Past Issue Archive

The Pulteney St. Survey is the official magazine of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. It is published quarterly in September, December, March, and June, by the Office of College Relations; and distributed to alumni, alumnae, faculty, staff, students, and parents of current students.

Winter '00

Shades of Difference
Black and Latino alums explain how -- despite well-intentioned policies to combat it -- alienation is still a part of the minority experience at HWS. Also See: Young Adults in a Multicultual World and Reaching Back, Stepping Up.

It's More Than Just Filling Seats
Investing in financial aid allows the Colleges to build a community instead of just filling classrooms. It's the difference between average and Hobart and William Smith.

The Circumstances of Our Pomp
The inauguration of new Colleges President Mark D. Gearan mixed mirth with moment.

De-Pressurized
An alcohol education program pioneered by two HWS professors teaches students that the Big Party is mostly a myth.

Dualities
The John Templeton Foundation has awarded a teaching prize to Mary Gerhart and Allan Russell, recognizing a bi-disciplinary method they've spent two decades refining.

Self-Serving
According to Ave Bauder, '81, the altruistic impact of volunteerism is certainly nice, but the first reason to stress service is the enrichment of the liberal arts.

Fall '99

An American Story
Raised in the Depression - Lived the American Dream - Challenged by Change - Reflective at Century's End

The Service Thing
How does working for the Peace Corps prepare you for life? How does it prepare you to preside over Hobart and William Smith?

Making Connections
"It's Who You Know" is a new program that helps you help a great high school student choose Hobart and William Smith.

Sometimes It's HOW You Say It
Efforts by the Colleges' literary magazine to champion a new writing form have garnered it national attention.

Boo!
Like any place with a few old buildings and generations who come and go, the Colleges have their ghost stories.

 

Summer '99

The Good Doctor
Health professionals giving back to their communities and reaching out to those who need help most — it's enough to restore your faith in medicine.

Nice to Meet You.
Sometime this fall, the agenda will fall into place for Mark Gearan, incoming president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. In the meantime, the getting-acquainted phase is already underway.

Looking Forward, Looking Black
An art exhibition curated at HWS allowed faculty and students to take a special look at art. Now, as it tours the country, it also may change some perceptions.

Time to Change Shoes!
The meaning of graduation was explored in voices and ideas that could arise only from the liberal arts.

Spring '99

How are we Doing?
In everyone's life, there comes a time to take stock — to figure out where you stand relative to your past and future, relative to your hopes and expectations, and relative to your peers. We decided that, for the Colleges, that time is now.

Diversity at the Colleges
During Multicultural Weekend, alums and students of color examined their experiences within the Colleges' community.

Lucky Stars
The Herons basketball team continued their winning ways in '98-'99, thanks to the usual measure of sound coaching and hard play — plus, of course, lucky handshakes and ritualistic Pepsi's.

Off-Stage
The dance department produces many wonderful performances. But that's not what it's all about.

Alumni Book Review
Reynold Levy's Give And Take: A Candid Account of Corporate Philanthropy

Winter '99

The Buddha of Great Compassion
In a silent spectacle that lasted roughly two months, the Tibetan monk Tenzin Yignyen rendered in sand an ancient symbol of faith, effort, memory, meditation, wisdom, and ultimately the hope for enlightenment. After he poured hours of effort into the project, he then poured it into Seneca Lake. What's it all mean?

Otherwise Occupied
These HWS alums are pursuing careers that no guidance counselor imagined. Theirs are the jobs that no liberal arts major was supposed to land, or the jobs that nobody even knew existed. But then, isn't that what a liberal arts degree does best?

Beloved
During a three-week period, the Colleges lost a current teacher, two professors emeriti, and a long-time trustee and benefactor. Together, their deaths remind the institution that it is also a community.

Generation Next
With the Colleges standing at a proverbial crossroads, trustee chair Charlie Salisbury '63 has his eye out for tomorrow's volunteer leaders, who can and will make the difference.

Elder Herons
Two of this years inductees in the Heron Hall of Honor help remind us that women's athletics has a history -- a sometimes uneven, sometimes strange history -- that predates Title IX by decades.

Fall '98

Women, Men, and the World
There is alot more to gender studies than glass ceilings and stay-at-home dads. Higher education now studies almost every way in which gender informs human endeavor. Hobart and William Smith has established the Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men, by which the colleges build on their coordinate history to become a national leader in the study of gender.

Fly on the Wall
While tourists and politicians were down the road in Seneca Falls, helping America celebrate 150 years of women's rights advocacy, a select consultation of writers, scholars, and policy makers met on campus for Forum 98, debating both the progress and the future of womankind in America.

Stamp of Approval
When matched, the Kenan grant will add $5 million to the endowment. But its greater, albeit intangible, worth is as endorsement for the Colleges' commitiment to teaching.

Back in Our Court
You know the old saying. Look up HWS squash in the dictionary and you'll find a picture of Frank Smith '36.

Summer '98

Access Granted
A series of articles about the new Melly Academic Center addition to the HWS Library -- its history, the recent dedication, and a day in the life student working on an undergraduate research project.

Promise Kept
Every senior is a story, but, for the sake of expediency, we checked in with just five, whose credentials at the time of their admission promised a particularly exciting tale.

Kindred Spirit
The Colleges honored Billie Jean King, and learned that the feeling is mutual.

Can We Talk?
On campus in April, writer, politician, and former Hobart parent Gordon MacInnes discovered (again) how difficult it can be to discuss race.

Spring '98

Mom, Dad, and the Kids
Surveying our under-40 alums: How the pressures of marriage and child rearing test gender equity.

Afterschool Activities
We checked in with five former teachers -- all of whom turned emeritus in the past ten years or so -- to see how the intellectual soul satisfies itself when the courseload is gone. We found that great minds never stop moving.

Approach the Bench
Making the case that Hobart and William Smith's new Mock Trial team is off to a pretty good start.

Look to Ourselves
Lessons of the Rohypnol alert -- how the student community took responsibility for a threat from within.

The Cost of Excellence
The abilty ot offer financial aid has emerged as one of the most important challenges in the health and well-being of Hobart and William Smith

Winter is Sailing Season!
To prepare for the spring competition, HWS's top-ranked sailing team hists Seneca Lake at a time most ducks better of it.

 

Winter '98

Lab Results
Taking stock of institutional and national efforts to encourage girls and young women to pursue science as a career.

Shared Experience
How the Colleges are changing reunion to better tap and bolster class identity.

Wherever She Is, She's Dancing
A great teacher, sure — but Toni Flores was, moreover, an exemplar of robust living.

World Without Borders and Far Afield
Two separate articles about alums who have lived and worked abroad, and about the Colleges own emphasis on study abroad.

House Proud
Recently departed faculty member Dan Ewing made the history of Houghton House a personal obsession.

Confidence Plus Heart Makes Champions
The Herons have won the NCAA Division III field hockey crown!

Alumnae Director Leaves
Laura Sweeney Brophy '86 has left Alumni House, to take a position at the University of Rochester. Read about it in this article from theWinter '98 edition of The Pulteney Street Survey.

Fall '97

The Colleges and Seneca Lake
A Pulteney St. Survey special project.

Taken by Surprise
Grateful alums used Reunion ’97 as an opportunity to honor Joseph DiGangi.

Women Who Win
The Heron Hall of Honor, which inducts its first class on October 4th, is a way to encourage women to celebrate accomplishment.

Summer '97

Hobart's 175th Anniversary
A report on the recent on-campus celebration.

A Day in Coxe 7
You are there as one full day passes in a typical Hobart and William Smith classroom.

Hobart and Women's Rights History
This article explores ways in which the faculty of Hobart College took part in the local discussions of women's rights and suffrage.

Spring '97

Liberal Arts and Careers
A recent survey, commissioned by the Colleges, tells us about how a liberal arts degree translates to the workplace.

Diversity Task Force
The work of a Colleges committee on ethnic, cultural, racial, sexual, and other forms of diversity is done.

Hobart Lacrosse
Taking stock of the Statesmen's move to Division I.

Winter '97

Saga History
How working for the college food-service contractor changed people's lives.

The Return to Traditions
Ways that the Colleges try to instill current students with their history and rituals.

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