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A news article about a program offered at the Englewood (N.J.) Public Library also outlined the comings and goings of Will Lee since leaving Dartmouth. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa, Will earned his master's at Oxford University asa Marshall Scholar and his Ph.D. at Yale as a Kent Fellow. Following some time in the history and literature program at Harvard, he moved to the English department at Yeshiva University. Currently, he teaches courses in Victorian studies, critical theory, creative writing (poetry), and "Literature, Culture, and Society."

On a less scholarly note, I received a Christmas card from Paul Tuhus. It shows him standing, sans shirt, next to a rusted out Lincoln Continental used by Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to the Virgin Islands in 1966. There's a lot of sentiment in that boy! Paul is our next reunion chairman and when not busy with other important things is an amateur bon vivant. He also included an article which described Bill Yellowtail's semi-serious attempt to make the black-billed magpie Montana's state bird, replacing the western meadowlark, which migrates south, abandoning the state, each winter. For those who don't follow Montana politics, Bill was unsuccessful in his bid for a seat in Congress. The magpie fared no better.

Sandy Alderson will go back to being team president for the Oakland A's as well as holding on to his current title as the club's general manager. That would be similar to batting first and second in the lineup. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fulbright Scholarship program, Pete DeShazo, director of the U.S. Information Service in Caracas, coordinated requests to U.S. multinational corporations in Venezuela to fund ten scholarships enabling students to pursue master's degrees in the United States. Being an over-achiever, he managed to find the money to send 11 students, two of whom are at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth.

Project Learning Tree was honored last month for outstanding service to environmental education. PTL is sponsored nationally by the American Forest Foundation, whose president, LarryWiseman, said, "This award proves that when everyone pulls together, we can deliver high quality, balanced and effective environmental programs to tens of thousands of teachers and millions of students all over the country. The best programs aren't anti-business or anti-environment. They're pro-learning."

All for now. Take care and write.

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