Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., was part of a weekend celebration commemorating not only Megan’s tenure as director, but his 38 years with the band. The event, held in Leamy Hall at the U.S. Coast Guard Band delivered its final performance under the direction of Kenneth Megan ’73E. Kenneth Megan ’73E (Photo: Petty Officer 2nd Class Patrick Kelley) EASTMAN’S COAST GUARD IMPRINT Director Bids Farewell “This came along right with the advent of the pill and helped spark the feminist view of sexuality of the late ’60s and ’70s.” Maier’s 2009 book, Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love (Basic Books), formed the basis of the Showtime drama. In an interview last July, Masters’s biographer Thomas Maier told National Public Radio’s Terry Gross, “Their empirical studies showed that women had a much greater capacity for sex” than men. The pioneering sex researcher, played by Michael Sheen, and his research partner and later wife, Virginia Johnson, played by Lizzy Caplan, entered the popular lexicon in the 1960s as “Masters and Johnson.” Their first book, Human Sexual Response (1966), became a best-seller and was translated into several languages. Corner convinced Masters that the next frontier in understanding human sexuality lay in anatomy and physiology, rather than psychiatry. Masters was an ambitious gynecologist whose mentor at Rochester, George Washington Corner, studied reproductive difficulties in humans and animals.

Masters of Sex, which premiered in September, offers a dramatization of the life of one of the School of Medicine and Dentistry’s most famous graduates. The late William Masters ’43M (MD) is the subject of a new drama series on the cable television channel Showtime. (Photo: University Libraries/Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation)

MASTERS & JOHNSON: William Masters ’43M (MD) and Virginia Johnson received honorary degrees from Rochester in 1987.

Masters of Sex by Thomas Maier