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Fighting for Amanda's Dream

By Ted Katauskas

In 1905, eleven heirs of Amanda Reed filed suit to break her will and claim her fortune. Only one man—the twelfth heir—​could save her dream from destruction.

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By David Frazee Johnson

Reed biology professor Steve Black looks to deadly spiders (yes, that's a black widow) for clues about evolution and development.

Rapture of the Tiny

By Laurie Lindquist

Artist Maggie Rudy ’80 creates a whiskered world resplendent with rodents.

Editor's Note

• From the Centennial Committee

Features

• Fighting for Amanda's Dream
• Webmaster
• Rapture of the Tiny
• Trapped in the USSR
• A School for Kathmandu
• Puja's Lesson
• What Hum 110 Is All About
• Young Alumni give a Damn
• 100 Years of Reed

Reediana

• Mark Bitterman ’95: Salted
• Juliane L. Fry: Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate Change
• Jeff Goldsmith ’70: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
• Reediana Briefs

Alumni Profiles

• Librarian takes Alaska town by Storm: Ruth Wetterborg Sandvik ’38
• Smashing Atoms—and Stereotypes: Beverly Karplus Hartline ’71
• Can the Humanities Save the U.S. Economy?: Eduardo Ochoa ’73
• Bringing the Dead to Life : Melinda Hunt ’81
• Tequila Evangelist: Clayton Szczech ’00

Eliot Circular

• The Grandmaster Returns
• The Book Unbound
• The Quest Goes Live
• Bowled Over

Empire of the Griffin

• Notes on Camp Westwind
• Zombies take Chicago
• Getting French in D.C.
• The Rarest Gift

Video: Eliot Circular

President Colin Diver goes bowling on third floor of Eliot Hall.