Follow-ups
"THE
VIRACOCHA ARRIVED AT EASTER ISLAND ON SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2000 AT 3:00 PM!"
The website for the latest expedition by PHIL BUCK '91 is understandably
exclamatory: This spring the Ashfield adventurer ["The Adventure
Itch," Winter 1999] and six friends sailed a fifty-five-foot reed
boat built on Lake Titicaca 3,500 miles from Chile to Polynesia. Buck
expects to build more such boats for future legs of an eventual around-the-world
voyage; read all about it at
www.xplorainternational.com/reedboat.html.
"The
product will be a set of options," says facilities planner CLIFF
RESNICK about the public forums held this spring to discuss future uses
for Old Chapel. Shown here with colleague DICK NATTHORST (foreground)
inspecting since-repaired damage to the tower ["Around the Pond,"
Winter 1997], Resnick says assessment of proposals for assembly, performance,
gallery, and worship, meeting, and marching band space will take place
this summer. The most viable options will be presented at a third public
forum this fall. For background, see Nathhorst's site-in process at www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~amae000/menu.htm.
And, if interested in joining the campuses "Quasimodo Society"
of Old Chapel fanciers, contact Nathhorst at 413.545.6497 or nathhorst@facil.umass.edu.
Provost
CORA MARRETT ["Clearing the Channels," Fall 1999] and former
chancellor RANDOLPH BROMERY ["Generous People," Winter 2000]showed
their seriousness about the campus in gifts reported this spring in the
Friends of the Library Newsletter this spring. Looking to inspire contributions
of $1 million to the library's endowment funds, the provost and her husband,
Louis, made the first payment on a three-year pledge of $50,000 for that
purpose, and the former Chancellor directed a $10,000 gift to the Oswald
Tippo Library Endowment. For more on the libraries, check out www.umass.edu/umhome/libraries.
