‘99 Alumna Joins Foreign Service

Lilly Wahl-Tuco ‘99 is heading for France. Recently sworn into the American Foreign Service, she has been assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Paris as a vice consul, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported in an Aug. 14 column. “As a military ‘brat’ growing up abroad with an American father and an Italian mother in a bi-cultural, bilingual family, international affairs was always an interest of mine,” she said, “but it wasn’t until I attended Saint Anselm that I looked at a career in international relations.”

Scala on Blogosphere, Exec Council

“This race will drive perceptions of how powerful the blogosphere is,” Dante Scala, associate professor of politics, told the Hartford Courant Aug. 9 following Sen. Joe Leiberman’s primary upset by a previously little known challenger.  Scala, a blogger himself, also talked about the New Hampshire Executive Council with the Portsmouth Herald. The council is the “most overlooked part of state government,” he says in the Aug. 7 article.

Ward Holder in Nashua Telegraph

R. Ward Holder, associate professor of theology, spoke to a Nashua Telegraph reporter for an Aug. 6 article about small religious congregations that have no traditional church. “This is the growing edge of American evangelical Protestantism,” he said.

Mark Sullivan ‘77 Discusses Rise to Top

The new head of the U.S. Secret Service launched his career as an Arlington boy and recent Saint Anselm grad who hoped to someday head the Boston field office. But when he joined the agency, they said, “Congratulations, you’ve got the job, and it’s in Detroit,’ ” he told The Boston Globe in a recent interview.

Digging for History

A story about the archaeological dig in Italy run by David George, classics professor and chair, and Linda Rulman, classics lecturer, and including seven Saint Anselm students ran July 16 in the New Hampshire Union Leader.

You can visit the Classics archaeological dig blog and podcast at www.anselmclassics.com.

Reading Anything Good?

Mica Stark, managing director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, gave his current reading list to Drew Cline, New Hampshire Union Leader editorial page editor, who posted it on his blog. Cline has posted the reading lists of other such notables as Attorney General Kelly Ayotte.

Stark helps lead the NHIOP’s Civic Leadership Academy, a civics education program for high school students. The program earned full stories in the New Hampshire Union Leader and The Portsmouth Herald. The 20 CLA participants saw government in action when they attended the Governor and Executive Council’s July meeting, which was held at the NHIOP and received extensive news coverage.

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