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Happy New Year, everybody. It's the year of our 20th reunion. Can you believe it? We are twice as old as we were when we were at Dartmouth I had better stop this line of reasoning as I am getting a little depressed. To cheer up both myself and you, let me comment on our upcoming reunion. Please start making arrangements now to plan your schedule so you can attend. In writing about the lives and achievements of our classmates, I am proud of our class spirit and generosity. Wah-Hoo-Wah.

pd Gingras writes that he was recently visited by Dave Calder, who spent the last five years in Indonesia as director of U.S.A.I.D.'s program of medical assistance. Dave was scheduled to go to Katmandu, Nepal, in February. An adventurous bachelor, he also planned on visiting Shangri-la.

Roger Ferguson has taken a big step in his career. He has left New York-based General Instrument Corporation to become vice president for finance and administration of Sytek, Inc., a California company which makes local area networks (I have no idea what "local area networks" are). Roger is a key figure in orchestrating Sytek's initial public offering of more than two million shares. (This may be a stock to follow, so you might inquire about it from your local stock "breaker.")

Mike Reynolds and Bernadette Probus eloped this past August to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. They make their home in San Diego, where "Bernie" is a lawyer in private practice and Mike works in grant writing and financing. Bernie is now a practicing expert in tortillas (pun intended).

The September issue of "Dartmouth Anthropology Notes" gave me the following gems: Dave Eichelman is back teaching and writing at NYU after a year in Arizona. His wife, Christine, is working on a book on women in Oman.

Anthony Kaufmann is working as vice president of marketing service at Grolier International in Danbury, Conn.

Doug Raybeck is currently working on a book-length manuscript on values and deviance in Kelantan, Malaysia. Daughter Alethea is nine. Doug is looking forward to more field work in the next two years which will focus on the role of nonverbal communication in reducing interpersonal conflict and stress. (I have no idea what Roger Ferguson's local area networks are, or what Mike Reynolds does as a grant writer, but I suspect what Doug is trying to prove is that you release anxieties when you thumb your nose at someone.)

Now for some more news: James Marx was elected to the Rockefeller University Council, along with his wife, Helen. David Rockefeller, chairman of the council, issued the invitation to Jim and Helen to join the council of the world's leading medical research institution. Jim was also recently elected a director of Opperiheimer Industries, an Amexlisted corporation which is the nation's largest farming and ranching company. Jim is an attorney in New York City.

That's it for this month. Bye.

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20th ReunionJune 14, IS, 16 1985