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Summer 2011<br />
THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS Amherst<br />
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can get there<br />
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fro<br />
Making travel and transport<br />
swifter, safer, and smoother<br />
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Peace Corps at 50 Campus Wins McCormack Papers <br />
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14 Keep on Moving On<br />
How alumni make transportation<br />
smoother, smarter, and safer.<br />
22 We Come in Peace<br />
Why joining the Peace Corps is a 50-year campus tradition.<br />
26 Katy Did It<br />
After years of reporting on education, Katy Abel ’11<br />
has her diploma in hand.<br />
28 Goal!<br />
UMass Amherst wins the papers of<br />
sport-marketing pioneer Mark H. McCormack.<br />
32 Rock Solid<br />
A professor’s mineral kingdom<br />
comes to campus.<br />
Departments<br />
3 Inbox<br />
4 Around the Pond<br />
We get a new garden,<br />
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<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=12"> Sports Minutes Student athletes supported</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=13"> Athletes Reach for CHAMPS Cup “IFTHERE’SACONTEST,</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=14"> Science Notebook What is Watson? THIS IBM COMP</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=15"> Where the Bonefish Are THOUGH BONEFISH ARE one of</a>
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<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=19"> half have received training developed in the lab,</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=20"> A wall of monitors in the UMass Regional Traveler</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=21"> Research projects on alternative financing for tra</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=22"> Clinton Bench, deputy director of planning for Ma</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=23"> the MPOs operate under strict guidelines for stud</a>
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<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=25"> Kutzy is one of 1,214 UMass Amherst under- gra</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=26"> others in the agency, he believes the corp</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=27"> somebody you know,” he says. “Because of the Peac</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=28"> Katy Did It After years of reporting on education</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=29"> JOHN SOLEM tory museum proposed for Boston’s new</a>
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<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=31"> L Immediate Impact McCormack’s influence spanned</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=32"> Steven Le, shown sandwiched between stacks of McC</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=33">was in the process of making a case for the papers</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=34"> A professor’s mineral kingdom comes to campus. B</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=35"> the wider public and have geosciences students in</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=36"> Back in the Day 1952 1888 </a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=37"> 1969 All Yearbooks Online Is that you pl</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=38"> Alumni Association President Sets Agenda </a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=39"> You were. You are. UMASS. 2011 Distinguished Alum</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=40"> Members of the Cape Cod Alumni Club include (back</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=41"> You were. You are. UMASS. The </a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=42"> Back to New Orleans Tfriends assembled in New Orl</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=43"> You were. You are. UMASS. </a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=44"> UMassPeople High Praise, No Jocha Compo</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=45"> ISummer High School, a four-year-old program desi</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=46"> In Memoriam 1920s Emil J. Corwin ’25, 3/15/201</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=47"> 1970s Robert P. Dromgoole ’70G, 3/31/2011, Westf</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=48"> Bookmarks Donald W. Katzner At the Ed</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=49"> Ralph Pallotta ’76, One Day in Mudville (AuthorHo</a>
<a title="_umag-summ11-zmags.pdf page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/8c67c27d?page=50"> Postcode 8700 MARCALI, HUNGARY Stalin’s Salami P</a>
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