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Spring 2011
THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS Amherst
What we
Boston
bring to
Alumni who make the city shine
Movers, Shakers, Lawmakers Arts Experts Funny People
SLEEP TIGHTSpring 2011
THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS
The Boston Issue
14 Movers, Shakers, Lawmakers
UMies shine in Boston, including seven who
work in the State House and environs.
22 Follow the Funny
At Boston’s Improv Asylum, comedians write the
show as they go.
26 Boston Bounty
See the city’s treasures through the expert
eyes of four alumni in the museum business.
28 Outsider Looking Out
David. G. Fubini ’76 has ready access to some of
Boston’s biggest levers of power.
30 On the Waterfront
Barbara Bailey ’84 is at home with the fish at the New England Aquarium.
34 The Midday Rides of Paul Reverse
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Spring 2011 THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI
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Around the Pond New and Different AN EX
Around the Pond What’s the Big Idea? THEY’VE LON
t h ms served as co- pment,
Around the Pond Jazz Explicator Extraordinaire W
Morrill Mural Boosts Morale TONY MORSE (center),
Sports Minutes Champagne Floats He
Mark Pelletier ’83 Linda Meyers ’74 (sta
Science Notebook A Robot’s
THOMAS SHAHAN Spider Vision JUMPING SPIDERS FIT
Movers, Shakers, W
Lawmakers
State Senator Marc R. Pacheco holds office hours wh
Hail to the Chief Katherine E. Cohen ’02 As chi
A Man for All Communities Benjamin Swan ’77G As
A Seat at the Power Table Stanley C. Rosenberg ’7
Scott Jordan, who builds the state’s capital budg
Back Yard to Beacon Hill Linda Dean Campbell ’79
Fol ow the By Patricia Sullivan
john solem UMass Amherst was a shared, funny-bon
Funny Witty warm-up: (above, from left) Laviolett
“I learned that being funny in improv is much mor
Boston Bounty See the city’s treasures through t
U.S.S. Constitution Museum VISITORS TO the U.S.S
BAck in 1991, DAVID FUBINI didn’t so much move to
Nor has Fubini ignored his own children’s
On the Barbara Bailey ’84 is at home with the
Waterfront Barbara Bailey never ha
of the center’s life-support systems, which inclu
The giant ocean tank with the penguin pool in the
JOHN SOLEM The Midday Rides of Paul Reverse Andr
JOHN SOLEM Huddle in the Hub Sport management ins
Three at The Four’s: UMass Amherst mentors and in
You were. You are. UMASS. Greater Boston Alumni C
MAROON PRIDE! More than 250 alu
You were. You are. UMASS. State House Bound It’s
Alumni Finance Group Invests in Networking One o
You were. You are. UMASS.
Bookmarks Paul Harding ’92 Tinkers SINCE BECOMI
fresh personal visions for joy, contentment, and
Bookmarks Natasha Trethewey ’95MFA Beyond Katrin
1930s Herbert E. Stone ’33, 8/21/10, Freeport, ME
ZIP 02125 COLUMBIA POINT HARRY BRETT My Boston
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