GW MEDICAL CENTER PRESENTS: ALUMNI MEDICAL SCHOOL
All GW Medical School alumni are invited to come back to school and experience firsthand what it is like now to be a student at GW Medical Center! Join former classmates for this exciting, continuing medical education opportunity. It is available free and exclusively for GW medical alumni. The school takes place from Monday, June 12 through Friday, June 16. Sixteen CME credit hours will be offered!

For more information or to register, please visit our website at: http://www.gwumc.edu/supportgwumc/ams/index.html. Questions? Contact Rebecca Leonard at 202-994-9762 or mcdrcl@gwumc.edu.

CALLING ALL CI CABINET ALUMNI!
Please join the 2006 Colonial Cabinet, CI Headquarters, and the Godfather of CI, Senior Vice President Robert A. Chernak, in celebrating 17 years of Colonial Inauguration – and be a part of the third session of CI 2006!

SATURDAY, JUNE 24 THROUGH SUNDAY, JUNE 25

Reminisce with past Colonial Inauguration staff members and their families, feel the energy and excitement of the Laser Light Show, and sing the GW fight song on stage alongside fellow Colonial Cabinet alumni during opening session. Don’t miss this chance to reunite with some of CI’s favorite administrators, including Peter Konwerski, Helen Cannaday Saulny, Laura Taddeucci Downs, Senior Vice President Robert A. Chernak, and more!

Look for your invitation in the mail...Or if you don’t receive one, contact Colonial Inauguration Headquarters at 202-994-GWCI or cihq@gwu.edu. See you in June!

FILMS ON THE VERN PRESENTS: “Around The World in Seven Films”

Experience sights, sounds, and stories from each of the seven continents! Take a journey around the world at GW’s Mount Vernon Campus annual summer film series, Films on The Vern. Bring a blanket and snacks to enjoy a FREE outdoor movie on the Mount Vernon Campus Quad (rain location: Eckles Library Auditorium). Everyone is welcome! You won’t be the same after this expedition; discovery awaits you! Take a look at this year’s lineup:

Every Wednesday evening from July 12 through August 23
8:30 p.m.
Mount Vernon Campus Quad
2100 Foxhall Road NW
Washington, DC
(Rain location: Eckles Library Auditorium)

Free and open to the Public

July 12
EUROPE:
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Rated PG
Runtime: 127 minutes

Based on Jane Austen’s novel about five sisters in Georgian England whose lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man and his best friend arrive in their neighborhood. Keira Knightley, who plays heroine Elizabeth Bennett, received an Oscar nomination for her role.

July 19
SOUTH AMERICA:
Central Station (1999)
Not Rated
Runtime: 113 minutes

The tale of a former school teacher who writes letters for illiterate people at Rio de Janeiro’s central station, Central do Brazil; and a young boy whose mother has just died in a car accident. This emotive story shows the pair’s journey to Brazil’s remote Northeast in search of the young boy’s long lost father.

July 26
ASIA:
Spirited Away (2001)
Rated PG
Runtime: 125 minutes

This critically acclaimed anime film tells the story of a sullen 10-year-old girl who wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and monsters where humans are changed into animals, and the girl’s courage is tested.

August 2
ANTARCTICA:
March Of The Penguins (2005)
Rated G
Runtime: 85 minutes

This film takes a look at the annual journey of Emperor penguins as they march throughout Antarctica – single file – to their traditional breeding ground.

August 9
AUSTRALIA:
Whale Rider (2002)
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 101 minutes

A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

August 16
AFRICA:
Emmanuel’s Gift (2005)
Rated G
Runtime: 80 minutes

View this documentary about a disabled man born in Ghana who is doing incredible things to change perceptions of the disabled in his country.

August 23
NORTH AMERICA:
American Dreamz (2006)
Rated PG-13
Runtime: 107 minutes

Imagine a country where the president never reads the newspaper, where the government goes to war for all the wrong reasons, and where more people vote for a pop idol than their next president. This is the story of that country.

Complimentary parking is available in the Mount Vernon Campus Garage upon entering from Whitehaven Parkway.

In additions, the Vern Express, a free shuttle service connecting the Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon Campuses, departs from each campus every 30 minutes until 11:15 p.m. Departures from the Foggy Bottom Campus are at the top of the hour and 30 minutes past the hour from 23rd and H Streets (Fulbright Hall). Departures from the Mount Vernon Campus are at 15 minutes and 45 minutes past the hour.

For more information about Films on The Vern, visit gwired.gwu.edu/mvcl or contact mvcl@gwu.edu or 202-242-6673.