collage artwork of police officers and a raised fist
Logo: Carleton College Voice, FALL 2025
collage artwork of police officers and a raised fist
Logo: Carleton College Voice, FALL 2025
Fred Lessing '58

Childhood Betrayed and Regained

When he was six, Fred Lessing ’58 (1936–2025) was hidden from the Nazis. As an adult, he made the spirit of the child a way of life and healing.

A vintage doctor's bag sits on a wooden table in a farm house

Country Doctor

Dr. Tom Dean ’67 gathered good ideas from the greater world, starting at Carleton, then brought them home to South Dakota.

Collage image by artist Mike McQuade

Data Justice

How a Carleton statistics project is making a real-world impact in one of Minneapolis’s most diverse neighborhoods.

Painting of Jonathan Capehart

Everything Around Me Came to Life

An excerpt from Yet Here I Am, the new memoir by Jonathan Capehart ’89

A student sits in the Class of 1974 Center

Healthy Building, Healthy Students

Inside the Class of 1974 Center

Composite image of six Carleton students

Common Time

What classroom experience changed your life?

Bald Spot: News from Around & Beyond Campus

15 covers of the Voice alumni magazine from the past 90 years

90 Years of the Voice
Key Moments from from nine decades of Carleton’s alumni magazine

Carleton staffer Russ Petricka leads an aerobics class

50 Years of Lunges and Logic
Russ Petricka has retired after half a century of math tutoring and aerobics instruction.

A woman wears an outfit made from recycled materials in a fashion show

Runway Revival
Carleton recently hosted a community fashion show of wearable artworks made from recycled, upcycled, and reused materials.

More Bald Spot: Voice wins Silver

Class Notes

Claire Kelloway, winner of 2025 James Beard Media Award

Fall ’25 Class Notes
See the latest news from your classmates.