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Kenzie McWade, a third-grader from Winola, and Nicholas Hawk a fourth-grader from Aledo, go head to head in a game of chess as their instructor, MC educational studies professor Craig Vivian, looks on.

College For Kids thriving: Walk on the Monmouth College campus in June and you will see scores of bright, smiling faces, most of which belong to third- through eighth-graders. The brightest, happiest smile, however, might just be found on the face of a woman who is just slightly older – Kathy Mainz, the new director of MC's annual summer enrichment program known as College for Kids. "This is my passion! I was one of these kids," beamed Mainz, whose enthusiasm has paid off. The program, which just completed its 28th year, is experiencing unprecedented popularity, with 238 students representing eight school districts attending the 2008 session. Eighteen teachers, including seven MC faculty and staff, participated. In addition, five MC students served as aides. Three teachers were all from the same family – Bob Reedy ’77, his wife, Beth, and their daughter, Katie.

The Alice authority: A video of history professor Stacy Cordery’s March 17 appearance at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs is now available on the Web through the university’s site (www.virginia.edu). Click on “Podcast” on the main page, then on “March 2008.” Cordery discusses her book, “Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker.” For information on the book itself, go to www.stacycordery.com.

“Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time” is currently on display in the Hewes Library.

Do you know the way to Hemingway? A major literary exhibition, “Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time,” is on display at Monmouth College through Sept. 30. Created in 1999 for the centennial of Hemingway’s birth, the internationally-traveled exhibit is the work of Frederick C. Voss, chief historian of the National Portrait Gallery. It contains 16 large panels with photos and text depicting the chronological life of Hemingway from his beginning years in Oak Park, Ill., to his final years in Ketchum, Idaho. The pictorial exhibit is on loan from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park in celebration of his novel, “A Farewell to Arms.”