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C O N C O R D A C A D E M Y M A G A Z I N E S P R I N G 2 0 1 0David Cavell<strong>Class</strong> of 2002Channeling the GovernorWhen David Cavell ’02 tells new acquaintanceshe’s a speechwriter forMassachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, he is accustomedto hearing a couple responses. Many ask,“Isn’t it weird to hear your words coming out ofsomeone else’s mouth?” But the mischievouswonder, “Do you ever slip in something silly orinappropriate just to see if he’ll say it?”To Cavell, both questions, even if meant injest, miss the point of what he does. “The governorisn’t a robot. The words he says are his,”Cavell said. “He’s a heavy editor and he knowsmore about speechwriting than I ever will. Afterlistening to pretty much everything Gov. Patrickhas said for the past three years, I’ve developeda good sense of how he feels about the world ingeneral and about specific issues. When I’m writing,it’s not my voice that I’m hearing, it’s his.”Politics has been in Cavell’s blood since hevolunteered as campaign coordinator for a Massachusettslegislative candidate the summerafter graduating from CA. During his senior yearat Tufts University, he interned with the mediadepartment of the Patrick campaign. But aftercollege, he was accepted into Teach for America(TFA), which recruits recent college graduates toteach in under-resourced public schools. FromAugust 2006 to August 2007, Cavell taughtfourth grade at a public school in the SouthBronx. “I don’t think I realized when I was at CAjust how massive the gap is between the bestand worst schools in this country,” he said. “Itwas shocking to me.”The teaching stint had highs and lows. “Iheld a parent-teacher conference in a homelessshelter. That’s not something you ever forget,”he said. “And when you see a kid who is everybit as smart as you were as a child, and remindsyou so much of your friends when you wereyoung, but is growing up in such a violent environment,it’s very hard. TFA is a complicated12Eugena Ossi/Office of the Governor of Massachusettsprogram but really worthwhile.”After TFA, Cavell headed back to his hometownof Boston and met with a former fellowintern from the Patrick campaign, who hadbecome the governor’s speechwriter. As interns,the two had once pinch-hit on a speech whenthe paid staff was out of the office. “He invitedme to work with him,” Cavell said. “Less thantwo weeks after I left the fifth floor of a chaoticelementary school in the Bronx, I walked into theState House and sat down at an oak desk in frontDavid Cavell ’02 and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrickof a twelve-foot window overlooking Beacon Hill.That was an adjustment.”Cavell, officially Speechwriter and DeputyDirector of New Media for the Governor, loveshis job. With lead times that vary from fifteenminutes to several weeks, he relishes thechallenge of speechwriting. “It’s a learningprocess,” he said. “One of the things I learnedat CA is that you really have to get over yourfear of failure. You have to be willing to do somethingthat doesn’t work so that you can figureout what does.”Among Cavell’s proudest accomplishmentsare a speech announcing that Massachusettswould welcome same-sex couples fromanywhere in the country to marry and anothercommemorating the fiftieth anniversary of theLittle Rock Nine’s integration of Central HighSchool in 1957. “Helping prepare remarks thatwould be delivered to eight of the Little RockNine, about whom I’d learned in a history classat CA just five or six years earlier, was unforgettable,”he said.All this keeps Cavell excited to arrive at workevery morning and to stay late into the evening.“Governor Patrick is one of the most intelligent,thoughtful, and engaged people I’ve ever met.He really believes in his role as a public servant,”he said. “Ultimately, what matters to me is thatI can be part of the governor’s overall plan tomake the state a better place.”
The Butterflies of Grand CanyonMargaret Erhart ’70Plume, 2009An unassuming summer trip to Arizonalaunches the Merkles on anextraordinary adventure. The discoveryof a skeleton sets in motion thebusybodies who reside in a villageat the rim of the Grand Canyon, allharboring their own dark secrets.Jane Merkle, the young wife, fallsfor a dashing ranger, as stodgyhusband Morris pines for his loyalspaniel and the quiet life they leftbehind in St. Louis. Our country’smost famous national park providesthe picturesque setting for Erhart’slatest, a mystery filled with intrigue,romance, playful humor, and passionatelepidopterists. The authorscores another hit with this, her fifthnovel. The characters come alive,as they did in Crossing Bully Creek,bringing contemporary readers to1950s Arizona, a place of abandonand opportunity.Liberalism and ProstitutionPeter de Marneffe ’75Oxford University Press, 2010In this latest volume from theOxford University Political PhilosophySeries, de Marneffe, a philosophyprofessor at Arizona StateUniversity, addresses a wide spectrumof viewpoints on prostitution.From libertarian claims that prostitutionshould be legalized as a voluntarypractice to the moralistic andcontemporary feminist argumentsfor far-reaching antiprostitutionlaws, de Marneffe strikes a middleground, arguing that prostitutionlaws are justified and compatiblewith liberalism, despite libertarianclaims that such laws are paternalisticand infringe on free will.Live a Little! Breaking the RulesWon’t Break Your HealthAlice Domar ’76 and Susan LoveCrown, 2009Drs. Domar and Love challenge conventionalwisdom with a healthydose of common sense. By takingon oft-quoted surveys and the recommendationsof alleged experts,the doctors offer women a realisticalternative to the hype and a sensibleroute toward a lifestyle that promotesgood health and balance.For example, the authors challengeseveral rules, accepted as gospel,around sleep, stress, health screenings,exercise, nutrition, and relationships.“Some of these rules arebased on excellent evidence,” theysay. “But many are not. Plenty arebased on scanty evidence or evenbald corporate interest.” Domar andLove help the reader sort things out.Twenty-First CenturyMacroeconomics: Responding tothe Climate ChallengeNeva R. Goodwin ’62, P’89 andJonathan M. Harris P’02, ’07Edward Elgar, 2009Following decades of foot-dragging,countries are acknowledging thatthey must consider policiesto directly reduce carbon emissions,for the sake of world economies.That climate change is shapingtoday’s macroeconomic policies isgood news indeed. Building uponthe success of a 2006 Tufts Universityenvironmental conference,Goodwin and Harris—both associatedwith Tufts’ Global Developmentand Environment Institute—have gathered the best practicesand theories from economists,who offer timely innovations at thiscritical juncture in human history.CA Bookshelfby Martha Kennedy, Library Director13C O N C O R D A C A D E M Y. O R G S P R I N G 2 0 1 0
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