May/June 2010

Features

COVER STORY

Tales from the Lake

Romantic rendezvous! Wildlife encounters! Midnight adventures! A recreational destination for decades, Lagunita has been the setting for pranks, parties and plain old fun. Alumni share some
of their favorite memories from the “little lake.”

Diplomacy 2.0

From Hollywood stars to Iraqi street kids, Jared Cohen, ’04, may be the most well-connected person on Earth. Now he’s combining who he knows with what he knows to create a new style of international relations that is changing how the United States wins friends and influences events.

You Say Up, I Say Yesterday

Provocative new research by psychologist Lera Boroditsky raises questions about the role language plays in shaping human thinking. Her controversial studies show that the words we use and the meanings we attach can alter our perception of the world.

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Full of Memories

The Farm pond

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

Our Best Investment: Students

Investing in students

1,000 WORDS

Down Time

END NOTE

Gramma's Day

To Gramma, with thanks

Red All Over

Farm Report

Planet Cardinal

PURSUITS

Flock Party

The happy noise of endangered birds

ON THE JOB

Captain Kiwi

Ryan Nelsen leads New Zealand into the World Cup.

Showcase

Made in Sausalito

'A simple thing, done well'

All in the Timing

Humor becomes her

Class Notes

Profiles

SPOTLIGHT: NANCY VEITCH COOKE DE HERRERA, '43

TM Believer

TIME CAPSULE: MARGARET "PEGGY" CARSTENSEN, '67, AND WALTER STAMM, '67

Well Met by Moonlight

SPOTLIGHT: DAVID GONZALES, '73

Thinking Past the Lockup

SPOTLIGHT: SAM FULD, '04

Majoring in Baseball

Farewells

Block S Benefactor

Nancy Barry Munger

Discloser and Activist

Dennis deLeon

Eager Teacher

Adam Cohen

Online Exclusives