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In conversation with Catherine Puglisi, Kim Hays confesses all about how a lifetime of international travel led to murder—and literary fame.
Cora Yamamoto and Gary Mathews have loved dance ever since Laurence Welk was ‘sacred time’ in both their households. These classmates talk about Cora’s love for tango and how this dance form ‘is like life.’
Sarah Crichton talks to classmate Tom Yellin in a revealing two-part interview. In Part 1 she talks about her time at Harvard and her journey after college through the literary world in New York as a writer, editor and publisher. In Part 2 she returns to reveal something else, something crucial she left out of the first conversation, and that she has never talked about publicly before.
Nancy Sato talks to Louise Gessel about the origins of her lifelong fight for equity, starting in the athletics arena at Harvard.
David Hellerstein talks with classmate and fellow Clevelander Joy Horowitz about his wild ride as a psychedelic maven—how his practice in psychiatry has radically evolved over the past 40 years from psychoanalysis to brain imaging to personalized therapeutics.
Lloyd Blankfein talks to Tom Yellin about his PTSD from Goldman Sachs, his feelings of panic over his Expos writing assignment freshman year, and his overall assessment of the global financial crisis of 2008.
Dennis Corbett talks to classmate Yan Chow about what it takes to become an art detective — and why the value of a piece of art can be so elusive.
Mark Bransdorfer and Robert McIver remind us that you live as long as somebody speaks your name. Here, to keep his memory alive, they remember classmate Jeff Wright who died too soon.
Martha “Marni” Sandweiss talks with Susan Hodara about her lifelong obsession as a historian—and explains how one archival photograph opened up her understanding of the underpinnings of the West.
Greg and Gregg Stone remind us about life’s doppelgängers — and how two guys with the same name might have a few things in common beyond Harvard.
Wade Davis, the acclaimed ethnobotanist and National Geographic explorer-in-residence, can pinpoint the precise moment from his boyhood that created his obsession with the anthropology of cultural differences. “I remember coming alive at your bar mitzvah,” he tells his old school chum from Montreal and Harvard classmate, David Goldbloom, for this episode of PasstheMic75.
Writing teacher Mark Leib talks to classmate Joy Horowitz about the bruising realities of making a living as a writer these days — and the bliss of having his first novel published.
Donald Lurye talks to fellow physician Yan Chow about the surprising twists and turns of a life well-lived, including a return to the clarinet.
Michael Bromwich talks to Quincy House roommate David Goldbloom about his life’s work in the criminal justice system.
Phil Lazebnik talks about ancient Greece, Harpo Marx, and the importance of musical comedy with David Goldbloom, the antic star of Mad About Mintz, Phil’s fabled undergraduate musical whose meaning continues to elude them both.
James Kaye Doane talks to old pal Yan Chow about how serendipity and gratitude have defined his life path. And he answers the $64,000 question about Costco.
A funny thing happened to Rick Nance after he began working at a Cleveland law firm for The Man. As he tells classmate George Yeadon: “I kinda became The Man.”
Harold Hongju Koh talks with Will Englund about how his father’s legacy defined his life as both diplomat and academic.
Joan Porter MacIver talks to Sukie Taylor Amory about helping restore looted treasures to a new museum in Basra, Iraq.
Greg Pennington talks to Joy Horowitz about what happens when we slow down enough to appreciate each other—and the awe that sometimes ensues.
Cynthia Perrin Schneider reminds her Currier House freshman year suite mate Joy Horowitz that being rejected from clown school would lead to her rejection of Rembrandt in favor of a peripatetic life of cultural diplomacy.
Jonathan Sheffer talks to Sarah Crichton about drawing inspiration from the genius of Leonard Bernstein while the world-famous conductor and composer was living at Harvard to deliver his Norton Lecture series and his daughter Jamie was an undergraduate at Adams House.
Gloria Yu tells Cora Yamamoto why growing up in Cuba during the revolution played a major role in shaping her identity.
Gary Mathews talks to his old Hotel Continental roommate Yan Chow about how John Finley, the legendary humanities professor, shaped his life path that led him to Noh theater.
Roxane Zand talks to Sukie Taylor Amory about the remarkable twists and turns in her life, from being one of the very first Iranians to attend Harvard-Radcliffe to being the first Iranian appointed by the Queen to serve as a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of England, an honor established by, truly, Henry VIII.
Thom Krystofiak talks to Susan Hodara about how his belief that he could save the world through Transcendental Meditation led him on a lifelong exploration of trying to come to terms with himself as a skeptic.
Gordon Rutledge how are you? I haven’t spoken with you in more than a minute! I heard you moved to Oregon but couldn’t imagine what motivated such a midlife change of scenery. I, Dr. Verna Gibbs, can only say…… it’s not California (which has been good to me since 1979). So, what’s going on?
Logan Johnston , who passed away in 2022, talks to Joy Horowitz about being one of too many Roberts, Robs, Robbies and Bobs at Harvard and how the origins of his nickname (hint: think Boston airport) popped up one day in the Adams House dining hall.