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...making my way through Harvard was realizing that some things I considered integral parts of my identity were fated to turn into hobbies; that, as time progressed and possibilities were whittled away, not every bullet point on that college application was destined to become my life’s passion. I never planned on making jazz my life—I simply don’t have the love for the saxophone that turns eight hours of practice daily from a chore into a routine—but I never thought it would be relegated to the background...
...lives of his children, said his son Joshua Tosteson. During family trips to their vacation home in Maine, Tosteson was known to sing sea shanties aboard his boat “Bellina.” Tosteson’s devotion to the Medical School was matched only by his passion for sports. Though a native of Milwaukee, he developed a strong allegiance to the Red Sox and 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...
...work in the Caribbean would be one of many college forays that would be repeated once he returned to Harvard over twenty years later as an esteemed professor.Freshman year, Losos took an evolutionary biology course taught by celebrated biologist Edward O. Wilson that would convince him to pursue his passion in organismic biology. Losos now teaches that same course, with an updated syllabus.—Staff writer Laura G. Mirviss can be reached at lmirviss@fas.harvard.edu...
When David L. Szanton ’60 arrived on the Harvard campus as a freshman in the fall of 1956, he found the school inhospitable to his passion for sculpture, literally. “There wasn’t any space at all for people interested in art,” he said. “There was nowhere we could work.” Studios were reserved for students studying architectural science; students who wanted to create were often forced to use their dorm rooms as ateliers. Frustrated with the lack of space, Szanton approached a dean...
...always had her own opinion,” she said. “She always had her own vision, her own way of looking.” While Vaizey likes to wear jewellery made by up-and-coming crafts people, according to Swope, art collection is not her passion. “I don’t think she’s mainly a collector. I think she’s a communicator, a thinker, and a writer,” she said. —Staff writer Eric P. Newcomer can be reached at newcomer@fas.harvard.edu...