“He staggered up and fell to his knees before me, uttering, ‘Freiheit. Freiheit.’—Freedom. Freedom.” Thayer Greene ’50. For Veterans Day, we honor Amherst College military veterans, including Green, an infantryman in World War II who helped liberate a Nazi concentration camp.
NOTE: Photo by Jens Meyer, from “Nazi ‘V-2 rocket’ concentration camp liberation remembered.”
“What would you do if you were replaced by a robot?” That’s the question Patrick Frenett ’19 is traveling the world to ask this year, as Amherst’s latest recipient of a Watson Fellowship.
NOTE: Nearly 100 Amherstalumni have served as Watson Fellows.
“For decades and into future generations, when the doings of this team are recalled, hearts will dance and race and scream in joy.” Thomas Boswell ’69, Washington Post sports columnist, on the Washington Nationals World Series win.
“We are victims in the present of a false portrayal of the past.” From an editorial in The Amherst Student. In 1969, novelist and scholar Ralph Ellison spoke on campus during one of two campus moratoriums featured recently in Amherst magazine.
“I’m not your usual Amherst story.” Nancy Wu ’93 on becoming a prolific audiobook narrator.
“Our society depends for its well being on the identification and development of talent wherever it exists. It exists in every community and group.” President Biddy Martin.
Amherst welcomes and applauds the decision in the Harvard University admissions lawsuit, which affirms the importance and constitutionality of race-conscious admissions as part of a holistic review of applicants to our colleges and universities.
“We are looking for individuals on the precipice of great discovery or a game-changing idea.” The MacArthur Foundation, describing its “genius” grant. Andrea Dutton ’95 is among the newest winners. Her work focuses on climate change.
NOTE: Art historian and curator Kellie Jones ’81 received a MacArthur fellowship in 2017.
Photo of Dutton: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
“History has failed us, but no matter. ” Writer-in-Residence Min Jin Lee, from her acclaimed novel Pachinko
“Empathy is a habit that can be cultivated.” Jason Seto ’19 one of six young alumni to be offered a 2019-20 Fulbright grant, one of the most prestigious fellowships in the world.
“Almost all battles can be boiled down to the irritable question: ‘Why can’t you be more like me?’” Author Marietta Pritchard in “Scenics from a Marriage,” which chronicles a lifetime of travel with her husband, English professor William Pritchard