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Wesley Williamson ’10 ranks number one at Fort Lewis, Wash.; Luce scholars make a difference in Asia; plus, where in the world are CMC alumni?
Profile (PDF)
A message from Claremont McKenna College Alumni Association President Ryder Todd Smith ’96; Vanessa Barcus ’05, owner of Denver-based Goldyn Mobile Atelier, delivers metropolitan panache to the Mile High City; plus, a letter from Alumni Athenaeum Retreat 2009 Chair Rick Voit ’78.
In Memoriam (PDF)
Award-winning author Robert A. Kalan ’72 was recognized for children’s books including Rain, Blue Sea, and Jump, Frog, Jump!.
ON THE COVER: Illustration by Bill Reynolds, Ivy Glick & Associates; Art direction by Jay Toffoli.
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On the Cover: Global Navigation (PDF)
Crucial Experience (PDF)
The Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies provides unique access to world politics in real time.
Lost in a Good Book (PDF)
Medieval translator Michael Herren ’62 unravels ancient literary mysteries.
Service Industry (PDF)
Foreign service officer Steven McGann ’73, now U.S Ambassador to Fiji, has made a career of facing challenging issues in dangerous environments.
Send in the Clowns (PDF)
Andre Poulie ’89 transforms personal tragedy to professional triumph, laying the foundation for clown doctors to help thousands of sick children.
The Space between Two Worlds (PDF)
Aly Rose ’95 builds bridges through dance.
United Kingdom (PDF)
Surin Pitsuwan ’72, secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, has found his calling in “the business of inspiring people to cooperate.”
Leading the Charge (PDF)
Thomas Kelsey ’88 translates policy into results in the Panjshir Valley.
The Globetrotters (PDF)
Mike and Claudia McKay ’99 make a living and a life bringing new opportunities and creative solutions to Third World nations.
Websclusives
Photo Therapy
You’ll read more in just a bit about professional photographer David Gilbert ’05’s work as a Luce scholar. In the mean time, his Web site is another way to check out the NGO work he did while living in Indonesia’s third-largest city for a year. Survivalists should appreciate how he regularly left the “sprawling mass of traffic, motor bikes, pollution, and noodle shops” for the nearby jungle, where he dined on dried fish and slept in lean-tos in order to get the right shots of wildlife.
Working Out
The economy may have taken its lumps during the past year, but CMC students still did remarkably well for themselves securing summer jobs. The Career Services Center at CMC was able to provide internship sponsorship to 103 students, including students who wanted to work internationally. The key to finding work, sources say, is a student’s willingness to broaden his or her perspective and keep options open. We’ll introduce you to a few of the CMCers who had something to write home about this summer.
More on the Alumni Ath ...
Where else could you show a diplomat how to Twitter, ride bikes with a Trustee, fly-fish with a professor, and hear engaging alumni leaders discuss what they know best—and then shoot the breeze around a campfire? The College’s first Alumni Athenaeum Retreat was like a backstage pass to a great concert. Boutique though it may have been by numbers (the cross-generational headcount was somewhere around 50), every participant was thrilled to have shared the three-day, intellectual vacation in a luxurious mountain setting. For those who couldn’t make it, pictures abound.
Travel Allowances
Sure, CMC has alumni all over the map, but the College also is known for sponsoring and encouraging current students to see the world, too, by way of academic travel here and abroad. Toward that end, the dean of the faculty and the dean of students have collaborated on an international travel policy outlining the necessities for all sponsoring departments, faculty, and institutions governing student travel.