Spring 2007 Volume 103 Issue 2

beyond vassar

The Hydes Found School for African Orphans

I was born in Africa, but Africa is not in my blood, as they say. Two years ago I traveled to Zambia, where I lived for the first year of my life and where my brother Sean Hyde ’89 also was born. It was fun to see where my parents’ Africa stories and photos originated, but mostly I felt like a tourist.

Writing for the White House

This past January, with President Bush’s Address to the Nation on his new strategy for Iraq and the State of the Union only weeks apart, the White House speechwriters split into teams. Marc Thiessen ’89 led those preparing the State of the Union.

Books Noted

Life on the Ledge: Reflections of a New York City Window Cleaner, On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century, The Adventures of Michael MacInnes, Doing It Right: Making Smart, Safe, and Satisfying Choices About Sex, Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments

Mixed Media

Nonfiction, Fiction and Children’s Books, Film