Celebrating 35 Years of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960

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Celebrating 35 Years of theDaniel M. Sachs Class of 1960

Graduating Scholarship� May 30, 2004 �

Sachs Scholarship

2 35 Years of the Sachs Scholarship

Cover Photograph Courtesy of Adam Tagert ’04

In Praise of Grace, Wisdom and Tact

The successful applicant’s introductory lunch with Charles atthe Nassau Club remains as much a staple of the delightfulexperience of receiving the scholarship as the note on thedorm-room door that bears the news. Each winter brings anelegant letter to the scholars — part biographical update, partsocial commentary — which ensures that as the ranks of thescholarship holders grow, the familial air does not dissipate.

“The word community is probably overused these days,”said Dennis Sullivan ’70, the first holder of the scholarship,“but there was a sense of not just having been a Sachs Scholar,gone to Oxford or on the traveling option, but having belongedto a community that continues to grow and interact. All thatis Charles and Emily.”

The origins of the Sachs Scholarship date to a fortuitousevent at Princeton in the fall of 1956: Dan Sachs drew Charlesas his freshman advisor. “We talked first about what courses hewould take and that sort of thing,” Charles told me when wespoke recently in Princeton. After several meetings, they dis-covered they had a number of things in common: both wereFrancophiles, and both were born in Bethlehem, Pa. Theybecame quite close. During Dan’s time at Princeton, he wouldshare meals with the Gillispies at their home and on ProspectStreet, and introduce them to his own family. When EmmausHigh School celebrated Dan’s Rhodes Scholarship — he was thefirst graduate of the school to so much as attend an Ivy Leagueuniversity — Charles and Emily traveled there for the event.

Charles is not one to psychologize, but elements of thebond were clear. Dan had lost his father at a young age. “Notto put too fine a point on it, Emily and I didn’t have children,Dan didn’t have a father and he needed an older friend,”Charles said. “I was perhaps somewhat more interested in theyoung man than perhaps I would have been if we’d had awhole flock of our own kids.” Like almost everyone Sachs metat Princeton, the Gillispies were deeply impressed with hismaturity and seriousness of purpose. “You meet a few peoplein the course of your life who somehow in point of qualitystrike you, it’s difficult to say why, as finer-grained and a high-er order of person,” Charles said. “I think I’ve known three or

four people who have struck me that way in the course of mylife, and Dan I think is the only student.” Remarkably, theseimpressions were formed without reference to the most broad-ly famous of Dan’s talents. Charles did not realize Dan was astar football player until his sophomore year, after encounter-ing him in a sling outside Dickinson Hall.

But Charles also recalled in Sachs, along with a fascinationwith greatness, a sense of uncertainty about how to pursueand apply it. They corresponded on the subject and othersduring Dan’s time at Worcester, and when the Gillispies visit-ed him there (and watched him play in the Oxford-Cambridgerugby match at Twickenham). Later, after Dan was diagnosedwith cancer and it had become clear he would not win his bat-tle, Charles and a handful of others began to envision a way tomemorialize him. Their thoughts centered on a way to giveothers, perhaps those who shared both Dan’s ambitions andhis uncertainties, the opportunity to reflect on such mattersat Oxford or elsewhere.

More immediately, however, they felt their obligation wasto support Dan’s family, and that was the primary purpose ofthe funds that were raised. But when Dan’s widow, Joan,remarried, the scholarship quickly came to life. Charles han-dled the arrangements with Princeton, as well as fund-raisingand publicity. The first year, Charles joined Dan’s brother, Bill,and Dan’s close friends, Matthew Nimetz, Bob Orrill and JackHorton, in interviewing each of the 17 applicants. “I don’tthink it would exist without Charles,” said Bill Sachs.

It was a happy beginning, but not yet a secure enterprise.During the 1970s, turbulent markets in America and the risingcosts of Oxford jeopardized the scholarship’s viability. Again,Charles went to bat, working to secure continued supportfrom the Class of 1960. “He went on a development campaign,and in Charles fashion that meant writing long, thoughtful,personal letters to people,” said David Loevner ’76.

Eventually, Charles handed day-to-day operations over tothe scholars themselves, first to Dennis Sullivan and then toDavid Loevner, who selected recipients along with a commit-tee of other former scholars. Charles became a kind of non-executive chairman, keeping an eye on the affairs of the schol-arship and occasionally filling in on the selection committee

Over the last 35 years, Charles and Emily Gillispie have assembled a remark-able family. It is a group that shares an association with Princeton’s Daniel M.Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, an affection for Gillispies – and lit-tle else. Its ranks include athletes and artists, scientists and sinologists. Most usedthe scholarship to study at Worcester College, Oxford, but others traveled to

Australia, India and Costa Rica. Among them are left-leaning activists and a lawyerwho spent her two years at Oxford studying, somewhat worshipfully, Margaret Thatcher.

The variety makes it all the more remarkable that so many have developed life-long friendships with the Gillispies, evidence that the diversity of one’s

admirers is at least as good a measurement of stature as is their number. Itwas Charles, a now-retired Princeton history professor who taught Dan

Sachs, brought the scholarship into being, nurtured it through the earlyyears, and, with his wife Emily, has taken it upon himself to embed a

sense of history and continuity into its DNA.

By Justin Pope ’97

Charles Gillispie, fishing 2003

Scholars Salute Charles and Emily

35 Years of the Sachs Scholarship 3

during a snowstorm. But he and Emily have maintained closeties with the group, joining former scholars for dinner whenthey come to Princeton to serve on the selection committee orto send off the latest scholar at the ritual graduation brunch.His annual letter amounts to a highly literate alumni magazinefor the scholars, and his personal letters are equally famousand well-loved. “Before I left for Oxford, Charles gave me, writ-ten in his own hand, two pages of personal instructions,”recalled Doug Galbi ’86. “They concluded with ‘WATCH THETRAFFIC on the left — look RIGHT before you cross the street— unless it’s a one-way.’ I think this note exemplifies just howmuch he cares for me and for eachSachs Scholar.”

Now, some of the correspon-dence has shifted to e-mail, whichCharles has adopted in a mannerbefitting an historian of technolo-gy. It is sometimes easy for theSachs scholars to forget Charles’“day job.” In addition to his workfor the scholarship, he essentiallyinvented, with a handful of others,the field of the history of scienceand helped populate it with schol-ars trained by him in Princeton’sgraduate program. Listing his aca-demic accolades would require sev-eral pages and skills in a number oflanguages. More than 15 years intohis “retirement,” he still workseach day in his office in FirestoneLibrary, with breaks for annualtrips to Florida and to the upperreaches of the Delaware River, forfishing with Bill Sachs.

The scholarship, however, hasbeen an obvious source of continuing pleasure. Each selectionrepresents a new vicarious adventure, and taps a new vein ofgenuine curiosity about the scholar’s background and inter-ests. A number of Sachs scholars have worried the Gillispiesmight find them unsuitable — “what was the committee think-ing with this one?” many have imagined them wondering — butthey have never betrayed such sentiments. When NatalieDeffenbaugh ’02 invited the Gillispies to the chaotic food co-op in Brown Hall for dinner, Charles and Emily sailed unper-turbed “into the madness,” Natalie recalled. “The best part,though, was their questions about the co-op itself: did we real-ly all cook together? And were all the men floating about real-ly members and did they cook as well?” Jason Duckworth ’94recalled visiting the Gillispies for dinner during the sleep-deprived final days of work on his senior thesis and mistakinga glass of white wine for the fish sauce. Naturally, they took itwith good grace and humor.

Of course, it is hardly surprising that Charles not only tol-erates, but enjoys the Sachs Scholars in all of their variety. Heis, after all, part of the reason the group is so diverse. Those ofus in fields such as journalism are particularly grateful toCharles for imbuing the scholarship with a sense that the “pub-lic service” it seeks to encourage should be broadly defined.

“Dan, to be sure, wanted to go into politics,” Gillispierecalled. “He wanted to be president of the United States.”While several Sachs scholars have worked in politics, so farnone has reported holding public office. In addition to twoundergraduate student government presidents, the groupincludes deans of the Woodrow Wilson and Harvard Lawschools, a filmmaker and two oncologists. An engineer by

training, Charles pushed during the early years of the scholar-ship to attract more applications from scientists. “The notionwas to pick somebody for whom it might make a difference tohave this kind of opportunity, not perhaps an excellent personwho couldn’t be improved on, but might just as well go on toHarvard Law School and didn’t really need it,” he said.

If there is any possible drawback to spending two years atOxford or a year pursuing a dream project somewhere else inthe world, it is the potential burden of expectations, the feel-ing that a Sachs Scholar is expected to live the life that wasdenied to Dan. In initial encounters, and over the course of

the scholars’ lives, the Gillispies have assured the recipientsthat the scholarship is intended to enrich their lives, no mat-ter where those lives take them.

“Some years ago, when we gathered in Fine Hall to mark ayounger anniversary of the scholarship, I was struck thatamong all the capable women who had been awarded theprize, none but me had chosen to stay home with their chil-dren,” Natalie Bocock Turnage ’83 wrote recently. “I must sayI had a few pangs of inadequacy and some guilt, and I wroteCharles a letter afterwards saying so. In characteristic fash-ion, he wrote me a moving and eloquent reassurance about mychoice and his confidence in me. Sometimes in less suremoments, I get out his letter and re-read it a few times and givethanks from the bottom of my heart that I have had mentorswith such grace and wisdom, not to say tact.”

Several Sachs scholars remarked that they regard theGillispies in a grandparental way; the Gillispies reject the termout of opposition to the obligation they fear it carries.Nonetheless, they clearly draw much satisfaction from theirassociation with the group. “I think our feeling is, everyone, atthe time we’ve chosen them, and, for the most part, since, hasstruck us as leading a strongly individual life in an interesting,honorable and committed way,” Charles said. “We aren’t disap-pointed anywhere. It’s been very pleasing that most of youseem to maintain your interest. We had wanted a sort of corpo-rate feeling, not just for the sake of a memorial, but because inthe future which isn’t so far away, those of us who knew Danand started this thing, we’ll all be out of the picture. We wantthe former scholars to have enough sense of the scholarship sothat it forms a tradition that they want to carry on.”

Cathy Loevner, Bill & Iliana Sachs, Natalie Deffenbaugh & David Loevner


After nearly 12 years as theFinancial Vice President of theAndrew W. Mellon Foundation, Iresigned in 2002 in order to becomethe Senior Vice President and ChiefFinancial Officer of the New YorkPublic Library. This proved to be anextraordinarily interesting andchallenging assignment. Recently, Iwas recruited to become thePresident and Chief ExecutiveOfficer of the Church Pension Group.

CPG, as it is known, is a $7 billionfund, located in New York City,which provides pension and otherservices to the clergy, lay workersand institutions of the Episcopal

Church. I will assume my newresponsibilities in June of this year.

On the family front, Susan and Iwill celebrate our 29th weddinganniversary in July. Susan endureda round of medical difficulties in2003, but she has fully recoveredand is re-engaged in her work as anartist. Our older son, David, gradu-ated from Amherst College in 2000and has for the past two yearsworked in New York City with theInternational Rescue Committee.Dave recently accepted a “field”assignment and will be leaving forMonrovia, Liberia in August. Ouryounger son, Steven, graduatedfrom Princeton in 2003 and is livingwith us in Brooklyn. Steve woulddescribe himself as an “aspiringrock musician,” and he has taken

on tutoring assignments while hefinds his way in the world of rockand roll.

DDeennnniissSSuulllliivvaann ’70

I vividly recall walking into theroom to be interviewed for theSachs. My hair looked like aBeatle’s in need of a trim; I had abeard which all my close friendshad advised me to lose. The com-mittee’s questions are now some-thing of a blur, but the callback thatSunday afternoon became an eventas stunning to me as if I hadopened the door to my room and

discovered that I was entering theother side of the universe. I was offto Oxford, living a dream. I had teawith W.H. Auden, had dinner athigh table with J.R.R. Tolkien andgave several poetry readings alongwith Andrew Motion, who is nowPoet Laureate. Oxford was beyondwords for me at the time. In reality,Worcester was pretty close to ajourney to the other side of the uni-verse.

As an undergraduate, I majoredin Economic Problems and Policiesat the Woodrow Wilson School ofPublic and International Affairs,and was named a Woodrow WilsonScholar as a senior. I wrote my the-sis on “Concepts of PrivateProperty Rights.” I followed a paral-lel pathway in creative writing, asan Editor of the Nassau Lit, asClass Poet, and a recipient of anAcademy of American Poets Prizeand two Morris Kroll poetry prizes,thanks to Princeton’s tremendouscreative arts faculty, which is injustifiably heavy demand, at 185Nassau. I also spent four years onthe varsity track team.

Spurred on by Princeton’s “get-involved” service ethic, I alsoserved on the student emergencyhotline, was elected Treasurer of

the Undergraduate Assembly, andelected to the Executive Committeeof the University Council. AsTreasurer, I helped found theStudent Projects Board, which Ibelieve still functions today in animproved form. With the SachsScholarship, I attended OxfordUniversity where I read for an M.A.in Modern History, published poet-ry and played for the varsitysquash team.

I attended Harvard BusinessSchool to learn about investmentand resource allocation, which goto the heart of the internationalpoverty. Graduating with an M.B.A.with Distinction, my first job wasas an Investment Officer with theInternational Finance Corporation,a private sector investment arm ofthe World Bank. I spent most of myfirst year living in Africa, servingon missions to provide clean waterin Somalia, on a dairy project inEthiopia and a cotton project inTanzania. My first solo private sec-tor investment with the Bank was astartup dairy project in Hodeidah,Yemen, providing ultra-heat treatedmilk and orange juice at affordableprices to the local markets — a proj-ect which appears to have had a

Sachs Scholars � Biographies

MMiikkee DDeecckkeerr ’71

Emily Gillispie & Dennis Sullivan

Mike Decker (Continued on next page)


The youthful enthusiasms thatinspired my researches as a SachsScholar in Italy and in Armeniahave come to define my personalpassions and professional intereststoday. After my year of independ-ent study, I attended WolfsonCollege, Oxford, where I received aD.Phil. in Italian political history.For more than two decades, I have

taught modern European historyat Brandeis University, and I chairthe graduate program in Compar-ative History there. I have writtena monograph Town and Countryunder Fascism and scholarly arti-cles on Italian religious, social andmedical history. I am finishingBella Figura, a book that exam-ines the cult of appearance inItalian society from the 1870s untilWorld War II. I have held fellow-ships from the John SimonGuggenheim Memorial Foundation,

the National Endowment for theHumanities, the American Councilof Learned Societies, the EuropeanUniversity Institute (Florence), theCroce Foundation (Naples) and theEinaudi Foundation (Turin).

I rediscovered Armenia in thewake of the catastrophic earth-quake just over 15 years ago. Myhumanitarian concern turnedpolitical almost overnight. Ibecame involved in efforts inCongress to commemorate theArmenian genocide, largelythrough the office of SenatorRobert J. Dole. I went on to writepopular articles and eye-witnessaccounts of the independencemovement in Nagorno-Karabakhfor the Los Angeles Times, theIndependent and the Corrieredella Sera. President Clintonappointed me to the United StatesCommission for the Preservationof America’s Heritage Abroad; Iserved two terms asCommissioner (1996-2002) andpursued restoration projects inthe former Soviet Union. Twoyears ago President Bush nomi-nated me as a member of theUnited States Holocaust MemorialCouncil, which governs the UnitedStates Holocaust MemorialMuseum.

I divide my time betweenCambridge, Massachusetts, andMilan, Italy.

AAlliiccee KKeelliikkiiaann ’72

Alice Kelikian & her dashing gondoliers

material impact in reducing infantmortality in Yemen. My experiencesconvinced me that a robust privatesector and a growing middle classwere key to raising people out ofpoverty throughout the developingworld.

I later joined the BostonConsulting Group in London,where I became involved in linemanagement in private industry,and was eventually promoted tobe President of Huffco Group,Inc., a diversified firm with aninternational focus. I was recruit-ed away to be Chief OperatingOfficer and Chief FinancialOfficer of the Trammell CrowCompany, where I helped in therestructuring and turnaround of

one of the world’s largest commer-cial real estate companies.Currently at Wingate Partners, aDallas-based leveraged buyoutgroup, I serve on several boardsand am chairman of two servicebusinesses.

My love for reading and writingpoetry also continues to be a driv-ing force, thanks to an unlikelystart writing a late-night poem forAnthony Burgess’s creative writ-ing class as a sophomore. I havebeen published in Paris Review,New Republic, American Reviewand other magazines, and was aFinalist for the PEN Texas PoetryPrize. I also gave a reading atDallas’ Club DaDa with then U.S.Poet Laureate Rita Dove a fewyears ago. Probably the most mem-

orable by-product of writing poet-ry was having tea one-on-one withW.H. Auden while I attendedOxford. I have just had poetry pub-lished in a just-published collegetextbook — The Portable PoetryWorkshop.

Princeton and the SachsScholarship, in particular, havethus shaped and energized my lifein many, often “unexpectable”ways. (Unexpectable is not a word,true, but Wallace Stevens uses it inhis work, so permit me a bit ofpoetic license.)

And then there is my wonderfulfamily — my wife of 26 years,Debra, and our children, Josephine’03, Matthew ’08 and Emily, whoattends University of Virginia as anEchols Scholar.

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The generous blessing of theSachs Scholarship was a signalevent in my life. It allowed me twoyears to study fundamental ques-tions of politics, philosophy andeconomics. The scholarshipequipped me for understandingpublic issues in a complete wayand inspired me to keep my focuson ways to engage in public serv-ice.

After graduating cum laude fromHarvard Law School in 1979, Ibegan my legal career at the

Indianapolis law firm of Baker &Daniels. Two years after becominga partner there in 1986, I startedthe firm now known as PlewsShadley, Racher & Braun. Our firmhas 27 lawyers in offices inIndianapolis and South Bend,Indiana. Our practice is a “niche”practice, focusing on complex liti-gation and counseling.

Our firm has been involved invirtually all of Indiana's signifi-cant environmental law decisionsin the last fifteen years. Over thepast decade, I have been leadcounsel on a variety of cases,resulting in recoveries of nearly$200 million for environmentalcleanups. These cases have madea substantial difference in safe-guarding Indiana’s environment bysecuring remediation funds fromcorporations of all sizes and mak-ing our state a national leader inthis regard.

Our firm also brought the firstclass action suits in the U.S. to rem-edy errors made by financial insti-tutions in mortgage rate adjust-ments and escrow accounts. Wealso assisted the state in its caseagainst the major tobacco compa-nies, which resulted in a landmarknational settlement to pay for thedamages caused by tobacco use.

Apart from my legal work, mypublic service has involved princi-pally two areas of activity. I assista wide variety of charitable organi-zations as a board member or offi-cer. For example, I am the lawyerfor the Episcopal Diocese ofIndianapolis and for a group ofabout 100 churches with endow-ments over $1 million. I also serveon the board of the Horizon UrbanStudent Enrichment Program,which provides a “Head Start-like”experience for poor youngsterseach summer. This latter programis being studied by the Yale School

GGeeoorrggee PPlleewwss ’74

I used mySachs fellow-ship (1973-5) towork on a

translation and production ofAeschylus’ Oresteia in Melbourne,Australia, where I received an MAin Classical Studies. I traveled,acted and worked in Greece andEgypt for the next three years,before returning to Melbourneto stage my adaptation ofHomer’s Iliad [!] and teachdrama at the University. Afterseven years absence, I finallyreturned to the U.S., receivingmy Ph.D. in Drama andHumanities at Stanford in 1985.My first job was at EmoryUniversity, in Theatre Studies andClassics, where I did a lot of actingand directing. In 1990, I returned toStanford where I am nowProfessor of Drama and Classics. I

have written five books on Greek tragedy, includ-ing the recent Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedyand the Modern World, in which I offer a radical

look at contemporary America using Greektragedy as a lens. I try to keep political-

ly active — time in Nicaragua sup-porting the Sandinista revolution,

three trips to Cuba challengingthe U.S. travel ban, a trip toChiapas not long after theZapatista uprising and recent-ly I spent a week in jail for apeaceful anti-war protest atLockheed-Martin (theirMissile and Space Division isnear Stanford), the biggest

weapons contractor in theworld. I’d like to write a book

about Lockheed and all the joythey bring to the world, but until

then, I keep doing theater when Ican, teach, garden and spend time at

the yurt that I share with friendsin the Santa Cruz mountains.

RRuusshh RReehhmm ’73

Rush & Zeke, who isn’t his,“in any direct sense”

Corky & his son, Arthur ’06

George Plews

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After reading Russian andHistory at Oxford, I remained inthe U.K. and worked as a consult-ant for three years at BostonConsulting in London. I subse-quently returned to the U.S. andobtained a law degree fromGeorgetown University (cum laude,Georgetown Law Review).

I worked at Milbank, Tweed,Hadley & McCloy in New York

before coming back to London in1986.

I subsequently served asManaging Partner of the Londonoffice of Rogers & Wells for eightyears until 2000 when Rogers &Wells merged with CliffordChance. In 2003, I joined theLondon office of the law firmAshurst, a leading private equityand M&A firm in Europe, to headup their U.S. practice. I am a fre-quent contributor of articles andspeaks at conferences on interna-tional capital markets and M&A.

DDaann BBuusshhnneerr ’75

Dan Bushner

David Loevner (l. to r.), Dennis Sullivan, Martha Wright, Susan Sullivan, Charles & Emily Gillispie, Bill Sachs,Tom Wright & Natalie Bocock Turnage, date unknown

of Education to analyze positiveimpacts from such summer enrich-ment. I am the Senior Warden ofthe church in which Christine ’74and I were married nearly 30 yearsago.

I also am currently the Presidentof the Princeton Alumni Associationof Indiana and served for 15 yearsas the Schools CommitteeChairman. I also have served as theVice President for Litigation of theIndiana Civil Liberties Union and asdirector of the NeighborhoodChristian Legal Clinic, which is thelargest provider of free legal servic-es for the Hispanic community inIndianapolis.

A second major area of service

commitment for me has been youthathletics. Over the past 15 years, Ihave coached a variety of sports.Currently, I coach two junior highschool basketball teams. Teachingthe nuances of the fabledPrinceton offense to pre-teens is aunique challenge, even in basket-ball-mad Indiana, but I would nottrade that time for more remunera-tive tasks. There is somethingimmensely satisfying about watch-ing young men grow to understandhow much more they can achieve,how many limitations they canovercome, by thinking and workingtogether.

I have followed the progress ofthe Sachs Scholarship with greataffection and respect. Charles and

Emily’s tireless dedication andgrace has been a consistent inspira-tion for me over the years and Iknow they must look with greatpride on the many achievementsscholars have attained. I enjoy serv-ing from time to time on the selec-tion committee (notwithstandingDavid Lovener’s correct observa-tion of the transparency for mymotive for serving the next 2 yearswhile my son Arthur ’06 finisheshis Princeton career), due to boththe vitality of the candidates andthe personal quality of the commit-tee members. I suspect that morethan their achievements, it is thecharacter of the Sachs recipientsthat has made Charles and Emilyproud.



I “went up” to Oxford in October1978, and for the next two years readfor a second B.A. in Modern History &Economics. My history tutors includ-ed Harry Pitt and Copper LeMay, ofcourse — and also the amazingRichard Cobb (whom many regard tobe the 20th century's leading English-speaking historian of France) andMax Hartwell (whose path-breakingrole in economic history is roughlyequivalent to Charles’ role in the his-tory of science and technology). Myeconomics tutor and sometimesdrinking companion was David Begg,then only about 25 years old, who waslater named the chief economist ofthe Bank of England. So my narrowfailure to earn a First was in no waydue to lack of instruction, but morelikely to my own stubborn refusal tostudy outside of term. On the otherhand, during our 28 weeks of vacationeach year, I traveled extensively, land-ing myself in over two dozen coun-tries in four continents. I played

rugby for Worcester and for theOURFC, where my teammates camefrom at least 12 countries — includingmost memorably the Crown Prince ofTonga and the future captain of SouthAfrican rugby. Quite outside ofWorcester and sports, I made a num-ber of life-long American friends:ranging from one who is now a wildlysuccessful private equity financier toanother who is a university presidentto another who became the secondman to climb the tallest mountain onall seven continents. In sum, for me,Oxford was the right place at the righttime, an intellectual and experientialfeast. Absolutely the time of my life.

My next stop was Harvard LawSchool, which was actually fun due tomy many Oxford friends in Cambridgeand my off-campus rugby. Afterexploring L.A. and N.Y.C. during mysummers, I returned to Washington,D.C., to clerk on the D.C. Circuit andthen enter private practice at Steptoe& Johnson in 1984. After I had beenthere for all of about 16 months, I gota call from a Worcester friend whowanted some legal help with his fledg-

JJeerrrryy HHoowwee ’78JJoohhnn FFooxx ’77

At Princeton, my academicinterests were centered in theOffice of Population Research. Ireceived my A.B. summa cumlaude in Mathematical Sociologyin 1976. As Sachs Scholar, I spenttwo years at Worcester College,Oxford, taking first the M.Sc. in

Applied Statistics, then theM.Phil. in Economics. Betweenyears, I participated in the East-West Center’s Summer Seminar onPopulation in Honolulu and trav-eled throughout Asia. Joining theWorld Bank in Washington D.C. in1978, I spent several years moni-toring the Brazilian economy.

In Washington, I met my futurebride, the former Catherine Parks,who was working as a congres-

sional aide. Wemoved to NewYork, where Ibecame aninvestmentmanager in theRockefeller’sfamily office.My family andI next lived inHong Kongwhile Iexpanded anddirected theRockefeller’sAsian invest-ment program.In 1989, I

returned home to start, with afriend and colleague, my owninvestment firm, Harding LoevnerManagement, based in Somerville,N.J. David continues as the chiefexecutive of the firm, which man-ages international investmentportfolios for institutions, mutualfunds and individuals.

I hold the Chartered FinancialAnalyst designation from theAssociation for InvestmentManagement and Research andthe Chartered InvestmentCounselor designation from theInvestment Counsel Association ofAmerica.

My wife and I have resided inPrinceton since 1983 with ourthree children: Jonathan (Carleton’06), Caroline (Princeton ’08) andHenry (Lawrenceville School ’07).

I have served as chairman of theAdvisors of the Sachs Scholarshipsince 1994. I am also a trustee ofGoucher College, a trustee of theStony Brook Millstone WatershedAssociation, and a former directorof the Princeton UniversityInvestment Company.

DDaavviidd LLooeevvnneerr ’76

The merry band of Loevners


I began a degree in political philoso-phy at Oxford, but had to withdrawearly in my second year for reasons ofhealth. I was a member of the PolicyPlanning staff at the State Departmentfrom 1989-1993, covering Central andEastern Europe. I worked on the for-mer Soviet bloc countries at the WorldBank from 1993-94. I served as directorof the Washington office of the OpenSociety Institute, part of the SorosFoundation network, where I contin-ued to concentrate on issues relating toEastern Europe and the ex-SovietUnion. I was married to MartynaSzalanska in 1983; we have two daugh-ters, Caroline Lucia, born in 1990, andAndrea Spencer, born in 1994.Recently, I started my own company, I-Media, located in Potomac, Md. Thebusiness is international media con-sulting, project work and advocacy. Iwork with foundations, governmentagencies, non-governmental organiza-tions, and other outlets for medialdevelopment internationally.


They say timing is everything. In thefall of 1978, as the United States andChina moved closer to normalizationof relations and I to graduation, a fewAmerican scholars were allowed tostudy in China and a handful ofChinese scholars arrived in the UnitedStates — the first such exchanges indecades. On December 12, three daysbefore President Carter announcedrestoration of diplomatic relationswith China, I submitted a letter toCharles Gillispie stating my desire touse the Sachs scholarship to gain “afirst-hand understanding of life inmainland China.” Thanks to the sup-port of the Sachs, I was able to join thefirst small group of Americans to livein China in the year following normal-ization.

I flew to Shanghai in August 1979 to

be a teacher and student at FudanUniversity. My undergraduate major inEast Asian Studies had given me astrong foundation in Chinese lan-guage, history, and culture, but thejoys and struggles of daily life weretotally unfamiliar. Every day I learnedmore about the frustrations of living intotalitarian state and the unimagin-able events my Chinese friends andcolleagues had witnessed in the pasttwo decades. Meanwhile, my highlymotivated English students plied mewith inexhaustible questions about lifein the United States. So we learnedfrom each other and I left China witha strong conviction that the two coun-tries could benefit greatly from bettermutual understanding.

In the 25 years since that first trip, Ihave returned many times andwatched China change at a breathtak-ing pace. My Sachs year providedinspiration for many of my subsequentpursuits. Seeing that China’s early

steps towardinteraction withthe outside worldwere a major fac-tor in improvingpeople’s lives, Ireturned to get amaster’s degreein internationalaffairs focusingon economicsand business.After getting mar-ried in 1982, Skipand I spent a year

in Hong Kong, where he worked forthe government as a Luce Scholar andI did economic work on China at theBank of America.

Since Hong Kong, we have lived inWashington D.C. I spent nine years atthe U.S.-China Business Council,where I found my niche as editor ofthe China Business Review. The CBR,which provided in-depth informationabout China’s economy under post-Mao reforms, was an excellent vantagepoint from which to watch thosechanges unfold.

Our first child, Carly, was born in1989 and Matthew followed in 1995.From 1993 to 2003, I worked as apart-time consultant on China — achange that involved professional sac-rifices, but no long-term regrets. Inaddition to more time at home, it gaveme the chance to work for severalnon-profit organizations I had longadmired and to serve as editor of theWashington Journal of ModernChina, focusing on issues of U.S. poli-cy toward China.

Last year, I took a job at GeorgeMason University as China coordina-tor and director of new China initia-tives. As the university pursues aca-demic cooperation in fields from nurs-ing to business, I have the chance toput my own beliefs in the benefits offirsthand knowledge and cooperationto the test. Over the years, China hascontinued to be a source of fascinationand frustration for me, and I am grate-ful to the Sachs scholarship for launch-ing me in this direction.

MMaaddeellyynn RRoossss ’79

Madelyn Ross, Carly, Skip & Matthew

ling space company in the wake of theChallenger disaster. I was off and forthe next 14 years my practice wasmainly focused on the space and aero-space industry, for small and bigclients. In 2000, I joined the seniorexecutive ranks of VeridianCorporation (the distant successor tothat tiny start-up back in 1986). Ourbusiness was in defense and intelli-gence technology and services. OnSeptember 11, 2001, I watched withmy own eyes as a jetliner crashed intothe Pentagon, just a few blocks frommy office.

The next two years were a whirl-wind: by design or accident, we hadassembled a set of corporate capabili-

ties remarkably well suited for theglobal war on terrorism. We wentpublic in June 2002 and sold the com-pany about a year later. By that timewe had almost 7,500 employees and$1.2 billion in annual revenue. Forthe last six months, I have been “self-unemployed,” taking some time offand looking along with some of myformer colleagues for the right encoreopportunity.

I met my wife, Jill, before Oxford,even before Princeton, when we wereboth in tenth grade. I was gracedwith her presence during visits toOxford; highpoints of those visitsincluded day trips to Royal Ascotboth years (including, I believe,Shergar’s last race) and May Balls

featuring Elvis Costello (1979) andthe English Beat (1980). We alsotraveled together during my two win-ter vacations, first to France andItaly, and then to Kenya for a month(which I would have to rate as mybest trip ever).

Continuing my good fortune, Jillstayed with me through law schooland we were married upon my grad-uation in 1983. Julia was born in1986 and Madeleine in 1989. Juliawill graduate from high school nextmonth and enter Cornell in the fall.Madeleine is a 5'-10" ninth grader.Both of the girls are champion horse-back riders. All three are beautiful,intelligent, and witty. I am very, verylucky.



Since September 2002, I have beendean of Princeton’s Woodrow WilsonSchool of Public and InternationalAffairs. It has been wonderful tocome back to Princeton, which, inaddition to its other many virtues,turns out to be a fabulous place toraise two small children. At a timewhen issues of international affairsand American foreign policy havenever been more important, I havebeen busy rebuilding the internation-al relations faculty at WWS, launch-ing the Princeton Project on NationalSecurity Strategy and working withfaculty and alumni to figure out howbest to train future public leaders inboth domestic and international pub-lic affairs.

My life is as full and busy as ever. Ijust finished a two-year term as presi-dent of the American Society ofInternational Law and recently pub-lished a new book, A New World

Order, which took a decade to write!I argue that the private sector, non-profit sector and criminal sector areall increasingly organized in transna-tional networks to enable them tooperate effectively in a global envi-ronment. What we have not paidnearly enough attention to are theequivalent networks in the publicsector – networks of national govern-ment officials that give us badlyneeded global governance capacitywithout the political dangers andpractical problems of creating globalgovernment.

Before returning to Princeton, Itaught international law, foreignaffairs and civil procedure atHarvard Law School, in addition tosupervising graduate and interna-tional legal studies. I particularlyenjoyed teaching a class designed tointroduce foreign-trained lawyers tothe American legal system and over-seeing the creation of an inter-disci-plinary colloquium on internationalaffairs at Harvard.

I am married to Andrew Moravcsik,

who is a professor of government atHarvard, and we have two sons,Edward and Alexander, who lead usa merry dance. After I had been deanfor several months and was travelinga lot, Edward (age six) said to me:“Mom, this has got to stop!” It hasn’tof course, but we are a very happyand lucky family.

Since July 2003, I have beendean of the Harvard Law School.My main priorities as dean havebeen to improve the quality of thestudent experience at HLS and tore-energize the HLS communitywhile maintaining the school'stradition of excellence in scholar-ship. I am particularly interestedin promoting the importance ofpublic service to all members ofthe HLS community -- students,recent graduates and more estab-lished alumni.

My current scholarly work isvery much an outgrowth of theexperiences I had while servingin the Clinton White House asassociate counsel to the presi-dent, deputy assistant to thepresident for domestic policy anddeputy director of the DomesticPolicy Council. In these roles, Iwas able to work on a wide vari-ety of issues -- education, publichealth and crime -- and found

enormous satisfaction in beingable to use my legal skills in away that impacted real lives andreal problems. Working in theWhite House allowed me toexpand the understanding of thefederal government that I beganto develop as a law clerk to JudgeAbner Mikva of the U.S. Court ofAppeals for the Washington D.C.Circuit and to Justice ThurgoodMarshall of the U.S. SupremeCourt.

Prior to becoming dean, I taughtadministrative and constitutionallaw at HLS and published a lawreview article titled “PresidentialAdministration” that describedthe ways in which the U.S. presi-dent can shape public policythrough various regulatory mech-anisms. This article was honoredby the American Bar Associationas the top scholarly article in theareas of administrative and regu-latory practice and will serve asthe basis of a book.

Since the start of my legal careerin academia and in practice, Ihave also been interested in First

Amendment issues and have writ-ten on a variety of related topicsincluding the role of governmentalmotive in First Amendment doc-trine and the interplay of libel lawand the First Amendment.

EElleennaa KKaaggaann

AAnnnnee--MMaarriieeSSllaauugghhtteerr ’80

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Elena Kagan

’81


I spent my Sachs year at theGraduate Institute of InternationalStudies in Geneva. To say my year inGeneva was transformative is a grossunderstatement. I wanted to spend ayear in Europe for the experience ofliving in an (admittedly modestly) dif-ferent culture and because, unlike mostof the scholars, I was not and still amnot an Anglophile (what is the bigattraction of those bogs and terriblefood, anyway?). The coursework inGeneva turned out to be pretty easy, soI used my free time to do what I shouldhave been doing much more atPrinceton — hanging out with friends. Ialso made forays to France, Belgium,the Soviet Union, Norway, Sweden,Denmark, Italy and Greece — and tookup what has become my sports pas-sion, downhill skiing. I thought hardabout staying a second year and wish Ihad had the nerve to do so. The yearsolidified my academic love affair withinternational relations and my life-long

interest in exploring the world.From there, it was back to the U.S.

to Yale Law, then the StateDepartment Legal Adviser’s Office.I’ve heard it said that one’s first jobdoes more than one can measure forthe trajectory of one’s career, andState was no exception for me. I hadsix years of great work and traveland, most important, formation oflifelong friendships. In 1991, I spent ayear at the Council on ForeignRelations. In 1992, I met Nancy Szaboand applied for legal teaching jobs. Iwent to Austin in 1993 and she hadfaith enough to follow me a year later-- thank God for me. Austin has beena great place for us. Ben was born inApril 1997, and we quickly moved toThe Hague where we spent a wonder-ful sabbatical year; Isabel was bornshortly after we came back, inDecember 1999. I simply cannotbelieve how fortunate I am to havesuch a fantastic wife and two healthykids.

I continue to believe the world’sgreatest problems are outside theU.S. and have tried in a small way to

understand them, get others to do so,and help improve them. My work hasthus focused on the challenges tonew states and governments afterthe Cold War, with a human rightsemphasis. It’s a little depressing attime to study all the awful places,people and events in the world, but Ifeel a moral compulsion to do so; mygood fortune is clearly a product ofopportunities that most people neverget. In any case, I’m eternally grate-ful to Princeton and the SachsScholarship for igniting my profes-sional passion.

At Oxford I read InternationalRelations in the M. Phil. degree thatwas then run by Hedley Bull and AdamRoberts. I played on the Oxford FieldHockey, Lacrosse, and Tennis teams,and the College co-ed Field Hockey and(champion!) Tennis teams. Most of mymost amusing “Yank at Oxford”moments came on the playing fields; allinvolved some version of my being “ter-ribly keen,” next to my English team-mates’ rather more diffident approach.

After Oxford, I came to Washington,D.C., where I was the designated staffmember to Senator William S. Cohenon the Senate Select Committee onIntelligence. It was an exhausting, butwonderful, job. I had responsibility forintelligence programs which have morerelevance to our world today than Iever would have predicted, includingwhat was then a covert action programto back the mujahedeen inAfghanistan.

A number of investigations by theIntelligence Committee into executivebranch misuse of power, including the

Iran-Contra affair, persuaded me that Ishould study constitutional law. I head-ed to Yale, where I did study an awfullot of it, and also met and married myhusband, Mark Turnage, in theprocess.

Mark and I moved to Denver in 1991,and I clerked on the Court of Appealsfor the Tenth Circuit. Subsequently, Ipracticed law at Holland & Hart inDenver and was able through someminor miracle to spend the bulk of mytwo years there on what became themost important constitutional litiga-tion to gay rights of that decade.Romer v. Evans, as it becameknown by the time it reachedthe U.S. Supreme Court in1995, held that there was no“rational basis” for the constitu-tional amendment Coloradanshad enacted depriving gay menand lesbians of fundamentalrights of representation andaccess to the courts. The Courtheld for us and struck downthe measure.

In 1994, I gave birth to ourson Jack and left the practice oflaw. The following year wemoved to England with

Mark’s work and I had our daughter,Mary Buford, there. In 1999, I had oursecond daughter, Nellie, and lastDecember, our little son Bo.

I hope to begin some teaching thisfall at the University of Denver, and atsome point in the future find the per-fect mix of mothering and a career inthe wide, wide world with “conse-quences of value to the public.” But forthe time being, thank you all so verymuch for your confidence and guid-ance in 1983 and through all theseyears.

SStteevvee RRaattnneerr ’82

NNaattaalliiee BBooccoocckkTTuurrnnaaggee ’83

Natalie with Nellie, Bo, Mary & Jack

Nancy & Steve


The Sachs Scholarship has madea huge difference in my life. I studiedelectrical engineering and computerscience at Princeton and planned togo to graduate school in computerscience. Perhaps I would have gottena job in some Silicon Valley companyor maybe have become a professor inan engineering school. That couldhave been for me an straight-for-ward, happy life. The SachsScholarship took me in a differentdirection. I think my life has beenmuch richer because of it.

Going to Oxford as a Sachs Scholarwas my first experience traveling far-ther outside the U.S. than theCanadian side of Niagara Falls. I

remember getting off the train inOxford and walking along the old,front stone wall of Worcester College.I had proposed to do a one-year diplo-ma in economics at the LondonSchool of Economics. But the selec-tion committee suggested that Iinstead do an M.Phil. in Economics atWorcester. Following the committee'sadvice was one of my wiser life choic-es, made on the basis of not reallyknowing what I was doing in eithercase. In retrospect, I marvel that I wasboth given the scholarship and amuch better proposal for using it.

What I got out of Oxford was, first,two very good years of life and sec-

Doug Galbi

DDoouugg GGaallbbii ’86

At Worcester College, I learnedmany things about the world and atleast three things about myself: (1)that, contrary to the received wisdomof my Princeton classmates, I hadsome modest athletic talent, at leastwhen strapped to a sliding seat on anarrow hull with an oar in my hands;(2) that, after producing my D.Phil. inphilosophy in the accepted Oxfordmanner (which is to say, without anydetectible interference from the estab-lished authorities), I was emotionallyincapable of becoming a real academ-ic; and (3) that I wanted to become a

writer in the philosophical style any-way.

Having departed the banks of theIsis magnificently unsuited for anyparticular line of work, I did the obvi-ous thing: I became a managementconsultant. The initial idea was tofund my scribbling ambitions fromnon-traditional sources. But I got alittle carried away and wound upbecoming a founding partner in anew management consulting firm. Asproof that there is some justice in theglobal economy, the firm eventuallywent bankrupt – but not, I add with acertain measure of guilty glee, beforegoing public.

While offering allegedly strategicadvice to large corporations by dayand pounding the keyboards by night,I continued in the habit developed atOxford of not maintaining any resi-dence, legal or otherwise, for longerthan it takes to, say, establish a friend-ly rapport with the local barber.

Some time ago I inflicted my firstbook on the world: The Truth AboutEverything: An Irreverent History ofPhilosophy with Illustrations. I havesince dedicated myself to writing ‘full-time.’ I recently publishedMonturiol’s Dream: TheExtraordinary Story of the

Submarine Inventor Who Wanted toSave the World and am almost fin-ished with a book in which I claim,ahem, that all of the philosophicalproblems of modernity were firstraised and solved in a meeting thattook place in The Hague in November1676 between Gottfried WilhelmLeibniz and Baruch Spinoza.

Fortunately, my wife, Katherine,understands the unusual lifestylecommitments that go along with suchprojects (e.g., lengthy stays in second-tier European cities, unexplained dis-appearances into research libraries,and the need for space in which todefuse the occasional fit of existentialanxiety). As it happens, she is awriter, too. Next year she will publishher first novel, The Yoga Mamas,which features in a supporting role ahapless, scholarship-winning yogapapa who is NOT me.

These days Katherine and I live inNew York and devote our accumu-lated wisdom (and most of ourtime) to a much more challengingtask, namely, raising our two-year-old daughter Sophia, whose name,perhaps not coincidentally, reflectsthe ideal whose pursuit I havealways associated with the SachsScholarship.

MMaatttthheewwSStteewwaarrtt ’85

Katherine, Sophia & Matthew


I am currently practicing law atArnold & Porter in Washington D.C.My work focuses primarily on intel-

lectual property litigation, althoughI have experience litigating andarbitrating cases in a variety offields. My pro bono interestsinclude child welfare, criminal law,political asylum and housing issues.

While at Princeton, I was the first

woman to serve as president of theundergraduate student governmentand studied history at Princeton andOxford. I subsequently received aJ.D. and LL.M. from Duke Universityand practiced in the litigation groupof Covington & Burling.

MMiicchheelleeWWooooddss ’84


I spent two vibrant years atOxford studying PPE, reading hun-dreds of books out of simple inter-est, playing rugby and travelingeverywhere I possibly could – hitch-hiking for six weeks in southernAfrica, seeing the final days of theSoviet Union under Perestroika,running with the bulls in Pamplomaand getting drunk with Americanpriests at the Vatican.

After Oxford, I retuned to southTexas and spent five years workingas a community organizer toimprove the lives of poor and work-ing class Mexican-Americans. Ihelped bring water and sewer serv-ice to dozens of communities alongthe Texas-Mexico border, re-open ahospital as a regional diabetes treat-ment center and empower thou-

sands of families to have a voice inthe decisions that affect their dailylives. While in south Texas, I alsomarried Mari Brennan, an organiz-ing colleague with a passionate andgood heart.

For family reasons, Mari and Imoved to New England in 1996. Ibecame Director of theMassachusetts Senate’s investiga-tive committee and helped reformstate government by passing morethan two dozen major laws. In2003, I became Project Director forthe Metro Mayors Coalition, bring-ing together all the urban cities inmetropolitan Boston to worktogether on myriad regional proj-ects ranging from homeland securi-ty to consolidation of health insur-ance plans. In addition, I alsofounded and run theCommonwealth LegislativeSeminar, an intensive training pro-gram designed to teach communi-

ties of color and immigrants how toimpact state-level policy debates.

Mari and I adopted two beautifulchildren, Milagros (Mila) andJames, in Ecuador and life is fulland chaotic at our home in Natick,Massachusetts.

Joel Barrera

JJooeell BBaarrrreerraa ’87

So, when I graduated fromPrinceton and left for Oxford, I was-n’t sure if I wanted to be: (1) aneconomist; (2) a journalist; or (3) aphysician. I had deferred medicalschool at Johns Hopkins for twoyears to sort things out. At Oxford, Idid a lot of thinking, ate a lot ofJaffa cakes (and still lost a lot ofweight), read a lot about labor eco-nomics, wrote a book with BillBowen, Prospects for Faculty in theArts and Sciences, and ultimatelydecided to become a doc. I returnedto Baltimore, where I spent 12

(long) years — four as a medical stu-dent, seven as a Halsted surgicalresident, and one as an AssistantChief of Service and Instructor inthe Department of Surgery. Duringmy final year, I also did a fellowshipin surgical oncology and pancreaticsurgery. My greatest accomplish-ment was to have performed 91Whipple operations by the end ofmy training. From Baltimore, Icame to Yale, following my mentorin endocrine surgery, RobertUdelsman. At Yale, I am an assis-tant professor of surgery and clini-cal epidemiology in the divisions ofsurgical oncology and endocrinesurgery. I split my time between

Dr. Sosa, mid-Whipple

JJuulliiee--AAnnnneeSSoossaa ’88

ond, training to make my own intel-lectual way. I enjoyed the colorful col-lection of international students, thecamaraderie of rowing, running anddrinking and time to wander around,free and easy, the modern, medievalcity-campus of Oxford and the well-bounded wilds of places like PortMeadow. My academic program wasmainly solo study, largely undisci-plined by formal courses, assign-ments or exams. I learned to achievenothing and enjoy it and to search out

new knowledge, wherever it might be.These skills have served me well. I

subsequently did a Ph.D. inEconomics at MIT, worked for sixmonths in Russia as an economicconsultant to the government, spent afew months doing research in eco-nomic history at King’s College,Cambridge, worked at the WorldBank, and then moved to a job at theFederal CommunicationsCommission.

As Oxford is to modern intellec-tual life, so too is the FCC to institu-

tions of high technology.Unmotivated by the impossibility ofpromotion or demotion, I’ve put alot of effort into developing andsharing knowledge relevant to com-munications policy. I’ve also dab-bled in the DC poetry scene,trained with a cycling team withmuch of the same spirit as ourWorcester crew, and spent time vis-iting with men in that other worldof prison. Perhaps I’ve reallyachieved nothing, but I am gratefulfor this life.




The Sachs Scholarship allowed meto spend a year studying the biologi-cal basis of Alzheimer’s disease atthe University of Cambridge, where Iworked in a lab dedicated to animalmodels of memory dysfunction. Inthat productive year, I workedtoward not only a master’s degree

and several publications, but also agreater appreciation for the pubexperience and the skill of puntingon the Cam. Although I consideredstaying for a Ph.D., the pull fromWendy Hassan ’91, who would laterbecome my wife and wanted to liveand work in the U.S., was strongerthan my commitment to the lab atCambridge.

In the following year, we movedtoward the other Cambridge, as I start-

ed Harvard Medical School whileWendy picked up the gauntlet of gain-ful employment to support both of us.In addition, I took a year off from med-ical school and spend it in a lab in theNeurology Division at MassachusettsGeneral Hospital. That year allowedme to balance time in the lab withtime in the clinic, working directlywith victims of Alzheimer’s disease, inwhat I felt was an optimal integration

HHoowwaarrdd WWeesstt ’90

The Sachs Scholarship was a won-derful educational and culturalopportunity for me. It was my firstopportunity to travel abroad. Ichose to study Philosophy, Politicsand Economics at Worcester College,a course of study that was perfectgiven my interest in law and politics.It was an opportunity I would neverhave had without the scholarship,the support of the Class of 1960 anddevoted individuals such as Charlesand Emily Gillespie.

When I arrived at Oxford, I wasimmediately struck by the physicalbeauty of the colleges, with theirmeticulously maintained groundsand lakes. It seemed that the grassat Oxford was somehow greenerthan I had ever encountered, espe-cially growing up in inner city WestBaltimore.

The one-on-one nature of the tuto-rials was quite a change from whatI encountered at Princeton. Duringmy entire time at Princeton no pro-fessor offered me a cup of tea or asherry before my precepts — anoffer that was common at myWorcester College tutorials. That isnot to say that my Princeton experi-ence was in any way lacking — it

was not. But this offer of hospitali-ty was just one reflection of a cul-ture with numerous social tradi-tions I found to be refreshing. Theexperience of having tea was onethat I came to enjoy a great dealand that I sorely miss.

Sport was also an important partof my Sachs experience, as it hadbeen of my Princeton experience. Icontinued to compete in track andfield, running the 800 meters forOxford, as well as HaringeyAthletics Club in London. In addi-tion, I was a “winger” for theWorcester College Rugby team. Itwas great fun, but I must admit thatI still don’t know all the rules. I wasinstructed that when I got into theend zone I needed to exert down-ward pressure on the ball for thepoint to count and that under nocircumstances was I to “spike” theball in the end zone (American-style) or the points would not becounted. With these simple rules inmind, I had a wonderful time. Imust admit that I was glad I was awinger and therefore did not have tobe in the “scrum.”

After returning from Oxford, Iattended Harvard Law School.While there, I had the honor of tak-ing a course in International Lawthat was taught by Anne-MarieSlaughter. After graduating from

Harvard Law School in 1994, Ipracticed law as a member of thelitigation departments of Hogan &Hartson LLP (Baltimore Office)and Goodwin Procter LLP(Boston). In 1998 I joined BellAtlantic as Regulatory Counsel inBoston. After a merger with GTE,Bell Atlantic became VerizonCommunications. I’m currently anAssistant General Counsel forVerizon Communications, withresponsibility for advising the com-pany on legal issues involvingwholesale and regulatory matters.

Today I live in Cambridge,Massachusetts with my wife, Jana,where I also serve as a member ofthe Cambridge Board of ZoningAppeals.

KKeeeeffee CClleemmoonnss ’89

Keefe Clemons


clinical practice, doing endocrine(thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal)and GI surgery (with an emphasison pancreatic surgery) and healthservices research. I am a facultymember in the Robert WoodJohnson Clinical ScholarsProgram at Yale and a fellow at

Jonathan Edwards College on theundergraduate campus.

I’m working nearly as hard as Idid as a resident and I’m provid-ing a lot of free healthcare to theunderserved of New Haven. I justgot back from giving a talk at theHepatobiliary Marathon inAthens and I’m looking forward

to being inducted into theAmerican Association ofEndocrine Surgeons in Cancun inthe spring. I finally own my ownhome. I like my neighbors andlove my colleagues. There is noYale blue in my office; only ablack and orange Princeton 1988banner.



When I was awarded the SachsScholarship, I felt as though I had wonthe lottery. Two years at one of thefinest universities in the world — whata treat! Arriving with high expecta-tions, I was a little discombobulatedby my initial Oxford experiences: the“friendly” greeting by Alex, WorcesterCollege’s Scottish (and usually inebri-ated) porter, which reduced me totears on arrival; the miserable accom-modation in the so-called “Grad Pad,”where quasi-communal bathing (withone bathtub for 12 students) chal-lenged modern standards of personalhygiene; and the disorganization ofthe economics department, whichcaused me to miss my program’sintroductory course (“We didn’t sendyou a letter about the course or thesummer reading list? Oh dear, you’llhave quite a bit of catching up to do.”)

But having survived these initial hic-cups, my Sachs Scholarship experi-ence turned out to be immenselyrewarding. Though I spent my fairshare of hours sweating over readingassignments and problem sets, at leastas many were spent “simply messingaround in boats” (to borrow a phrasefrom The Wind in the Willows),exploring London and the rest ofEurope and simply enjoying the fan-tastic mix of people and cultures thatcould be found at Oxford.

My association with Oxford contin-ued long after the end of my scholar-ship tenure. After completing theM.Phil. in economics (June 1993), Ijoined a Moscow-based team of econo-mists advising the Russian govern-ment. The year was filled with adven-ture — the showdown betweenPresident Yeltsin and the RussianParliament occurred a few blocks frommy apartment — and valuable lessonsabout the limitations of applying eco-nomic theory to economic policy.

I returned to Oxford in 1994, osten-sibly to embark on a D.Phil. in eco-nomics. However, having lost the var-sity race (women’s lightweight row-ing) in 1993, I was rather unhealthilyconsumed by the ambition to beatCambridge. Countless training ses-sions and fat-free yoghurts later, victo-ry was ours!

In September 1995, I took anotherbreak from my studies to serve as aneconomist on President Clinton’sCouncil of Economic Advisers. (Forthe record, I was NOT an intern.)During this time, I also met my futurehusband, Hamish Hume at an Oxfordalumni event. An attorney and accom-plished rower with two London BoatRace victories to his name (for theright team!), Hamish finagled a firstdate through a bet based on Oxfordrowing trivia . . .

I moved back to the U.K. in January1997, and finally settled down to com-plete my D.Phil. A research appoint-ment at the LSE allowed me to live in

London (and enjoy my Notting Hillneighborhood before riff-raff like JuliaRoberts and Hugh Grant came on thescene). I bid the U.K. (and student life)a last, tearful adieu in November 1998,and joined the International MonetaryFund in Washington. My job as aneconomist has allowed me to continueindulging my addiction to internation-al travel through assignments onLatvia, Peru, El Salvador, Indonesia,Samoa and Sri Lanka. As interestingas all these official trips have been,the most memorable trip againinvolved Oxford: in June 2000,Hamish and I were married inPembroke Chapel, where he was bap-tized.

Winning the Sachs Scholarship lot-tery awarded me a far richer prizethan I could ever have imagined — onethat continues to pay out every day —and I am deeply grateful for all theopportunities it has given me.

Haimish & Andrea

AAnnddrreeaa RRiicchhtteerrHHuummee ’91

of research with patient care.I ultimately decided to pursue my

residency training in internal medi-cine with a plan to pursue oncology.After completing my medicine intern-ship and residency training inBoston, Wendy and I decided to moveto Seattle, where I trained in medicaloncology at the University ofWashington/Fred Hutchinson CancerCenter while she continued to subsi-dize my nominal academic salarywith a “real” job in the softwareindustry. As is the case with manythirty-somethings, we struggled tobalance two careers with a growingfamily that includes our son, Noah(five years old) and daughter, Kate(two years old).

I moved to the Swedish CancerInstitute in Seattle and during thepast several years, I have developed aparticular expert-ise in lung cancerand a growinginterest inprostate cancer.My work gives methe chance totravel and speakaround the coun-try (as often aspossible withWendy and thekids).

In my limitedspare time, I amtrying to becomeproficient in gui-

tar, hone photography skills, and helpat my son’s t-ball practices (at five,they need extra help).

Kate, Howard, Wendy & Noah



I spent a year at the University ofCosta Rica and a number of fieldsites, studying biodiversity in theCosta Rican rainforest. I learned atremendous amount, both about trop-ical ecology and the realities and chal-lenges of trying to do science in adeveloping country. For me, it was awonderful year, one that set me on aprofessional path of working towardexpanding scientific capacities inCentral America and connecting thatresearch to important public healthproblems.

When I returned to the U.S., I stud-ied genetics in graduate school at theUniversity of California, SanFrancisco. I worked on a small nema-tode worm that serves as a helpfulmodel for understanding more com-plex nervous systems. One of mypapers, in which I identified a neural

circuit responsible for a primitivesocial behavior, made the cover ofNature.

Then, in a strange twist, I foundmyself living and doing science onceagain in Central America. My wife,Ana María Xet, a wonderfulGuatemalan woman whom I first metduring my year inCosta Rica, hadcome to SanFrancisco on avisa that we weresurprised to learnrequired a two-year home countryresidence aftercompletion,regardless of mar-riage to a U.S. citi-zen. So when shewas finished withher U.S. training,off we went toGuatemala.

I was a profes-

sor of genetics at the national uni-versity and also taught in work-shops for local scientists through-out the region that aimed to bringmolecular biology techniques andeducation to Latin American labo-ratories. I also started working

DDaavviidd TToobbiinn ’93

The Sachs scholarship was truly alife changing event for me — academi-cally, personally, and professionally.I still remember walking out of theinterview for the scholarship andfeeling like my interviewers had real-ly gotten to know me as a person inour short time together. I was elat-ed when I received notification that Ihad won (I still remember readingthe letter that had been slippedunder my door), but it wasn’t until afew years later than I fully graspedthe full set of opportunities affordedto me.

My two years at Oxford will proba-bly turn out to be the some of thebest ones in my life. Academically, Iwas challenged in ways even beyondmy time at Princeton. My Oxford col-leagues were perhaps the brightestpeer set I have ever encountered. AtPrinceton, I learned how to learn —at Oxford, I deepened these skillsand I built a foundation of knowledgeabout the most important worldevents and philosophy of the past200 years that continues to make mefeel like a more “educated” individ-ual. I made some close friends from

various parts of the world who willbe an important part of my life forev-er. Most importantly, I also met myhusband, Andy, who was a fellow res-ident in the Worcester graduatebuilding. Andy and I have been mar-ried for almost eight years and nowhave two beautiful children, Ben(three years old.) and Grace (oneyear old) — I feel like I have the Sachsscholarship to thank for my wonder-ful family.

My Oxford experience and degreepositioned me well for future profes-sional opportunities. McKinsey & Cooffered me (as well as a number ofmy Oxford classmates) a post-MBAposition as a management consultantand put me through a five week“mini-MBA program” to instill asmuch business knowledge as possi-ble prior to my first client assign-ment. I spent almost five years thereas a consultant before moving to mycurrent employer, WellingtonManagement.

I acknowledge that both of thesejobs sound like a far cry from inter-national relations and my interest inthe Far East, which was my area offocus when I was at Princeton.However, my Princeton and Oxfordexperiences taught me a passion forlearning, regardless of the subject,

and an appreciation for being in aprofessional environment surround-ed by the best and brightest. Since Ileft Oxford, I have had the good for-tune to continue to work in intellec-tually challenging environments thatfeel a bit like universities. In my cur-rent job, I also have the privilege ofrecruiting, training, developing andretaining talented people, whichallows me to feel like I am givingsomething back.

I believe that a few choices andopportunities ultimately determineour path in life. For me, these weredeciding to attend Princeton andwinning the Sachs scholarship.

Andy, Grace, Sue & Ben

Ana María, David & Gabriel

SSuussaann MMccMMuurrrryyAArrcchheerr ’92



Attending Oxford on the Sachswas a life-changing experiencefor me, mainly because I met mywife, Angela, whowas then a MarshallScholar atMagdalen. Angieand I now have twochildren, Amanda(two years old) andLucy (one year old),and reside inNarberth,Pennsylvania, asmall inner-ringsuburb ofPhiladelphia.

I am a real estatedeveloper withArcadia LandCompany, a compa-ny that specializesin walkable, smartgrowth communi-

ties, and have been increasinglyactive in land use reform effortsand Philadelphia area politics.

It’s a great profession for methat blends politics, architecture,finance and environmental sci-ence.

Charles Gillispie & Jason Duckworth

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At Oxford, I studied Europeanpolitical and economic integra-tion, polishing off an M.Litt. inpolitics. During the summers, inaddition to the traditional Sachstravel schedule and generally get-ting into trouble with the likes ofP-R Stark, I researched at theLondon School of Economics,gaining a very different perspec-tive on the British educationalsystem. I also stumbled uponBlues Basketball, dusting off myhigh school captain’s enthusiasmand finding myself as presidentof the Blues team. This snow-balled into a “British champi-onship” (bigger than nationalchampionship — we’re talkingEngland AND Wales...) by stack-ing the team with Germans,Americans, and, of course, atoken Brit. Like most of theSachs before me, the most amaz-ing moments of my Oxford expe-rience were outside the class-

room, enjoying the melange offriends of varying nationalities,taking off to whatever countryhad the cheapest last-minuteflight or sipping port whilemulling over the issue of the day(or maybe even a little gossip).The flexibility, exposure and per-spective gained at Oxford havebeen invaluable.

After Oxford, I decided toseize the “internet backbone”and the world of venture capi-tal, having developed a healthystomach for the unknown andthe ability to create my ownstructure at Oxford. After cut-ting my teeth with SummitPartners in Boston, I joinedOptical Capital Group Venturesdoing communications equip-ment early stage investing inWashington, D.C. I have enjoyedthe growing D.C. technologycommunity, as well as the con-stant supply of political innuen-do to feed my interests fromOxford days. I’ve alsoembraced the Mid-Atlantic, tak-ing up sailing on the

Chesapeake, both competitiveracing and casual cruising, andtaking advantage of ongoingpolicy projects in D.C. andorganizations like NationalFoundation for TeachingEntrepreneurship.

Steph Rogers in Greece

’94

SStteepphhaanniieeRRooggeerrss ’95


with a group of forensic anthropol-ogists to try to establish DNA-based identification of massacrevictims.

Currently, I am a postdoctoral fel-low at the University of Washington.I am using my training as a geneticistto try to understand how the bacte-ria that cause tuberculosis are ableto establish infections and evadeeven a healthy immune system. TBkills two million people annuallyworldwide and is a dire public healthproblem in developing countries. Soin addition to conducting basicresearch on TB, I am working withGuatemalan collaborators to developways for their laboratories to followlocal transmission patterns.

Ana María and I have been happilymarried for four years and have atwo-and-a-half-year-old son, Gabriel,who has been a joy. Most of our trav-el in the last few years has beennorth-south, but now that we’re backin the U.S., we’re looking forward tomaking it to Princeton soon.


While at Oxford, I did my finestimpersonation of an English under-graduate of the PPE stripe, overload-ing myself with activities of all vari-eties (punting, bopping, bowling, bat-ting, rambling, hill-walking…) andsprinting to exams in the end. Ibecame Worcester's athlete-in-resi-dence, playing ice hockey for the uni-versity and soccer for the college (vic-toriously, on both fronts), as well astrying my hand at cricket and crew.When at work, I focused my attentionon the history, politics and personali-ties of the British Empire and con-temporary Britain. Between myyears, I traveled to China andSoutheast Asia, where I impersonat-ed a Ming warrior, bid at auction fora camel, searched for the Uighur ofmy dreams and enjoyed thoroughly

what remains my greatest traveladventure to date. Oxford's mix offrenetic activity, ancient traditionand charming whimsy suited me verywell indeed.

I went on to Harvard Law Schoolwhere I spent much of my time work-ing for a start-up technology compa-ny and for the Initiative for ACompetitive Inner City, a non-profitfocused on formulating private sectorurban development strategies. I amcurrently an associate at Cravath,Swaine & Moore LLP. I work hard, Iplay hard and I am generally enjoyinglife in New York. On top of a steadydiet of M&A and securities transac-tions at Cravath, I have been able towork on education policy projects forthe New York City Department ofEducation and the AppleseedFoundation. I have helped a Bronx-based credit union develop micro-lending and entrepreneurship pro-grams and teach financial literacy in

local elementary schools. In my spare time, I’m most likely to

be found exploring the city by bicy-cle, lounging in once-smoky jazz clubsor, given New York’s fabulous arrayof restaurants, eating too much. Ipassionately root, root, root for the(Detroit) Tigers and continue to trav-el, domi et militiae, as widely as Ican.

P-R, discovering the Raj

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For an Anglophile unsure what todo with his life, there could have beenno greater graduation gift than theSachs Scholarship. My two years atOxford heightened my Anglophilia onmany fronts — and, I suppose, bluntedit on a few as well — but were a won-derful blur of good friends, goodbooks and delightful travel. I man-aged to earn and M.Phil in economicand social history and fulfill my com-

mitment to see two plays a week inOxford, London or Stratford. I mademy first trip to Asia. I would haveliked to travel more widely, but I justcouldn’t stop going to France. I thinkI made eight trips. It was so close, thepound so strong and the food so good.

In the end, I left Oxford uncertainwhether I could recreate elsewhere thepleasure I’d experienced there study-ing dead English theologians. PerhapsOxford spoiled it for me and I shouldhave been more open to an academiccareer. But I had also been excited byaspects of economics and behavioral

psychology I studied at Oxford andthose contributed to a desire to spendmy career more engaged in the outsideworld, talking daily with real peopleand writing about a broader variety oftopics. I gave journalism a try, joiningthe Associated Press in Richmondthen moving a few months later toBoston. I still haven’t left. I spent threeyears as the AP’s Boston-based busi-ness writer, covering everything frommutual fund scandals to technologytrends and filling in from time to timeon the Red Sox beat. This year, I waspromoted to the AP’s national report-ing staff to cover higher education — ajob I hope will allow me to keep a footin each world.

The Sachs Scholarship felt familialto me from the moment I received it.I quickly learned that Charles hadbeen my father’s JP adviser and wasa friend of Anne-Marie Slaughter’sfather, and that my mother hadtaught Natalie Bocock Turnage highschool English. Returning toPrinceton to choose among the appli-cants has been a source of much sat-isfaction. I am proud to be part of aninstitution of such noble purpose andpeople, and derive great pleasurefrom watching others follow in ourfootsteps.

Justin Pope (l. to r.), Andrea Hume, Sue Archer, Natalie Deffenbaugh,P-R Stark & David Loevner

’96

JJuussttiinn PPooppee ’97


For a long time, I feared that Iwas not living up to the great Sachstradition. When I arrived in Oxford,I was terrified to learn thatWorcester College was expecting meto emulate P-R’s illustrious sportingprowess and Justin’s savvy MCRpoliticking, and I was sorely remissin both. To make matters worse, Iencountered much disappointmentand frustration in my departmentand at times worried that I wouldleave Oxford without any kind ofdegree. But, as my academic experi-ence with Oxford declined, my faithand confidence in the Sachs familygrew. With every new obstacle, Icould always rely on David andCharles to support and advise me.With their help, I ended up stayingin Oxford for five years and finallyleaving last summer with a D.Phil.in Social Psychology.

At the urging of P-R and Andrea, Istarted to travel and really enjoy liv-ing in Europe. I even figured outways to leave my own impression —I declared myself resident DJ andwas responsible for some very mem-orable bops both in and outside ofcollege. I also helped found aCaribbean society so others couldenjoy some great food and goodmusic. Our mission was to bringsome much needed warmth to anotherwise gray and rainy place, and

I have applied this same philosophyto my career.

In my current position, teachingat the University of WesternOntario, the greatest challenge hasbeen finding ways to hold the atten-tion of 450 students who at firstmistook me for one of them. Itseems that I did something rightbecause their results were excellent,and they nominated me for a teach-ing award in my first year. I was sohonored by this that I thanked themin class by performing the moon-walk. That’s a long story, but it well

describes my classes — effective,engaging, and not soon to be forgot-ten. The Sachs scholarship gave methe qualification to begin this careerthat I love and excel in. It allowedme to experience the world in a newway and to return poised to conquerthe next goal. My desire to includeservice as part of my work has beenrejuvenated and I am already devel-oping ideas to improve education inthe Caribbean. So I now hope that Ihave done justice to this scholarshipand community I am so proud to bea part of.

Shalani Alisharan, Christine Whelan & Justin Pope

SShhaallaanniiAAlliisshhaarraann

Remember that scene from MaryPoppins where Julie Andrews stepsinto the vibrant, colorful world of awatercolor painting? That’s what itfelt like for me the first time Iwalked through the gates ofWorcester College. Receiving theSachs Scholarship has been a trans-formative experience. In fact, I’vehad so much fun that I haven’tquite left!

At Oxford, I studied Economicand Social History. In 2001, Ireceived my M.Phil., writing a thesison changing dating and marriage

patterns in the United States asseen through the advice of men’sand women’s magazines. This year(fingers crossed), I’ll receive myD.Phil. for a dissertation about theincreasing popularity of psychologi-cal self-help books in the UnitedStates since the 1970s.

My research combines my twointerests: media and social history.I’ve held internships at The WallStreet Journal and TheWashington Post. I’ve precepted inPrinceton’s politics and sociologydepartments. And next year I hopeto turn my dissertation into abook.

When I’m not analyzing socialtrends, I attempt to create them. I

served as social secretary of theWorcester MCR and currently I’mthe social director of the OxonianSociety, an Oxford alumni group inNew York City.

If the Sachs committee had toldme five years ago where this pathwould lead — that I would be finish-ing my D.Phil., precepting atPrinceton and figuring out how tobe a journalist and an academic allrolled into one — I would havereplied as Mary Poppins famouslydid: “I’m sure I haven’t the faintestidea what you’re talking about.”

Thank you for the opportunity forthis adventure. More to come in the40th Anniversary edition of theSachs Scholarship magazine!

’98

CChhrriissttiinneeWWhheellaann ’99


At Oxford, I read for an M.Phil inRussian and East European Studies(I almost wrote “studied for anM.Phil,” having been away from theuniquely English terminology for afew years now, but I caught myerror.) I had a wonderful experienceat Worcester College. It was amazingto meet students from all over theworld and be exposed to an entirelynew academic field. (I had majoredin Classics at Princeton, so RussianStudies was quite a change. I like tothink of it as a shift from Sallust toStalin). These were exhilaratingexperiences for me, and ones that Iwill never forget. Added delight came

from the sizable Sachs contingentaround me during my time there.

Since leaving Oxford, I’ve been atHarvard Law School, where I just fin-ished my second year. I’m currentlythinking about legal specialties andabout where I'd like to end up geo-graphically. At HLS, in addition toserving as an RA, I work as ArticleEditor of the Harvard EnvironmentalLaw Review and as a pre-law tutor atHarvard College. When I need arelease from reading throughstatutes and cases (which seems tobe quite often these days), I can usu-ally be found at the park across thestreet from the law school, where I

play ultimate frisbee. And next year,I hope to join the Harvard-RadcliffeOrchestra, so that I can resume play-ing the viola — something that I’vemissed since my college years.

I spent last summer at thePentagon, working for anotherPrincetonian, Donald Rumsfeld, inDoD’s Office of General Counsel(International Affairs Department).I’d write more about the work I did,but then I’d have to kill you. It’s allvery hush-hush. This summer, I’mworking at a law firm in New York.So in sum, I’ve kept busy, but Iwouldn’t have it any other way. I lookforward to catching up with you all.

Ken Shaitelman

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After receiving my M.Phil inEconomic & Social History, Idecided to endure Oxford's high-pressure atmosphere for onemore year, to pursue my D.Philbefore going to Yale Law Schoolin September 2004. My disserta-tion on the history of free soft-ware, 1950-1995, has drawn meinto contemporary debates aboutintellectual property and innova-tion. I currently serve as thecoordinator of Union for thePublic Domain, a grassrootsorganization that works to pre-serve the public domain in mat-ters concerning intellectual prop-erty, and am working on theexporting of the Creative

Commons licenses to the UK. Inthe finest traditions of theAmerican at Oxford, I took just a

small portion of this past Hilaryterm to travel to Lithuania,Poland and Japan.

David Tannenbaum, enjoying an intellectual moment

Shalani Alisharan (l. to r.), David Tannenbaum, David Loevner,Christine Whelan & Ken Shaitelman

’00

DDaavviiddTTaannnneennbbaauumm ’01


Born in relative obscurity in ageneral hospital at the foot of theRockies, who would have guessedthat I would rise to the heights ofachievement designated by theSachs Scholarship? Certainly notme, who was completely taken inby Joel Barrera’s and DavidLoevner’s ruse that they needed to“ask her more questions” on themorning after the interviews wereover. I had never before beenstruck speechless in all my (fairlyshort) life!

Since then, however, I have madegood use of my time in England,writing ridiculous numbers of tuto-rial essays, learning more properlyhow to drink beer, travelling tovisit friends in far-flung placessuch as Mannheim, Moscow, andMadras (Chennai, really, but thealliteration!). I have done my fairshare of exploration aroundOxford, as well, discovering on anillicit jaunt the office of a geniusacademic at the top of the oldchurch tower that is now the St.Edmund’s Hall library. Imagine 360degree views of those dreaming

spires, floors littered with paper-work and massive brass candle-sticks and you get some idea.

There have also been some inter-esting and slightly more staid activ-ities to fill her time: learning howto tend the bar at “bops” as a mem-ber of the Worcester MCR commit-tee; trying to play cricket with theMCR team last summer (let therecord show that I did technicallytake one wicket!); and of coursesinging with the Worcester chapelchoir and learning all the joys ofthe English Choral MusicTradition —- with emphasis onTradition. My expanded repertoirenow includes the ability to speakwith alacrity and even some knowl-edge about Tomkins’s setting of thepreces and responses, as well asLeighton’s Col. Mag. My personaladvice is: don’t ask!

Pursuing an undergraduatedegree, there is no particular the-sis topic to discuss here, and Irefuse to talk about my exams anymore than I have to. But I do havethe pleasure of announcing thatcome August 2004, I will findmyself in a rather different envi-ron to the Oxford skies that per-petually threaten rain: namely,Khartoum, Sudan. I have accepted

a year-long internship withInternational Rescue Committeewhich, I hope, will lead to moreextended employment in, if notthat very same field, then onewith similar vegetation. A far cryindeed from that simple debut inDenver, but after all, the Sachscan make all things possible.

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I’m still in India, studying theBollywood film industry in all itswondrous manifestations. I spendmost of my time covering moviesthat are in production, photo-graphing everything short of whatwill get me kicked off set andsometimes getting kicked off setfor good measure. I have had theopportunity to work with andobserve numerous directors, cine-matographers and screenwriters.These experiences have providedpersuasive empirical support forthe idea that, across cultures,toad-like men in purple polyestershirts are usually jerks.

I have found it challenging andrewarding to combine the rigor-ous, highly formal compositional

skills I developed in Princeton’svisual arts program with thedemands of a subject that must bedealt with on the fly. Also, I havean uncanny knack for settingmyself up near things that areabout to explode in the next take.This has resulted in some smalldamage to my person and to myequipment.

After I wrap things up in India, Iwill study at Central Saint MartinsCollege of Art and Design inLondon while editing and printingmy images. I will also attempt tofind a living space that costs nomore than £800 a month and is nosmaller than an industrial wash-ing machine. I understand thatsuch deals can occasionally befound in metropolitan London, butonly if you stake your claim byputting the coins into the machineevery hour or so. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi

Natalie Deffenbaugh

’02

RRaaffiillKKrroollll--ZZaaiiddii ’03


Special thanks to

The Class of 1960

for its generousfinancial support

and to

Henry R. LordFrank OrdiwayRobert Durkee

Thomas H. Wright

for their time and dedication

In the three days since the end ofmy Princeton academic career, I’veaveraged a triple single, that’s onebeach volleyball outing, one swim inthe Woody Woo fountain, and onemovie per day. I also took home thegold in the swing dancing worldchampionships, held for the firsttime at a Vitale family gathering inRed Bank, N.J. Any challengers?

The school year itself wasn’t tooshabby either. Receiving the SachsScholarship was a significant step inthe fulfillment of a life-vision that hasbeen developing ever since my firsttrip to Oxford as a visiting studenttwo years ago. To offer my intellect toa University that shares my commit-ment to the beneficial cross-fertiliza-tion of philosophy and theology, to

compete athletically in a country thatshares my passion for football, toworship at a church that shares mydesire to love God with all of mymind, to once again enjoy bakedbeans for breakfast and Ben’s cookiesafter lunch...this, my friends, is goingto be two solid years.

I could not be more pleased tonow call Charles Gillispie a friend.We have been able to break breadtogether a number of times and totalk about some of the mostimportant questions in life — ques-tions of meaning, origin, destinyand morality. We don’t alwaysagree with one another, but fromour different perspectives we havefound a common bond in oursearch for truth. It has also beenwonderful to meet Daniel Sachsthrough the lens of Charles, to bea witness to their covenentalfriendship which we celebrate and

to begin to understand the privi-lege of crossing the pond inOctober as part of a story muchlarger and much more beautifulthan mine alone.

Vincent Vitale

VViinncceenntt VViittaallee ’04

Tuition toOxford:$36,000

Trip to Athens:

$750

Cathy &David

Loevner:

PricelessThanks from all of us!

35 Years of Sachs Scholars 23




On the 35th anniversary of the Sachs Scholarship, which has achieved so much for its recipients andfor two great places of learning, it is appropriate to think back about the person in whose memory thescholarship was conceived and named. What can one say about a young man who died before he couldmake his mark? A young man who was eager to live and contribute, but one who died before the VietnamWar became a political issue, before Watergate, indeed before most of the traumatic events that trans-

formed American political life and society during the last 40 years.Dan was not very easy to get to know as a person. Illustrious at

Princeton as an outstanding athlete, and in appearance the veryimage of what a Rhodes Scholar should be, Dan was actually intro-spective and reserved. He chose his words carefully and tended to

be very thoughtful before speaking out, and then always in asoft voice. His friends trusted his judgment and consid-

ered him a leader, and he accepted that role without falsemodesty, but also with grace. He had a passion to under-stand the world and particularly what gave leaders theirspecial quality. In retrospect, some of our discussionsabout government and politics seem naive, but then wewere young, and the times one must remember weremore idealistic than today’s. John Kennedy had justbeen elected president and his call that we “ask notwhat your country can do for you, but what you can do

for your country” was one that many of us — particular-ly those of us at Oxford in 1961 — took seriously and per-sonally.

In concentrating on his ideas and vision, I am giving asomewhat too focused a picture of Dan, for in fact he wasmultidimensional. He had a wry sense of humor and

enjoyed a beer in the pub with his rugby teammates. He hadan intense devotion to his family, and when he met Joan he knew

immediately that he was in love and wanted to get married. Nothingwas more wonderful to him than the birth of Alexandra, whatever his

personal situation. He faced his cancer valiantly and objectively, with-out any sense of self pity and toward the end he well understood that

he was facing death. In a sense, he had a full life — with high points andtragedy — within a span of 29 years.

I should add a few special comments about his time at Oxford, whenthe ideal of contributing to the public good matured in his mind as a per-sonal goal. Dan’s experience at Oxford was a formative period in his

development, certainly that would have been the case even had he beenblessed with a full life. Although he continued to succeed in athletics, win-

ning a blue in rugby, his focus turned increasingly to history and to a politi-cal career. In my 1967 memorial piece published in the American Oxonian,

I quoted from a few of his letters written during his third year at Oxford whenI was already at law school. At that time we were both consumed with con-tributing to the public good, but he was more outspoken about his goal. He wasnot embarrassed about being ambitious but he also recognized that destiny —one of his favorite words — always played a role and would in his case. Myfavorite passage from one of his letters recounted the time he spent with OliverFranks, Lord Franks, the provost of Worcester but before that a leading diplo-

mat and statesman.

Sachs Legacy Endures, InspiresBy Matt Nimetz, Rhodes Class of 1960

Dan Sachs


Dan wrote, in the rather formal way we used towrite to each other, so different from the chatty e-mail exchanges we all now engage in: “For some rea-son the provost of Worcester College invited me toreside in the Lodgings with his family for five days.As you know, Lord Franks was one of the architectsof the Marshall Plan, NATO and the AtlanticInstitute. I took all my meals with him, and wetalked. And when I left, I was asked to sign my namein their Great Book: ‘Dan Sachs, Emmaus, Pa.’, AndI turned back those pages into the past and read his-tory: Churchill, Montgomery, Eden, Bevin. PerhapsDestiny will call me to the stage of history, mock myhopes, betray my dreams and leave my memory forsome young man to contemplate in a frayed GreatBook. It signifies nothing, perhaps; the way is diffi-cult and solitary; but is as compelling as some greatmagnet which would wrench the soul loose from itsearthly moorings. And it is the path I wouldchoose.” Such writing today by a young man in hisearly 20s to a contemporary would be viewed prob-ably as inflated, even pompous; but it was a some-what more formal time, and Dan wrote with sincer-ity and passion, but I will say that in conversation,

if he were making the same point, he would probably add a self deprecatory laugh at the end.Well, destiny did intervene, and Dan was never able even to commence his political career in

Pennsylvania as he planned. As I write this, 37 years after his death, his entire generation is windingdown our various endeavors and contributions such as they are. Any fair assessment of our genera-tion’s impact would have to conclude that the world is better off in some respects, but worse in others,for our efforts.

In having the opportunity to think back about Dan, and to reread the piece I wrote about him in 1967,I am struck by how much Dan’s values are missed today, during a time of questionable public and busi-ness ethics, small-minded public policies and international strategies designed without any sense of his-tory. I have no doubt that Dan’s ethical values and moral character would have been his most importantcontribution had he lived andparticipated meaningfully in ournational life. I do believe that Dandid leave a bit of himself with hisfriends and contemporaries, somany of whom he touched with aspark that gave us a deeper senseof purpose, one which continuesto motivate us even after all theseyears. And beyond that, there isno doubt his name will indeedhave enduring resonance — it willindeed be recognized by thoseturning the leaves of the GreatBook of Worcester College —through the Sachs Scholarships, avehicle that will help other youngmen and women pursue Dan’smission of personal self fulfill-ment and contribution to the pub-lic good.

Dan & his daughter, Alexandra, 1967

Joan & Dan Sachs at the Princeton Chapel, September 1964


Bravissimo!

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Celebrating 35 Years of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960