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When the summer wind comes blowing in next June 16,2005, let us gather on the Green and bend an elbow to our youth and to the hope that the best is yet to come. Until then, you should be busy working on your reunion book questionnaires and essays, thinking seriously aboutyour Alumni Fund gift, and making reservations in the Hanover area.
Meanwhile back in Boise, Amy Haak is working on a Ph.D. in geography, developing assessment tools for a degraded watershed that includes part of Guatemala City. Amy is very involved in the conservation movement, serving on the board of directors for Idaho Rivers United and the Idaho Conservation League, two state-wide environmental organizations dealing with river protection and public land management issues. She is also the founder and executive director of Conservation Geography, a nonprofit organization that provides analytical support through geographic information systems (GIS) to non-profit conservation groups around the west for organizing, litigation and improved participation in the public debate over management of natural resources.
Across the country in New Gloucester, Maine, is The Opportunity Farm for Boys, a nonprofit organization that since 1910 has provided supportive homes for boys ages 11 to 18. Meg Coughlin LePage has served on the farm's board of trustees since 1995 and was board chair from 1999 to 2001. Boys come to live at the farm and attend the local public high school for as long as seven to eight years. When they graduate from high school, the farm provides them with guidance and financial support in their transition to college, vocational school or military service. The farm recently began building a campus to serve girls for the first time in its history and has changed its name to Opportunity Farm for Boys and Girls. You can read more about the farm at www.opportunityfarm.org.
Down the road in Barre, Vermont, dentist Bill Koch has been spending what little spare time he has with the Gideons, the folks who bring the Bible into your hotel nightstand and elsewhere. The Gideons are Christian businessmen seeking to reach people with scripture, and to that end raise the necessary funds to place testaments and Bibles worldwide in more than 70 languages and 179 countries. Bill has been inspired by his late cousin, a victim of muscular dystrophy and one of the early thinkers of recombinant DNA technology.
Next door in Brookline, New Hampshire, Laura Prescott Duffy works part-time as educational services coordinator for the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in Boston. Started in 1845, NEHGS is the oldest and largest genealogical society in the country with 20,000 members, a library on Newbury Street in Boston, a Web site (www.newenglandancestors. org) and many other services for genealogists and historians. Laura writes for the NEHGS member magazine, New England Ancestors, as well as the for-profit genealogical publication, Ancestry, and lectures at genealogical conferences around the country.
Alice Keefe has been a professor of religious studies since 1994 over at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, where she makes her home with husband, Joseph Waligore, and their three children. Alice is an active member in the Society for Buddhist Christian Studies and co-founded the Stevens Point Buddhism Awareness Circle. She also directs the ShamaKids Project, matching sponsors from Wisconsin with needy students from the poorest areas in and around Bombay, India. Alice received the University Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001. In her most recent book, Woman's Body and the Social Body inHosea, Alice comments upon the structural violence in Israelite society that accompanied the eighth-century boom in agribusiness as described in Hosea 1-2.
Now go work on your essay.
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