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For this issue, we decided to ask what our classmates have been doing in the world of non-profit, volunteer and philanthropic work:

Scott Hacker and Karen Negris have spent much of the past seven years involved in the world of pediatric neuro-oncology. Their daughter Callie, born in 1992, was diagnosed at age 2 with a malignant brain tumor. After two rounds of surgery and chemotherapy, with several good years in-between, unfortunately, and sadly, she relapsed again and died in the fall of 2000. Through these years, Scott and Karen have been helped by, and have helped raise money for, organizations that assist children like Callie and families like theirs, including the Making Headway Foundation and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Ann MacAffer is a founder and president of the board of Gilda's Club Capital Region, a clubhouse for people living with cancer and their family and friends, for social and emotional support.

Dick O'Meara has served for 13 years as volunteer legal director of the Maine Civil Liberties Union. Dick also serves as board member and treasurer of the Disability Rights Center (Maine's protection and advocacy agency for individuals with disabilities), and as board member of Advocates for Deaf Oral Programs.

Kimberley (Smith) Quirk has helped out with the computers in the elementary schools and worked with kids on a weekly basis in the elementary school system, as well as in the music ministry of her church, playing the flute and singing with the choir.

Kent Quirk is involved with the Acton, Massachusetts, school system's technology advisory committee.

Kent Arnold works for the MITRE Corp., a not-for-profit research and development center that provides technical consulting services to the federal government.

Pete Folger works for the American Geophysical Union (AGU), an international scientific society of Earth and space scientists. They publish scientific journals and books, and hold scientific meetings. If you want to know about the relationship between the Earths core and its mantle, how mountains form, what's happening with the ice caps, how the solar wind impacts the Earth, or what the geology is like on Europa, then Pete and the AGU can help you.

Hal Sandstrom coaches kids soccer and basketball and raises cash for the Jimmy Fund. Hal has in the past been involved in a wide array of nonprofit activities, including two years in the Peace Corps in the Central African Republic, following Dartmouth.

Peter Moran teaches youngsters basic gymnastics at the local Y on Saturday mornings, and Sandy Kelsey reportedly works with a program in Lyme, New Hampshire, that acquaints developmentally disabled children with farm animals.

J.B. Friday used to volunteer with a soup kitchen in Honolulu and is now a Cub Scout den leader, Sunday School teacher, and referee for kids' soccer games.

Tom Burack has an extraordinary compilation of nonprofit and community work to his credit. Here are but a few examples of Tom's recent activities: board of directors of Audubon Society of New Hampshire for eight years, including two years as board chairman. Appointed by Gov. Jeanne Shaheen to the New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage Investment Authority in 2000, and was elected as co-chair. This brand new state "authority" provides matching grants to municipalities and not-for-profits for the permanent protection of the state's most important natural, cultural and historic resources. Founder and first president of the Truman Scholars Association. Member of the board of the George C. Marshall Foundation for some 10 years, and still one of the youngest members. Based in Lexington, Virginia, the GCMF houses all of Marshall's papers, runs a museum and numerous educational programs for ROTC, high school and elementary age students. Founder of the Dartmouth Environmental Network and board member until this past year. Tom, you are an inspiration!

Kevin Peterson has left the Appalachian Trail Conference and is now a program officer with the Upper Valley Community Foundation (part of the NH Charitable Foundation), overseeing various grant programs in the Upper Valley and working with applicants and donors.

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