We got several responses to our call in the last issue of PCM asking Sagehens to tell us about their first-year class book (pre-2003). This is what we know so far (and who told us):
1961
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
by C.P. Snow
(Svata M. Louda ’65)
or
Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar (Candy Reiter Midkiff ’65)
1963
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad (Judith Grammel Evans ’68)
1967
No first-year read
(Peter V. Huisking ’71)
1974
No first-year read
(Diane Mayfield ’78)
1978-1979
No first-year read
(Margo Tanenbaum ’82,
Jack Mearns ’83)
1996
Palace Walk
by Naguib Mahfouz
(Kelly Nord ’99, Shauna Pellauer ’00)
1997
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
(Alex Cho ’01)
1998
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
by Gregory Howard Williams (Vanessa Kettner ’02, J. Speidel ’02)