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Distant Vision

By Romel Hernandez

How Thomas Lamb Eliot shaped a college—and a city.

Keeping the Flame

By William Abernathy ’88

Thirty years later, Arlene Blum ’66 scores key victory over flame-retardants—again.

Behind the Curve

By Chris Lydgate ’90

Prof. Josh Howe explores the paradoxical history of global warming.

Editor's Note

• Conscience of a City

Features

• Distant Vision
• Looking Back at Freedom Summer
• Life Beyond Reed
• Into the Unknown
• Stroke of Genius
• The Long Run
• Behind the Curve
• Cliff Hanger
• Keeping the Flame
• Poet || Artist
• Why I Don’t Give to Reed

Reediana

• Barbara Ehrenreich ’63: Living with a Wild God
• Aaron Glass ’94: Return to the Land of the Head Hunters
• Lee Oser ’86: The Oracles Fell Silent
• Prof. Douglas Fix: Notes on Travel in Formosa
• Reediana Briefs

Eliot Circular

• Reed’s First Building Slated for Demolition
• Professors Corner
• STEM Femmes Arise
• New Faces
• Scholarship named for Abby Garcia ’10
• English Prof. Turns 100
• Tiny Bubbles
• Final Stanza

Empire of the Griffin

• From the Alumni Prez
• The Birth Of Mad Magazine
• Win a King’s Ransom
• Fallen Angels
• Plan of Attack

Alumni Profiles

• Gale Dick ’50: Canyon Sage

VIDEO: Physics majors build musical staircase

Allie Morgan ’14 and Anya Demko ’14 (demonstrating) installed lasers and phototransistors on the spiral staircase in Vollum, turning the steps into a giant, twisting keyboard spanning two octaves on a C major scale.