Grads

The Arts and Sciences Graduate Alumni Association of Dartmouth (ASGAAD) with the MALS Alumni Association will sponsor their annual Dartmouth Night reception on Friday, October 17. The festivities will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the faculty lounge at the Hopkins Center. All arts and sciences graduate alumni and current graduate students are invited. Wine, cheese and hors d'oeuvres will be served. The purpose of the event is to bring the Dartmouth graduate student community together and to fortify us in body and spirit for the Homecoming parade, which will follow immediately after the reception.

This is your opportunity to meet fellow alumni and learn about the experiences of the present graduate students. It is also your opportunity to march up Main Street behind our proud banners and make the Dartmouth community aware of our existence and our indomitable spirit. Last year, in spite of a very cold rain, we were a commanding presence, and we hope to have even more troops for this years parade. Our position toward the head of the line helps our visibility, but we need all of you to really impress the spectators. The Dartmouth Night rally and bonfire on the Green is an experience you don't want to miss.

To help celebrate 35 years of the MALS program several special programs will be presented by the MALS Alumni Association during Homecoming weekend. These will include presentations of works in progress by current MALS students, a panel discussion by MALS alumni working in the field of creative arts and an overview of where MALS started and where it is going. For information on time and place of these events, please call the MALS office at (603) 646-3592.

Hebe Quinton '77 (CECS'96) received the inaugural Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Quality Improvement Award. The honors were announced at the 2007 North American CF Conference, a gathering of more than 3,000 researchers coming together from around the world to discuss the latest developments in cystic fibrosis research. Hebe's contributions to the development of the care improvement consortium and data registry led her to become the first recipient of the newly created award designed to honor individuals who have made a difference in the lives of people with cystic fibrosis by the application of improvement science. Hebe is a senior research associate in the clinical research section, department of medicine, at the Dartmouth Medical School. Since 1999 she has done all the reporting from the OFF patient registry and has also done analysis in support of the Northern New England OF Consortium. She lives in Lyme, New Hampshire, with her husband and two children.

The annual MALS Alumni Association luncheon and meeting was held on July 9 in the Hanover Inn. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the MALS program at Dartmouth. We were pleased at the large turnout of alumni, especially those from the early years of the program. Ambassador Ken Yalowitz, director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Under- standing at Dartmouth College, provided us with an entertaining and inspiring talk on his life as a career diplomat. Among the alumni attending were Roland Adams (MALS'98), Nina Banwell (MALS'84), Christine Barnes (MALS'72), Mike Beahan (MALS'97), David Bisno (MALS'94), Barbara Blough (MALS'74), Ben Bolger (MALS'04), Stephan Cantor (MALS'08); Judy Chypre (MALS'99), Grace Hill (MALS'7S), Joan Kersey (MALS'96), Linda Landrigan (MALS'97), Maggie Montgomery (MALS'99), Gary Moore (MALS'7B), Margret Richard (MALS'85), William Romero (MALS'07), Allen Sherman (MALS'04), Nancy Silliman '95 (MALS'96), John Tansey (MALS'95), Joan Tomasi (MALS'77) and Betsy Wakeman (MALS'04).

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