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Bill Marshall represented the first wave of Dartmouth Peace Corps volunteers in a Dartmouth Life article tracing the Colleges 40 years of providing recruits. Bill taught English and coached basketball in a Moroccan Berber village in the high Atlas Mountains. He also met Donna, his wife-to-be, on the flight to the corps' training center in Utah. Bill and Donna went on to found an alternative school in Vermont and moved on to the Applewild School in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where Bill was headmaster for 23 years and Donna taught art. Len Levitt, Tim Kraft, Tom Carter, Dave Dawley and Kevin Lowther were among other early Peace Corps volunteers.

Steve Rosen questions the relevance and efficiency of separately managed accounts (SMAs), personalized portfolios that became popular in the 1990s as alternatives to mutual funds. But SMA managers charge high rates and tend to favor big cap stocks and wealthy investors, says Steve m Aloha Asset Management News, his company newsletter now in its 20th year. Aloha charges much lower management fees, he adds.

John Merrow, whose 2005 PBS documentary on problems in higher education spotlighted a growing national concern, received the annual Alumni Council Award and delivered a commencement address at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. "Harvard opened my eyes to the world of education," said John, who is education correspondent for PBS s News Hour.

Lou Gerstner, former IBM chief and chairman of the Carlyle Group, the high-powered private equity firm, says he doesn't miss running a public company "for a second." "The benefit of being a private company is that you have a longer timeframe and you have a direct alignment of the shareholders with the management to fix the company," Lou told Business Week.

Ron Garren's wife, Donna, gave birth to twins this year. The Garrens live in Carmel, California. Ron is a practicing physician and biotechnology consultant.

On the eve of publication (November) of Chris Miller's The Real Animal House (Little, Brown & Cos.), Marty and Lenore Bowne give slightly differing views to the Daily D about life on campus at the time. Dartmouth men were viewed as "animals that were locked up in the wilderness and went crazy when women were around," said Lenore. "I'd like to think the guys were a bit better behaved when women were on campus," offered Marty. Meanwhile in a bizarre imitation of art, the real AD was raided in June by Hanover police.

Joseph E. Casey has written Mind-Body Preparation for Faster, Better Recovery, based on personal experience and available for purchase on www.booksurge.com. Anika Noni Rose, daughter of John Rose, is featured in Dream Girls, a movie due in December with Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Jamie Foxx and Beyonce Knowles.

Don't forget our fall mini-reunion on Homecoming Weekend, October 13,14 and 15. Contact mini chair Rick Hashhagen, (802) 254- 9613, jdhashagen@aol.com. Class reserved rooms may still be available at Comfort Inn in White River, (802) 295-3051.

I regret to report the death of Bill Gerstley of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

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