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The 30th anniversary-season, which begins in January, features Ain’t Misbehavin’, Crossin’ Over, Gem of the Ocean, The Dance of Widow’s Row and Guys and Dolls.

Photo by Mary ButkusRepresentatives from the University met with members of the surrounding community for a Report to the Neighbors at the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center Nov. 1.

Paul VertucioShapiro & Smith DanceAs young dancers in the mid-1980s, Danial Shapiro and Joanie Smith frequently spent their evenings with Smith’s sister, the violinist Soozie Tyrell, and her best friend, a young singer-songwriter named Patty Scialfa. In the years since, Shapiro and Smith emerged as internationally renowned choreographers, praised by The New York Times for their “strong, sharp edged dancing and daring theatricality.” Meanwhile, Tyrell and Scialfa would both go on to perform as members of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. More recently, the quartet reunited to create Anytown: Stories of America, a dance theater piece based on Springsteen’s songs. In November, the show will make its St. Louis premiere at Washington University’s Edison Theatre.

Photo by Kevin LowderA tailgating party on Parents Weekend got things roaring before the Oct. 28 Bears football game.

Four aspiring playwrights will present staged readings of their work Nov. 16 and 17 as part of Washington University’s 2006 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival. Sponsored by the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences, the festival’s selection process actually began in January, when students from across the university submitted original plays to an adjudication committee made up of faculty and theater professionals. The committee then selected four plays — two full-length works and two shorts — to undergo an intense two-week workshop this fall, culminating in the staged readings.

Herbert B. Zimmerman, M.D., a retired assistant professor of clinical medicine, died Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006, at Missouri Baptist Medical Center of congestive heart failure. Zimmerman earned a degree from the School of Medicine in 1951. He was principal investigator at the medical school for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial in the 1970s, which showed that treating risk factors could reduce the death rate of coronary heart disease. Earlier this year, he was given the distinguished service award from the Department of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

Photo by Chris MitchellAbove is a selection of letters football coach Larry Kindbom has collected for his student-athletes since 1998 and self-published in his “Playbook of Champions.”Instead of getting his team fired up with movies or fire and brimstone, Larry Kindbom, football coach at Washington University in St. Louis, solicits motivational letters from successful people in all walks of life. He has received responses from people such as former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, Vice President Al Gore, Southwest Airlines CEO Herb Kelleher, sportscaster Bob Costas and a host of other notables. This year, Kindbom’s taken the responses and self-published a book, “Playbook of Champions,” for his student-athletes. More…

The sixth annual Access to Equal Justice conference Nov. 17 brings to campus Barry Scheck, Roscoe C. Howard Jr. and U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr.

Washington University regrets that a member of its medical faculty issued an email regarding Amendment 2, now widely circulated, that included inappropriate and mistaken comments about the medical condition of Cynthia Kramer, a candidate for public office.

Cynthia White has been selected to receive The National Council of University Research Administrators 2006 Distinguished Service Award. The award is way to recognize members of NCURA who have made sustained and distinctive contributions to the organization.