Jane (Bambi) Bachman Wulf

Wellesley High School Writer:
Jane (Bambi) Bachman Wulf (1972)

          Bambi’s WHS activities planted seeds for what was to come:  a career that led her to become Chief of Reporters for Sports Illustrated, and Assistant Managing Editor of Time.  At WHS she was captain of the field hockey and basketball teams and also played lacrosse; and she was Class Secretary and The Bradford sports editor.  She wrote of her “magical” childhood in Wellesley, and in her obituary it was mentioned that “she joked that she peaked in high school, having been awarded the Wellesley High School Senior Cup.” 

            Upon graduating from Mount Holyoke Bambi began working at SI as a copy clerk, but soon became a reporter.  After covering a wide variety of sports with her signature wit and insight, she was elevated to Chief of Reporters, where she hired and mentored the next generation (such as Armen Keteyian and Pulitzer Prize winner Amy Nutt).  After 23 years at SI, she became Chief of Reporters for Time, and eventually (in a groundbreaking and glass ceiling shattering move for a woman) Assistant Managing Editor.  Until her early retirement she guided her staff of more than 200, providing prize-winning and incisive coverage of the major events of the time, including the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and 9/11. 

            For three years Bambi battled pancreatic cancer, and she died in 2017.