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Middy Tilghman ’03, a physics major at Wesleyan and a kayaker, felt a postgrad pull to the unpaddled waters of the Pamir Mountains—the “roof of the world”—in Tajikistan. With grant money from the U.S. State Department, he and a friend opened “Camp America,” a program for Tajik youth that now serves hundreds of children in dozens of villages. photo courtesy Middy Tilghman