Editor
Emily Gold Boutilier
Alumni Editor
Betsy Cannon Smith ’84
Print Design Director
Ronn Campisi
Assistant Editor
Katherine Duke ’05
Senior Editor
Katharine Whittemore
Email us at: magazine@amherst.edu
Editor
Emily Gold Boutilier
Alumni Editor
Betsy Cannon Smith ’84
Print Design Director
Ronn Campisi
Assistant Editor
Katherine Duke ’05
Senior Editor
Katharine Whittemore
Email us at: magazine@amherst.edu
Bill Herz ’79 and his family logged a thousand miles across Poland to entertain a thousand Ukrainians. A writer came along for the ride.
A one-time editor of The Amherst Student is now president of his alma mater. Michael A. Elliott ’92 answers our questions about who he is, what he believes and why he came back.
In eight interviews over 14 years, this biographer sought to understand an optimistic, vulnerable, complicated man.
Two Mead Art Museum acquisitions, five lessons from psychology, 485 new students and more.
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