Contents • Congratulations 1999 • Class Day 1999 • President recognizes teaching excellence • Secondary school teachers win awards • APGA honors grad student instructors • Finding Common Ground, Commencement address by President Harold Shapiro • $4 million supports dorm work • Trustees name nine to tenured faculty • Center focuses on arts, cultural policy • Obituary, Sheldon Judson • Employment • Calendar

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June 7, 1999 Volume 88, number 29 | Prev | Next | Index         Seniors celebrate (photo: Denise Applewhite)   Congratulations 1999 There's always something interesting at Commencement," said President Harold Shapiro with a smile.      On the platform in front of some 10,000 spectators, salutatorian T. Wickham Schmidt had just concluded his Latin address "Valete omnes--and, Anastacia Rohrman, I'd like to ask you to marry me." In her seat on the Front Campus, classmate Rohrman was dumbfounded but soon mustered the presence of mind to raise a hand-lettered sign--"Yes"--provided by a friend.   more...             Class Day 1999 At Class Day ceremonies on May 31, President Harold Shapiro presented the senior class with a symbolic key to the campus, and Class Day awards were made. more... President recognizes excellence in teaching Recipients of the 1999 President's Awards for Distinguished Teaching, made at Commencement, are David Bernstein, Victor Brombert, John McPhee and Daniel Rubenstein. more... Secondary school teachers win awards At Commencement Princeton awarded prizes for excellence in secondary school teaching to Joseph Amorino, Todd Gudgel, Theodora Lacey and Ralph Pantozzi. more...       APGA honors graduate student instructors The 1999 Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni awards for excellence in teachingwere given to graduate students Erik Gray, Daniel Magilow, Lisa Taneyhill and Stephen Wu.   more... Board names nine to tenured faculty At its quarterly meeting on May 31, the board of trustees approved the appointment of nine new members of the tenured faculty. more... $4 million supports dorm work Bagley Wright, president of Bagley Wright Investments, has committed $4 million to renovation of 93-year-old Patton Hall. A member of the Class of 1946, Wright was a developer of Seattle's landmark Space Needle and chair of Physio Control Corp. from 1968 until its acquisition by Eli Lilly in 1980.   more... Center focuses on arts, cultural policy Crossdisciplinary group helps train graduate students, produce resources for research.   How can we document changes in the condition of the arts and humanities in the United States -- in the face of what sociology professor Paul DiMaggio cites as "inadequate human resources, and inadequate information and analysis"?   more... Prospect Board elects officers The Prospect Association Managing Board held its annual meeting and election of officers on May 12 at Prospect House.      Edward Wladas of the Engineering School was elected president, and Linda Clos of Conference Services was elected vice president. The new members of the board for the Class of 2003 are Kenny Grayson of Facilities, Fran Johnson of CIT, Claire Myones of Hellenic Studies and Michael Wood of the English Department. •       Winner! The winning design for the Princeton Picnic tee-shirt was submitted by Terry Slover, John Slover, Becky Davis and Natacha Ruiz of Molecular Biology. The picnic will be on June 8. • top