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All Dartmouth arts and sciences graduate alumni are invited to attend the Dartmouth Night Homecoming Celebration on Friday, October 19. The Arts and Sciences Graduate Alumni Association of Dartmouth (ASGAAD) and the MALS Alumni Association are again sponsoring a wine and cheese reception at 5:30 in the Poetry Room, next to the Wren Room, in Sanborn. This will follow a 3 to 5 p.m. presentation of current MALS creative writing students reading from their works in progress. MALS professor Barbara Kreiger has arranged this event, open to all, in the Wren Room immediately preceding our reception. This is a great opportunity for all of us to meet each other, get to know current graduate students and (most importantly) organize our legions for the Dartmouth Night parade This will be our third year of marching in the parade, and each year our numbers have increased. Please plan on attending our celebration and join the multitude of graduate alumni as we impress the Dartmouth community with our enthusiastic spirit. If you don't feel up to the hike, we will again have a convertible for your convenience.

This year's annual MALS Alumni Association luncheon and open meeting, on July 11, at the Hanover Inn, was saved from disaster by MALS program chairman Donald Pease. We were looking forward to a stimulating talk by U.S. Ambassador Ken Yalowitz, director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, when he was called out of town for a family funeral. Dr. Pease stepped in to provide us with an informative discussion of A River Runs Through It. We are deeply grateful to him and to Maggie Montgomery (MALS'99), who arranged the event. We drew a large crowd of MALS alumni, faculty and current students. Alumni included Cynthia Asher(MALS'o3), Grace Hill (MALS'7s),and Margret Richard (MALS'85). All current members of the Alumni Association Council board were present. In addition to Maggie and myself, these were Roland Adams (MALS'98), Mike Beahan (MALS '97), Ben Bolger (MALS'04), Judy Chypre (MALS '99), Melinda Evans (MALS'02), Joan Kersey (MALS '96), Phyllis Nemhauser (MALS '03), Nancy Silliman'9s(MALS'96) and John Tansey (MALS 95).TWo new board members were elected at the meeting; Joan is stepping down and Nermina Zildzo (MALS'O5) left in the spring. We welcome Kathleen Fortin (MALS '07) and Lyn Lord '95 (MALS '98). Kathy is a new MALS graduate whose concentration was in creative writing. She is a writer of creative nonfiction, including oral history, travel and other essays and articles. Kathy is currently searching for a publisher for her graduate thesis, an oral history of the MacDowell Colony, and would also like to publish some of her other work. She works as a litigation paralegal at a law firm in Bedford, New Hampshire. Lyn Lord is in her 10th year of teaching in independent secondary schools. Her concentration in the MALS program, where she was one of its first teaching fellows, was anthropology. She feels she is fortunate to be able to transmit her love of anthropology and history to the next generation. She is currently teaching both these subjects to high school students at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire.

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