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You'll find the Flinn Scholars community in every nook and cranny of the Internet.

For starters, visit the Flinn Foundation page on Facebook, follow @flinnscholars on Twitter, and--if you're a Scholar yourself--join the Scholars group on LinkedIn.

Want a quick answer to a burning question? You can reach me via email at mellsworth@flinn.org.

And who is this writing, anyway?

Since 2007, I've been a part of the Flinn Foundation's communications team, writing about all of the Foundation's initiatives, including the Flinn Scholars.

I'm also a Flinn Scholar alum myself, from the class of 1993. After my undergraduate years in Arizona, I completed an MFA in creative writing at George Mason University in Virginia. Now and then, I do type things not entirely true.

Jul 15, 2008
Matt_badge-author Matt Ellsworth

On the wedding beat

Tags: 93, 94, 97, joe holmgren, law, mary fan, phil hawkins

Usually, because of our curmudgeonly nature, we ignore all mentions of weddings, babies, puppies, sailboats, and Magic Shell ice-cream topping.

For example: back when Joe Holmgren ('93) tied the knot, we spoke not a word. And last summer, when Phil Hawkins ('94) sallied through a park in Dallas on a Saturday afternoon, slurping a single scoop of chocolate in a sugar cone with butterscotch topping, you didn't read about it here.

But this New York Times notice, announcing that Mary Fan ('97) has married her Yale Law paramour, is just too good to pass up. It's got Jurassic Park, dangerous New Haven restaurants, Birkenstocks, a grapefruit farm, Marvin Gaye, and a mid-century history interlude.

Go take a look at the article, and then send Mary a note of congratulations for her other big news--an appointment to American University as an assistant professor in the American University Washington College of Law.