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“It’s not always pretty, but it’s mine. And that is the key determination we need to make when we are trying to figure out what is and isn’t plagiarism.”
—Maurice Isserman ’79 (PhD), professor of history and coordinator of the writing center at Hamilton College, writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education after college president Eugene Tobin resigned amid accusations of plagiarism.

Ward Helps Coordinate Aid in Iraq
Former Marine and longtime state department officer George Ward ’65 had a key role in the reconstruction of Iraq as part of the Pentagon’s United States Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.

Ward spent several months last spring in charge of coordinating humanitarian aid for the country. He worked with several civilian agencies such as UNICEF and the United Nations World Food Program. He also was involved in the effort to reinstate Iraq’s “Oil for Food” program.

In a June 13 op-ed for The New York Times, Ward wrote that despite depictions of Iraq in chaos, hospitals and most schools are open, and food and petroleum distribution has resumed.

“Iraq is in most respects further along the road to recovery than we could have expected before the war,” he wrote.

Kenyon Honors Graduate
Kai Schoenhals ’64 (PhD), history professor at Kenyon College, received an honorary doctorate at the college’s commencement last May.

Schoenhals, a native of Hamburg, Germany, has traveled extensively in pursuit of his research and has published numerous scholarly articles and books as well as newspaper articles. He is cited for his expertise in areas that range from Central and Eastern Europe to the Caribbean and the Middle East.

He is retiring from the Gambier, Ohio, college, where he has taught since 1966.

Leading Composer of Carillon Music Honored
Roy Hamlin Johnson ’49E, ’51E (MM), ’61E (DMA), professor emeritus of piano at the University of Maryland at College Park, was recognized for his compositions for carillon with an honorary doctor of music degree from the University of Michigan last fall.

Best known for Summer Fanfares, he also is the composer of the widely performed collection A Carillon Book for the Liturgical Year.

The Michigan campus is noted for its five-octave carillon—a set of bells played with a keyboard—housed in its 165-foot-high Lurie Tower .

Attorney Tapped by President Bush
Suedeen Gibbons Kelly ’73 was nominated by President Bush to be a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Kelly, a New Mexico attorney in private practice and a professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law, will fulfill the remainder of a five-year term expiring next June .