Grads

Grads

An alert for MALS alumni: The MALS Alumni Association has scheduled its annual luncheon for Thursday, July 13, at noon in the Hanover Inn. This will be a special celebration since it is the 40th anniversary of the MALS Program. We are very pleased to have Larry Olmsted (MALS ’06) as our guest speaker. Larry is a visiting lecturer at Dartmouth and his latest published book is Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do About It. We will make every effort to serve you real food, but to ensure this a reservation is essential. Please contact the MALS office at (603) 646-3592 or email amy.l.gallagher@ dartmouth.edu. We would love to have you join us for a delightful afternoon of celebration.

I have news from Stephen Brodheim (MALS ’95). In September of last year he began working as a furniture curator at Viyet, an online market place for buying and selling antique furniture and decorative accessories. The company headquarters are located in Manhattan, where he lives during the week with his husband, John. Each weekend they eagerly look forward to going up to their converted 19th-century stable in Tuxedo Park, New York, located in the Hudson Valley.

The focus of Stephen’s MALS coursework was art history and the history of decorative arts, which includes a history of furniture. He wrote his thesis on the architectural history of the presidents’ houses at Dartmouth. He documented a total of 16 since the College’s founding and included a catalogue of the furniture contained within the current house. He subsequently studied for another M.A. in the history of decorative arts and design in a program offered jointly by the Cooper Hewitt Museum and Parsons School of Design. Before beginning his current work, he held positions at both Christie’s and Sotheby’s art galleries in New York and London, and also worked with an art advisor.

Charif Shanahan (CompLit ’10) recently published his first collection of poems. The intriguing title is Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing, and it was published by Southern Illinois University Press. The announcement of his book included a quote of praise from Natasha Trethewey, former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Native Guard. She wrote, “Charif Shanahan’s debut collection, Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing, is an intricate meditation on the complexities of identity, the difficulties of relationships—with parents, with lovers—and the search for selfhood, ‘who we are to ourselves.’ These are resonant poems, both searching and tender. The poet writes: ‘I’ll sit in silence,/drinkinghot tea to scald the place/in my body where the pain roots.’ From that pain what remains is not merely the hurt but the light that emanates from the wound.”

Charif was born in the Bronx to an IrishAmerican father and a Moroccan mother. In addition to his Dartmouth degree, he earned an M.F.A. in poetry from New York University. His poems have appeared in Baffler, Boston Review, Callaloo, Literary Hub, New Republic, Poetry International and Prairie Schooner. He has received awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem, the Frost Place, the Fulbright Program, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and Stanford University, where he is a Wallace Stegner Fellow In Poetry.

—Jane Welsh, 175 Greensboro Road, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-3789; m.jane.welsh.gr@dartmouth.edu