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Lewis L. B. Gifford ’51, who worked with Updike on The Lampoon, said Updike once showed him a bound volume of his early writings in his Hollis dorm room. The work had been typed by Updike’s mother, herself an aspiring writer who worked in a department store...
...past 25 years. But her early interests were not always tied to the esoteric world of university investment management that she has come to love.Jane Lisa Mendillo was born in 1959 in New Britain, Conn. Her father served as an executive for a medical technology company while her mother stayed home to care for Mendillo and her two brothers and two sisters. She attended the local public school and was passionate about classical music—an avocation that she still pursues today—and participated in orchestra, band, choir, and school musicals.Mendillo pursued her undergraduate studies at Yale...
...Raised in Beverly, a middle-class neighborhood in Chicago, Forst “never did anything terribly wildly unusual,” his mother Ann Thole recalls of his early years. A graduate of an all-boys Catholic high school in downtown Chicago, Forst was the editor of the high school newspaper who exhibited “quiet leadership,” according to high school friend Peter Wuertz. Described by his three closest high school friends as the social planner of the group, Forst would later become president of the final club D.U. (which would eventually merge with...
...uncanny ability to win people over stemmed from a genuine kindness fondly recalled by his close friends. His mother remembers Forst writing a letter to Notre Dame after having been accepted, begging the school to give his spot to a good friend who had been rejected. (“I don’t think he ever got a response,” she adds...
...Forst’s mother would agree—except for the one rare instance in which he set off a firecracker in his bedroom by accident when home alone. “It burned through the carpeting,” she remembers. “He told me that it was the lady who cleaned the house and left the vacuum on to cause the wool to evaporate...