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Mark Lansburgh weighed in with a ring from Tesuque, N.M., near Santa Fe, where he has been ensconsed since 1965, "sitting on my (expletive deleted), on a rock." Mark has lived in Aspen where he taught school; he's run an ad agency; he's been an art historian; he operated an art gallery at Taos, N.M. He is a self-described "medievalist," for which, he informs me, there is not a "big market." Involved with space, time, light, shadows, Mark most recently built an 11-foot adobe wall on his nine acres of open land (containing a creek) in a valley near Santa Fe. He was in Hanover last fall to inspect the Hood Museum and rightfully boasts of sons Mark '77 and Matthew '88 and daughter Ann who graduated from the University of California at Riverside in 1975.

Here's my kind of guy: Shepard Robinson. In the first place, my father's name was Shepard. In the second place, my elder son's name is Shepard, and in the third place, Shep Robinson is a writer and publisher of renown. (In my next life, that's something like I want to be.) Shep lives and works in Barrington, III., publishing the "Manufactured Housing Newsletter" and "Directory/Census of Manufactured Housing." He is a columnist, seminar conductor and organizer, speaker, and management consultant. Wife Louise and he have been married for 35 years. They have two daughters in Seattle and one daughter in Rhode Island who Shep claims is "making the system work for her." One may recall that Shep joined us in 1946 after service with the U.S. Navy Seabees for three years and prior graduation from Mt. Hermon School. Majoring in geology, with minors in English and cartography, Shep achieved honors in his senior year. After graduation in 1950, he joined the Uniontown, Pa., Morning Herald as a police reporter; for 12 years thereafter, he served as a reporter, editorial assistant, newspaper owner (The Schoharie Review in Schoharie, N.Y.), production manager, and editor in such places as Hackensack, N.J., Carnegie, Pa., Chicago, and Park Ridge, III. Joining the Barrington Press, he held various executive positions including that of executive vice president and chief operating officer. He went from there to Vance Publishing in Chicago and then to the Barrington Press/Countryside Newspapers, as editor-publisher with operating responsibility for a newspaper group comprising 25 employees and a 45,000- person circulation. Editorials written in 1977 and 1978 by Shep for The BarringtonCourier Review won four awards, culminating in a first-place award from the Suburban Newspapers of America.

It was wonderful to receive via ClarkeChurch, who still keeps Procter and Gamble Distributing Company alive in Cincinnati, a comprehensive report about CurtisSmith Jr. who lives in Akron, Ohio, and is chairman of the board of directors of Apsco, an electronic company. Curtis also runs a second business which involves the importation of copper pipes. He and Sally have four grown children ranging in age from a son who is 36 to a daughter who is 30. Sally and he are collectors of old posters and own a vacation home on Pine Kay Island in the Turks in Caicos Islands, where they spend as much time as possible. Curtis travels internationally in connection with his business and spends a good deal of leisure time at their vacation home.

About the time I began thinking about this column, I received, first, a letter from Roily "Brud" Becker to class president Tom Swartz concerning George EverettThurlow, whom everyone knew as "Zeke," and then almost immediately thereafter a note from Zeke's wife, Carolyn; reporting his death on December 24, 1985. Punchy Thomas advises me that Charlie Schuetz died on the same day, an unhappy coincidence. Brud, since 1982, has been self-employed as a marketing consultant, affiliated with a group of consultants in Andover, Mass. Wife Jane was ordained a permanent deacon in the Episcopal Church in October 1982. Their son, Paul '81, married his wife, Holly, also class of 1981, in 1983. After two years of joint scholarship at the University of Virginia, Colgate Darden School of Business, they are located in East Windsor, N.J. Brud's older son, Jim, is a 1976 graduate of the College, and daughter Jill graduated from Mt. Holyoke College in 1977. Brud and Jane are living in Westborough, Mass.

An obituary for Charlie Schuetz, written by George Day, will follow.

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