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Choices. We all make them. In retirement, several of our classmates have chosen to give back to their communities by becoming emeritus or adjunct professors.

Clif Olds teaches in a program called Senior Colleges of Maine. You have to be over age 55 to enroll. There are no exams or papers. Fifteen colleges participate and the enrollment is 5,000. Last fall Clif taught Japanese art (his "minor" field) and in the spring it was 'Art, Science and the Mind," a cross-disciplinary course (carryover from his years on the Bowdoin faculty).

Our architect Charles Tseckares writes, "Boston has this incredible architectural school called the Boston Architectural Center, which has a complete volunteer faculty for all studio courses. Many Boston architects have served as studio critics, including myself. We give the students an architectural or urban design problem, for which they develop a solution in eight weeks. As they formulate their ideas and develop solutions, the studio critic offers guidance. It is an apprentice type of teaching." Charlie has also served on architechitural juries at Harvard Graduate School of Design, MIT, Yale and Catholic University.

Gary Gilson has been adjunct teaching since the 1960s at Columbia Journalism, Yale, Minnesota, St.Thomas and Macalester. He has taught reporting and writing, video production, the history of the documentary film and media ethics. Nowadays (and for the past 10 years) his course at Colorado College is "Politics, Ethics and Journalism." Students read The New York Times every day before class, which leads to lively discussion on current events, often touching on new perspectives.

At Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Bob Shirley is an unpaid assistant clinical professor. He has given lectures to the entire third-year class (140 students) about the physiology of pregnancy and the diagnosis of breast diseases. More recently he has been meeting twice a week with students to go through case discussions illustrating the broad field of reproductive medicine.

Our environmentalist Bob Mowbray has taught a workshop on tropical forests for the Fairfax Audubon Society and was a member of an Audubon team that put on a full-day Boy Scout merit-badge program on mammals, insects, birds and natural resource conservation. Bob has taught portions of a course on watershed management to Panamanians involved in the Panama Canal watershed.

Lao Shi (teacher) Bob Marchant, who was an instructor in English in China, is returning this summer to travel. He is planning a reunion of his former students in Guangzhou and then going to Yun'nan Province near the Himalayas, which many say is the most beautiful part of China (includes Shangri La).

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