"I've been out of law school for 40 years exactly and I've had about three and a half careers," he says.

Now, in his latest incarnation, Beilenson works 15 to 20 hours a week organizing the alumni association task force.

"I was almost of retirement age and I wanted to have a career in public service, " Beilenson says. "What I'm doing is an example that you can do really exciting things at any age. Life is long. It's not all or nothing."

Though he himself is not a PBHA alum, the public service umbrella organization was the logical choice to anchor his program.

"I was looking for a place to attach this alumni-driven community service project. And the obvious place was PBHA," Beilenson says.

It helped that through the current PBHA fundraising effort, the Centennial Campaign, PBHA student officers had been in touch with alumni in a more organized fashion than in previous years. Beilenson approached the PBHA student leadership last spring with his idea of mimicking the Princeton program and got an enthusiastic go-ahead.

"They said: why don't you offer alumni the chance to do good works--we're going to be contacting them anyway," Beilenson remembers.