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Updated August 12. (Previous posting June 2.) An * (asterisk) indicates topics with letters posted within the last two months of the most recent update.

From reader to alumni:
Searching for information about a 1945 Willys MB military jeep
Searching for subjects for research on science competitions

From students to alumni:
Seeking past members of the Ivy Council

From alumni to alumni:
Living in the Real World *

Of or about the campus:
Graduate School reflections *
Reunions 2004 *
Commencement 2004 *
50th Reunion reflection
Reunion non-Stateside
T-Shirt seizure *
Princeton track
Al Franken
Grade inflation *
ROTC
Professor Edmund White *
"Old Nassau"
Penn-Princeton Basketball
Old Fogey
Frank Gehry building
Women in science
Nassau Weekly
Female U.
Football 2003
Annual Giving
Princetoniana
Hank Towns, Caldwell Field House manager
Admitting students to PU
About legacies at PU and rejections

Letters reflecting on Princeton:
About Princeton

World affairs:
Running for president of the U.S.
War, and the U.S. government

Issues raised by articles in PAW:
Alternate route to teaching in N.J. *
College admissions *
Walden Pond *
Marriage and Hendrik Hartog
Recycled paper
New science curriculum
Albert Einstein
Prof. Curran on Opting-Out
Architect Peter Eisenman
Cuisine on campus
Prof. Stout on "The Passion"
Blacks on campus
Alcohol and pregnancy
Joe Oznot ’69
Michael Lemonick and his freshman seminar
Perspective essay, 2/25/04 by Jeremiah Lambert ’55
The Cotton Club
Unemployed Princetonians
Lost languages
Colin Powell *
Science and religion
Demolition of Butler *
Majors on campus
Stress on campus
Campus coffee
Honor code
Student Athletics "Imperfect Match"
Technology in Teaching
Faith on Campus
Amos Oz
Italian Renaissance cities
President's Page and physics
President's Page, Nov. 19
Chairs on campus
Bonfire - Big 3
Alumni in Iraq
War and Pizza - Perspective, Oct. 22, 2003
Centaurs
October 8 issue
Professor Sophie Meunier
Princeton in the rankings
Princeton and the military
Poetry and science
Robert George, professor
Raising children with autism
Rhodes Scholar
Professor of Origins of Life
Visas for international students
Affirmative action in admissions
Michael Doran and anti-Americanism

Remembering:
Carrie Gordon
President Jonathan Edwards
Bill Fuellhart '51
Edward Said ’57

About alumni featured in PAW:
John Marburger ’62 *
William Scheide ’36
Larry Lucchino ’67
John Bogle ’51 and Philip Bell ’46 *56 and Burt Malkiel *64
John O'Brien ’65
Ralph Nader ’55
Gen. David Petraeus *87
Katrina vanden Heuvel ’81 and The Nation
George Kennan ’25
Nelson Runger ’53
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt '78
Surgeon Michael Kaplitt ’87
Johnny Poe 1895
Motto and Princeton in the nation's service and in the service to all nations
Bill Frist ’74 *

Miscellaneous:
Help-wanted ad in PAW
Retirement age
University loans

Corrections
Faculty appointments to the WWS

John Marburger ’62 *
July 7, 2004	Rocky Semmes ’79

Commencement 2004 *
June 17, 2004	Steven M. Warshawsky '90

Reunions 2004 *
June 18, 2004	Alan Weldon
June 10, 2004	N. Conover English ’54

College admissions *
June 13, 2004	Jack Cumming ‘58

Real World *
June 14, 2004	Jeffery Mah ’02

Graduate School reflections *
June 19, 2004	Walter H. Evert *60

Alternate route to teaching in N.J. *
July 16, 2004	Katherine Brokaw ’82

Walden Pond *
July 1, 2004	John Bernard '49

Non-Stateside reunion
May 31, 2004	Matt Scherrer '01

Reflections on the 50th reunion
May 23, 2004	Charles Pope Day Jr. ’54

Marriage and Hendrik Hartog
May 29, 2004	Richard Robinson ’49

Green initiatives on campus, including recycled paper
May 18, 2004	Nicole Heller '95

T-shirt seizure *
June 12, 2004	Stanley Kalemaris '64
May 18, 2004	Marc Aaron Melzer '02

New science curriculum
May 11, 2004	Geerat J. Vermeij ’68

Princeton track
May 23, 2004	Clarence Shoch

Albert Einstein
May 20, 2004	Stan Stevenson '53
May 10, 2004	Joseph Hazen ’35

Prof. Sara Curran and Opting-Out (Perspective, May 12, 2004)
May 25, 2004	Lisa Baird ‘89
May 16, 2004	Susan Post Lichtenstein '77 s'72
May 12, 2004	Katherine Lee '99
May 10, 2004	Sharon Isaacson Aucoin '84

William Scheide ’36
May 17, 2004	George Immerwahr ’30

Running for president of the U.S.
March 22, 2004	Rem V. Myers ’37

Baseballer Larry Lucchino Õ67
April 15, 2004	Jeffrey Harris ’90

Architect Peter Eisenman
April 6, 2004	Christoph von Rohr ’61

New humanities building
April 6, 2004	David Reeves ’48

Cuisine on campus
May 12, 2004	S. Helen Labun ’02
May 5, 2004	Richard C. Hungerford ’50
April 26, 2004	Gerald S. Golden '57

Searching for information about a 1945 Willys MB military jeep
April 5, 2004	Jeff Hoch

Faculty appointments to the Woodrow Wilson School
April 5, 2004	Jeffrey Herbst ’83

Prof. Stout on "The Passion of the Christ"
April 11, 2004	Peter C. Alkalay '68 Jeffrey Herbst ’83

Blacks on campus
April 27, 2004	Charlton Price ’48
March 23, 2004	Harvey Glickman '52

Al Franken *
June 27, 2004	Glenn Berkey '89
March 25, 2004	Joseph Paul Formica ‘86

Grade inflation *
July 13, 2004	Bradley Brock *93 s'87
May 31, 2004	Don Hellmann '55
May 28, 2004	F. W. Price *71
May 17, 2004	Kenneth Offit ’77
May 7, 2004	Susan Danoff ’75
April 27, 2004	Marc Aaron Melzer '02
April 19, 2004	Laurence C. Day ' 55
April 18, 2004	Stewart A. Levin '75
April 13, 2004	Thomas B. Roberts ’75
April 9, 2004	Alex Rosenfeld ’03

Alcohol and pregnancy
April 20, 2004	Barbara Bowers Tautkus '79
April 6, 2004	Josh Stampfli '92

Joe Oznot — Who's he?
April 20, 2004	Jack Doran ’68
April 13, 2004	Robert S. Faron ‘68
April 9, 2004	Fred Geldon ’68
April 7, 2004	Frederick W. Talcott '66

Michael Lemonickand his freshman seminar
March 22, 2004	William F. Zimmerman '60 *66

Class Notes on the Web
May 13, 2004	Henry A. Rentschler '50
May 12, 2004	Rob Slocum ’71
March 19, 2004	B. Beck Fisher Jr. ’55
February 18, 2004	Peter Wendell ’72

NCAA basketball memories
March 11, 2004	M. Edward Guest

Help-wanted ad in PAW
March 21, 2004	Charles H.G. Rees '45

Thoughts about Princeton
March 19, 2004	Jonathan Kelley ’61

ROTC *
June 21, 2004	Jackson Eaton ‘99
June 10, 2004	Peter Gillette '56 p'84
March 14, 2004	Hugh C. McDiarmid '56

Perspective essay by Jeremiah Lambert ’55
March 14, 2004	Peter Danforth '55

Professor Edmund White *
June 8, 2004	Emily Volz s’69
April 28, 2004	Holly Chandler '03
April 20, 2004	Charles A. Warder '55
March 15, 2004	Garrett Mitchener *03

The Cotton Club
March 19, 2004	Adam Gussow '79 *00
March 9, 2004	Frederic S. Sater '56

The age of retirement
March 4, 2004	Nicholas Davis ’60

Loans from the University
February 29, 2004	Al Kracht ’49

John Bogle ’51 and Philip Bell ’46 56 and Burt Malkiel 64
February 26, 2004	Berhanu Abegaz '77

Unemployed Princetonians
March 3, 2004	Shepherd G Pryor IV '68 p’97
March 3, 2004	George Aubrey '45
February 29, 2004	Frank Sloat '55

The singing of "Old Nassau "
February 21, 2004	Ken Snedeker Jr. ’56

John O'Brien ’65
April 24, 2004	John V.N. Philip ’76
February 25, 2004	Eleanor Wear Rose s'61
February 16, 2004	Robert C. Wheeler '42

February 11, 2004, issue
February 21, 2004	Gene McNulty ’49

Lost language
February 29, 2004	Peter Wells Watkins '54
February 23, 2004	Rocky Semmes ‘79

Gen. David Petraeus °87
February 27, 2004	Martin Schell '74

Ralph Nader ’55
February 23, 2004	John G. Grant ’55

Laurie Kahn-Leavitt ’78 and the documentary about Tupperware
February 10, 2004	Freeman Gosden Jr. ’50

Penn-Princeton Basketball
February 11, 2004	J.D. Coughlan '55

The Nation and Katrina vanden Heuvel ’81
March 30, 2004	Laurence C. Day ' 55
March 17, 2004	Nicholas Meyler '81
February 27, 2004	Bill Krivoshik '79
February 23, 2004	John T. Farrar '43
February 15, 2004	Joe Illick '56
February 14, 2004	Isaac Boxx '99
February 12, 2004	David W. Pratt '59
February 11, 2004	Stokes Carrigan '52
February 11, 2004	Francis J. Weller ‘81

Old fogey
February 11, 2004	Leanne Tobias *78

Majors on campus *
June 30, 2004	Janice Stultz Roddenbery *77
March 15, 2004	Peter Rupert Lighte *81
January 28, 2004	Janice Stultz Roddenbery *77

Science and religion
April 16, 2004	John F. Brinster '43
February 4, 2004	Thomas Drucker '75

President's Page, November 19, 2003 (See also these letters)
February 1, 2004	Jim Cohen ‘89

Demolition of Butler College *
June 15, 2004	Z. Taylor VInson '55
June 8, 2004	Norman R. Williams '65
April 26, 2004	Jacob Goldberg '88
Arpil 1, 2004	Dave Thom '96
March 8, 2004	Jim Moses '88
February 9, 2004	John Buntin '94
February 5, 2004	Stewart Harris ‘83
Janaury 29, 2004	Jeremy Spiegel ’92

Nelson Runger ’53
December 16, 2003	Wallace Green ’50

George Kennan ’25
December 16, 2003	Alan W. Lukens ’46

Stress on campus
December 30, 2003	Robert F. Little ’39

Architect Frank Gehry and the new science library
December 29, 2003	Patricia R.F. Danielson *76

John Fleming's essay on the honor code

December 29, 2003

George E. Miller '54

December 29, 2003

Stephen A. Crane '67

Coffee consumption on campus
March 10, 2004	Alberto Gonzalez ’52
December 15, 2003	Marina Skumanich '80

Remembering Carrie Gordon
December 15, 2003	Hilary Smith ’98 et al.

Women in Science
February 27, 2004	Ginna Vogt ‘77
February 13, 2004	Nicholas Howe '93, Susannah Howe '96, Donna Riley '93, Drew Guswa '94, Glenn Ellis *87
February 3, 2004	Gita Reese Sukthankar '91
January 31, 2004	David A. Ganon '84
November 17, 2003	Brian F. Hoffman ’46

Amos Oz
December 16, 2003	Nicholas Rzhevsky *72

Technology in Teaching
December 16, 2003	David Ettinger '76

Faith on Campus
March 2, 2004	Rocky Semmes ‘79
January 26, 2004	Matthew O'Brien ’03
January 11, 2004	Jeffrey Shallit ’79
January 9, 2004	Thomas B. Coburn ’65
December 17, 2003	William K. Mettler '51

Student Athletics – "Imperfect Match" 12/17/03 issue
May 17, 2004	Stephen M. Nagy Jr. ’60
March 19, 2004	Lisa Cakmak '00
March 16, 2004	Julia Allison ’01
March 2, 2004	Lansing Holden '51
February 27, 2004	Larry Kurtz '72
February 27, 2004	John J. Auld Jr. ’50
February 25, 2004	William B. Ward Jr. ’59
February 20, 2004	Stephen T. Whelan ’68
February 20, 2004	Susan Mariscal Glockner '85
February 18, 2004	Jonathan Meer '02
February 18, 2004	Richard Lachmann '77
February 16, 2004	Robert C. Wheeler '42
February 12, 2004	William C. McCoy ’45
February 11, 2004	James G. Davidson ’89
February 11, 2004	Jud Mathews '97
February 11, 2004	Randolph W. Hobler ’68
February 7, 2004	Richard S. Snedeker '51
February 3, 2004	Gregory J. Winsky '71
January 20, 2004	Tara Christie ’97
January 16, 2004	Philip D. Diggdon ’54
January 15, 2004	Peter Hadekel '73
January 12, 2004	Alvin Rosenfeld s’76
January 10, 2004	Hugh Scott ’61
January 8, 2004	Sarah Wolbert '00
January 6, 2004	Geerat J. Vermeij '68
January 4, 2004	Cameron Atkinson ’03
December 29, 2003	William A. Kelly '49
December 28, 2003	Michael Burrill ’66
December 25, 2003	Vincent J. Menna '61
December 23, 2003	Richard Kazmaier ’52
December 23, 2003	John Oxenham '91
December 22, 2003	Lawrence W. Leighton ’56
December 20, 2003	Bruce L. Gates ‘66
December 19, 2003	R. William Potter ’68
December 18, 2003	Paul B. Firstenberg ’55
December 18, 2003	Cuthbert Russell Train '64
December 17, 2003	James H. Hall ’64
December 17, 2003	Elizabeth Hallock ’02
December 16, 2003	Rob Slocum '71
December 16, 2003	Andrew R. Chadeayne '01

December 17, 2003, issue
January 26, 2004	Martin Schell '74
January 23, 2004	Chris Daniel '80
January 19, 2004	S. Helen Labun '02
December 28, 2003	Hal Erwin '53
December 24, 2003	Bruce B. Higgins '60
December 23, 2003	Joe Illick '56
December 18, 2003	Gus Fleischmann ’50
December 18, 2003	Charles W. Bray '55
December 16, 2003	Matthew Bender IV ’53

Italian Renaissance cities
January 13, 2004	Jim Moses '88
December 5, 2003	Peter Kohn ’96

Physics as mentioned in the President's Page November 19 (See also this letter)
March 8, 2004	Peter J. Lu '00
March 1, 2004	Steven S. Gubser '94 *98
February 20, 2004	Stewart A. Levin ’75
February 18, 2004	Daniel Grin '03
February 9, 2004	John W Connelly ’89
January 29, 2004	Stanley J. Naides '74
January 28, 2004	Steven S. Gubser '94 *98
November 19, 2003	Rich Clarvit '83

Nassau Weekly
November 24, 2003	Ronald Wittreich ’50

Chairs at PU
November 17, 2003	Jack C. Childers Jr. '60

Colin Powell *
June 27, 2004	Glenn Berkey '89
April 28, 2004	Christopher C. Binns ’69
April 26, 2004	Kate Swearengen ’04
April 22, 2004	Richard Daily '54
April 21, 2004	Franklin Schaffer ’45
April 19, 2004	Abhinav Agrawal '04
March 21, 2004	Nicholas R. Longrich ’98
March 19, 2004	Philip Terrie '70
February 26, 2004	John B. Jessup '51
February 24, 2004	Mary Gallagher ’78
November 17, 2003	Charles D. Cook '41 M.D.

Surgeon Michael Kaplitt ’87
November 6, 2003	John Hornor ’59

Big Three Bonfire
November 11, 2003	Jay Victor ’98
November 11, 2003	Joshua L. G. Gunsher '98
November 10, 2003	Elizabeth Greenberg '02
November 6, 2003	Samuel M. Young Jr. '96

Remembering Jonathan Edwards
October 22, 2003	Robert L. Edwards ’37

Female University
January 21, 2004	Richard Cummings '59 (This letter was written as a response to a NY Times article, 1/21/04)
November 10, 2003	Katharine Buzicky ’02
October 30, 2003	John Brittain '59

War and Pizza: Perspective, October 22, 2003
November 2, 2003	Ilya Shapiro ’99

Alumni in Iraq — Reflections
January 18, 2004	Sheila Dooley Holmes ‘85
November 8, 2003	David Bonowitz '85
November 4, 2003	Rocky Semmes ‘79
October 29, 2003	Wells Huff '52

Sports coverage in PAW
November 2, 2003	Lawrence P. Mills Jr. '40

Centaurs at the Art Museum
September 18, 2003	John C. Philippides ’45

Professor Sophie Meunier
October 8, 2003	Stephen Molasky '63

Bill Fuellhart ’51
September 25, 2003	Frederick W. Fraley III ’54

Edward Said ’57
September 29, 2003	Robert F. Ober Jr. '58

Princeton University, in the rankings
October 9, 2003	John Williamson ’81

October 8, 2003, issue
October 6, 2003	Robert Ryerson Rodgers ’47

Poetry and science
October 21, 2003	Rick Mott '73
October 6, 2003	Robert G. McHugh ’50

Princeton and the military
October 10, 2003	Henry Kennedy Jr. ’70

Robert George, professor
December 18, 2003	Paul MacLean Anderson ’72
November 25, 2003	Sifford Pearre Jr. '56
November 24, 2003	John J. Auld Jr. ’50
November 2, 2003	Andrew Lazarus '79
October 29, 2003	Stuart Hibben ’48
October 25, 2003	Stephen Dell *68
October 20, 2003	Wil Britten ’45
October 20, 2003	Robert C. Lang Jr. '70
October 17, 2003	Jeffrey Schundler
October 16, 2003	William C. Earhart ’36
October 16, 2003	Russell Nieli *79
October 14, 2003	Harmon H. Ashley '41
October 14, 2003	Charles B. Blackmar '42
October 13, 2003	Charlton Price '48
October 13, 2003	Daniel Krimm '78
October 12, 2003	John Lamb Jr. ’66
October 12, 2003	Mike Bocian '95
October 10, 2003	Alex B. Donner '75 Joseph W. Donner '49
October 10, 2003	Edward C. Mendler '47
October 9, 2003	Gordon Batcheller ’60
October 8, 2003	Stephen A. Molasky '63
October 8, 2003	Kurt Schwarz *84
October 7, 2003	Matthew Ferraro '00

Football 2003
January 27, 2004	W. W. Keen James '51
November 26, 2003	Robert C. Lang Jr. '70
October 18, 2003	Robert Federico
September 26, 2003	George Hamid ’40

Origins of LIfe Professorship
December 9, 2003	Gerrit L. Wright ’70
November 20, 2003	Tom Marchione '84
September 28, 2003	Bob Podolsky '85
September 24, 2003	Jim Paulson '72 *77
September 18, 2003	William T. Galey ’38

Annual Giving
September 18, 2003	Adrian Woodhouse '59

Rhodes Centennial
November 19, 2003	Bruce Partridge '62
November 19, 2003	Jill M. Emmert
September 16, 2003	Larry Campbell ‘70

Princetoniana
September 17, 2003	Peter Rupert Lighte *81

Visas for international students
June 17, 2003	Peter N. Schmalz ’89

Raising children with autism
October 8, 2003	Elaine F. Sayre s ’37
September 19, 2003	Ellen Schisler ’90

Johnny Poe 1895, tragic hero
November 5, 2003	David Kaplan '77
September 23, 2003	William W. Stevenson ’50
September 20, 2003	Samuel W. Gelfman '53
September 18, 2003	John M. Ely Jr. ’41
September 17, 2003	Kerry H. Brown ’74
September 16, 2003	Stephen M. Nagy Jr. ’60
September 11, 2003	Ken Perry ’50

Hank Towns, Caldwell Field House manager
September 10, 2003	Joseph LeMay ’89

Princeton in the nation's service and in the service to all nations and the Motto
April 16, 2004	Philip Binning *94
November 10, 2003	John Maguire ’37
October 30, 2003	Eugene F. Corrigan ’47
October 22, 2003	Robert J. Hall ’67
October 1, 2003	Franklin A. Dorman ’48
September 20, 2003	Samuel W. Gelfman '53
September 15, 2003	David M. Kinard ‘66
September 8, 2003	Robert Braunohler ’68
May 10, 2003	J. Wilson Morris '61

Bill Frist ’74 (See also Princeton in the nation's service topic)
July 14, 2004	Alex Beal '89
March 27, 2004	James Shankman ‘74
July 1, 2003	David Abram Milanaik '98
May 14, 2003	Stephen Babcock ’61
April 4, 2003	Mike Parish ’65
April 3, 2003	Jeffrey Shallit '79

Affirmative action in admissions
October 13, 2003	Michael V. Olds '62
October 12, 2003	Keith Wolter ’93 M.D.
October 9, 2003	Rick Mott '73
October 7, 2003	Paul Kolodner '75
September 15, 2003	Richard R. Golden ’60
September 5, 2003	John Kimble ’02
July 11, 2003	Richard R. Golden '60
July 5, 2003	Denis Hoppe ’69
June 28, 2003	Kerry Brown ’74
April 25, 2003	Richard R. Golden '60
March 17, 2003	Kerry H. Brown ’74
March 14, 2003	Frank Schaffer ’45

Professor Michael Doran on anti-Americanism, and on Palestine
July 9, 2003	Robert N. Carpenter ’43
June 26, 2003	Fred M. Donner '68 *75
May 4, 2003	Martin Schell '74
April 28, 2003	David Wright '78
March 1, 2003	Ted Taubeneck ’48

War and the presidenc,y and War in general
January 25, 2004	Dayton T. Kieswetter ’42
July 7, 2003	Stevan Dedijer ’34
July 3, 2003	John W. Dern-Palmer ’44
May 2, 2003	Sasha Kopf ’02
March 4, 2003	Samuel A. Schreiner Jr. '42

Admitting students to PU
June 2, 2004	John H. Schmid Jr. ’45
May 5, 2003	Adam Barr '88
December 23, 2002	R.J. Innerfield '67
November 26, 2002	Kim J. Masters '68
September 5, 2002	T.S.L. Perlman ’46 and Deborah G. Perlman ’92

Legacies at Princeton and rejection from Princeton
May 19, 2004	J.D. Askew ’66
January 30, 2004	Stewart A. Levin '75
July 13, 2003	James L. Parmentier ’66
July 12, 2003	Isaiah Cox '94
June 28, 2003	Kerry Brown ’74
June 23, 2003	Davison M. Douglas '78
June 12, 2003	Vincent J. Menna ’61
June 9, 2003	Gene Andrew Jarrett ’97
June 9, 2003	James H. Kahn ’48
June 8, 2003	Raymond A. Brown III '74
June 5, 2003	Amanda F. Ableidinger *02
June 5, 2003	Jason T. Huse '96
June 4, 2003	Robert K. Lewis Jr. ’56
June 3, 2003	Henry J. Oechler Jr. ’68
April 24, 2003	Richard Golden ’60
April 15, 2003	Stuart T. McLean
April 8, 2003	Richard R. Golden ‘60
March 27, 2003	Galen Aoki ’67
October 17, 2002	Adrian Woodhouse '59
September 17, 2002	Adrian Woodhouse '59
July 4, 2002	R.J. Innerfield ’67
July 3, 2002	Stephen Townend ’71
June 4, 2002	Dan Koster ’93
May 29, 2002	Richard Hokin ‘62
May 22, 2002	Stephanos Geroulanos ’01
May 19, 2002	Walter C. Jean ‘89
May 17, 2002	Ben Waterhouse '00
April 4, 2002	R.J.Innerfield ’67

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