December 15, 1997 Volume 87, Number 13 | Prev | Next | Index
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Cochiti Pueblo to trustee board
In his first days at Princeton, Regis Pecos '77 felt like a displaced person. A Pueblo Indian whose parents never finished junior high school, whose grandparents spoke no English -- what was he doing on an Ivy League campus? Two decades later, Pecos is executive director of the N.M. Office of Indian Affairs -- and this year he joined the University's board of trustees, one of four new trustees elected by alumni.
By Caroline MoseleyMusic Department course surveys Urban Blues and the Golden Age of Rock
Jimmy Page's guitar screams and howls as Led Zeppelin rocks the room:Wanna whole lotta love,Wanna whole lotta love ... Can this be the Woolworth Center for Musical Studies?
They won't fly low enough
By JoAnn GutinResearch on aerosol requires collecting air samples at various atmospheric levels
Chemical engineer Lynn Russell has only one complaint about the former military pilots who help her collect air pollution data for her research: they won't fly low enough. "The thing is," she says, "the information I'd really like to have would come from maybe 20 feet above the ocean surface. And they won't go any lower than 100 feet."
Lander, Rosen win highest alumni awards
Two alumni will receive special honors at Alumni Day, February 21, 1998: biologist Eric Lander '78 and pianist Charles Rosen '48 *51.
Best restoration
Whig Hall and its companion Clio received 1997 N.J. Golden Trowel Masonry Awards for "Best in Restoration." The buildings, constructed in 1893, were restored by Ford Farewell Mills and Gatsch, Architects in "a complex technological feat that involved suspending the facade ...
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