Every year, Vassar College announces its annual Alex Krieger ’95 Memorial Lecture, and we have cause to wonder, “How did they get such an amazing speaker?” Years past have brought the likes of Tom Wolfe, Wendy Wasserstein, John Irving, P. J. O’Rourke, Calvin Trillin, Jules Feiffer, Oliver Sacks, Tony Kushner, David Sedaris, Michael Chabon, Sarah Vowell, Gail Collins, Augusten Burroughs, Frank Rich, Ira Glass and Andy Borowitz to the campus.