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Guest of the Taliban
Dan Harris '93, ABC News, leads press corps into Kandahar.
   

Alumni Trustees Nominated
   

It's the Faculty, Stupid
Survey of Colby alums yield informative and positive results.
   

ALUMNI PROFILES
William '51 and Ellen Kenerson Gelotte '50
Star Gazing

Susan Monk Pacheco '67
Doctor in the House

Allen Throop '66

Nancy Heiser '75

Don McMillan '84

Thomas Warren '82
Something Fishery

Brian Post '97
A Natural Observer

Clay Surovek '98


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Don McMillan '84

What he won
What he won Second place in Worcester Magazine's 5th Annual Short Story Contest.

What he wrote
A short story titled "A Hymn for Hannah Marie."

His day job
Chair of the English Department at Bancroft School in Worcester, Mass.

His toughest audience
"High school students--because they're so honest."

How many drafts his short stories usally go through
12 or 13

His goals as a writer
"To craft words and make beautiful sentences. I spend time working on the words and sentences; the cadence, rhythm, rhyme and sound; how the words work together in a sentence and in the piece."


 

 


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