ALUMNI
Nantucket Gathering On Aug. 6, over 75 alumni, parents and friends welcomed Pam and Willy MacMullen to Nantucket. The party, hosted by M.J. and Tom Dickson P’98, ’03 and Susie and Ward Belcher P’97, ’02, was held at the Sankaty Head Golf Club on a gorgeous summer night.
Debbie Fraker P’05, Pam MacMullen and Peggy Toce, P’98, ’01, ’05
Lulu McCullough and Susie Belcher P’97, ’02
In Brief Steven Erlanger ’70 was part of a nine-person New York Times reporting team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism both before and after Sept. 11, 2001. The series that nine reporters collaborated on was called “Holy Warriors,” published sequentially in January 2001, well before the terrorist attacks in the eastern US came about on Sept. 11, 2001. The idea for an investigative unit to pursue stories that were just under the radar screen of headline news began in 1999 and was under Erlanger’s direction. The subject of their superb investigative series, Al Qaeda, ended up being the central player in the biggest and most tragic story of terrorism later that year. Erlanger is bureau chief in Berlin, Germany, for the New York Times.
Rev. Fred Small ’70 helped found an interfaith environmental group in 2001 called Religious Witness for the Earth. The advocacy group organized June 2002 gatherings in six New England states to ask governors to implement a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to lessen global warming. Small is a minister serving at First Unitarian Church in Littleton, Mass.
Willy MacMullen and the Fraker family
Tony Halsey P’01, Joe Toce P’98, ’01, ’05, M.J. Dickson P’98, ’03 and Joe Berandino P’01
SPOTLIGHT
Ward Belcher P’97, ’02 and Joan Goodwin P’00
SAVE THE DATE! Don’t forget Grandparents’ Day on Friday, April 11, 2003. For more information please call the Alumni Office at 1-800-959-8238 Billy Toce ’01, Senter Johnson ’00, Michelle Holmes ’00 and Shep Halsey ’01
Willy MacMullen ’78 and A.J. Mleczko Griswold ’93 Taft Bulletin Fall 2002
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