Wallace family funds social sciences
building
A state-of-the-art social sciences building will
be constructed with a gift of $10 million from
Monte Wallace '53 and his children John '79,
Gardner '82 and Elisabeth Wallace Trase '83, and
Neil Wallace '55 and his children Jonathan '82 and
Julia Wallace Bennett '83. [>>more]
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Ready for fans
The new Princeton University Stadium will be
dedicated on September 19 at 1:00 p.m., before the
football team's opening game of the season against
Cornell. President Shapiro will speak.
The stadium, which seats 30,000,
is designed not only for football but also for
soccer and lacrosse, and for hosting civic events
as well. Architect Rafael Viñoly will give a
public lecture on the project at 10:00 a.m. in
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall, and there
will be tailgate parties (including one for faculty
and staff) and other festivities around the site
before the game. Gates open at 10:30 a.m. Tickets
are $5 each or $20 for all five home games of the
season; for information call 258-3538.
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1000 cranes
On June 24, a group of Japanese visitors came to
the University on a personal mission of peace and
forgiveness for the role of Princeton scientists in
the development of the atom bomb. Among them was
Ms. Sho, described by her companions as "a woman
who is given the mind's eye."
In conjunction with their visit
to the University, Ms. Sho and her group conducted
a ceremony in the Institute Woods for the release
of the spirit of Robert Oppenheimer and made an
offering of prayers and gifts, including flowers,
sweets, sake and a thousand origami paper cranes
arranged in rainbow-colored streamers, each marked
with the words "world peace." The group held
similar ceremonies at the Washington Monument and
Lincoln Memorial, President Kennedy's grave and
Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.,
and in Yosemite National Park.
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Collegiate Gothic
"Princeton chair" made of solid wood,
hand-carved by French craftsman Jacques Labesse,
was presented to the Department of Romance
Languages and Literatures this past spring and is
now on display in the University Store. The design
of the chair, which is offered for sale under
license with the University, was inspired by
Princeton's Collegiate Gothic architecture.
Labesse, who specializes in reproductions of 15th
and 16th-century furniture, works in France in the
valley of the Loir (a tributary of the Loire). He
is happy, he says, to welcome Princetonians to his
workshop at 27 rue Saint Oustrille,
Montoire-sur-le-Loir, France.
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