1953
1953 content overview
Sharon Gamson Danks ’93 Is Building Safer, Greener Playgrounds
Danks’ Green Schoolyards America aims to teach children environmental policy through age-appropriate play
Following John McPhee ’53 to Alaska
Ben Weissenbach ’20’s new book is North to the Future: An Offline Adventure through the Changing Wilds of Alaska
New Book Chronicles the Career of Prolific Writer and Professor John McPhee ’53
Looking for a Story offers the first comprehensive inventory of the Princeton professor’s writings, beginning with his high school and college works
Al Siegel ’53 Captured a Pivotal Moment
Siegel’s photographs of poor living conditions in Maryland helped prompt new housing in 1969
Lives: Ernst Reese ’53
He Fought to Protect Oceans and Ecosystems in Hawaii
Q&A: Ann Tashi Slater ’84 and John McPhee ’53 on the Creative Process
‘That muscle memory produces the semi-conscious effect of being in the zone, hitting one shot after another’
Exhibit Canceled After Dispute Between Library and Donor
The two disagreed over a plan to display work by artists with Confederate ties
Literary Season’s Greetings: PAW Staff Recommends Alumni Books
Having trouble picking a book by a Princeton alum to read? PAW has you covered.
Lives: Karl Meyer *53 *56
He Chronicled An Era’s Biggest Events
Lives: Matt Herron ’53
A Journalist and Activist Who Kept Learning
PAWcast: Jordan Bimm on the Legacy of Astronaut Pete Conrad ’53
‘Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me’
Relationships That Endure
Alumni and their mentors reflect on guidance, wisdom, and friendship
Lives: Lincoln Brower ’53
He Knew the Secrets of the Monarchs
Leonard Milberg ’53 Helps Return 16th-Century Texts to Rightful Home
Lives: E. Alden Dunham ’53
He helped build modern Princeton
Mississippi Eyes
Matt Herron ’53 remembers the summer of 1964, when he led a seminal photography project to capture the story of civil rights in the South
Writing with the Master
For Princeton journalists, praise from John McPhee was — and is — the ultimate reward
Pete Conrad ’53, Princeton’s Man on the Moon
From the PAW Archives: November 1969




















