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Having spent a week in Scottsdale, Ariz., about a month ago, I am green with envy over a letter I received from Dr. Frederick Hecht and for reasons other than that great Arizona climate and scenery.

There's that, all right. We liked it so much we inquired about condominiums down there. But Ted is also embarking on a whole new career. That's exciting, too.

For the past 13 years he's lived in Portland, Ore. (I was there once too. Bit different weather.) He's been professor of pediatrics at the University of Oregon Medical School. Now he's going to Arizona to direct the Southwest Biomedical Research Institute. It's a non-profit center for research into cancer and human genetics. (I've been reading about both lately, and there's all kinds of evidence that they're connected in many instances.)

And Ted will also be starting and directing the Arizona Genetics Center, which will be researching all aspects of genetic diseases.

All this Ted will be doing across the street from Arizona State University. It doesn't look like Dartmouth but it's a great campus nonetheless. So good luck, Ted. And we may be down to see you. Frequently.

Also moving to the Southwest is Martin J. Cunningham. Martin has been senior director of passenger sales in American Airlines' New York general office. Now he's off to San Antonio, Tex., to be general manager. Marty has been with American for 21 years. But in a way he's going home. He served with the Air Force for five years in San Antonio at Lackland Air Force Base after we all graduated in '52.

The rest of the news I fear is all hearsay. Take it for what it's worth.

Sources have it that Jack Barclay has bought the old Glen Island Casino in Pelham and will create, there, a Museum of Flight to rival that at the Smithsonian. Jack will start this newest venture with his first old one-engine job.

Blackie Smith has converted the old Chatanooga-Atlanta Railway Company into an excursion route and re-named it Great Battles of the Confederacy Excursion and Sight-Seeing Endeavor, G. Blackwell Smith, Prop.

Ace Lynch is running for coroner of Allegheny County, Pa.

Jack Collins has turned his Orinda, Calif., home into a restaurant which advertises the "Whitest white table cloths in all the Bay Area." Good luck on your new culinary adventure, Jack.

And from Wil Rooke our head agent comes news that we've got a pretty good start on our 1978 Alumni Fund. 92 guys have given $30,000 but that's only about 50 per cent of goal. So dig down deep.

And if you guys mentioned above want to refute those rumors, I'd be glad to print retractions.

Hasta luego!

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