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The Liebowitz Years: Leading with Conviction
How Middlebury’s 16th president shaped the institution. Few things reveal a college president’s values and priorities more visibly than financial hardship. When a global economic recession began in...
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Code Breaker
Geneticist Heidi Rehm ’93 is at the forefront of a genetic revolution in medicine, which may eventually lead to personalized care based on individual DNA. In 1998, Mark Dunning’s daughter was born...
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The Liebowitz Years: A Vision Realized
The special partnership that preserved Bread Loaf for the ages. In 1915, when Joseph Battell died and willed his expanse of lands along the spine of the Green Mountains to Middlebury College, he...
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On the Hunt
For 72 hours in late January, a campus becomes consumed with the unusual. Ten hooded figures crept across West Cemetery, the small graveyard along Route 30 and across from the Mahaney Center for the...
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The Liebowitz Years: Tributes
Ron as President By Dena Simmons ’05 In January 2006, I wore Middlebury regalia to the inauguration of the incoming president of Teachers College, Columbia University. Ron could not make the trip to...
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The Champ
The first time I met W.C. “Bill” Heinz ’37 I told him that his column “Death of a Race Horse” had made me want to write better than I probably ever would. I read it for the first time in 1964, my...
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Island Time
I check my watch again—likely for the 10th time these past two minutes. It’s 6:25 p.m., and the 5:30 “Speedy’s” ferry has yet to leave the dock. I do the math in my head, even though I know there’s no...
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Rare Dream
It is often said that all of literature can be derived from only seven stories. If that’s true, then the seeds of Dan Whitmore’s dream business—a rare- book dealership based out of his California...
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Cover Essay: Waiting in the Wings
The story of this ornithological teaching collection goes back roughly 130 years to the mid-1880s, when a couple of Addison County teenagers, Chester Parkhill and Albert Mead, became interested in...
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