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Last year, new developments roused our country’s crisis of conscience vis-a-vis the trial and execution of Ethel Rosenberg. 

Michael Meeropol ’64 (nee Rosenberg) and brother Robert, orphaned in 1953 by the execution of their parents, Julius and Ethel, served up a New York Times op-ed column in August. “Exonerate our mother, Ethel Rosenberg,” they wrote, addressing President Obama. Their plea was published a month after original grand-jury testimony was unsealed that reaffirmed perjury by the prosecution’s star witness, Ethel’s younger brother, David Greenglass.

Nick Lum ’04’s startup won the $50,000 Microsoft Education Award at the Tech Awards.

The elevator was slow. 

By the time it delivered Denise Dennis ’72 to the second floor, the other guests at the preview gala for the “Through the African American Lens” exhibition had already entered the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) gallery space.

“You have to learn not to gesticulate when holding a fountain pen,” cautions Tomoko Sakomura, associate professor of art history, who once ruined a colleague’s shirt with splattered ink. 

However, many Swarthmoreans consider the occasional stain a small price to pay for the beauty and power this writing implement bestows.

On a summer night in 2012, Don Mitchell ’69 leaned forward, scarcely daring to breathe. These were his 150 acres of Vermont farm, fields, and woods—had been since 1972—but tonight, they felt different. 

He felt different. 

Three years earlier, he’d surprised himself by agreeing to work with state fish and wildlife officials to help a rare Vermont population of Indiana bats recover—a species that had been federally declared endangered since 1967. 

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Janet Smith Warfield ’58 was named the 2015 Most Prominent Professional in the Field of Consciousness Education.

Scenes from this fall's Garnet Family and Homecoming Weekend.

Edward Keenan ’59 won the 2015 S.-Y. Kuroda Prize for Lasting Contributions to the Mathematics of Language. 

Versatility is no mystery to Alan Gordon ’81.