IN MEMORIAM ANTONIO CALVO, a senior lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, died April 12 in New York City. His death was ruled a suicide. News reports quoted friends and students saying he was dismissed abruptly from his job (as a senior lecturer, he did not have tenure) and faced the loss of his U.S. visa. A University spokeswoman said Calvo, 45, was on leave at the time of his death, but would not comment further. Additional information could not be confirmed at press time.
Calvo joined the faculty in 2000. He was named director of the department’s summer program in Toledo, Spain, in 2007. He became director of the Spanish language program in 2008, and also was a Butler College academic adviser.
Actress BROOKE SHIELDS ’87 will be the Class Day speaker May 30. “Ms. Shields knows exactly what we have experienced over the past four years,” said Nikhil Basu Trivedi ’11, Class Day co-chairman. Shields majored in Romance languages and literatures, with a focus on French literature, and graduated with honors; she was a member of the Triangle Club and Cap and Gown. During her own Class Day, members of the Class of ’87 wore a button that read: “Yes, I went to Princeton. No, I never met her.”
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8 Years AgoThe report that Brooke Shields ’87 would be this year’s Class Day speaker (Campus Notebook, May 11) mentioned the buttons worn by many of Ms. Shields’ classmates at her own Commencement. To provide some additional background:
When on break away from Princeton during my freshman year (1985–86), I often found that, upon learning that I attended Princeton, new acquaintances would ask, “Do you know Brooke Shields”? Unable to truthfully answer “yes,” I came up with some pat answers (e.g. “Brooke who?”), but repeatedly answering the question grew tiresome.
Surmising that many other Princeton students felt likewise, and having noticed that seemingly every group or activity at Princeton merited a T-shirt, I decided to utilize that medium to help my similarly beleaguered fellows publicly air their weariness — and to help pay for the plane ticket for a leave-of-absence year abroad I’d decided to take in 1986–87. Although I’d never heard of things like “right of publicity,” I still thought it best to avoid specifically naming Ms. Shields, and chose instead to use the more innocuous “her,” concluding that my target audience would know exactly to whom “her” referred (see photo below).
Before leaving the country, I spent freshman week on campus, sleeping on a friend’s couch and hawking my wares. The latter was done somewhat surreptitiously: Not being the Student T-Shirt Agency, I lacked the University’s blessing to sell on campus. The shirts were a hit, netting about an 80 percent return on investment, and evidently inspired the buttons mentioned in The New York Times article about ’87’s graduation — and in the aforementioned PAW blurb. My only regret was not making more shirts.