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The SAT Gauntlet

by Richard Solli (Com ’69)

“Hey Dad, it’s time to wake up!” rang out from my daughter Alex about 6:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning in October 2008. Was it time to head out to…

Lending a hand

by James Allman-Gulino (Col '08, Batten '09)

I’ve been in Kampala, Uganda, for about a month now, and the city is starting to really feel familiar. I can now orient myself by the frenetic Taxi Park or…

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   Bookplate collection illuminates merger of art and literature
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UPCOMING ALUMNI EVENTS »

• Fri. 7/30/10 - Mount Liebig Photography Project 2004
• Fri. 7/30/10 - Declaring Independence: Creating and Re-creating America's Document
• Fri. 7/30/10 - What Will Last Beyond Today: Selected Works from the Kluge-Ruhe Collection
• Fri. 7/30/10 - EcoExplorers Camp
• Fri. 7/30/10 - Mount Liebig Photography Project 2004

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