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...summa cum laude when his life took an unexpected turn. He had been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowship to cover his graduate studies in physics, but his House Master John Conway at Leverett House offered him the chance to travel in Europe for a year on a Sheldon travel fellowship. At the time, Armstrong, who had never ventured further than Washington D.C., decided to take the fellowship...
...Year Social Committee representative—who will be chosen in the fall. Last month the College approved the Undergraduate Council’s proposal for the CEB, and will fund the body with $200,000 for the next academic year. Board member and Winthrop resident Rowan R. A. Sheldon ’08 said that everyone who ran for a position was “overqualified,” but called Petrich and Goldenberg fantastic leaders who will do “an incredible job.” “They complement each other well...
...nuclear bombs began exploding in the Nevada desert in 1951, when Sheldon Nisson was five. "They used to tell us to get up and watch the blasts," recalls his mother Helen, who still lives in Washington, Utah, some 125 miles downwind from the test site. "We saw the clouds go over all the time. Our children played outside. All the while, the Government kept saying that it wouldn't hurt us." But when the last of 102 mushroom clouds rose above the desert in 1962, Sheldon Nisson was dead from leukemia. His cancer, along with that of nine other...
...Werks” ran this past weekend at the recently completed Harvard Dance Center (HDC), and its performances were as sleek and modern as the new venue. The opening dance, “Not Fire, Not Ice” choreographed by graduate student Marita L. Sheldon, set the evening’s tone. Five black-clad dancers took to the dimly lit stage and cycled through poses eerily suggestive of death throes as a solemn voice boomed lines from Robert Frost’s apocalyptic poem “Fire and Ice”. Odd mechanical sound effects...
...very nice, kind, decent man” and “a first-rate scientist.” Ty was also a man of “lots of interests,” Sur added. When he graduated from HMS in 2004, he received the Kennedy Sheldon Fellowship, which allowed him to study ethics and theology in Vatican City for a year. Ty wrote on the HST website that he would always remeber “raising his window blinds in Vanderbilt [his HMS residence] and seeing his classmates lower a 40-ft HST banner from Gordon Hall...