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Scott Brown, Act One:"What's for Supper?"

Scott Brown '78 new dean of the Tucker Foundation, is a poised professional, Dartmouth's supervisor of things spiritual, conveyor of community service. At his family's Hanover home overlooking the Connecticut, hereveals one of his other passions:His livestock.

BROWN:(inspectiga rabbit butch behind bis house) Hopper spent the winter in our basement, but the kids moved him up in the spring. (He brings the rabbit out for a minute.) His mother was another story.

She'd been a greatpet. We. bred her with our neighbor's rabbit down in Belmont. Eight bunnies the first litter, but they all died —we don't know why. We had quite the bunny cemetery in the bachyard. After she finally had Hopper she got a little mean and nippy, so I let her loose in the woods here. The kids have a nice image of her hopping around out there.(He shrugs, smiling.) Not exactly the image I have, but no need to break it to them.

(He puts Hopper back in his butch.) with the chickens, it happened by accident.

I really didn't mean for the kids to see me chop their heads off.

The kids just ran into the garage at the wrong time. I had planned to tell them that the chickens had run off into the woods. I waited quite a while before telling them what we ate for supper that night. (He laughs.) They all know now. It's fine. But we didn't bring any of the chickens with us when we moved to Hanover.

Moved to Hanover. I never imagined in my undergradeuate days that I'd return in this capacity. I was active at the Tucker; Foundation back then—I was a Big Brother, things like that. No one would have gassed I was dean-in-training. But the Tucker lnundation has lasting effects on students. It's a profoundly important part of their education. I know it was for me, still is for me. That's part of why the move back to Dartmouth has been great for us.

Still, I do miss those chickens.