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David Wilson works in Merrill Lynch's NYC office that was, until the attack of September 11 last year, across from the World Trade Center. He lost a number of friends in the collapse of the Twin Towers but both David and his daughter, a student at nearby NYU, are fine.

Chips Hughes composed a poem titled "The Shape of Hope" that was read by Chas Carner '74 at the Colleges memorial service at Rollins Chapel for the Dartmouth victims of events in NYC and elsewhere on 9-11. Chips is a senior counsel with Pfizer Inc. and lives with his family in Stonington, Connecticut.

Dave and Maggie Wender are graduating and matriculating college-age children with two others still at home. Megan graduated last June from Brown and is teaching high school math in a private school in Houston, Texas. Matt is a junior at Mississippi State majoring in mechanical engineering. Danny is enrolled in the culinary arts program at Johnson and Wales University in Charleston, South Carolina. Conner (15) and Mollie (11) keep the Wender's Jackson, Mississippi, home hopping in teenager style.

Steve Kessner, Bob Barr, Bob Haynes, Bob Conway and Dave Bracken met last fall in Hanover as an ad hoc 30th reunion planning committee. Mark your 2003 calendars for the weekend of June 13-16.

Don Cutter, long-time director of the Dartmouth Skiway, is now assistant director of the outdoor programs office at the College.

First Things: The Journal of Religion and PublicLife published an article by Lutheran theologian Mike Root titled "The Indulgence Controversy, Again." He deftly explains the historical and the recent issues surrounding the subject for the journal's denominationally diverse readership. Mike is Edward C. Fendt Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio.

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