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Lake to teach at Georgetown--Professor of international relations Anthony Lake, who has been on leave from MHC since 1993 and recently dropped his bid to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency, will take a two-year visiting professorship at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Affairs. He will retain his professor-on-leave status at MHC, and it is hoped he will return to the College when his Georgetown stint ends.

Next year's Staff Council elected--The staff have spoken, the votes are tallied, and the following people will represent staff employees at Staff Council meetings for the 1997-98 academic year. Division I & II representatives will be Rosemary Jackson, Dawn Larder, Cynthia Legare, and Sue Rusiecki. Division III representatives will be Russell Boudreau and Nilka Ortiz. The Division IV representative is Jan Dragon. The Division V representatives are Carolyn Dietel and Eileen Rakouskas. The Division VI representative is Kathleen Monat, and the at-large representative is Deborah LaBarre. For more information about the election process and results, contact Rochelle Calhoun.

She's upbeat about Downbeat--Isabelle Wolfmann, head resident of Porter Hall, received the outstanding performance award in the jazz vocal soloist category of a national music competition sponsored annually by the premiere jazz magazine Downbeat. Wolfmann, who modestly says she's been singing "for a while," has an undergraduate degree in jazz performance from Montreal's McGill University and is currently a graduate student of jazz composition and arranging at UMass.

Thar's gold in that there communications office--Following on the heels of two gold medals recently won for communications office efforts comes more good news. The department has won both another gold medal and a grand gold medal for the World Wide Web site developed to present the life and work of Mary Lyon to young learners. The site won a gold medal in the "World Wide Web sites" category, and a grand gold in the "new media" designation in the national contest sponsored by CASE, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. The Web site was created collaboratively by electronic media manager Dan Wilga, design director Tim Toffoli, multimedia and operations director Rick Flashman, freelance photographer Jim Gipe, and freelance writer Lu Stone; the project was coordinated by news services director Kevin McCaffrey.

Speaking of drugs--Susan McCarthy, director of the alcohol and drug awareness project, was the keynote speaker at an April conference held at Holyoke Community College on "Women and Addiction: Perceptions and Misperceptions." Later that month, she and health education coordinator Karen Jacobus made a joint presentation on "Differential Diagnosis of Substance Use/Abuse in a College Health-Care Setting" at the Maine College Health Association's annual meeting.

In memoriam--Julia T. Lynch died May 2 at the age of seventy-eight. She worked at MHC as a secretary in the comptroller's office from 1966 to 1983. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association.

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