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Ken Ragland finished Thayer, married and spent three years in California before earning his advanced engineering degrees at the University of Michigan. Then, after a year in the Soviet Union, he landed at the University of Wisconsin in 1968. Ken retired from the chairmanship of mechanical engineering a couple of years ago, but stayed in Madison where he devotes time to the technology of "wholetree" energy generation. A specialist in combustion and air-pollution control, he is developing a "closed-loop biomass" energy system with a company in Minneapolis. They will plant 10,000 acres in hybrid poplar trees, harvest them in five years and feed the 50 foot trunks to custom boilers driving 50 megawatt turbines.

Ken is in the middle of designing both the planting and harvesting machines for the project, as well as keeping up with the adventures of three daughters, one of whom sometimes treks all the way from Alaska to the farm of her husbands family between Woodstock and Windsor, Vermont.

Mai Robinson has been running LogiSys from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, for more than five years. He serves more than two dozen national clients, specializing in supply-chain innovation and in integrating application software across enterprises.

Al Morrison still has his bagpipes under tight control. He did his graduate work at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York, and spent his entire teaching career as an anthropologist at S.U.N.Y. Fredonia. His specialty was, and is, Native Americans of the northeast within the Algonkian language group, including such familiar names as Abnaki, Wabanaki (means "white" or "light," or "dawn" for you Wellesley College aficionados), Penobscot, Saco, Micmac and (I'm sure) others. Before retiring to the family homestead near Lake Sebago in Raymond, Maine, and building a house near the old summer cottage,Al did some land-claims casework, including testifying in Washington. He's still at it, in a somewhat less high-powered way, and you can catch up with his interests at Mawooshen Research: www.lakesregionofmaine.gen.me.us/sebagoanthro. Despite the sophistication of his Web site,Al insists he is a newcomer to "all this computer stuff" and asked for information about joining the class listserv.

Here, for the sake of other newcomers to ecom, are Adam Block s Webster instructions again: Send a one-line e-mail message to majordomo@ dartmouth.edu. The message (not the subject; no quotation marks): subscribe class-57. Furthermore, the class homepage is at www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/57.

Tim Hanley has retired from his investment-managing partnership in Dallas. After his post-NRQTC Navy duty, he worked in New York City learning the business, then moved to Dallas and managed a mutual fund helping non-profit institutions with their endowments. In 1985 he and three other sbeganlooking after one of Vanguard's big funds, specializing in the care and feeding of large, tax-free clients. Nowadays Tim spends something like 20 hours a week presiding over the Dallas Art Museum and its outstanding collection (among others) of Indonesian art. Despite that commitment, he and Nancy manage to do some traveling, including an Alumni College trip to Tuscany last year, and they also get away to their place near Boone, North Carolina.

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REUNIONJune 10-132002