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Mark Wefers '73, Student Body President, 1969-70

Update: Former Chief of Investigations at N.H. Corrections; now an investigator with the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. He lives in Manchester, N.H.

Peter Riviere '71, editor of The New Hampshire, 1970

Update: Formerly a journalist; founded a social services program for the elderly and is now executive director of the Coos Economic Development Corp. in Lancaster, N.H., where he also lives.

John Scagliotti '71, a member of student body president Mark Wefers' "kitchen cabinet"

Update: News and public affairs director of WBCN-FM in Boston during the early 1970s, and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker of "Before Stonewall," "After Stonewall," and the "In the Life" series for PBS. He was the longtime partner of the late Andrew Kopkind, a well-known journalist. He lives and works in Guilford, Vt.

Carolyn Beebe Hanel '72, a member of student body president Mark Wefers' "kitchen cabinet"

Update: Director of Parks and Recreation and Administrative Services for Warrington Township in Bucks County, Penn. The photo shows Carolyn, with her husband, Jack, holding their grandson, Colin, for the first time. Carolyn and Jack live in Lafayette Hill, Penn.

Lon Siel '72, an officer of the UNH chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom, an organization founded by William F. Buckley Jr.

Update: An attorney at New Hampshire Employment Security and currently chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the New Hampshire Bar Association. Siel lives in Concord, N.H.; he has taught adult Sunday school and translates for the deaf at his church.

Jan Harayda '70, managing editor, The New Hampshire

Update: As an editor and staff writer, Harayda has worked at Glamour, Boston and the Cleveland Plain Dealer; she was the first editor-in-chief of Princeton Alumni Weekly who did not have a degree from Princeton. She is also the author of several satirical novels. A resident of Montclair, N.H., she is the class secretary for the Class of 1970.

William Gardner '70 class president

Update: After beginning his career as a state representative, Gardner, a Democrat, was elected secretary of state by the New Hampshire state legislature in 1976 and has held that office ever since. A staunch defender of the state's first-in-the-nation presidential primary, he co-wrote Why New Hampshire, a book about the primary, with the late former N.H. governor Hugh Gregg.

David Dellinger, Chicago 7 member, longtime pacifist and spokesperson for the peace movement

Update: Awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award in 1992. Wrote an autobiography From Yale to Jail. Died in 2004 in Montpelier, Vt., at the age of 89.

Jerry Rubin, Chicago 7 member, cofounder of the Yippie movement, author of DO IT!: Scenarios of the Revolution in 1970

Update: Became an entrepreneur after the Vietnam war ended. Went on a "Yippie versus Yuppie" debating tour with Abbie Hoffman in the 1980s. Died age 56 after being hit by a car while jaywalking on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Abbie Hoffman, Chicago 7 member, cofounder of the Yippie movement

Update: Wrote several books, including Steal This Book in 1971. After a drug arrest, he went underground for several years and organized a campaign to preserve the St. Lawrence River. He surrendered in 1980 and served four months of a one-year jail term. Died in 1989 from a drug overdose at age 52.

John W. McConnell, president of UNH, 1963-71

Update: After leaving UNH, McConnell returned to the position of director of research for the Twentieth Century Fund and the Ford Foundation, and served with many arbitration groups. He worked until four years before his death on Feb. 19, 1997, at his home in Trumansburg, N.Y., He was 89 years old.

William Loeb III continued as the publisher of his conservative daily, The Manchester Union Leader, New Hampshire's only statewide newspaper, until his death in 1981.

Walter Peterson '46 governor of New Hampshire from 1969-73 (shown here in 1971, center, with Warren Rudman, left, and President Richard Nixon)

Update: President of Franklin Pierce College from 1975-95, Peterson was a member of the USNH board of trustees for more than a decade and served as interim president of UNH in 1995-96. He and his wife, Dorothy, are the 2010 recipients of the UNH Foundation's Hubbard Award for Service to Philanthropy. They live in Peterborough, N.H.

Warren Rudman, N.H. Attorney General (shown here at left with Walter Peterson '46 and President Richard Nixon in 1971, and in photo at right, with Senator John McCain in 2007)

Update: U.S. Senator from 1980-1993. Retired partner in an international law firm, and sits on a number of boards. A Republican, he served as John McCain's campaign chair in the 2000 presidential election.