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LETTERS TO THE EDITORCore EducationIn his “First Person” feature in your September/October issue, “Core Curriculum on Tour,” Josh Shoemake ’96 describes his exciting work as headmaster of The American School in Marrakesh. He highlights his implementation of a high school curriculum modeled on Columbia’s Core, boasting that by the time they graduate, the students “will have acquired a comprehensive Core of their own, including 12 Shakespeare plays, a year each of American and Islamic history, fluency in at least three languages and advanced math and science.” Would that high schools in America gave students that much education. Eva von Dassow P’07 Good CallThanks for running Jonathan Lemire ’01’s fine piece on New York Mets announcer Gary Cohen’81 [July/August]. Cohen is without a doubt one of the best in the business and always a pleasure to have as a companion when watching the Mets play. In fact, the only downside to his becoming the TV voice of the Mets is that we now no longer get to hear his play-by-play description on the radio. I think of the many evenings when approaching New York City after hours of driving that I felt welcomed across the George Washington Bridge by the sound of a Mike Piazza home run or a Jose Reyes triple as called by Cohen on the radio. David Lehman ’70, ’78 GSAS A Liberal Arts EducationTo the quote by Barbara White, former president of Mills College, on the back cover of the September/October issue, I respond that I think the basic purpose of a liberal arts education is simply to enrich students intellectually, spiritually and emotionally during a lifetime. Some may never exercise their “potential” fully or at all, but they will nevertheless enjoy these benefits in whatever circumstances they may find themselves. Daniel Roth ’40 Rowing MemoriesI was pleased to see so many letters from oarsmen, two of whom I remember, in the September/October issue. Here’s another one. In 1936, the varsity lights, me at 7, rowed in the Henley Regatta on Lake Carnegie. We came in second after MIT by a few feet, which I’ve regretted to this day. The New Yorker reported that “as usual, Columbia came in last.” It did not apologize when given the facts. I always assumed the reporter was probably otherwise occupied in the Nassau Inn. Beating MIT the next year did not compensate for not winning the Henley in ’36. But, in the ’36-’37 season, we did win shirts from all the eastern colleges that had lightweight crews at that time. William A. “Bill” Hance ’38,
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