What's Happening around the Department
Wednesday, August 18, 1999


Rare 19th century portrait
awarded as 1st prize in staff
golf tourney.

Dulac sandbags competition with final round 78!
Sunnydale CA August 19, 1999
Professor of Carpathian Studies and Martial Science, and Chancellor of MUSunnydale, Anados Dulac was awarded a rare framed portrait of the Comte de St. Germaine, previously thought lost in the MUS Gallery fire of 1993, for winning the MUS Faculty and Staff golf tournament Monday with a final round score of 78 on the campus links. "I really didn't think I'd break 80 today, what with the heat and the huge winds coming in off the harbor," exclaimed a gleeful Dulac as he accepted his prize. Previously a runner-up at the tourney, to Professor Chizmak last year, and to Associate Professor Bialek in 1997, Dulac demolished this year's field with a two day total of 161. A 4 handicapper, Dulac and the other competitors were hamstrung by the violent squalls blowing in off Sunnydale's natural deepwater harbor.

Dulac's prize, a 19th century rarity by noted Flemmish portratist Alfonse vonLesch, from a deathmask housed at the MUArkham Archives, was, until 1998, thought lost. In September of 1998, three undergraduate assistants to chief librarian Rupert Giles stumbled across the painting as it lay unnoticed in the bowels of the H.U. Monguos Library at MUBel. The three library science majors, on a fall term exchange to the MUBel campus, were awarded a 5% bonus to their final grade in Professor Giles' course.

The portrait, entitled "Sub Speciae Diabolici", will be on display in the trophy cabinet located in the main lobby of the Presidential Mansion, until arrangements can be made for its permanent display at the MUS Art Union, on Lindenborg Road. All students of Professor Werkovitch's 3rd year aesthetic theory course are encouraged to take advantage of this remarkable opportunity to explore the allegorical methodologies of 19th century alchemical portraiture.

New Element Found
Geostationary Orbit
Researchers from the MMS
Aristotelian Labs discovered a previously un-hypothesized
element when they combined
air and fire in a controlled
alembic under zero-gravity conditions while aboard the MISKATONCORP orbital station NMS Nichomachea.

The post-doctoral students from the MMS department were originally expected to return to earth early next week when>>

 

Sunnydale CA August 13, 1999
After 5 months in the darkest Thai jungles, Professor P.P.G. Gimpoise has returned to MUSunnydale, and will be presenting the findings of his anthropological/alchemical mission next Friday at a special meeting of the Miskatonic Anthropological and Metallurgical Association. Undertaken in conjunction with MISKATONCORP, Dr. Gimpoise's oddysey has aroused intense scrutiny from both the Fondazione Internationale di Bortolini and NORMTEK Intl. Allegedly, Dr. Gimpoise has discovered a lost tribe of Thai "amazons" who have succeeded in eluding the competing hyper-sophisticated information gathering satellites operated by MISKATONCORP and both F.I.D.B. and NORMTEK Intl. It is expected that representatives from all 3 organizations will be in attendance at Friday's meeting. Dr. Gimpoise expressed some astonishment at the attention, noting that "They're just some chicks I met. What's the big deal if they were friendly..."

Resplendant in his sartorial offices, Prof. P.P.G. Gimpoise dictates some of the data from his recent expedition to Thailand.

 

 

 


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