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Since 1971, Mal Halliday has been principal of Brookhaven Elementary School in Rockville, Md. I had the pleasure of seeing Mai and his lovely wife, Inga, last spring at a pre-reunion dinner here in Washington. Mai reports that his daughter, Hildy, is attending Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she was the recipient of a full Presidential scholarship. Hildy appeared on TV over the Christmas holidays as first violinist with the SMU orchestra. Her violin instructor is the renowned Eric Friedman. She has met several children of Dartmouth alumni at SMU.

In 1984, Stephen Van Rensellaer "Rennie"Spaulding made a career move back into the world of banking. Rennie is now the director of San Francisco Private Banking with Bank of America. He had previously served as senior vice president, finance, for Investment Mortgage International, a San Francisco private mortgage brokerage firm specializing in large commercial real estate construction. He is a member of the University Club of San Francisco and of the Burlingame Country Club. He is also active in the Dartmouth Club of California. Like many of us, Rennie's undergraduate focus on team sports like football and hockey has given way to individual sports like tennis, squash, and skiing. Rennie and his wife, Elsa, have three children, ages 15, 14, and eight. His new business address is Bank of America, 555 California Street, Suite 4700, San Francisco, CA 94194, and his office telephone number is 415/622-6221.

Also transplanted way out west, though not quite as far, is Rupert Schneider, who is a trial lawyer in Battle Mountain, Nev. Rupert earned his degree at Dartmouth in 1961, after which he headed west for the University of Montana School of Law. He acknowledges that some of his closest attachments and good memories are from days in Hanover, and he mourned the passing of DKE. Whether or not it is because his graduation from Dartmouth was delayed two years, he says he is more in touch with fraternity brothers than classmates. He promotes his community as a "nice stop" for-any of his Dartmouth friends who may be passing through Nevada. Rupert reports that son Mike '83 is now in the navy.

Recently having migrated back east is Ron Kabot, who has been named president of Home Mortgage Access Corporation (HOMAC), a new, wholly-owned subsidiary of Salomon Brothers, the New York investment house. Ron was also named a vice president of the parent company. Before that, he was executive vice president of Kaufman and Broad, Inc., the large Los Angeles-based homebuilders. Ron earned his M.B.A. degree at Tuck in 1960.

Also making the trek from west to east several months ago was John Baldwin, who left his position as professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon for a similar position at Syracuse University.

Sticking with the theme of east to west movement, we note that Ken Libo recently coauthored a book which was given rave reviews. The book is entitled We Lived There Too:In Their Own Words and Pictures Pioneer Jewsand the Westward Movement of America, 1630-1930. In its December 1984 issue, California magazine called it "a masterpiece." It was dubbed "a different look at what we call the western frontier" in the New Jersey edition of the Sunday, January 20, 1985, issue of TheNew York Times (in the "About Books" section on page 24). This review quotes Ken as having commented that "when we think of Jews traveling westward in the 18th century, we have to realize that in the major centers, like New York City and Newport, [anything west of New York City] was considered a frontier outpost a rough challenge but still an opportunity for a wandering peddler, for example, to escape the confines of city life and to survive poverty This richly illustrated book it is an astonishing medley of hitherto unpublished diaries, memoirs, and letters affirms what its authors call 'the complex nature of the collective Jewish experience in America.' " Ken's book was also praised in the book review section of The Los AngelesTimes (December 23, 1983, issue, page two), The Denver Post, and Newsday, and was recently nominated for an award by The American Library Association. The publisher is St. Martin's/Marek, New York.

To say that people in our age bracket follow busy schedules is putting it too mildly. It's a "lull" year after a sensational 25th reunion. For reasons not entirely within my control, most of you have never received a green "Take a Minute for a Message" postcard with my return address on it. Perhaps many of you think you have to have done something of stupendous or monumental proportions before your classmates would be interested in hearing about it. Who knows what the other reasons are that we don't take a minute or two to let our classmates know what has been going on in our lives? I contacted some 200 of you recently. I was glad to get the ten percent response I got, and I urge the rest of you, whether or not you have yet heard from me, to take a moment for news about yourselves, your careers, your families, and/or other classmates. Don't wait for something of stupendous or monumental proportions to happen! Most of us would be pleased just to hear where you are, what you're doing, or which of us you have seen lately. Now that vacation season is fast approaching, many of us would like to know if you're planning to travel into our parts of the country. "Take a Minute for a Message." Do it now, while you're thinking about it! This column will be as good as we make it.

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