{"id":5019,"date":"2017-06-24T16:34:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T23:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=5019"},"modified":"2017-06-27T17:14:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T00:14:47","slug":"alumni-news-from-reed-magazine-september-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2017\/06\/alumni-news-from-reed-magazine-september-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni News from Reed Magazine, September 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe the place to begin a dip into\u00a0What Is a Reedie?<\/strong><\/a>, the Sept. 2016 issue of the Reed magazine, is by asking, “what is summer?”<\/p>\n

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  1. The time of year when it rains on Portland’s\u00a0annual Grand Floral\u00a0Parade.<\/li>\n
  2. A time when the highly improbable – two consecutive 100 degree days in Portland – becomes, if not exactly likely, at least a distinct possibility.<\/li>\n
  3. The season when Reed faculty catch up on their reading.<\/li>\n
  4. All of the above.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you answered #4, you are right<\/em>! Parade day began in a\u00a0distinctly soggy way, and even though the Parade was just two weeks ago, the skies have turned the corner and 100F has been bouncing in and out of the Sat\/Sun forecasts for today and tomorrow. And, of course, this is the season when I kick back with my pile of Reed magazines, beginning with the Sept. 2016 issue,\u00a0What Is a Reedie?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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    What might be especially notable in this issue of the\u00a0magazine is its extensive chemistry picture portfolio.\u00a0The chemists on display include Joe Kliegman ’06<\/strong>\u00a0attending Reunions ’16 (standing in front of the Performing Arts building, p. 8), a young<\/em> Prof. Virginia Hancock ’62 [music 1990-2016]<\/strong> conducting choral music from a comfortable spot in front of a sofa (The Hancock Variations<\/strong><\/a>, p. 10 and left), a very recent graduate\u00a0Kayla Sheridan ’13<\/strong>\u00a0(sidebar, p. 35) encouraging you to join the Loyal Owl Society<\/a><\/strong>, the\u00a0<\/strong>newly married\u00a0Kayce Spear ’07<\/strong> and her classmates\/wedding guests\u00a0Lyndsey Earl ’07<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Thom Drane ’07<\/strong> (Class Notes, p. 38 top), the recently deceased\u00a0Richard Havel ’46<\/strong> (In Memoriam, p. 44), and, finally,\u00a0Prof. Arthur Glasfeld [1989-]<\/strong> and a\u00a0still<\/em> young\u00a0Prof. Virginia Hancock ’62<\/strong> leading the Class of 2016 towards Commencement (back cover).<\/p>\n

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    The\u00a0What Is a Reedie?<\/strong><\/a> feature, p. 20-31, profiles\u00a0a dozen graduates from the Class of 2016, exploring their lives\u00a0from such diverse angles as\u00a0thesis titles and favorite classes, to “who I was when I got to Reed,” “how Reed changed me,”\u00a0and “word to prospies.” The feature has been running annually for several years, but absent a stack of September issues, one might be left wondering if anything has really changed at Reed over the decades. Wonder no more.\u00a0The Hancock Variations<\/strong><\/a>, p. 10, profiles the lengthy Reed career of\u00a0Prof. Virginia Hancock ’62 [music 1990-2016]<\/strong>, who is finally setting down her Reed baton after 26 years of keeping a steady beat. Ginny was a chemistry major when she graduated from Reed in 1962, but she already had one foot deeply planted\u00a0in music. In 1966, just 4 years after her graduation, she and her husband, Prof.\u00a0John Hancock [chemistry 1955-89]<\/strong>, founded and directed the Collegium Musicum and she even directed the Reed Choir “in years when no one in the department wanted to do it.” The article goes on to describe the many and varied contributions that Ginny has made to the College, but I must call attention to one that has been of untold benefit\u00a0to me personally and to many chemistry seniors over the past three decades, “she served as the fourth reader on many a chemistry student’s orals board.” (And Magazine readers should also make sure they\u00a0read the sentence that appears\u00a0directly\u00a0after<\/em> the quoted one.)\u00a0Thank you, Ginny.<\/em> Enjoy your next adventure.<\/p>\n

    Turning to\u00a0Class Notes<\/strong>, we learned that\u00a0Jeff Koplow ’90<\/strong><\/a> has been selected as the\u00a0inaugural<\/em> recipient of the Innovator in Residence Fellowship by the SunShot Initiative, a DoE enterprise dedicated to making solar energy cost competitive (p. 36), … and that\u00a0Kayce Spear ’07<\/strong> married Bjorn Vanberg and submitted the “obligatory Reedie photo” of her and wedding guests\/classmates (see above) (p. 38), … and\u00a0Ilana Novakoski ’16<\/strong> received a fellowship to study German and work in Germany next year through the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program. Congratulations to Jeff, Kayce, and Ilana!<\/p>\n

    In Memoriam<\/strong><\/a> profiled two Reed chemists who had passed away in 2016:<\/p>\n