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

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

3.   Richard Bender, retired dean of environmental design at UC-Berkeley, said the financing mechanism Terner invented for the UHAP program had revolutionized low-income housing development.

4.   Ralph Lowenstein of Gainesville, Fla., retired dean of the University of Florida Journalism School, rented a car in January in El Paso.