February 18, 1999

GSAS Financial Aid Rises
Dean pledges $5.7 in new funds

Memorial Hall Tower To Be Rebuilt This Year
The Memorial Hall tower, which was first erected in 1874, altered twice, and finally destroyed in a 1956 fire, will be rebuilt this year.

Physicists Slow Speed of Light
Light, which normally travels the 240,000 miles from the Moon to Earth in less than two seconds, has been slowed to the speed of a minivan in rush-hour traffic -- 38 miles an hour.

Student Pursues Facts About Hiroshima Pilot
To Joshua Jones, Pilot Claude Eatherly's predicament went beyond the adventures of one man to include elements of the history of the Cold War and the nuclear fear it bred, the media's reaction (or overreaction), and even changes in the practice of psychiatry.

FAS Dean Knowles Reviews Progress In Annual Letter
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles reviews the progress made and outlines the challenges ahead in his Annual Letter to the Faculty

Cultural Rhythms Celebration To Feature Will Smith
Will Smith, distinguished actor, musician, and producer, will be the guest of honor at "Cultural Rhythms," the annual Harvard Foundation Cultural Celebration on Saturday, Feb. 20.

Tommy Lee Jones, Stockard Channing To Perform in Poet's Theatre Benefit

Actor Tommy Lee Jones '69 and actress Stockard Channing '65 will be featured in a benefit for The Poets' Theatre on Monday, Feb. 22, at the Loeb Drama Center at 8 p.m.

Memorial Services
A memorial service for Professor A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. will be held Monday, Feb. 22, at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church.

Something to Sing About
Risinger Pursues scholarship, teaching, and the opera stage

MBAs To Focus on 'Net-working'
Cyberposium '99, conference on business and technology, to feature high-tech, high profile speakers

Atlantic World Seminar Unites Young Historians Around the World
Harvard's International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, founded in 1995, will continue through June 2004, thanks to the renewal of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

GSAS Student Council To Hold Mentoring Awards Program
The Graduate Student Council (GSC) of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is offering its first annual Excellence in Mentoring Awards program.

Putting It All Together
From the dark days to the days of glory, Elizabeth Ganzenmuller '99 has been a player to count on

William Alonso, Of School of Public Health, Dies at 66
William Alonso, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy at the School of Public Health and a member of the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, died Feb. 11.

Thomas McMahon Dies; Studied Animal Locomotion, Wrote Novels
Memorial services for Thomas A. McMahon, the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mechanics and professor of biology, will take place on Friday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m. in the Storey Chapel of Mount Auburn Cemetery.

KSG Benefit Auction To Feature Celebrity Prizes
The annual Summer Internship Fund (SIF) Benefit Auction at the Kennedy School of Government will take place on Thursday, Feb. 18, in the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs. The silent auction begins at 5:30 p.m. and the live auction starts at 7 p.m.

Festival To Highlight Finnissy's Work
A major retrospective of the music of British composer Michael Finnissy will be presented in a series of free concerts Friday, Feb. 19, to Sunday, Feb. 21, at Pforzheimer House.

Faculty Council
Proceedings from the Faculty Council's twelfth meeting of the year.

Saving Plants that May Save Us
The Harvard Herbaria and Arnold Arboretum are playing an important role in storing and preserving the information found in plants.

The Pudding & The Pot
The Hasty Pudding's 1999 Woman of the Year: Goldie Hawn. Photos by Rose Lincoln and Kris Snibbe.