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Bill Gould returned to living in a Dartmouth dorm for the first time in 43 years when he volunteered to tutor high school students in July as part of our class-supported project, Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth.

"It was very intense academically," Bill said of the three weeks spent with sessions of 21 and 19 students, teaching SAT preparation, math and essay writing. But there was time for a talent show, climbing Mt. Moosilauke and playing "Capture the Watermelon" on the Green. The three-year-old program gives youngsters who had not previously contemplated going to college a view of its advantages.

Another project inspiring a classmate is NorthWest Crossing, a 500-acre neo-urban neighborhood being constructed at Bend, Oregon, by Brooks Resources, a firm where Mike Hollern is CEO.

Mike, who has lived in Bend since 1965, says the 15-year plan aims to develop a community of 1,300 people "in the old style, with the houses right up to the street" and where residents can walk to work. A charitable affiliate of Brooks, the Bend Foundation, is funding art and sculpture in the new community.

Dan Rosen, who has become a consultant in his old business of making television commercials, feels a lot stronger nine months after knee replacement surgery, although it has been "a pretty painful process." A New York City resident, he feels an emotional connection still with 9/11. "It's hard not to have been affected," he remarks. "My daughter lives 19 blocks north of 'Ground Zero.' She literally saw people fall out of the buildings that day. What an overwhelmingly devastating event!"

Quentin Faulkner is enjoying retirement from the financial services business in his new home in Claremont, New Hampshire, where he spends about two-thirds of his time. "I work around the land quite a bit, do some hiking and some shopping in Hanover." He said he is "fairly pessimistic about the economy," viewing the international sector as "wholly dysfunctional."

Somewhat retired is Marsh Morgan, who lives near the Great Stone Face, which fell this year, in New Hampshire. He has gotten out of livestock, but still has a greenhouse and is raising vegetables and hanging plants. "It's kind of hard for a farmer to retire," he observed. He is not for any attempt to reconstruct the Great Stone Face.

Dr. Connor Moore, still practicing pediatrics after back surgery in Saco, Maine, says he ran into Dr. Owen Dow, now retired, while attending a reunion in Hanover and that he fondly remembers his old medical school friend Dr. Martin Weiss, still vigorously practicing as a neurosurgeon in Los Angeles.

Gene Reilly, who beat back a recall as a school board member 20 years ago in Walpole, Massachusetts, told me he expected Gov. Gray Davis to be recalled in California. By the time this is published, we'll know.

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