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NOTABLE NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI
The writings of Marshall Meyer '52, an activist rabbi who rebuilt the B'nai Jeshurun synagogue in New York and led it until his death in 1993, have been collected in You AreMy Witness: The Living Words of Rabbi Marshall T.Meyer (St. Martins Press).
Glenn Currie '65, a humorist and essayist in Concord, New Hampshire, since retiring as a business and Stock market consultant, has written his first collection of poetry, Daydreams (Snap Screen Press).
Stephen Waterhouse '65, chairman of the Alumni Council's alumni award committee and an Alumni Award recipient in 1993, chronicles the history of the awards in Dartmouth's Dedicated Alumni: Fifty Years of Alumni Awards,1954-2004 (self-published).
William McDonough '73, an urban-design architect based in Charlottesville, Virginia, and recent recipient of the highest honor that can be given in environmental design by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, shares his philosophy in Something Lived, Something Dreamed:Urban Design and the American West (Red Butte Press).
Ann McLane Kuster '78, an attorney and lobbyist in Concord, New Hampshire, shares the story of how her family—including father Malcolm '46—is dealing with the challenge of her mothers Alzheimer's in TheLast Dance: Facing Alzheimer's with Love & Laughter (Peter E. Randall).
Dr. JodiPrinzivalli '83, founder and director of the Center for Healing and the School of Energetic Psychology in New York, weaves together the traditions of Kabbalistic and Sufi traditions with modern-day psychology in How to Be aM ystic in a Traffic Jam: Reflections on Living as a Spiritual Person inEveryday Life (Authorhouse).
Keith Boykin '87, a leading commentator on race, sexuality and politics, examines why "straight" black men have sex with other men in Beyond the Down Low. Sex,Lies and Denial in Black America (Carroll & Graf).
James Zug'91 profiles a Dartmouth icon in American Traveler: The Life and Adventures ofJohn Ledyard,theMan Who Dreamed of' Walking the World(Basic Books).
Tara Bray Smith'92 tells of her struggle to save her mother, a homeless drug addict who sleeps in a park, in her memoir Westof Then: A Mother, a Daughter and a JourneyPast Paradise (Simon & Schuster).
John Eliot '93, a sports psychologist and professor at Rice University, offers advice on enhancing performance in Overachievement: The New Model for ExceptionalPerformance (Portfolio).
