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Here are some observations about retirement. First, a definition from Steve Katz: "Got up at 6 a.m. wondering what to do all day. By 6 p.m. found I was half through."

Bill Muldoon writes, "My life is no longer time-driven, but event-driven." The "drive" metaphor seems right for people who look for exotic automobiles to restore when they aren't traveling or living in Craig, Colo., or San Antonio, Texas.

Pete Carothers lives on a farm near Middlebury, Vt.

Stace Stacey, in Spokane, Wash., is trying to write a spy novel.

Retired or not, Bob Porter has completed his book (not a novel), My Friends andMentors: The First Sixty Years.

Seldom shy and definitely not retired, Larrie Calvert reports that he's "still in the municipal and industrial water treatment business."

Art Koff, no longer in advertising, is now part of the corporate "spy" business. Check out Competitive Intelligence International at .

Randy Patterson is doing some consulting for the Rockefeller Foundation, having helped "get the electric vehicle industry started," and can be tracked down "anywhere there is a modem and an airport" between Washington, D.C., and Hawaii at .

Leon Mann lectured on "Managing Managed Care" on the occasion of receiving the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Albert Einstein School of Medicine. He is now director of physician integration at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany, N.Y.

Stan Stark is medical director for clinical informatics at the largest integrated healthcare system in New Mexico, Presbyterian Healthcare Services.

More response to tie "diversity" question: In the context of admissions, "Having numbers enough on campus to celebrate cultural differences leads...to an improved understanding of each other." And, in the context of curriculum, "The course of study should respond to the discontinuous changes occurring throughout all societies."

There were remarks on the class e-mail list in the wake of the Roth Center dedication, President Freedman's speech, and William Buckley's comments. Some decried the apparent splintering, fragmentation, yes, even "de facto" segregation they perceive at Dartmouth, saying things like, "It's too bad if one's sense of worth is predicated on being in a certain group."

On the other hand, "Organization and community activity by people who share experiences and concerns is a practice common in society."

In general, "Is Dartmouth still an outpost for ideas that will lead society, or is it an eddy in the political mainstream?"

This just in: Chick Igaya at Dartmouth. He was the "lone Japanese student at the school and captain of the ski team....'The only time I didn't feel like an American there was in the morning,' he said, "when I looked in the mirror and saw my skin'" (TheNew York Times, February 15,1998).

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