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1. I was one of the original seven UConn students participating in the first Urban Semester in Hartford in 1968. Immediately following my graduation from UConn in 1969, I became a VISTA volunteer, and was sent to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.. Almost fifty years later, I still live in Milwaukee.

   My own Urban Semester experience was probably not extraordinary in either an academic or service sense, but it was a wonderfully broadening experience at a personal level. The very process of exploring what service we might render and how we might incorporate our experiences into an academic framework was educational in and of itself! I cannot say that we accomplished some great advancement for the community or even that we significantly improved any particular intellectual understanding of the issues presented to us, but I have never doubted that all seven of us were the better for the experience.

   Best wishes,

   Tim Strattner

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