Branches continue to come up with original events, with New York setting the pace with its creativity. Anton Angelich, president of the New York branch, organized this year's French culinary evening for 40 ebullient alumni, as well as a Hallowe'en walking tour in Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery, final home of many of New York's finest gangsters, which was well attended by alumni, dead and alive. A list of McGill branch leaders can be found on the Worldwide Web at http://ww2.mcgill.ca/alumni.

Meanwhile, McGill academics are hitting the road to share their expertise. Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, PhD'89, Faculty of Education, spoke to a sellout crowd in Ottawa on the novels of Jane Austen. Also in the nation's capital, Doug Watt, BSc'65, MSc'69, PhD'74, Director of McGill's Aerospace Medical Institute, elaborated on McGill's contribution to space research and his own studies on motion sickness in space.

In Toronto, John Cleghorn, who spearheaded the Twenty First Century Campaign, addressed a full house at the Winter Luncheon cosponsored by friends of McGill Football and the Alumni Association.