Jon Chase

PORTRAITS

Singer Ray Charles performs at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, MA.
   
Tumi Makgetla, dancer with Gumboots dance troupe.
   
     
  
Biologist E. O. Wilson, world reknown authority on ant life.
   
Daniel Ho, Harvard University student.
   
John Shaw, Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He is shown against a 3-D representation of earthquake faults in the Los Angeles area, which he researched as a way to predict the likelihood of future quakes.
     
  
Harry Parker, in his 40th year as Harvard men's crew coach, stands by a photo of the 1974 heavyweight crew that went undefeated for 4 consecutive years.
   
Musician Bobby McFerrin conducts a workshop with the Harvard Jazz Band.
   
Lou Roth, cockroach researcher.
     
  
John Updike, author
   
Sen. Ted Kennedy gives an enthusiastic thumbs-up as Harvard President Drew Faust applauds, after he received an honorary degree at a special Harvard convocation in December. Kennedy was unable to receive his degree the previous June because he was being treated for a malignant brain tumor.
   
Former Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine.
     
  
Harvard Business School Professor Nancy Koehn with an image of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance hopelessly mired in Antarctic ice. Koehn cites Shackleton's leadership skills in a course she teaches on business and entrepreneurship.
   
Harvard swimmer David Cromwell.
   
Sunglasses and antique collector Vaughn Thibodeau.
     
  
Frank Hu, diabetes researcher and Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.
   
Joe Kalt, professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
   
Harvard student Laura Clancy, who did volunteer work on a South Dakota Indian reservation.
     
  
Harvard Graduate School of Design student Danny Forster with his thesis project.
   
Harvard Dean of Students Archie Epps conducts the Harvard band at Commencement.
   
Ugandan former child soldier China Keitesi with her book, Child Soldier.
     
  
Allan Crite, Boston artist, in his home museum.
   
Harvard Music Department custodian and cricket coach Shakespeare Christmas.
   
William Alfred, playwright and Harvard professor of the humanities.
     
  
Australian composer Barry Conyngham.
   
Harvard Graduate School of Education student Layli Uddin. Uddin is Bangladeshi and was brought up in London, where no one in her family had ever gone to college or even heard of Harvard until she was accepted.
  
Eric Mazur, physics professor, Harvard University.
     
  
David Noard stands next to a Van Gogh self-portrait at the Fogg Art Museum. Noard regularly performs "My Name is Vincent", a one-man show based on the life of the famous painter.
   
Surrounded by basketball photos spanning four decades, Boston Celtics president Red Auerbach lights up one of his trademark "victory" cigars.