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Reflections from the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1975
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02-20-2025
Vic Wulsin (aka Victoria Wells) has devoted her life to creating and championing public health programs, in the States and abroad. Now her work is under assault.
01-28-2025
Corey Raffel talks to his old junior and senior high school friend and Harvard classmate Sarah Webster Goodwin about his thrilling — and sometimes harrowing — life as a pediatric brain surgeon.
01-06-2025
From Shirley Chisholm’s Brooklyn to Pennepacker Hall, Eric Garvanne arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1971 in his family’s yellow Ford Galaxy station wagon, the drivers’ door secured with a small brown extension cord. What Eric mostly remembers is his father lugging his heavy trunk on his shoulders, beaming with pride as he met Eric’s roommate and family.
11-27-2024
“My father used to wake me up when the Marx Brothers came on the late movie on TV, so I started dressing up as Groucho when I was 10, and I never really stopped,” psychiatrist David Goldbloom tells classmate Jeff Melvoin in this episode of PasstheMic.
11-18-2024
JoAnn Manson talks to former roommate and fellow physician Gloria Wu about her work on the Women’s Health Initiative — the largest study ever conducted on the effects of estrogen on post-menopausal women.
10-15-2024
In 1975, Crimson reporter Sarah Crichton gave a critical review to a play written by classmate Peter Lawson Jones. Nearly fifty years later, Peter gets his revenge—and see who’s laughing now.
10-07-2024
Psychiatrist and author Mark Epstein talks to classmate Amy Spies about how he stumbled into a lifelong fascination with Buddhism and meditation during his freshman year—thanks to a cool TA in purple bell-bottom cords and Karmu (né Edgar Warner), a local car mechanic and self-taught healer.
07-13-2024
In conversation with Catherine Puglisi, Kim Hays confesses all about how a lifetime of international travel led to murder—and literary fame.
06-29-2024
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.’
05-17-2024
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.
04-14-2024
Nancy Sato talks to Louise Gessel about the origins of her lifelong fight for equity, starting in the athletics arena at Harvard.
02-18-2024
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.
02-03-2024
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.
12-06-2023
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.
11-28-2023
Brigid Williams talks to David Goldbloom about her lifelong love of architecture.
11-10-2023
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.
11-03-2023
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.
11-03-2023
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.
09-04-2023
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.
07-17-2023
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.
05-30-2023
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.
05-16-2023
Michael Bromwich talks to Quincy House roommate David Goldbloom about his life’s work in the criminal justice system.
05-05-2023
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.
03-27-2023
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.
03-10-2023
Deborah Frost talks to Joy Horowitz about the origins of her rock ‘n roll obsession.
03-08-2023
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.”
02-06-2023
Harold Hongju Koh talks with Will Englund about how his father’s legacy defined his life as both diplomat and academic.
12-12-2022
Joan Porter MacIver talks to Sukie Taylor Amory about helping restore looted treasures to a new museum in Basra, Iraq.
12-09-2022
Greg Pennington talks to Joy Horowitz about what happens when we slow down enough to appreciate each other—and the awe that sometimes ensues.
11-20-2022
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.