September 14, 2009
In Very Few Words, Alumni Notes Pack a Punch
Noah Berger
Raphael Rosen (distorted by a mirror at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, where he works) wrote to his alumni magazine about buying giant scissors.
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Noah Berger
Raphael Rosen (distorted by a mirror at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, where he works) wrote to his alumni magazine about buying giant scissors.
In the world of alumni class notes, Raphael Rosen's updates stand apart. Forget weddings, new jobs, and babies. Mr. Rosen let people know he'd gone to Carson City, Nev., for the World Beard and Moustache Championship.
It was his answer to the class-notes conundrum: What do you say when your fellow alums seem to be traveling the world, becoming doctors, starting families, and saving starving children—all at the same time?
"In some ways, I had no choice," says Mr. Rosen,
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