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Spring 2013<br />
THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS Amherst<br />
YEARS<br />
Our Proud Past,<br />
Our Shining Future<br />
1863-2013<br />
Special Sesquicentennial Issue<br />
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9 Evolution of a University<br />
A timeline illustrates the story of UMass Amherst.<br />
18 A Quiet Sort of Lad<br />
The diaries of Herman Nash, Class of 1917,<br />
bring the campus of a century ago to life.<br />
22 The Old Horse Barn<br />
A historic building will link our agricultural past and future.<br />
24 The Man Who Cultivated Mass Aggie<br />
Under the banner of “art for all,” Professor Frank A. Waugh<br />
energetically expanded the college’s horizons.<br />
28 Beauty, Cravings, and Virtue<br />
Two professors explore our campus architecture.<br />
32 The Boom Years<br />
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<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=14"> The University in a Postwar World (1947–1959) </a>
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<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=19"> Great Discoveries “ADISCIPLINED IMAGINATION IS at</a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=20"> of Students A Quiet Sort of Lad </a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=21"> Ofirst semester at </a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=22"> JOHN SOLEM sort of lad” is striking. He attends </a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=23"> Model T’s as he pedaled night and day from the fa</a>
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<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=27"> The Waugh family’s on-campus home. One observer c</a>
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<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=29"> into education,” he said. “It stirs people more t</a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=30"> of Building JOHN SOLEM BEAUTY, CRAV</a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=31"> At left, Professor of Architecture and History Ma</a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=32"> also trying to establish itself in a com- munity </a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=33"> daughters of working men and women of Massachuset</a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=34"> of Change TheBoomYears The campus comes of </a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=35"> A growing middle class chooses college THE BABY </a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=36"> A different view BUT IT WAS the youth themsel</a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=37"> largely from underperforming schools—were cultura</a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=38"> of Friendships Meet Me After Class I'm a juni</a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=39"> Blaise Davi ’13 dyes her hair in her Orchard Hill</a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=40"> of Vision Looking into the Futu</a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=41"> Campus visionaries, from left: John McCarthy, Den</a>
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<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=43"> class, were international students and India is p</a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=44"> to practice law and continue a career in public s</a>
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<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=46"> Bookmarks JOHN SOLEM Small staff, big rep: The </a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=47"> Arthur Asa Berger ’54, Theorizing Tourism: Analyz</a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=48"> in Revolutionary Berlin, 1918-21 (University Pres</a>
<a title="UMassMagazineSpring2013 page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f845b27c?page=49"> David W. Dik ’57, 11/7/2012, Dryden, NY Donald S.</a>
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