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Judy Haslam Cross ’52,
P’85, L.H.D.’00,
Honorary Trustee
“The Reckless Decade” by
H.W. Brands is an interesting
look at the end of the
last century, and I’d recommend it to
anyone who’s interested in history. It’s
particularly fascinating in light of what’s
going on in our country today.
Julia James ’04
I’m reading “The Man
Who Mistook His Wife for
a Hat” by Oliver Sacks.
It’s written for doctors, so
it’s a bit technical but very
intriguing. I think it’s a great read for
scientists and non-scientists alike, but
you have to have patience.
Jane Ritter ’48,
L.H.D.’05, Honorary
Trustee
I love murder mystery
plots, and Lee Child writes
some of the best! I enjoyed
Child’s most recent, “Bad Luck and
Trouble.” Other than mystery books,
my reading is strictly newspapers and
college magazines.
Wendy Puriefoy ’71
Right now, I’m reading
Bob Woodward’s latest
book about President
George W. Bush, “The
War Within.” It provides
an interesting inside look at a president’s
thinking during a time of war.
Barbara Lynch
Springstead ’57,
L.H.D. ’90,
Honorary Trustee
I recently read “The
Monsters of Templeton”
by new author Lauren Groff, and I
really enjoyed it. My family used to
visit Cooperstown frequently, so I felt
very close to the town in the book. I
enjoyed it so much, I gave a copy to my
daughter-in-law as a gift.
Tobey Gitelle P’82, P’86
I recently read Sara
Gruen’s “Water for
Elephants.” It was really
rather intriguing. The
story is about an old
time traveling circus. I know nothing
about the circus, but it painted a very
vivid picture.
Eric Lax ’66, L.H.D.’93
I’m reading “Chasing
Darkness” by Robert
Crais. He writes my
favorite detective novels
because his stories are
clever and give a sense of L.A., where
I live, and they feature a cool PI named
Elvis Cole.
Priscilla Schaffer ’64,
Sc.D. ’94, Elizabeth
Blackwell Award
Recipient
I am reading “The Making
of the Atomic Bomb” by
Richard Rhodes because my uncle was
a physicist and worked on the triggering
mechanism for the bomb. It’s a good
book with many lessons, and I think it
has an important message for us today.
Katherine Elliott ’66,
L.H.D. ’08, Trustee
Recently, I read “The Gardens
of Kyoto” by Kate Walbert.
Right now, I am working on
“Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the
Prison” by Michel Foucault.
Dorothy Wickenden ’76
My current reading list
includes Richard Pevear
and Larissa Volokhonsky’s
superb translation of “War
and Peace,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s
“Half of a Yellow Sun” and Marilynne
Robinson’s “Home.” Robinson’s novel and
Adichie’s are both contemporary classics,
one American, one Nigerian.
Billie Jean King, Elizabeth
Blackwell Award Recipient
I am always reading several
books and always a mystery!
Right now, I’m reading “The
Snowball: Warren Buffet and
the Business of Life” by Alice Schroeder;
“Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need
a Green Revolution and How It Can
Renew America” by Thomas Friedman
and “Scarpetta” by Patricia Cornwell.
Madeline Albright,
Elizabeth Blackwell Award
Recipient
I’m reading “One Minute
to Midnight: Kennedy,
Khrushchev, and Castro
on the Brink of Nuclear War” by
Michael Dobbs.