A Conversation with Kim-Marie Spence '00

10th Annual Dwight L. Greene Symposium  featuring Ashford & Simpson P'97

GOAAAAAL! Soccer 
Absolutely ROCKS!

Congratulations to the New Alumni-Elected Trustees!

Bon Voyage, Dwayne Busby ’95!

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Shawn Dove ’84 writes that new twins Caleb and Cameron arrived in grand fashion on April 12. Everyone is doing well!

Smokey D. Fontaine ’93 just published What’s Your Hi-Fi Q?, a book focusing on music trivia from the ’70s to today, co-authored with former Vibe writer Scott Poulsen Bryant. Smokey also completed work on rapper DMX’s autobiography, to be released later this year.

Robert “Bobbito” Garcia ’88 is DJ-ing, hosting and producing “C.M. Famalam” a radio program on WKCR 89.9 FM in NYC. He’s written “Bobbito’s Soundcheck” for Vibe magazine since 1995, talking with such greats as Al Green, Branford Marsalis, and Quincy Jones. Bobbito’s been on screen, too: “Above the Rim,” “A Prison Song,” and several music videos. Busy, busy man… for more info, check out www.somosarte.com/Bobbito

Lawrence Jackson ’90 has written Emergence of Genius, the first biography about Ralph Ellison, recently published by John Wiley & Sons. Ellison was the first African American awarded the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Invisible Man. Lawrence also offered the Ellison Lecture this spring at Tuskegee Institute and is assistant professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta.

Charles A. James ’76 presented “The Role of Competition in the High-Tech Economy” as the 22nd Annual Brown Lecturer in Washington, D.C., in May. Charles is assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice. He served as the acting head of the Antitrust Division during the final year of the first Bush Administration.

Sanford Livingston ’87, Wesleyan trustee, hosted a social send-off in San Francisco to welcome local members of the Class of 2006 and their parents. He sends out a call to everybody to c’mon home for Homecoming/Family Weekend October 18–21! He’ll be there — and looking for you!

Eduardo Medina ’00 will be studying medicine at the Latin American School of Medical Sciences in Havana, Cuba, as part of a program sponsored by the Cuban government to increase the number of physicians committed to serving medically under-served communities in the United States.

We’d like to hear from you in time for our spring issue. Send news, notes, photos, commentary, etc., by February 1, to Pat St. Germain, Office of Alumni and Parent Relations, 330 High Street, Middletown, CT 06459; or by e-mail to pstgermain@wesleyan.edu.