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I would like to remind all graduate alumni that the Arts and Sciences Graduate Alumni Association at Dartmouth (ASGAAD) is again planning activities for Homecoming Weekend on Friday and Saturday, October 24 and 25. This year the Friday panel discussion will be on healthcare, and the evening reception will be in Fairchild rather than the Hood Museum. For a complete schedule of events, please call Kerry Landers, the assistant dean of graduate studies, at (603) 646-1743.

The annual MALS Alumni Association luncheon and meeting was held on July 9 in the Hanover Inn. Derrick R. Cartwright, director of the Hood Museum of Art, was the guest speaker. He talked about interesting aspects of the museums past, present and future; and he illustrated his points with a slide show of some of the museums resources. It is the hope of the MALS Alumni Council to make the annual meeting an informative as well as a social occasion. Those of us who live nearby enjoy learning how much Dartmouth has to offer even after we receive our degrees. Cartwright's inspiring talk presented the museum as a vital, exciting place waiting to be explored. We had an excellent turnout again this year. Alumni attending included Roland Adams (MALS 98); Frank Anthony (MALS '84); Christine Bannerman (MALS '99); Mike Beahan (MALS '97); Colby Bent (MALS'82); Arnold Castagner (MALS '79); Judy Chypre (MALS '99); Susan Darnell (MALS'01); Melinda Evans (MALS'02), who was elected to the association council at the subsequent meeting; Carol Ehlen (MALS '97); Alex Hernandez-Siegel (MALS '99), als elected to the association council; Nancy lott (MALS '92); Joan Kersey (MALS '96); Elizaveta Moussinova (MALS'02); Maggie Montgomery (MALS '99), whose hard work made the afternoon possible; Margaret Richard (MALS '85); Nancy Silliman '95 (MALS '96); and Alice Wright (MALS'89). Suzanne Semmes (MALS '98) recently moved from the Hanover area to California, where she began a program of theological study at the Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley. This is one of three Unitarian Universalist (UU) seminaries in the United States; and it is part of the

Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, a group of nine seminaries and five institutes that share cross-registration. Suzanne's call to the ministry began twenty years ago. She served for four years as advisor to the Dartmouth UG Student Fellowship and was on the committee for the Dartmouth Center for Addiction, Recovery and Education, where she focused on the spiritual dimensions of substance abuse. When Dartmouth's budget cuts resulted in the elimination of her position as supervisor of Sanborn Library, a job she held for 13 years, Suzanne reexamined her life and the world around her and decided to become an aspirant to Unitarian Universalist ministry. She will refine her call through theological study. Last winter she spent six months in clinical pastoral education at DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center and reached the conclusion that hospital ministry is where she belongs. She refers to the 400 hours she spent at the medical center as "the gift of being able to provide spiritual care to patients and staff" and will continue the process of certification in this area.

Linda Garceau-Luis (MALS '83) was named senior consultant at Nashville Management Group in Nashville, Tennessee. The company provides consulting services for the nonprofit, financial services, marketing, logistics and information technology sectors. In the years since she earned her MALS degree, Linda served as director of capital gifts at Dartmouth Medical School, where she was an integral part of the $55 million campaign; director of major gifts at SUNY at Binghamton, which involved establishing their first planned giving programs; and director of major and planned gifts at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where bequest and trust gifts doubled over the course of a fiveyear campaign. After earning an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt, Linda founded and served as president of her own company, LGL Strategic Management Consultants, LLC, which focused on businesses as well as not-for-profits. She has experience in lecturing and sponsoring financial and estate-planning seminars and recently gave a talk to the Middle Tennessee Planned Giving Council, which sponsors the "Leave a Legacy" campaign.

175 Greensboro Road, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-3789; m.jane.welsh.adv98@alum.dartmouth.org