Essay: An American Appetite
Food has always been the center of my world. Growing up in New York City in the ’80s, I was raised on my French mother’s home cooking, coming of age with gorgeously gooey gratins, an abiding affinity for duck fat, and an admitted sense of bread snobbery. Read »
Essay: Getting to the 10th
I can’t imagine a more formative decade than the one that takes us from age 22 to 32. As my friends and I made plans to return for our 10th reunion, we stood on our own — adults, finally! — far from the children we didn’t realize we still were when we mar Read »
Extending Educational Opportunity: Ricardo Fernández '70
After Ricardo Fernández *70 earned his doctorate in Romance languages and literatures at Princeton, he thought he would spend his career teaching Spanish. But he stayed only two years in his first position, as an assistant professor at Marquette, before t Read »
Kaz Regelman '89: Follow the Fromage
“How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?” asked Charles de Gaulle in 1962. When Kazz Regelman ’89 read that quote just after moving to France, it became the inspiration for her blog, A Year in Fromage (www.ayearinfromage.com). Every Read »
Profile: George Harrington Butts '08
George Harrington Butts ’08 began acting professionally when he was 6 years old, though his first stage appearance came about by accident. While his older brother was singing in the Metropolitan Opera’s Children’s Chorus, young George sat quietly in the c Read »
Still at the Helm: Richard Scudder '35
Richard Scudder ’35 was born into the Fourth Estate, grandson of the founder of New Jersey’s Newark Evening News. Now, at age 93, he is still an energetic media man and an active partner in MediaNews Group, the company he cofounded when he was 70 years ol Read »
