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Dartmouth 1968.Acouple of e-mails about a new New England News Council, proudly created, at long distance, in part by John Hamer: It is located at UMass Amherst and received funding from the Knight Foundation. It will cover the six New England states. News councils are independent, nonprofit organizations that promote trusted journalism by investigating accuracy and fairness complaints against news outlets. John is director of the Washington (State) News Council (hence the long-distance mid-wifing) and notes there are three others—in southern California (also new), Minnesota and Hawaii.Two others have Dartmouth alums as directors. Other electronic news (I used my cell phone): Bill Hoyt went into the Navy after Dartmouth, with a tour in Vietnam flying off the USSMidway. He came back to Tuck School and first worked with an automotive supply company in New Hampshire, later bought a boat accessory company in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and sold it 10 years later. After a little consulting Bill now is a partner in a software reselling business in the niche market of credit-union software. This won't compete with Microsoft but he's having a blast, both professionally and personally: "Life couldn't be better." He and Lynne are "professional grandparents," gaining great pleasure with their five grandkids. Oldest son Bill '92 followed in his dad's footsteps (Navy and Tuck) and is doing real estate development in Tampa; daughter Anne '95 did marketing prior to her current stint on the home front; son Matt went to UNH. Bill took his Navy flight training six months after Andy Hotaling, now a pediatric ENT surgeon in Chicago. In the same flight training class was Paul Kruger. Paul never left the cockpit. From the Navy he began piloting at Western Airlines and then with Delta after it acquired Western. He flew with Delta through September 2005 and bailed out (figuratively—he actually retired) just before its bankruptcy. But he's still flying, now in corporate jets, flying wherever the wealthy want to go. Son Thomas went to UC Berkeley and is interning in architecture and city planning in China; son Merrill went to UC Santa Cruz and on to UCLA in landscape architecture. Daughter Morgan is at Harvard ("preparation H"). Wife Valerie worked as a corporate executive in retail and marketing, but 10 years ago left to become an AP English teacher, a deeply satisfying career change. She loves it. Paul has recently taken up skiing again, mostly at Mammoth Mountain (incidentally, future destination—March 3 to 7,2007—for the class ski trip). I told him he'd have to join us there—perhaps as a guide! That's it for now. Have a good fall.

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