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Merrill Lynch and Company, Inc., is bullish on John "Launny" Steffens, who, as the new president of the firm's consumer markets sector, will bring us little investors back into the stock market and maybe sell us a house besides. John, who was also named executive vice president of the parent company, started in Merrill Lynch's Cleveland office, as a trainee. He was then named sales manager in Cleveland in 1970, manager Of the Birmingham, Mich., office in 1973, and vice president of Merrill Lynch in 1974. John came to New York a year later to manage the operations planning department and continued to work his way up to senior vice president and then director of national sales. John lives in Ridgewood, N.J., with his wife, Louise, and three children.

David C. Rogers is also making his way in the business world following his appointment as chief operating officer of International Mill Service, a Philadelphiabased company that engineers and operates custom-designed systems and plants for material handling, metal recovery, and slag processing worldwide. Dave joined IMS in 1972 and rose to executive vice president. The Tuck M.B.A. lives with his wife, Linda, and two children in Rosemont, Pa.

Another M.8.A., Harold "Gil" Knight, was promoted in Philadelphia to vice president in the trust division at the Provident National Bank. He came to the bank in 1983 after 14 years with Mellon East and earlier stints with Lennen Newell and Ted Bates Advertising. A native of Ambler, Pa., Gil earned his business degree at Baruch College in New York. He lives with his family in Chestnut Hill.

Bill Wellstead is supervising Mass Mutual's insurance agency managers and agents in Springfield and lives in suburban Longmeadow, and Bruce Algar ivice president with the management consulting and executive search firm of Paul and Turner, Inc., in Dallas, where he has lived since 1974.

Former practicing lawyer Reed Wasson keeps in touch with his profession as executive vice president and general counsel of the Falcon Shipping Group, a closely held group of bulk shipping companies involved with U.S. flag and China/U.S. trades. Reed has two children, Jennifer, 10, and Mike, six, and still composes and plays piano jazz music as well as the synthesizer and bass.

Steve Macht, who with Michael Moriarty and screen writer Chris Miller received advance billing in the "Dartmouth in Hollywood" extravaganza presented in New York and Los Angeles during the fall, plays lawyer David Keeler in the hit TV show "Cagney and Lacey." The Dartmouth event centered on a specially made film describing the unusual number of Dartmouth alumni active over the past 50 years in film. Steve, who has an M.F.A. in playwriting and a Ph.D. in dramatic literature and theory, has started to write films and teaches a course in theater, film and television at UCLA.

Overseas, Tom Wasmuth promises "some stuff by him will soon appear," coming out of Zurich, where he is presently based. Tom says, "Hi to Bud and Joel and everybody else." Richard Arendt is back from the Philippines and has joined the Bank of America's private banking group in Orinda, Calif. "Other greenies in the group," he says "are JohnFarnsworth and Stephen Spauling '58." Richard had earlier toiled for the bank in Latin America and New York.

Daryl Erickson is back too, but for only one year, from the Middle East and is working with the Matthew Thornton Health Plan, Inc., a health maintenance organization in Nashua, N.H.

Also active in healthcare are Lee Bateman, a family physician on Long Island, and Richard Wong, a surgeon in Pawtucket, R.I. Lee, who also teaches at Stony Brook, entered his son, Scot, in the Dartmouth class of '899. Richard teaches at Boston University and is president of the Staff Physicians Association of Rhode Island. Richard wants ideas from other physician classmates on the "malpractice crisis" and the elimination of the physician anatomy course for budgetary reasons.. He and Barbara, a radiologist, have a daughter, Deborah, who attends Mount Hermon.

Congratulations to Bill Barker and Barbara of Madison, Conn., on the birth of Brent Wellington Barker 111, their fourth child. Bill coaches high school basketball, teaches math, and runs a security guard and housepainting business. The couple has three daughters, Kim, Robin, and Tammy, all in their twenties.

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