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THE WEEKLY BLOG
Weiner '91 on 'best friends'
Jennifer Weiner ’91’s new novel, Best Friends Forever, tells the story of childhood friends Valerie Adler and Addie Downs, who become estranged during their teenage years and reunite 15 years later ... READ MORE
Jennifer Weiner ’91’s new novel, Best Friends Forever, tells the story of childhood friends Valerie Adler and Addie Downs, who become estranged during their teenage years and reunite 15 years later ... READ MORE
Top Stories:
Tiger of the Week:
A look back at our 2008-09 honorees
A look back at our 2008-09 honorees
Cover Story
Reunions 2009
By Katherine Federici Greenwood, photographs by Beverly Schaefer and Frank Wojciechowski
Herb Hobler ’44 has attended every one of his reunions save for 1945, when the event wasn’t held. Twenty-two of his classmates never had the opportunity to return; they died during World War II. So Hobler, class president and reunion chairman, devoted his class’s 65th reunion May 28–31 to bringing back the memory of those men. From a moving...
Read moreSeeking financial stability in an uncertain economy
University begins review of investment strategy
Published in the July 15, 2009, issue
President Tilghman told alumni at Reunions that Princeton was likely to end the fiscal year June 30 with a 25 percent decrease in the value of its endowment, which was $16.3 billion a year earlier. In April, Tilghman had said the University was planning for...Read moreTeaching for America
Young alumni provide a lifeline for poor schools — and get a lesson in humility
Published in the July 15, 2009, issue
NEW ORLEANS — Well before the first bell rings at Walter L. Cohen High School, Emily Farley ’08 bustles around her classroom — the one with the black-and-orange PRINCETON 2008 banner on the back wall — writing the day’s “agenda” for her freshman math and...Read moreStories from the front: Alumni share their wartime experiences
Published in the July 15, 2009, issue
PAW invited alumni to share their accounts of a memorable wartime experience. Their responses follow, ranging from the dramatic rescue of a group of French schoolchildren to a “mini-reunion” in a cold tent in Korea. If you would like to share an experience,...Read more
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Web Bonus Links
A Princeton career, in six words
PAW partnered with the Class of 2009 to ask seniors for their "six-word memoirs." Read their responses, and send your own to PAW!
PAW partnered with the Class of 2009 to ask seniors for their "six-word memoirs." Read their responses, and send your own to PAW!
‘Trial by fire’
Read the accounts of four 2008 graduates who joined Teach for America and kept journals or blogs of their first-year teaching experiences.
Read the accounts of four 2008 graduates who joined Teach for America and kept journals or blogs of their first-year teaching experiences.
Irreverent Couric talks to seniors
News anchor Katie Couric pokes fun at Tiger targets in her Class Day talk.
News anchor Katie Couric pokes fun at Tiger targets in her Class Day talk.
Free choice
View videos of mathematician John Conway's lectures on free will, with a brief commentary on each one.
View videos of mathematician John Conway's lectures on free will, with a brief commentary on each one.
Sotomayor '76 at Princeton
Alumni describe Sonia Sotomayor '76's years on campus.
Alumni describe Sonia Sotomayor '76's years on campus.
Web Exclusives
In from the cold: Surprising parts of the past come alive at Reunions.
Alumni Connections
Reactivating regional associations from Brazil to the Netherlands.
Reactivating regional associations from Brazil to the Netherlands.
On the Campus: Fun time
Seniors' Class Day speeches emphasize laughs, Isia Jasiewicz '10 writes.
Seniors' Class Day speeches emphasize laughs, Isia Jasiewicz '10 writes.
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