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August 9, 2001
Bread Loaf Completes Another Summer Program at UAS

Seventy-five students and eight faculty have completed this summer's Bread Loaf at UAS program. "It was remarkably smooth," Director Kevin Dunn said. "It was a wonderful summer."

Bread Loaf is the Middlebury College graduate school of English. The University of Alaska Southeast is one of four permanent summer campuses for the program. Many of the students are public school teachers working on their master's degree. This year's Bread Loaf at UAS program began June 26 and ended with graduation ceremonies tonight (Aug. 9). Special events this year included the public lecture series by Bread Loaf faculty and presentation of Dave Hunsaker's play, "Jason and Medea" under a tent on the UAS campus.

Dunn said Bread Loaf at UAS has developed some traditions since it began on campus. They include Bread Loaf Bowling Night and Bread Loaf Goes to the Dump, a recycling project. Plus, Dunn said, while the Juneau program is intellectually and academically rigorous, it is also socially very informal. For example, graduation at the main Bread Loaf campus in Vermont is done with caps and gowns. In Juneau, graduation is a salmon bake.

Dunn expects higher enrollment next summer because current students have been spreading the word in an Internet chat room. "They're all telling students at other (Bread Loaf) campuses to come to Juneau. I suspect our enrollment may go up by 10 or 20 next summer."

Dunn will continue as Juneau director. "I hope to do this until the day I die," he says. "Because of the nice informal nature of this campus, I am working, but often I have to remind myself that I am."

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