Dear Connecticut College Alumni: Fall semester is in full swing. See photos from the first days back. • Come to campus for President Lee Higdon’s inauguration on Oct. 14, followed by soccer and field hockey vs. Bowdoin and other Fall Weekend activities. • Ayesha Siddiqua Chaudhry, CC’s first Muslim chaplain, hopes to create a comfortable environment where Muslim students can ‘figure out who they are.’ • Biology teachers around the world are using computer animations designed by two recent alumni and their professor, Stephen Loomis. • Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titantic, will speak at Commencement 2007. • Professors John Gordon and Ann Sloan Devlin receive honors at convocation and Doriel Larrier ’90 welcomes the Class of 2010 on behalf of the Alumni Association. Read her speech. • Laura Heaton ’05 creates a documentary exploring illiteracy in war-torn Rwanda. • Former Camel soccer captain James Palten ’04 strives for professional action in Argentina. Read stories about CC in national media. For more CC news and information plus a calendar of campus and alumni events, go to www.conncoll.edu. Find athletic schedules and recent game scores at www.conncoll.edu/athletics. To update your address or other information, e-mail alumni@conncoll.edu. Mach Arom ’89 died unexpectedly Aug. 22 while on a relief mission in Rwanda. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30 at the Downtown Auditorium in New York. E-mail jnova@conncoll.edu to share memories of Mach that will be included in next month’s e-newsletter. Tell high school students in your community about your CC experience this fall. Read more about the Camel Alumni Admission Program (CAAP) and help CC connect with prospective students. Thanks to the Pension Protection Act of 2006, people age 70 ˝ or older may exclude up to $100,000 per tax year from their gross income for IRA distributions made directly to a qualified organization like CC. For information about how to take advantage of this incentive, contact Bill O’Neil at 860-439-2414 or woneil@conncoll.edu. Make a gift to CC. We welcome your feedback on our monthly newsletter. Send comments to collrel@conncoll.edu.