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Some of the most enjoyable and rewarding work of the Alumni Association Board (AAB) is interviewing and selecting recipients of the Alumni Association Student Leader Scholarship, which provides loan-reducing scholarships to student leaders and encourages them to remain involved with CC after graduation. The scholarship is funded by alumni donations directed to it and receipts…

by Art Elder ’56 Elder has more than 70 years collecting experience, is fascinated by what drives collectors, and has researched the collecting psyche. He believes that collecting should be fun, rewarding, and educational, but collecting without a plan can lead to costly errors and cluttered collections. To prevent this, he provides a series of…

by Merle Ricklefs ’65 This comprehensive, one-volume history of Southeast Asia spans prehistory to the present. Ricklefs brings together colleagues at the National University of Singapore whose expertise covers the entire region, encompassing political, social, economic, religious, and cultural history. Ricklefs is professor of history at the National University of Singapore and a historian of…

by Peter Rice ’05 “Drinking Buttermilk” is a humorous yet journalistic account of the fall of buttermilk as a beverage. The book traces a complicated history from the days when buttermilk could be found on the finest restaurant menus and in a few all-you-can-drink “bars,” to the present day, where it survives mostly as a…