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Articles:

WHOLE NEW WORLD: EVAN BUXBAUM AND MONGOLIA

By Julia Hays Klebanow ’73

“The true act of discovery is not traveling to new lands, but seeing with new eyes.” —Marcel Proust

Perhaps Lucy Schneider asked me to interview Evan Buxbaum ’02, because she senses my respect for those who travel. Or perhaps it is because when Evan was in her 4th grade, I taught the class to sign the theme song from Aladdin, A Whole New World, for the first Steiner Street Fair. But she could not have known that almost twelve years later, it would be Evan who would teach me what the lyrics are about, “A whole new world…a new fantastic point of view….”

REKINDLING THE NATIVE SPIRIT IN ALASKA

Daniel Szekely ’68

By Jann W. Gates

Amidst the mists and coldest frosts
With stoutest wrists and loudest boasts
He thrust his fists against the posts
And still insists he sees a ghost.
[speech exercise for sharp consonants]

“I can see the northern lights this morning,” Daniel Szekely observed. On that early morning in mid January, dawn in Alaska was still hours away and the temperature in Anchorage was seven degrees below zero. The interplay of day and night in the far northern latitudes moves across abroad arc of rapidly changing levels of light and darkness. Szekely told me that in the weeks just before and after the winter solstice dawn is simply an extended period of soft light in the mid-morning hours. Soon, however, first light advances by half hour increments every week.