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Charles Grant '64 signs books at a Gallows Hill Bookstore event.

Charles Grant '64 Horror fiction author Charles L. Grant '64 signed books and gave a talk called "Why I Like to Scare People" during his fall visit to the Gallows Hill Bookstore . A three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, Grant is author of such novels as Stunts, In A Dark Dream and The Pet, as well as the young adult book Firemask. As an editor of short fiction, he is well-known for the award-winning Shadows anthologies.

Ann Rohlen '71 Ann Rohlen '71, consultant and managing director of the Chicago-based RAM Financial, a venture capital fund which provides :6nancial and other services to the _elderly, and also to small businesses in need of financial assistance, spent a day on campus last fall. While at the College, she met with members of Trinity's chapter of AIESEC (the International Association of Students in Economics and Business Management) and their faculty adviser,

Assistant Professor ofPolitical Science Brigitte Schulz. Rohlen also met with a group of students, faculty and administrators for a luncheon discussion of the topic, "What Does It Take to Develop Women Leaders: Trinity's Role in This Process," and spoke in a women's studies senior seminar. In the seminar;, taught by Associate Professor of History and Director of Women's Studies Joan Hedrick,

Rohlen talked about structuring one's life to create volunteer time and work time that are "the most that we can do ." In Chicago Rohlen takes part in a model program which teaches life skills to 12 troubled teenage girls from an economically deprived area. She also backed the filming of a documentary on the controversial French pill, RU486, currently subject to an import ban by the FDA, but which is thought to

Ann Rohlen '71, second from right, meets with Dr. Brigitte Schulz, second from left, and AIESEC students.

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