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Our 25th reunion in June of 2005 will be here before you know it. Now is the time to eat right, exercise regularly and schedule your extreme makeover. Meanwhile, sit back, relax and reflect upon the paths of our lives.
Ed Rowland has served as a founding board member of a nonprofit group called the Friends of Russian Orphans, founded by Sam and Betsey Harding. Sam, who inspired Ed to study Russian at Dartmouth, retired after teaching Russian for 28 years at the Lawrenceville School. Sam and Betsey volunteered through an organization called Cross Cultural Solutions and spent two stints at an orphanage in the Russian City of Yaroslav. Friends of Russian Orphans' first project is the complete renovation of the orphanage. Next it plans to work on some life-skill educational projects.
After entering seminary at Harvard in 1986, Mark Hatch was eventually ordained to the Episcopal priesthood in 1991 and has since then served parishes in North Carolina and now western Massachusetts. Mark's vocation has been full of many demands as well as joys, frustrations as well as blessings, human hopes and human tragedies, life at its earthly beginnings and life at its dusty end. His greatest privilege is the opportunity to be invited into the lives of ordinary people, from all walks of life, at every such juncture. Mark knows less and less as the years transpire, recognizing that mastery of any kind is a delusion. It has been a fruitful and liberating de-education (or perhaps re-education) which only the Holy Spirit can provide and which runs contradictory to the linear and cumulative notions of learning with which we were all (mostly) indoctrinated. Mark has come to enjoy and appreciate the simple truth that he knows far less about life and the world at age 45 than he did at age 25.
Tyra Bryant-Stephens works at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to provide pediatric care to the urban population of Philadelphia. She also directs the Community Asthma Prevention Program to provide community asthma education classes, in-home environmental mitigation and train-the-trainer programs that educate urban parents to become asthma educators in their community.
If you go to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Menlo Park, California; www.carnegiefoundation.org ), you will find "senior scholar" Alex McCormick. The Carnegie Foundation is the nations third oldest foundation, chartered by Congress in 1906. Uncle Andrew created it to establish a pension system for college faculty (later spun off and now known as TIAA-CREF). The foundations charter says it should "do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education." It is an operating foundation, meaning that it funds a research and policy program the staff conducts, rather than giving out grants. Basically it's a sort of a think tank/research institute, and thus the need for senior scholars. Alex studies colleges and universities and writes for an audience that includes other researchers, policy folks and college and university administrators.
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Marjorie Gart oversees donor and endowment services at Rose Community Foundation, a $300 million health-care conversion foundation in Denver. She works with individuals, families and nonprofit organizations that want to partner with a community foundation to enhance their philanthropic activities. Marjorie finds it great work to help people to help others in an informed way. She has a lot of interaction with the grant-making program areas of the foundation, which gives approximately $13 million per year to NPOs in the Denver metro area.
Okay, rest time is over. Go work out.
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