Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, started quietly for Herbert J. Elfring, BS ’50. The U.S. Army private had just finished breakfast and was scanning the weekly assignments on the bulletin board at Hawaii’s Camp Malakole when he heard bombing coming from the direction of Pearl Harbor.
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James Tobin details the writing process of a new book called Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away. The author, Ann Hagedorn, is a Michigan graduate, MILS ’75, and a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal. It’s hard to see how this book could have been written without the training Hagedorn got at Michigan — not in journalism, but in the master’s program in library science.
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An alumna’s memory of her mother prompts a look at the evolving role of technology in education.
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