![Image likely taken on Feb. 13, 1980 in Tehran, Iran. William Worthy '42 (center) setting up a question-answer session at a Tehran hotel with Hossein Sheikholislam (left) and Massoumeh Ebtekar (right), spokespeople for the students who held 52 U.S. diplomats hostage for 444 days. Ebtekar, often interviewed by U.S. journalists during the crisis, was dubbed "Screaming Mary" by the media. Now a professor of immunology in Tehran, she talked to Matt Lauer of the Today Show last September about the status of women in her country. Sheikholislam, meanwhile, became Iran's deputy foreign minister and ambassador to Syria. In February 2008 he received the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism from Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism.](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2014/05/Worthy-Hossein.jpg)
For Bob Muldoon ’81, the first sign of spring isn’t a bird or bud. It’s a butterfly
“The game is afoot,” writes Bob Muldoon ’81 in his Boston Globe essay about his annual quest for the first sign of spring.
“Each year in March, as gray winter shuffles off stage, and colorful spring waits in the wings, I hold my own private competition: to spot the year’s first butterfly. Aye, for many the robin is the harbinger of spring, but for me ’tis the mourning cloak. For you the bird, for me the butterfly!”