, or view it online here.
And some recent news. Terry's new drum book, The Featured Drummer, has just been released by Music Sales/Amsco/G.Schirmer. It's accompanied by an audio CD of Terry playing the exercises along with his brother Barry Miles (PU Class '69) and bassist John Patitucci (played with Chick Corea and Wayne Shorter among others). Visit Terry's Website and click on Drum Book on the left to find out more about the book. While there, check out his CDs. His newest, Wild!!, debuted to rave reviews! I've heard it; you should too.
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Bruce Kone in Paw (April 7, 2004)
This may not be the way you normally want to get into print, but there in an OnTheCampus piece in the April 7, 2004 issue of PAW by Tom Hale '04, which I believe references our Bruce Kone. The article talks about the inexpensive 'naming opportunites' on campus, namely carving your name into desks, walls, trees, etc. Apparently, in Firestone carrel number B-13-H-4 there is carved BCK '79. To the best of my ability to determine, the only BCK in our class is Bruce C. Kone. Now he's got his 15 minutes! |
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Women Don't Ask, Sara Laschever's New Book, Appears to Favorable Reviews
The book, published in October 2003, has been favorably covered by the New York Times, the Economist, Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, Glamour, Self, the London Times, the International Herald Tribune, and newspapers and magazines in France, Brazil, New Zealand, and Australia, as well as all over this country. Sara has appeared on CNN's "Dollar Signs" and CNNfn's "The Flip Side," as well as on NPR's "Here and Now" and local TV and radio stations in Boston, San Francisco, Dallas, Louisville, Kentucky, and many places in between. On March 29 she did a live interview on "The Brian Lehrer Show" on New York's NPR radio station, WNYC. The book was one of the leading business gift books in December and has been on the business book's bestseller list. It was Princeton University Press's best-selling title in 2003. Check out the book's website at Women Don't Ask. See also the Princeton University Press page on the book (and buy it there, or from Amazon.com), the Additional Comments page, the Princeton University Press catalog page (scroll down to the third page), and read the introduction. And see the University page announcing her lecture, the PAW Reading Room page from Jan 28, 2004 about the book, read a review from The Negotiator Magazine, from Business and Investing, from The Motley Fool, from Potentials Magazine, or from CBS's The Early Show, or read a conversation with the authors.
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Don Albert Chosen as One of Promo Magazine's Marketers of the Year
Working with Ebay as their senior director-business development of strategic partnerships, Don has helped Ebay move into the mainstream of corporate marketing. Read the whole story in Promo Magazine.
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Josh Hammer has a new book out on the Middle East
Josh Hammer, Newsweek's Jerusalem-based Middle East Bureau Chief, has a new book out: A Season in Bethlehem: Unholy War in a Sacred Place. This is mainly a reconstruction of events, pieced together from interviews conducted in the summer and fall of 2002 after a U.S.-European-brokered compromise ended a 39-day standoff between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli soldiers at Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. For more on this new book, check out the PAW article from the December 17, 2003 issue, or click here to read the online version. (You have to scroll down half the page.)
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Catesby Leigh on Italian Renaissance Architecture in PAW
The feature story in the November 19, 2003 PAW was written by our own Catesby Leigh. Go to the PAW page to check it out. [See also a previous article on Princeton architecture, from May 1999.]
See an item on Rick Curtis in the same issue.
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Nancy Herkness writes her first romance novel
A Bridge to Love delves into the emotions and daily life of Kate Chilton, a recently widowed soccer mom who makes a devastating discovery about her marriage and her husband — an affair he had during their marriage — when it is no longer possible to fix it or confront him. To begin to restore her self-confidence, Kate engineers a one-night stand with Randall Johnson, a Princeton alumnus she meets at a Princeton alumni picnic. (Webmaster's note: If this is too close to home, don't blame me.) Reviews have praised A Bridge to Love's "story of sexual tension and passion." Read more on the PAW page.
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Rene Gonzalez and 'Artificial Life'
Practice your emergency medicine skill on AirMan and SimMan, created by Rene Gonzalez and a coworker and marketed by Laerdal. Read about it here.
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Alexander Wolff and Basketball
Classmate Alex Wolff took a leave of absence from Sports Illustrated and wrote a book Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure. He spoke recently at a Princeton Varsity Club Coaches Luncheon. You can read more about his book, watch his move Hoop Dreams, which is at the heart of Chapter Seven in the book, and buy the book for yourself at the Big Game, Small World website. Don't miss it.
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Richard Pildes - Election Law Expert and TV Commentator
Rick Pildes made the PAW on January 24, 2001 with a Class Notes Feature about his media exposure helping to try to explain the litigation surrounding the events in Florida during this last Presidential election. Read the feature if you missed it in PAW.
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Robert Wright and World Government
Bob's new book, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, and his views on world government were profiled in The New Republic (January 17, 2000) and in the November 8, 2000 issue of PAW (page 52). Click here for a compendium of Bob's articles in The New Republic or click here for the PAW piece.
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Classmate Charles Riley makes PAW Class Notes feature
Charles Riley II, editor-in-chief of WE magazine is feature in the Class Notes Section of the May 17, 2000 Princeton Alumni Weekly. If you missed it, here is the text and photo.
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William Clay Ford, Jr. on the Cover of Fortune Magazine
Bill Ford's rise to the Chairman position at Ford Motor Company was highlighted in the cover story of the April 3, 2000 issue of Fortune Magazine. Two stories covered Bill's fight for the Chairmanship (Click Here) and an interesting study of Bill's development into the Chairman and the person he is today (Click Here).
Bill also made the cover of PAW on March 27, 2002.
And don't miss his TV commercials for Ford Motor Company!
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Andrea Jung Promoted to CEO at Avon Products
Nov 5, 1999: As reported in the New York Times on November 4, 1999, Andrea Jung '79 was recently promoted to CEO of Avon Products, where she had been the President and Chief Operating Officer for 18 months. She becomes the fourth female CEO at a Fortune 500 company and the second this year. She joins Carleton S. Florina at Hewlett Packard, Jill Barad at Mattell and Marion Sandler at Golden West Financial. Click here for the cover or go to the New York Times site, Click on Site Index on the left, then Archives (on the top or under Services) and search for jung avon "November 5, 1999" and access the full article (though they will charge you for this). I'm sure the entire class joins me in congratulating Andrea.
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