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Bob Smith has joined the law firm of Rosenman, Colin, Fruend, Lewis, and Cohen in New York. Bob had been head of the litigation department at Guggenheimer and Untermyer. Since Dartmouth and Harvard Law, he has joined a broad range of professional associations including the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, and the American Arbitration Association.

Bill Muldoon has been promoted to director of marketing of a newly formed commercial printing group at his firm, Harte-Hanks, where he will be coordinating production, marketing, and distribution of multicolor, web-fed commercial printing from coast to coast. He has previously been publisher of Harte-Hanks's Commerce, Tex., newspaper.

Adam Block and I had lunch recently when Adam was in the Bay Area for one of his marketing clients, GTE-Sprint. Two of Adam's children, Adrian, currently in the Swedish navy, and Jennifer, have been accepted at Dartmouth. Incidentally, for summer reading Adam recommends Fire in the Valley, the story of how the personal computer business was developed.

Another classmate who is expanding his business activities is Paul Ehrlich, who in the last year has gone from running one highly successful commercial center newspaper in San Francisco to three publications. After having been a bachelor for a long time, he is now either informally engaged or at least making extravagant promises to a lovely lady from the area. Paul is the complete boulevardier and should be consulted by any visitor to San Francisco who wants to know which are the really "in" spots.

I got a nice letter from Kwan Ha Yim, who I had previously fingered as one of the oldest members of the class. Kwan explained that this is the result of having served in the South Korean army during the Korean war prior to arriving at Dartmouth. He says he assumes this gives him not only seniority but an assumption of venerability among his classmates. He continues to live in Valley Cottage, N.Y., and is chairman of the political science department at Manhattanville College.

The classmate with the youngest children is Ned Roesler, who has just added a son, Ted, to a family which consists of wife Karen and one-year-old Ann. Ned has yielded to the urge to be self-employed and has become a distributor of Amway products in upstate New York.

Two classmates who recently celebrated 50th birthdays are J.C. Parks and tireless BobMacdonald. J.C. celebrated his birthday with his wife and two college-age daughters. He continues to practice orthopedic surgery in New York, where he is also the team physician for the New York Mets. A couple of lines from his letter to me express the appreciation he feels toward Dartmouth: "I also feel very fortunate to have attended not only Dartmouth College but Dartmouth Medical School and to have been exposed to the wonderful teachers we had. If I had done anything well it is because of the direction, help, and support I received at Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School." Who says gratitude is a perishable commodity.

Bob Macdonald sent me a marvelous letter which I am going to pass on to Tom Schwarz since it's written in a style which can only evoke James Joyce. So we don't take up the entire Alumni Magazine, let me summarize by saying that Bob's wife, June, arranged a great surprise birthday party with Hanny Mason,George and Ann Johnston, and Frank andHelen Mooney, among a large group of well wishers. After food and drinks and presents, it seemed only appropriate for Soraya, an exotic dancer, to appear and perform for Bob, initiating him into the mysteries of belly dancing. In Bob's words, "It was a night to remember lots of laughs,- lots of friends, and lots of memories."

Now the rest of you that have celebrated 50th birthdays, write me, and everyone have a great summer!!!

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