November 28, 2010
New President Gamely Honeymoons With Carleton College Icon
On Steven G. Poskanzer's fourth day as president of Carleton College, he got a voice-modulated telephone call. "It sounded like Darth Vader," he says.
The caller identified himself as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the intellectual giant who died in 1832. He welcomed the new president and suggested that he reach out via e-mail to a friend, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, the Romantic writer and philosopher.
Mr. Poskanzer, who has held administrative posts at SUNY-New
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