Grads

All MALS alumni should have received a letter informing them that it is time to pay their annual dues. If you have not yet responded, please send a $35 check, made out to Dartmouth College, to: MALS, c/o Alumni Dues, 6092 Wentworth Hall, Hanover, NH 03755-3526.

Anna Schuleit (MALS'05) received a 2006 Mac Arthur Fellowship. This fellowship will give her $500,000 over a five-year period to support and advance her work. Anna is an artist who explores and honors historic sites through her use of visual metaphors. She is inspired by old documents, stray narratives and her love for abstraction.

Currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, she is working on an installation for an uninhabited island in Boston Harbor. This project will be part of the Institute for Contempory Art's Vita Brevis 2007 exhibition. Anna is using research on past military use of the island and its geography, weather, tidal changes and crumbling structures to inform her work. She is also working on a second installation for this year. This is a commission for the MacDowell Colony Centennial in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Her work concerns the history of the colony and will combine 100 telephones, calls from the past and present, and input from the local community.

Grace Hill (MALS'75) was recently featured in a Jim Kenyon column in the Valley News. He described Graces relentless search for castoff musical instruments in Hanover, where she lives, and throughout the Upper Valley. For the past 10 years she has been collecting instruments, whose owners are no longer using them, and sending them to St. Vincent's School for the Handicapped and Holy Trinity Music School.

Both schools are in Haiti and were founded more than 50 years ago by Episcopal nuns from Boston. Graces quest began when a fellow member of St. Thomas Church showed her photographs from a visit to the school. When the friend mentioned that the children lacked musical instruments, Grace knew what she had to do. As a pianist, she knows the joy of learning and performing music; and she feels that even children from the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere should be able to share in that joy.

Grace finds her instruments by word of mouth. If your high school trombone is gathering dust in your attic, please give Grace a call.

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