1995

Have some news this month from a variety of sources. First, I received an e-mail from Laura Walker, who should now be at business school at the University of Chicago. One month prior to starting school, Laura was in Bolivia mountain climbing. Since leaving Dartmouth Laura lived in Washington, D.C., working for PG&E Generating Co. as a project developer. Her job entailed developing electric power plants. In particular she wrote about a wind power project which she started and managed. The project entailed building the plant "on spec" to meet demand for "green" energy in the newly deregulated, competitive market in New York state. This project, apparendy, is the first merchant (i.e. non-utility rate-based) renewable energy project in the country and will offer customers wind energy as an alternative to oil-, coal-, and nuclear-generated power.

Next, I received news about DorothyRocourt from the Star Ledger in Newark, N.J. As of March Dorothy was in her fourth year at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She presented the results of her biomedical research project at a symposium in Lawrenceville, N.J. She studied normal breathing in order to determine what causes a sudden respiration cessation in conditions like sleep apnea and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). She found that breathing disorders like SIDS may come from abnormal reflexes in the heart and lung.

I also received news from the Rutland (Vt.)Daily Herald that Katie Kitchel was hired as a domestic violence victim's advocate for die Windsor County State's Attorney's Office. Prior to working for the state's attorney, Katie worked as a coordinator of services for immigrant women at WISE, an organization devoted to helping battered women.

Finally, I received word that JoannaHubbard will be joining a polar research project to the Antarctic Peninsula in March and April of 2000 sponsored by the National Science Foundation's Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic (TEA) Program. While in the field, she will participate as a research team member, send daily electronic journals and images to the TEA web site, and correspond with students. Once back in the classroom, Joanna will mentor three teachers from her district and work to develop materials which will bring the research experience "alive" in the classroom setting. Currently Joanna teaches seventh-grade science at Hanshew Middle School in Anchorage, Alaska. After four years at Dartmouth and teaching in Alaska, Joanna may be immune to the cold weather. You can go to www.tea.rice.edu to follow Joanna on her trip. That's all for this month. All of you who have become MIA since graduation, write me.

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Science teacherJoanna Hubbard will besending electronic journalentries during aresearch project in theAntarctic Peninsula. SARAH KIM '95