Cover: "Spring Tulips," illustration by Ann McCall
ALUMNI QUARTERLY
SUMMER 1997

Editor's Notebook

Letters

Dollars and Scents

Smokin'

More Martlets



Seduced by seahorses
Part fish, part dream, the seahorse has long enjoyed a special place in mythology and eastern medicine. Biology professor Amanda Vincent is betting the seahorse magic can also work for conservationists
BY PATRICK MCDONAGH AND LOUISE FABIANI, BSC'80
Guide du travailleur autonome: Naître en Affaires

[ English translation ]

Etes-vous fait pour la vie pigiste? Il ne suffit pas seulement de vouloir, il faut aussi pouvoir

PAR JEAN BENOÎT NADEAU, BA'92
Ifrah's Story
[ traduction française ]

What happens when a doctor turns anthropologist, travels to Ethiopia to study the refugee experience, and falls in love? Read on...

BY CHRISTINA ZAROWSKY
Cleghorn and Creative Destruction
From Redman centre to Royal Bank CEO and McGill fundraising, John Cleghorn knows how to win. The key words: innovation and determination
BY HARVEY SCHACHTER, BCOM'68
Return to campus

One writer's memories from McGill's 175th Anniversary bash: the old campus, a new ambiance and a rejuvenated friendship
BY MARGARET SPRINGER, BA'61, BLS'64
Remembering Joanne
Joanne Lagano died last summer just weeks before she was to begin studies at McGill. In this essay, her friend Joanna McVeigh, now a Syracuse freshman, remembers her close friend


Beauty and brains
Irish eyes
Big on Bermuda
Terrific in Tokyo
Trinidad troopers
Tampa tales
A Jazzy time
A stormy affair
Sunshine in Sarasota




Change of address

Volume 77 Number 2 Summer 1997

Editor: Janice Paskey [janicep@martlet1.lan.mcgill.ca]

Assistant Editor: Andrew Mullins [andrewm@martlet1.lan.mcgill.ca]

Advertising Manager: Donna Henchey [donnah@martlet1.lan.mcgill.ca]

Editorial Assistant: Sean Pierre, BA'97

Advisory Board

Joan Fraser, BA'65, Chairman

Paul Austin; Marcel Couture, Dip(Agr)'65, BSc'72; Richard Latendresse, BA'85; Judy Mappin, BSc'50; Paul Mayer, LLB/BCL'83; Ann McCall, BA'64; Ian McLachlin, BEng'60; Ratna Ghosh; John Scott, BA'53; Antoinette von Hahn, BA'87, MBA'96

(ex-officio)
Derek Drummond, BArch'62, Vice-Principal, Development and Alumni Relations; Honora Shaughnessy, MLS'73, Executive Director, Alumni Relations; James Robb, BA'51, BCL'54, President, McGill Alumni Association; Kate Williams, Executive Director, University Relations

Design: ICC, McGill University

Web Design: Eric Smith

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