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...friend actually suggested to me once that I forego my name entirely. “Just pick a symbol,” he said. “Like Prince. You could be ‘The Harvard Student Formerly Known as Zane...
...Zane B. Wruble ’11 is an Organismic and Evolutionary Biology concentrator in Quincy House. She plans on naming her first child...
...government, DMV, and Harvard, this is how my name will always be. To Amex, Bank of America, and now The Crimson, I am H. Zane B. Wruble. To my distant relatives in Ireland, I imagine I am still Henrietta. To my friends I will always be Zane. I have even tried on a couple of other names for size before. At French camp when I was 16, I was “Zazie.” Zazie was the outgoing goofball I never had the courage to be in high school. In China, I was Wu Hanrui: traveler, socialite...
...first name for a middle one. I’ve always wondered what N. Gregory Mankiw’s story is. In eighth grade, one classmate confessed in an English essay that he, too, was harboring a secret first name that he chose not to use. Even Zane Grey dropped his real first name—Pearl—in favor of his middle name...
...course, there’s gender confusion. While Zane may never crack the top 1,000 baby names for girls, it was number 235 for boys in 2008. Naturally, my frequent e-mail communication with non-acquaintances has led to numerous misunderstandings and the incorrect assumption that my cells are sporting a Y chromosome. Last spring, frustrated, I wrote to “Dear Abby” asking if there was a polite way to correct this mistake, but I ended up foregoing her advice to sign all my e-mails with...