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Come Back to Hanover for this summer's Alumni College and choose one of two sure-fire electives: "Ending Times" and "Write," The dates are August 4-11 and both courses offer a who's who of Dartmouth faculty and lecturers.
For anyone who's looking ahead to the next millennium with qualms, questions, doubts, high expectations, anxiety, excitement, trepidation, bated breath, or you-name-it, the course to pick is surely:
Ending Times, which will examine various scenarios associated with "the end" of our current millennium. Professors discussing the good news/bad news: are Laurence Davies on literary versions of the apocalypse, Mary Kelley on millennial movements in early American history Marcelo Glciser on astrophysical matters, Bob McGrath on art, SusanAckerman '80 on religion, Scott Drysdale on chaos theory, ShalomGoldman on a seventeenth-century Jewish millennarian, and Charles Wood; who will give the keynote lecture on the year 1000,
If you feel it's too early to think about next year, much less the next century, then you should sign up for:
Write, a writers workshop directed by Joe Medlicott '50 which features a faculty of widely published authors including Barbara Kreiger PriscillaSears, Ernest Hebert, and Curmudgeonly columnist Noel Perrin. This team will conduct individual tutorials, gather you in small group meetings, and still leave you plenty of time to write—whether on computers or on the backs of old laundry lists (your choice).
For complete information about reliving the Dartmouth experience at Alumni College—and learning some really useful Stuff-call Joyce Greene at (603) 646-2454; fax (603) 646-1600; e-mail
Club Awards Announced. In April the Dartmouth Club of Chicago presented its Lux Award recognizing significant contributions to the larger community: to Justin Stanley '33. Given to Stanley during a dinner at which President Freedman was the principal speaker, the award noted the recipient's service to both the legal profession and the College, He is a past president of the American and: Chicago Bar Associations and was Dartmouth's; first vice president for Development and Alumni Affairs.
Meanwhile, the Dartmouth Club of Boston was presenting its: Community Sen-ice Award, posthumously, to Paul McLaughlin "75. Paul's story is reported on page 42 of this issue. Attending the dinner, also addressed by President Freedman, were a half-dozen McLaughlin family members, including father I'd '42. and brothers Ed '70 and Robert '78.
The Spring Meeting of the Alumni Council was held over the May 17-19 weekend. A report on their deliberations about a new constitution will be published in this space in the next issue.
History Prof Charles Wood is keynoting the Alumni College's millennial theme. Wood himself has made the epochal decision to retire this year, so hear him while you can.
