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	<title>The Wesleyan Connection &#187; alumni</title>
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		<title>Parents, Alumni Celebrate Homecoming/Family Weekend with Students</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/parents-alumni-celebrate-homecomingfamily-weekend-with-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 5,000 parents, alumni and friends came to campus Nov. 6-8 to celebrate Homecoming/Family Weekend. This year&#8217;s theme was &#8220;Come Home!&#8221; Event photos are posted on the HCFW website.
&#8220;Every year, I hear from alumni, parents and students that Homecoming/Family Weekend gets better and better,&#8221; says Gemma Fontanella Ebstein, associate vice president for external relations. &#8220;We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wetherhead &#8217;98 Shines in Off-Broadway Musical</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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Kate Wetherhead ’98 currently stars in the off-Broadway musical Ordinary Days with a score by Adam Gwon and directed by Mark Bruni. The show deals the lives and troubles of four young people living in New York City. In a positive review in The New York Times, Charles Isherwood says the show “captures with stinging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Traces Friendship Between Math Teacher Joffray &#8217;50 and Student</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Calculus of Friendship (Princeton University Press), Cornell University professor Steven Strogatz chronicles the moving story of the friendship he developed with his former high school math teacher, Don Joffray ’50, over 30 years through the exchange of letters between them. For a long time, their friendship revolved almost entirely on a shared love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Levy &#8217;96 Considers Feminism in Books About American Women</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/levy-96-considers-feminism-in-books-about-american-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Nov. 16 issue of The New Yorker, staff writer Ariel Levy ’96 looks at two new books: When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (Little Brown) by Gail Collins, and You’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe: Sarah, Michelle, Hillary and the Shaping of the New American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brenner &#8217;92 Co-edits Book on Spiritual and Psychological Care in Disaster Relief Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grant Brenner ’92, Daniel Bush and Joshua Moses are co-editors of Creating Spiritual and Psychological Resilience: Integrating Care in Disaster Relief Work (Routledge), which explores the interface between spiritual and psychological care in the context of disaster recovery work, drawing upon recent disasters including the experiences of Sept. 11, 2001.
The book contains three sections structured around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pollitt &#8217;43 Receives State Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Rockwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Pollitt ’43, University of North Carolina Kenan Professor Emeritus and longtime civil-liberties and civil-rights advocate, was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, one of the state’s highest honors, last summer.
Nominated for the award by state Sen. Floyd McKissick Jr., whose father, Floyd McKissick Sr., worked with Pollitt on a number of civil-rights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melillo &#8217;65 Says Biofuels Emit More Co2 Than Gasoline</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/melillo-65-says-biofuels-emit-more-co2-than-gasoline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Rockwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Melillo ’65, a senior scientist at the U.S. Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., says in a study published in Science that the new generation of biofuels will actually emit more carbon dioxide, averaged over the first three decades of this century, than gasoline—although the fuels were meant to be a low-carbon alternative.
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carter &#8217;88 Speaks on &#8216;Green the Ghetto&#8217; at Dwight Greene Symposium</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/04/carter-88-speaks-on-green-the-ghetto-at-dwight-greene-symposium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Majora Carter ’88 delivered the keynote address titled &#8220;Green the Ghetto and How Much It Won’t Cost Us&#8221; during the 17th Annual Dwight L. Greene Symposium Nov. 7 in Memorial Chapel.
Carter is the founder of Sustainable South Bronx and River Heroes, host of Eco-Heroes on Sundance Channel and The Promised Land on National Public Radio.
Carter founded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Andrus &#8217;33 Turns 100</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/10/27/john-andrus-33-turns-100/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Photos courtesy of Megan Kelly &#8216;06)

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		<title>Blakemore &#8217;65 Speaks on Psychologies of Global Warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four weeks before the nations meet in Copenhagen to try to avert the catastrophes that global warming may bring, ABC News Correspondent William Blakemore &#8217;65 will identify many surprising psychological factors at play as people in all walks of life deal with the latest &#8220;hard news&#8221; on climate.
Blakemore will speak on &#8220;The Many Psychologies of [...]]]></description>
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