February 2025

Filmmaker Cecilia Peck ’80 earns praise for exposing cults in true crime documentaries while safeguarding trauma survivors

Remembering alumni who died in the past year

Janet Currie *88, Princeton professor of economics and public affairs, led the research

Rev. Jonas King h*1832

‘There were so many things that he did for people,’ says friend Burton Smith ’77. ‘He spread as much joy as he could in so many places’

’At the heart of it, beneath that textured exterior, was a little kid who loved baseball, who loved ballparks, and who loved cities”

Friend and fellow geologist Tom Holzer ’65 called Hanks a terrific conversationalist with “tremendous integrity”

‘Today, there are people who claim connoisseurship who have not seen one-tenth of the number of paintings as Fu Shen’

‘Some people come out of a trauma stronger,’ said his son, Moorhead ’Mark’ Kennedy III ’79

No one is quite sure how a coffee table Olsen designed ended up in ’Animal House’

‘He was meticulously fair-minded. He saw his job as laying out the facts. I never heard him trash any politician’

’We just really want to make a change,’ Srinivasan said of the Greening Reunions group in 2023

‘Chris was a brilliant dude in many ways — visual artist, music, academics,’ says Jason Camillos ’90

To obtain the accurate insights needed to slow HIV transmission, Cotts Watkins devised an innovative methodology

‘He made himself one of the truly important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries,’ says Michael Fried ’59, an art historian, critic, and lifelong friend

’He was like a lightning bolt that streaked across all of our lives,’ wrote his high school position coach Lance Strother

Each night at Late Meal, hungry undergrads find food and community

Students learn ‘a whole landscape of the subject. It’s a crash course,’ says visiting fellow Alex Kontorovich ’02 

The regular season champion will advance to the postseason, which the Tigers have never participated in

Elyse Graham ’07 says dirty tricks surrounding library access go back centuries

Two letter-writing alums are locked in a friendly but (until now) unspoken competition