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What you’ve heard is true. The fledgling Flinn Scholars YouTube channel is up.
The mission is grand (creepy?): We’ll document the lives of every last Scholar, from birth to death.
No, not really. But it’s going to be big!
To get things rolling, we’ve scoured The Internets and collected a few videos that were already out there, of [...]

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A while back, when we did grantwriting, one of our favorite places to go begging was Hedge Funds Care, a charity working to reduce child abuse. It was set up by some of those stock-market geniuses with good hearts and enough cash to buy Australia.
So we perked up a little when we got this update [...]

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Last time we caught sight of Zeb Hogan (‘91), he was wrestling a catfish the size of a grizzly bear.
In the National Geographic clip below, he’s moved from southeast Asia to the Amazon, but he’s still working to verify that old Jonah story.

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A couple of weeks ago, we were talking with some undergrads who were grumbling about being forced to think about the future and pick majors and file for graduation… as freshmen. Ah, the plight of over-educated 18 year-olds.
It got us thinking of the herculean battle Pete Ranger (‘91) waged against the ASU registrar’s office back [...]

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It’s the start of a new dorm-room craze. Can anybody beat this?

Kevin Bacon was in “Mystic River” with
Marcia Gay Harden, who was in “American Dreamz” with
Mandy Moore, who danced around on a Seattle stage during a concert noted by Ticket editor
Raina Wagner (‘91) of the Seattle Times, which was the employer of
Jake Batsell (‘92) before [...]

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We just discovered that the UC Berkeley Business School has its own cafe operated by Jimmy Beans, one of our all-time-favorite spots for breakfast. We’re getting hungry just thinking about it. And that coffee…
So, we get it when Ian Larkin (‘91) acknowledges missing life in the Bay Area–the incredible food, the spectacular diversity of the [...]

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Whether he knew it or not, Sharad Desai (‘99) has been chasing Shelley Detwiller DiGiacomo (‘91) all across the country for, I don’t know, something like eight decades.
Like Shelley, Sharad went to high school in the Valley. Like Shelley, he stayed in Arizona as an undergrad. Like Shelley, he went to law school in New [...]

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Shelly Lowe (’92) has arrived at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., where she has assumed duties as Director of the Native American Cultural Center and Assistant Dean, Yale College. Read about her appointment here.

Roger Levy (’91) is now an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. Roger continues to play [...]

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