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...common fact in both their cases was that financial concerns played no role. Neither Loegering nor Hudson had to leave in order to earn money, and indeed neither was particularly concerned about finances in the process of deciding what to do with their time away. For Ann-Marie Moeller '77, simple economics was the primary factor. A pre-med, Moeller felt she wanted to have the experience of working in a lab under her belt, both for her own satisfaction and because medical schools are said to view such activities with favor. But lab jobs rarely pay and she simply...
...Moeller's plan was to take a year off, find both a volunteer job in a lab and a paying job, and live in Cambridge, rent-free if possible. The paying job turned out to be cleaning bathrooms on a Harvard dorm crew for $3.50 an hour, a lab job also came through, and only the rent-free place to live, which demanded cooking in return for room and board, turned out to be less that what she had hope. Moeller remedied this situation by finding a house-sitting job, and all else went according to plan...
...however, Moeller was only able to take a semester off. Just as financial limitations had necessitated her departure from Harvard, so did they force her return. "My parents both lack job security and they wanted to make sure I got through school as quickly as possible." So Moeller shortened her year off into a semester, and in retrospect, save for her time spent cooking, she judges the experience to have been a complete success...
Oddly enough, one substantive change of heart transpired during her time away: she decided not to go to medical school, the original reason for her anxiousness to work in a lab. But Moeller has retained her lab job, and in fact she will now be paid. And during her semester off, she focused on a new area of interest--population studies. Much of her time this year will be spent on Plympton Street at the Center for Population Studies, and she returns to Harvard with her academic goals clearly defined...
...Moeller's friends and acquaintances in Spencerville cannot imagine that the local farm boy and self-made man could have plotted such a scheme. "He doesn't do things that way," says Police Chief David Colgan. "He's a square shooter, a good, levelheaded businessman...