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As this column resumes, I'm delighted to pass along the following report from Head Agent George Southwick: "The Class really came through in the Alumni Fund Drive. We had 445 contributors for a Class participation of 67.1 percent, the highest participation percentage in the past three years for all classes from '55 to '71. Our dollar total was a very respectable $27,878." Our congratulations to George and his hard-working staff.

Social Chairman Don White has set up three Class football get-togethers for the Fall. Art Pierce will again make his backyard available for a pre-Princeton game picnic in Hanover on October 14. Art will supply a keg and set-ups . . . bring your own chow, booze and blankets. Art's house is just down School Street from Memorial Field.

FYI, some rooms are still available for this weekend at the Holiday Inn in White River. For reservations, call Don White at (617) 423-7330. As for game seats, only two are available to each of you in the Class block. Those of you who want to bring your children can purchase tickets in the non-preferred section.

Dick Canton will again honcho the preHarvard game party in Cambridge on October 28. The meeting place is Lot Number Three on Soldier's Field Road across from Howard Johnson's. You will be mailed a map and further details.

Mike Matzkin is planning a tailgate party before the Yale game in New Haven oil November 4. Further details will reach you by mail.

Ron Chilcote recently returned from Brazil and Chile where he spent a year researching political power structures in four backland communities. The research study was supported by post-doctoral grants from the Social Science Research Council and the Organization of American States. Ron was on sabbatical leave from the University of California (Riverside) where he is Associate Professor of Political Science. Ron is the editor of Protest andResistance in Angola and Brazil, which was recently published by the University of California Press. He has also written a book on Brazilian party politics which will be published shortly by the Oxford University Press. Ron, wife Frances and their two sons live in Laguna Beach.

Jack Johnson was last seen in this space a couple of years ago in connection with a new job at Rohm and Haas of Philadelphia. He is here again by virtue of being named president and general manager of Romicon, Inc. The new company is jointly owned by Rohm and Haas and Amicon Corporation of Lexington, Mass., and will manufacture and sell large-scale industrial ultrafiltration equipment, and for the present will be located in the Boston area.

Alan Burnes has been selected for inclusion in Who's Who in the East and Community Leaders of America. Alan is senior associate for Human Sciences, Inc., in New York City, and is also executive director of Teknos Institute.

Art Greenfield was married in June to the former Jane Ellen Covitz of Newton, Mass.

The Topsfield (Mass.) Tri-Town Transcript recently ran a piece on Mike King, who has been with the Brooks School in North Andover, Mass., since 1963, and now serves as chairman of the school's art department. Mike, who is a graduate of the Skowhegan (Me.) School of Painting and Sculpture, has had a number of one-man shows as well as exhibiting in group shows. According to the newspaper piece, Mike "works in a style that has been called 'romantic pop' — bright colors, hard edge, large areas of colors. At first glance the space is flat, but look again, and there is a solidity of form in a defined space. For the most part Mr. King's subjects are students from his art classes."

Eric Lee brings us up-to-date with a letter which reads in part: "I had been in the wholesale liquor business in Washington, D. C. but sold out late in 1970. After a year of doing nothing, I found a business in the Springfield, Mass., area. The name of the firm is F. C. Toplin Company, and we do a wholesale and retail business in water pumps and systems, and in power lawnmowers, small tractors and chain saws." Mike, wife Norma, and their new baby Karen Elizabeth, live in Longmeadow, Mass.

More news of classmates comes from the Dartmouth Medical School. Dr. DonaldMcKay has been promoted from instructor to clinical assistant professor of medicine. Dr. Nicholas Danforth is the field director of the Medical School's Medex program for training physicians' assistants. The first class of Medex comprised veterans of military medical service who are now at work in the field, forming two-man teams with the physicians who are their preceptors, or trainers. The second Medex class is different in that only 19 of the 24 trainees are veterans, and three of the trainees are women. Nick thinks that the acceptance of medically retained women and non-veterans will enhance the Medex program.

Herb Ellis '57 (left) receiving VermontAcademy's highest non-student award,the Condict Cup, from Headmaster MikeChoukas '5l. A 1953 graduate of theAcademy, Herb led the schools alumnifund to new records in 1971 and 1972.

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