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September-October 2024

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Books

Plot Boiler
New titles from Dartmouth writers (September/October 2024)

Big Picture

Game Changers
A Star is Born

Campus

Serve and Volley
Pomp and protest mark Commencement.
Campus Confidential

Continuing Ed

Caroline Pott ’02
Lisa Furlong
A conservation biologist on life in the middle of the Pacific

Features

The Walk of Life
Elliot Olshansky ’04
Kabir Sehgal ’05 and the art of the portfolio career
Family Ties
Matthew Mosk ’92
Renewed scrutiny endangers the future of legacy admissions. What’s next?
The Voyager
Denis O’Neill ’70
A visionary teacher can make all the difference.

Letters

Your Turn
Readers write, react, and respond. (September/October 2024)

Look Who’s Talking

Meg Lysy ’99
Sean Plottner
Director, Admissions Ambassador Program

Personal History

Divine Nature
Tony Jones ’90
A former pastor embraces the sacred by walking out of the church and into the woods.

Voices in the Wilderness

Moving On
Leila Brady ’27
Motion eases grief for Myra Sack ’10.
Tickets, Anyone?
Will Dehmel ’26
Geeks Jack Groetzinger ’07 and Russ D’Souza ’07 have got the seats.
Flight Patterns
Joanna Jou ’26
Daniel R. Sheldon ’99 explores bird “mysteries.”
Surprise Promotion
Nancy Schoeffler
Professor Manya Whitaker ’06 rises to college president.
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Portfolio

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Books
Alumni Books
New titles from Dartmouth writers (March/April 2025)
Woman wearing red bishop garments and mitre, walking down church aisle
Voices in the Wilderness
New Bishop
Diocese elevates its first female leader, Julia E. Whitworth ’93.
From the Archive
Reconstruction Radical

Amid the turmoil of Post-Civil War America, Amos Akerman, Class of 1842, went toe to toe with the Ku Klux Klan.
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Continuing Ed
Kirsten Gillibrand ’88
A U.S. senator on 18 years in Washington, D.C.

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