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The MALS Alumni Association will hold its annual luncheon and open meeting at noon on Wednesday, July 8, at the Hanover Inn. The guest speaker will be MALS faculty member Christopher Wren and his topic will be “Does Journalism Have A Future?” Professor Wren graduated from Dartmouth College magna cum laude and earned a master’s degree with honors from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He studied Russian at Dartmouth and the University of Edinburgh and Chinese at Stanford and Cambridge universities. He taught at Princeton University as Ferris Professor of Journalism in 1997 and as Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs in 2001. He also worked for The New York Times for nearly 29 years as a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor. He headed Times news bureaus in Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, Ottawa and Johannesburg and later covered the United Nations. He has reported from throughout the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, China and Southeast Asia, Africa, South America and Canada. He also worked as an editor at Look and Newsweek magazines and the International Herald Tribune in Paris. He has written five books and co-authored three others. The End of the Line: The Failure of Communism in the Soviet Union and China was chosen as a notable book of 1990 by The New York Times. The Cat Who Covered the World became a national bestseller in 2001. His most recent book, Walking to Vermont, was published in 2004. We are certain to have a large crowd for this event, and a reservation for the luncheon is necessary. Please call the MALS office at (603) 646-3592. The annual meeting will follow the lunch and the talk. The plans for a Homecoming program will be among the topics discussed. The members of the association board would like to hold another works-in-progress evening and would appreciate the input of all MALS graduates.

175 Greensboro Road, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-3789; m.jane.welsh.adv98@alum.dartmouth.org