Dear Connecticut College Parents:

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 nlpic@conncoll.edu.

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