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MOVE OVER, HARRY POTTER
Former U of C Laboratory Schools teacher
Blue Balliett has earned kudos for "Chasing
Vermeer," a mystery whose Hyde Park
protagonists are sixth-grade students at
Lab. The novel, published by Scholastic
Press, won the 2004 Chicago Tribune Young
Adult Novel Prize--and comparisons both
to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/04/040719.vermeer-trib.html
* FIVE ALUMNI NAMED
TRUSTEES
The University Board of Trustees has elected
a quintet of alumni to five-year terms.
The new trustees are: A. T. Kearney vice
president Mary Lou Gorno, MBA'75; Gillette
Company CEO James Kilts, MBA'74; Paramount
Motion Pictures Group CEO Sherry Lansing,
a 1962 Laboratory Schools graduate; Gilead
Sciences CEO John Martin, SM'75, PhD'78;
and Kirkland & Ellis partner Emily Nicklin,
AB'75, JD'77. For details go to: