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...held season tickets behind third base for many years. A football player while an undergraduate at the College, he later golfed religiously, said his son Tor D. Tosteson.In addition to an affinity for jazz music and poetry, the former dean also dabbled in amateur astronomy and his knowledge and interest spanned all the sciences.“He was a huge shadow to walk in and I will gladly walk in it for the rest of my life,” Joshua L. Tosteson ’94 said.Tosteson graduated from the Medical School in 1949 and held administrative posts...
...founder of a record label, Compass Records.But though she first picked up the instrument when she was ten, it was not until 1987 that she was able to make it her profession.PRODIGAL ROOTSBrown’s first year roommates found the combination of her California background and musical interest both delightful and bizarre. “If you are a bluegrass fiddle player, why are you from San Diego?” Monica A. Angle ’84 recalls thinking. Yet when Brown moved from her self-described “surfer chick” culture to Harvard...
...beyond what we can do,’” Greene recalled. He found a teacher in the math department who agreed to take him on, and the two met three times a week until his high school graduation.“That’s where the interest really flourished,” Greene said. “I was able to keep going on at a pace that felt right, rather than a pace that the school was offering.”Greene was treading uncharted academic territory in his family. His father dropped out of high...
...director of the St. Louis Zoo, to discuss the prospect of housing two caimans in the family basement. Much to his parents’ chagrin, the zoo director thought housing the small crocodiles was a wonderful idea: the director’s reptilian childhood pets had piqued his own interest in zoology.Losos’ adored his caimans, according to his father, and joined the St. Louis Herpetology society at age 12.“He was probably their youngest member,” said his father. When it was time for Jonathan to leave for college, the caimans...
...Randall said it was due to this breadth of interest that she opted to write a book and the lyrics to an opera in recent years...