2003

Devin Foxall recently sent in quite the interesting update. "My friend Sean and I took 10 weeks spanning late fall and early winter to travel around the world. Trains, buses and boats; completely overland we made it from Croatia's Adriatic Sea to the western shores of Thailand. Most of my time since graduation has been spent traveling to out-of-the-way-corners of the earth, places such as Sarajevo, Bolivia, Mongolia, Laos, Cuba and Iran. I spent March backpacking in Ethiopia. On a dry sun-baked day, six miles south of the Eritrea border, I climbed a frayed leather rope 70 feet up a mountain to visit the monastery Debre Damo. It was a surreal afternoon—the monks live an isolated life but their breathtaking view shows a turbulent world. I watched military trucks shrouded in black exhaust rumble north as refugees in white UN four-wheelers treaded south."

He added: "I have two trips planned for late summer/early fall. On August 12 I will be in Beijing to board a flight to Pyongyang, which is the capital of North Korea. I will stay there four nights to observe the Mass Games, which is both the largest gymnastics spectacle on earth and our planets most bizarre worship of a single human being, in this case, Kim Jong Il. Afterward I'm heading back to India, Kashmir in particular, to commit lohg-term to foreign reporting. The hope is to land a few articles in a large circulation newspaper or magazine. I'll travel with Tashi Dondup, who will be filming a documentary. I'd like to start a quarterly magazine focusing on independent 'Why would you go there?' travel. If anyone is interested, let me know. Also, pictures from my trips are at devinfoxall.com." Which, by the way, I checked out, and they are both spectacular and very moving.

I also heard from Katherine Rue Bollinger, who wrote, "Bryan and I are starting grad school in the fall. I am starting a Ph.D. in medieval history at Berkeley and he is starting a Ph.D. in business at Stanford. We're excited to be back on the West Coast."

Finally, many thanks to all who were able to donate this past year to the Dartmouth College Fund. Our class has set a new record for participation of more than 37 percent, with more than 150 more donations this year than last year. We were able to meet our fundraising goals due to your generosity and the hard work of all the volunteers: Erica Berman, Rebecca Kurzweil, Ethan Levine, Jason Ortiz, John L. Robinson, Lauren Sherry, Kristin Todd and Kamil Walji. Joe Ackley and Stephanie Bonan, who led the volunteer effort, deserve an extra-special thank you for all the time they dedicated to this effort.

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