UPCOMING EVENTS

• CELEBRATE PRIDE on June 28 at Out and Proudly NESCAC, regional pride celebrations with Williams College Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Alumni Network (BiGLATA) and fellow NESCAC schools.
  
• GIVE to the Alumni Fund (if you haven’t already) before the end of the fiscal year on June 30. And you can support LGBTQ+ students and experiences with your gift through Pride at Williams by June 21 to help unlock additional funding from a generous group of alumni.
  
• CYCLE with fellow Ephs for three days (July 14-16) on the alumni cycling trip in the Berkshires and southern Vermont.
• JOIN women of Williams from across the decades for an all-alumnae virtual networking hour on July 18 at 3 p.m. ET.
• READ and discuss our current Purple Prose Book Club selection, The Lost City of the Monkey God, and enjoy a virtual talk with author Douglas Preston on July 20 at 2 p.m. ET. 

ICYMI

• LISTEN to the experiences of Denise Littlefield Sobel ’75 in this podcast recording from Class of 1975. 
• CONSIDER the hurdles still faced by aspiring female law partners in this alumni career commentary by Bloomberg columnist Vivia Chen ’78.

THE HISTORY OF COEDUCATION

Alumni in the News

• Charles Dew ’58, Williams’ Ephraim Williams Professor of American History, Emeritus, weighs in on teaching Florida schoolchildren about slavery in the Tampa Bay Times.
• The New York Times remembers playwright James de Jongh ’80, who died in May.
• Williams’ men’s and women’s Ultimate Frisbee teams placed fifth in the 2023 USA Ultimate D-III College Championships. Ultiworld speaks with women’s team captain Lauren Lynch ’23 about their successful year.
• Chris Stearns ’86 is featured in a New York Times article about his experiences as a Navajo child adopted by caucasian parents, a story written just before the Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
• Marty Wasserman ’64 speaks with the Baltimore Banner about swimming in the 4.4-mile Great Chesapeake Bay Swim at age 81—his 25th time competing. 
• In an interview with Mother Jones, Dr. Izzy Lowell ’02, an Atlanta-based family medicine doctor, discusses the need to protect gender-affirming care for minors and how legislation is affecting her patients. 
  
  

News from the college

Sending Off the Class of 2023

• Bachelor’s degrees conferred: 572
• Master of Arts degrees in art history: 12
• Master of Arts degrees in policy economics: 26
• Degrees conferred with departmental honors: 123
• Departmental highest honors: 63
• Cum laude: 116
• Magna cum laude: 74
• Summa cum laude: 11
• Most frequently declared majors: biology, economics, English, mathematics, psychology
• Students graduating with more than one major: 257 (45%)
• Theses completed: 185
• Undergraduate college courses taken over four years: 19,869
• States represented: 39, plus the District of Columbia
• Countries represented: 30 (undergraduates only); 43 (including graduate students)
• Transfer students: 6

Welcoming New Leaders

Also of note

• A bibliography of the past year’s publications by Williams faculty is available online, courtesy of the Williams Libraries.
• “The destruction of a society’s political freedoms often starts by targeting the universities,” says former Williams President Adam Falk in a speech about academic freedom delivered as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises during Harvard’s Commencement Week.

In Memoriam

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