Highlights from the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin Summer 2005 issue

CLIMBING THE HILL By Tom Nugent
After 30 years of working for better health care and education in Pennsylvania, newly elected U.S. Rep (D-13) Allyson Y. Schwartz, M.S.S. ’72, is in Washington to debate the crucial issues facing the 109th Congress.

WITNESS By Alicia Bessette
Beth Stroud ’91, defrocked by the United Methodist Church for being an ordained minister in an openly lesbian relationship, is appealing the verdict.

DUTY TO COUNTRY By Ann Harris O’Keefe-Brewer ’56
Deployed to active duty in Kuwait as the only ophthalmologist in the entire Persian Gulf theater of operations, Army Reservist Dr. Marjorie Mosier ’58 is one of the oldest women in the U.S. Military to earn a combat patch.

COPYCATS OR COACHES? By Alicia Bessette
Intellectual property lawyer Elizabeth Rader ’87 represents an organization of yoga teachers challenging a guru’s claim that he can copyright a yoga routine.

MULTIPLE STRENGTHS
New tenure track faculty are coming to Bryn Mawr with interests that promise to continue traditions of scholarly excellence for which the College is known.

ON COURSE
Computer Science 246: Programming Paradigms: Game Design and Programming, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Dianna Xu. Students design games for humanizing a vampire and for solving a murder mystery.

College News
Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid dedicated in memory of Louise Horwood Alden Cohen ’44 and Dr. Jonathen Cohen
Obituaries: John H.M. Salmon and Ingrid Muan
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