Two days a week Dick Jaeger delivers free meals—often with a side of good-natured banter—to the elderly and shut-ins for the Grafton County Senior Citizens Council. The Valley News, the local Upper Valley, New Hampshire, newspaper, quoted Dick as saying: “You like to think you’re making a difference in people’s lives. I get a lot out of this too.”


Activities with educational institutions continue to occupy George Hess’ time. George is chair of the board of the Baltimore Curriculum Project that operates four charter schools with nearly 2,000 students in the Baltimore public city school system. He also chairs the American board of an Israeli organization, Melitz, a pluralistic organization that helps Jews around the world to understand their Judaism through creative educational programs. George is on the boards of the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies, the Gilman School, Santa’s Helpers Anonymous and the Jewish Federation, all in Baltimore.


Jack Daniels is a full-time mediator and arbitrator for legal disputes after no longer trying legal cases. He is chosen by the contending sides to help resolve their problems. Jack also works with Judicate West, an alternative dispute resolution service.


Tom Bransford has been serving the National Urban Technology Center, New York City, since 1994 when his wife, Pat, founded the organization. The organization addresses the technology gap in underserved communities. Its first project was with six Dartmouth graduates who helped teach 60 at-risk foster children in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. Its good works can be reviewed at www.urbantech.org.


Wayne French asks: Are there other EMTs in our class? Wayne earned his emergency medical technician certificate and served for seven years on the volunteer ambulance squad, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, before moving to New London, New Hampshire. Besides being a crew chief for a team of EMTs, he also served as chair of the board and treasurer.


Karl Holtzschue continues his pioneering work for Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS). He was the founding chair in 1995, continues on the alumni board, and is a founding member of the new DPCS postgraduate program that has placed 14 Dartmouth graduates in the past two years in postgraduate jobs with community service organizations. Karl is area coordinator for New York City and is joined on the N.Y.C. area committee by Larry Toal and Michael Stern. He points out that classmates serving on the DPCS alumni board are Bill Boyle, Janice and Chris Cundey, Howard Greene, Bill Long’s widow Tina, Al Munro, Scott Palmer, Michael Stern, Bill Sweet, Larry Toal,Joanne and Doug Wise and Jim Wooster. He closes by saying: “That is a lot of giving back!”


On the board of the 50-acre M-Bar-C Ranch is Bob King. On Whitby Island, 30 miles from Seattle, the ranch provides an experience for disadvantaged (emotionally, mentally, physically or economically) children. It has horseback rides and good food so they can forget their difficulties. This past year, it served more than 1,600 visitors from the Puget Sound region.


—Allan Munro, 675 Main St., New London, NH 03257; (603) 526-2176; amunro1@comcast.net