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Paul Comaroto ’06 was one of 43 applicants out of 480
nationwide selected by the U.S. Air Force for officer training school in
2007.
Mark Jones ’91 had his book manuscript on the construction
of childhood and the making of a middle class in early twentieth-century Japan
accepted for publication by the Harvard University Asia Center.
James Jung ’98 wrote in August 2006: “I'm still in
the Navy JAG Corps and have been stationed in Japan—I'm practicing defense law
for the Navy in Yokosuka.”
Kevin Logan ’97: “Many of my closest friends remain
'97 Dartmouth History majors, and we still see each other frequently.
Frighteningly, all of us have become lawyers now, but our professors at
Dartmouth instilled in all of us a life-long love of history even if—speaking
especially for myself here—we did not quite have the intellectual tools as
overwhelmed undergraduates to understand much of what we were taught. But
the connection to the Department remains very strong. We sometimes find
ourselves talking about individual lectures that we attended over ten years
ago, and we read some of the more accessible books that our favorite professors
have published. So we love to receive the Department Newsletter, and
especially the recommended reading section. I am sure that many members
of the faculty think that these recommendations are silly, and a bunch of busy
lawyers are not going to read some obscure academic text about this or
that. But I can tell you that these recommendations are greatly
appreciated—at least among my friends. It is a wonderful way of reviving
in our minds the wonderful courses we enjoyed as undergraduates. More
than anything else, the Dartmouth History Department made us readers, and we
still try to supplement the material from our favorite courses.”
Mark Nackman ’65: “I did a Ph.D. dissertation at
Columbia (Eric McKitrick was my advisor) that got published in 1975 as A
Nation Within A Nation: The Rise of Texas Nationalism, 1821-1861 (Kennikat
Press). It all got started as a senior thesis with Harry Scheiber at
Dartmouth in 1965. McKitrick encouraged me to follow my instinct on the
Texan mystique, declaring with a wry smile: ‘All stereotypes are
true.’ I taught the American History survey courses at Hunter College
(1969-74) while a graduate student, then spent two years crisscrossing the
country on a Columbia Oral History project and two more years at the University
of Washington (Seattle) as an Assistant Professor before taking over the family
business (Admatch) in 1978.”
Ellen Glaser Rafshoon ‘86: “I was awarded a Ph.D. in
American history in 2001 from Emory University. My specialty is U.S.
foreign relations. From 2001 until 2007 I was a visiting professor at
Georgia State University and at Oxford College of Emory University. In
2007 I was hired as an assistant professor of history at Georgia Gwinnett
College in Lawrenceville, GA. I am very excited to be one of the
college’s first History hires and am helping the school to develop its
curriculum. This is the first new four-year liberal arts college Georgia
has established in nearly forty years and is designed to meet the suburban
population growth, driven partially by heavy foreign immigration. In
addition to teaching, I am still writing on a freelance basis. An essay
of mine (using my maiden name) was published in a recent book titled The
Elephant in the Playroom: Ordinary Parents Write Intimately and Honestly About
the Extraordinary Highs and Heartbreaking Lows of Raising Kids with Special
Needs (Penguin/Hudson Street Press, 2007). I'd like to add that I
remain inspired by the outstanding teaching of Dartmouth's history
faculty. Hope all is well for everyone I knew.”
Ruhamah (Ruthie) Shek ’02 accepted an offer last summer
from the Associated Press to do research and support work for its Strategic
Planning team.
Kevin Stansen ’06 took a position as a Fixed Income Analyst
at a hedge fund called SAC Capital.
James Zug ’91: “This might be a record for the
History Department. More than sixteen years after I handed in my senior History
thesis in Reed Hall in May 1991, it has been published. The Guardian: The
History of South Africa's Extraordinary Anti-Apartheid Newspaper was
published in October 2007 by Michigan State University Press in the U.S. and
Unisa Press in South Africa. The Guardian was a multi-racial
political radical Cape Town weekly that ran from 1937 to 1963. The only
anti-apartheid newspaper at the time, it was banned three times by Pretoria and
put on trial for treason. While teaching at a school in the far northern
Transvaal in 1992, I came into contact with an archive in Cape Town that wanted
to publish my thesis. So at age twenty-three I had a book contract—boy, that
was easy. I lived in Cape Town for two years and interviewed every former staff
member of the Guardian newspaper I could find and visited libraries
and archives around the country and in England. I rewrote the thesis. The
archive asked Michigan State to co-publish. The archive got subsumed by the
Robben Island Museum, and they closed their publishing wing. Michigan State
almost closed its press. One saga after another. Time went on: freelancing,
kids, other books (www.jameszug.com), including one about John Ledyard, Class
of 1776, and now, seventeen years after I sat in my senior seminar with Gene
Garthwaite trying to guess whether Martin Guerre really had returned, the
odyssey has ended.”
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