When Janet Mills was elected our first female Governor of Maine last year, she brought with her a new wave of Commissioners. Her selection for Commissioner of the Department of Education is a business friend and colleague, Pender Makin, who promptly called me to ask if I would join her team at the Department. How […]
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Randy Head ’74
This July, Cambridge University Press published my latest book, a history of record keeping in Europe from 1400-1700. Indirectly inspired by the digital revolution, it looks at how changes in making, keeping and using documents helped support the rise of modern societies and politics. Meanwhile, I’m just back from the Canary Islands, where I served […]
Aloyse Blair Brown ’96
I am the first woman to run for Hamilton County Mayor in Tennessee and am told that my campaign had profound impact on peoples perceptions of local politics, what politicians look like, and who they are. I won the Democratic primary in May with 70% of the vote, but lost the general election in August […]
Will Shenton ’09
I’ve been loving my new job at The Richmond Neighborhood Center, a San Francisco nonprofit providing free and low-cost after-school programs, food pantries, home-delivered groceries for seniors, and neighborhood events. Since I last wrote in 2016, I became a founding member of the SF chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, and I’ve been proud […]
Jen Crittenden ’87
I continue to enjoy the privilege of working with JP Manoux, AKA Congressman Clarke, on VEEP. Jen Crittenden CdeP 1987
Lynn White ’59
Lynn has just published a book on the “Rural Roots of Reform before China’s Conservative Change*, available in either hardcover or paperback. Routledge, the publisher, offers this link at which the full text may be viewed by anyone for a few weeks. The book is dedicated to my students and teachers, including those whom I […]
Aloyse Blair ’96
Believe in a Better Tomorrow. I am a candidate for Mayor of Hamilton County in Tennessee. The primaries are in May and the general election is in August. I am the first woman to run for this office and am up against a good ol’ boy. Regardless of where you live, I need your support […]
Carrie Johnston ’88
I love living and teaching in Berkeley and feel lucky my kids are in Berkeley schools. When not teaching, reading, or hiking, I spend a lot of time writing postcards to voters; attending political meetings with other middle-aged middle class women; going to marches; and generally rabble-rousing. Our new family pastime (besides protesting) is Family […]
Randolph Head ’74
In November 2017, I traveled to Zurich to receive the Max Geilinger Prize, awarded for building cultural relations between Switzerland and the English-speaking world. Celebrating over lunch at a 300-year-old guild house was quite an experience. Randolph Head CdeP 1974
Amy Purdie White ’97
For the last year and a half I have been living in an RV with my husband and traveling the country while working remotely. In our travels I was able to catch up separately with classmates Jon Newman and Jaime Kellogg. Jaime and I reigned supreme in some competitive family card games which brought back […]