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The New (Olde) Reed Almanac

Edited by Chris Lydgate ’90

An irreverent compendium of the ideas, episodes, people, and traditions that have shaped Reed in the last 100 years.

Guerrilla Archivist

By Matt Smith ’90

Ephemeral librarian Megan Shaw Prelinger ’90 breaks every rule in the book.

Such Sweet Thunder

By Bill Donahue

Reed music professor David Schiff searches for the real Duke Ellington.

Editor's Note

• Against the Odds

Features

• The New (Olde) Reed Almanac
• Such Sweet Thunder
• Guerrilla Archivist
• Avoiding Your Parents’ Basement
• The Small Chill
• Darkness, Light, and Drama in the Oresteia
• Steve Jobs: Prodigal Son
• Helen Stafford: Green Pioneer
• Stage Struck
• Smog Buster Leaves $2.5 Million to Reed
• Peter Russell: The Gene Genie
• Ed Segel: History’s Ambassador

Empire of the Griffin

• Life Beyond Reed
• Spotlight on: Cleveland
• Boar’s Head
• Alumni board bylaws

Reediana

• Roger Porter: Bureau of Missing Persons
• Robert Levin ’79: Work Meets Life
• Kate Christensen ’86: The Astral
• Kraig Kraft ’00: Chasing Chiles
• Reediana Briefs

Eliot Circular

• 100 Years of Greatness
• Joining the Tribe
• The Art Spark
• Searching for a Leader
• Navy Secretary Wins Eliot Award
• New Faces: Trustees
• New Faces: Professors

Alumni Profiles

• Rolla Vollstedt ’40: Speed Racer
• Margaret Shirley ’55: Abstract Artist
• Van Havig ’92: Gigantic Brewer

VIDEO: The Belly of the Beest

A band of ingenious Reedies has pulled off a engineering triumph known as the Beest, a wheelless vehicle with twelve articulated legs, which scuttles across the floor of the SU like a gargantuan headless spider. See more at Sallyportal.