Class of '64 (September-October Issue)

Last month's religiously destined classmates pursued graduate religious education. That doesn't apply to chemistry major Jim Hall, MD, PhD, who fulfilled his military obligation at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in infectious disease. While in Washington, DC he connected with the Church of the Saviour, its inner city missions and he co-founded a medical clinic ministry for the indigent. For 22 years he split his time between the Veterans Administration Hospital, where he also mentored George Washington Medical School residents, and the mission, as a family practitioner for low income people. At the church retreat farm he reignited his concern for earth. He left medicine in 2000 and lives at the retreat farm in an earth-friendly house that he and his wife Cheryl built. She's a writer, editor and poet with experience in early childhood education. Jim is now an "earth" minister, taking the church's youth group on monthly nature hikes, and teaching about the relation between faith and ecology. Jim and Cheryl have two children and two grandchildren. He credits his outdoor experience at Dartmouth for developing his interest in natural science.

Will Cook also took a less-travelled road via a German major and an MBA at Northwestern before a 30+ year diversion as owner of an automobile dealership in Sheridan, WY. Along the way he married Sally, who taught English and won marathons. They have two daughters, Courtney '93 and Alison '95, a granddaughter and a grandson, who's in the first year at the US Naval Academy! Having sold the automobile business before the top, just as Park Price did, he and Sally moved to Massachusetts' north shore, where his calling found him. Will now utilizes his organizational and persuasive skills as NE Director of Alpha USA, an ecumenical Christian educational outreach group that focuses on the 'un-churched'. Will was a successful Dartmouth recruiter in Wyoming.

Russian studies major Bill Teska credits Ed MacBurney '49, Episcopal Chaplin at St. Thomas (Hanover) with directing him towards Berkeley Divinity School, where he attended with Bob MacArthur and the late Jere Smith. Post graduation he toured Eastern Europe with a Russian language chorus. As Vietnam was getting serious, Bill returned to hometown Minneapolis as 'hippie priest' at the University of Minnesota. He served the West Bank campus where Garrison Keillor and Bob Dylan honed their skills and where Bill started the Riverside Café, a worker-owned community center, a gathering place to share music, thoughts and vegetarian food. When developers threatened to level the area, he started Cedar Riverside Environmental Defense Fund to protect the neighborhood, a project assisted by newly-minted lawyer Pete Benzian. Bill stymied developers then started a community development organization that completed a $100M rehabilitation and replacement project, which ultimately sold units to residents. Bill also ministered to the community's medical needs by creating a co-op clinic. Ten years ago he became chaplain for the nuns at the Tuller School in Tuscon, Arizona. He's back in Minneapolis teaching ethics on-line for Argosy University, maybe the first profit-oriented organization in Bill's career.