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...Chad Dale, the banners are anything but depressing. Dale’s face is young and bright, but his eyes are the eyes of decade upon decade of Harvard football history. As is his voice. Between his voice and his grandfather??s, a Charles Arthur Dale has been present in the booth for each of those championships and further back into the program’s illustrious history...
...first time. My sister came because she had finally accumulated enough frequent flier miles to fly International Business Class. After 15 minutes of smacking mosquitoes, we docked the raft on the river’s muddy outer bank. We could finally begin our trek through the forest to my grandfather??s grave...
...attempt to get to know her grandfather, John Colin Vaughan, whom she never met. He took part in the failed 1903 Ziegler Expedition to the North Pole, which prior to Siebel’s efforts had never been researched. She reconstructed the journey from photos, drawings, film and her grandfather??s journal, and turned the story into a series of 16 etching and monoprint collages—eight of which hang in the Carpenter Center as a part of the New Faculty Exhibition...
Siebel’s grandfather??s journal entries, which Siebel has printed onto many of the collage panels, beg for visual representation, with references to such things as “the tantalizing water sky” and incredibly vivid passages: “Halfway to the polynia we came to some remarkably old ice. All about us was a chaos of piled up blocks, a great deal of it a dirty yellow which I fancied might easily be matched by mixing burnt sienna with charcoal gray.” These works show how the origins...
...didn’t like the people having to take all these notes and having to feed them back to the professor,” says Francis, who published an article on her grandfather??s experiences as an undergraduate in a 1984 Harvard Magazine article...