The other committee members were an expert on medical ethics from UC Davis, and a retired dean from Harvard University School of Medicine.

Helen Cole, a retired dean of women at the University of Massachusetts, found herself tricked by a man who identified himself as Richard.

His father, Richard Morse, is a retired dean of Latin American studies at Yale whose career has focused extensively on this country's political culture.

Mr. Wiesner was instrumental in recruiting Dr. James Strickler, the retired dean of the Dartmouth Medical School who is now co-chairman of the group.

McCormick, a retired dean and history chairman, thinks the controversy may become, well, academic.

But Theodore P. Kovaleff, a retired dean of Columbia University who lives on Riverside Drive, finds an unexpected use for it: growing citrus trees.

He returned to Alabama at the urging of John L. Blackburn, a retired dean.

Mr. Gordon, the retired dean of the chapel and university chaplain emeritus, died at Princeton Medical Center after a long illness, his family said.

Dorothy Stimson, a retired dean of Goucher College, died of arterial sclerosis on Monday at her home in Owls Head, Me.

So is his co-teacher, Joseph Katz, a retired dean of Trenton lobbyists who put his talents to use to line up some of the course's guests.