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Marsh and McLennan Asset Management Company owns Putnam Advisory Company and Putnam Capital Management Inc. One of our classmates, who has devoted a tremendous amount of time and effort to Dartmouth, was just named president of these two managers of institutional funds. John O. Parker will have responsibility for over $4 billion in assets from employee benefit funds, endowment funds, and other large institutional accounts. That makes John's money management responsibilities larger than the budgets of most of the countries that have joined the United Nations in the last 15 years. Among other responsibilities, John was appointed by the Secretary of Labor in 1975 to serve on the first advisory council on employment welfare and pension benefit plans. John is presently serving as president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Eastern Massachusetts and is on our class executive committee. A person of remarkably even disposition, a rather keen observer, and a man of dry wit, John has served the class and the College in numerous capacities. We all wish him well in this new position.

This column is being written from my room in Tucson, Ariz., where I can look out at the clear, blue sky and mountains. Last week I was in Wisconsin campaigning in the primary. Monday I passed rapidly through Kansas City for business, on the way by Amtrak to Flagstaff. Don't overlook the advantages of 24 hours on a train with no telephones! The law business has been pretty good, but yours truly needed some sun to overcome a strep infection and battle fatigue brought on by too many court dates too close together. The family is sunning. Tonight, Amy, my 15-year-old baseball fan, and I will attend the opener of the Tucson triple-A franchise. Beth, age ten, was tenth in Illinois YMCA competition in the vault recently. Amy will tour Europe this summer, playing cello in the American Youth Symphony, after a concert in Carnegie Hall on July 4. My wife just finished her second tour as president of a Northbrook elementary and junior high school district. We all needed Tucson.

Joe Jacquet and wife recently called me while in Chicago. We enjoyed a superb lunch while Joe told me about his new position as administrative purchasing buyer for Digital Equipment Corporation in Merrimack, N.H. I tried to explain Mayor Byrne to Joe, but his wife insisted we break at 3:00 p.m. so she could go to Water Tower Place to shop. Thanks for calling, Joe.

A marvelous letter from Larry Hampton in Strasbourg, France, announced his marriage to a German lady named Helga. After a Seychelles and Algarve, Portugal, honeymoon, the Hamptons settled in with their five children (Joy, now 14, and Brittany, now seven, from Larry previous marriage, plus Helga's three). They will live in Strasbourg. Helga continues as personal assistant to a German heart doctor while her children commute daily across the border to their German schools. Larry's office is in Paris, as marketing and sales director of La Cog Sportif and Daniel Hechter Sports, part of the Adidas group. Since he travels a worldwide territory, he isn't forced to make the 300-mile commute very often.

Larry reported that Walt Fogarty is living in Paris, where he holds a senior management position with the French Colgate subsidiary. Larry also recently lunched with Majid Tehranian in Paris, where Majid has been assigned by the UNESCO secretariat. He came to Paris this year after spending a number of years in his hometown, Tehran, followed by a session at Oxford University in England. And the Hamptons entertained George Kraus and wife Pat, who attended their wedding, and they will be hosting Don Klages and Deanne about the time this is printed in May. Keeping things simple, they will tour Strasbourg, Alsace, the Vosges, Paris, and the chateaux of the Loire. Don may even buy some items for his clothing stores in Palo Alto, Calif.

Jack Stromberg is now a full-time lawyer for Bechtel Inc., the international construction firm. He recently politely declined my suggestion that he contribute to a Republican presidential hopeful, unnamed here, of course, whose initials are JBA. When I called, Jack was just leaving for a helicopter ski venture in the Bugaboos in Canada and had obvious difficulty focusing on the mundane subject of the future of our country. Recovered from mental, physical, and financial exhaustion after his trip, Jack wrote a nice note, pointing out that supporting JBA was a "major task." Jack and his beautiful family continue to reside in Mill Valley, Calif.

Charlie Pierce was recently appointed senior vice president and director for consulting services for the Middle Atlantic Shared Services Corporation. The organization is owned by the New Jersey Hospital Association and provides a wide range of consultation and assistance to hospitals in the eastern seaboard area. Tana, Charlie's wife, described the wives she met at the 20th reunion as "the most interesting group of women I have ever met."

Some good news. Steve Rheingolds son Hugh has been accepted in the Dartmouth class of '84. As reported previously, Steve is Mr. Dartmouth of the mid-Hudson Valley. To make ends meet, Dr. Rheingold is developing a pre-paid medical care service (NMO-IPA) in his area.

Any other class offspring entering in the class of '84?

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