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Summer School musical opportunities The Harvard Summer School Orchestra will hold auditions for full brass, including both cornets and trumpets, harp, English horn, and piccolo on Tuesday, June 27, through Thursday, June 29, from 6 to 10 p.m. in Lowell Hall, Rooms B13 and B14. Rehearsals will be held on Mondays from July 3 through…

Hazen Leroy Vail was born in Boston, August 5, 1940. His father, Hazen Claude Vail, who had left a Depression-broken small farm in Belleisle, New Brunswick, to seek his fortune here, was a Metropolitan Life Insurance Company salesman. Leroy’s mother, Mary Teresa MacLean Vail, come as a girl with her family from Cape Breton Island…

The more physically active women are, the greater they reduce their risk of stroke, according to a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health. The study followed 72,488 nurses for eight years and concluded that the more a woman exercises, the lower the odds she will suffer a stroke. “Previous research demonstrated that…

Male college students in the United States and Europe want to add more muscle to their bodies because they think that will make them more attractive to females. They are wrong. Asked by researchers to choose bodies they would most like to have, the students picked computer images with 30 pounds more muscle than they…

Add bone fractures to obesity and tooth decay as another reason that teenage girls should drink less soda pop, particularly colas. Ninth- and 10-grade girls who drink soda pop have three times the risk of bone fractures compared with those who don’t drink carbonated beverages, according to a new Harvard study. Worse, the most physically…

Give Daniel Schrag some old seawater, bits of sediment from the ocean floor, and chunks of coral rock, and he’ll tell you about Earth’s climate tens of thousands, even millions of years ago. He’s done this so well that the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced this week it will give him $500,000…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending June 10. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. June 5: A caller reported vandalism to a car at 111 Western Ave. A laptop computer was stolen from an office on Massachusetts Ave. June…

The President of the Harvard Alumni Association announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers last week at the annual meeting of the Association following the University’s 349th Commencement. The six newly elected Overseers, in order of their finish, are Steven A. Schroeder, 20,679 votes; M. Lee…

Dana Reed Prize Winners for 2000 Rachel Kovner ’01 has won the 2000 Dana Reed Prize for distinguished undergraduate writing. The Quincy House junior captured the $500 award for “This Man Is Running for President: What Alan Keyes Learned at Harvard,” a feature appearing in The Harvard Crimson of Feb. 3, 2000. The Honorable Mention…

Art docents sought The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) are seeking volunteers interested in public art education for the HUAM Docent Program. The Museum Docents are a group of approximately 34 volunteer guides who give tours of Harvard’s three art museums: the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Approximately…

The Gazette will next publish July 13 and Aug. 17. The Calendars in the July 13 and Aug. 17 issues will each cover events for the following four weeks. Calendar submissions for the July 13 issue must be received by July 6; submissions for the Aug. 17 issue must be received by Aug. 10.

Lippizzan ladies Christine lifted her hoof and pulled it several times across the ground. “Christine, stop it now. Behave yourself,” Kelly Flynn gave the horse a meaningful look that stopped her momentarily, but a few seconds later she was at it again. “She wants to eat the grass,” Flynn explained. “It’s sort of like waving…

 Megan Henry and Kiemanh Pham sport matching millennial shades before attending morning Commencement Exercises.  In high style, Class Marshal Michael Roberts ’80 helps direct alumni during the Afternoon Exercises.  Angela Banks waits to receive her J.D. from Harvard Law School.  Seamus Heaney, LLD ’98, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet-in-Residence, makes his way through Harvard Yard…

As a child growing up in Lexington, Mass., Allen Barton ’’90 could read the writing on the wall. It was crimson in color, and it said “Harvard.” Both of Barton’s parents, and five of his seven older siblings graduated from the College, and all of them had spent countless Saturday afternoons together rooting for the…

Her memories are faded by the years, but also sweetened, perhaps, by the romanticism of times gone by. It was the fall of 1943, in the midst of World War II, when the trains were crowded and gasoline was rationed, that Ruth Brunner, fresh out of George Washington University, came to Radcliffe to pursue a…

The Asia Center is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2000-01 travel grants to Asia. This year, the Asia Center – together with the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Korea Institute, and the Concentration in East Asian Studies – has funded 43…

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala helped the Kennedy School of Government’s Class of 2000 bid adieu to Harvard Wednesday, dubbing them “full-fledged Policy Wonks” and urging them to strive to make the world a better place. Shalala, the nation’s longest-serving secretary of health and human services, delivered an occasionally humorous 20-minute speech…

Sixty women and men from around the world have been awarded fellowships to pursue advanced work at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. For the first time in Radcliffe history – due to Radcliffe’s formal merger with Harvard last year – all 60 fellows are eligible for stipends. “Our new-and-improved fellowship program has attracted some…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending June 3. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. May 28: Malicious destruction of property was reported at Dana Palmer House. May 29: An individual was issued a trespass warning at Agassiz Theatre. A…

The poems read by Heather McHugh, rich in internal rhyme and word play, portray scientists struggling to bring order to a world that stubbornly resists. Staff photo by Justin Ide

Jerome T. Murphy, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education since 1992, announced that he will step down as Dean in June 2001. After a year’s sabbatical, Murphy will return to the School and continue to teach as the Harold Howe II Professor of Education. During his eight years as Dean, Murphy presided over…

Eight men and three women will receive honorary degrees in Harvard’s 349th Commencement Exercises this morning, including Amartya Sen, who also will deliver this year’s Commencement Address along with Seamus Heaney, who will deliver a special poetry reading. In alphabetical order, the recipients are Nicolaas Bloembergen, Doctor of Science; Noam Chomsky, Doctor of Laws; Frank…

June 08, 2000 Today the University awarded a total of 6,165 degrees and 352 certificates. A breakdown of the degrees by schools and programs follows. Harvard College granted a total of 1,676 degrees. Bachelor of Arts Cum laude in field of concen- tration Cum laude Magna cum laude in field of concentration Magna cum laude…

30,000 people expected to attend morning exercises on Commencement Day 22,000 plastic Samsonite chairs and wooden chairs set up in Tercentenary Theatre 633-fold increase in the number of graduates from Harvard’s College, graduate, and professional schools this year (5,698 students as of June 6), compared to Harvard’s first Commencement in 1642 (9 graduates). 11,856 Harvard…

Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education Jerome T. Murphy (right) speaks to two of the six James Bryant Conant Fellows — Ling Hsiao (left) and Cheryl Campbell — during a reception honoring the recipients at the Faculty Club on May 31. Staff photo by Justin Ide

Taking refuge from a powerful nor’easter in Harvard’s best-known chapel, graduating seniors gathered in caps and gowns for the traditional Baccalaureate Service on Tuesday afternoon at the Memorial Church. The service, while solemn at times, was exuberant, humorous, and moving, filled with music, religious readings, and speeches. Not even the steady rain outside could dampen…

“I live in a place called Raheny,” says Sinead Walsh ’00, a tall fair-skinned woman with pale blue eyes. “Raheny is five miles away from town” – Dublin, Ireland – “and it’s also five miles away from Howth.” With the same joyousness that made her known in Ireland as the No. 2-seeded junior tennis champ…

Do you have a passion for art? Do you enjoy working with young people? Do you want to make a contribution to your community? If you answered yes, and you are able to spare a few Saturday afternoons, then consider joining a corps of dedicated volunteers to help lead guided discussions and hands-on creative art…