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Dr. Joe Wilder '42 was one. of the "Ageless Heroes" in a recent PBS documentary that honored nine Americans leading productive lives after the age of 65. This hero, skillful with a scalpel, paintbrush,: and lacrosse stick:, has published two art books and a book on surgery and Was inducted into the Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1986. He enjoys the variety: "I have managed to achieve what few men in this century, indeed any century, have been able to achieve."

William Fenton '30, author of The Great Lawarid the Longhouse:A Political History of the IroquoisConfederacy (University of Oklahoma Press)

Russell Brignano '57, who has had a collection of African-American autobiographies named after him at Penn State

Dr.Joseph Scardapane '59, named Washington State Family Physician of the Year for 1998

Michael Gazzaniga '61, author of The Mind's Past (University of California Press)

Mitchel Wallerstein '71, appointed vice president of the John D. and Catherine T. Mac Arthur Foundation with responsibility for all its international programs

Jay MacNamee '77, writer of the play No Longer Our Tram: The End of Small-TownLife As We Know It. presented by the Daniel Webster Society- for the Preservation of Orator)

Debbie Wesselmann-Lopresti '81, author of The Earth and the Sky (Sou them Methodist University Press)

John Taylor '86, appointed academic dean of Deerfield Academy, where Tom Heise'84 recently replaced Alan Fraker '69 as chairman of the history department; ScottMac Arthur '02 gave this year's commencement address; John Rosenwald '52 received the Deerfield Medal; and Mary and Robert Merriam '48 were honored with the creation of a chair in their name in American studies

Judith Parish '91, named head coach of the Dartmouth women's hockey team Gonzalo Lira '95, author of Tomah Errazurih (published in Chile) and Counter-pans (just published in the United States by G.P. Putnam's Sons)