CLASS NOTESJanuary-February 2009

   Well, not every classmate is retired, at least not yet, Here are four guys still punching the clock.

Nelson Lichtenstein is "happily teaching" U.S. history with "absolute no plans to retire." He is continuing, and seems at the peak of a distinguished teaching career.

Nelson, who earned his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1974, has been at the University of California, Santa Barbara, since 2001 and is director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy. His wife, Eileen Boris, teaches feminist studies at UCSB. Before heading to the West Coast, Nelson taught at the Catholic University of America and the University of Virginia.

He is the author of numerous books, including State of the Union: A Century of American Labor, which won the prestigious Philip Taft Labor History Book Award in 2003. He edited Wal-Mart: The Face of Twentieth Century Capitalism in 2006 and is currently following that effort up with Sams World: Wal-Mart and Twenty-First Century Capitalism.

Nelson has often been recognized for teaching and research excellence, including being elected to membership in the Society of American Historians in 2007. He's looking forward to mentoring more graduate students, writing more studies of business and labor and keeping up his tennis game and mountaineering skills.

Bob Page is a founder and principal of DPK, an international justice administration consultancy that he started in 1993 with partner Bill Davis, whom Bob first met in the Peace Corps. DPK has grown to $16 million in revenue and on October 1 was acquired by ARD Inc., which provides a range of services designed to promote sustainable development in communities around the world. ARD is, itself, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tetra Tech, one of the nation's largest environmental firms.

So Bob and DPK will have more opportunities to help nations throughout the world with court improvements and other public administrative functions. Building on his unique combination of experiences within the public sector, including senior positions with the administrative office of the courts for the State of California and the Southern District Federal Court of New York City, Bob has directed DPK projects in rule of law and open government throughout Latin America (from Bolivia to Venezuela) and in other parts of the developing world, including Jordan, Macedonia and West Bank and Gaza. USAID, the World Bank and the Inter American Development Bank are DPK clients.

While he has master's degrees in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School and in regional planning from the University of North Carolina, Bob may be most proud of his son Nathaniel, still under 2, the youngest class of 1966 offspring.

Prolific author Will Morgan's The Abrams Guide to American House Styles is now available in paperback. It's a unique guide to the more than 20 unique American house styles (which one is yours?), with photos and descriptions of 350 homes in more than 40 States. Will, who has taught at Princeton, the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville, has written numerous articles and he is the author of Abrams' American Country Churches.

And Tom Brady is still working as president and CEO of Plastic Technologies Inc. in Toledo, Ohio, a recognized leader in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging applications, the most recycled plastic packaging resin often identified on packages with a #1 recycling code. Tom and Betsy just celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary and welcomed their fourth and fifth grandchildren - twins born to daughter Kathy and George Lathrop in August.

Still working? Let us know what you're up to.

There's lots going on with the class, including our campaign for the class of 1966 cabin and plans for our collective 65th birthday celebration in Santa Fe, New Mexico, next May. Find out all about them at our class Website, www.alum.dartmouth.org/classes/66.

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