Grads

The Arts and Sciences Graduate Alumni Association at Dartmouth (ASGAAD) was founded one year ago to bring graduate alumni together and to provide them with updates on the associations projects and activities on campus. It is important that we hear from all of you with suggestions about how this can be accomplished and with comments on how we are doing. We would also like to hear about your professional and personal accomplishments to share with others in this column. E-mail us at asgaad@alum.dartmouth.org. We would also appreciate your returning the graduate alumni survey, which you should have received this summer. We are planning ASGAAD functions for all the major Dartmouth holidays. Visit our Web page for updates on fall activities: www.dartmouth.edu/~gradstdy/alum.shtm1.

Plans for our second annual graduate alumni reunion, during Homecoming Weekend in October, are currently in the works. Due to the hardiness and vigor exhibited by graduate alumni during last year's first Tailgate Party in the Snow, this year we will add some outdoor activities to a weekend of speakers, get-togethers and dinners. What can we do to entice you to spend a beautiful fall weekend in Hanover?

Some of your fellow alumni are authors, and we would like to recommend their books for your fall reading list. Food fanatics will enjoy Pass thePolenta by Teresa Lust (MALS '96) and Recipes fromDana's by Nancy Lott (MALS '92). Travel buffs will enjoy Kevin Kertschers (MALS 97) book about his unusual and entertaining experiences, AfricaSolo. Finally, do not miss a powerful work of fiction by Heidi Julavits (comparative literature '90), The Mineral Palace. Ml these books are available through the Dartmouth Bookstore. Nancy Silliman '95 (MALS'96) held a winter and spring exhibition of her paintings at the Twin Columns Gallery in Claremont, New Hampshire. The exhibition grew into a series of weekend poetry readings at the gallery, and Nancy considers these readings an ongoing project. If you are interested in reading or listening, contact nancy.p.silliman@dartmouth.edu. Nancy joined those of us who attended the ASGAAD Winter Carnival Poetry Reading, where poetry was read by current graduate students and alumni. We also heard a poem by the president of ASGAAD, Seth Podolsky (evaluative clinical sciences '98).

For those of you who have yet to attend an ASGAAD activity, we hope to see you or at least hear from you this fall.

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