“You Just
Have to Read This. . .” Books by Wesleyan Alumni Aspray ’73, MA ’73, Morris ’76, Roth ’70
April 29, 2021
In this continuing series, Annie Roach ’22, an English and Italian studies major from Middletown, Del., reviews alumni books and offers a selection for those in search of knowledge, insight, and inspiration. The volumes, sent to us by alumni, are forwarded to Olin Library as donations to the University’s collection and made available to the Wesleyan community.
William Aspray ’73, MA ’73 and Melissa Ocepek (editors),
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
In the past year, our choice of residence has become more crucial than ever. In fact, the pandemic has caused many people to house-hunt, pack up and move away, ready for a change of scenery.
IMHO: It’s Hanover’s right to change its mascot
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Modified: 4/30/2021 10:58:19 PM
The image with which Hanover High School athletes are identified is changing. The time has come for all of us to change with it.
Back in mid-March, the Hanover High School Council a body in existence since 1977, made up of about four dozen students, staff and members of the school community and responsible for much of what happens within school walls approved a motion to retire its Marauder mascot and logo for good, and it did so by a considerable margin (38-2, with two abstentions). The decision came after months of research, debate and votes, following the appropriate parliamentary format, and it was given the green light by the school’s interim principal, Jim Logan, within a week of the vote.
Ernst Fraenkel was born into a Jewish family in Cologne, Germany on December 26, 1898. Having served in the German Army during World War I, he thereby avoided the anti-Semitic persecutions of the mid-1930s.  But in 1938, Fraenkel, seeing the writing on the wall, emigrated to England and then, in 1939, to the United States.  His intellectual journey is significant for today.
In 1941, a manuscript he had written while in Germany, entitledÂ
The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship, was published by Oxford University Press. The book is visceral.  It was written on the increasingly ugly tarmac of the Third Reich. And its thesis suggests a haunting parallel to what we see in the contemporary American crisis.Â
NH Business Review
‘We’ve done great,’ but potential surge is still possible
April 18, 2021
Residents of the Twin States continue to get vaccinated at relatively high rates and mask mandates in New Hampshire are easing, but Covid-19 cases and hospitalization rates also remain high.
When ranked nationally, New Hampshire comes in second and Vermont fourth in terms of Covid-19 vaccine administration per 100,000 people, according to the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation’s weekly Covid-19 modeling report.
As of April 15, 181,500 Vermonters, 29% of the state’s population, and 363,300 Granite Staters, almost 27% of the population, were fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Covid data tracker. A larger share had received at least one dose: in Vermont, 278,600, nearly 45%, and in New Hampshire, 764,600, more than 56%.
New Hampshire and Vermont are excelling in COVID-19 vaccination, but there’s plenty more to do
Phil Greene, a Lebanon firefighter and paramedic, left, gives Steve Heath, of Andover, N.H., right, a dose of COVID-19 vaccine during a clinic at the former JC Penney in West Lebanon, N.H., Thursday, April 15, 2021. As of April 2, New Hampshire residents over the age 16 or older became eligible to receive the vaccine. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
The line for COVID-19 vaccines at a clinic run by the New Hampshire National Guard at the former JC Penney in West Lebanon, N.H., ran outside on a rainy Thursady, April 15, 2021. The clinic had scheduled 1,300 appointments, almost triple the daily capacity that the National Guard could serve at their site in Claremont. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without pe