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Jack Spivack Exploring Connections
Scientists' understanding of how the brain affects behavior has grown dramatically over the past decade. And there will be even further opportunity for advances in the study of behavioral neurosciences at the BU School of Medicine, thanks to a recent gift from Jack Spivack.
Among Sue Reamer's (GSM'84) enthusiasms are winter jogging and hiking; she has now added ice climbing. Last year she spent twelve days in Ecuador with a group that climbed six mountains, three of them over 16,000 feet.

A Lasting Enthusiasm for Learning
Sue Reamer (GSM'84) is an enthusiast. Before she became a Graduate School of Management student, her enthusiasm for science and specifically nursing had prompted her to earn three degrees.
School of Medicine Professor Robert Green speaks with study participant Barbara Loatman and Mayuri Thakuria (SPH'03), a research assistant. Photo by Vernon Doucette Fighting Alzheimer's on Many Fronts
The fight against Alzheimer's disease is a numbers game: while no cure is on the immediate horizon, experts say, drugs now being developed could delay the disease's onset for five years or more, thus dramatically reducing the number of cases.
Coleen Resnick, director of annual giving. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky Web Donations Increasing
Online giving to Boston University took a giant step forward in December 2003, with sixty-nine gifts totaling $39,430 charged to credit cards via the secure Alumni Web site.
Ron Garriques (ENG'86) A Good Way to Invest
Ron Garriques (ENG'86) has earned degrees from three institutions, but, he says, "Boston University is the college I relate to most, probably because it is where I started."
Men's Crew alumni gathered on the DeWolfe Boathouse dock at the Head of the Charles regatta on October 18 to dedicate a shell in memory of their freshman crew coach, Kim Bassett (CAS'57, SED'60). The group is pictured here with Men's Head Crew Coach Rodney Pratt (center, in suit) and Sheldon Segerman (SMG'57, holding Bassett's photo), who coxed with Bassett on their freshman crew. Photo by Linda Haas A Renaissance Rower
At the Head of the Charles regatta last October, thirty oarsmen from the sixties gathered at the DeWolfe Boathouse to dedicate a shell in memory of their recently deceased freshman crew coach, Charles (Kim) Bassett (CAS'57, SED'60).
William Fairfield Warren, BU's first president, was also the first president of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women. Women Helping Younger Women Since 1876
When Boston University was chartered in 1869, its first president, William Fairfield Warren, was instrumental in making it the first university in the country fully open to women.
Paul McNicol (SMG'40) named a scholarship fund for his late son, Steven Briggs McNicol, seen here. "No Sad Stories About Steve"
"I've lived a long time," eighty-five-year-old Paul B. McNicol (SMG'40) says on the telephone. He doesn't seem surprised to be told he sounds much younger. "Maybe it's because I keep busy raising kids," he says.
Naava (SED'78) and Jeffrey (SMG'77) Parker at the silver shovel groundbreaking ceremony for the Florence & Chafetz Hillel House on May 20, 2002.
A Sense of Home at Hillel
By attending Friday services, making "a tremendous amount of good friends," and eating in its kosher dining room, Jeffrey (SMG'77) and Naava (SED'78) Parker found a community at Boston University Hillel.
Marion Kramer (CAS'63) The Birth of a Scholarship
Marion R. Kramer (CAS'63) was twelve years old when she decided to become a doctor. Though the number of women in medicine was still relatively small, she never considered her gender an impediment.
Richard D. Reidy (SMG'82). Photo by Fred Sway The Importance of Technical Education
When Richard D. Reidy (SMG'82) began exploring options for college, he says, he "didn't expect to go to a school like Boston University. My father was a firefighter with four kids, so affording the tuition at BU was unthinkable."
Christopher Ricks with Core Curriculum students Laura Jane Swan and Abe Friedman (both CAS'03). Photo by Kalman Zabarsky Support for the Humanities
Arts and Sciences Professor Christopher Ricks received a 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, recognizing his contributions as a writer, editor, and teacher. This award for humanities scholars carries a three-year grant of approximately $1.5 million.
Metropolitan College Dean Jay Halfond. Photo by Carmen DeJesus Board Plays Supporting Role
With fourteen sites in New England and Brussels, and at several military bases, plus more than 15,000 graduates, Metropolitan College is constantly challenged to maintain connections.
A healing ceremony, or bembe (a term referring to an African drum, a specific style of drumming, and ceremonies in which these drums are played), honoring the Yoruba deity Elegba. Photo by Eugene Adams Jr. Doctors Without Bias
A young Haitian mother brings her five-month-old son, Jean, into your busy urban pediatric clinic. You notice Jean is wearing a gold chain and amulet around his neck and make a mental note to suggest his mother remove it or pin it to his shirt so he doesn't choke on it.
  His "Attitude of Gratitude"
Walter Jensen (SMG'59) played as hard as he worked at Boston University. A finance major, he was president of his fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha, and rowed on the Charles River with the crew team. “All those experiences added a great, great deal to my life,” he says, “and prepared me for the future.”