Aiding and Abetting
Wanted for Aiding and Abetting Preservation: Four alumni stick to their guns when it comes to their conservation-oriented activities.
While the stories of these four alumni are told in the Fall 2009 issue of LSAmagazine, the LSA Wire brings you more on their conservation-oriented activities, which include blazing trails in African American history, documenting wildlife crime, wrangling cue cards for Saturday Night Live, and capturing images of unspoiled Antarctica.
Jump to the segment on Pete Levin: Cue Card Wrangler, Laurel Neme: Wildlife Crime Documentarian, or Marya A. McQuirter: African American Heritage Trailblazer.
Stuart Klipper (’62): Antarctic Photographer
LSAmagazine story
With global warming affecting climates around the world, Stuart Klipper says he saw the importance of capturing the unspoiled beauty of Antarctica for future generations. View a few of his photos below:
Pete Levin (’96): Cue Card Wrangler
LSAmagazine story
Pete Levin explains how cue cards can change moments before the show begins. Watch a clip from A&E's Biography Special on Saturday Night Live.
Laurel Neme (’85, M.P.P. ’86): Wildlife Crime Documentarian
LSAmagazine story
Animal Investigators, Chapter 2:
How can a dead, headless walrus expose the intent of its killer?
That puzzle stumped the three scientists—Goddard, Espinoza, and Stroud—as they prepared for the walrus investigation. ... The scientists would trek to Alaska at the end of July, after the season's final storms, to examine that year's carcasses. But to make their trip worthwhile, they needed a way to answer the basic question: were the headless walrus killed solely for their tusks?
Continue reading an excerpt from Laurel Neme’s book, Animal Investigators: How the World’s First Wildlife Forensics Lab is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species.
View photos from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory:
Marya A. McQuirter (Ph.D. ’00): African American Heritage Trailblazer
LSAmagazine story
Historian Marya A. McQuirter authored Washington D.C.’s African American Heritage Trail. The accompanying online database has information on more than 200 important African American history sites throughout the capital city. View the online database or download a PDF of the booklet.
McQuirter writes that, “African Americans have been a significant part of Washington, D.C.'s civic life and identity since the city was first declared the new national capital in 1791. African Americans were 25 percent of the population in 1800, and the majority of them were enslaved. By 1830, however, most were free people. Yet slavery remained. African Americans, of course, resisted slavery and injustice by organizing churches, private schools, aid societies, and businesses; by amassing wealth and property; by leaving the city; and by demanding abolition.”
Learn more about African American history in Washington D.C. by reading Marya A. McQuirter’s brief history.