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With our 50th reunion more than a year behind us, this October 17-19 we celebrate our 51st Homecoming. It's a chance to return when the foliage is at its most brilliant and you're likely to run into old friends crossing the Green or having breakfast at Lou's. If you haven't been back in a while, no time is better.

You've probably read about it in The NewYork Times or Washington Post, but it requires mentioning again: Laurence A. Silberman, appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1985, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in a June ceremony at the White House. Larry wrote, "Although I am happily remarried to Tricia (Smith '64), my latewife, Ricky—whom manyofyouknew—is entitled to a half share in this award."

Since they retired some classmates have discovered the satisfactions of teaching, something that some of us have known about because we spent 30 or 40 years in the classroom. Gary Gilson, former executive director of the Minnesota News Council, will be teaching at Colorado College for the 15 th straight year. He calls his course "Politics, Ethics and Journalism."

Herb Hansen, teaching business courses in the University of New Hampshire system and at Lebanon College near his and Susie's home in Grantham, New Hampshire, says it's wonderful "just having the privilege of watching the epiphanies among adult learners. Yes, they can do it and need only to hear someone tell them so."

Tony Pell's moderating of a panel at Columbia Journalism School has led to a new focus on what he calls "Third Information Age issues": among them concerns about intellectual property, the freedom of the Internet from government regulation and control, and the outlook for young journalists.

Bob Mowbray has been working on a proposal for a USAID project to conserve what he calls "Ecuador's world-class biodiversity." His visit in the spring included a field trip down the western slopes of the Andes, starting above 10,000 feet.

In August Erich Kunzel conducted the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra at the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing, the only American orchestra to perform during the opening weekend. The program consisted of music written especially for previous games along with traditional folk songs. Erich and the orchestra had previously performed in China in 2005. At the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Club of Washington, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson '6B received the 21st annual Daniel Webster Award. Alan Dessoff, in attendance with Bill Breer, Jigger Harper and Larry Silberman, was recognized for his role in creating the dinner and award when he was president of the club in the 1980s. The most recent class newsletter described the first-rate new class Web site (www.dartmouths7.org) prepared by Allan Vendeland. Please e-mail news and photographs to Allan because he updates the site regularly. The site also has free e-mail addresses available. Send your request to him at support(®dartmouths7.org.

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