Alumni Profiles


Breaking Bread

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

A Surfing Author’s Children’s Book

In the swim with Bonnie Tsui

by S.I. Rosenbaum

Radcliffe Women Share Their Stories

An ambitious oral-history project captures the lived experiences of alumnae.

by Meena Venkataramanan

Melvin Miller ’56: “Not going…to stand aside”

The founder, editor, and publisher of The Bay State Banner profiled

by Juliet Isselbacher

The Bottomless Sport

Andrew Rueb’s experience on the professional tennis circuit informs his coaching.

by Jacob Sweet

Straight-Up News

Chris Wallace has “the toughest job of any television journalist.”

by Craig Lambert

A Life in Harmonica

Scott Albert Johnson finds his path.

by Jacob Sweet

Finding Voices

Marilyn Booth translates Arabic literature for Anglophone readers.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

“Like Driving at Night”

Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel

by Dan Kelly

Keeping Them Close

A pediatrician cares for a city’s children.

by Nell Porter Brown

Elizabeth Bangs Bryant

Brief life of an underappreciated arachnologist

by Reed Gochberg