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Now under renovation, Hitchcock dorm reopens winter 2008. Five percent of us lived in Hitchcock.

Writes David Lurie, "We stayed there for our 25th reunion. My son couldn't believe how threadbare it was. I'm glad it's being renovated.

"My Boston law firm, Lurie & Krupp, thrives. My daughter Rachel is at Wesleyan. My twin boys are high school seniors applying to college. I am on a 12-person team (men and women in their 40s) that in September ran the 210-mile Reach the Beach Relay from Bretton Woods to the Atlantic. We came in third (of five). Saw Jon Zehner while he was in for his 25 th Harvard Business School reunion. He's doing well as managing director for JP Morgans sub-Saharan Africa region."

Katharine Susman writes from Nebraska, "My son Daniel '10 lives in Russell Sage. His corner room looks identical to my comer Hitchcock room, fireplace and all. Dan takes advantage of the DOC and contradancing in Norwich."

Mark Snyderman writes, "I saw Hitchcock's renovation when dropping off my daughter Kayla '10. She is on the U.S. freestyle moguls ski team. She'll be taking off her winter term to compete. I learned mogul skiing at Dartmouth and taught it to my kids. I still ski and sometimes even snowboard." Mark works at Fidelity.

Kathy Peden Blaisdell writes, "I remember Hitchcock's Halloween toga party. I work at Mount Holyoke as student financial services director. Emma (12) and Phoebe (9) are active in music, dance, theater and church. Members of Valley Light Opera, my husband Ted '80 and I just finished performing Gilbert and Sullivan's TheGondoliers."

Tom Ewingwrites, "The Rev. Lynn Boden '80, a fellow Hitchcockian, officiated at my wedding. Recently my wife, Deanna, and I visited Budapest, Vienna and Salzburg. We now live in Nashville." Tom is finance VP at Dual Diagnosis Manage- ment, a health care firm that integrates treatment for mental illness and substance abuse.Their mission is to help people break the cycle of self-medication that leads to the downward spiral of addiction.

Tom remembers getting into an off-limits, basement storage room with a supply of doors that were then "borrowed" to make dorm room coffee tables. Hitchcock's facade implies an interesting attic. Has anyone ever explored it?

Sam Abel-Palmer writes, "I live in Vermont with my partner, Craig, and our three young sons Joe, Jacob and Charlie. I passed the bar last February and now represent people with disabilities as a legal aid attorney."

Sam remembers one Hitchcock practical joke in which perpetrators called the first floor stairwell phone. "We'd stand on the fourth floor with water buckets and pour them onto the hapless person below when they answered." What books do Hitchcockians recommend?

Susman: "Three Weeks with My Brother, by Nicholas and Micah Sparks—a true story about a family that sticks together despite adversity and a testimony that becoming wealthy and famous doesn't mean changing commitment to your children."

Snyderman: "The Bottomless Well, by Peter Huber and Mark Mills, challenges two environmental myths: that improved energy efficiency reduces demand and that using less solves our problems. I'm not sure what will work, but technological progress and taxing carbon-burning energy probably will help."

Blaisdell: "I've enjoyed The Man Who AteEverything with essays about food, peppered with philosophy, history, travel and humor. Miss Manner'sGuide to Rearing Perfect Children should be revisited occasionally."

Ewing: "I am reading Christopher Moore's novels. I like the self-awareness of his characters. We are now watching The Teaching Co.'s marvelous World of Byzantium series, which captures the same intellectual excitement as did our Dartmouth courses."

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