Word: distlers
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Beyond research, the Web is a genealogists' agora, invaluable for trading information and connecting with living relatives. Dave Distler, who works at an electronics firm in Greenwood, Ind., lost track of a great-great-great-grandfather, Friedrich Jakob Distler, who was born in 1814 in Germany, Prussia, Rhineland or Northern Bavaria, according to vague records. Surfing the Net, he found an organization, Palatines to America, which referred him to a German genealogist who found his grandfather's hometown, Hinterweidenthal. When he entered the village name in a search engine, he found a private e-mail address. Three weeks after...
Harvard is raising $2.1 billion through its new University Campaign, and Joshua L. Distler '97 has a suggestion about where some of it should...
...they're raising all this money, why can't they do something about tuition?" asks Distler, who like all undergraduates will see his yearly contribution to Harvard crack $25,000 next year. "That should be their first priority...
...Like Distler, most undergraduates have ideas on how to spend the pot of cash their alma mater is amassing. They ought to. Students--though not those at Harvard now--will be affected more than anyone else by the transformations the money will cause...